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Archive: March 2013 (21 Posts)

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Visualizing Linked Data for Holdings and Cataloging with Viewshare: An Interview with Violeta Ilik

Posted by: Abbey Potter

This is a guest post from Camille Salas, an intern with the Library of Congress.  Violeta Ilik is the Metadata Cataloging Librarian at Texas A&M University Libraries. Violeta recently gave a presentation at the ALA Midwinter conference entitled “Linked Data for Holdings and Cataloging: The first step is the hardest!.” In the presentation, she described …

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Islandora’s Open Source Ecosystem and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Mark Leggott

Posted by: Trevor Owens

Open source software is playing an important role in digital stewardship. In an effort to better understand the role open source software is playing, the NDSA infrastructure working group is reaching out to folks working on a range of open source projects. Our goal is to develop a better understanding of their work and how …

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What Resolution Should I Use? Part 3

Posted by: Susan Manus

The following is a guest post by Barry Wheeler, Digital Projects Coordinator, Office of Strategic Initiatives. In Part 1 of this series, we examined how a simple scanner was built and showed how the manufacturer determined their claimed “resolution.”  We noted that the International Standards Organization calls this the “sampling rate” and defines resolution differently.  …