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The Sustaining Digital Scholarship
Project
ETD 2005
Thornton StaplesDigital Library Research and Development
University of Virginia Library
Sustaining Digital Scholarship
• Collecting scholarly projects into a curated collection
• Creating large-scale scholarly projects since 1992• Graduate students have been heavily involved• Dissertations and theses will become much more
complex
Digital Scholarly Projects
• These are not articles nor illustrated monographs• They generally represent the scale of effort of writing
a book • These projects are more like virtual exhibitions than
like books• Scholarly commentary is interwoven with elaborate
linking among resources
The Rossetti Project
• Started in 1992 by Jerome McGann• Intended to be a model for digital critical archives
that combine critical and facsimile editions• An edition of all of Rossetti’s written and graphic
works• ~5,000 XML files, ~12,000 image files• Involves many different rights agreements
Te xtTe xt
T h e R os s etti A rch iv e
Ar tw o r k Ar tw o r k
W o r k W o r k
I m a g e s
Te xts
M o d e rn E n g lis h C o lle c tio n
P ag eIm ag e s
The B l e s s e d D am o ze l
Te xt 2Te xt 1
M o d e rn E n g lis h C o lle c tio n
The R o s s e t t i Ar c hi ve
Assumptions
• The primary assumption is that we are bringing the projects into the Library’s management stream
• They often include large numbers of digital surrogates of traditional resources
• Increasingly, they will include born digital primary resources
Some policy implications
• The collection of digital projects should go through the selection process
• The Library must be prepared to enforce appropriate access control policies
• We must make explicit promises to authors• The Library will probably have to define these
promises as levels of effort
G en eral Im ag e O b ject
M rS ID Im ag e O b ject
Persistent ID(PID)
W e b -d e fa u ltW e b -im a g e
A d m in
Metadatath u m b n ail im ag e file
m e d re s . im ag e file
h ig h re s . im ag e file
m ax re s . im ag e file
Persistent ID(PID)
W e b -d e fa u lt
W e b -im a g e
A d m in
Metadata
M rS ID -e nc o de dim a g e file
W e b-Im a g eB e ha vio r D e s c riptio n
G e ne ra l Im a g eB e ha vio r M e c ha nis m
M rS ID Im a g eB e ha vio r M e c ha nis m
g e t-thum bna il-s ize d-im a g e
g e t-m e d-s ize d-im a g e
g e t-hig h-re s -im a g e
g e t-m a x-s ize d-im a g e
g e t-thum bna il-s ize d-im a g e
g e t-m e d-s ize d-im a g e
g e t-hig h-re s -im a g e
g e t-m a x-s ize d-im a g e
g e t-s m a lle s t-M rS ID -s ize
g e t-m idra ng e -M rS ID -s ize
g e t-hig h-re s -M rS ID -s ize
g e t-m a x-M rS ID -s ize
Fedora Object Content Models
Text Collections: three models
Persistent ID(PID)
D e fa u lt
T ra n c rip tio nfu n c tio n s
P a g e tu rn in g
Metadata
T E I file
Persistent ID(PID)
D e fa u lt
T ra n c rip tio nfu n c tio n s
Metadata
T E I file
Persistent ID(PID)
D e fa u lt
P a g e tu rn in g
Metadata
T E I file
L ib rary T ex t O b ject
R os s etti T ex t O b ject
Persistent ID(P ID)
D e fa u ltT ra n c rip tio n
fu n c tio n sP a g e tu rn in g
Metadata
Libra ryT E I te xt
Persistent ID(P ID)
D e fa u lt
T ra n c rip tio nfu n c tio n s
P a g e tu rn in g
R o s s e ttifu n c tio n s
Metadata
R o s s e tti D T Dte xt
T ra ns c riptio nB e ha vio r D e s c riptio n
Libra ry tra nc riptio nB e ha vio r M e c ha nis m
R o s s e tti tra nc ripto inB e ha vio r M e c ha nis m
g e t-pa g e
g e t-c ha pte r
g e t-he a de r
g e t-pa g e
g e t-c ha pte r
g e t-he a de r
g e t-pa g e
g e t-c ha pte r
g e t-he a de r
Related Content Models
Levels of Collecting
Metadata Files ContentRelationships
OriginalDelivery
1Fully
CompliantFully
CompliantExact Exact
2Fully
CompliantFully
CompliantExact Approximate
3Fully
CompliantFully
CompliantExact Representative
4Fully
CompliantFully
CompliantExact
5Fully
CompliantFully
Compliant
6Fully
CompliantBinary Files
Only
7Fully
Compliant
The Future
• Collecting project that are created in the wild is not scalable
• An authoring environment that supports the creation of very complex projects
• Projects created into an institutional repository directly
• Move to digital library upon selection
UVA Library Digital Initiatives Web Site:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanites:
http:www.iath.virginia.edu
The Fedora Project:http:www.fedora.info