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Metadata Acquisition with XML Case studies from the Swiss Federal Archives 9. October 2002 / Stephan Heuscher
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives2 Overview Problems acquiring metadata Why XML? Featured Projects Lessons learned Conclusions
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives3 Problems acquiring metadata Documentation Data format Data consistency System borders Money Communication with stakeholders
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives4 Why XML? XML … … is an open standard … is self-explanatory … is human-readable … can be validated automatically … has a broad software support Most products feature XML support
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives5 Featured Projects SIARD Archiving of relational databases Manual generation of additional metadata Metadata and content is stored in XML files AMDA Manages metadata for audio data from the Swiss Parliament Does not manage audio data Import of XML metadata Must provide a variety of export formats
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives6 Data and low-level metadata extraction SIARD (System Independent Archiving of Relational Databases) OracleMS-SQL???-DB Additional high-level descriptive metadata Digital Archive (to be built) Database regeneration
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives7 XML use in SIARD SQL-99 (ISO/IEC 9075) Low-level data description Structure Datatypes Constraints XML High level metadata Table content (thin wrapper)
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives8 Data Logic (SQL) CREATE TABLE "FLUGLE"."CLASS" ( "CLASS_ID" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(20) NOT NULL, "SCHEDULE_ID" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(20), "CLASS_BUILDING" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(25), "CLASS_ROOM" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(25), "COURSE_ID" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(5), "DEPARTMENT_ID" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(20), "INSTRUCTOR_ID" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(20), "SEMESTER" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(6), "SCHOOL_YEAR" TIMESTAMP(0) ) CREATE TABLE "FLUGLE"."CLASS_LOCATION" ( "CLASS_BUILDING" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(25) NOT NULL, "CLASS_ROOM" NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(25) NOT NULL...
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives9... SIARD Metadata XML
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives10 SIARD Data XML... 6,104200;4,S180;9,POCO HALL;3,150;3,198;5,PHILO;4,E491;6,SPRING;19,1997-03- 01 00:00:00; 6,104500;3,T15;11,NARROW HALL;3,200;3,184;4,HIST;4,D944;6,SPRING;19,1997- 03-01 00:00:00;...
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives11 AMDA (Audio MetaData Acquisition) Online parliament session metadata (XML) AMDA Webinterface Metadata Audio data Digital Archive Unified XML import Access DB (to be built)
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives12 XML use in AMDA Import XSLT transformation to common format Online metadata Legacy data (Access database) Export Raw XML output transformed using XSLT
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives13 AMDA Import XML (raw) 01.9001; 2001.9001 Mitteilungen des Präsidenten Der Beginn dieser Herbstsession ist schmerzlich getrübt von unseren Gedanken an das...
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives14 AMDA Import XML (transformed)... Der Beginn dieser Herbstsession ist schmerzlich getrübt von unseren Gedanken...
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives15 Lessons learned Transforming and reformatting of XML data is easy Documentation and data integrity are crucial Agree on rules and standards for XML formats early Stakeholders’ uses of XML differ greatly
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09.10.2002Urbino2002.ppt; Stephan Heuscher; Swiss Federal Archives16 Conclusions XML is not a preservation strategy is only a technology is too new for a common understanding XML provides tools and techniques for a concise metadata management Working solutions need both XML and non-XML experience Most problems are still of human nature
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