Hi Swithun,
Interesting. Are you using the DM portion of Alfresco? It sounds like your
SIPs are created outside of Fedora. Is Alfresco keeping workflow data
separate from Fedora?
...adam
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Swithun Crowe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> AW> Is anyone using Fedora to track ingestion workflow and could share his
> or
> AW> her experiences? I'm currently trying out a method that uses a simple
> AW> object datastream that tracks what has been done to a SIP. A
> submission
> AW> would be in the form of a folder with some files. A parent object in
> Fedora
> AW> would hold descriptive metadata datastreams and a workflow metadata
> AW> datastream, and each file would be ingested as a child object of the
> parent.
> AW> The number and location of files would be put in the workflow
> AW> datastream prior to ingest. When the ingest process runs, any errors
> AW> or other results would be logged to the workflow datastream.
>
> At the University of St Andrews, I am working on getting Alfresco to be
> part of an OAIS compliant archive system, with Fedora as the final resting
> place for AIPs.
>
> Alfresco will handle the work flows and perform various tasks, like virus
> scanning, resource discovery and technical metadata extraction and
> normalisation of formats (e.g. .doc to PDF/A). Once all this has been
> done, it will generate a METS wrapper containing all the XML datastreams
> and links to the non-XML documents that Fedora should manage, which can be
> ingested by Fedora as SIPs.
>
> If you like the look of Alfresco, I can give you a copy of the code I have
> developed so far for performing these functions.
>
> Swithun.
>
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