What does the EAD plugin do?  I haven't heard much about it.

Ethan

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Adam Wead <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hardy,
>
> Here's the task:
>
> http://github.com/awead/rocklight/blob/master/lib/tasks/fedora.rake
>
> I just threw up the project on git, so there's not much explanation of
> anything.  It's very much a work-in-progress.  It uses blacklight, an ead
> plugin that Jason Ronallo wrote, and a bunch of active-fedora/hydrangea
> code.  The image ingest process is designed to attach an image pid to an
> existing pid in fedora that is the archival collection.  I've been only
> testing this, so right now it ingests some jpg files and uses image magick
> to resize them into a thumbnail and access version.  In "real life" the
> preservation stream would be tiff and the thumbnail and access version would
> be jpegs.  I also threw in a jhove datastream for fun, but I'm not doing
> anything with it at this point other than just storing it.
>
> The three descriptive medata streams are from the active-fedora model.
>  Ideally, we'd use a mods schema for all the descriptive data instead of
> these three different ones, but that'll be the next step.
>
> let me know if you have comments or questions.  Again, it's a
> work-in-progress.  I only started coding in Ruby/rails a couple of months
> ago, so there might be some quirky things to it.
>
> ...adam
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Pottinger, Hardy J.
> Sent: Thu 7/29/2010 11:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora
>
> > Following along the Ruby thread, I've got some rake task that will ingest
> images.  Let me
> > know if you want to take a look at that.
>
> Well, this may come as no surprise :-) but I for one would love to see that
> rake task for image ingest.
>
> --Hardy
>
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