What Digitization Can Do For YouSCDL TECHNOLOGY & COASTAL REGION SERVICES

EXPLAINED

Heather GilbertInterim Head, Digital Scholarship & Services, College of Charleston

Project Director, Lowcountry Digital LibraryAssociate Director for the Coastal Region, South Carolina Digital Library

October 24, 2014 South Carolina Library Association Annual Conference, Columbia, SC

Website Upgrade• Moved from Drupal 7 into Wordpress

• Easier to add content• Collection homepages• Participating Institutional Information• Partner documentation

• Easier to maintain• Drupal 7 required over 65 modules to

enable preferred functionality• Wordpress only needs 18 plugins• Not as many security updates

required• Just as many features

New Website - Homepage

• Search Centered

• Facet Focused

• User Friendly

New Website –Browse Pages

• Clean Layout

• Easy to Read

• Mobile Friendly

New Website –Collection Pages

• Clean Layout

• Easy to Read

• Related Terms

• Mobile Friendly

New Website –Admin

• Easier to Use

• Familiar Technology

• Stricter control over Website CVs

Discovery Layer/Harvester Upgrade• Moved from PKP Harvester into Blacklight

• Highly Scalable, More Robust• Able to accommodate more OAI feeds• PKP harvester had known issues

beyond 250k records• Better User Experience

• Facets = better browse experience• Ability to control searchable facets =

better accuracy• More results

• PKP would only return 500 items/search

• Blacklight can return total catalog

New Harvester

• Faster Harvesting

• Multiple OAI Feeds

• Better Partner Feed Schedule

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GNvxqLkVd4stdJinKSQ-EQ6LnWk-1LW7fYMcb57yWmo/edit?usp=sharing

New Discovery Layer

• Highly Granular

• Better Limiters

• Better User Experience

• Faster Searches

New Discovery Layer

Want to see manuscripts by Isaiah DeQuincy Newman regarding Benedict College in Richland County?

New Discovery Layer

SCDL is an aggregator. All SCDL results always link to your home repository.

• Coastal Region Repository• 17+ Partner Institutions• 60,000+ records• Provides Digitization, Description and

Digital Preservation Services to Members at No Cost

• As SCDL Regional Hub• Provides Guidance and Training for

Digitization, Description and Digital Preservation across the region

• Works with Regional Repositories to Improve Metadata Compliance

Inventory of Equipment

• 3 Epson Expression 10000 XL scanners with slide inserts (12” x 17” scan bed)• 1 DLSG Book Edge Scanner (12” × 17″ scan

bed)• 1 Plustek Optibook A300 Book Edge scanner

(12” × 17″ scan bed)• 1 BookEye 4V1 Overhead scanner with

motorized book cradle (Can scan up to 26” x 36″)

• 1 Plustek Optifilm 7600i Ai 35m film and slide scanner

Further Knowledge

We have experience with Optical Character Recognition Software, Lyrasis digitization programs, and the digitization of tightly bound, fragile materials and all varieties of transparencies.

While we specialize in MODS and Dublin Core, we also have experience with VRA, CDWA and Darwin Core metadata schemas.

• Collection Exposure• 3700+ users/month• 4500+ sessions/month• 33,000+ pageviews/month

• Faculty Engagement• Over 10 unique faculty project referrals in the last

year• Across Campus: English, History, Archeology, GIS

• Grant Funding• NHPRC Digital Dissemination & Access to

Historical Records• NEH Humanities Collections & Reference

Resources• IMLS Museums for America• CLIR Hidden Collections (possibly, will announce program changes

in Jan. 2015)

What Can Digitization Do For You?

What Digitization Can Do For YouSCDL TECHNOLOGY & COASTAL REGION SERVICES EXPLAINED

October 24, 2014 South Carolina Library Association Annual Conference, Columbia, SC

Thank You!Questions?

gilberthj@cofc.edu@LCDigitalLib @ItsaLikelyStory