CONTENTdm - digitizing & metadata - Creating a botanical collection with historical significance in CONTENTdm

Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting

Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. November 14-15, 2011

Creating a botanical collection with historical significance in CONTENTdm

Session: Monday, Nov. 14

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Kathleen McElhinney

kathleen.mcelhinney@usd.edu

Danielle De Jager-Loftus
danielle.loftus@usd.edu

Welcome!

Welcome! This guide was created to discuss digitizing botanical specimens and creating metadata in CONTENTdm.

Please contact us if you have any questions about our presentation, or would like more information.

Resources discussed during our presentation:

Digital Library of South Dakota http://dlsd.sdln.net
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/
CONTENTdm www.contentdm.com/

Creating a botanical collection with historical significance in CONTENTdm

Presentation Abstract:

When is a flower a cultural artifact? When it was collected by a historical figure and preserved in a herbarium. Learn about the difficulties in digitizing botanical specimens over half a century old. Then find out about the challenges of creating metadata within CONTENTdm that satisfies both botanical researchers and historians, as well as the unique challenges of creating standard place names for botanical collection sites.

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