Transcript An Introduction to the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center Vicki Tobias, Digital Services Librarian [email protected] / 608.265.6381 http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu.

An Introduction to the University of
Wisconsin Digital Collections Center
Vicki Tobias, Digital Services Librarian
[email protected] / 608.265.6381
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu
Who am I?
 Work Experience
 UW Digital Collections Center
 Wisconsin Historical Society
 Historian, archivist, genealogist
 My Gene Pool
 Welsh (Tobias)
 English (Watson)
 Scotch-Irish (Gardner)
 Irish (O’Connor, Green)
 German (Sparks, Meyer)
 Pomeranian (Cischke)
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What is the UW Digital Collections Center?
“Promoting the Wisconsin Idea by providing
professional leadership in the creation of quality digital
resources, from UW libraries and archives, for faculty,
staff and students, citizens of the state and scholars
at large.”
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What is the UW Digital Collections Center?
 Founded in 2001
 Twelve full time and 20+ student staff
 Librarians, archivists, technology
specialists, and other information
professionals
 Located in UW-Madison
Memorial Library
 Funded by UW System and
UW-Madison General Library
System
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What do we do?
 Create digital resources to support teaching
and research
 Build quality digital resources from:
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books, journals, archival collections, slides,
photos, art illustrations, maps, audio, and
video
rare, fragile, non-circulating, and high-use
library and archival materials
materials not previously digitized nor available
on the Internet
 Develop tools that facilitate search,
retrieval, and Web site navigation
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What do we do?
 We serve:
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13 four-year campuses
13 two-year campuses
 We collaborate with partners to create
digital resources:
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UW-Madison and System faculty and librarians
Wisconsin public libraries
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Humanities Council
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
University of Iceland, University of Lisbon,
University of Alabama
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What are the UW Digital Collections?
 Digital resources:
 8,965 books & journals
 1,610,791 text pages
 60,000 photographic images
 17,767 audio minutes
 ?? video minutes
 3,000+ archives finding aids
 Collection strengths include: area studies, decorative arts,
ecology, literature, history, music, natural resources,
science, social sciences, the State of Wisconsin, and the
University of Wisconsin.
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What are the UW Digital Collections?
 Over 425 completed projects to date
 Current projects “in process”: 60+
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Oneida Language Preservation
UW Board of Regents Meeting Minutes
Aldo Leopold Archives Collection
Aerial Photographs of Wisconsin
Nineteenth Century Hymnal Collection
Historic Steamboat Image Collection
Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Ratified and Unratified
Treaties With Various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869
UW Athletic Department Archival Materials
World War I Home Front Cookbooks
KKK in Northern Wisconsin
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UWDCC Resources for Genealogists
 General Resources
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American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices
Ravenstein Atlas des Deutschen Reichs
Historical Research in Europe: A Guide to Archives and Libraries
Wisconsin Electronic Reader
Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids
Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos & Maps 1885 - 1992
The University of Wisconsin Collection
 State of Wisconsin Collection!
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http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI
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State of Wisconsin Collection
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http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI
Books, archives, historic photos, maps, oral histories
LSTA Grant-funded projects (local history digitization!)
Resources include:
Belgian-American Research Collection
History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life
The Home Front: Manitowoc County in World War II
Local Histories of Columbia, Dane, Portage, Sauk, and Wood Counties
Madison Metropolitan School District Reports
Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin
Walworth County Plat Map of 1857
Wisconsin Blue Books
Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience
Wisconsin Pioneer Experience
Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records
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LSTA Grant-funded Projects
 Since 2005, partner with DPI and Wisconsin public
libraries
 Digitize Wisconsin local history resources
 Books, plat maps, city directories, photos, audio, video
 28 projects completed, six new projects in 2009
 Wisconsin communities represented:
Appleton
Barneveld
Fond du Lac
Fort Atkinson
Fox Valley area
Janesville
Kenosha
Kiel
Lake Geneva
La Crosse
Madison/Dane Co.
Manitowoc
Marathon Co.
