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 SIP Generation.

Contents of this document

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

  • Overview - Covers what the NLNZ Tools SIP Generation 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.

Overview

NLNZ Tools SIP Generation is a common set of classes related to the generation of SIPs for ingestion into the Rosetta archiving system. The aim is to provide core functionality that is shared across other tools that are specific to ingestion type.

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 SIP Generation 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. The sister project, NLNZ Tools Sip Generation - Fairfax is concerned with the custom processing involved with processing the Fairfax files. This project targets common functionality that can be re-used across other custom ingestion projects.

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.

License

All contributions to the NLNZ Tools SIP Generation 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.

Release history

See Release Notes for release notes on specific versions.