CHANGES Metadata Manager

Metadata and provenance generator for digitized cultural heritage objects in the CHANGES project (Aldrovandi case study). Processes folder structures from the digitization pipeline and generates RDF metadata and PROV-O provenance snapshots for each processing stage.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/dharc-org/changes-metadata-manager.git
cd changes-metadata-manager
uv sync

uv run python -m changes_metadata_manager.folder_metadata_builder /path/to/root

Documentation

Full documentation is available at dharc-org.github.io/changes-metadata-manager.

References

The provenance model is based on the OpenCitations Data Model:

Daquino, Marilena; Massari, Arcangelo; Peroni, Silvio; Shotton, David (2018). The OpenCitations Data Model. figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3443876.v8

The metadata follows the Cultural Heritage Acquisition and Digitisation Application Profile (CHAD-AP).

The input knowledge graph is generated by morph-kgc-changes-metadata.