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EPrints

2020-07-17T10:00:34Z

Jlehtone:

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[[Category:Preservation System]]
[[Category:Access]]
[[Category:METS]]

= Description =
[http://www.eprints.org/ EPrints] is an open access digital repository software, which is intended to create a highly configurable web-based repository.
The EPrints organisation also provides a number of services, including hosting, customization, importing legacy data, providing training and support, advising on policy development, assisting with advocacy and promotion, and providing project management.
====Provider====
University of Southampton
====Licensing and cost====
[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html Gnu Public License (GPL)] - free
====Development Activity====
EPrints 3.3.7 was released in December 2011.
Development is ongoing as of writing. 
====Platform and interoperability====
EPrints is written in Perl.  It was developed on Redhat Linux, but it can be used on UNIX-like systems including OS-X. It also runs on Windows Vista and XP.
EPrints is able to export data into BibTeX, refer, EndNote & other bibliography managers, as well as Google Earth, Similie TimeLine or other Web Services.
====Functional Notes====
The EPrints data model consists of three core objects: the EPrint, the Document, and the User.  Users have stated that this allows the creation of more complex hierarchies than with other repository software.
EPrints does not automatically support Handle.
====Documentation and user support====
EPrints Services offers fee-based support for repositories. The EP-Tech mailing list offers free support and discussion about EPrints; however, it is unclear how active this mailing list is. The site also links to a bug-tracker.
The EPrints website offers extensive documentation via a [http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Main_Page wiki], including an installation manual, user guide, and training materials. While much of the information is up-to-date and clearly organised, a recent migration (as of November 2011) has left a number of the pages with error messages, or notices that the material “needs sorting out”.
====Usability====
An installation script automates most of the installation processes.
Development for version 3 included an extensive usability analysis, which resulted in substantial redesign of the metadata entry process. A key component is the new auto-complete function.
====Expertise required====
Installation and configuration greatly benefit from system administration knowledge, as well as a deep understanding of repository structures and workflows.
====Standards compliance====
EPrints is OAI compliant. It provides support for METS, Dublin Core and other DL interoperability formats.
====Influence and take-up====
EPrints is widely used in European archives and repositories. Organisations using EPrints include University College London Research, the Glasgow Theses Services, and the Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation.

= User Experiences =

= Development Activity =

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JHOVE2

2020-07-17T09:23:48Z

Jlehtone:

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[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Encryption Detection]]

