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1. Missouri Digital Heritage: Missouri’s State Wide Digital Portal (www.missouridigitalheritage.com)

   Haiying Qian Missouri State Library Haiying.qian@sos.mo.govCALA MW 2010 Annual Conference, May 22, 2010

2. Outline of Topics

   Birth of Missouri Digital Heritage (MDH) Highlights of digital collections Outreach Collaboration Usability study Future plans
3. The Birth of MDH Formerly Virtually Missouri MDH was established by the Missouri Office of Secretary of State (SOS) in July 2007 Large format scanners purchased Collections transition to CONTENTdm server Officially Rolled out April 2008
4. MDH Structure and Collections Formerly Virtually Missouri linked collections About 80 digital collections on CONTENTdm server Missouri State Archive’s SQL databases Exhibits and lesson plans Federated search
5. Outreach Outreach letter / Letter of Intent sent Digital Collection Coordinator site visit / appraisal LSTA Digital Imaging Grant / In house digitization State Librarian and State Archivist evaluate and approve collections to be added to MDH In house digitization at Digital Imaging Center
6. Collaboration Across State Regional digitization collaboration ProjectsOzark Region Kansas City region St. Louis Region Southeast Missouri Example: Community and Conflict Project http://www.ozarkscivilwar.org/
7. Collaboration Across State Agencies Signature project of MO Secretary of State Administrated by Missouri State Library and Missouri State Archive Partner with State Historical Society of Missouri
8. Challenges Different Culture and Conceptslibrary vs. archive practices access vs. preservation, archival master Policies and Proceduresdifferent chain of command workflow Project Management MDH Management Team MDH Working Group Digital Imaging Center
9. Challenges Technical Difficultiesmesh different data sets, SQL database & CONTENTdm granularity vs. lowest common denominator Political Entitieseverything has to go through communication dept. low priority IT Supportfirewall, large project ftp timeout staff turnover compete with other projects on IT support
10. Usability Study Contracted with Information Experience Lab at MU School of Information & Learning technologies Usability Study from Jan. – June 2010 web statistics review comparative review focus group studies
11. Comparative Review first impression design/layout functionality special features content 5 digital project comparables Georgia Maine Arizona Denver Public Library South Carolina Digital
12. Usability Study- Focus group studies Genealogist (done) Researcher/ Librarians (done) Teachers/Students (in process) First Time Users (drafting questions)
13. Usability Study Wrap Up in June, 2010 Preliminary results from comparative review and genealogist focus group great content, but categorization confusing navigation is cumbersome, not intuitive federated search not effective, have to use Google exhibits confusing huge banner lack of dynamics
14. Future Plans Civil War Sesquicentennial promotion Civil War Portal on MDH Federated search improvement Web redesign based on usability study EAD Finding Aids Multi-site server and metadata harvest?
15. Questions