Automation Using Metadata Filters & Leveraging Research Assistants
Abstract
The first sandbox session will feature Rachel Evans, Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian, and Savanna Nolan, Faculty & Instructional Services Librarian, from UGA Law Library: As part of larger efforts university-wide to highlight diversity leading up to the 60th anniversary of desegregation at UGA, the law school focused on identifying materials including photographs, class directors and news articles related to the school's earliest minority graduates. Although a physical exhibit began to take shape in the summer of 2020, limited building access presented challenges in sharing aspects of the exhibit with the community. Rachel and Savanna will share the method they used to identify key items from the repository related to several alumni, and the ongoing work of using metadata tags to automate collections, pulling content from across their site's series using the Digital Commons "collection" tool. They will discuss leveraging law library Research Assistants as part of the project workflow, and few ideas for using this method to auto-curate future series.
Repository Citation
Evans, Rachel S. and Nolan, Savanna, "Automation Using Metadata Filters & Leveraging Research Assistants" (2021). Presentations. 243.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/speeches/243
Presented as part of the AALL Repositories Caucus Sandbox Series on June 7, 2021, at 2:00 pm.