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Report on METSmaker software November 2003 Abbreviated version of a slide show presented at METS Opening Day October 27, 2003 Carl Fleischhauer Office of Strategic Initiatives Library of Congress cfle@loc.gov

The AV Project:                 Context & History Preservation, sense one: reformatting into digital-file form Desire for LOTS! of administrative metadata Preservation, sense two: sustaining digital objects Desire to make an SIP (submission information package, as described in the OAIS reference model) Project participation by Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division (M/B/RS) and the American Folklife Center

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The AV METS System Today

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Some Shortcomings Cumbersome data entry – many screens, many actions Bugs – hard to get them all fixed now that the contractor is gone Best if users understand METS and the structMap – barrier to entry for new team members Does not include tools for bulk compilation from pre-existing data

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Distributed Data Entry Hoped-for future Each teams enters its own data in less cumbersome “local” tools Tool for descriptive data, especially copying in and out of the ILS Tool for data about the source item and certain technical aspects, copied in and out of MAVIS Tool for digiProv data, “the engineers’ form” Tool or a MAVIS extension to encode the structMap

Supporting Tools To support the hoped-for future Centralized tool to gather and compile the various XML data units into a METS instance Facility to manage the METS XML documents