Hi, I was curious if anyone is incorporating a step where you embed metadata into PDFs submitted to your repositories (or before you batch load them, if you're doing that)? I'm researching potential tools for doing so (both Doc Info and XMP metadata), for material that we are batch loading. I feel a bit like I'm following something down a rabbit hole, with all the reading I've done today, so I'm hoping that hearing from others, in the specific context of DSpace-based repository work, will help further direct our research.
I do know that there is work in progress coming from MIT with adding metadata tags that will help crawlers (specifically the Google Scholar crawler) associate external metadata with PDF files, which is very welcome. But we're definitely wanting to ensure that PDFs we load in a batch fashion are as usable as they can be, and from what we've seen so far, that would include embedding metadata in the PDFs themselves. -- HARDY POTTINGER <[email protected]> University of Missouri Library Systems http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ "No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back." --Turkish proverb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
