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Oceania Digital Library ( ODiL ) UC San Diego Libraries Update

Oceania Digital Library ( ODiL ) UC San Diego Libraries Update. Robin L. Chandler Director, digital library program November 19, 2009. Discussion Scope. Collections: ODiL & UCSD Libraries Discovery and Delivery UCSD Libraries Digital Library Collection Online Archive of California

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Oceania Digital Library ( ODiL ) UC San Diego Libraries Update

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  1. Oceania Digital Library (ODiL)UC San Diego Libraries Update Robin L. Chandler Director, digital library program November 19, 2009

  2. Discussion Scope • Collections: ODiL & UCSD Libraries • Discovery and Delivery • UCSD Libraries Digital Library Collection • Online Archive of California • PRDLA Archive • Project Milestones

  3. ODiL: Building Digital Collections @ UCSD • NEH proposal resubmit (decision May 2010) • Papers of Roy Rappaport & Edwin Cook • UCSD Libraries Preservation funds • Papers of Sylvester Lambert • PRDLA ODiL grant / UCSD Libraries funds • Papers of Roger Keesing and Harold Scheffler

  4. NEH proposal : The Highlands of Papua New Guinea and 20th Century Anthropology • UCSD Libraries resubmit to National Endowment of the Humanities Access & Preservation Grant for $ 350,000 • NEH grant awardees announced May 2010 • 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

  5. UCSD Libraries Preservation Funds:Sylvester Lambert Papers (1920 – 1942) • Sylvester Lambert Papers (1920 – 1942) • The collection documents Dr. Lambert’s public health work conducted in the Pacific Islands for the Rockefeller Foundation and is comprised of reports, writings, negatives, photographs, and lantern slides. Dr. Lambert’s book Yankee Doctor in Paradise published in 1941 documents his experiences in Australia, Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. • 1,389 nitrate negatives, glass plate negatives, lantern slides

  6. Date: 1930-1933 Subject Headings: Boys Children Jewelry Men Rennell Island (Solomon Islands) Solomon Islanders Solomon Islands Title: Group of men, and a boy; man on right has large earrings. Sylvester M. Lambert Papers, 1918 - 1947

  7. Date : 1920-1921 Subject Headings: Boys Buildings Churches Men Missions Papua New Guinea Papua New Guineans Title: Local people at Dilava Catholic mission, one man with deformed leg.Sylvester M. Lambert Papers, 1918 - 1947

  8. ODiL PRDLA grant/ UCSD Libraries: Keesing / Scheffler Collections • Roger Keesing Papers, 1962 - 1993 • Cultural and linguistic anthropologist and his papers document the research and material generated from his interest in the Solomon Islands, primarily in the culture, history and language of the Kwaio people. • 2,878 black and white 35mm negatives & color slides • Harold Scheffler Papers, 1926 -1981 • Scheffler’s papers document his ethnographic research in the Solomon Islands , specifically his dissertation fieldwork on Choiseul Island and his comparative study of religious revitalization movements and separatist churches on Rendova Island. • 1,370 black and white 35mm negatives & color slides

  9. Date : 1963-1989 Subject Headings: Building - Solomon Islands Dwelling – Solomon Islands Men – Solomon Islands Weaving – Solomon Islands Title: Men plaiting a wall of a house. Roger M. Keesing Papers, 1963 - 1993

  10. Date : 1963-1989 Subject Headings: Betel nut--Solomon Islands Men--Solomon Islands Tatooing --Solomon Islands Title: Marketing or dividing betel nuts (areca).Roger M. Keesing Papers, 1963 - 1993

  11. Date: 1967 Subject Headings: Canoes--Solomon Islands Ghizo (Solomon Islands) Sculpture--Solomon Islands Choiseul Islanders (Solomon Islands people) Title: Canoe prow sculpture attached to canoe. Harold Scheffler Papers, 1926 - 1981

  12. Date: 1959 - 1961 Subject Headings: Portraits--Solomon Islands Shell money--Solomon Islands Choiseul Islanders (Solomon Islands people) Choiseul (Solomon Islands) Men--Solomon Islands Title: Man with shell valuable. Ring with two anthropomorphic figures.Harold Scheffler Papers, 1926 - 1981

  13. Discovery and Delivery • UCSD Libraries Digital Collections • Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) Public Access System • Online Archive of California • Finding Aids with links to digital objects • PRDLA Archives • OAI-Harvesting metadata

  14. UCSD Libraries: Digital Library Collections Home Page

  15. UCSD Libraries: Digital Library Collections Search Results

  16. UCSD Libraries: Digital Library Collections Digital Object Viewer

  17. Online Archive of California: Finding Aids

  18. UCSD Libraries OAI-Harvesting Infrastructure– Testing with PRDLA Archive Harvestable DC Metadata Website for URL resolve

  19. Project Milestones • Melanesian collections available in UCSD Libraries Digital Library Collections: January 2010 • OAI-PMH harvest testing can begin: February 2010 • Melanesian collections available in Online Archive of California: March 2010 • NEH grant decision: May 2010

  20. Questions? • Queries can be sent to: • Robin Chandler rochandler@ucsd.edu • Luc Declerck ldeclerck@ucsd.edu Thank You

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