Hi Karen,

Thanks for mentioning this.  It does!  We'll follow that up so we can
encourage better data management and offer maybe two tools for people to
consider using!

The PARADISEC <http://www.paradisec.org.au/> folk here in Australia are
using the tool ongoing and out the field where the internet is a scarce
resource (or non existent) and where they generate terabytes worth of
content (images, A/V and sound files) that require back up to hard drive
and personal delivery to the repository for upload (or Australia Post).  We
had botanists and archaeologists in the initial requirements gathering
round too.  After a while we could see all kinds of applications, the folks
going into the desert or bush to collect sensor data, urban
anthropologists, fine artists... really anyone plugging a peripheral device
into their laptop to upload content to process.  I imagined archivists
copying content from hard drives but I hadn't gone further to think about
data captured off analogue or digital degrading portable media) as a use
case for rescue (Zone 1).  Nice one!

So I'm pretty sure there must be others that can set the tool up to their
advantage.  One of the features we tried hard to provide support (and
flexibility) for was to allow schema creation and reuse (for data sharing
in a team) so any researcher in any discipline could set up their own
schema and define their own data values.  Does mean an investment in set
up, but pays off (hopefully) in that the processing is quicker.

Cheers, Ingrid

On 4 January 2013 00:33, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This sounds very similar to Harvard's Zone1 project:
>
> http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/**liblab/proj/zone-1<http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab/proj/zone-1>
>
> kc
>
>
>
> On 1/2/13 7:08 PM, Ingrid Mason wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Apologies for broadcast.  After shunting this message down various
>> listservs to my heart's content, I thought I should pop an email out to
>> the
>> library coding community that might be interested in a tool we developed
>> last year with funding from the Australian National Data
>> Service<http://www.ands.org.**au/ <http://www.ands.org.au/>>.
>>
>> The tool is though likely to come in useful for those in the cultural
>> heritage or research sectors liaising with data or information producers.
>>
>> The tool (ExSite9 <http://www.intersect.org.au/**exsite9<http://www.intersect.org.au/exsite9>>)
>> is designed for
>>
>> anyone capturing data in the field, that wants to create collection (at
>> minimum for convenience) and item level metadata (often more desirable for
>> researchers or creatives) and bundle that up as a submission information
>> package (SIP viz OAIS model) to transfer to a digital repository or
>> archive.
>>
>> Exsite9 could be used in association with collections of material
>> digitised
>> in a workflow or with digital archives coming in on hard drives.  The code
>> can be downloaded from the Intersect Australia GitHub
>> space<https://github.com/**IntersectAustralia/exsite9<https://github.com/IntersectAustralia/exsite9>
>> >**along with a swag
>>
>> of other applications developed and made open source
>> thanks to ANDS funding (and federal stimulus spending).
>>
>> Good wishes, Ingrid
>>
>> ps. any replies or questions to: [log in to unmask] (I use
>> this
>> gmail a/c for lists)
>>
>>
>>
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