Archives and Digital Repositories
Archival Training
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I recieved two weeks of training at the National Archives' Modern Archives Institute. The National Archives, in cooperation with the Library of Congress offer this program to introduce participants to archival theory and practice and the responsibilities of archival work.
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Digital Preservation Outreach & Education
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I spent three days at the Library of Congress' Digital Preservation Outreach & Education (DPOE). The program trains an international network of trainers who in turn provide training on the fundamentals of digital preservation.
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Dublin Core Metadata
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I provided the metadata for the digitized selected photos contained in The J. Clay Smith Jr. Collection.
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Dublin Core Metadata and Howard University's Digital Yearbooks
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I constructed the metadata tables and dictionary for Howard's institutional digital repository, Digital Howard, which is run on BePress, a cloud-based institutional repository platform. In particular, I was responsible for the metadata creation of Howard's yearbooks.
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Encoded Archival Context
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This program, taught at the Library of Congress under an IMLS grant, provided instruction on the fundamentals of Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and families.
DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
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I assisted in upgrading 150 finding aids from WordPerfect documents to an xml encoded format followings DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) so that the finding aids could be loaded into the database known as ArchivesSpace. The finding aids are part of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center's Special Collections.
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