Logistics
35 volumes
3-5 inches each
1945-1997
1st few volumes contain reports that start and end on the same page. Newer volumes end and start on separate pages.
Ultimately there will be 4500 items in DSpace
RLE already has a community in DSpace : http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/4058
Dave Foss is the RLE contact
Metadata
https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/LIBMETADATA/RLEQPRBestPracs
updated 8.5.09: starting at RP131-140 the item level will be report level 2 all other reports' item level will be report level 1.
Rob will email Beverly when the first 10 reports are finished so that Carl can begin testing. After tests are approved we will batch load the reports into DSpace every month. Rob expects the metadata project to take a year.
Rob expects to start the metadata project the second week of June.
Rob needs to extract the OCR text from Document Services
The front material will be completed as its own item, include the front material with each item in the report?
Document Services
About 95% of scanning completed.
File naming:
RLE_QPR001_IV_00001000.tif *
*remove Q from file name with the reports are no longer titled quarterly
RLE_QPR001_IV(or #, TOC, PR, FM).pdf
Abbreviations for un-numbered sections
FM - Front Matter
TOC - Table of Contents
PUBREP - Publications & Reports
PERS - Personnel
BM - Back Matter
INDX - Index
APDX# - Appendix #
AuthIndx - Author Index
RLE_PR001_1_1p1p.pdf