(Morning – 9:00am-12:00pm)
Evaluating Your Metadata Needs Assessment
In a
world of conflicting constraints, how will you decide how to balance new
standards, user demand, unique collection attributes and system
constraints? This workshop will help you with these real-world
challenges such as:
Which fields should you include? How many characters? What formats of
data? How much detail? How will this work with my existing search
engine? What about standards, will they work for me? We are on metadata
overload and determining which data is vital for successful searching is
a complex task. Attendees will look at creating a Needs Assessment
survey, and how to marry this with an existing or future system. An
overview of pluses and minuses of various standards will be included.
NOTE: AMP will have coffee, juice &
pastries available during this session
(12:00pm-2:00pm) BREAK FOR LUNCH. LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED
(Afternoon – 2:00pm-5:00pm)
Project Management for Digitization
Librarians and Archivists need to conserve budgets and sharpen their
Project Management skills.
This
speaker will share real life experience in managing these projects as
well as allow participants
hands-on exercises.
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Are you embarking on a
digitization project and wondering how to manage workflow?
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Unsure how to design tracking mechanisms?
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Having trouble designing standard file names?
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Struggling with decisions on formats and scanning sizes?
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Deciding how best to assure
quality and include metadata?
Who is Archive Media
Partners (AMP)?
Archive Media Partners employs archivists and librarians working for
other archivists and librarians. AMP offers process management
recommendations, customer services evaluations, technology testing,
thesaurus construction and full-service indexing. The company was
founded by Kim Schroeder, who is part time faculty at Wayne State
University’s Library and Information Science program. She also holds a
Graduate Certificate in Archival Administration. In 2001, her alma mater
recognized Schroeder as an Emerging Corporate Leader. She is supported
by a multilingual team of subject experts and information professionals.
The team has succeeded in indexing more than 1.5 million images and
tens of thousands of hours of footage for clients across the globe.
