1. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 20041 Scope Both multilevel and single-level description Accommodates description of collections, series, sub-series, files, and items Based on extant standards such as DA:CS Allows user to link a digital object or aggregate of digital objects to any descriptive level

2. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 20042 Inputs/Outputs Inputs: –based on principles of multi-level description Outputs: –Printed finding aids –EAD –MARC XML –Repository guides

3. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 20043 Use Cases Create/edit collection record Create/edit series record Create/edit file record Create/edit item record

4. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 20044 Issues Inheritance of data elements in outputs Statement of responsibility at lower levels Interaction with item-level description Tracking and allowing editing of hierarchical relationships

5. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 20045 Item Description Scope Stand alone module Describe analog and digital items Integrates with collection description Facilitates links from containers in a finding aid to digital surrogates Accommodate a robust descriptive pallet with which the user may describe objects beyond the EAD or MARC footprint.

6. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 20046 Possible “stand-alone” benefits Allows user to focus on the essential problem of managing digital assets Allows user to use of the Toolkit outside of the archive model

7. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 20047 Formats in scope Digital –images, and text Analog – paper, images, artifacts/ephemera, audio-visual

8. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 20048 Ingest METS? JHOVE, ImageMagick outputs?

9. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 20049 METS structure Audit trail – who created the record, when and for what repository Descriptive Metadata – (using MODS as the pallet of metadata elements Administrative Metadata – –Technical metadata –Intellectual property rights –Digital provenance Metadata Hierarchies

10. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 200410 Table of prospective item description elements Item data pallet

11. Archivists' Toolkit - All Hands Meeting 200411 Outputs EAD MARC METS