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This decision entailed rethinking how to replicate Islandora’s functionality of creating and updating the DC and MODS data streams. When speaking to the programmer on the project, one of his tasks was to ingest METS (Metadata Encoding Transmission Standard) documents from Archivematica into Fedora. The programmer and I talked about the idea of using METS as a metadata standard to help us create and update data streams. As the metadata librarian on the project, I also wanted a way to be able to update other types of metadata beyond the description such as important rights or preservation metadata, which would not be in the same data streams as the DC and/or MODS. Moreover, I knew that metadata would not be the same in all of our Fedora Digital Objects. Each of our Fedora Digital Objects would need to have data streams created and updated with appropriate metadata. This lead to the decision of using a METS document with all the relevant metadata needed to create and update data streams. All of our Fedora Digital Objects would have such a METS document. Because these METS documents dealt with a rather large portion of our available metadata, we began to refer to them as the superset and eventually the METS überset document. As a result, as the metadata librarian, I created a METS Profile for the METS überset document that has just been approved and registered by the Library of Congress.
In this presentation, I will describe my process of how the METS überset document came to be and the specifications outlined in its METS Profile. I will also highlight the lessons learned from the process.
== Empowering Collection Owners with Automated Bulk Ingest Tools for DSpace ==
* Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu
The Georgetown University Library has developed a number of applications to expedite the process of ingesting content into DSpace.
* Automatically inventory a collection of documents or images to be uploaded
* Generate a spreadsheet for metadata capture based on the inventory
* Generate item-level ingest folders, contents files and dublin core metadata for the items to be ingested
* Validate the contents of ingest folders prior to initiating the ingest to DSpace
* Present users with a simple, web-based form to initiate the batch ingest process
The applications have eliminated a number of error-prone steps from the ingest workflow and have significantly reduced a number of tedious data editing steps. These applications have empowered content experts to be in charge of their own collections.
In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.
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