5 Things Thursday: Librarian Tips for DAM, SEO, Nitrate Film

Hello! Here are five spectacular things: The Librarian Tips for DAM series kicks off here with an inspiring post by Linda Rouse on librarians and digital asset management. John Horodyski on making a DAM decision. Top 4 reasons SEO is dead. Another DAM Podcast talks to Jennifer Sellar from MOMA. George Eastman House blog on…

5 Things Thursday: Taxonomy, Serials Solutions, NARA

Here are five interesting things: The Seattle Chapter of ASIS&T posted a video of a talk by Andrew Szydlowski of Serials Solutions speaking to University of Washington students about his career trajectory from traditional library to technology metadata wrangler. Really interesting information for students of all kinds, as well as librarians wondering about the corporate…

5 Things Thursday: Photo Metadata, DAM, MARC, Romanian Libraries

Here are five more things: Want to read an overview of digital asset management that seems to imply that a DAM system can somehow operate without a digital asset manager? Are you interested in the Controlled Vocabulary Survey regarding the preserv...

5 Things Thursday: Lovely Libraries, Storify, Cooper-Hewitt

Here are 5 things to tide you over. Mod Librarian will be on a short hiatus returning with 5 things on Thursday, March 15th. Check out 20 beautiful personal and private libraries. Want to find out how to use Storify for libraries? Watch these inte...

Metadata Monday: Metadata Standards for Cinematic Works

In honor of the Academy Awards, here is a fantastic metadata standard for cinematic works - EN 15907. Available in English, French and German this standard employs some of the usual suspects for elements like Identifier, Title and Year of Referenc...

Metadata Monday: PBCore

PBCore is a metadata standard for use with audio visual materials brought to us by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Based on Dublin Core with element sets expanded for improved description of broadcast specific fields, PBCore can be empoye...

Want to be in Pictures?

Ever wonder what a moving image archivist does? Well, Lance Watsky can tell you all about being an audio visual archivist. In this interview, Lance describes his educational and career path leading up to his current jobs - one as the program coord...

Preserving and Cataloging Moving Images

Moving images, also known as film or movies, have unique preservation and cataloging requirements. Well, there are some great resources if you are interested in this fascinating topic. Moving Image Archive News is a blog that is ???a clearinghouse o...