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American Paintings to 1945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Legacy Catalogues Online

MCN 2015 MinneapolisThursday, November 5

3:45 – 4:15Nokomis, Hyatt Regency

Doug Allen (dallen@nelson-atkins.org)Kate Crawford (kcrawford@nelson-atkins.org)

Matt Pearson (matpearson@yahoo.com)Stacey Sherman (ssherman@nelson-atkins.org)

• American Paintings to 1945 (Marquand, 2007, Margaret Conrads, ed.)

• 2010 grant from The Henry Luce Foundation’s American Art Renewal Fund $25,000 for digitization

• Options for digital presentation considered PDF Internet Archive (archive.org)

Project Background

Advantages to Working with Internet Archive

• Technical advantages Metadata Searchable with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Variety of download options Page turner application Indexing and linked to other collections

• Cost advantage $90 for Internet Archive to host titles $90 for Imaging Services to digitize volumes in-house Maximum total cost of $10,180, including $10,000 for image use rights

• Aggregate permissions files from the 2007 print volume

• Consult experts on digital copyright

Image Permissions and Legacy Publications

Copyright Policy & Education Officer at cohort institution regarding rights agreements 10/30/2014:

Generally, it will depend on the particular language of whatever was signed with the copyright holders when permissions were cleared for the print version. I’ve seen agreements that were very specific about a print run of a certain number of copies, and I’ve also seen agreements that would be broad enough to cover a digital version. As to whether fair use might be an option, that depends on a number of things. The first that comes to mind is the signed agreements again - the right to rely on fair use can be signed away, depending on the wording of the agreement. The second thing to think about is how risk averse your institution is.

Understanding Digital Copyright

Fair Use Assessment Tools

• University of Minnesota Libraries’ Thinking Through Fair Use: https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairthoughts

• Fair Use Evaluator: http://librarycopyright.net/resources/fairuse/

• Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office Fair Use Checklist: https://copyright.columbia.edu/basics/fair-use/fair-use-checklist.html

• CAA Code of Best Practices in Fair Use in the Visual Arts: http://www.collegeart.org/fair-use/best-practices

• Software development, help desk, issue tracking• Email alerts• Task management• Network or cloud-based• Version control• Reports

JIRA Ticketing System

JIRA Ticketing System

JIRA Ticketing System

JIRA Ticketing System

JIRA Ticketing System

JIRA Ticketing System

JIRA Ticketing System

• Internet Archive Scribe stations Designed for textual, circulating book content Processing favors optical character recognition (OCR) software performance

• Digitizing in-house is fast and offers greater control An hour/book for imaging Half an hour/book for QC and processing

Book Digitization

Book Digitization

Book Digitization

Book Digitization

Internet Archive Page-Turner

Internet Archive Page-Turner: Searchable

Internet Archive Landing Page

• https://archive.org/details/americanpainting01conr_1• https://archive.org/details/americanpainting02conr_1• Embeddable page-turner widget

Internet Archive: PDF and Other Output

Internet Archive: Download Options

American Paintings to 1945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Legacy Catalogues Online

MCN 2015 MinneapolisThursday, November 5

3:45 – 4:15Nokomis, Hyatt Regency

Doug Allen (dallen@nelson-atkins.org)Kate Crawford (kcrawford@nelson-atkins.org)

Matt Pearson (matpearson@yahoo.com)Stacey Sherman (ssherman@nelson-atkins.org)

• JIRA ticket output• Overview of Considerations• Iterations of image quality with IA digitization• Variations of image quality within print publications (different versions of same painting)• OCR word errors (sometimes with superscript in footnotes and captions)• Difficult to OCR typeface (conjoined letters)

Additional Slides

JIRA Ticketing System output (MS Word version)

• Color• OCR accuracy and updating• Access and copyright• PURL• Page-turner app

Overview of Considerations

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Errors