Up and Running: Metadata on the New Jersey Digital Highway

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Up and Running Metadata on the New Jersey
Digital Highway

• NJLA Conference
• April 25, 2006
• Long Branch, NJ

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Metadata on the New Jersey Digital Highway
What is the Digital Highway?

• People
• - Librarians and curators
• - Users
• Virtual collections
• Services for partners and users
• Educational resource for students teachers
• Strategy for preserving New Jerseys cultural
  heritage collections forever.

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Development Partners

• 463,511 three year National Leadership Grant
  from Institute for Museum and Library Studies for
  library/museum collaboration
• Rutgers University Libraries (IMLS Lead)
• New Jersey State Library
• New Jersey Div. of Archives Records Management
• New Jersey Historical Society
• American Labor Museum/Botto House

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• Statewide Digitization Grants
• Funded by New Jersey State Library
• Atlantic County Library System
• with Egg Harbor City Historical Society
• Theme German immigration
• Paterson Public Library
• with Paterson Museum
• Theme Waves of immigration
• Jersey City Public Library
• Themes Dutch immigration First person accounts

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Metadata Overview

• Standards METS MODS PREMIS
• Formats Text Audio Still images
• Metadata Descriptive Administrative
• Event-based data model

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Workflow Management System

• Web-based
• Use drop-down lists and templates
• Controlled vocabulary
• Required elements

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Manage Your Collections

• Users (add digital objects create metadata)
• Organization
• Collection
• Project
• Resource object

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Typical WMS Workflow
Upload master file Create Metadata Send to
Repository
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Descriptive Metadata

• Required Elements
• Type of Item
• Title or Name
• Form (Physical Description)
• Internet Media Type (Physical Description)
• Year of Item Creation (Original)

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Source Metadata

• Required Elements for items digitized from an
  analog source object
• Type (from Descriptive Metadata)
• Format (for Film, Text or graphic (paper), and
  3-dimensional objects)
• Captioning (for Video recordings)

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Technical Metadata

• Required Elements
• Checksum (system-supplied)
• File Size (system-supplied)
• Audio Presentation (for Moving Images and Sound
  Recordings)

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Rights Metadata

• Required Elements
• Rights Declaration
• Rights Holder Name

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• Atlantic County Library System /
• Egg Harbor City Historical Society
• NJ State Library digitization grant
• Photographs, newspapers, government records,
  cemetery records
• The German immigrant experience

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Before you scan . . .
Metadata on the New Jersey Digital Highway

• Consider your collection as a series or group of
  projects

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Organize and identify (describe) your objects
Metadata on the New Jersey Digital Highway

• Education
• Immigration
• Transportation

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Consider the metadata before you create the
metadata
Develop an image identification form
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More about object identification
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Names, dates, and locations are important
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Prepare the objects for scanning

• 600 dpi
• TIFF file type
• Reduce scanning glare

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Make it easy . . .

• Use the templates
• Ask NJDH for help
• Future listserv and user group

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http//mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/workflow/
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• Thank You!
• John King
• Atlantic County Library System
• jking_at_aclsys.org
• Rhonda Marker
• Rutgers University Libraries
• rmarker_at_rci.rutgers.edu