Structuring transfer and metadata for book-type object

[Joseph Anderson]

Hello,

I am going to be processing a series of book objects consisting of separate image files for each page, and I'm wondering the best way to structure the transfer itself. Each book will be a separate transfer. So, I would wanna structure it like so:

US.NN.FIT.SC.362.1.1.1.19470106/

├── objects

│   ├── US.NN.FIT.SC.362.1.1.1.19470106_001.tif

│   └──US.NN.FIT.SC.362.1.1.1.19470106_002.tif

│   └──US.NN.FIT.SC.362.1.1.1.19470106_003.tif

│   └──etc.

└── metadata

    └── metadata.json

The issue I have is how to correctly reference the book itself (the directory) in the metadata. In the documentation, it says that the filename needs to start with objects/, but in this case it's 'objects' directory itself that I want the metadata to refer to. I ran a transfer with the 'filename' as just 'objects' and it worked, but I wondering if that's an ok way to do this.

The example in the documentation uses this:

directoryTransfer/

├── CoastNews-1964-01-02

│   ├── page-01.jpg

│   └── page-02.jpg

├── CoastNews-1964-01-09

│   ├── page-01.jpg

│   └── page-02.jpg

└── metadata

    └── metadata.csv

That makes sense when you have multiple book-like objects, but in my case, I'm only including a single book per transfer, so it would seem redundant to have something like:

US.NN.FIT.SC.362.1.1.1.19470106/

├── US.NN.FIT.SC.362.1.1.1.19470106

│   ├── US.NN.FIT.SC.362.1.1.1.19470106_001.tif

│   └──US.NN.FIT.SC.362.1.1.1.19470106_002.tif

└── metadata

    └── metadata.csv

Is there a good general practice to follow here?

Thanks,

Joseph Anderson

[Sarah Romkey]

Hi Joseph,

I'm pretty certain in the absence of a top-level directory you can just use "objects" instead. It would be good to make a test transfer to see if you get the result you want though!

Cheers,

Sarah

Sarah Romkey, MAS,MLIS

Archivematica Program Manager

She/her
Artefactual Systems
604-527-2056

@archivematica / @accesstomemory

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[Joseph Anderson]

Ok, great. I did try just using objects and it worked—just didn't know if it was the right way to go about it conceptually speaking, but probably not too important. Thanks Sarah!