compound objects

[Carolina Melo]

Hi!

Can anyone help with the metadata.csv to compound objects?

I did not understand the explanation here: https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.4/user-manual/transfer/import-metadata/

If I have 10 files .jpg that compound a unique object.

How can I can upload it into atom?

Thanks in advance,

Carolina Melo

[Carolina Melo]

To clarify my question:

I have these four items composing the document "Ligas Camponesas":

LigasCamponesas01.JPG

LigasCamponesas02.JPG

LigasCamponesas03.JPG

LigasCamponesas04.JPG

How should I proceed? First I create in AtoM the document "Ligas Camponesas", right?

And then? How should I create the folders (object and metadata)? And about the metadata.csv, how should I fill the fields "parts" and "forms_part_of" ?

Best regards,

Carolina Melo

[Carolina Melo]

Can anyone help me??

Please!!

[Sarah Romkey]

Hi Carolina,

You're describing a combination of two workflows and it doesn't quite work the way you think it might.

You can have a single access object that represents many original objects. To do this, make a folder in your transfer called access. It should contain the compound object- for our purposes I will assume it is a PDF and your original objects are JPG. Note that there must be an object in the originals that has the same name (it can have the same or a different extension). For example:

/nameOfTransfer

    /access

      compoundObject.pdf

compoundObject.jpg
page1.jpg

page2.jpg

page3.jpg

In your metadata.csv, you should use the row for compoundObject.jpg, in this example, to have the descriptive metadata that you want to apply to that original/access object. When you upload the DIP to AtoM, the Dublin Core metadata will appear in the description you upload to along with the access object.

You can use the Dublin Core isPartOf field anyway that you choose, but Archivematica is not "smart" enough to know that you're trying to relate objects in the transfer together. From the metadata.csv file, Archivematica simply records your metadata into descriptive metadata in the METS file.

Cheers,

Sarah

Sarah Romkey, MAS,MLIS

Archivematica Program Manager
Artefactual Systems
604-527-2056

@archivematica / @accesstomemory

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[Carolina Melo]

Thank you very much, Sarah!

But if I don't have this single access object? What do I have to do? Create it?

And if I follow this workflow you described, will I have the level of description called "parts" in my AtoM?

Thanks again,

Carolina Melo

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[Sarah Romkey]

Sorry Carolina, I must have misunderstood. I thought you had multiple images that make up one single access item. What do you have an what are you trying to achieve exactly? What do you mean by "compound a unique object?"

Cheers,

Sarah

Sarah Romkey, MAS,MLIS

Archivematica Program Manager
Artefactual Systems
604-527-2056

@archivematica / @accesstomemory

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[Carolina Melo]

I'm sorry, Sarah! I did not express myself very clearly.

Let me reformulate:

The Import Metadata chapter at the user's manual shows two types of objects that can be imported: 

• Simple objects, i.e. individual files that are not pages in a compound object such as a book or a newspaper issue. 
• Compound objects, i.e. multi-page digital objects such as newspapers and books.

I work at the IT State Agency of Pernambuco - ATI. Currently I'm in a project that involves the preservation and the availability of the holdings of the State Public Archives. To attend this demand, we are using Archivematica and AtoM. 

They have many compound objects in their holdings. To import these objects, I was trying to follow the workflow described in the User Manual, using this template right bellow:

Unfortunatelly it's not working. 

I wish I could have in my AtoM a structure like this one to my compound objects: https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/university-of-calgary-second-annual-calendar

In my first example, "Ligas Camponesas" should be the item and the LigasCamponesas01.JPG, LigasCamponesas02.JPG, LigasCamponesas03.JPG, LigasCamponesas04.JPG should be part of this item, as the example in the link of the University of Calgary.

Is it clearer?

Best wishes,

Carolina Melo

[Sarah Romkey]

Hi Carolina,

While Archivematica can understand metadata for both simple and compound objects, AtoM cannot take this metadata and do anything meaningful with it. The ability to describe compound objects in Archivematica's metadata.csv file was actually developed for us with CONTENTdm rather than AtoM. It would be great if it worked with AtoM also, but this would require development work.

Your other option, instead of using the metadata.csv file is to do an arrangement of the SIP in Archivematica which has meaning to AtoM. Please see the documentation here:

https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.6/user-manual/ingest/ingest/#arranging-a-sip-for-atom

Cheers,

Sarah

Sarah Romkey, MAS,MLIS

Archivematica Program Manager
Artefactual Systems
604-527-2056

@archivematica / @accesstomemory

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[Carolina Melo]

Many thanks, Sarah! :)

I'll do that. 

At least I'm learning what works and what doesn't work with AtoM and Archivematica. I was racked trying to discover how to do it.

Tkanks a lot!