What is it that you do for BHL-Europe?
I'm an IT-specialist at the Natural
History Museum in Vienna, and I've been in the tech-group since I joined the
project in September 2009. I mainly developed modules for the portal and
coordinated development of the Pre-ingest-tool. In addition I helped take care
of the schema-mapping tool and the OLEF-schema.
Can you explain what the pre-ingest is
exactly?
The pre-ingest-tool harmonizes the
content for our archive. It converts all different metadata and file formats
from our contact providers into our format which we use in the archive.
Also important is that it enhances the
content/metadata by using external web services, e.g. name searching.
Tell me about the schema-mapping tool.
We used this tool to map the different
metadata formats into OLEF (open literature exchange format), our internal
format for saving metadata. It was definitely a challenge to support all
different formats; they include modern formats like .xml but also older binary
formats like marc21. Our intention was to create a tool which is easy to use
for the content provider directly. And I like to think this went quite well.
What was the favourite beer you tasted
during the project?
It most probably was Kilkenny from
England, which I tried in London.
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