Hi Alex!
Thanks for your quick feedback! I think the one article you suggested has been on our radar and is the procedure we currently use. The issue it seems is that once I upgrade my computer (which is swiftly approaching), the updated Java doesn't work properly with this procedure 🙁

It might just take some minor updates  to the Java to make the JAR file work (I honestly don’t know if it’s just some tweaks or if the whole thing need to be rewritten).

Do you know if anyone has experience developing Java who would be willing to take a look?

Best,

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Mackenzie,

For crosswalking XML metadata, the go-to tool is XSLT, which can be used to
transform one XML document into another.  XSLT for repository metadata is a
common scenario in libraries; the code4lib journal has a number of articles
on the matter (https://journal.code4lib.org/?s=xslt).  In particular,
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1647 may be exactly what you're
looking for re: ProQuest->Digital Commons crosswalking.

For automating the entire process - any scripting language of choice
(Python, Ruby, command-line scripts, et al) ought to be sufficient for
taking the ProQuest ZIP, extracting the contents, running XSLT (or using an
appropriate XML/XSLT library for the language), and generating a
crosswalked XML file.  The SAA Electronic Records Section has some
excellent posts on processing metadata via scripting/the command line -
https://saaers.wordpress.com/.

Regards,
--Alex

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> Hello!
>
> My name is Mackenzie, and I'm the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Walden
> University.
>
>
> We are looking for open access tools or procedures that other folks have
> developed to automate the process of getting dissertations submitted to
> ProQuest into Digital Commons. We were using a really nifty OA tool that
> unzips the XML and PDF files, crosswalks the XML metadata, and produces a
> file that can be uploaded to DC, but it relies on an older version of Java
> and no longer functions the way it once did. What other automation tools or
> processes are folks using out there?
>
>
> All the best,
>
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