[CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices
Hi Library-Coders, My colleagues and I are researching best practices in recording metadata for Oral Histories for an article tentatively accepted for publication. We're looking for input from practicing librarians, archivists, and historians. In particular we'd like to know what encodings (e.g. MARC, EAD, METS, etc.) people are using and how happy (or unhappy) they are with them. Also what fields are people using to enter their data? Any data-dictionaries or templates showing required, repeatable, non-repeatable fields would be welcome. So far we've discovered that with new digital technologies allowing much easier collection and retransmission of oral histories, creation is booming; standards not so much. We would appreciate input from anyone who is willing to share their procedures. As mentioned above, we are planning to publish an article, but we will, of course, ask permission, before quoting anyone directly. Off-list responses are welcome. Please excuse duplication (cross-posting) and forward to interested colleagues. Thanks in advance for your help. JJ **Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of the Queens Library.** Jane Jacobs Asst. Coord., Catalog Division Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 tel.: (718) 990-0804 e-mail: jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.orgmailto:jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.org FAX. (718) 990-8566 Connect with Queens Library: * QueensLibrary.org http://www.queenslibrary.org/ * Facebook http://www.facebook.com/queenslibrarynyc * Twitter http://www.twitter.com/queenslibrary * LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/queens-library * Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/116278397527253207785 * Foursquare https://foursquare.com/queenslibrary * YouTube http://www.youtube.com/queenslibrary * Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/qbpllid/ * Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/58240.Queens_Library The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices
You might want to look at the section on Cataloging in the best practices guide on Florida Voices: http://www.fcla.edu/FloridaVoices/index.htm Priscilla On 10/25/2012 8:57 AM, Jacobs, Jane W wrote: Hi Library-Coders, My colleagues and I are researching best practices in recording metadata for Oral Histories for an article tentatively accepted for publication. We're looking for input from practicing librarians, archivists, and historians. In particular we'd like to know what encodings (e.g. MARC, EAD, METS, etc.) people are using and how happy (or unhappy) they are with them. Also what fields are people using to enter their data? Any data-dictionaries or templates showing required, repeatable, non-repeatable fields would be welcome. So far we've discovered that with new digital technologies allowing much easier collection and retransmission of oral histories, creation is booming; standards not so much. We would appreciate input from anyone who is willing to share their procedures. As mentioned above, we are planning to publish an article, but we will, of course, ask permission, before quoting anyone directly. Off-list responses are welcome. Please excuse duplication (cross-posting) and forward to interested colleagues. Thanks in advance for your help. JJ **Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of the Queens Library.** Jane Jacobs Asst. Coord., Catalog Division Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 tel.: (718) 990-0804 e-mail: jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.orgmailto:jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.org FAX. (718) 990-8566 Connect with Queens Library: * QueensLibrary.org http://www.queenslibrary.org/ * Facebook http://www.facebook.com/queenslibrarynyc * Twitter http://www.twitter.com/queenslibrary * LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/queens-library * Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/116278397527253207785 * Foursquare https://foursquare.com/queenslibrary * YouTube http://www.youtube.com/queenslibrary * Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/qbpllid/ * Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/58240.Queens_Library The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. -- Priscilla Caplan Assistant Director for Digital Library Services Florida Virtual Campus 5830 NW 39th Avenue Gainesville, FL 32606 (352) 392-9020 x324 (352) 392-9185 (fax)
Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices
Since I didn't see this crossposted there, it might be worthwhile asking over on the metadataLibrarians listserv (http://metadatalibrarians.monarchos.com/). -Ross. On Oct 25, 2012, at 8:57 AM, Jacobs, Jane W jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.org wrote: Hi Library-Coders, My colleagues and I are researching best practices in recording metadata for Oral Histories for an article tentatively accepted for publication. We're looking for input from practicing librarians, archivists, and historians. In particular we'd like to know what encodings (e.g. MARC, EAD, METS, etc.) people are using and how happy (or unhappy) they are with them. Also what fields are people using to enter their data? Any data-dictionaries or templates showing required, repeatable, non-repeatable fields would be welcome. So far we've discovered that with new digital technologies allowing much easier collection and retransmission of oral histories, creation is booming; standards not so much. We would appreciate input from anyone who is willing to share their procedures. As mentioned above, we are planning to publish an article, but we will, of course, ask permission, before quoting anyone directly. Off-list responses are welcome. Please excuse duplication (cross-posting) and forward to interested colleagues. Thanks in advance for your help. JJ **Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of the Queens Library.** Jane Jacobs Asst. Coord., Catalog Division Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 tel.: (718) 990-0804 e-mail: jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.orgmailto:jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.org FAX. (718) 990-8566 Connect with Queens Library: * QueensLibrary.org http://www.queenslibrary.org/ * Facebook http://www.facebook.com/queenslibrarynyc * Twitter http://www.twitter.com/queenslibrary * LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/queens-library * Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/116278397527253207785 * Foursquare https://foursquare.com/queenslibrary * YouTube http://www.youtube.com/queenslibrary * Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/qbpllid/ * Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/58240.Queens_Library The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices
