digitization

Metadata for Online Collections

Presenter(s): 
John Joergensen, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Newark

Got a bunch of documents that you are trying to make into a digital collection?  Got a digital collection that you want to make accessible? Concerned about preservation and access?  Then thoughtful and standards-compliant metadata is something that needs to be included in your planning.

 

This session will discuss some of the basics of document metadata and how it can be used in law libraries and law school digital collections.  We will talk about the following:

1. Standards: Dublin Core, MODS, EAD;

Schedule info

Time slot: 
21 June 13:00 - 14:00
Room: 
227

Collecting State Court Files: How Law Schools and Libraries Can Preserve History (and Use Technology to Do It)

Presenter(s): 
Rachael Samberg, Stanford Law School

In 1875, a jury committed Mary Todd Lincoln to an insane asylum. Recently, two Illinois State Supreme Court justices discovered her trial papers still on file with the Cook County Clerk. A thousand miles away in Houston, a task force has just helped overhaul the Texas court records preservation rules, so that files like John Wesley Hardin’s murder trial are spared from destruction.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
21 June 10:30 - 11:30
Room: 
225
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