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Tutorials for ExifTool

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This looks awesome. I'll have to remember this for those situations where I am looking to embed metadata.

http://www.avpreserve.com/exiftool-tutorial-series/

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Hugh Paterson III | Leave a reply

Dating Photos and passing on Knowlege

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Hugh Paterson III
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I have been reading this blog, and its links. About scanning family photos. I think one relevant point that it brings out for professional contexts like is: "Additionally, it [the way of naming the files] will now be documented for whomever inherits all of your work, that you didn’t know this information." Especially with photos, which have a high metadata field to file-count ratio, representing a high curation workload. A metadata schema needs to help archivists administratively determine known unknowns rather than just empty elements. It is one thing to choose not to describe something, it is another to not have access to the information and be unable to describe something. Continue reading →
Posted in Digital Archival, Images | Tagged archiving, Digitization, metadata, Photos, scanning | Leave a reply

DOIs and URLs same or different?

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Hugh Paterson III
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A document’s DOI (http://www.doi.org/ or on Wikipedia under Digital Object Identifier) is an important part of the citation of a document. Many style sheets allow for just the DOI of a paper as the citation. Because DOIs are unique they can act as URIs which are resolvable and look like URLs. However, a DOI is different than a URL for where a digital object might be located. It might be well argued that a DOI should be tracked in the metadata schemes of archives which collect language and linguistic data.
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Posted in Access, Citations, Digital Archival, Language Documentation, Library, Linguistics, Marketing, Meta-data, SIL International, UI/UX | Tagged archiving, citation, Digital Archival, Digital Object Identifier, DOI, metadata, URI, url | Leave a reply

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