Re: [CODE4LIB] Preserving Digital Objects with Descriptive Metadata

2016-05-16 Thread Andrew Weidner
resumably be small > text files. if that's the case it might be useful to ask, what would > keeping the metadata separate from the content files afford you? > > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Weidner <metaweid...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Thanks for your replies, St

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preserving Digital Objects with Descriptive Metadata

2016-05-09 Thread Andrew Weidner
Thanks for your replies, Stuart and Brian. The information you provided got me to thinking more generally about what comprehensive preservation could look like for the digitized cultural heritage materials we are managing. As a content administrator for an access repository, I am primarily

[CODE4LIB] Preserving Digital Objects with Descriptive Metadata

2016-03-21 Thread Andrew Weidner
Hi Code4Lib, We are in the process of designing new workflows for preservation and access of our digital stuff, and I'd like to get a sense of how people understand digital objects in the preservation space. My gut tells me that it might be useful for future digital archivists/archaeologists to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Juice - thoughts?

2015-11-05 Thread Andrew Weidner
I've taken a number of courses with Library Juice and had really good learning experiences. The series on XML and RDF based systems is excellent: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/certificate-xml-rdf.php As are the courses on metadata design and implementation:

[CODE4LIB] Call for comment, Principles for Evaluating Metadata Standards

2015-11-02 Thread Andrew Weidner
ata Interest Group meeting on Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 8:30 am EST, and one at the regular Metadata Standards Committee meeting on Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 1:00 pm EST. Registered conference attendees are welcome to attend. Best, Andrew Weidner LITA representative, ALCTS/LITA Metada

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with Auto Hot Key

2015-05-06 Thread Andrew Weidner
be happy to pass along more examples. Best, Andrew Weidner ajweid...@uh.edu On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Karl Holten khol...@switchinc.org wrote: This doesn't involve AutoHotkey, but maybe it would be easier to use SQL to pull that data from the Sierra database rather than screen scraping

Re: [CODE4LIB] 'automation' tools

2014-07-04 Thread Andrew Weidner
Great idea for a workshop, Owen. My staff and I use AutoHotkey every day. We have some apps for data cleaning in the CONTENTdm Project Client that I presented on recently: http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cdmusers/cdmusersMay2014/May2014/13/. I'll be talking about those in more detail at the Upper