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

On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:03 PM Mackenzie M. Salisbury <
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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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