Staff Links

Human Resources

EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

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• Digital Services Responsibilities
• Supplies and Purchasing
• HR Policies for Student Employees

Training

• DS Staff Training and Exploration Fronts - an information space used to identify and track new or novel uses of digital archiving technologies, tools, and resources.
• Training Needs - a running list identifying topics for monthly DS training sessions.
• Learning Resources for Digital Services Staff
• Unit Info Archive - a place to gather knowledge about the previous hardware, software, workflows, etc. of the unit

Hardware and Software Help

• Scripts
• Command-line Work on Linux Server
• Working with Microsoft Excel
• Research
• Mounting the S Drive and Printer Installation on Windows - click here for a handout.
• Cheat sheets for programming

Web and Social Media Policies and Instructions

• Media:AddingLinksToWikipedia.pdf
• Media:WebAndSocialMediaPolicies.docx
• Media:BlogInstructions.pdf

Metadata

• General Information and Internal Links
  • Metadata Movement
  • Descriptive metadata
  • Scripts for spreadsheet work
    • For Subjects and Names
  • Scripts for MODS
    • Generating MODS
    • Validating MODS
• File Naming Schemes
  • Explanation of Filename Holdings/Type Number
• Alterations to Online Content

Standards and Vocabularies

• A controlled vocabulary reference for regions of the United States
• NISO: A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
• LOC: About American Memory: Technical Information
• DACS: describing archives, personal papers, and manuscript collections
• Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I)

Wiki Resources

• Wiki templates - if applicable, please use one of these in order to help standardize the organization of the most frequent types of pages
• MediaWiki text examples
• How to create a new page
• MediaWiki HELP
• Sandbox - a place to practice MediaWiki formatting. Please delete all sandbox tests before logging out.
• Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Wikipedia Tools - tools for converting Excel sheets to Wikipedia tables, etc. and more.
• Wiki Markup