Module 1: Digital Materials & Collections

By the end of this module, you should...

• Be able to build a collection in Zotero, using a variety of sources, and have a basic understanding of the following concepts:
  
  

  • What is metadata?

  • Identifiers (DOIs, etc), names, and authorities, and vocabularies;

  • Formal representations of dates (ISO 8601).

• Be able to export a Zotero collection to RDF, and have a basic understanding of the following concepts:

  • What is the semantic web?

  • Schemas (DC, FOAF, etc.)

• Have a basic understanding of file types and formats as it relates to digital collections.

• Have basic understanding of Optical Character Recognition, and be able to use command-lines tools to perform OCR.

• Build a collection in Zotero.

• Curate your metadata: 

  • disambiguate author names

  • clean up dates

• Obtain plain-text content, and add it to your collection.

• Export your collection to RDF.