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2012

LITA @ ALA Midwinter 2012

November 16, 2011October 18, 2016| AaronDobbs|1 Comment

Want to know what’s happening with LITA in Dallas? Here’s a quick gCal with the dates, times, and locations.

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2007

Real-World Metadata Management

October 7, 2007November 15, 2016| Danielle Plumer

  Speaker: Mark Phillips, University of North Texas Mark discussed the experienced he has had as manager of the Digital Projects Unit at the University of North Texas Libraries. Their projects include the Portal to Texas History, a multi-institutional repository of approximately 20,000 items relating to Texas History; the CyberCemetery, a collection of websites from defunct government agencies; Congressional Research Service reports; and other digital collections from the UNT libraries. All together, he said that they manage approximately 70,000 items, with a total of around 500,000 pages, and they expect to double that number within the next year. Mark described their technical environment. They use an open-source asset management system, Keystone from Index Data, which they have heavily customized. They use the same modified Dublin Core metadata in all their collections, which has allowed them to maintain consistency of cataloging, but he admitted that many of their controlled vocabulary and…

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