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Digitisation;Systems & processes making
order out of chaos.
Digitisation Open Day, May 2014 Dave Thompson
Digital Curator, Wellcome Library
Opportunity to buy lots of cameras…?
Ohio State, Large Binocular Telescope
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/LBT/
Lets be clear. Sticking something under a camera or onto a
scanner ain’t the issue here.
Digitisation supports the business
• Digitisation supports your users needs.
• Digitisations supports your strategic goals & aims.
• Digitisation aligns with your existing services.
Remember, digitisation shouldn’t be at odds with your collection policy & it shouldn’t be in conflict with other services that are on offer. Access to digitised material doesn’t necessarily replace walk-in or other forms of access.
Digitisation – process overview
Plan projectIdentify
material
Identify resources
Plan
process
Digitise
processDeliver
Refine & review processes document & share
Document & share
Funding, staff, equipment, IT, storage, data management
planning
Digitisation Open Days
Strategy, plans, user services, etc
Thinking conceptually … OAIS
http://www.fachlabor-gubler.ch/eng/consulting/underlying-principles/the-oais-reference-model.html
http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0m2.pdf
There are simpler models…
http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/MathArc/web/StoryFrameset.html
Digitisation uses three IT systems…
1. Workflow management system – ‘Goobi’ = PRODUCTION.
2. Digital object repository – ‘Preservica’ = STORAGE.
3. Front end - ‘the player’ = ACCESS.
Remember, this doesn’t include cataloguing or bibliographic systems. Here we’re just talking about the process of creating, storing & delivering digital content. You have to assume that those other systems are also in place.
Goobi
• Manages & tracks the production of content.
• Workflow driven. Highly automated. Project based.
• Allows us to set very granular access conditions.
• Scalable & highly adaptable to different projects.
Goobi is our workflow tracking & management system for the production of digital content. Automating as many of Goobi’s processes as possible allows our work to be both efficient & scalable. Goobi is also the system with which humans interact the most.
How Goobi works – a workflow
How Goobi works – METS editing
Pagination as per original
Descriptive metadata from imported MARC
Structure(Pagination &/or
Sections)
Preservica
• Workflow based easily ‘talks’ to other systems.
• Content agnostic.
• Creates administrative metadata on ingest.
• Preservation orientated.
How Preservica works
How Preservica works – out the back
• No direct public access to SDB.
• Little direct staff access to SDB content.
• High levels of automation of ingest, Goobi.
• Platform for dissemination mediated by the player.
A centralised repository of & for digital content is a key part of both preservation of & access to your content. It’s a single place where we both store & manage our content.
The player
Wellcomelibrary.org/player
How the player works
• Makes HTTP request to SDB for content based on Preservica PUID (Objects unique & permanent ID).
• Draws & implements access conditions from METS file.
• Permitted user actions drawn from METS.
• Draws DMD from live catalogue + from METS.
The player acts as a single point of access to our content, we have a unified delivery mechanism through which all content is delivered. Aim is to provide as seamless & as easy as possible access to all digital content. Easy for the user to understand & an interface with which they can quickly become familiar.
So, to wrap up…
• Digitisation supports strategic goals & aims.
• Systems & processes help us manage the end-to end production & delivery of digitised content.
• Need to think about the whole activity not just one part.
• Above all else digitisation is an exercise in project management.
Thank you
Questions now, questions later…?
Dave Thompson, Digital CuratorWellcome Library
d.thompson@wellcome.ac.uk - @d_n_t
http://wellcomelibrary.org/
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