Here are listed tasks that can be undertaken by interns at the Cataloging and Metadata Services Department. Please note that interns can select one of the listed modules for a semester long internship.
Orientation
The intern will have an orientation tour with the Head of the Department and have an overview of the work done at the Department using international rules and local procedures of processing.
A mentor is assigned to the intern who will be responsible for guiding the latter and following up on his/her work
The outcome of cataloging and metadata creation is very essential for describing digital and digitized materials in Digital Humanities projects.
The intern should meet with the head of the Department on a weekly basis to check the progress and the difficulties that might be faced.
The Head of the Department assigns to the intern a number of library materials (like books, periodicals, maps, audiovisuals, photos, theses, etc..) to process them by filling MARC records in the library system. The records of these materials, created by the intern, will be exported, mapped, and converted into metadata in Dublin Core format, to be populated in Content Management System (CMS) or digital repository to describe the born digital or the digitized materials.
The student should have at least 50 records covering all library material types.
Learning Outcomes
The intern will have an overview of the work to be done with local procedures of processing using open sources tools. A mentor will be assigned to the intern for guidance.
The mentor assigns a number of digitized periodical issues and articles to be processed by filling excel sheet of the mapped metadata in Dublin Core. The intern will create an account in OMEKA Content Management System (CMS) to import the metadata.
Learning Outcomes
The intern will have an overview on the project and will check the availability of Arabic periodicals on the Web. The intern will be guided to the most important sites of catalogs and digital repositories to search and find the periodical titles.
A mentor is assigned to the intern who will be responsible for guiding the latter and following up on his/her work
The intern will be provided with a list of Arabic periodicals that needs to be checked to get the name of each library that own this periodical and add the URL of the site on the original list with the holdings of the issues and the digitized issues if available.
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