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Digital Library Program

Tech TalkOctober 28, 2004

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Digital Library Program Staff

• Howard Batchelor• Stephen Davison• Lynn DeLacy• Hannah Walker

• 390 Powell– Share space with LIT (formerly LIS)– Enter from the east side

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Information Technology Staff

• Curtis Fornadley – DL Architect• Henry Chiong – Programmer/Analyst• Bo-Gay Tong Salvador – Usability

Specialist

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Metadata, Intellectual Rights

• Cataloging & Metadata Center– John Riemer– Angela Riggio

• Intellectual Rights– Sharon Farb

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Holdings

• Over 76,000 master files– 56,758 images– 18,737 audio files– 633 web pages

• 2 TB+– 0.5 TB audio– 1.9 TB images

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Formats (1)

• Images– Architecture and Urban Design– Rats Spinal Cord Images– Campaign Literature Archive– Medieval Medical Images– Art History images– Los Angeles Times photographs– Hoover Collection– S. Charles Lee

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Formats (2)

• Music– Digital Archive of Popular American Music– Sheet Music Consortium

• Sound recordings– Frontera Strachwitz Collection– Phonetics Laboratory

• Manuscripts– Near Eastern (Arabic, Persian, Turkish)

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Digital Preservation

• CDL Preservation Repository– Timeline

• Development (now)• Testing (January)• Implementation with CDL Collections (March)• UCLA Collections (?)

– Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)

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Developments (1)

• UCLA Core metadata schema 4.0– Web forms for data maintenance– Support for MODS, VRA, Qualified Dublin

Core– Improved data validation– File ingest

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Developments (2)

• Oral History Program– Digital recordings– Streaming audio– Transcripts for access

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Developments (3)

• Interoperability– Los Angeles Times Photo Archive

• CDL

– Special Collections Digital Archive• Finding Aids

– METS object exchange with CDL• Shared collections• Preservation repository

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UCLA Digital Objects(texts, images, audio)

CDL Digital Objects(finding aids, images, texts )

CDL Preservation Repository (all formats)

UCLA Digital LibrarySearch & Retrieval

applications

UCLA EADFinding Aid

tools

UCLA Library Web

ERDBUCLA Library

Catalog

CDL Web

CDLSearch & Retrieval

applications

Melvyl

WWW

XSLTDSpace(Learning Objects)

CMS

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Projects vs. Program

• Projects– One at a time– Narrow focus– Limited use, limited audience– Possible migration, reusability problems

• Program– Generic digital repositories– Broad collection scope– Materials with broad interest, applicable in many

different contexts– Generic, well-defined data structures that can be

migrated when needed, and used in a variety of contexts

– Projects become “views” of, or subsets drawn from a broad, flexible, diverse collection of digital objects