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Featured Items of the Collection
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Cataloger Guide
November 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment
In developing the Queens Memory Project, we had to provide our catalogers with rules to follow when creating new records to ensure consistency across the catalog. This guide provides detailed instructions for catalogers on how to create and manipulate records in our customized version of CollectiveAccess, the open source software we use. Our task in developing these cataloging rules [...]
Nov
6
Metadata Crosswalk
November 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment
It is important to remember that you don’t have to use every field in a metadata standard. But you do have to use each field accurately so your records make sense next to other records created using the same fields. When a digital archive contains records using different metadata standards, it is important to create [...]