At some point in his or her career, EVERY archivist will have to clean up messy data, a task which can be difficult and tedious without the right set of tools. This session will present case studies of how archivists (none of whom are IT professionals) have learned and applied powerful metadata clean-up tools and strategies. We hope that every archivist will leave with a new tool to make work easier at his or her institution.
Maureen Callahan is an archivist and metadata specialist at Yale University, where she provides guidance on descriptive issues and was the primary technical lead for migration from Archivists' Toolkit to ArchivesSpace at Manuscripts & Archives. Maureen also participated in the creation... Read More →
