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Sandra McIntyre Program Director. Analysis. Overview. Wheeler Peak aerial view. Overview. Goals History and governance Infrastructure Frontiers With DPLA. Goals. Help more organizations to digitize materials about our region ’ s history and cultural heritage
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Analysis Overview Wheeler Peak aerial view
Overview • Goals • History and governance • Infrastructure • Frontiers • With DPLA
Goals • Help more organizations to digitize materials about our region’s history and cultural heritage • Maintain a public portal to digital collections in the Mountain West region • Make content accessible to everyone • Offer local control • Keep it low cost • Standardize for interoperability
History and governance • Early 2000s: digitization collaboration between University of Utah and Utah State Historical Society • Kenning Arlitsch requested support in 2001 from Utah Academic Library Consortium • Governed by UALC Council of Directors • Policies developed by UALC Digitization Committee
How we are put together Infrastructure Joe’s Valley Reservoir
Infrastructure • Distributed network • Tiered services • Standards and best practices • Partnerships • Aggregation
Tiered services • MWDL Central • Hosting Hubs • Collection Partners Collection Partners Hosting Hubs MWDL Central
Partnerships • Academic departments • Academic libraries • Academic presses • Archives (counties, states, cities) • Historical societies • Museums, including art museums • National heritage areas • Natural history associations • Public libraries • Publishers (journal, magazine, newspaper) • State Agencies • State Library • State Historical Societies
In process: Arizona More in Idaho Partnerships Geographic coverage: • Utah • Nevada • Southern Idaho • Hawaii
Partnerships • Partnership Agreement • Partner sets digitization priorities and secures funding • Partner ensures usage rights, privacy, and other legal considerations • Collections are branded for recognition to partner • Hubs provide training and project setup for partners
Standards and best practices • Qualified Dublin Core • Metadata mappings to QDC from other systems • 8 required fields; 2 other mandatory-if-applicable fields • Preservation fields recommended
Standards and best practices • Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) document:Digital Imaging Best Practices
Aggregation Types of resources: • Photographs • Maps, plans, and drawings • Artworks • Scholarly documents • Music, oral histories, other sounds • Videoclips, animations, Powerpoint presentations • Books • Mintes, log books, reports, bills and ordinances • Birth and death records • Finding aids • Newspapers 700,000 resourcesin 366 collections
Aggregation inEx Libris Primo • An integrated discovery system • Harvests via OAI and other mechanisms • Harvests multiple repository types • Powerful searching • Online delivery
Where we need to go Frontiers Grand Canyon from Point McKinnon on the North Rim
Innovation • Geospatial metadata project • Search engine optimization for digital repositories, with Kenning Arlitsch et al. • Linked Data exploration
Collaboration • Western Archival Network, with • Northwest Digital Archives • Rocky Mountain Online Archive • Regional digital preservation network • Distributed internship program • Including full range of partners in governance and participation
Sustainability • Funding beyond Utah Academic Library Consortium’s limited budget • Funding Development Task Force • State legislative requests • Grants for innovation projects • Membership fee or direct services fees
Moving forward With DPLA Salt Lake and Utah Railroad
With DPLA • Providing metadata for harvest • Facilitating the conversation about usage rights • Customized metadata assistance • Expanding services to underserved memory institutions • Repository services • Community services
Questions welcome! • Sandra McIntyreProgram DirectorMountain West Digital Library801.585.0969sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu