1. Toward a Digital Asset Management Ecosystem at Texas A&M University Libraries
An update on developments in document workflows, data modeling, media service, and exhibitions
Welcome to Managing Digital Assets from Curation to Exhibition
Background: Magpie was presented last year at TCDL. The software is built using the Weaver framework, a Texas A&M University Libraries in house framework. The original use case for Magpie, or Metadata Assignment Tool at the time, was to facilitate annotation of legacy dissertations from their scanned and OCR’d form. There was also a requirement to prepopulate specific metadata fields from Voyagers MARC records for the legacy dissertations. Since then the use case evolved and more came into existence when recognizing the software's potential.
William Welling, James Creel, Jeremy Huff, Jason Savell, Douglas Hahn, Sarah Potvin, Sean Buckner, Michael Bolton

2. Talk Outline Introducing the DAME Components and Technologies
DAMS Task Force
Needs Assessment
Piloting and Evaluation
Components and Technologies
Document Workflows
IR/Storage/Data Modeling
Media Servers
Discovery
Exhibition
Demonstration of Current Developments
accuracy: ensure metadata is correct
efficiency: annotating large collections in a reasonable amount of time
normalization: avoid repeating metadata, avoid multiple ambiguous terms, use controlled vocabularies and name authorities
synchronization: ensure metadata is consistent between repositories, exhibits, preservation, etc.
Digital assets can come from many collections, some being homogeneous and some not. Sources of metadata can be from many sources such as a catalogs, repositories, exports, etc. The annotated digital asset can have many destinations, such as multiple IR, multiple exhibits, and/or preservation.
A good exhibition solution needs to be able to exhibit multiple collections with digital assets from varying sources. It should be able to allow exhibit level annotations. It should be discoverable and aesthetic. It would be ideal for an exhibit layer to not duplicate the digital asset but reference it and utilize linked data.

3. Introducing the DAME
Needs assessment revealed a diverse set of requirements not met by any single system
Different exhibitions and collection types require different workflows
Legacy dissertations
Agricultural Bulletin
Image Collections
Newspapers and articles
Existing Collections
Etc.
Legacy dissertations: This is an ongoing project to digitize, annotate, and preserve legacy dissertations. As already mentioned, this was the original use. The requirements have since changed. The annotation will be conducted using existing commercial tools, but still left the need to preserve the digital assets. The process required that the MARC record from Voyager be packaged with the documents and preserved in Archivematica. There was no user interaction required for this, so we introduced a headless mode to Magpie. When the scanned documents are finished they begin the headless process of gathering MARC record from Voyager and automatically packaged and pushed to Archivematica for preservation.
Agricultural Bulletin: Dr. Robert McGeachin, Agriculture and Digital Services Librarian, came to use with a project to semi-automatically index the Agricultural Bulletin he has so diligently been annotating and marshaling the assets into Dspace. The project called for a UI that provided a lists of suggestions that were discovered by finding all occurrences of any term from the National Agriculture Library Thesaurus and applying a set of use-for rules.
Image Collections: We have had requests to have digital exhibits of photos taken from physical exhibits.

4. Ecosystem MAGPIE Service and UI Pelican Service Authorization Service
Scanning workstations
Abbyy OCR
DSpace
Fedora
IIIF Manifest Generator
Archivematica
Cantaloupe
Spotlight
Mirador
Magpie: the application being presented
Pelican: a web-service for name disambiguation, modified to provide subject suggestions by counting frequency of thesaurus words within a document and applying use-for rules
Authorization Service: used to authenticate and authorize applications either by basic login or through a service provider such as shibboleth
Scanning workstations: scanners for scanning physical documents
Abbyy OCR: software run as a service to perform optical character recognition on scanned documents
DSpace: Institutional repository
Fedora: Institutional repository
Archivematica: preservation software
Spotlight: exhibition software

5. Document Workflow Components
Projects
Observers
Authorities
Automatic Suggestions
Exporters
Repositories
Exhibits

6. IIIF Manifest Generator
Filesystem
DSpace
CSV Metadata Spreadsheet
Legacy Dissertations
Agricultural Bulletins
Primeros Libros (SAF)
WW I Postcards (SAF)
MAGPIE
Authority
Observer
Observer
Observer
Observer
Archivematica
Repository (DSpace REST)
Voyager (OPAC)
Authority
Repository (Archivematica REST)
Fedora
Repository (Fedora REST w/ PCDM)
Suggestor
Exporter
Exporter
Repository (Fedora REST w/ PCDM
Pelican (NLP)
DSpace SAF Import Archive
Mirador
IIIF Manifest Generator
Spotlight Import CSV Spreadsheet
Spotlight

7. Project Configuration
Defined by JSON
Configurable
Metadata Fields
Ingest mode
Authorities
Suggestors
Repositories
Exporters

8. Data Modeling DSpace Fedora IIIF Flat metadata PCDM Collections
Presentations
Images

9. Discovery and Exhibition
Solr
Fuseki
Exhibition
IIIF Manifests
Cantaloupe Image Server
Spotlight
Mirador

10. Legacy Scanned Dissertations
Filesystem
DSpace
CSV Metadata Spreadsheet
Legacy Dissertations
Agricultural Bulletins
Primeros Libros (SAF)
WW I Postcards (SAF)
MAGPIE
Authority
Observer
Observer
Observer
Observer
Archivematica
Repository (DSpace REST)
Voyager (OPAC)
Authority
Repository (Archivematica REST)
Fedora
Repository (Fedora REST w/ PCDM)
Suggestor
Exporter
Exporter
Repository (Fedora REST w/ PCDM
Pelican (NLP)
DSpace SAF Import Archive
Mirador
IIIF Manifest Generator
Spotlight Import CSV Spreadsheet
Spotlight

11. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Publications
Filesystem
DSpace
CSV Metadata Spreadsheet
Legacy Dissertations
Agricultural Bulletins
Primeros Libros (SAF)
WW I Postcards (SAF)
MAGPIE
Authority
Observer
Observer
Observer
Observer
Archivematica
Repository (DSpace REST)
Voyager (OPAC)
Authority
Repository (Archivematica REST)
Fedora
Repository (Fedora REST w/ PCDM)
Suggestor
Exporter
Exporter
Repository (Fedora REST w/ PCDM
Pelican (NLP)
DSpace SAF Import Archive
Mirador
IIIF Manifest Generator
Spotlight Import CSV Spreadsheet
Spotlight

12. IIIF Manifest Generator
Filesystem
DSpace
CSV Metadata Spreadsheet
Legacy Dissertations
Agricultural Bulletins
Primeros Libros (SAF)
WW I Postcards (SAF)
MAGPIE
Authority
Observer
Observer
Observer
Observer
Archivematica
Repository (DSpace REST)
Voyager (OPAC)
Authority
Repository (Archivematica REST)
Fedora
Repository (Fedora REST w/ PCDM)
Suggestor
Exporter
Exporter
Repository (Fedora REST w/ PCDM
Pelican (NLP)
DSpace SAF Import Archive
Mirador
IIIF Manifest Generator
Spotlight Import CSV Spreadsheet
Spotlight

13. Future Direction Full Production Deployment UI managed projects
UI annotation to support PCDM
A/V media support
Heuristics to guess metadata
Open source code of MAGPIE

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