Lisa McFall Hamilton College Clinton, NY

1. Moving Beyond The “Back Room”:The Expanded Role for Metadata and Catalog Librarians in Campus Digital Humanities Efforts Lisa McFallHamilton College Clinton, NY McFall ALA 2014

2. Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) • Formed in 2009 • Received Mellon grants in 2010 and 2013 • Working to develop models of supporting digital humanities on campus primarilyusing existing positions • dhinitiative.org McFall ALA 2014

3. DHi’s Collection Development Team Angel David Nieves Co-Director, DHi Janet Simons Co-Director, DHi Gregory Lord Lead Designer & Software Engineer Peter MacDonald Library Information Systems Specialist Lisa McFall Metadata & Catalog Librarian Steve Young Unix/HPC Systems Administrator McFall ALA 2014

4. DHi Repository Layers Display Layer (appearance) Fonts, color, page blocks Useraccounts Application Layer (behavior) • ConnectsDrupal and FedoraCommons • Handles data ingest, metadataediting Data Layer (storage) • Data files • Metadata McFall ALA 2014 Slide by Peter MacDonald

5. Metadata Process McFall ALA 2014

6. Working With Faculty • Goals • Faculty develop an understanding of the role of metadata in their archive • A customized metadata schema will be developed • Use cases will be discussed • Method • Review sites they use and like from their own discipline • Ask detailed questions to guide discussion about metadata McFall ALA 2014

7. Sample Questions For Faculty • Who is the primary target audience for your collection? • How do you envision experts in this subject interacting with the collection? • How will students use your site? • If you were to stumble upon this site, how would you expect to find resources? • What are some of the key categories and characteristics by which you would expect to be able to search? McFall ALA 2014

8. Metadata Categories Required for all DHi Projects: • Title • Creator/contributor (if applicable) • Language used in item • Date of digital object creation and any other relevant dates • Tags/keywords • Publisher (if applicable) • File size • Standardized file name • Submitter of object • Relationships to other objects McFall ALA 2014

9. Metadata Categories (cont.) • Administrative and descriptive metadata fields that require specialized controlled vocabularies such as AAT and LCSH, as well as a genre field that uses a customized controlled vocabulary • Custom fields that vary for each faculty project McFall ALA 2014

10. Supporting Metadata Creation • One-on-one metadata entry to serve as an example • Provide resources such as a wiki or built-in support on best practices for metadata creation • Be available to answer questions McFall ALA 2014

11. Metadata Process McFall ALA 2014

12. Building Connections Beyond DHi • Classroom lectures: • How to organize information • Establishing good metadata practices • Methods of file organization • Specific tools used by digital humanists • One-on-one work with students • Metadata training modules – coming soon! McFall ALA 2014

13. Repurposed Skills • Known metadata schemas • Controlled vocabularies • AAT • LCNAF • LCSH • User search habits McFall ALA 2014

14. XML and TEI Resources XML Training: • www.Lynda.com (paid subscription service) • www.W3schools.com (free training modules) TEI • TEI Lite: http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/Lite/ • Training: • “Learn the TEI” http://www.tei-c.org/Support/Learn/ • TEI By Example validation site: http://www.teibyexample.org/xquery/TBEvalidator.xq McFall ALA 2014

15. Other Useful Resources • THATcamps: http://thatcamp.org/camps/ • Conferences and training sessions • Journals • Email lists • XML-DEV • System-specific • DIGLIB • MODS Listserv • DC-General Mailing List • ACRL Digital Humanities Discussion Group McFall ALA 2014

16. Contact Information Lisa McFall Metadata and Catalog Librarian Hamilton College, Clinton, NY lmcfall@hamilton.edu Digital Humanities Initiative dhinitiative.org McFall ALA 2014