Dr. Marta BustilloAssistant Librarian, Digital Resources and Imaging Services (DRIS)The Library of Trinity College Dublin

Dr. Agustina MartínezDRI Software Engineer, An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University

The Clarke Studios Collection and DRI MODS

HEAnet National Conference 2015, Thursday 12th November, Parallel Session D

About DRI (http://repository.dri.ie)

➢ Stained Glass and church decorating business,

founded by Joshua Clarke (1858-1921) ca. 1886.

➢ Continued by his sons Harry Clarke (1889-1931)

and Walter Clarke (1880-1930) after Joshua's

death.

➢ Became Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd. in 1930.

➢ Continued after Harry Clarke's death in 1931.

➢ Closed in 1973.

The Clarke Studios

Tenafly, New Jersey: Chapel of the Society of African Missions: Design for stained glass window. 1964

The Collection: Designs

The Collection: Letterbooks

1924 Letterbook, with letter from Harry Clarke to William Butler Yeats

The Collection: Estimates Books

Estimate Book 1905-1912, with estimate for three-light stained glass window in Newbliss Church

Order book 1926-1950. Order 2000: Rose window for convent at Ashdown Park in Sussex

The Collection: Order Books

The Collection: Order folders

Metadata fields roughly based on MODS Lite

What we had

Library of Congress subject headings and name terms

Day, month and year date fields

Rights statement

Getty vocabularies for physical description

fields

The DRIS Database

Relationship information

What we were missing

Relator role term fields and language term fields

The ability to identify non-LC controlled vocabularies

A hierarchical structure to our records – no collection level

Separate temporal and geographic subject

fields

The DRIS Database

Relationships matter

Relationships

IsReferencedBy

References

Relationships

OtherVersion

Relationships

Demonstrator and DRI MODS development

Developing Clarke Studios Collection

The Development Process

Original records use a custom database schema

– Map metadata terms from original records into MODS

– Transform into MODS, DRI compliant XML (XSLT script)

Metadata Requirements

<DrisUnique>0114137</DrisUnique>

<Title>Millstreet, Co. Cork: St. Patrick’s …</Title>

<OtherArtist>

<DATA>Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd.</DATA>

</OtherArtist>

<OtherArtistRole>

<DATA>Creator</DATA>

</OtherArtistRole>

<OtherArtistRoleCode>

<DATA>cre</DATA>

</OtherArtistRoleCode>

<ISOCalculation>

<DATA>created 19400806</DATA>

</ISOCalculation>

<Description>Colour scheme for stained glass…

Adoration of the Magi...</Description>

<SubjectLCSH>

<DATA>Drawings, Irish</DATA>

<SubjectLCSH>

<mods:identifier type="local">0114137</mods:identifier>

<mods:titleInfo type="uniform">

<mods:title>Millstreet, Co. Cork: St. …</mods:title>

</mods:titleInfo>

<mods:name type="personal" authority="local">

<mods:namePart>Harry Clarke…</mods:namePart>

<mods:role authority="marcrelator">

<mods:roleTerm type="text">Creator</mods:roleTerm>

</mods:role>

</mods:name>

<mods:originInfo>

<mods:dateCreated encoding="w3cdtf">19400806</…>

</mods:originInfo>

<mods:note>Colour scheme for stained glass window

Adoration of the Magi…</mods:note>

<mods:subject authority="lcsh">

<mods:topic>Drawings, Irish</mods:topic>

</mods:subject>

Added

Added

From Filemaker to MODS metadata

Filemaker XML export Transformed MODS XML

Collection Organisation

Collection Organisation

• Support for hierarchical collection organisation, using sub-collections

– Create collection records

– Organise objects into sub-collections

• DRI relationships management support

– Internal relationships (for collection structure and associating digital assets with metadata records)

– Metadata relationship information (for linking digital objects)

DRI to MODS Relationships

DRI Relationship MODS <mods:relatedItem>

Preceding / Succeeding [sequencing] @type=“preceding | succeeding”

Has Original [source] @type=“original”

Is Part Of [collection organisation] @type=“host”

Has Parts [collection organisation] @type=“constituents”

Is Version Of @type=“otherVersion”

Is Format Of @type=“otherFormat”

Is Referenced By / References @type=“referencedBy | references”

Is Review Of @type=“reviewOf”

Collection Relationships Example

<mods:relatedItem type="isReferencedBy">

<mods:identifier type="local">0114718</mods:identifier>

</mods:relatedItem>

Data Model

relationships

Metadata

relationships

Digital Object:

Metadata record + Assets

The process: Ingest into DRI

Ingest into DRI

Integrate Metadataand Data

Filemaker XML MODS XML

Generate DRI/MODS Metadata records

Ingest ready!

• A rich use case for developing and validating

– MODS metadata implementation as a DRI data model

– DRI support for collection organisation and relationships

– UI (collection navigation, search and relationships display)

• A means of identifying the weaknesses in the Digital Collections database and making our metadata more compliant with the MODS standard

Conclusions

Thanks and Questions!