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Digitisation; Systems & processes making order out of chaos. Digitisation Open Day, May 2014 Dave Thompson Digital Curator, Wellcome Library

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Digitisation;Systems & processes making

order out of chaos.

Digitisation Open Day, May 2014 Dave Thompson

Digital Curator, Wellcome Library

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Opportunity to buy lots of cameras…?

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Ohio State, Large Binocular Telescope

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/LBT/

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Lets be clear. Sticking something under a camera or onto a

scanner ain’t the issue here.

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Digitisation supports the business

• Digitisation supports your users needs.

• Digitisations supports your strategic goals & aims.

• Digitisation aligns with your existing services.

Remember, digitisation shouldn’t be at odds with your collection policy & it shouldn’t be in conflict with other services that are on offer. Access to digitised material doesn’t necessarily replace walk-in or other forms of access.

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Digitisation – process overview

Plan projectIdentify

material

Identify resources

Plan

process

Digitise

processDeliver

Refine & review processes document & share

Document & share

Funding, staff, equipment, IT, storage, data management

planning

Digitisation Open Days

Strategy, plans, user services, etc

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Thinking conceptually … OAIS

http://www.fachlabor-gubler.ch/eng/consulting/underlying-principles/the-oais-reference-model.html

http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0m2.pdf

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There are simpler models…

http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/MathArc/web/StoryFrameset.html

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Digitisation uses three IT systems…

1. Workflow management system – ‘Goobi’ = PRODUCTION.

2. Digital object repository – ‘Preservica’ = STORAGE.

3. Front end - ‘the player’ = ACCESS.

Remember, this doesn’t include cataloguing or bibliographic systems. Here we’re just talking about the process of creating, storing & delivering digital content. You have to assume that those other systems are also in place.

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Goobi

• Manages & tracks the production of content.

• Workflow driven. Highly automated. Project based.

• Allows us to set very granular access conditions.

• Scalable & highly adaptable to different projects.

Goobi is our workflow tracking & management system for the production of digital content. Automating as many of Goobi’s processes as possible allows our work to be both efficient & scalable. Goobi is also the system with which humans interact the most.

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How Goobi works – a workflow

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How Goobi works – METS editing

Pagination as per original

Descriptive metadata from imported MARC

Structure(Pagination &/or

Sections)

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Preservica

• Workflow based easily ‘talks’ to other systems.

• Content agnostic.

• Creates administrative metadata on ingest.

• Preservation orientated.

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How Preservica works

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How Preservica works – out the back

• No direct public access to SDB.

• Little direct staff access to SDB content.

• High levels of automation of ingest, Goobi.

• Platform for dissemination mediated by the player.

A centralised repository of & for digital content is a key part of both preservation of & access to your content. It’s a single place where we both store & manage our content.

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The player

Wellcomelibrary.org/player

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How the player works

• Makes HTTP request to SDB for content based on Preservica PUID (Objects unique & permanent ID).

• Draws & implements access conditions from METS file.

• Permitted user actions drawn from METS.

• Draws DMD from live catalogue + from METS.

The player acts as a single point of access to our content, we have a unified delivery mechanism through which all content is delivered. Aim is to provide as seamless & as easy as possible access to all digital content. Easy for the user to understand & an interface with which they can quickly become familiar.

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So, to wrap up…

• Digitisation supports strategic goals & aims.

• Systems & processes help us manage the end-to end production & delivery of digitised content.

• Need to think about the whole activity not just one part.

• Above all else digitisation is an exercise in project management.

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Thank you

Questions now, questions later…?

Dave Thompson, Digital CuratorWellcome Library

[email protected] - @d_n_t

http://wellcomelibrary.org/