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Mountain West Digital Library

Mountain West Digital Library. By Addison, Jessica, and Lauren. Management. Management. The Mountain West Digital Library is a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) Three Governing Bodies UALC Council UALC Digitization Committee  MWDL Program Director Sandra McIntyre.

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Mountain West Digital Library

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  1. Mountain West Digital Library By Addison, Jessica, and Lauren

  2. Management

  3. Management • The Mountain West Digital Library is a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) • Three Governing Bodies • UALC Council • UALC Digitization Committee  • MWDL Program Director • Sandra McIntyre

  4. Guidelines and Infrastructure • Guidelines and Policies • Content Scope • Metadata Guidelines • Digital Image Standards • Tiered Infrastructure • Collections Partners Tier • Hosting Tier • Contributing Site • Regional Hosting Hub • Full-Service Hosting Hub • Central Aggregating Server Tier

  5. Goals • Create a distributed digital repository of significant, rare, and/or unique resources •     Provide a public portal accessing digital collections •     Expand the digital library vision and environment for the Mountain West region

  6. Focus The Mountain West Region • Arizona • Colorado • Idaho • Montana • Nevada • New Mexico • Utah • Wyoming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_mapMountain_states.png

  7. How long has it been around? 1Birth Date is either when the repository was first registered in ROAR or the earliest record found via the OAI-PMH interface. 2Deposit activity measures the number of days in the last year that had "low" (1-9), "medium" (10-99) or "high" (100+) numbers of records deposited.

  8. Funding • Utah Academic Library Consortium • Institute of Museum and Library Services funding under the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Utah State Library • Private donations to the MWDL Partners • Contributed time and equipment from the MWDL Partners Collection Partners • Utah •     49 Universities • Nevada •     5 Universities • Idaho •     2 Universities • Hawaii •     1 University

  9. Resources

  10. Resources Available at MWDL:images-text-video-audio • As MWDL is a consortium with aggregate content from a variety of University and Archive contributors- the resources vary widely • Most content is readily downloadable • Most content may be accessed “in browser” with convenient PDF readers, image viewers or streaming video/audio options (CONTENTdm, OCLC)

  11. The MWDL Content Policy & Selection Criteria • MWDL assumes responsibility for accepted content • What warrants resources valuable enough for inclusion?  • - Cultural, historical value to the region •     - Content needing preservation •     - Content that may be unique or rare •     -  “promote an informed citizenry, i.e. politically, legally and medically”

  12. The MWDL Dublin Core Application Profile • Tag your own resources • External vocabulary encoding schemes • Consistent metadata across repositories • Cost of maintenance From: Toy-Smith, Vicki(2010) 'UALC Best Practices Metadata Guidelines: A Consortial Approach', Journal of Library Metadata , 10: 1-12

  13. The Metadata Fields • Eight fields required: date, description, format, identifier, rights, subject, title, type • Two additional mandatory "if applicable" fields: conversion specifications and creator • Additional fields allowed to serve local needs, i.e. data specific to user community, •  Master Archival Files have additional special metadata fields - including parsed preservation elements (e.g. "masterchecksum" )

  14. Access

  15. Use: Who, Why, How • researchers (novelists, media, theater, scientists, land surveyors, genealogists) • musicians • cities • students • smaller DL consortiums • people looking for partners to build their own collections • state agencies • international audiences

  16. Searching and Browsing • by format (text, image, audio, video) • by keyword across all formats • by partnering institution • by collection • advanced search (by title, creator, subject, or all 3 in conjunction with format) • featured collections on the index page • keyword textbox is on every page

  17. Preview or Overview Features • featured collections • item level pages are hosted by the partner that owns that collection but look and feel is the same • Result list – thumbnails, title, collection name, item description 

  18. Search Engine Optimization http://www.clir.org/dlf/forums/fall2010/25DLFseo.pdf

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