Digital Special Collections Users Council Annual Meeting May 9, 2008

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

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

14. 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

18. 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

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

20. 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

21. 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

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

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

24. Consistently among the most view items

25. K-12 Activities • Build more themed collections

26. Sample Themed Collection Topic

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

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

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

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

32. 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

33. 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

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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

41. 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 

42. 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