Simultaneous Audio Collection Processing and Digital Library Uploading Using Python, ArchivesSpace,

Описание: This presentation was recorded as part of the 2024 ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum | Session C

Simultaneous Audio Collection Processing and Digital Library Uploading Using Python, ArchivesSpace, and Islandora 8

Presenter:
Paul Sutherland, American Philosophical Society

We recently received digitized audio from a vendor of several large unprocessed audio collections. We needed to find a way to simultaneously process the collection in ArchivesSpace, upload to our Digital Library, and associate the two, with minimal duplicated effort and tedious copy-pasting.

I will describe a new internal workflow for our archivists processing audio collections. The workflow involves using Python libraries to facilitate creating and updating CSV and XLSX files (ArchivesSpace's Bulk Import AO template, Bulk Update Spreadsheet and Islandora 8's Workbench), validating metadata, retrieving information from file directories, and extracting and updating audio file metadata. The process is designed so that each of these steps can be applied individually and combined into other workflows.