Arca Batch Ingest Guide

If you will be hosting your digitised materials in the Arca provincial digital repository, following are guides to assist with preparing your digitised content and metadata for batch upload into Arca. Once your materials are prepared, you'll send them to the Arca Office, and we will perform the batch upload for you.

Newspaper Export Parameters

General guidelines for preparing file formats, metadata organization, and naming conventions for ingestion into Arca.

Arca Guidelines for Newspaper Metadata

Guide to recommended metadata fields for optimal newspaper viewing on Arca.

PDF Export Parameters for Batch Ingest

General guidelines for preparing PDF files for ingestion into Arca.

 

Metadata Templates

Compound Objects

Single file object

Audio Files

Books

Images

Video