the archivists’ toolkit: streamlining production and standardizing archival information

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The Archivists’ Toolkit:Streamlining Production and Standardizing

Archival Information

DLF Presentation11 April 2006

Bradley Westbrook, UCSD

Lee Mandell, NYU

Jason Varghese, NYU

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Overview

• Brief project update

• Ingest function for legacy data

• Application demonstration

• Outstanding issues / future development

• Questions

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Brief Project Update

• Project status– Fact sheet– Revision of specification – Building of application– No cost extension

• Project objectives– Promote standardization of archival information– Create workflow efficiency

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Ingesting Legacy Data

• EAD 2002• MARC XML

– parent records– access headings

• Names records– EAC– MADS

• Subjects• Accessions

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EAD Ingest

• Data Model – ISAD-G– DACS

• Support for EAD elements

• Mapping EAD elements to AT element

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EAD Ingest (continued)

• Java API for XML Binding (JAXB)- binding classes for all EAD elements- EAD DTD- EAD XSD

• Mapping between AT Java classes to JAXB classes

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Sacrifice

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Technical Information• Developed with mySQL• Will work with many SQL databases both open

source and commercial– Partial list: DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase,

Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, Ingres ...

• Java desktop client• Client and database can be installed on the same

computer or on different computers.– Single machine configuration– Local network configuration– Wide area network configuration

• Open Source

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Architecture

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A Live Demonstration

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Issues and Future Development• Issues

– Planning for sustainability

• Development– Improve functionality of built

areas

– Add new functional areas• User registration and use tracking• Right’s Management

– Interoperating with digital repositories

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http://archiviststoolkit.org/