= Description =
[https://bitbucket.org/jhove2/main/wiki/Home JHOVE2] is a follow-on to the Harvard/JSTOR [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]] project, with the similar purpose of allowing data curators to characterise the digital objects in their repositories.  Characterisation is comprised of four elements: first, identifying the object’s format; second, validating that the object conforms to its format’s technical norms; third, extracting technical metadata from the object; and fourth, assessing whether the object should be accepted into a repository, based on policies set by the curator.  
The software was designed to be able to integrate with other applications to enable easy incorporation into a repository’s Ingest workflow.
====Provider====
California Digital Library, Portico, and Stanford University, with funding from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Version 2.1 also credits the Bibliothèque nationale de France and Netarkivet.
====Licensing and cost====
Open Source [http://www.linfo.org/bsdlicense.html BSD license] – free.
====Development activity====
JHOVE2 version 2.1 was released in March 2013.
Funding for the JHOVE2 project ended in 2011. The project partners committed to providing self-funded maintenance (but not further development effort) for three years. Their goal was to create an open-source community to guide and foster JHOVE2 technical development, and the involvement of Bibliothèque nationale de France and Netarkivet from version 2.1 signifies some success in this regard.
====Platform and interoperability====
JHOVE2 is written in Java Standard Edition 6, and requires a Java 6 runtime environment.  If the user is hoping to use the SGML validation module, an OpenSP SGML parser is required.
Developers wishing to rebuild JHOVE2 from the provided source will need a full Java SE 6 development kit and the Apache Maven project tool.
====Functional notes====
The JHOVE2 project came about as a response to perceived shortcomings in the [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]] software. JHOVE2 separates identification from validation, allowing the software to identify objects even if they are not valid.  This also provides the opportunity to use the [http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/pronom PRONOM] registry in signature-based identification via integration with [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]], creating the ability to identify many more format-types than those for which it has validation modules. Other improvements include the ability to characterize hierarchical digital objects such as directories, zip files and bit streams nested within files, and a design that allows easier integration with other applications.
JHOVE2 has validation modules for the following format types: ICC color profile; SGML; Shapefile; TIFF (including TIFF/EP, TIFF-FX, TIFF/IT, Exif, GeoTIFF, DNG and RFC 1314); UTF-8 encoded text; WAVE (including Broadcast Wave); XML; ZIP; GZIP; ARC; WARC; and arbitrary bytestreams, filesets and directories. Modules for JPEG 2000 (JP2 and JPX profiles) and PDF (including PDF/X and PDF/A) were planned but have not been implemented yet.  
For comparison, ICC, SGML, Shapefile, ZIP, GZIP, ARC and WARC are newly supported in JHOVE2; however, JHOVE supports AIFF, GIF, JPEG, JPEG2000 and PDF while JHOVE2 does not.  HTML is also not supported in JHOVE2, as it is in JHOVE, but since HTML can be expressed in terms of SGML or XML the functionality remains the same. 
====Documentation and user support====
JHOVE2’s website includes an informative FAQ introduction, as well as standard documentation such as a [https://bytebucket.org/jhove2/main/wiki/documents/JHOVE2-Users-Guide_20110222.pdf user guide] and [https://bytebucket.org/jhove2/main/wiki/documents/JHOVE2Programmer2-0-0.pdf programmer guide].  
Primary user support is through the jhove2-techtalk-l listserv, which remains active as of June 2013.  In addition, the website includes an issue tracker displaying reported bugs and feature enhancement requests. 
====Usability====
JHOVE2 does not include a GUI, which will be challenging for many users.
The default output (e. g. in xml, txt or json) is very talkative and can contain up to 3500 lines for one TIFF file.
====Expertise required====
Installation requires solid knowledge of command line interfaces and experience with manually editing configuration files. Creation of the assessment policies requires detailed knowledge of digital preservation standards and technologies.  
====Standards compliance====
JHOVE2 uses the PRONOM registry for file identification.  The software includes a stylesheet that can transform JHOVE2 outputs into the METS metadata standard.
====Influence and take-up====
As of July 2013, the website reports approximately 1000 downloads of version 2 and 200 of version 2.1.

= User Experiences =
Please note that JHOVE2 cannot cope with any empty spaces in the command line. Therefor, JHOVE2 has to be stored in a folder which can be typed in without any empty space.

As the output is extremely wordy and contains so much information that it is difficult to tell if a certain TIFF file is valid or not, it might be helpfull to configure the output options. This is possible in the sgml-file. It might proove to be difficult for the average non-SGML-expert to handle the file.

= Development Activity =
=== Activity Feed ===
Link to any RSS feed that is updated when issue or code updates occur, if any, e.g:
<rss max=7>http://bitbucket.org/jhove2/main/rss</rss>

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Category:METS

2020-02-27T14:44:30Z

Jlehtone:

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METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative and structural metadata, and it is widely used e.g. in digital preservation. Please see [http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ the official METS website] and [https://github.com/mets the official METS Github website] for more information.

PiM (PREMIS in METS) Toolbox

2020-01-16T17:34:00Z

Jlehtone:

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[[Category:File Format Migration]]
[[Category:Metadata Processing]]
[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:METS]]

