From the Field - April 2015

FROM THE FIELD: The MDOR News Flash!

Welcome to our first installment of FROM THE FIELD (get it?! the metadata field..?). Not quite a newsletter, not quite a listicle, the idea behind this “News Flash” is to bring you a curated assortment of metadata and digital object-related links and events, delivered to your inbox in one easy, no-frills email.

We plan to send these out about quarterly or monthly, depending on interest. Love it? Hate it? Have an idea for how to make it better? Let us know.

Your editors,

Mikki Macdonald, Sherri Berger, and Jasmine Burns

In the news

•  New version of Fixity Application
•  DPLA releases Krikri 0.1.3

Articles and meditations

• The Collection and the Cloud
• MARC, Linked Data, and Human-Computer Asymmetry
•  OCLC Research - Terms of Use and Reuse for Finding Aid Metadata
• Mapping the Digital Preservation Wilderness: What You Need To Know
• Creative Commons New Zealand – Policies for Open Culture and Heritage
• Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC

Hot new resources

• UCLA Library Special Collections Digital Project Toolkit
• Glossary of Metadata Standards – all squeezed on a single poster!
• Taking Note: More Resources for Arts Data-Miners
• Online Music Metadata Clearinghouse

Upcoming Events

• April 13: Last day to cast your SAA ballot
• April 30: CLIR Grant Deadline for Digitizing Hidden Collections
• May 1: Abstract submission deadline for 2015 SAA Research Forum
• May 15: Proposal Deadline for Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze (November 12-13, 2015)
• May 19 – 22: Archiving 2015 (Los Angeles, CA)

Featured MDOR Member: Heather Fox

Heather Fox is an archivist working in the Digital Initiatives unit of the Archives and Special Collection Library at the University of Louisville. Heather’s primary responsibility is metadata creation for the library’s digital collections. She also is one of four faculty members spearheading the recently launched Louisville Underground Music Archive Project. Outside of work, Heather enjoys spending time with her family and playing in a garage rock band/music collective called Juanita that she co-founded in 1992.

Want to be featured in an upcoming FROM THE FIELD—or want to nominate someone? Contact us!