Presentation
Preserving the Past with Tomorrow's Technology: How DePaul University and the University of Ireland, Galway secured a new home for a Vincentian digital collection in the cloud
Catholic Research Resource Alliance Symposium
(2012)
Abstract
DePaul University Library assisted researchers at the National University of Ireland, Galway in preserving their catalogue of Vincentian documents by migrating metadata from an unstable server to a hosted web publishing platform designed for cultural institutions. Based on the collection’s requirements and the technical abilities of the researchers and their budget, the project team chose Omeka.net. The project included simplifying and restructuring the original metadata, encoding it in Unicode, and mapping the elements to the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. The catalogue now exists as a searchable online database in a stable, standardized, hosted environment that can be easily managed by the researchers as their project expands.
Disciplines
Publication Date
October, 2012
Citation Information
Rebecca Cooling-Mallard and M Ryan Hess. "Preserving the Past with Tomorrow's Technology: How DePaul University and the University of Ireland, Galway secured a new home for a Vincentian digital collection in the cloud" Catholic Research Resource Alliance Symposium (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rebecca_cooling-mallard/1/