What is LadyBird?

LadyBird is a collection of web-based applications, client applications designed to accommodate a variety of workflows for the purpose of metadata production and digital media processing (e.g. creating files for web presentation) and preservation. LadyBird would replace current processing tools and route digital assets to the DAM, a website, or a preservation repository such as Fedora.

LadyBird is, in essence, the back-end of Yale’s Digital Library, the system in which metadata and digital assets are processed and housed, and the source used to populate the Digital Library.

LadyBird is not a public interface, a replacement for Voyager, a preservation repository, bulk storage for digitized materials, or a Digital Asset Management System.

LadyBird does not store digital assets (it has limited resources for storage) but offers temporary storage of master files before they are transferred to the DAM or digital preservation venues. It is recommended that all digital assets going to the DAM would be processed by LadyBird but not all digital assets would be required to go to the DAM. Library units could decide where they would want the image to be published.

It is possible to import metadata from Voyager, YFAD (EAD PID) as well as bulk imports using Excel spreadsheet. Objects may also be cataloged individually.