Peer-Reviewed Publications

Ma, X., & Van Kleeck, D. (2023). Nothing new but better – adapting pre-coordinated subject headings for digital collections. Technical Services Quarterly, 40(4), 260–273. https://doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2023.2259693 

Ma, X., Dinsmore, C., Van Kleeck, D., & Perry, L. (2023). Finding Florida—implementing machine aided indexing in an academic library. DCMI 2022 Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.953132608 

Ma, X., Pan, J., Chen, C., Deng, S., & Ostrach, K. S. (2022). VRA Core 4.0 Element Description and Tagging Examples—Chinese. https://www.loc.gov/standards/vracore/schemas.html

Ma, X. (2022). One Concept, One Term: Good Practice but How to Achieve? —Improving Facet Values Quality for Samuel Proctor Oral History Collection, Hosted by the University of Florida Digital Collections. Journal of Library Metadata. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2022.2096385

Stapleton, S., Dinsmore, C., Van Kleeck, D., & Ma, X. (2021). Computer-assisted indexing complements manual selection of subject terms for metadata in specialized collections. College & Research Libraries, 82(6). https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.6.792

Other Publications/Creative Works

Ma, X. (2024, December).  Metadata Unit Task Instruction [Libguide]. Guides @ UF; George A. Smathers Libraries.  https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/metadatainstruction

Ma, X. (2024, December 16). December 2024—VRA Board Buzz. VRA Visual Resources Association. https://www.vraweb.org/news/december-2024-vra-board-buzz- 

Ma, X. (2024, September 18). September 2024—VRA Board Buzz. VRA Visual Resources Association. https://www.vraweb.org/news/september-2024-board-buzz- 

Ma, X. (2024, August 26). August 2024—VRA Board Buzz. VRA Visual Resources Association. https://www.vraweb.org/news/august-2024-vra-board-buzz 

Ma, X. (2024, July 22). July 2024—VRA Board Buzz. VRA Visual Resources Association. https://www.vraweb.org/news/july-2024-vra-board-buzz 

Ma, X. (2024, June 17). June 2024—Introducing VRA “Board Buzz.” VRA Visual Resources Association. https://www.vraweb.org/news/june-2024-introducing-vra-board-buzz 

Ma, X. (2023, June). Beyond translation—translating VRA Core 4.0 into Chinese. Visual Resources Association Bulletin, 50(1).  https://online.vraweb.org/index.php/vrab/article/view/231

Ma, X. (2022, November). MARC records to UFDC Metadata Preparation [Libguide]. Guides @ UF; George A. Smathers Libraries. https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/c.php?g=1269130

Ma, X. (2022, September). UFDC XML Batch Updates [Libguide]. Guides @ UF; George A. Smathers Libraries. https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdcxml

Ma, X. (2022, September). RDS@UF: Metadata for Digital Collections [Libguide]. Guides @ UF; George A. Smathers Libraries. https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/rds-uf/DigitalCollectionMetadata

Lyons, J.(creator), & Ma, X (director). (2022, May). Seeking Civil Rights in the Sun: Oral Histories from St. Augustine’s Civil Rights Movements. Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) and George A. Smathers Libraries. https://uforalhistory.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/omeka/s/staugustinecivilrights/page/welcome

Ma, X. (2021, February 3). Digital Library Federation Blogs. Metadata During COVID—University of Florida. https://www.diglib.org/metadata-during-covid/

Ma, X. (2020, October). UF Library MAI Process [Libguide]. Guides @ UF; George A. Smathers Libraries. https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/MAI

Ma, X. (2020, April). Prepare Your Metadata for dLOC and UFDC [Libguide]. Guides @ UF; George A. Smathers Libraries. https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/describeitems/overview