# Presentation: 498626

## ContentE

- Gilberto Pedrosa
- José Luís Borbinha

**Flexible Publication of Digitised Works with METS**

## The Problem: Digitised Works

- 1 million images were digitised in 2006 (more than 25.000 titles)
- The result is a group of TIFF image files, which need yet to be processed so they can be stored and published
- Doing that manually would be a very complex and expensive task
- An automated solution was needed

## BND has a wide rangeof artefacts

- Manuscripts
- Books
- Newspapers
- Posters
- Drawings
- Maps
- ...

## Workflow

**Workflow**

- 	An automated process was defined and deployed to create both **master items** and **access items** of the digitized works, and also to support its storage and access.
- That process is based on 3 systems:
- SECO
- 	Image and OCR processing
**CONTENTE**
- 	Structuring and item generation
- PURL.PT
- 	Register and online publishing

## ContentE – Content Editor

- Supports creating, importing and editing structural descriptions
- Physical structure description
- Customized presentation
- Metadata importing or editing
- Descriptive (UNIMARC, MARCXML, Dublin Core, X-ARQ,...)
- Technical (TIFF headers, ...)
- Rights (METS Rights, ...)

## Architectures
ContentE Application 
ContentE Library

Output
All copies are exported with structural metadata using METS schema
Creates multiple publication copies as multiple XHTML sites (one copy for each MIME type)

- ContentE Application
- ContentE Library
- Output
- All copies are exported with structural metadata using METS schema
- Creates multiple publication copies as multiple XHTML sites (one copy for each MIME type)

**ContentE – Content Editor**

## ContentE Library

- Used automatically by the SECO system
- Flat index for fast publishing
- Bibliographic record is automatically fetched from PORBASE database
- Style is predefined by work type
- Standard styles suit most cases

## ContentE – Content Editor

**ContentE – Content Editor**

- The right pane presents the original files (images, documents)

- The left pane makes it possible to define the structure of the work

- Structuring is done by simple drag-and-drop

## ContentE – Content Editor

- Any metadata can be associated to any structural aggregator (rights, descriptive, technical metadata...)
- The user can also control the publishing style

## METSMetadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

- XML Schema
- Flexible mechanism for :
- Encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata
- Expressing the complex links between metadata
- Exchanging digital objects between repositories
- Associating a digital object with behaviours or services

## METS Example

**Header**
**Descriptive Metadata**
**Administrative Metadata**
**File Section**
**Structural Map**
**Structural Links**
**Behavior**

## ContentE – High detail images

- Matrix generation to present highly detailed maps and drawings

## ContentE

-  XSL visual styles to generate XHTML
-  Multiple style configuration

**ContentE**

## Conclusions

- More than 9.000 titles published
- ContentE is coded in Java and is available as open-source
- ContentE has Portuguese and English interface
- XHTML is static (not necessary to install any plug-in)
- METS is an excellent XML format to store all information
- ContentE has been in use at several institutions:
- National Library of Portugal
- Ministry of Finance and Public Administration
- Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon
- University of Coimbra
- Hemeroteca (CML)
- Centro Cultural de Macau

## Work in progress

- Add more schemas
- DOCBOOK
- Digital Talking Books defined by DAISY Consortium to process objects with sound, for visual impaired people
- SMIL
- Creative Commons
- To translate ContentE interface into other languages (Spanish, French, German...)

## ContentE: Further Info

- E-Mail:
- gilberto.pedrosa@ist.utl.pt
- ContentE Homepage:
- http://bnd.bn.pt/tec/contente/index.html
- BND Homepage:
- http://bnd.bn.pt