PS - there is also a paper on oral traditions in FRBR... archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/06/26/91/PDF/sic_1629.pdf -Original Message- From: Michael Hopwood Sent: 25 October 2012 14:44 To: 'Jacobs, Jane W'; 'Priscilla Caplan' Cc: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices Hello Jane, Priscilla, I would recommend looking at www.lido-schema.org as more interoperable, extensible and generally longer-term value-adding schema for collection of a lot of historical / heritage data. It has the same capabilities and easy entry level (only three mandatory sections; object/work type - title/name - record details) as Dublin Core to collate a lot of data, potentially from different source, but it also has the optional depth and breadth required for enriching data with links, and the specific semantics used precisely by archives and historians, rather than libraries. Data created / collected in LIDO will have greater reuse potential than less contextual schemas. It's based on the ISO standard CIDOC-CRM (see http://www.cidoc-crm.org/uses_applications.html) which is itself the result of painstaking work by historical and archives data people. The CIDOC-CRM itself is probably worth looking at too, maybe in terms of CRM CORE (a lightweight model using just key parts) and the many real life applications in archive contexts... Disclaimer: I work (as a librarian!) on one part of www.linkedheritage.eu which does have some of the world LIDO experts as partners. Best, Michael Hopwood -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Priscilla Caplan Sent: 25 October 2012 14:17 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices You might want to look at the section on Cataloging in the best practices guide on Florida Voices: http://www.fcla.edu/FloridaVoices/index.htm Priscilla On 10/25/2012 8:57 AM, Jacobs, Jane W wrote: Hi Library-Coders, My colleagues and I are researching best practices in recording metadata for Oral Histories for an article tentatively accepted for publication. We're looking for input from practicing librarians, archivists, and historians. In particular we'd like to know what encodings (e.g. MARC, EAD, METS, etc.) people are using and how happy (or unhappy) they are with them. Also what fields are people using to enter their data? Any data-dictionaries or templates showing required, repeatable, non-repeatable fields would be welcome. So far we've discovered that with new digital technologies allowing much easier collection and retransmission of oral histories, creation is booming; standards not so much. We would appreciate input from anyone who is willing to share their procedures. As mentioned above, we are planning to publish an article, but we will, of course, ask permission, before quoting anyone directly. Off-list responses are welcome. Please excuse duplication (cross-posting) and forward to interested colleagues. Thanks in advance for your help. JJ **Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of the Queens Library.** Jane Jacobs Asst. Coord., Catalog Division Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 tel.: (718) 990-0804 e-mail: jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.orgmailto:jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.org FAX. (718) 990-8566 Connect with Queens Library: * QueensLibrary.org http://www.queenslibrary.org/ * Facebook http://www.facebook.com/queenslibrarynyc * Twitter http://www.twitter.com/queenslibrary * LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/queens-library * Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/116278397527253207785 * Foursquare https://foursquare.com/queenslibrary * YouTube http://www.youtube.com/queenslibrary * Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/qbpllid/ * Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/58240.Queens_Library The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. -- Priscilla Caplan Assistant Director for Digital Library Services Florida Virtual Campus 5830 NW 39th Avenue Gainesville, FL 32606 (352) 392-9020 x324 (352) 392-9185 (fax)
Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices
Hello Jane, Priscilla, I would recommend looking at www.lido-schema.org as more interoperable, extensible and generally longer-term value-adding schema for collection of a lot of historical / heritage data. It has the same capabilities and easy entry level (only three mandatory sections; object/work type - title/name - record details) as Dublin Core to collate a lot of data, potentially from different source, but it also has the optional depth and breadth required for enriching data with links, and the specific semantics used precisely by archives and historians, rather than libraries. Data created / collected in LIDO will have greater reuse potential than less contextual schemas. It's based on the ISO standard CIDOC-CRM (see http://www.cidoc-crm.org/uses_applications.html) which is itself the result of painstaking work by historical and archives data people. The CIDOC-CRM itself is probably worth looking at too, maybe in terms of CRM CORE (a lightweight model using just key parts) and the many real life applications in archive contexts... Disclaimer: I work (as a librarian!) on one part of www.linkedheritage.eu which does have some of the world LIDO experts as partners. Best, Michael Hopwood -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Priscilla Caplan Sent: 25 October 2012 14:17 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices You might want to look at the section on Cataloging in the best practices guide on Florida Voices: http://www.fcla.edu/FloridaVoices/index.htm Priscilla On 10/25/2012 8:57 AM, Jacobs, Jane W wrote: Hi Library-Coders, My colleagues and I are researching best practices in recording metadata for Oral Histories for an article tentatively accepted for publication. We're looking for input from practicing librarians, archivists, and historians. In particular we'd like to know what encodings (e.g. MARC, EAD, METS, etc.) people are using and how happy (or unhappy) they are with them. Also what fields are people using to enter their data? Any data-dictionaries or templates showing required, repeatable, non-repeatable fields would be welcome. So far we've discovered that with new digital technologies allowing much easier collection and retransmission of oral histories, creation is booming; standards not so much. We would appreciate input from anyone who is willing to share their procedures. As mentioned above, we are planning to publish an article, but we will, of course, ask permission, before quoting anyone directly. Off-list responses are welcome. Please excuse duplication (cross-posting) and forward to interested colleagues. Thanks in advance for your help. JJ **Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of the Queens Library.