Metadata Description Projects
An Integrated Guide to Walt Whitman’s Dispersed Manuscripts
Finding aids for approximately 35 different collections in repositories within the U.S. and Europe were integrated into a single guide using Encoded Archival Description (EAD), eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML), and eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) 2.0. The project was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and in 2006, received the CFW Coker Award of the Society of American Archivists for innovation in archival description.
Project Description: http://cdrh.unl.edu/projects/pages/integrated_guide.php
Interoperability of Metadata for Thematic Research Collections
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is coordinating a demonstration project to create a model Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Profile for thematic research collection, using the Walt Whitman Archive, http://www.whitmanarchive.org as a test case.
Project Description: http://cdrh.unl.edu/projects/pages/interoperability_metadata.php
