You must be signed in in order to submit a new remediated item, or to make changes to an existing repository entry.
OVERVIEW
All of EMMA’s functionality related to working with submissions is available after selecting Uploads from the navigation menu. The Uploads main page displays all of the files that have been previously uploaded to EMMA under your account.
Upload Actions menu
The available functions are displayed at the top of each
Uploads page as a set of buttons:
When you have completed remediation of a file and wish to share it with the EMMA community, this can be done by clicking the Create button. EMMA requires that you provide both the book’s content (a single file or multiple files contained within a single *.zip file) and metadata about the book that will benefit other EMMA users in determining if this volume will match their needs.
Action Short Cuts
Each item listed on the Uploads page is associated with controls to manage that item (to the left of the item details on desktop displays; at the top of the screen on mobile displays):
Clicking on will redirect your browser to a new screen that allows you to view the associated item. You may use your browser "back" button to return to this screen.
Clicking on will redirect your browser to a new screen that allows you to modify the associated item.
Clicking on will redirect your browser to a new screen that will prompt you to delete the associated item.
If your account is not authorized to perform a particular operation on an item, associated icon will not be displayed for that item.
List your past and current EMMA submissions
This is a listing of your completed and pending EMMA submissions.
Each entry in the list is preceded by action short-cuts for working with that entry.
List your organization's EMMA submissions
This is a listing of completed and pending EMMA submissions made by members of your organization.
Each entry in the list is preceded by action short-cuts for working with that entry.
Submitting a new item to EMMA
EMMA requires that you provide both the book’s content (a single file or multiple files contained within a single *.zip file) and metadata about the book that will benefit other EMMA users in determining if this volume will match their needs.
Step 1: Prepare a file for upload
Currently, remediated content must be submitted as a single file. If your content consists of multiple individual files, you will need to combine them into a single ZIP archive in order to submit them as a single EMMA entry.
Step 2: Select a file to upload
Press the button to open your browser's file dialog. Navigate to find the file on your workstation, and select it to begin the provisional upload of the file.
As this is occurring, an orange progress bar will appear just above the buttons. When file processed successfully, EMMA will display the file name.
(If the progress bar completes but no file name is listed, then a problem encountered in processing the file; please contact an EMMA administrator for help.)
This step gives EMMA an opportunity to verify the integrity of the file. For certain file formats, metadata may be discovered that will be used to "pre-populate" the submission form.
Step 3: Provide metadata
In order to make your remediation efforts findable in EMMA, information must be supplied to identify the source material and the nature of the file being uploaded. These include:
- Bibliographic metadata, such as Title, Creator (Author), Language, Format, and Type.
- Remediation data, which will help other EMMA users know whether the entire volume was remediated, specify which chapters were remediated, and/or indicate whether the volume was born accessible.
- Source Repository, where you will indicate the source of the original file that was remediated. This may include the EMMA repository itself, one of the partner repositories (ACE or Internet Archive), or one of the other choices in the dropdown list.
Metadata field filters
EMMA defines a significant number of metadata fields, so there are three radio buttons to provide different views of the data entered so far:
All Fields
The initial selection is unfiltered, showing form fields for all of the metadata types defined by EMMA.
Completed fields
Select this option to see only the fields that have been filled, either with data extracted from the file, or with values that have been entered manually.
This filter option also shows required fields that have not been supplied.
Incomplete Fields
Select this option to see only required fields that have not been supplied and/or optional fields which do not have acceptable values.
If this filter option shows no fields, then the entry should be ready to be submitted.
Step 4: Complete the submission
When all required fields have been supplied, and all fields with data are valid, then the button will be enabled. Press it to complete the submission.
If you decide that you do not want to submit the item, you may click (which will attempt to return you to the previous page), or simply go to any other page in EMMA.
EMMA-native versus partner repository submissions
"EMMA-native" submissions (where "EMMA" is selected as the "Source Repository") will be entered into the EMMA index immediately after completion. This means that your submission can start appearing in EMMA search results almost immediately.
The remediation of a file derived from the holdings of a partner repository must be submitted back to is submitted back to that repository for inclusion in their collection. Depending on the policy of the specific partner repository, there may be some delay (hours or days) before the new partner repository item associated with your submission starts to appear in EMMA search results.
Updating an existing EMMA entry
If you arrive at this page through the Upload Actions button, you will be presented with a dropdown menu of your previous submissions. Select an entry from the list to proceed.
The form for modifying an existing entry is very similar to the form for creating a new entry, except that the initial field filter is "Completed fields".
You may modify metadata associated with your submission by reviewing and modifying the metadata fields (refer to "Submitting a new item to EMMA" above for a description of how the fields are organized).
You may also replace the file that was originally submitted with a new file. To do this, select the button. Refer to "Select a file to upload" above for a description of the remainder of this process.
When the changes have been validated, the button will be enabled.
If you decide that you do not want to commit to the changes, you may click (which will attempt to return you to the previous page), or simply go to any other page in EMMA.
Removing an existing EMMA entry
If you arrive at this page through the Upload Actions button, you will be presented with a dropdown menu of your previous submissions. Select an entry from the list to proceed.
To verify that this is really the item you want to delete, you may click on More to display the item's metadata.
If you decide that you do not want to delete the item, you may click (which will attempt to return you to the previous page), or simply go to any other page in EMMA.
If you are certain that you want to delete the item, then click . This will remove the remediated content file and the associated entry from the EMMA Unified Index.