Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals. Abstract As institutions turn towards developing archival digital repositories, many decisions on the use of metadata have to be made. In addition to deciding on the more traditional descriptive and administrative metadata, particular care needs to be given to the choice of structural and preservation metadata, as well as to integrating the various metadata components. This article reports on the use of METS structural, PREMIS preservation and MODS descriptive metadata for the British Library's eJournal system. Introduction At the British Library, a system for ingest, storage, and preservation of digital content is being developed under the Digital Library System Programme, with eJournals as the first content stream.
In order to understand metadata needs, it is helpful to understand the business processes and data structures. eJournals present a difficult domain for two reasons. The eJournal Ingest Workflow Typically, information providers submit several manifestations of each article. Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock | Art, Arch. Clock watching ... the Pantheon in Paris. Photograph: Alamy It is one of Paris's most celebrated monuments, a neoclassical masterpiece that has cast its shadow across the city for more than two centuries. But it is unlikely that the Panthéon, or any other building in France's capital, will have played host to a more bizarre sequence of events than those revealed in a court last week.
Four members of an underground "cultural guerrilla" movement known as the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France's cultural heritage, were cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument in a plot worthy of Dan Brown or Umberto Eco. For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon's unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid "illegal restorers" set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building's famous dome. Getting into the building was the easiest part, according to Klausmann. Klausmann and his crew are connaisseurs of the Parisian underworld. Archiveteam. NDIIPP Content Transfer Project: The BagIt File Package Format ( Skip to end of metadataGo to start of metadata BagIt File Packaging Format BagIt is a hierarchical file packaging format for the exchange of generalized digital content. A "bag" has just enough structure to safely enclose descriptive "tags" and a "payload" but does not require any knowledge of the payload's internal semantics.
This BagIt format should be suitable for disk-based or network-based storage and transfer. Implementations Library of Congress Florida Center for Library Automation RubyBagIt (Ruby) (was Andrew Hankinson: Mark Jordan BagIt module for Drupal Ed Summers bagit (Python) University of Virginia Scholars' Lab BagItPHP Library. What could be more special? I’ve just read the minutes from a recent meeting of the Lot 49 group, which was formed to address issues related to moving image digitization. [Here's a link to notes about the inaugural meeting in July 2007.] The need to be in Dublin, OH last week precluded my being there, but reading the minutes has led me to reflect on how motion and sound fit into Jen’s and my diatribe, Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the Flow (about digitizing special collections for access). Our major premise is that, in cases where we will preserve the original, we ought to think about digitization for access rather than for preservation.
In this way, we can get more special collections digitized and accessible, thereby increasing the demand and, hopefully funding, for our collections. The alternative, investing in time-consuming expensive processes, risks special collections becoming marginalized in the midst of the vast quantity of books on-line. Related posts: YouTomb. Preserving Digital Video. My place of work is looking to acquire educational videos in a digital form with an eye towards long-term preservation. At this point we receive a physical form (preferably DVD, but sometimes VHS) and digitize it to a very lossy access format (RealMedia, in this case). With this change, we would get a preservation-worthy digital copy from the producer/distributor and forego the physical version. There is quite a lot written on preserving video, but I wanted to distill the requirements down into statements that vendors could reasonably provide today.
I think these are pretty sound requirements, but I’m looking for feedback. In particular, I’m not quite sure how to handle the transfer of closed caption text from the publisher/distributor; suggestions are welcome. [Jester's note: I just realized that an earlier version of this posting went out to the net about two hours before this "final" version. File Formats Captioning Text Resources Consulted Arms, C. Knight, G., & McHugh, J. (2005). The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable D. I. Blackbirds Revisited A few years ago my colleague Lorcan Dempsey and I wrote an article entitled "Thirteen Ways of Looking at ...
Digital Preservation" [1] (the title being a shameless re-working of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", a well-known poem by Wallace Stevens). Our purpose was to present a more nuanced view of digital preservation than one typically found in the literature, conferences, and community discussion springing up around the topic. At that time, digital preservation was often characterized as a discrete activity that could be segregated from, or tacked onto the end of, the digital life cycle; the primary obstacle to be overcome was the development of technical strategies, like emulation and migration, to stave off the twin evils of bit rot and technological obsolescence.
In the article, we acknowledged the importance of the technical imperatives of digital preservation, but argued that there was more to consider. II. III. From Micro to Macro... ... IV. Blue Ribbon Task Force. The Current State-of-art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Per. "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. " Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Background In the last few years, as digitization has gradually moved from an experimental and temporal activity towards one that is structural and continuous, mass digitization projects have been gaining ground.1 Almost simultaneously with the 'coming-of-age' of digitization, an increasing number of large-scale newspaper digitization projects (Austria, Australia, Belgium, Finland, Chili, Sweden, New Zealand, USA) have emerged.2 Because newspapers appeal to a large audience and in many cases remain inaccessible to a large degree, it is no surprise that many institutions decide to digitize their newspaper collections first.
Digitization and web delivery makes these collections available to a worldwide audience. Optical character recognition (OCR) technology – in spite of its shortcomings – offers better search-and-retrieval functionality than has been possible before. Market parties 1. Creating Preservation-Ready Web Resources. Abstract There are innumerable departmental, community, and personal web sites worthy of long-term preservation but proportionally fewer archivists available to properly prepare and process such sites. We propose a simple model for such everyday web sites which takes advantage of the web server itself to help prepare the site's resources for preservation. This is accomplished by having metadata utilities analyze the resource at the time of dissemination.
The web server responds to the archiving repository crawler by sending both the resource and the just-in-time generated metadata as a straight-forward XML-formatted response. We call this complex object (resource + metadata) a CRATE. In this paper we discuss modoai, the web server module we developed to support this approach, and we describe the process of harvesting preservation-ready resources using this technique. Introduction Motivation We begin by observing that digital preservation: A Review of HTTP Operation Preservation Metadata Notes.