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Sandra McIntyreProgram Director
OverviewAnalysis
Overview
• Goals• History and governance• Infrastructure• Frontiers• With DPLA
Goals
• Help more organizations to digitize materials about our region’s history and cultural heritage
• Maintain a public portal to digital collections in the Mountain West region – Make content accessible to everyone– Offer local control – Keep it low cost– Standardize for interoperability
History and governance
• Early 2000s: digitization collaboration between University of Utah and Utah State Historical Society
• Kenning Arlitsch requested support in 2001 from Utah Academic Library Consortium
• Governed by UALC Council of Directors
• Policies developed by UALC Digitization Committee
Infrastructure
How we are put together
Infrastructure
• Distributed network• Tiered services• Standards and best practices• Partnerships• Aggregation
Distributed network
• MWDL Central • Hosting Hubs• Collection Partners
Tiered services
MWDL Centr
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Partnerships
• Academic departments• Academic libraries• Academic presses• Archives (counties, states,
cities)• Historical societies• Museums, including art museums• National heritage areas• Natural history associations• Public libraries• Publishers (journal, magazine,
newspaper)• State Agencies• State Library• State Historical Societies
Partnerships
Geographic coverage:• Utah• Nevada• Southern Idaho• Hawaii
In process:• Arizona • More in Idaho
Partnerships
• Partnership Agreement– Partner sets digitization priorities and
secures funding– Partner ensures usage rights, privacy,
and other legal considerations– Collections are branded for recognition
to partner– Hubs provide training and project setup
for partners
Standards and best practices
• Qualified Dublin Core
• Metadata mappings to QDC from other systems
• 8 required fields; 2 other mandatory-if-applicable fields
• Preservation fields recommended
Standards and best practices
• Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) document:Digital Imaging Best Practices
Standards and best practices
Standards and best practices
Standards and best practices
Aggregation
Types of resources:•Photographs•Maps, plans, and drawings•Artworks•Scholarly documents•Music, oral histories, other sounds•Videoclips, animations, Powerpoint presentations•Books•Mintes, log books, reports, bills and ordinances•Birth and death records•Finding aids •Newspapers
Example in CONTENTdm
Example in CONTENTdm
Aggregation inEx Libris Primo
• An integrated discovery system• Harvests via OAI and other
mechanisms• Harvests multiple repository types• Powerful searching• Online delivery
http://mwdl.org
Results in MWDL
Innovation
• Geospatial metadata project• Search engine optimization for digital
repositories, with Kenning Arlitsch et al.
• Linked Data exploration
Collaboration
• Western Archival Network, with– Northwest Digital Archives – Rocky Mountain Online Archive
• Regional digital preservation network• Distributed internship program• Including full range of partners in
governance and participation
Sustainability
• Funding beyond Utah Academic Library Consortium’s limited budget– Funding Development Task Force– State legislative requests– Grants for innovation projects– Membership fee or direct services fees
With DPLAMoving forward
With DPLA
1.Providing metadata for harvest2.Facilitating the conversation about
usage rights3.Customized metadata assistance4.Expanding services to underserved
memory institutions5.Repository services6.Community services
Questions welcome!
• Sandra McIntyreProgram DirectorMountain West Digital Library801.585.0969sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu