file storage is a lot like a basement closet
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File storage is a lot like a basement closet. Image courtesy of Teemo, Master of Clowning. Image courtesy of Life Magazine. What happens when it's time to move???. Identification A digital object may belong in MANY potential virtual collections…. Slavery - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
File storage is a lot like a basement closet...
Image courtesy of Teemo, Master of Clowning
Image courtesy of Life Magazine
What happens when it's time to move???
Identification A digital object may belong in MANY potential virtual collections…
… but it originated from ONE SINGLE ANALOG collection. Provenance trumps all!
Slavery African Americans Sheet Music Tombigbee River Southern History … and more
“Gum Tree Canoe,” Published by G.P. Reed (Boston: 1847). Wade Hall collection of Southern History and Culture, Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama Libraries.
Hierarchical classes approach
Holder ID: u0003
Collection ID: 0000023
Item ID: 0000007
Sequence ID: 0005
Archival File: u0003_0000023_0000007_0005.tif
“Holder” and format type (example: Hoole Special Collections Manuscripts)
Collection within those holdings (example: Gorgas Family Papers)
Numbered item within that collection Sequence of delivery for pages (and subpages)
Concatenated meaningful segments in filename;
Same segments mirrored in file structure.
u0003_0001980_0000001 is the first digitized item in the MSS 1980 collection
HOLDER ID
COLLECTION ID
Create Clarity:Information at the Applicable Level
Dropping the Technical Metadata in… where it belongs
Makes METS creation a Piece of Cake!
(and redundant!)
Is simply:
u0003/ 0000002/ 0001/
The directory for
u0003_0000002_0001.tif
storage area
Simple, Clear Hierarchical Organization:
Holder ID Collection ID Item ID Sequence ID
Bringing Content Up to the Level Of the WEB!!! Greater Usability and Access == Longer Life
Images … ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org(it’s free!)
Protected archive area
u0003 u0003
0000023 0000023
0000007
0005
u0003_0000023_0000007_0005.tif
0000007
0005
Thumb, mid-, and large-size derivatives
Web accessible area
Audio … LAME: http://lame.sourceforge.netOCR … TESSERACT: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
http://acumen.lib.ua.edu
ACCESS! Via Acumen
(also free!)
XML schema agnostic No ingest No metadata modifications All content easily accessible Open to search engines