June 2012
12 posts
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5 Things Thursday: Taxonomy, Metadata Myths,...
Here are 5 things for summer contemplation: How much do DAM professionals earn? Wish you had notes from Seth Earley’s Taxonomy, Metadata and Search workshop? Check out this nice tool from the National Endowment for the Humanities - Visualizing Emancipation. Sign up for a webinar on Metadata Myths and Madness by my very favorite John Horodyski. Feast your eyes on the...
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Metadata Monday: Dublin Core and More
Here’s a great tweet from Livia Labate: “Metadata is the new art direction.” When I worked in the seedy underbelly of advertising, I envied art directors. They were celebrated as rock stars and lauded for new innovations. As such, a good art director could control and in fact, direct the course of many things. Some wielded that power mercilessly… As metadata...
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5 Things Thursday: Healthcare Metadata, LOC...
Here are five things to discuss on the beach. Did you know the Library of Congress now has some killer audio interviews with rock icons? Digital asset management tip of the week. Musings on healthcare information and Dublin Core metadata. Interested in the Dutch National Archives? Well they released over 140K press photos. Are we in the midst of a lost generation of...
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5 Things Thursday: Healthcare Metadata, LOC...
Here are five things to discuss on the beach. Did you know the Library of Congress now has some killer audio interviews with rock icons? Digital asset management tip of the week. Musings on healthcare information and Dublin Core metadata. Interested in the Dutch National Archives? Well they released over 140K press photos. Are we in the midst of a lost generation of...
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Metadata Tuesday: Electric Lane
Here is an amazing resource for anyone interested in photo metadata - Electric Lane. Electric Lane is a consultancy involved in every part of image production processes from metadata and keywording to workflow and processing. The website contains links to myriad useful resources like the CEPIC/IPTC Metadata Handbook, a checklist for assessing images, image checking scripts, and copyright and...
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Metadata Monday: Video Killed the Radio Star
This week I found two very informative posts regarding video metadata. I know quite a lot about dealing with metadata for images, but I wanted to learn more about concerns unique to video assets. First, on RealSEO there is an article titled Understanding the Life of Video Metadata From Production to Publishing and Why It’s so Important. At the most basic, video metadata is important...
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Metadata Sunday? The Metadata Elves Strike Again
I have too much metadata information again this week, so there will be posts on Sunday, Monday and perhaps Tuesday. This one is devoted to a fabulous behind the scenes look at the creation of a digital collection at The Huntington called Visions of Empire: The Quest for Railroad Across America, 1840-1880. On Huntington blogs, Mario Einaudi explains the process behind the digital collection...
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5 Things Thursday: DAM Math, Mobile Web, Data...
Here are 5 things and change for reading and discussion: Why do you need math skills for DAM and digitization planning? Why is the mobile web crucial for libraries? Want to learn more about the emerging field of data curation? Take the User Research Challenge. Check out this historic photo archive at the New York Public Library: the Farm Security Administration from the...
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Metadata Monday: NASIG, NISO and the Eclectic...
Did you know that there is an independent organization that promotes communication, understanding, and sharing of ideas among all members of the serials information community? Well, there is and it is called The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG). The NASIG annual conference just wrapped up and the Eclectic Librarian, Anna Creech, did a fabulous job of encapsulating the high points...
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5 Things: ArLiSNAP, Taxonomy, Photo Center NW,...
Here are five more things plus a little extra: Check out a cool conference, a call for papers, and a webinar on the ArLiSNAP site. What does Heather Hedden say about DAM and taxonomies? Did you know there is a digital asset management workshop for photographers in Seattle at Photo Center NW? Read about the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. Interested in the evolution...
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Metadata Monday: Metadata Mash-Up
This week there has been too much good stuff related to metadata to confine this blog post to one measly topic. Here are some of my picks: Leala Abbott, Metadata and Taxonomy Specialist extraordinaire in NYC, presents a clear explanation of the types of controlled vocabularies. With succinct descriptions of a value list, synonym ring, taxonomy, and thesaurus, this post simply and elegantly...
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Harvard: The Human Collection
Harvard University has many digital collections. One that is very interesting is called The Human Factor. The images “reveal the courage, industry and intelligence required of the American working man.” Created in the years between world wars, the photographs in the collection depict the intersection between industry and art. One of my favorites is this shot of radiator shells circa 1937 at...
