Naming and Identifying Digital Objects

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Naming and Identifying Digital Objects

• George Kozak
• Library Systems
• Cornell University

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What kind of Digital Objects?

• Files
• Metadata
• Images
• Full Text

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What kind of Digital Objects?

• Is the baseline digital object a journal, an
  issue, an article, a monograph or pamphlet?
• Do we want the object names to be sequential,
  random or should they be derivative?

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What we have worked with

Monographs
Journals
Hierarchical Entities
Pamphlets
Electronic Articles
Correspondences
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Different Methods used
Making of America

Journal
Monograph
amis
mono
adams0036
amis0032
02
02
00001.TIF
OCR
OCR
00001.TXT
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Different Methods used
Math Books

Monograph
mono
03200001
OCR
tiff
0001.tif
0001.TXT
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Different Methods used
International Womens Periodicals

Journals
doa006011
doa006011.xml
OCR
images
00000010.tif
00000010.TXT
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Different Methods used
Project Euclid

euclid.aap
Journals
1013540033
1013540033.xml
1013540033.pdf
1013540033.bib
1013540033.fulltext
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Different Methods used
Ezra Cornell Papers

000001
Box
STRUCTURE
02
000001.bib
00001.TIF
folder
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Different Methods used
Saving Americas Treasures

8757
lot22
02
01
OCR
00001.TIF
22_8757_01.OCR
22_8757_01.xml
22_8757_01.pdf