Click the button below to simulate the content notice flag and activate the insert
This is a demo application which accompanies the 2025 Midwest Archives Conference poster presentation, Serving it Up with Ones and Zeroes: A Programmatic Workflow for Inserting Content Notices in Digital Collections presented by Theresa Berger and Scott Lawan.
As best practices evolve and exemplary case studies for reparative description across traditional finding aids and physical collections continue to emerge, applications of these principles and workflows in the digital realm remain scarce.
This poster outlines a new workflow developed at the University of Minnesota Libraries for adding content notices to public-facing digital collections. We outline multiple points of communication between curators, archivists, and other content experts; digitization staff; digital collections managers; and finally, web application developers, to demonstrate the deep collaboration required of this important work. We also highlight a new programmatic workflow for generating a “flag” in ContentDM-generated metadata that signals the insert of a pre-designed content notice into the IIIF metadata of a digital object.
This exciting code application opens new possibilities to automate the inclusion of content notices at the front of digital objects, thereby saving time as well as advocating for this work to departments and stakeholders beyond traditional archival administrators. It also opens new opportunities for user experience studies and other work in support of reparative description efforts.