State Employee Workshops
Print To Screen: The Life of a State Document/ Managing Digital Collections
Please join us to discuss ways of improving access to your online state publications. We are offering a two-hour class discussing scanning, how to OCR scanned images, pdf files, metadata, archiving your documents, and making sure your publications are found by search engines.
October 16, 2007: South Dakota State Library Conference Room, 9am to 11am
Contact LaVera.Rose for more information
If you have any questions about this training, please feel free to contact:
LaVera Rose, Digital Initiatives Librarian
South Dakota State Library,
605-773-3131 or email
or Wynne Nafus Sayer, Information Officer
South Dakota State Library,
605-773-3131 or email
Presentations and Handouts (pdf files)
- Presentation: Life of a Document: Paper to Digital
- Presentation: Metadata: the Inside Scoop
- Presentation: Life of a Document: Getting the Document to the Public
- Handout: Life of a Document Flowchart
- Handout: Metadata Generator: How to embed your Metadata into your PDF (Acrobat)
- Metadata Generator on SoDakLIVE
This form is designed to aid State of South Dakota employees who work on state websites and documents in creating metadata for for their online documents. Through the use of appropriate metadata, your online documents will be better classified and easier to find. - SoDakLIVE
Providing access to South Dakota State Agency publications not found elsewhere online. The goal of this website is to make state publications freely accessible to South Dakotans and the global community by putting the publications online. - e.library
Providing access to South Dakota State Agency publications not found elsewhere online. The goal of this website is to make state publications freely accessible to South Dakotans and the global community by putting the publications online. - Digitization
- Center for Technology in Government
Works with government to develop information strategies that foster innovation and enhance the quality and coordination of public services. - An Introduction to Digital Projects
University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Kansas State Historical Society: Government
Policies, programs, and information for records retention and historic preservation.
- Center for Technology in Government
- Metadata
- An Introduction to Metadata
University of Queensland Library, 2003 - Understanding PDF Metadata
planetpdf.com, 2005 - Metadata and PDF
Acrobat for Legal Professionals, 2005
- An Introduction to Metadata
- PDFs
- Adobe Drives Next Generation of Electronic Documents with Acrobat 8 Software
Layers Magazine, September 2006 - Compiling a single polished PDF document.
This article, in two parts, is from accountingweb.co.uk. - Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 (PDF)
A Guide for Publishing PDF documents for Use by People with Disabilities - Facts and Opinions about PDF Accessibility
A List Apart website, 2005 - Is that PDF Searchable?
Acrobat for Legal Professionals, February 2007 - Making One PDF out of Several PDFs
Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast with Terry White, March 2006 - OCR your scans in Acrobat 7 Professional
Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast with Terry White, June 2006 - PDF/X Files
What can PDF/X do for you? - Troubleshooting Acrobat OCR
Acrobat for Legal Professionals, June 2007
- Adobe Drives Next Generation of Electronic Documents with Acrobat 8 Software
- Recommended Software