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Sandra McIntyre Program Director

Sandra McIntyre Program Director. Analysis. Overview. Wheeler Peak aerial view. Overview. Goals History and governance Infrastructure Frontiers With DPLA. Goals. Help more organizations to digitize materials about our region ’ s history and cultural heritage

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Sandra McIntyre Program Director

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  1. Sandra McIntyreProgram Director

  2. Analysis Overview Wheeler Peak aerial view

  3. Overview • Goals • History and governance • Infrastructure • Frontiers • With DPLA

  4. Goals • Help more organizations to digitize materials about our region’s history and cultural heritage • Maintain a public portal to digital collections in the Mountain West region • Make content accessible to everyone • Offer local control • Keep it low cost • Standardize for interoperability

  5. History and governance • Early 2000s: digitization collaboration between University of Utah and Utah State Historical Society • Kenning Arlitsch requested support in 2001 from Utah Academic Library Consortium • Governed by UALC Council of Directors • Policies developed by UALC Digitization Committee

  6. How we are put together Infrastructure Joe’s Valley Reservoir

  7. Infrastructure • Distributed network • Tiered services • Standards and best practices • Partnerships • Aggregation

  8. Distributed network

  9. Tiered services • MWDL Central • Hosting Hubs • Collection Partners Collection Partners Hosting Hubs MWDL Central

  10. Partnerships • Academic departments • Academic libraries • Academic presses • Archives (counties, states, cities) • Historical societies • Museums, including art museums • National heritage areas • Natural history associations • Public libraries • Publishers (journal, magazine, newspaper) • State Agencies • State Library • State Historical Societies

  11. In process: Arizona More in Idaho Partnerships Geographic coverage: • Utah • Nevada • Southern Idaho • Hawaii

  12. Partnerships • Partnership Agreement • Partner sets digitization priorities and secures funding • Partner ensures usage rights, privacy, and other legal considerations • Collections are branded for recognition to partner • Hubs provide training and project setup for partners

  13. Standards and best practices

  14. Standards and best practices • Qualified Dublin Core • Metadata mappings to QDC from other systems • 8 required fields; 2 other mandatory-if-applicable fields • Preservation fields recommended

  15. Standards and best practices • Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) document:Digital Imaging Best Practices

  16. Standards and best practices

  17. Standards and best practices

  18. Aggregation Types of resources: • Photographs • Maps, plans, and drawings • Artworks • Scholarly documents • Music, oral histories, other sounds • Videoclips, animations, Powerpoint presentations • Books • Mintes, log books, reports, bills and ordinances • Birth and death records • Finding aids • Newspapers 700,000 resourcesin 366 collections

  19. Example in CONTENTdm

  20. Example in CONTENTdm

  21. Aggregation inEx Libris Primo • An integrated discovery system • Harvests via OAI and other mechanisms • Harvests multiple repository types • Powerful searching • Online delivery

  22. http://mwdl.org

  23. Results in MWDL

  24. Where we need to go Frontiers Grand Canyon from Point McKinnon on the North Rim

  25. Innovation • Geospatial metadata project • Search engine optimization for digital repositories, with Kenning Arlitsch et al. • Linked Data exploration

  26. Collaboration • Western Archival Network, with • Northwest Digital Archives • Rocky Mountain Online Archive • Regional digital preservation network • Distributed internship program • Including full range of partners in governance and participation

  27. Sustainability • Funding beyond Utah Academic Library Consortium’s limited budget • Funding Development Task Force • State legislative requests • Grants for innovation projects • Membership fee or direct services fees

  28. Moving forward With DPLA Salt Lake and Utah Railroad

  29. With DPLA • Providing metadata for harvest • Facilitating the conversation about usage rights • Customized metadata assistance • Expanding services to underserved memory institutions • Repository services • Community services

  30. Questions welcome! • Sandra McIntyreProgram DirectorMountain West Digital Library801.585.0969sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu

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