Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Scope Both multilevel and single-level description Accommodates description of collections, series, sub-series, files, and items Based on extant standards such as DA:CS Allows user to link a digital object or aggregate of digital objects to any descriptive level

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Inputs/Outputs Inputs: –based on principles of multi-level description Outputs: –Printed finding aids –EAD –MARC XML –Repository guides

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Use Cases Create/edit collection record Create/edit series record Create/edit file record Create/edit item record

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Issues Inheritance of data elements in outputs Statement of responsibility at lower levels Interaction with item-level description Tracking and allowing editing of hierarchical relationships

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Item Description Scope Stand alone module Describe analog and digital items Integrates with collection description Facilitates links from containers in a finding aid to digital surrogates Accommodate a robust descriptive pallet with which the user may describe objects beyond the EAD or MARC footprint.

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Possible “stand-alone” benefits Allows user to focus on the essential problem of managing digital assets Allows user to use of the Toolkit outside of the archive model

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Formats in scope Digital –images, and text Analog – paper, images, artifacts/ephemera, audio-visual

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Ingest METS? JHOVE, ImageMagick outputs?

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting METS structure Audit trail – who created the record, when and for what repository Descriptive Metadata – (using MODS as the pallet of metadata elements Administrative Metadata – –Technical metadata –Intellectual property rights –Digital provenance Metadata Hierarchies

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Table of prospective item description elements Item data pallet

Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting Outputs EAD MARC METS