METS Awareness Training

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METS Awareness Training

• Case studies

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Case study 1 a slide collection
TitleAstragalus aristaus DescriptionBotanical
engraving - coloured - of Astragalus aristaus
Date (issued)1832 PublisherLondon (England)
Richard Taylor and Co. AuthorSibthorp, John,
1758-1796 EditorLindley, John,
1799-1865 ArtistBauer, Ferdinand,
1760-1826 EngraverSowerby, John E. (John
Edward), 1825-1870 Subject Botany -- Greece
(LCSH)Legumes -- Greece (LCSH)
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• What facilities do you want to offer your users
  when using this collection?
• Browsing by
• Title
• Personal names
• Author
• Artist
• Engraver
• Editor
• Subject
• Date
• Searching by all of these?
• Navigation of collection by thumbnail image?

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What extension schemas should you use for
descriptive and administrative metadata?

• Descriptive
• MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
• Dublin Core?
• MARCXML (if pre-existing MARC records)
• Administrative
• MIX NISO Technical Metadata for Digital Still
  Images

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What standards would you adopt for metadata
content (name authorities, subject headings)?

• Names
• Library of Congress Names Authority File (LCNAF)
• Subjects
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• Any others?

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What files will you include in your ltfileSecgt and
how will they be arranged?

• Archival images
• Uncompressed TIFFs (colour or greyscale)
• Group IV compressed bitonal TIFFs (bitonal)
• Held on archival file server
• Deliverable images
• JPEGS or GIFS
• Possibly more than one to allow viewing at
  differing resolutions
• Thumbnails
• JPEGS or GIFS

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How will you arrange your ltstructMapgt?

• Probably no internal structure if each METS file
  contains metadata for a single image only
• Possibly treat METS file as holder for collection
  of images
• Group into categories?
• Work out a logical sequence

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Case study 2 a collection of online books
Title A Description of the Western Islands of
Scotland including the Isle of Man Comprising
an account of their Geological Structure with
remarks on their Agricultural Scenery, and
Antiquities. Description An account of the
Western Isles of Scotland, including the Isle of
Man, giving accounts of the region's geology,
with additional descriptions of its geography,
including agriculture and landscape, and its
early cultural heritage drawing from a selection
of papers originally compiled for the Geological
Society. In three volumes, including atlas. The
second volume discusses the islands not covered
in volume one Volume no. 2 Date (issued) 1819
Publisher London (England) Archibald Constable
Co., and Hurst, Robinson Co. Author Macculloch
, John, 1773-1835. Subject Local geography
(LCSH)Local history (LCSH)Geology (LCSH)
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• What facilities do you want to offer your users
  when using this collection?
• Browsing of collection by
• Title
• Author
• Any others?
• Searching by these?
• Navigation of internal structure of books
• by chapters?
• by page numbers
• by thumbnails?

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What extension schemas should you use for
descriptive and administrative metadata?

• Descriptive
• MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
• Dublin Core?
• MARCXML (if pre-existing MARC records)
• Administrative
• MIX NISO Technical Metadata for Digital Still
  Images

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What standards would you adopt for metadata
content (name authorities, subject headings)?

• Names
• Library of Congress Names Authority File (LCNAF)
• Subjects
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• Any others?

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What files will you include in your ltfileSecgt and
how will they be arranged?

• Archival images
• Uncompressed TIFFs (colour or greyscale)
• Group IV compressed bitonal TIFFs (bitonal)
• Held on archival file server
• Deliverable images
• JPEGS or GIFS
• Possibly more than one to allow viewing at
  differing resolutions
• Thumbnails
• JPEGS or GIFS

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How will you arrange your ltstructMapgt?

