Digital Asset Management and Publication with LadyBird

LadyBird is an application designed to provide a consolidated solution for the management of metadata and digital assets at Yale University Library. It provides a configurable system for migrating digital objects and collections, normalizing metadata, and preserving and publishing content. It was initially writing in Microsoft .Net and C#, hosted on Windows 2008 using Microsoft SQL Server 2008. It is currently being migrated to Java and Ruby. This paper will describe how Ladybird handles the workflow from submission of content to publication.