Sandra McIntyreProgram Director

OverviewAnalysis

Overview

• Goals• History and governance• Infrastructure• Frontiers• With DPLA

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

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

Infrastructure

How we are put together

Infrastructure

• Distributed network• Tiered services• Standards and best practices• Partnerships• Aggregation

Distributed network

• MWDL Central • Hosting Hubs• Collection Partners

Tiered services

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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

Partnerships

Geographic coverage:• Utah• Nevada• Southern Idaho• Hawaii

In process:• Arizona • More in Idaho

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

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

Standards and best practices

• Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) document:Digital Imaging Best Practices

Standards and best practices

Standards and best practices

Standards and best practices

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

Example in CONTENTdm

Example in CONTENTdm

Aggregation inEx Libris Primo

• An integrated discovery system• Harvests via OAI and other

mechanisms• Harvests multiple repository types• Powerful searching• Online delivery

http://mwdl.org

Results in MWDL

FrontiersWhere we need to go

Innovation

• Geospatial metadata project• Search engine optimization for digital

repositories, with Kenning Arlitsch et al.

• Linked Data exploration

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

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

With DPLAMoving forward

With DPLA

1.Providing metadata for harvest2.Facilitating the conversation about

usage rights3.Customized metadata assistance4.Expanding services to underserved

memory institutions5.Repository services6.Community services

Questions welcome!

• Sandra McIntyreProgram DirectorMountain West Digital Library801.585.0969sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu