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Minnesota Digital Library and HathiTrust

Minnesota Digital Library and HathiTrust. Prototype an Image Preservation Archive. 5 April 2011 CNI Spring Task Force Meeting. John Butler, University of Minnesota John Weise, University of Michigan Eric Celeste, Consultant, MDL.

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Minnesota Digital Library and HathiTrust

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  1. Minnesota Digital Library and HathiTrust • Prototype an Image Preservation Archive 5 April 2011 CNI Spring Task Force Meeting

  2. John Butler, University of MinnesotaJohn Weise, University of MichiganEric Celeste, Consultant, MDL

  3. Minnesota Digital Library, ButlerHathiTrust’s Interest and Role, WeisePrototype and Lessons Learned, Celeste

  4. Minnesota Digital Library Coalition • Conceived in 2001 • Early years – LSTA paycheck to paycheck • Minitex (UMN) now the administrative home • Signature project — Minnesota Reflections • 62k images, maps, documents • 120 cultural heritage institutions

  5. MDL Access • “...not possible without you”

  6. MDL Access • “...we’ve got ours and we’re keeping it”

  7. MDL Preservation ...something we can all agree upon • Viewed as common infrastructureEconomies/imperatives of scaleAccess need not be affected • but might it be?Attracting broader interest • including public radio & televisionA gift from Minnesotans • Arts and Cultural Heritage FundingA digital MLAC for the state

  8. MDL Aspirations • State-wide Digital Preservation Services

  9. Standards Formats Policies Mission • File Formats • Procedures • BooksJournalsExperiment: images & audio • Governance • Rights • Costs • Access • Preservation • Research foci Nesting Consortia Policies Standards Agreements Minnesota Digital Library HathiTrust

  10. HathiTrust’s Interest and Role

  11. Mission of HathiTrust • Contribute to the common good by… • collecting, • organizing, • preserving, • communicating, • and sharing • …the record of human knowledge.

  12. Preservation Philosophy • Maximize… • partner contributions • use of available resources

  13. Long Term Functional Objectives • TRAC compliance • Robust discovery mechanisms • Open service definition (APIs) • Support for formats beyond books & journals • Data mining tools • All functional objectives… http://www.hathitrust.org/objectives

  14. HathiTrust’s Interest • Help MDL find a solution • Explore image support • Leverage MDL resources • Empower MDL in the process • Draft ingest specifications • Establish a viable model for support of MDL and similar preservation cooperatives.

  15. Design • Operational logistics at the scale of HathiTrust have led to solutions that favor: • consistency and standardization • simplicity over complexity • practicality over ideology

  16. HathiTrust’s Role • Scoping and guidance • Lower barriers • Raise bars • Learn, grow and eventually provide • Object ingest specifications for images • Object preparation tools, esp. validation

  17. All Together Now • HathiTrust really is a collaborative effort. • MDL and Michigan worked together under HathiTrust governance.

  18. What did MDL actually send to HathiTrust?

  19. What MDL sent to HathiTrust

  20. What MDL sent to HathiTrust

  21. What MDL sent to HathiTrust Number of items transferred Amount of data transferred Objects

  22. What MDL sent to HathiTrust An “object” sent to HathiTrust is a “Submission Information Package” and consists of many parts: a METS file with a variety of metadata, a set of image files, and a set of corresponding text files. The image files are the “items” sent.

  23. What did we learn from working together?

  24. Get the full report at...http://mndigital.org/projects/preservation/

  25. What is a master?

  26. Where is the identifier? (CC-BY-NC-ND) Some rights reserved by Martin Gommel

  27. Metadata madness! (CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by Saltatempo

  28. Trust us. (CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by nick see

  29. Who’s looking? (CC-BY) Some rights reserved by apdk

  30. No free lunch. (CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by freefotouk

  31. No free lunch. (CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by freefotouk

  32. Next Steps for MDL? • Trials with MetaArchive and OCLC Digital Archive. • Paper and phone evaluations of a few others. • Decisions in early summer about how to proceed.

  33. Questions?

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