MPIWG internal

Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
The metadata format used my the Max Planck Institute for the history of science is based on an export from the library's catalogue database into the MPIWG's proprietary metadata format (XML files, called index.meta. Documentation: http://intern.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/digitalhumanities/mpiwg-metadata-documentation/formate/indexmeta-standard). These are pretty flat XML files with a well-defined structure catering for the different media types used in the institute (books, manuscripts, images, films).

Thes files contain no information on the digital facsimiles other than rights information and their location. Thus, to include information about the digital facismiles of a CHO, this has to be obtained via a web service. It is important to include information about the digital facsimiles in the RDF export, so that links can be generated to each page of the CHO to make it annotatable. For the DM2E project, a tool was created to put all that information together and to create RDF triples directly.