Harvard Library collections include 2D and 3D objects representing art, architectural, archaeological, museum, engineering and other objects. This digital material will be preserved in the Library’s preservation and access repository - the Digital Repository Service (DRS).
As a first step towards providing support for this material in the DRS, the Library contracted initially with Drexel University and later with Isaac Simmons to perform the foundational research and development. The goals of the analysis were:
The driving principles of this work were to:
The deliverables from this analysis are included on this page.
The Drexel University team included:
| Document | Description | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Metadata recommendations | This document contains recommendations for the metadata elements to capture and a glossary of some of CAD terms. | Drexel University |
| CAD-MD and DOC-MD recommendations | This document defines a new schema (CADMD) to document the technical metadata for CAD files, changes to DocMD to support CADMD, a sample instance of CADMD, and related notes. | Isaac Simmons |
| Document | Description | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Metadata extraction options | This spreadsheet compares tools that could extract metadata for files in DWG and/or DXF formats. | Isaac Simmons |
| 3rd party software survey | This document lists viewers and converters for CAD formats. | Isaac Simmons |
This is a tool to perform identification, validation and metadata extraction on a limited set of CAD file formats. It is designed to work with FITS .
This tool will be integrated with FITS by Harvard Library.