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From Concept to Reality: An overview of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Melissa Mclimans. What we do: Create digital resources to support instruction and research Build quality digital resources from: rare, fragile, non-circulating, and high-use library and archival materials
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From Concept to Reality: An overview of the University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsMelissa Mclimans
What we do: • Create digital resources to support instruction and research • Build quality digital resources from: • rare, fragile, non-circulating, and high-use library and archival materials • materials not previously digitized nor available on the Internet • books, journals, archival collections, slides, photos, art illustrations, maps, audio, and video • Develop tools that facilitate search, retrieval, and navigation of our digital resources • Provide stable, scalable, and sustainable technology platforms for long-term management of digital resources
The UWDCC is: • 6 full time and 10-15 student staff • Librarians, technology specialists, and other information professionals • located in Memorial Library on Madison campus Two administrative bodies oversee and fund our projects: • UW System • UW-Madison Libraries
A little history... First text project was John Nolen’s Madison : a model city First multi-media project was AfricaFocus 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries
We have: • 32000 audio minutes • Well over 5000 finding aids • 92000 images • 2.1 million pages of text
UW Digital Collections • strengths include: area studies, decorative arts, ecology, literature, history, music, natural resources, science, social sciences, the State of Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin. • Over 400 completed projects • Recently approved projects
Institutional repository (Minds@UW) • Store, index, distribute, and preserve digital materials • Deposited directly by UW faculty or staff • Research papers, pre-prints, datasets, photographs, videos, learning objects, theses, student projects, conference papers • Content distributed through a searchable Web interface, receive persistent URLs • For more information: http://uwdcc.library.wisc.edu/minds/
Where does the content come from? • UW Madison -- Libraries and Faculty • Playing House • Ainu Komonjo Volumes
UW System Libraries • The Ku Klux Klan in Northwestern Wisconsin, circa 1915-1950 • UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph collection
Public Libraries, Museums and Historical Societies • World War II Veterans of Mount Horeb • Kenosha County History: Images and Texts, 1830s-1940s
Projects that meet these criteria are most likely to be approved: • support instruction or research needs • do not circulate, e.g. rare books, materials from Special Collections • enhance an existing digital collection • are unique, e.g. not previously digitized nor available online in any format • high use, regularly requested by UW faculty or students • are distinctive and have potential for academic use and general education interest (K-12)
The Process for submitting a proposal 1. Proposals are submitted with our simple web form found at: http://uwdcc.library.wisc.edu/forms/submitProposal.shtml 2. Our team will assesses project and meets with content providers to discuss project details. 3. We will present the proposal to a committee, who will accept or decline the proposal. 4. Once approved, we will work together to create a Memorandum of Understanding that fully describes the project. 5. Work begins.
A quick note about our project types • Efacs = Electronic Facsimile = Pageturner = TEXT • We do the metadata and scanning • Mmbib = Multi Media, Bibliographic = IMAGES • Content provider is the subject specialist • Content provider does the metdata • We do the scanning
Value of digitization • Access • Google • catalog records, including Forward • and finding aids 2. Preservation • Back-up TIFF images, store offsite, committed to migrating in the future
Value = Increased Use Facebook • Over 580 total fans • More Than 20,000 page views per month • Approx. 1,000 impressions per post Twitter • Over 1,040 followers • More than 1,000 clicks per month Collection Sessions Overall collection sessions--18,508,649 State of WI--1,904,409 Ecology and Natural Resources – 1,512,121 UW Collection--709,846