Transcript Show Me The Money: funding for digital initiatives

Tom Clareson, Liz Bishoff
Florida Public Library Directors’ Meeting
October 29, 2014
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Many institutional digitization projects exist;
multi-institution collaborative projects are
happening on a local/statewide basis.
Florida Division of Library & Information
Services is developing the Florida Statewide
Digital Action Plan project with input from
leading institutions and associations.
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Project Steering Committee
Survey of digitization practices and needs
Series of focus groups
Public presentations at professional association
conferences
Development of Best Practices documents Metadata, Content Creation
Recommendation for technology strategy for single
point of access to Florida’s digital collections
Development of a Statewide Digital Action Plan
Project website: dos.myflorida.com/libraryarchives/services-for-libraries/moreprograms/statewide-digital-action-plan/
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101 responses received from estimated
universe of 583 institutions (17% response
rate)
Largest response groups by type:
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Public Libraries (39 responses; 39% of total)
Academic Libraries (26 responses; 26%)
Museums (13 or 13%)
Archives (9 or 9%)
3 special libraries; 2 historical societies; 7 “Other”
Majority of respondents (57 or 59.4%) had
primary role of Administrator/Director/Dean
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71 institutions (71%), including 18 of 39
responding public libraries, have digital
collections
Of the public libraries that do not have digital
collections:
◦ 4 replied that they would begin creating digital
collections in the next three years
◦ 16 will not create digital collections
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Year institutions began collecting/acquiring
digital collections:
◦ Majority of public libraries began creating digital
collections between 2001and 2014, and most that
are creating/acquiring born-digital collections
started between 2011 and 2014
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Why digitizing/collecting born-digital (top
reasons for public libraries and all other org.
types)?
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Provide online access to materials (93.8%)
Increase access to collections (89.1%)
Preserve original by reducing handling (82.8%)
Study or use by local users (81.3%)
Study or use by remote users (71.9%)
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Strong local interest in materials/collections (76.6%)
Materials are fragile/deteriorating (65.6%)
High-value materials; digitizing increases access (62.5%)
Materials are heavily-used (48.4%)
Selection criteria:
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Respondents were asked about digital collections
created on a variety of subjects/topics. In all
subjects but geology, photographs were the
leading format that have been digitized, across
all institution types.
Respondents asked about collections that could
be digitized in the future; they want to digitize all
formats of materials in a variety of subject areas.
Local History (27) and Florida History (24) were
most popular subjects for future digitization;
especially popular in public libraries.
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46% of all responding organizations, and a
majority of public libraries, do not have a
digital asset management system.
Top DAM systems in use in Florida
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CONTENTdm (11 organizations)
Islandora (8)
Locally-developed systems (7)
PastPerfect (6)
SobeK (5)
Also: Omeka, DigiTool, D-Space, Fedora, BePress
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Rebuild, modernize and expand participation in
Florida on Florida Statewide portal of digital
collection discovery
Expand use of statewide best practices metadata and content creation
Enable participation of all cultural heritage
organizations through collaborative programs
◦ Training
◦ Shared content management
◦ Shared digital conversion
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Assure sustainability of the portal program
Gateway to Digital Public Library of America
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Background
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Functionality
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Strategy/Vision
◦ 2009-present
◦ Wide variety of states
and institutions
participating
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Aggregation
Local hosting
Hubs
Metadata
◦ Portal
◦ Platform
◦ Public option
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Expanded visibility of our library - statewide
& national
One-stop shopping - supports research &
education
Collaboration - funds working with other
libraries and historical society
Community engagement - demonstrates how
to engage those interested in history
Cultural heritage - heritage tourism
“It’s the gateway to DPLA”
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Florida’s libraries, archives, museums and
historical societies provide the residents of
Florida and curious citizens of the world with
an interest in Florida cultural heritage
barrier-free online discovery and access to
the digital collections that promote Florida
and enhance understanding of its heritage.
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At your Library?
Statewide?
Other ideas?
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Benefits
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Challenges
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Jacksonville:
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◦ Sept. 9 @ 2 p.m.
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Gainesville:
◦ Oct. 15 @ 2 p.m.
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◦ Sept. 10 @ 10 a.m.
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Miami:
Ft. Lauderdale Area:
◦ Oct. 14 @ 3 p.m.
Tampa Area:
◦ Oct. 16 @ 2 p.m.
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◦ Oct. 14 @ 10 a.m.
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Orlando Area:
Tallahassee:
◦ Oct. 30 @ 10 a.m.
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Panama City:
◦ Oct. 31 @ 10 a.m.
Central Time
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Tom Clareson, Lyrasis:
◦ [email protected]
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Liz Bishoff, The Bishoff Group:
◦ [email protected]