The SIMP tool: facilitating digital library, metadata, and preservation workflow at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library

This article presents a case study of the Submission Information Metadata Packaging (SIMP) tool developed at the University of; Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library. The Library designed this platform-independent tool to facilitate the deposit of descriptive; metadata and derivative formats into CONTENTdm, the Library's current digital asset management system. It also supports the; submission of technical metadata and archival content into the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system. The Marriott Library; deliberately developed the SIMP tool to accommodate multiple workflows and ingestion processes in a modular fashion, which; allows the Library to easily modify the tool to extend its functionality to other digital asset management and preservation; systems or enterprise repositories.