• A simple nested structure to allow navigation
• Chapters
• Sub-chapters
• Page
• Possibly more than one ltstructMapgt if the
  physical hierarchy does not nest neatly within
  the logical on

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Case study 3 a collection of online texts
Part FirstAT MARYGREEN "Yea, many there be that
have run out of their wits for women, and become
servants for their sakes. Many also have
perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.... O
ye men, how can it be but women should be strong,
seeing they do thus?"-- ESDRAS. I     THE
schoolmaster was leaving the village, and
everybody seemed sorry. The miller at Cresscombe
lent him the small white tilted cart and horse to
carry his goods to the city of his destination,
about twenty miles off, such a vehicle proving of
quite sufficient size for the departing teacher's
effects. For the schoolhouse had been partly
furnished by the managers, and the only
cumbersome article possessed by the master, in
addition to the packing-case of books, was a
cottage piano that he had bought at an auction
during the year in which he thought of learning
instrumental music. But the enthusiasm having
waned he had never acquired any skill in playing,
and the purchased article had been a perpetual
trouble to him ever since in moving house.
Jude the Obscure Originally published serially
in Harpers New Monthly Magazine vols. 90 and 91,
1894-1895 as The Simpletons. Thomas Hardy 488
pages Harper Brothers New York 1896
 Published 1894-1895 LanguagesEnglish
Latin Greek
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• What facilities do you want to offer your users
  when using this collection?
• Browsing by
• Title
• Author
• Any others?
• Searching by all of these?
• Full-text searching
• Navigation by
• Table of contents
• Page numbers

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What extension schemas should you use for
descriptive and administrative metadata?

• Descriptive
• MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
• Dublin Core?
• MARCXML (if pre-existing MARC records)
• Administrative
• Schema for Technical Metadata for Text (NYU)

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What standards would you adopt for metadata
content (name authorities, subject headings)?

• Names
• Library of Congress Names Authority File (LCNAF)
• Subjects
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• Any others?

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What files will you include in your ltfileSecgt and
how will they be arranged?

• Texts
• Marked up in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
• Preferably following TEI in Libraries guidelines
• TEI file could feasibly be embedded in METS file
  itself, or otherwise referenced from it

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How will you arrange your ltstructMapgt?

• Structural map will probably duplicate ltdivgt
  structure of TEI file
• Use ltareagt element within the ltstructMapgt to
  delineate each meaningful section of the text
• Alternatively, one could include a single ltdivgt
  in the structural map for the whole text, and
  rely on the ltdivgt structure in the TEI file for
  navigation

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• What facilities do you want to offer your users
  when using this collection?
• Browsing by
• Title
• Personal names
• Author
• Artist
• Engraver
• Editor
• Subject
• Date
• Searching by all of these?
• Navigation of collection by thumbnail image?

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Case study 4 a collection of videos
TitleNight Mail Duration22 mins 46
secs1 CreditsAn ABFD Release The GPO Film
Unit Producer John Grierson Directors Basil
Wright, Harry Watt, Pat Jackson Scenario John
Grierson, Harry Watt, Basil Wright Verses W.H.
Auden Cameras Jonah Jones, Chick Fowle Sound
A.E. Pawley, Sound Supervision Cavalcanti Music
Benjamin Britten Editors Basil Wright, R.Q.
McNaughton with Workers of the Travelling Post
Office and Workers of the LMS Railway2 Year193
63 DescriptionThe overnight run of the Postal
Special from London to Glasgow.4 CollectionRoy
al Mail Film Classics5 DirectorBasil Wright,
Harry Watt, Assistant Director Pat
Jackson6 ProducerJohn Grierson7  Segment
1 NFTVA leader. Main title and credits. Segment
2 A man walks across a farmyard leading a shire
horse. He checks his watch and walks towards the
track.
 1fT  2fT  3fT  4fT  5fT  6fT  7fT
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What extension schemas should you use for
descriptive and technical metadata?

• Descriptive
• MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
• Dublin Core?
• Administrative
• VIDEOMD Video Technical Metadata Extension
  Schema

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What standards would you adopt for metadata
content (name authorities, subject headings)?

• Names
• Library of Congress Names Authority File (LCNAF)
• Subjects
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• Any others?

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What files will you include in your ltfileSecgt and
how will they be arranged?

• Video files
• MPEG (mpg)
• Quicktime (mov)
• Windows Media (wmv)
• Realplayer (ram)
• Possibly more than one to allow viewing at
  differing resolutions
• Are files for downloading or streaming only

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How will you arrange your ltstructMapgt?

• A detailed structural map is necessary to allow
  browsing by segments of the video
• Use the ltareagt element to assign timecodes within
  each segment