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PRDLA Collaborative Digitization Project
Report: Oceania Digital Libraries (ODiL)
Hawaii’s Digital Memory Collections
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]
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http://www.oceania-digital-library.org/
Oceania Digital Library
http://www.oceania-digital-library.org/
University of Auckland Library
University of California San Diego Libraries
University of Hawai’i Libraries
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Goals put forward in 2007
• 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
• To grow the collections by collaborating with other
institutions
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Issues…
then ...
and now...
• Technical infrastructure
• Cultural & intellectual property
• Digital preservation & sustainability plan
• Cultural renewal / digital repatriation
• Other potential partners
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Should we continue?
Why we do it ...
• What is the future of aggregation websites?
• Have user searching habits changed so much that the
aggregation concept is obsolete?
• Do browser ranking systems favor the content holding
website over the metadata aggregation site?
• Does the ODiL content address a definable user
audience?
• Is there long-term support for the project?
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Aggregators, Partners, Networks:
More Options
OAISter on OCLC
"In January 2010, OCLC plans to release a freely
accessible discrete view of the OAIster records. Access
to this view will be provided through a URL specific to
OAIster. OAIster records will continue to be indexed in
WorldCat.org and integrated into WorldCat.org search
results ...”
Could this new interface supercede PRL?
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Comparable sites, potential collaborators ...
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Digital South Asia Library
University of Chicago
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
mentioned in 2007 ...
Fall 2009 - U.S. Department of Education awarded a
Technological Innovation and Cooperation for
Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) grant to the
University of Chicago to create digital versions of
historical audio recordings, maps, and images of
South Asia and deliver them via the Digital South
Asia Library.
The Center for Research Libraries, the British
Library, and the Roja Muthiah Research Library will
collaborate on the project.
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Southeast Asia Digital Library
Northern Illinois University
http://sea.lib.niu.edu/
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Asia-Pacific Database on Intangible
Cultural Heritage - Unesco
http://www.accu.or.jp/ich/en/
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National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/digitised-pacificresources.html
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Western Solomons Research Database
http://westernsolomons.uib.no/
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Memory of the World Committee for Asia/Pacific
http://www.unesco.mowcap.org/
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World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/en/
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Global Resources Network
http://www.crl.edu/grn/
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International Conference on
Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries
http://www.icadl2008.org/
http://www.jcdl-icadl2010.org/
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Oceania - it’s more than a concept!
Meanwhile back at the ranch ...
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What’s up since last year?
PRL harvesting
eVols
ScholarSpace
Streetprint security
Greenstone ... sigh ...
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Univ. of Hawaii in PRL
From 4 collections in 2008 to 14 in 2009
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new eVols Dspace repository
http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/
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Hawaiian Historical Society
materials featured in Honolulu
Magazine
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UHM Dissertations in ScholarSpace
• University
of Hawaii Graduate Division funded digitization of
1,648 dissertations from microfilm - full-text PDFs can be
accessed by UH students, faculty, and staff via
Dissertations & Theses @ (Proquest)
• And in the Library Institutional Repository Scholarspace
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/561
• There are 2,579 dissertations available in read-only to the
public and read/download to UH affiliates
• Current efforts include launching a totally electronic
submission/deposit system
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Pacific Island Studies Masters Theses
2006-07 will be added soon, 2009 next summer
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Using Open Source Streetprint to
showcase unique collections
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Use is growing, google image
search referring is up
2008 - 190848
2009 - 260310
= over
451,000 page views
252588 /satawal/
168995 /duggan/
29575 /grace/
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Versatile, easy to use & customize to
features of each collection
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Old arrangements need refreshing
Annexation of Hawaii web site: Blount report
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More interactive presentation - a flip book?
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and now for something completely different ...
A short update on UC San Diego Libraries
Oceania Digital Library (ODiL) efforts
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Building Digital Collections @ UCSD
ROBIN L. CHANDLER
DIRECTOR, DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM
• UCSD Libraries: Melanesian /Pacific Island Studies
– Primary and Secondary Resources: digitization
candidates
• NEH proposal (pending decision May 2009)
– Papers of Roy Rappaport & Edwin Cook
• PRDLA ODiL grant / UCSD Libraries funds
– Papers of Roger Keesing and Harold Scheffler
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UCSD NEH proposal :
The Highlands of Papua New Guinea and 20th Century Anthropology
• UCSD Libraries seeks a National Endowment of the Humanities Access
and Preservation Grant for $ 350,000 (May 2009)
• Seek to build accessible online repository
– Document the History of anthropology & social history of Papua New
Guinea
• Roy Rappaport Papers (1926-1997)
– Maring people and human ecology, ritual, and acculturation
• Edwin Cook Papers (1932-1984)
– Manga (Narak-language) people’s transition into the modern world
• If funded, the project will digitize over 16,400 items
– Photographs
– Anthropology Field notes
– Dissertations
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via email, November 2009
Below ground the forces have been churning:
• were encouraged by NEH to resubmit our proposal, and we did.
