Training

In this section you can find training materials produced by ATHENA on LIDO and the ATHENA ingester.

Training material provided in the ATHENA Training Workshop, Rome, 18-19 January and Berlin, 20-21 January 2010

LIDO

ATHENA INGESTER

UPDATINGS ON LIDO AND THE ATHENA INGESTER

 

Basic rules for mapping

by Regine Stein

  • Map first the mandatory elements, make sure that the respective fields in your source data are filled in.
  • Populate indexing elements if possible, and only in second step display elements (people tend apparently to fill in only display elements because it seems easier but is usually not appropriate)
  • Analyze your source data for event-mediated information: look for implicite event types in field names and for qualifier elements
  • Think of your data outside of your own context - add implicite information: e.g. the repository name, if you map the inventory number

Guidelines on  the use of the ATHENA ingester 

by NTUA

The Athena Tool can be reached at the following url:

http://brain.image.ntua.gr/test/ (FOR TEST AND TRAINING)

http://athena.image.ntua.gr/athena (RESERVED TO THE ATHENA CONTENT PROVIDERS FOR THE INGESTION OF THEIR CONTENTS)


User & Organization Registration

New users can create an account through the "Register" page.

You can apply to an existing organization during registration or through user profile (for returning users).
If your organization is not registered in the system and you will be acting as administrator, you should register leaving the "Organization" field blank. This will grant you administrative rights to create your own organization and manage all its users and data.

If you are acting as coordinator for organizations in your country, we advise that you create an organization that will serve as the aggregator e.g. "Ministry of Culture". Administrators of respective organizations that will be monitored by the aggregator can subsequently set it as the 'parent' (alternatively, an aggregator can create all the sub-organizations himself and assign users/administrators to them).

When a user applies for an organization the administrator is notified through email in order to validate and assign appropriate role. More info on available user roles & rights can be found in the tool's home page.

Make sure that athena-admin@image.ntua.gr is not marked as spam by your email software!


Data Import

The tool can only handle xml representations of metadata. They can be uploaded in single file (containing one or more items) or multiple ones bundled in a ZIP archive (rar compression is not currently supported), or can be harvested from an OAI repository. Make sure that the files you are trying to import contain valid xml.

Characters like "<" and "&" are illegal in XML elements. In text and attribute values, you need to escape those ASCII characters using the following encodings:

' '
" "
< <
> >
& &


Overview

Use this page to browse all imports made for the organization/s you have access to. Follow the indicated steps (1.define item root, 2.define mappings, 3.transform your items) for each import dataset. Mappings can be edited and reused.

You can switch between import and item view using the options provided and you can also preview the mappings and final transformation by using the item view.


Mapping

Documentation and tutorial material for the reference model (LIDO) and the functionality of the mappings editor can be obtained from respective links in the user home page (login required) at http://athena.image.ntua.gr/


Transformation and OAI harvesting

Both processes can be time consuming and may also be queued for completion depending on the system's load. You can logout and check back later to see status updates.


General

Please make sure you use Firefox browser to get the full functionality (the tool has not yet been verified for all browsers).

Also note that until March the 1st the tool will be used for testing purposes. The process of actual ingestion will begin on March 1st, so until then changes in the tool can occur and data may be deleted for database rebuild purposes.

Any technical issues, questions, suggestions and feature requests should be directed to
athena-helpdesk@amitie.it (if you are not registered, please send the relevant registration form)