Quality control of digital objects
- See Appendix A of the Digital Collections Handbook for detailed guidance on quality control of digital objects (i.e., access copies) uploaded to the Archives Catalogue and other platforms. Staff responsible for uploading digital objects to the Archives Catalogue are normally responsible for performing their own quality control throughout the digital collection workflow.
- The manager of the Archives Catalogue and/or project manager of an archival description project will review digital objects y on a regular basis and use errors or inconsistencies as opportunities to provide focused training for staff persons responsible for creating and uploading digital objects.
Expert search for digital objects
Note: These queries involve ElasticSearch fields that cannot be translated so there is no option to replace "en" with the two-letter ISO code for another language, even in a multi-lingual AtoM environment.
| Search query | Description | Advanced search panel / Search facets |
|---|---|---|
| digitalObject.filename:"filename" | Searches for records that contain a specific digital object file name. File name must be in quotations regardless of whether spaces exist. | N/A |
| digitalObjectMediaTypeId | Searches for records that contain an internal ID number for digital objects. Default values are:
| Media Type is also available in the search/browse interface. |
| hasDigitalObject | Binary field where 1 = yes and 0 = no. hasDigitalObject:1 hasDigitalObject:0 | Also a filter in the advanced search panel. |
| digitalObject.thumbnailPath | N/A | N/A |
| transcript | Searches the indexed text captured from the text or OCR layer of a PDF or other text-based document uploaded as a digital object. Example: transcript:montgomery will produce search results where the term "montgomery" is found in the indexed text captured in documents uploaded as a digital object, even if the term is not included in the descriptive metadata. | The advanced search panel has an option to limit a search to "Digital object text." |
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