** Jane Jacobs Asst. Coord., Catalog Division Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 tel.: (718) 990-0804 e-mail: jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.orgmailto:jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.org FAX. (718) 990-8566 Connect with Queens Library: * QueensLibrary.org http://www.queenslibrary.org/ * Facebook http://www.facebook.com/queenslibrarynyc * Twitter http://www.twitter.com/queenslibrary * LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/queens-library * Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/116278397527253207785 * Foursquare https://foursquare.com/queenslibrary * YouTube http://www.youtube.com/queenslibrary * Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/qbpllid/ * Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/58240.Queens_Library The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. -- Priscilla Caplan Assistant Director for Digital Library Services Florida Virtual Campus 5830 NW 39th Avenue Gainesville, FL 32606 (352) 392-9020 x324 (352) 392-9185 (fax)
Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices
Also, a nice resource (for information and for people having similar discussions) is Oral History in the Digital Age (http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/), a recently-finished project funded by IMLS and others. - Bert Bertram Lyons, CA Folklife Specialist / Digital Assets Manager American Folklife Center Library of Congress b...@loc.gov www.loc.gov/folklife Consulting Archivist, Project Manager Dissemination Coordinator Association for Cultural Equity Alan Lomax Archive b...@culturalequity.org www.culturalequity.org On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Michael Hopwood mich...@editeur.org wrote: Hello Jane, Priscilla, I would recommend looking at www.lido-schema.org as more interoperable, extensible and generally longer-term value-adding schema for collection of a lot of historical / heritage data. It has the same capabilities and easy entry level (only three mandatory sections; object/work type - title/name - record details) as Dublin Core to collate a lot of data, potentially from different source, but it also has the optional depth and breadth required for enriching data with links, and the specific semantics used precisely by archives and historians, rather than libraries. Data created / collected in LIDO will have greater reuse potential than less contextual schemas. It's based on the ISO standard CIDOC-CRM (see http://www.cidoc-crm.org/uses_applications.html) which is itself the result of painstaking work by historical and archives data people. The CIDOC-CRM itself is probably worth looking at too, maybe in terms of CRM CORE (a lightweight model using just key parts) and the many real life applications in archive contexts... Disclaimer: I work (as a librarian!) on one part of www.linkedheritage.eu which does have some of the world LIDO experts as partners. Best, Michael Hopwood -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Priscilla Caplan Sent: 25 October 2012 14:17 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices You might want to look at the section on Cataloging in the best practices guide on Florida Voices: http://www.fcla.edu/FloridaVoices/index.htm Priscilla On 10/25/2012 8:57 AM, Jacobs, Jane W wrote: Hi Library-Coders, My colleagues and I are researching best practices in recording metadata for Oral Histories for an article tentatively accepted for publication. We're looking for input from practicing librarians, archivists, and historians. In particular we'd like to know what encodings (e.g. MARC, EAD, METS, etc.) people are using and how happy (or unhappy) they are with them. Also what fields are people using to enter their data? Any data-dictionaries or templates showing required, repeatable, non-repeatable fields would be welcome. So far we've discovered that with new digital technologies allowing much easier collection and retransmission of oral histories, creation is booming; standards not so much. We would appreciate input from anyone who is willing to share their procedures. As mentioned above, we are planning to publish an article, but we will, of course, ask permission, before quoting anyone directly. Off-list responses are welcome. Please excuse duplication (cross-posting) and forward to interested colleagues. Thanks in advance for your help. JJ **Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of the Queens Library.** Jane Jacobs Asst. Coord., Catalog Division Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 tel.: (718) 990-0804 e-mail: jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.orgmailto:jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.org FAX. (718) 990-8566 Connect with Queens Library: * QueensLibrary.org http://www.queenslibrary.org/ * Facebook http://www.facebook.com/queenslibrarynyc * Twitter http://www.twitter.com/queenslibrary * LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/queens-library * Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/116278397527253207785 * Foursquare https://foursquare.com/queenslibrary * YouTube http://www.youtube.com/queenslibrary * Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/qbpllid/ * Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/58240.Queens_Library The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. -- Priscilla Caplan Assistant Director for Digital Library Services Florida Virtual
