Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) often have specialized workflows and metadata management requirements due to factors such as varied ingest methods and inconsistent source metadata. This blog post features descriptions of ETD metadata management from three institutions in the United States, outlining the systems, tools, and workflows used to process and provide access to ETDs […]
Out of all tracks in librarianship, becoming a metadata librarian is not a very common one. This blog post features eight professionals working in the US, reflecting on their paths towards becoming metadata librarians, primarily working with digital object metadata records. Most of us work at a university library or other large institutions with rich […]
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Douglas A. Boyd introduces an open-source tool for comparing the accuracy of machine-generated transcriptions to determine which is best suited for your project. His tool, the Transcript Accuracy Auditor, compares a machine‑generated transcript to a human‑corrected reference of the same interview and provides a score for WIP (Word Information Preserved) […]
