by Mike Casey, Director of Technical Operations, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Welcome to the first installment in our occasional series, “Obsolescence in Action.” In the early days of MDPI, I came across a university in Ohio that was looking to dispose of twelve Panasonic AG-DS840 VHS machines. High-end VHS machines, free for… Read more »
Month: August 2017
Metadata for Physical Items in MDPI
by Julie Hardesty, Metadata Analyst, Digital Collection Services, Indiana University Libraries Welcome to the second post in our series about MDPI and metadata! Last time we discussed the overall sources of metadata for MDPI items and the topics we would cover more in-depth later in this series. Today’s post will cover metadata used to track… Read more »