Metadata import
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This page documents the workflow and METS content for lower-level metadata import - i.e. metadata to be attached to subdirectories and files within a SIP.
Workflow
- For compound objects, the user creates one or more subdirectory in the objects directory, each containing the items that form a compound object.
- The user adds a csv file to the metadata folder for the transfer entitled metadata.csv
- The first row of the csv file consists of field names
- Dublin Core field names must contain the "dc" element in the name, eg "dc.title"
- Each subsequent row contains the complete set of field values for a single directory or file
- If the metadata are for compound objects, the csv file must contain a "parts" column listing the names of the directories containing the items that form the compound object
- At the generate METS micro-service, Archivematica parses the metadata in metadata.csv to the METS file, as follows:
- All Dublin Core elements are used to generate a dmdSec for each directory or file with MDTYPE="DC"
- All non-Dublin Core elements are used to generate a dmdSec for each directory or file with MDTYPE="OTHER" OTHERMDTYPE="CUSTOM"
- The dmdSecs are linked to their directories or files in the structMap
Simple objects
This section provides csv file and METS file examples for simple objects - i.e. individual files that are not items in a compound object such as a book or a newspaper issue.
CSV file
Sample headings and values
Column headers and sample values
| dc.title | dates of publication | dc.publisher | dc.contributor | dc.subject | dc.date | dc.description | notes | forms part of | repository | dc.rights | project website | Digital file format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley Park in December | Riley Studios, Vancouver BC | Don Langfield, photographer | Vancouver (B.C.)--Parks | 1992/12/04 | Image shows Brockton Oval after light snowfall | Originally part of series entitled "Winter in Vancouver" | Riley Studios collection | New Caledonia Public Library | Copyright held by Riley Studios | http://www.ncpl/donlangfieldphotographs.ca | image/jp2 | |
| Sunset in Queen Elizabeth Park | Riley Studios, Vancouver BC | Don Langfield, photographer | Vancouver (B.C.)--Parks | 1994/07/13 | Riley Studios collection | New Caledonia Public Library | Copyright held by Riley Studios | http://www.ncpl/donlangfieldphotographs.ca | image/jp2 |