We should hear about this in March 2010
• have built a Public Access System on our Digital Asset
Management System (DAMS) and this will be released in late
January 2010. (This will be one of the mechanism by which the
digital content for the Roger Keesing, Harold Scheffler and now
Dr. Sylvester Lambert (a physician working in Fiji and the
Solomon Islands before WWII) will be delivered)
• finding aids will be published (along with links to the digital
content) very soon in the Online Archive of California (hosted by
the California Digital Library)
• have also nearly completed building the capacity to enable OAIharvesting from our DAMS
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Very exciting updates from
University of Auckland
• After seven years' work the first 100 years of the
Journal of the Polynesian Society have been
completely digitised
• 2000 photos of the Tokelau Islands in the 1970s
• 3,000 photos, 30 hours of video and many hours
of audio of Takuu
• Now capturing, storing and delivering several hours
of Maori TV per day, metadata is available through
the catalogue
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100 years of the JPS completed
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Judith Huntsman: Tokelau Islands
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Richard Moyle: Takuu
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Maori Television Archive
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University of Hawaii Library
future plans for creating digital
collections of cultural materials
so many choices, so little money and time!
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Selective Scanning & Updating
of HSPA records indexed in Greenstone
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http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/ttp/ttpi.html
Trust Territory
Archives
Photographs
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Trust Territory of the Pacific
Image Collection in 2008
http://128.171.57.25/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=ttp&l=en&w=utf-8
2008: Conversion from flat HTML is done, but fine
tuning of metadata for OAI harvesting and
customizing of the interface still needs to be done
2010 - Streetprint
Trust Territory?
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Univ. of Hawaii Pacific Collection Future Plans
• Siapo: Art of Samoan Bark Cloth -http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/siapo/
• Add’l material from George Grace http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/grace/
• Move Rapa Nui site to Streetprint http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/rapanui/
• Former Center for Pacific Island Studies director Bob Kiste
(1,000-2,000 images from Bikini Atoll)
• A small collection of Papua Poster Poems
• UH researcher, Len Mason - 10,000 slides from Micronesia
• An open-ended Pacific ephemera site
• Pacific newspapers on microfilm, e.g. O Le Fa‘atonu o le kolone o unaite
settee, Tutuila ma Manua (Le Fa‘atonu), Lib.of Congress has microfilm
for 1903-1922
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Univ. of Hawaii Hawaiian Collection Future Plans
• Add remaining unmicrofilmed dissertations into
ScholarSpace IR (500-600, $31,000 needed)
• Hawaii Sugar Planter’s Association Archives
http://128.171.57.25/gsdl/cgibin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=hspa
• Digitize Hawaii/Pacific/Asia related Master's theses
already on microfilm: approximately 200 titles
• Hawaii/Pacific Master's theses on paper 1903-2000,
approx. 1,500
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Pacific Collection librarians report
Most requested material that we DON'T have digitized: documents from the Trust
Territory Archives - the high request rate has to do with the fact that we have the Trust
Territory Archives Index online, which makes this material infinitely more visible
In the Traditional Navigation streetprint site: the comments field has
actively engaged the Satawalese community: With only one exception,
EVERY one of the 100+ comments currently on the site have been made
by Satawalese themselves -- most of whom now live abroad, and virtually
all of them are people who are themselves depicted in the photos. Taken
as a whole, these comments create a whole OTHER online collection, in
that they document the community not as it existed in 1980, but as it exists
today. prior to the advent of the comments field, only a very small fraction
of the people in the images were identified by name ... now a good portion
have been given back not only their names but also their genealogies,
stories of the things they are famous for within the community, etc.
The Duggan streetprint site serves as a contra-point to the Steve Thomas site, in that not
one of the commentators is Micronesian ... but this is in part due to the nature of the
collection: it documents the lives of the folks who were employed by Trust Territory
Administration, so the people commenting on the site are all related to the Administration.
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Issues…
then ...
and now...
• Technical infrastructure
• Cultural & intellectual property
• Digital preservation & sustainability plan
• Cultural renewal / digital repatriation
• Other potential partners
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Should we continue?
Why we do it ...
"The long history and diversity of the different cultures and peoples in the
Asian Pacific region has created a fertile environment for developing digital
libraries of cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge. Such content and
knowledge could help promote global understanding and collaboration."
Chen, Hsinchun, & Zhou, Yilu, (2004). Survey and history of digital library development in the Asia Pacific.
In: Y.-L. Theng and S. Foo (Eds.), Design and Usability of Digital
Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing
"Through the creation of a system of "visual repatriation" and "feedback”,
the people of Nunavut and the atoll of Satawal (in Micronesia) have the
opportunity to view and identify photos of their ancestors, relatives and
themselves online while at the same time sharing their knowledge with
each host institution..."
Smith, David A. From Nunavut to Micronesia: Feedback and Description, Visual Repatriation and
Online Photographs of Indigenous Peoples. Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information
Practice and Research, vol. 3, no. 1 (2008)
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Mahalo for your attention!
Questions?
Comments?
PPT:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/13434
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