Repository Management Relationship: Has components of both Metadata Editor and Preservation Curator
Demographics / User Characteristics
- Library staff or student assistant
- May perform upstream actions such as digitization or born-digital acquisition/accession/processing to prepare materials for deposit
- May work with Campus Staff Submitter or off-campus donors to coordinate material transfer for processing prior to ingest
- Not a content creator
- Familiar with repository ingest workflows and interfaces
- Varied levels of familiarity with underlying repository architecture
Frequency and Type of Repository Deposit Use
- Daily
- Staff Deposit
General Motivators / Goals
- Contribute to the larger collection’s preservation and dissemination goals
- Help ensure consistent metadata and quality among objects within collections
- Provide expedient access to and preservation of material approved for repository ingest by the Digital Collections Steering Committee
Key Deposit Tasks
- Add or import descriptive metadata to one or more objects
- Upload single or batched files to the repository
- Verify proper SIP creation, in accordance with unit standards*
- Generate technical metadata for objects
- Confirm successful ingest of objects
- Assign designated rights and access controls for objects
Repository Content / Information Desired
- Guidance on local metadata entry standards
- Access to local vocabulary terms and thesauri
- Status and progress notifications for material being ingested
- Verification of successful uploads and ingests
- Audit trail / log of deposit activity in workflow
Type of Material Deposited
- Digitized books, images, audio, video
- Born-digital images, audio, video
- Born-digital binary files and disk images
Library/Unit Interactions
- Library Staff Depositor may work with special collections across campus libraries as well as on- or off-campus donors