Description: This article discusses workflow tools for digital curation. Abstract: Maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions that address the many challenges of various stages of the digital object lifecycle. Digital curation activities enhance access and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and facilitate use and re-use over time. Digital resource lifecycle management is becoming an increasingly important topic as digital curators actively explore software tools that perform metadata curation and file management tasks. Accordingly, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries develop tools and workflows that streamline production and quality assurance activities. This article demonstrates two open source software tools, AutoHotkey and Selenium IDE, which the UNT Digital Libraries has adopted for use during the pre-ingest and post-ingest stages of the digital resource lifecycle.

Description: This poster discusses metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE. Digital lifecycle management starts when an item is created (born-digital) or selected for digitization (analog) and continues through image post-processing, metadata capture, derivative creation, and preservation for long-term access. Quality metadata is crucial to implementing reliable, usable, and sustainable digital libraries. Recognizing the role of standardized metadata in digital resource lifecycle management, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries actively promote metadata-based digital resource management. The UNT Digital Libraries Division utilizes various tools to ensure metadata consistency and precision across all digital resources and facilitate digital curation activities. This poster illustrates a workflow that uses Selenium IDE to edit large sets of published metadata records quickly and accurately with minimal human intervention.

Description: This poster discusses metadata quality enhancement for large digital collections. Creating and maintaining accurate descriptive metadata for digital objects is one of the best ways to connect with digital library users and maintain those connections over the long term. Good metadata empowers users to not only discover exactly what they searched for, but also to locate relevant resources that they did not expect to find. Metadata quality characteristics for digital libraries depend on many factors, including: the types of resources the repository offers and the users' needs, which vary across the spectrum of user communities. The metadata quality issue is particularly acute if there are multiple institutions participating in collaborative digital projects that employ diverse naming schemes for their documents and files. Furthermore, harvesting large sets of documents from open repositories presents a number of challenges for creating accurate descriptive metadata. For example, metadata schema do not always map well, creating disconnects when published in the local repository. In the aforementioned cases, substantial rework is usually required to create descriptive data that meets local repository standards. The University of North Texas (UNT) digital libraries group utilizes various tools and mechanisms to ensure metadata consistency and precision across all digital resources. ...