The Open Scholarship Commons provides access to many platforms for creating and sharing digital collections and open scholarship, each with distinct requirements for resource description. Metadata support services help users of these platforms in creating resource descriptions that meet requirements and facilitate discovery and use of their work at UW and beyond.
What support is available for Metadata?
We can help you with:
- Creating an application profile—making a plan for resource description
- Applying standards and best practices to metadata implementation
- Selecting tools and implementing workflows for metadata work
Resources
- UW Libraries metadata policies and best practices
- CONTENTdm Support
- Omeka Classic Support
Tools
- CONTENTdm
- CONTENTdm is used to serve the UW Libraries Digital Collections
- UW Libraries Digital Scholarship Hosting Platforms
- Information about hosted platforms
- Available tools include Omeka Classic, Omeka S, WordPress, and Manifold
- Pressbooks
- Pressbooks is an ebook authoring tool available for use through the Libraries