building strong community connections through digital collections
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Presented at the 2013 British Columbia Library Association annual conference in Richmond, BC May 10, by Michael Conroy, Community Digital Projects Analyst & Coordinator, BC Digitization Coalition, and Simon Neame, Director, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.TRANSCRIPT
Building Strong Community Connections through Digital
Collections
Mike Conroy, Community Digital Projects Analyst & Coordinator, BC Digitization Coalition
Simon Neame, Director, Irving K Barber Learning Centre
Jillian Povarchook, Collections Associate, Museum of Vancouver
BC Digitization Coalition
• Multi-sector partnership
• Goal: to build an infrastructure that supports the access and discovery of digitized content from BC’s cultural and memory institutions
• Steering Committee
• Technical Sub-committee
• Collaborative funding model, additional support from IKBLC
Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone
Archives Association of BC | BC Electronic Library Network| BC Libraries Cooperative | BC Historical Federation | BC Libraries Federations | BC Museums Association |BC Teacher Librarians’ Association | Canadiana.org | Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | Simon Fraser University | Vancouver Public Library | University of Northern British Columbia | University of Victoria | Union of BC Indian Chiefs | University of British Columbia Library
BC Bibliography Project
• Goal: build a single searchable database of the bibliography of BC, based on searchable digital versions of the books from volumes 1-3 (1849 – 1950)
• Phase 1 pilot – 166 items
• Phase 2 – 4,000 items from UBC holdings
• 7293 items in all three volumes
• High res, high quality scans
• http://bcbib.library.ubc.ca/
• West Beyond the West: Books
• Potential to integrate other themed collections e.g. newspapers, videos
West Beyond the West Hosting
West Beyond the West Search Portal
Problem #1
Searching through digital collections takes a lot of time
• You mean I have to go to each library’s digital collections?!
Problem #2 Searchers don’t always think about visiting your digital collection.
Guys, have you checked out my website yet?
Problem #3 – Everything!
How many FTEs do you think we have anyway?
“There’s an app for that”
Projects:
West Beyond the West Hosting
West Beyond the West Search Portal
- Metadata Wrangling
Powered by AtoM
WBTW Hosting Features
– Branded institution page [Coalition sponsored]
– Text, image, audio, video
– Full text search
– Exports to Canadiana & West Beyond the West Search Portal [Coalition sponsored]
– Remote back-up protects against equipment failure/disaster
– Ability to select metadata schema at the collection level [Coalition Sponsored]
– Priced for small to medium sized institutions
http://collections.westbeyondthewest.ca
West Beyond the West Search Portal
West Beyond the West Search Portal Features
You mean I have to go to each library’s digital collections?!
When Data meets Data
Solving Problem #1
West Beyond the West Search Portal Features
Solving Problem # 2
• Find and be found…
– Aids users in discovery
– Aids institutions in visibility
West Beyond the West Search Portal Features
• Getting Social
Metadata Wrangling
•
How it all works
West Beyond the West
• Search and browse across BC digital Collections
• Relies on Canadiana metadata
Digital Collection Hosting Service with
enhancements to AtoM • Hosts digital collections
for small institutions • Institutional branding • CMR Metadata Export
Metadata Wrangling Service • Transformation of
metadata from smaller institutions with existing digital collections to CMR
Canadiana
• Central metadata repository for WBTW
AtoM 2.0
AtoM 2.0
AtoM 2.0
community instances
