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Columbia Libraries Digital Program

This overview outlines the staffing structure and key focus areas for maintaining and developing digital libraries at Columbia. It includes roles such as Digital Projects Librarian, Digital Preservation Librarian, and Analysts. Central tasks include the coordination of digitization projects and online exhibitions, software development, and the implementation of long-term digital preservation strategies using technologies like Fedora and Blacklight. This document also addresses strategic questions regarding project prioritization, funding, collaboration, and tackling challenges in managing digital collections.

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Columbia Libraries Digital Program

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  1. Columbia Libraries Digital Program

  2. Digital Library Staffing Permanent Staff • Analyst / Programmers (2.5) • Digital Projects Librarian (1) • Special Collections Analyst (1) • Web Designer / Developer (.5) • Director Grant –Supported Position • Digital Preservation Librarian

  3. Key Task Areas • Digitization Project Development, Coordination and Implementation • Online Exhibitions Coordination and Support • Digital Library Software Application Development / Support • Long-Term Digital Preservation / Archiving • Open Source Software Development • Digital Library Infrastructures

  4. Key Technologies • Fedora / Hydra • Blacklight • Lucene / SOLR • Omeka • Ruby on Rails, Java, PHP, MySQL

  5. Key Internal Digital Library Partnerships • Libraries IT Division • Preservation and Digital Conversion Division • Bibliographic Services / Metadata Coordinator • Distinctive / Special Collections

  6. Recent projects • Online Exhibitions • Digitization Projects • Application Development • Staff / Public Collections Viewer • Human Rights Web Archive

  7. Key strategic questions • How do we prioritize, fund and staff new digital projects? • Do we buy solutions or build solutions? • Do we build it ourselves or collaborate with other institutions? • How do we innovate, keep up with technology changes, and still create stable, effective, sustainable systems? • How do we deal with the flood of new collections that are born- or ‘delivered’-digital? • How can we address the enormity of our long-term digital preservation challenges?

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