Digital Collections & Metadata

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Technical Specifications

• Basic Selection Policies
• Imaging Standards
• Video Standards *coming soon*

CONTENTdm

Metadata

• Metadata Standards: Digital Lecture Archive (Local) 
• Metadata Standards: College Archives (Local)
• Metadata Standards: Scholarship at Middlebury (Local)

Project Client

Basic how-to instructions

• Install Project Client (Local)
  
• Create a New Project (Local)
• Create Compound Object (CONTENTdm online help: detailed)
  
• Create single compound object with transcript (Local: simplified)
• Add Transcripts (Local)
  
• Import a Multiple-Page PDF as Compound Object (Local)
• Import multiple files with tab-delimited text (CONTENTdm online help: detailed)

• Import multiple files with tab-delimited text (Local)
• Project Client Online Help (from CONTENTdm site)

Working with specific collections

• Digital Lecture Archive (Local)
• College Newspapers and Magazines  (Local)
  
• Finding Aids  (Local)
  
• Scholarship at Middlebury: Preparing Files, etc.
• Scholarship at Middlebury: Adding via Project Client

Other

• MiddHistory Online: WordPress Guidelines (Local)
• Vermont Collection: Digital Projects Procedures (Local)
  

General

• Best Practices for CONTENTdm and other OAI-PMH compliant repositories: Creating shareable metadata
• CDP Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices

• Digital Projects Procedures (Local) [includes specific references to digitizing Vermont items]
  
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (home page)
• MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk