Welcome to the Mountain West Digital Library

Sandra McIntyre, MWDL Director Rebekah Cummings, MWDL Assistant Director

November 27, 2013

Overview

•  The MWDL Collaborative •  Resources of a Region • Working with an MWDL Hub •  Sharing Regionally •  Interoperability • Digital Public Library of America • Open Invitation

•  Formed in 2001: A program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium

Mountain West Digital Library

Mountain West Digital Library

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

http://mwdl.org

MWDL Staff

•  Sandra McIntyre Director

•  Rebekah Cummings Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian

•  Anna Neatrour Digital Metadata Librarian

• Nick Hayen Web Portal Assistant

MWDL Infrastructure Support

•  J. Willard Marriott Library at University of Utah

• Occasional help from other partner institutions

Partners

•  Academic libraries •  Academic departments •  Archives (counties, states, etc.) •  Historical societies •  Museums •  National heritage areas •  Natural history associations •  Public libraries •  Publishers •  Academic presses •  State Libraries •  Other state agencies

Partners

In these states: •  Utah •  Nevada •  Arizona •  Idaho •  Hawaii •  Soon: Montana

Governance and Consultation

• UALC Council of Directors • UALC Digitization Committee •  Advisory Committee (in formation) •  Broader input groups

Funding

• UALC funding • DPLA grants through Fall 2014

RESOURCES OF A REGION

Digital access

Types of resources in MWDL

•  Photographs •  Maps, plans, and drawings •  Artworks •  Scholarly documents (“institutional repository”) •  Music, other sounds •  Videoclips, animations, Powerpoint presentations •  Books •  Minutes, log books, plans, bills and ordinances •  Birth and death records •  Finding aids (“series guides,” “inventories”)

Over 805,000 resources in 572 collections

Pioneers

Uintah County Library

Settling the West

University of Nevada, Reno Library

Great Salt Lake

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library

Basque

Idaho State Historical Society

African-American

Utah State Historical Society

Greek

Utah State Historical Society

Latino/Latina

Raul H. Castro Institute

Japanese-American Internment Camps

Topaz Museum

Militarization

Delta City Library

Use/Abuse of the Land

Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library

Managing Scarce Water

University of Nevada, Reno

Freely accessible on the Internet

Searchable metadata

Access

• More accessibility of resources: Free, round-the-clock, round-the-world access

•  Increased discoverability of items •  Less wear and tear on

fragile items

WORKING WITH AN MWDL HUB

Digitization and hosting

MWDL Hosting Centers (“Hubs”)

Mountain West Digital

Library

Univ of Utah

BYU

Southern Utah Univ

Utah Valley Univ

Utah State Univ

Weber State Univ

Salt Lake Comm. College

Utah State

Archives

Utah State

Library

Univ of Nevada

Las Vegas

Univ of Nevada Reno

Utah Dvsn Arts &

Museums Idaho State

Archives Arizona Memory Project Snow

College Northern Arizona

Univ

Univ of Idaho

Family Search

LDS Church History

Montana Memory

Stacks (Idaho)

Boise State

Digital Assets Management Systems

NW Digital Archives: Utah

EAD Files BYU Finding Aids

Repository

Tiered Services

• Distributed network •  Flexible and scalable •  Consolidates equipment and expertise •  Reinforces standards

MWDL Hub

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Tiered Services

MWDL Hub

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Tiered Services

Services from Hubs

• Matched to a hub in your geographic or organizational area

•  Fee-based services: –  Digitization –  Training in assigning metadata –  Online hosting in digital assets management

system –  Metadata shared for MWDL harvest –  Long-term preservation (some hubs)

New collection

SHARING REGIONALLY

Metadata harvested into MWDL

Infrastructure: Ex Libris Primo

•  An integrated discovery system •  Powerful harvesting of digital collections •  Powerful searching and faceting •  “Did you mean...?” suggestions • Online delivery via pointing to link

• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) for transmitting metadata over the Web http://openarchives.org –  Based on XML –  Commonly used for harvesting

International Protocols

New collection

MWDL Services

•  Additional training for partners • Metadata aggregation •  Powerful central search •  Sharing metadata for Digital Public

Library of America (DPLA) harvest •  Collaboration on standards and

technology •  Advocacy and funding

INTEROPERABILITY Working together to make it happen

Record in DAMS

Dublin Core record via OAI

Results in MWDL

Standards and Policies

Standards and Policies

• Mountain West Digital Library Partnership Agreement –  Partner retains control –  Partner sets digitization priorities –  Partner ensures privacy and other legal

considerations –  Partner selects the ‘branding’ for its

collections

Standards and Policies

•  Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) document: Digital Imaging Best Practices

