Building Digital Collectionswith DALNET

&Greenstone

Digital Library Software. . .

LITA Forum 2004

about DALNET:The Detroit Area Library Network is a multi-type library consortium located in Southeast Michigan that serves academic, public, school and special libraries as well as information organizations in the seven county Metropolitan Detroit region.

• Botsford General Hospital• Detroit Institute of Arts• Detroit Medical Center• Detroit Public Library• John D. Dingell VA Medical Center• Macomb Community College District• Marygrove College Library• Mount Clemens General Hospital• Oakland Community College

• Oakland County Law Library• Rochester College• The Henry Ford - Benson Ford Research Center• University of Detroit Mercy• Walsh College• Wayne County Community College District• Wayne State University• William Beaumont Hospital

DALNET Provides:• Greenstone • Systems administration• Image Server • Metadata recommendations

Member Provides:• Collection expertise• Knowledge of available organizational resources

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Together, we develop/design/implement:• Project plan• Interface functionality

• Collection interface specifications• Standards for data entry or conversion

• Digitized objects• Metadata

• Metadata recommendations• Data conversion services• Interface customization• Website development

Partnership for development:

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Building the Library:

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E. Azalia Hackley – Detroit Public Library Sheet Music Collection

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Developing the Hackley collection:

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Staffing:

DALNETDuryea Callaway, Outreach CoordinatorAnaclare Evans, Systems Librarian George Marck, Lead Applications Tech Analyst

Detroit Public Library: Barbara Martin, Curator, E. Azalia Hackley Memorial Collection Adrienne Aluzzo, Librarian II, Bibliographic Division, Cheri Gay, Librarian III, Bibliographic Division (DPL Project lead) Randolph Call, Assistant Director for Technical Services

Laura Sheble, Systems Librarian, (DALNET Project lead) Negib Sherif, Senior Systems Integrator Scott Muir, Assistant DirectorJacqueline Wrosch, Web Developer/Interim Director

Developing the Hackley collection:

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Starting Place:• Objects digitized• Metadata created, MARC format• MARC-DC Crosswalk draft• Greenstone test collections successful

One: Project PlanProject Standards: File naming convention MARC-DC Crosswalk Image size, quality

Digital Library Structure: Image location WebsiteDivision of Labor

Developing the Hackley collection:

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Two: Data, MetadataMetadata UpdatesData ExtractionFilename transformationData conversionThumbnail image creation Three: Website

Display ContentUse policies

thehackley.org

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Developing the Hackley collection:

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Four: Inside GreenstoneCollection configurationIndex specificationsDisplay customization

Five: A Growing CollectionAdding objectsQuality controlEnhancements

Go to music by African American Composers  >> Go to music by Detroit Music Publishers  >>

Record Display Format

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