Manual info for exporting to Canadiana

[maryakem]

Is there manual info for exporting our metadata yet for exchange with
Canadiana.org. We expect to do this 3x a year until the OAI is a go.
Where should we look for info?

Thanks
Maryann

[peterVG]

Hi Maryann,

We will be adding Canadiana Metadata Repository (CMR) format XML export to DCB release 1.3 due in September (as part of work for BC Digitization Coalition's DCB site). http://www.canadiana.ca/en/cmr

Our work on DCB->Canadiana export preceded the completion of what became the CMR format. This resulted in the Dublin Core profile and export that is currently available in DCB 1.2. See http://qubit-toolkit.org/wiki/images/d/de/DCB-Qubit-DublinCoreApplicationProfile-13May2010.pdf

It is my understanding from the last time I discussed this with Canadiana that they will still accept CMR uploads in other formats. Until we have support for CMR export later in the year, the DCB DC export will certainly be no worse than many of the other datasets they have worked with in the past. However, I don't see any CMR contribution manual/FAQ on their website. I'll ask someone from Canadiana to respond to this thread to answer this question and as future reference.

Cheers,

--peter

Peter Van Garderen
DCB Project Manager

[William Wueppelmann]

Canadiana will accept metadata for the CMR in a variety of formats. Dublin Core is maybe not ideal from a quality, quantity and consistency standpoint, but we've ingested lots of it, and since the DCB Dublin Core export follows a defined application profile, it should be at least as good as the other DC stuff we've handled and probably better than most of it. Not having page-level indexing or full text might be a limitation, but there is nothing stopping you from re-exporting new records in a new format at a later date; as long as the identifier is the same, they will replace any existing records, whatever the format.