ResCarta® Toolkit: ResCarta Metadata Creation Tool

The ResCarta Metadata Creation Tool creates object metadata (information about your objects that's stored with them in a digital format). Any new, digitized object that you create for inclusion in your digital collection needs object metadata in order to be organized and discovered.

The ResCarta Metadata Creation Tool includes several forms for metadata input, based on the varied types of digital objects. All metadata information you enter is stored in standard Library of Congress METS- and MODS-formatted XML files.  Photographic objects with original EXIF metadata have EXIF harvested automatically. Audio objects have  technical metadata stored in Library of Congress audioMD.  Video objects have technical metadata stored in NARA reVTMD standard.

The information entered into the various fields in the screens of this tool are converted to MODS xml format.

Your metadata is stored in a common, open and standard format.

ResCarta® Toolkit: ResCarta Data Conversion Tool 

The ResCarta Data Conversion Tool converts your TIFF, JPEG, PDF (image only), PDF (image and text), MP4 video and Wave Audio files into ResCarta archive data format.

The ResCarta archive data format for documents and photographs is comprised of TIFF 6.0 image files and Library of Congress METS-formatted XML files for object- and collection-level metadata, as well as a Library of Congress Standard MODS XML file, which is placed into the header of each TIFF file.  When you use the ResCarta Data Conversion Tool to convert image and text or Normal PDF files, the tool will also write the word data into a public tag along with word location and font information.The Data Conversion Tool uses the included pdfbox to create transcriptions of image files containing printed text.

ResCarta archive data format for Audio Objects is comprised of a Broadcast Wave file (With embedded Library of Congress Standard MODS XML file in the aXML chunk of BWF file and included BEXT metadata, and Transcription information, if any, stored in marker chunks), an OGG presentation audio file and a Library of Congress METS-formatted XML files for object- and collection-level metadata. The Data Conversion Tool uses the included CMU SPHINX project to create transcriptions of audio files containing spoken words. It can also take text input from SRT files for audio and video created by Subtitle Edit or Whisper.

ResCarta archive data format for Video Objects is comprised of an MPEG-4 video in an MP4 container with object level metadata expressed in METS.  The object may also contain SRT (SubRip Text) subtitle files in various languages.

Any new, digitized object that you create for inclusion in your ResCarta database needs to be converted into the ResCarta archive data format in order to be recognized.

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ResCarta® Toolkit: ResCarta Collections Manager

The ResCarta Collections Manager is used for the creation of ResCarta-compliant collections and the addition to or deletion from a ResCarta collection of digital object. The ResCarta Collections Manager writes out a METS collection file which is stored at the top level of a ResCarta Data Archive. The ResCarta Collections Manager can also be used to convert the robust METS metadata to simple Dublin Core XML files for use in other systems or to  OAI_DC formatted XML files for use with OAI/PMH servers.

ResCarta® Toolkit: ResCarta Indexer

The ResCarta Indexer creates an Apache™ Lucene™ index of the ResCarta objects in your collections. Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java; it's a technology suitable for nearly any application requiring full-text search capabilities, particularly those which are cross-platform. The ResCarta Indexer uses simple entry of data locations to create this powerful index, which allows for high-speed access to the metadata and word data contained within your ResCarta collections (database).

Any changes you make to your collections (using the ResCarta Collections Manager) requires that a new index be built so that ResCartaWeb can accurately search the collection.

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ResCarta® Toolkit: Checksum Verification Tool

The ResCarta Checksum Verification Tool verifies object checksums (computed values of data that are compared to ensure data accuracy) of your ResCarta-formatted data, to ensure the integrity of the each and every digital object in your ResCarta archive.

Fixity is a buzz word in today's digital world.  ResCarta Toolkit has always created files with checksum validation for long term maintenance.  At each step along the way the ResCarta Toolkit will generate a checksum.  When the file has been added to your ResCarta archive it is ready to be validated by the Checksum Validation tool.  This software tool will compare the original checksum to one it generates to see if any change has occurred since the time your digital object was created.  It will notify you of any files where the checksums are not equal and allow you to replace the file from your alternate source.  You did remember to create another copy of your archive, right?  Remember lots of copies keeps stuff safe (LOCKS).