Menasha
Neenah
Oshkosh
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Sheboygan
Slinger
Waterford
Searching our Collections
 Before you search, get organized…
 Are you looking for books? images? audio? video?
 We organize materials as either
 Texts: e.g. city directories, plat maps, year books
 Multimedia: images, audio, video
 Where in Wisconsin?
 Identify key search terms (e.g. names, locations,
subjects)
 Joseph O’Connor, Martha Meyer
 Dane County, Mt. Horeb
 Start with the UWDC home page!
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu
Searching the Collections
1. From the UWDC
home page
(http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu)
2. Click text link titled
“Collections”
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Searching the Collections
1. From the Collections
page
(http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/
Collections.shtml)
2. Click “S” (for State of
Wisconsin)
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Searching the Collections
1. View list of collections
beginning with “S”
(http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/
Collections.shtml)
2. Click on State of
Wisconsin
Collection link
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Searching the Collections
1. View State of
Wisconsin home page
(http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu
/WI/)
2. Search the collection
(images, audio, video)
3. Search only the full
text (books, albums,
journals, diaries)
4. Browse list of subcollections
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Searching the Collections
1. From home page,
click “Search the
collection”
2. If you’re looking for
images, audio, video
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Searching the Collections
1. You’ll land on a page
that presents all of
the multimedia
collections
2. Atlas search by WI
county
3. Search by keyword
4. Search all WI or
individual image
collections
like Barneveld Local
History Collection http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu
Searching the Collections
1. View materials from
the “Barneveld Local
History Collection”
2. Gallery, brief or full
view of images
3. Click image or title to
view individual image
4. Click exit to return to
home page
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Searching the Collections
1. Click an image or title
2. View individual image
and associated
information
3. Change image size
4. Save record and view
later
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Resources Related to Madison/Dane Co.
 Select Atlas
search
 Choose “Dane
County”
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Resources Related to Madison/Dane Co.
 Returns all
resources related
to Dane County
(images and
books)
 This icon
represents books
about Dane
County
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Searching the Collections
1. From home page,
click “Search only
the full text”
2. If you’re looking for
books, albums,
journals, diaries or
other textual items
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Searching the Collections
1. Takes you to new
search page
2. Click “Browse” to
view list of titles
3. Key word search
throughout texts
4. Click “Home” to
return to home page
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Searching the Collections
1. Key word search on
“Meyer”
2. Within the Historic
County Plat
Maps…Early Madison
City Directories
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Searching the Collections
1. Results in 714
matches
within this subcollection
2. Scroll down, page
over to review results
3. Click volume/page of
interest
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Searching the Collections
1. View individual page
2. Print PDF of page
3. Change page size
options
4. Click “Page text” to
view OCR w/search
term highlighted
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Searching the Collections
1. Browse subcollections within
the State of Wisconsin
home page
(http://digicoll.library.
wisc.edu/WI/)
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Searching the Collections
1. Each sub-collection
has its own home
page with additional
information
2. Search directly within
this sub-collection
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What’s the Buzz About the “Google Project”
 UW-Madison libraries and Wisconsin
Historical Society
 Pre-1923 and public domain holdings
 Google Book Search
 “High use” collections such as history of
medicine, patents and discoveries, history
of engineering, early publications of
scientific societies, American and
Wisconsin history, genealogical materials,
Wisconsin state documents and more!
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The Google Project
 Go to Google
Book Search
http://books.google.
com/bkshp?hl=en&t
ab=wp
 Key word search
on “dane county
genealogy”
 Returns list of titles
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The Google Project
 Returns list of titles
 Browse list and
click link
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The Google Project
 Provides basic
library holdings
information
 Highlights your
search terms in
text
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Need help? Contact us!
 Email:
digitalcontent@libra
ry.wisc.edu
 Web form:
http://uwdc.library.wis
c.edu/Contact.shtml
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Thank you for your time and interest in
our digital collections!
Vicki Tobias, Digital Services Librarian
[email protected] / 608.265.6381
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu