Organized Chaos: Metadata Migration on the Cheap
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Heather GilbertDigital Scholarship LibrarianCollege of Charleston
ORGANIZED CHAOS
Metadata Migration From System To System & Schema To Schema On The Cheap
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WHAT’S THE DEAL?
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Help Me OpenWMSYou’re My Only Hope
YEAH, AND?
Only Ingestion Client We Could Find That Allowed Batch Tab-delimited Text File Importation
Only Maps From Marc, Mods In-house Text
49,898 DC Records To Migrate
Correction: 49,898 Very Messy, Poorly Formed
DC Records To Migrate
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EVEN THOUGH WE AIN’T GOT MONEY
SOFTWAREHARDWARETRAINING
MIGRATION
$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
INTERNS & VOLUNTEERS? THOSE I HAVE
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WHAT’S THE PLAN, STAN?
“Chicago, Illinois. As each car goes by his window at an Illinois Central Railroad yard, the engine foreman checks it against his switch list.” Library of Congress PPOC, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/owi2001013227/PP U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html)
Assessment
Documentation
Training
Communication & Shared Migration Plans
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WHAT YOU WANT? BABY I GOT IT!ASSESSMENT IS CRUCIAL
What Needs To Be Done?Metadata MigrationMetadata RectificationTraining Materials & Workflows
What Resources Do You Already Have?CONTENTdm Batch Edit
If You Don’t Have It, Can You Find It For Free?No Excel? OpenOfficeCan’t Script Your Clean Up? OpenRefineNo BaseCamp?
TeamBox, GoogleDrive, DropBox
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WRITE IT DOWN!DOCUMENT EVERYTHING Workflows
Graphics Help!
Make Your Own ManualNew Software?
Include Screen ShotsIs It Easy To Follow?
Have A Newbie Test It
Crosswalk It Out!Not Just Schema To SchemaMake It Hyper SpecificKeep It Easy On The Workers
[Medieval scribe Jean Miélot, sitting at a desk, making a copy of another book], http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006680149/Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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TRAINING DAY Have Training Packets &
Technology Ready
Be There For Your Workers
Prepare Yourself For The Worst
Flexibility Is Everything
Deal With What You’ve Got
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CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0074493. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum.
IT’S ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATION
Project Management SoftwareTeambox
Google SpreadsheetsColor CodedUse To Chart Progress
Shared To Do ListsTrello
Keep Management Informed
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT & COMMUNICATIONTrello https://trello.com/TeamBox https://teambox.com/Google Drive https://drive.google.com
METADATA RECTIFICATIONOpenRefine http://openrefine.org/OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
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Heather GilbertDigital Scholarship LibrarianCollege of [email protected] @LCDigitalLib @ItsALikelyStory
THANK YOU!