Introduction to OpenWMS Workflow Management System

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Introduction to OpenWMS (Workflow Management
System)

• Li Sun
• Rutgers University Libraries

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Development of East Asian Collections in the
Digital Age

• Rutgers has launched many digital initiatives to
  support the development of library collections
• The East Asian Collections have also benefited
  from the digital initiatives
• One of the initiatives is the development of a
  digital application OpenWMS
• Lets get familiar with OpenWMS before
  introducing how it works for the East Asian
  Collections

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Introduction to OpenWMS (Workflow Management
System)
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Reasons for OpenWMS

• We need a good application that can handle
  digital cataloging
• Current existing applications are mostly locally
  developed
• This Rutgers product is unique for its extended
  functionality for digital cataloging with
  metadata creation and management tool
• Unicode compliant Web accessibility Platform
  independent
• Can be either standalone application or
  integrated with other systems or repositories
• Grant based project open source for free
  download and easy customization

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Rutgers Repository Workflow
repository
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OpenWMS Function administration
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OpenWMS Function utility configuration
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OpenWMS Function set up templates
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OpenWMS Function metadata creation and file
handling
Metadata creation
File upload
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OpenWMS Function Vocabularies control
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OpenWMS Function mapping and batch-loading
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OpenWMS Function Structure map
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OpenWMS Function ingest metadata/digital files
to repository or edit metadata in repository
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Demonstration of a digital East Asian Collection
http//lefty64.scc-net.rutgers.edu/rucore/search/i
ndex.php?PProfileDLR
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A final product of image
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Thank you

• Here is more information about OpenWMS
• http//rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/open/projects/
  openwms/index.php