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Digital Special Collections Users Council Annual Meeting May 9, 2008

Digital Special Collections Users Council Annual Meeting May 9, 2008. Digital Special Collections (DSC) Update. Program Overview Data Acquisitions OAC Calisphere UC Image Service. DSC vs DA. Digital Special Collections = Access; create and support end user sites Calisphere OAC

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Digital Special Collections Users Council Annual Meeting May 9, 2008

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  1. Digital Special CollectionsUsers Council Annual MeetingMay 9, 2008

  2. Digital Special Collections (DSC) Update Program Overview • Data Acquisitions • OAC • Calisphere • UC Image Service

  3. DSC vs DA Digital Special Collections = Access; create and support end user sites • Calisphere • OAC • UC Image Service Data Acquisitions = Ingest; contributor relations. • Support Calisphere, OAC, UC Image Service contributors • Mass digitization projects (Google, Microsoft and Online Content Alliance)

  4. Data Acquisitions • Collection development policy • Research cost recovery models • Update contributor documentation http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/dsc/contribute/ • Expand the digital content creation tools we can support • Investigate contributor training possibilities • New content types: PDF and audio • “TIFFs” project for new zoom-and-pan tool • Integration with other CDL systems

  5. Online Archive of California (OAC) • 9,000 online finding aids • Over 100 contributing institutions from across California • The site serves researchers of all levels

  6. OAC Redesign http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/oacredesign.html Timeline • Fall 2007: Planning • January-August 2008: User interface design, iterative prototype design, and user evaluation activities • September 2008: Prototype release • February 2009: Live Launch

  7. End User Experience • A clear understanding of the purpose of the site and of finding aids • Search results provide sufficient information to determine relevance; easy to scan • Clearly understand what is available online and what is not • Easily navigate finding aids • Able to find information in order to contact the relevant institution • Satisfied because the site was easy to use and understand • Wealth of information organized in a clear, intelligible way

  8. OAC Redesign Overview • Improve finding aid navigation and display

  9. OAC Redesign Overview • Improve finding aid navigation and display • Address usability issues • MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!)

  10. OAC Redesign Overview • Improve finding aid navigation and display • Address usability issues • MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!) • Back end infrastructure upgrades • Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now common on sites

  11. OAC Redesign Overview • Improve finding aid navigation and display • Address usability issues • MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!) • Back end infrastructure upgrades • Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now common on sites • Improve contributor tracking tools (new!) • Calisphere/OAC

  12. Two Audiences, Two Sites Online Archive of California (OAC) • Archivists • Historians • Researchers Calisphere • K-12 Teachers • General public • Undergraduates

  13. Over 200,000 digitized primary sources • From the UC campuses and institutions across California • Serves the general public, and is tailored to meet the needs of K-12 educators

  14. Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA) More than 10,000 photographs, oral histories, and other documents bring you inside the story of Japanese-American internment

  15. California Cultures Images and documents that explore the continuing impact of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans on California’s cultural heritage.

  16. Calisphere visitors • Approximately 140,000 visits/month • Includes site visits and image views • 50% from search engines • Google Images, Google primarily

  17. Consistently among the most view items

  18. K-12 Activities • Build more themed collections

  19. Sample Themed Collection Topic

  20. K-12 Activities • Build more themed collections • Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12 • Conference presentations and booths

  21. K-12 Activities • Build more themed collections • Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12 • Conference presentations and booths • Workshops

  22. K-12 Activities • http://animoto.com/play/64202046391848cc16e09742054b261f

  23. K-12 Activities • Build more themed collections • Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12 • Conference presentations and booths • Workshops • Newsletter and blog

  24. UC Image Service http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/image/ • What is the UC Image Service? • Shared collections hosted in ARTstor; available to UC only • Make digital images for teaching broadly available for faculty and students UC-wide • How did it start? • Visual Resource Curators’ desire to share with each other and to provide access to images for teaching

  25. UC Image Service • Collection development program proposal to CDC • Phase 1: local campus collection development • Phase 2: system-wide steering/advisory group for collection development • Visual Resources curators to build collections for fall 2008 • Work with CDL DPR on preservation • Assessment Activities

  26. Questions Rosalie Lack rosalie.lack@ucop.edu

  27. What will not be there … yet • Social networking bonanza(user tagging, tag clouds, “others who viewed this …”) • Why? User priority • Metasearch/harvest other finding aids • Why? Our priority • Browse (subject, name) • Why? Inconsistent metadata • Request-it Feature • Why? Inconsistent metadata and current work practices

  28. OAC Redesign Overview • Improve finding aid navigation and display • Address usability issues • MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!) • Back end infrastructure upgrades • Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now common on sites • Improve contributor tracking tools (new!) • Calisphere/OAC

  29. OAC Redesign Overview • Improve finding aid navigation and display • Address usability issues • MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!) • Back end infrastructure upgrades • Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now common on sites • Improve contributor tracking tools (new!) • Calisphere/OAC

  30. Calisphere: UC Web Sites • Over 500 web sites • We need more! • Subjects include history, math, literature, anthropology, fine arts,oceanography, film, medical and health issues, and much more 

  31. UC Web Sites • Over 300 UC campus web sites • Subjects include history, math, literature, anthropology, fine arts,oceanography, film, medical and health issues, and much more 

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