Download METS without AIP?

[jam...@cua.edu]

Is there any way to easily download the full METS file (with <dmdSec>) of an AIP from the dashboard? It would be great if I could let a non-admin user download the full METS (not the Pointer File, which doesn't have <dmdSec>) without having direct server access. If that's not possible, can I do it easily from a FTP client?

Some of our collections are huge and will not fit on some users' desktop hard drives, or will take a long time to download.

User details: I am using v1.4.1. We do not have an access system (i.e. AtoM/AT/ContentDM) configured.

[Justin Simpson]

It depends how the aips were stored.  The default is to compress AIP's.  If you have stored your AIP's uncompressed, then it is possible to access the METS file inside each aip if you have access to the file system.  If your AIPs are compressed, then you would have to uncompress them to extract the METS file.

Archivematica does index the dmdSec into ElasticSearch.  There isn't a built in way in Archivematica right now to get out just the dmdSec for a given AIP, but if you are willing to figure out the ElasticSearch query syntax, you should be able to get all the metadata from the dmdSec that way, rather than by extracting METS files from AIPs.

 

Here is a super quick snippet from a test server, showing how the dmdSec metadata are stored in ElasticSearch:

"dmdSec": {
              "ns0:xmlData_dict_list": [
                {
                  "@xmlns:dc": "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/",
                  "ns1:dublincore_dict_list": [
                    {
                      "dc:creator": "McLellan, Evelyn, and her friends",
                      "@xsi:schemaLocation": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/ http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2008/02/11/dcterms.xsd",
                      "dc:title": "Peanut fonds",
                      "dc:type": "Archival Information Package"
                    }
                  ],
                  "@xmlns:xsi": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance",
                  "@xmlns:ns0": "http://www.loc.gov/METS/",
                  "@xmlns:ns1": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
                }
              ]
            }

Justin Simpson
Director of Archivematica Technical Services
www.artefactual.com
604-527-2056

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[jam...@cua.edu]

Thanks, Justin! I hadn't looked at the AIP compression settings. I'll look at it and try that out.

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