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/