Standards and Policies

•  Qualified Dublin Core •  Metadata mappings to

QDC from other systems

•  8 required fields; 2 other mandatory-if-applicable fields

•  Preservation fields recommended

Standards and Policies

Standards and Policies

Current initiatives

• Digital Assets Management System Interest Group

• Geospatial Discovery Task Force •  Training and Outreach subcommittees •  Scanning events: “Pioneers in Your Attic” •  Linked Data Task Force – new! • Digital Preservation Task Force – new! • Data Curation Interest Group – new!

DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA

Participating on a national stage

http://dp.la

What is the DPLA?

The Digital Public Library of America will make the cultural and

scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all.

National partners

•  Institute for Museum and Library Services •  Smithsonian Institution •  National Archives & Records Administration •  Harvard University •  New York Public Library •  Biodiversity Heritage Library •  ARTStor •  Univ. of Virginia Libraries •  Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Cham. Library •  Internet Archive •  Hathi Trust •  Creative Commons

Executive Director Dan Cohen

Digital Hubs Pilot

Create the on-ramp for memory institutions – libraries, archives, and museums – to contributing content to the Digital Public Library of America

Digital Hubs Pilot Service Hubs

1. Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts) 2. Digital Library of Georgia 3. Kentucky Digital Library 4. Minnesota Digital Library 5. South Carolina Digital Library 6. Mountain West Digital Library

OPEN INVITATION

Jumping on board

An invitation to an inspection and wetting-down party. Brigham Young University – Hawaii Campus.

Invitation to repository managers

1.  Open up your metadata for harvest 2.  Link to MWDL and DPLA on your web

pages 3.  Collaborate on standards and controlled

vocabularies 4.  Be curious about new opportunities for

cooperation and sharing

Invitation to collection managers

•  Contact: Rebekah Cummings MWDL Assistant Director (801) 587- 8893 rebekah.cummings@utah.edu

•  Not quite ready? We can help you get there! –  New partner interview –  Hub services –  Training and support

Winter Webinar Series

•  Every two weeks, November – March •  Two series: Partner Series/ Digital Tech Topics •  Check mwdl.org for updates

Month MWDL  Partner  Series Date* Digital  Tech  Topics Date* November Partnering  with  the  

Mountain  West  Digital  Library  

Thursday,  11/21 11:00  am

None N/A

December MWDL  as  a  Service  Hub  for  the  Digital  Public  Library  of  America:  Update  and  Plans

Thursday,  12/5 11:00  am  

HarvesJng  Using  the  Open  Archives  IniJaJve  Protocol:  What  can  your  OAI  stream  tell  you?  

Tuesday,  12/17,  11:00  am

January HosJng  Hubs  Update:  Services,  Pricing,  and  Highlights

Tuesday,  1/7,  11:00  am

Digital  Asset  Management  System  OpJons:  Report  of  the  DAM  Review  Task  Force  at  the  University  of  Utah  Libraries  (Kinza  Masood)

Tuesday,  1/21,  11:00  am

February Partnering  with  the  Mountain  West  Digital  Library

Thursday,  2/6 11:00  am

GeospaJal  Discovery:  IniJal  recommendaJons  from  the  task  force  (Kristen  Jensen/Liz  WoolcoY)  

Thursday,  2/20 11:00  am

March Cultural  Heritage  IniJaJves:  Arizona  Memory  Project  and  Montana  Memory  Project  (Jen  Birnel/Richard  Prouty)  

Tuesday,  3/4,  11:00  am

GeospaJal  Interfaces:  Examples  of  innovaJve  front-­‐end  interfaces  (Michelle  Olsen  and  the  geospaJal  interface  sub-­‐group)  

Tuesday,  3/18 11:00  am

*Dates subject to change. Check website for updates.

Hubs Meeting

•  March 2014 (Exact date/location TBD)

•  MWDL decision-making –  Partnership Agreement –  Price list –  Future services

•  Opportunity to connect with regional hub managers –  Share best practices –  Find out what other digital libraries are doing –  Discuss important digital library topics

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Questions?

•  Sandra McIntyre Director (801) 585-0969 sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu

•  Rebekah Cummings Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian (801) 587-8893 rebekah.cummings@utah.edu