Standard Transfer Metadata for Born Digital Transfers : Poster - iPRES 2025 - Wellington, New Zealand / Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa
Abstract
The poster will describe the Standard Transfer Metadata File (STMF) which is being developed at Archives New Zealand (Archives NZ). It comes in two forms: an XML schema definition (XSD) and detailed guidelines aimed at government agencies which transfer their born-digital records to Archives NZ. Archives NZ processed its first digital transfer in 2015, although they accepted urgent digital transfers before then. Since then, we have handled several transfers and learned that the variety and inconsistence in transferred metadata form and layout is a repeating issue, making the process difficult and slower both for the agencies and for the digital preservation team and transfer archivists at Archives NZ. STMF is our answer to this, and the poster will present the standard, its structure, its metadata fields and the way we envision it helping to better facilitate born-digital transfers for agencies and Archives NZ. One of the goals of our poster will be to collect feedback from iPRES attendees on our standard proposal, as there are archives in many countries where a similar standard is already in place.Details
- Creators
- Jan Hutař
- Institutions
- Date
- 2025-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- digital humanities
- Publication Type
- poster
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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