Overview and History

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Introduction

This guide, designed for non-technical users, provides a background and history of National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ) Tools Scripts Ingestion.

Contents of this document

Following this introduction, this Overview and History Guide includes the following sections:

  • Overview - Covers what the NLNZ Tools Scripts Ingestion is and what it is not.
  • History - Covers the history of the tool from its inception to today.
  • License - Covers the license used.
  • Release history - Covers significant changes made in each release.
  • Copyright - Covers the code copyright.

Overview

NLNZ Tools Scripts Ingestion is a common set of scripts related to the generation of SIPs for ingestion into the Rosetta archiving system. The aim is to provide useful scripts related to SIP generation and ingestion. These scripts do not fit into a traditional project paradigm (for example, they may be bash, Python or Groovy scripts that are run independently of a project).

Motivation

We want to keep track of our scripts to better share and support them.

What it is NOT

  • It is NOT specific to a particular ingestion.

History

The National Library of New Zealand has a legal mandate, and a social responsibility, to preserve New Zealand’s social and cultural history, be it in the form of books, newspapers and photographs, or of websites, blogs and videos. Increasing amounts of New Zealand’s documentary heritage is only available online. Users find this content valuable and convenient, but its impermanence, lack of clear ownership, and dynamic nature pose significant challenges to any institution that attempts to acquire and preserve it.

NLNZ Tools Scripts Ingestion is a common set of functionality for use in ingesting custom ingestion types. The first such problem is the so-called fairfax ingestion, which is a feed from Fairfax of their digital print publications.

There are some related code repositories as well:

Project objectives

  • Meets the needs of the National Library of New Zealand
  • Possibly provide helpful functionality or example processing to other users and institutions.

The tool is open-source software and is freely available for the benefit of the international archiving community.

Versioning

These scripts are not under a project, so there are no versions associated with them, although each script may have a version number embedded within.

Installation

There are no artifacts that are created or installed.

License

All contributions to the NLNZ Tools Scripts Ingestion must be under the MIT (2019) License, which can be found at: https://mit-license.org/

The code is open-source software and is freely available for the benefit of the international archiving community.

See the Contributing section of the Developer Guide for more details.