The MIK Cookbook

Testing you toolchain

• Checking your MIK configuration values
• Processing a random or specific set of objects

Working with metadata

• Generating metadata only, not content files
• Adding new elements to metadata created by MIK
• Have MIK modify or normalize metadata values
• Have MIK supplement or add to metadata
• Calling an external service to improve your metadata
• Analyzing the values in a CONTENTdm collection's fields to prepare for using metadata manipulators
• Troubleshooting common problems with mappings files
• Mapping data to MODS that doesn't map nicely

Creating Islandora derivatives using MIK

• Generating FITS XML

Quality assurance

• Having MIK validate the MODS.xml documents it creates
• Removing .Thumbs.db and other operating system files from ingest packages generated with MIK
• Verifying that your Islandora ingest packages contain all expected files

Miscellaneous

• Importing your packages into Islandora
• Running MIK on Windows
• Automating content-creation / ingestion workflows
• Processing large numbers of objects