overview of the mountain west digital library (for rhode island's helin project), 08/26/2014
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Introduction to the Mountain West Digital LibraryTRANSCRIPT
Overview of theMountain West Digital Library
The Power of Partnership
Overview
• The MWDL Collaborative• Value of Partnership • Working with an MWDL Hub • Sharing Regionally: MWDL • Interoperability • Sharing Nationally: Digital Public Library of
America • Open Invitation to Participate
• Formed in 2001 as a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium
Mountain WestDigital Library
Mountain West Digital Library
Goals:
Help more organizations to digitize materials about our region’s history and cultural heritage
Maintain a public portal to pull together the digital collections in the Mountain West region at mwdl.org
MWDL
Discovery portal
Digital library community
Digital Public Library of America on-ramp
http://mwdl.org
Types of resources
Photographs, maps, artworks, scholarly documents, music, sounds, books, birth and death records, finding aids, and more!
Over 900,000 items in 690 collections
Digital Library Community
• History in Your Attic
• Public Library Partnerships Project
• Digitization Mini-Contracts
• MWDL Webinar Series
• Task Forces
• In-person training
Public Library Partnerships Project
Training for Public Librarians
Public Librarians workshop, May 2014
Partners
164 institutions• Academic libraries• Academic departments• Archives • Historical societies• Museums• National heritage institutions• Natural history associations• Public libraries• Publishers • Academic presses• State Libraries• Other state agencies
Partners
In six states:• Utah• Nevada• Arizona• Idaho• Montana• Hawaii
MWDL Staff
• Sandra McIntyreDirector
• Rebekah CummingsAssistant Director/Outreach Librarian
• Anna NeatrourDigital Metadata Librarian
• Our newest addition! Evan Young Web Development Assistant
DPLA Onramp
DPLA Onramp
Governance and Consultation
• UALC Council of Directors• UALC Digitization Committee• Advisory Committee (in
formation)
Funding and Support
• UALC funding• DPLA sub-grants 2013-2015• In-kind support from Marriott Library
WORKING WITH AN MWDL HUB
Digitization and hosting
Grand Canyon from Point McKinnon on the North Rim.
Tiered Infrastructure
Three tiered model• Collections Partners Tier
(“Partners”) –Own and manage collections
• Hosting Tier (“Hubs”) - Host the digital materials
• Central Aggregating Server Tier (MWDL) – Harvest metadata from hubs
Digital Library Community
Tiered Services
• Distributed network• Flexible and scalable• Consolidates equipment and
expertise• Reinforces standards• Facilitates collaboration
Digital Assets Management
Systems
NW Digital Archives: Utah EAD
FilesBYU Finding
Aids Repository
Hub Services
• Digitization• Metadata Assignment/ Assistance• Online hosting in digital assets
management system• Metadata shared for MWDL harvest• Long-term preservation (some hubs)
MWDL Services
• Harvesting metadata/ aggregation
• Training for new partners
• Central search portal• Sharing access with
DPLA• Collaboration on
standards and best practices
• Platform for collaboration
Infrastructure: Ex Libris Primo
• An integrated discovery system• Powerful harvesting of digital
collections• Powerful searching and faceting• “Did you mean...?” suggestions • Online delivery via pointing to link
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)for transmitting metadata over the Web http://openarchives.org– Based on XML– Commonly used for harvesting
International Protocols
INTEROPERABILITYWorking together to make it happen
Standards and Policies
Partnership Agreement
http://mwdl.org/docs/MWDL_Partnership_Agreement_ver12_2008-03-14.pdf
Standard Prices
• Qualified Dublin Core
• 8 required fields; 2 other mandatory-if-applicable fields
• Preservation fields recommended
Metadata Standard
• Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) document:Digital Imaging Best Practices
Imaging Standard
“The planisphere of Copernicus, or Copernicus' hypothesis of the entire universe, in a planar view”
University of Utah
Setting Up a Repository
http://mwdl.org/getinvolved/repository_setup.php
Submitting a Collection
OPEN INVITATION
Jumping on board
An invitation to an inspection and wetting-down party. Brigham Young University – Hawaii
Campus.
Invitation to repository managers
1. Open up your metadata for harvest2. Link to MWDL and DPLA on your web
pages3. Collaborate on
standards and controlled vocabularies
4. Be curious about new opportunities for cooperation and sharing
Invitation to collectionmanagers
• Contact:Rebekah CummingsMWDL Assistant Director(801) [email protected]
• Not quite ready? We can help you get there! – New partner interview – Hub services– Training and support
Get Involved with MWDL
• Resources for members and perspective members: http://mwdl.org/getinvolved/getinvolved.php
• Like us on Facebook + follow on Twitter (@MWDigLib)
• Check out our blog: http://mwdlnews.blogspot.com/
Fall Webinar Series
http://mwdl.org/events/webinars/webinarschedule.php
MWDLPartnership Summit
• Open to any eligible group that has agreed to MWDL Partnership Agreement
• Discuss future directions for MWDL
• Network with colleagues!
Questions?
• Sandra McIntyreDirector(801) [email protected]