Improvements/Avalon

This page will document potential areas of improvement in Archivematica that will allow for better workflows with Avalon.

Project Thesis

Artefactual and Avalon will seek to create:

• support for activities such as file characterization and preservation metadata extraction:
  • digitized and born-digital AV materials.
• Integration with Archivematica or its components into Avalon ingestion workflows to provide:
  • preservation metadata
  • better packaging for long-term digital preservation activities

Questions

METS

• Is it required that the metadata in the batch ingest manifest is represented in the AIP METS file (in dmdSecs for example?)
• Will users have a need to populate the batch ingest manifest with metadata entered into Archivematica?
  • Descriptive metadata?
  • Rights metadata?
• When Avalon is being used to disseminate different quality files, which file(s) should be stored in the AIP?
  • How should mulitple versions be modeled in the METS?
• Should the structure of files be modeled in the METS when structure XML files are included?
  • Or is describing the presence and use of structure files sufficient?
• How should the presence of caption files be noted in the METS?

Exploration of Archivematica

• Progress and first impressions
• Ingest progress
• Exploration of the AIP generated from Avalon Batch Packages
• Immediate observations:
  • Workflow questions
  • Perceived or real gaps
  • Questions Artefactual can answer about what Archivematica is doing/should be doing
• Relationship between Archivematica and Avalon, e.g position in workflow, pre-Avalon? post-Avalon? Something else?