Transcript Practical Steps Towards Your Local and/or Regional Digitalisation Project Laurie N. Taylor, PhD [email protected] University of Florida Libraries.

Practical Steps Towards Your Local
and/or Regional Digitalisation Project
Laurie N. Taylor, PhD
[email protected]
University of Florida Libraries
Reasons
• For Digital Libraries: full, open access materials online
within organised, described collections
• For Preservation: physical library services online, may
include Digital Libraries as a service.
• For New Creative Projects: exhibits, websites…
• For Commercial Uses
General Steps Towards Building a Digital Library
• Defining Infrastructure: tools for digitalisation, digital library online
space
• Defining Projects: selecting manageable & contextualized projects
• Digitizing Materials: Copyright, creating metadata, digitizing, loading
online, and organizing
• Building Context: Exhibits, themes, and more
• Collaboration: Building additional context and scope for development
& promotion
• Planning: For continued growth and more connections
• Promotion: Promoting each collection and each project and
explaining how they develop the Library as each phase is finished
• Assessment/Feedback
Infrastructure Considerations
• Display / Usability: for internal development and patrons
• Access: open or restricted
• Sustainability / Preservation
– Reputation and capability of service providers, number and size
of install base (for sustainability and shared improvements)
– Equipment and training
– Ability to migrate, add collaborators, move content
Defining Infrastructure, from Part to Whole
• Define long term project goals
• Define immediate project for
development
• Define stakeholders
Points to Remember
• Synergy: digital collections
are the sum of their parts
and their connections
• Discreteness: each item in
a digital collection exists
on its own
• Modularity: and each item
exists in combination /
reconfiguration with the
others
Collaboration Considerations
• Higher costs if independent
• Rights and ownership; any
limitations?
• Attribution / Recognition of
Contribution
• Benefits of Collaboration:
preservation, sustainability,
recognition, enhancement of
materials through the
collaborative
Digitalisation
http://dloc.com/?c=dloc&m=hitmanual
Beginning Digitalisation
• Select tools/equipment
• Select relevant standards and ways to
support
• Select equipment for housing the Digital
Library
• Hire or train personnel
Digitalisation Processing
Project scale and initial material type will
determine many choices.
• Equipment
– Photos: flatbed scanners, relatively
smaller server space
– Maps and newspapers: larger
scanners, need zoom technology and
more server space
– Books: specialized scanners,
specialized presentation technology
• Processing:
– Copyright research, level of metadata
creation, file types, organizing,
usability, findability
Infrastructure Considerations
Digital Library Equipment
Digital Library System Infrastructure
DigiTool by ExLibris
http://kong.lib.usf.edu:8881/
DigiTool by ExLibris
• Limited
customization
• Difficult
interface for
users and
developers
• Difficult URLs
for search
engines
http://digitool3.lib.fsu.edu/
ContentDM (offered by OCLC)
http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm4/browse.php
http://www.kchistory.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/Henry
http://www.fedora-commons.org
DSpace
http://www.dspace.org/
http://dspace.mit.edu/
Greenstone
Technology in Service of Collections & Connections
Modular development:
• What three items would you
most like to have digital?
• What three themes/concepts?
(authors, historical period, city,
idea, event)
• How do those themes and
materials connect with other
libraries here?
• How do those connect with your
audiences? (local, researchers,
world)
Opening the Digital Library
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Goals for digitalisation
Goals for individual collections
Defining and creating collections
Showcasing the collections
Making every step count more
than once
Questions
www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc
www.uflib.ufl.edu/digital
www.dloc.com
[email protected]