= Description =
The [http://pim.fcla.edu/ PREMIS in METS Toolbox] was developed to support the implementation of PREMIS in the METS container format.  It consists of three web-based tools: a validator, which will check a PREMIS or PREMIS in METS document for standard conformance; a converter, which given a PREMIS document will generate a METS document containing the PREMIS elements, and vice-versa; and a describer, which will generate a description of an input file using PREMIS elements.
====Provider====
The Florida Center for Library Automation, sponsored by the Library of Congress
====Licensing and cost====
The Toolbox is free and open source.  No specific license information is available.
====Development activity====
The toolbox was created in 2009, and as of January 2012 is at Version 1.0.1.
No information is available about future development.
====Platform and interoperability====
The Toolbox uses a web interface, and is therefore platform agnostic.  
The Validation tool is based on [http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/jhove JHOVE] and [http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/external/droid DROID]; the Conversion tool is implemented in XSLT; and the DAITSS description service is the underlying system behind the describing function.
====Functional notes====
All three tools support various modes of input: a source document or file can be addressed by URL or uploaded. PREMIS and METS documents can also be typed or copied directly into Validate and Convert.
The interface does not support batch processing; however, the site advertises that the tools output is clean enough to make a PERL implementation possible.
There is anecdotal evidence that the site experiences somewhat frequent outages.  The tools do not appear to be able to recover from inappropriate inputs.
====Documentation and user support====
The PREMIS-in-METS Toolbox website does not provide formal documentation, although there are brief explanations of the tools’ functions.  Contact information is listed for the developer.
====Usability====
The tools themselves are extremely straightforward.
====Expertise required====
Familiarity with preservation metadata standards is essential.
====Standards compliance====
The Toolbox’s sole purpose is to aid curators in working with the PREMIS and METS preservation metadata standards.
====Influence and take-up====
No information available.

= User Experiences =

= Development Activity =

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Category:METS

2020-01-15T15:12:46Z

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Pre-Ingest Tool

2020-01-15T14:16:38Z

Jlehtone:

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[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Metadata Processing]]
[[Category:Validation]]


[[Category:METS]]

== Description ==

Pre-Ingest Tool is intended to be used for generating an OAIS SIP for digital preservation. It produces METS document that contains metadata for digital preservation required by the specifications used in Finnish national digital preservation services. The tool contains code for extracting metadata, creating and digitally signing the METS document.

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Pre-Ingest Tool

2020-01-15T14:02:51Z

Jlehtone:

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[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
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[[Category:METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard)]]

== Description ==

Pre-Ingest Tool is intended to be used for generating an OAIS SIP for digital preservation. It produces METS document that contains metadata for digital preservation required by the specifications used in Finnish national digital preservation services. The tool contains code for extracting metadata, creating and digitally signing the METS document.

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Python DPX validator

2018-09-24T15:46:45Z

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[[Category:Validation]]


[[Category:Video]]

== Description ==

The tool validates the following set of header fields in a DPX file:

* Magic number of 'SDPX' or 'XPDS' for reversed byte order.

* A valid image data offset value.

* Header format version number as 'V2.0'.

* DPX file size in header matches what filesystem shows.

* Encryption key is undefined and therefore image is unencrypted.

For more information about DPX, see the SMPTE standard ST 268-1:2014: File Format for Digital Moving-Picture Exchange (DPX).

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Pre-Ingest Tool

2018-09-24T15:03:33Z

Jlehtone:

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[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Metadata Processing]]
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== Description ==

Pre-Ingest Tool is intended to be used for generating an OAIS SIP for digital preservation. It produces METS document that contains metadata for digital preservation required by the specifications used in Finnish national digital preservation services. The tool contains code for extracting metadata, creating and digitally signing the METS document.

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Pre-Ingest Tool

2018-09-24T15:02:10Z

Jlehtone:

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== Description ==

Pre-Ingest Tool is intended to be used for generating an OAIS SIP for digital preservation. It produces METS document that contains metadata for digital preservation required by the specifications used in Finnish national digital preservation services. The tool contains code for extracting metadata, creating and digitally signing the METS document.

== User Experiences ==


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Pre-Ingest Tool

2018-09-24T14:25:35Z

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== Description ==

Pre-Ingest Tool is intended to be used for generating an OAIS SIP for digital preservation. It produces METS document that contains metadata for digital preservation required by the specifications used in Finnish national digital preservation services. The tool contains code for extracting metadata, creating and digitally signing the METS document.

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