The course blog for Digital History Methods a graduate seminar at American University. One of the explicit goals of this course is for us to develop as communicators on the public web. So please do join our conversation, but please do so respectfully. We are all learning how to do this together.
It would be great to add in some additional notes on the Dublin Core point (3.1), that is some requirements (ex, every item must include at last three fields, Title, Crator, Date) or something like that. Whatever makes the most sense for them as it would make it a little more specific.
I like the point of keeping audio files in their original formats. That makes a lot of sense as it’s particularly important for a music archive like this.
Nice job articulating a process for downloading and replacing the local copies of the content from Preservica. That would be rather useful as a way of both having those extra copies under their control and for ensuring that they have a solid exit strategy if/when they need to move to some future system.