Transcript Herding Tigers: Digital Proliferation and Management

PRDLA Collaborative Digitization Project Report
Oceania Digital Libraries (ODiL) Project
University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM)
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Martha Chantiny
Head, Desktop Network Services
and Acting Division Head for Library Information Technology
Hamilton Library
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu
[email protected]
Project Scope Proposal delivered to 2007 PRDLA Meeting
17-20 October in Berkeley, California
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To create a digital library focused on the culture & heritage of the
indigenous peoples of the Oceania region
To create a centralised metadata repository through harvesting
partner collections, to enhance resource discovery
To actively seek out funding for digitisation programs across partner
institutions
To investigate preservation issues around cultural treasures
Next steps if approved …
• Project web site
• Joint funding application
• Digitisation program at each site focusing on images, theses and
journals
Pacific-Related Digital Image Collections at the UHM
Several UHM
Library
collections are
listed on the
demo ODiL site
http://www.oceania-digital-library.org/
First steps towards creating a centralised metadata
repository through harvesting partner collections
•Steve Thomas Traditional Micronesian Navigation Collection and
•TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library successfully harvested by the PRDLA
Archive in mid-June 2007
•Hawai'i War Records - U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographs shortly thereafter
•Save Our Surf (SOS) collection harvested in mid-July 2007
PRDLA Archive as of 10/10/08
http://prdlaarchive.lib.hku.hk/collection/University%20of%20Hawaii%20at%20Manoa%20Libraries
UHM proposed collections - focused on the culture &
heritage of indigenous peoples of the Oceania region
Images:
• Margo Duggan Collection - slides of Micronesia just after
WWII
• George Grace Melanesia slides from 1956/57
Text:
• Hawaiian Historical Society Journal (to complement U of Auckland
work making the Journal of the Polynesian Society available)
• Dissertations on Hawaii and Pacific subjects
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/duggan
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December 2007: 2 students hired with Center for
Pacific Island Studies funds to work approx. 20
hours per week on the Duggan slide collection
By mid-April 2008 1,075 slides had been added to
the site database
and Pacific librarians
began QA of images
and fine tuning
of the site
• In March 2008 the student who had worked on the Duggan site
began scanning slides and text for the George Grace Collection
At that time the Pacific Collection reported:
“we've been getting a lot of very positive feedback on the digitization
projects of late, both within our own library and academic
communities and (more importantly to me, anyway) from the people
who are actually depicted in the collections. (Because we've
enabled the comments function in the Thomas site, we're getting
feedback from people who are themselves pictured on the site ... to
a person, they've been very excited about what they're seeing)”
Trust Territory
Archives
Photographs
Trust Territory of the Pacific
Image Collection
http://128.171.57.25/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=ttp&l=en&w=utf-8
Conversion from flat HTML is done, but fine tuning of metadata for OAI
harvesting and customizing of the interface still needs to be done
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The Hawaiian Journal of History
Since 1967 The Hawaiian Journal of History has been
issued annually & includes articles on Hawai‘i and the
Pacific area, research notes, book reviews, and an annual
bibliography.
Papers
Between 1892 and 1940, the Society published twentyone numbers in its Papers series devoted to scholarly
articles, genealogy and reprints from early sources.
Annual Reports
From 1892 to 1967, the Annual Reports of the Hawaiian
Historical Society included papers presented to the
Society pertaining to the history of Hawai‘i, Polynesia, and
the Pacific area. They are the predecessor to The
Hawaiian Journal of History.
Memorandum of Understanding
In November 2007 the Curator of the Library’s Hawaiian Collection consulted
with the Administrative Director and Librarian of the Hawaiian Historical
Society and determined that:
• Authors sign a release that grants to the Society "full and exclusive" right
to publish or cause to publish in all formats...
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And that the Society would also like to digitize:
- their annual reports
- papers
- index to the reports and papers
- cumulated index to the Journal
Over the next 3 months a draft of a Memorandum of Understanding was
created and by May 2008 had been approved and signed by the Board of
Directors of the Society and the Interim University Librarian at the UHM
Library; then forwarded to the Secretariat for PRDLA.
RFQ issued to 6 vendors
Distributed mid-August with 15 September 2008 reply deadline
Scope: scan, create TIFs and PDFs, provide metadata for 3 titles
approx. 15,500 pages (4,900 = Annual reports & Occasional papers,
200 = reprints, remainder = Journal)
10 representative sample pages (either the same or similar) from duplicate copies
of the Journal were supplied to each potential bidding vendor
ScholarSpace Community & Collections
Dissertations
• With the support of the Dean of the Graduate Division, the Vice
Chancellor for Research & Graduate Education has approved the
library proposal for, and committed funds in the amount of $29,664.00,
to create digital copies in PDF of 1,648 UHM dissertations currently
held in microformat covering the years 1960-1996
• Procurement documents have been completed by the Library and sent
to the campus Fiscal Office for processing
• When the digital files
are created, a copy of
each will be submitted to
the library institutional
repository ScholarSpace
Pacific and Pacific Rim-Related Dissertations
will be digitized
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Beyond the beach: Periplean frontiers of Pacific Islanders aboard
Euroamerican ships, 1768-1887 by Chappell, David Arthur, Ph.D., University of
Hawai'i, 1991, 524 pages; AAT 9205856
The Significance Of Ryukyu In Satsuma Finances During The Tokugawa
Period by Sakihara, Mitsugu, Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 1971, 327 pages; AAT
7210159
Toward A Coming Of Age For Samoa: A Structural Perspective On Samoa's
Neo-Traditionalist Development Strategy by Nakata, Katherine Toshiko, Ph.D.,
University of Hawai'i, 1981; AAT 0537548
Making History: The Creation Of Traditional Knowledge On Pukapuka, A
Polynesian Atoll by Borofsky, Robert Alan, Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 1982, 290
pages; AAT 8313517
Upon A Stone Altar: A History Of The Island Of Ponape From The Beginnings
Of Foreign Contact To 1890 (Caroline Islands, Micronesia) by Hanlon, David L.,
Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 1984, 449 pages; AAT 8508777
Mo'olelo kaukau ali'i: The dynamics of chiefly service and identity in'Oiwi
society by Young, George Terry, Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 1995, 381 pages; AAT
9532640
OAI Harvesting
• ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)
When the Hawaiian Historical Society material is added to our institutional
repository ScholarSpace it will be harvested by ROAR and OAIster
OAI Harvesting
• OAIster
• PRDLA
http://www.oaister.org/
http://prdlaarchive.lib.hku.hk/
Will harvest relevant image collections from UHM Streetprint sites
and TTP Archives from UHM Greenstone database
Onward …
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