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METADB: A DISTRIBUTED METADATA CREATION TOOL
ERIC LUHRSDIGITAL INITIATIVES LIBRARIAN
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
MID-ATLANTIC DIGITAL LIBRARY CONFERENCE
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, JULY 9, 2008
FRAMING THIS TALK
HOW BEST TO OVERCOME OUR STAFFING ISSUES?
BY USING TECHNOLOGY TO HARNESS OUR STRENGTHS
DECENTRALIZE THE PROCESS
Big digitization programs are centralized
Our commercial workflow tools reflected this organization
Works fine for well-staffed departments
We wanted something more flexible and easier to use
AN IDEA IS BORN
Needed an abstraction layer
Based on Dublin Core, but not tied to it
metadata exportable to common CSV and TSV formats
Build with standard Open Source technologies: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, YUI JavaScript framework
Digital Initiatives Librarian defines project requirements
Students record basic technical details while scanning
Librarians, Archivists, and Faculty subject specialists provide administrative and descriptive metadata
Digital Initiatives Librarian exports completed metadata records to asset management system
METADB WORKFLOW
LDAP AND LOCAL
PASSWORD SUPPORT
SECUREHTTPS
CONNECTION
NEATLOGO
“ADMIN” USERS HAVE ACCESS
TO PROJECT AND USER
MANAGEMENT TABS
PRECISE CONTROLOF PROJECT AND USER ACCESS
READ ONLY ACCESS
PROJECT SETTINGS AND
DEFAULTS
CUSTOM FIELDS
ADD/REMOVE FIELDS AS
NEEDED
CONFIGURE USER INPUT SETTINGS
DEFAULT TECHNICAL SETTINGS
AUTO GENERATED
FILENAME
NAVIGATE BETWEEN RECORDS
CREATE MULTIPLE RECORDS QUICKLY
MOSTLY STATIC FIELDS
UNICODE SUPPORT
DEFAULT USER INPUT SETTINGS
LINK TO LARGER IMAGE
JUMP TO EDIT PAGE
UNICODE SEARCHING
CAN ALSO IMPORT
EXISTING METADATA
DETERMINE UNICODE OUTPUT
CHOOSE EXPORT
SETTINGS
UNICODE OUTPUT
HTML ENTITY OUTPUT
COMPLETED METADB
COLLECTIONTSV
CONTENTDM’SACQUISITION
WORKFLOW ADVANTAGES
Can farm metadata tasks to experts on and off-campus
Multiple users work concurrently and at their own pace
Can automate where possible to simplify data entry
Provides single interface for storing and editing metadata
No client-side software to install and easy to train users
MEANINGFUL COLLABORATION
Warner example
Constant development
Faculty and librarians learn from each other
Equal partners
Better than either could have done alone
Campus interest
FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF METADB
Currently wrapping up next version
Plan to make it open source
C.S. class project will re-write in Java
Better project management, use statistics, transformations from CSV/TSV to DSpace, CONTENTdm collections
