Lightning talk presented at the VIVA Users’ Group Meeting, Virginia Library Association Annual Conference, Norfolk, VA Abstract JMU Libraries distributes its Special Collections finding aids to a number of discovery platforms, a process which historically has involved a significant amount of hand-encoding and manual data entry. We recently developed and implemented Spaceport, a Python app […]
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Co-presented with Tiffany Cole Poster presented at Libraries Showcase, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA Abstract This poster describes a project to develop Spaceport, a Python app that transforms EAD finding aids from ArchivesSpace into EADs for Virginia Heritage, HTML files for the JMU Libraries website, and MARCXML records for the catalog. It outlines the challenges
Python application with GUI that exports EADs from ArchivesSpace and transforms them into MARCXML for JMU Library Catalog, HTML for Libraries website, and modified EAD for Virginia Heritage
Python application with GUI that mints DOIs from bepress Digital Commons metadata using DataCite API and prepares metadata for reingest into Digital Commons
Co-authored with Jody Condit Fagan Journal of Web Librarianship, 13(2) Abstract Information about faculty and their publications can be found in library databases such as the Library of Congress Name Authority File, VIAF, WorldCat, and institutional repositories; in identifier registries such as ORCID and ISNI; and on academic social networking sites such as Academia, Google
Python script that retrieves a list and count of all academic libraries in Virginia that hold given journal titles
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XSLT scripts for creating RDA bibliographic and authority records from ETD metadata harvested from JMU Scholarly Commons via OAI-PMH
Co-presented with Allison Lyttle and Faye Goodman Poster presented at LET Showcase, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA Abstract This poster outlines the functions performed by the JMU Libraries E-Monograph Team to acquire and analyze, batch edit, check access, and distribute or delete metadata records for e-books and streaming media materials.
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Co-presented with Steven W. Holloway Poster presented at LET Showcase, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA Abstract JMU Libraries & Educational Technologies participated in a 2017 pilot project with VIVA to present special collections records through a BIBFRAME discovery platform. This poster describes the project’s goals, the steps we took to prepare our records for conversion
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Python script that retrieves license information from Open Textbook Library landing pages and formats it for insertion into MARC records