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Ball State University Digital Media Repository …a project of the University Libraries Scholarly Resources for Teaching , Learning , and Research. Ball State University Libraries A destination for research, learning, and friends. Growth of the Digital Media Repository - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Ball State UniversityDigital Media Repository…a project of the University Libraries
Scholarly Resources for Teaching, Learning, and Research
Ball State University LibrariesA destination for research, learning, and friends
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Growth of the Digital Media Repository• February 10, 2005: 5,000 photographs in 3
collections in the Middletown Digital Archives
• February, 2010: Nearly 200,000 digital objects in 89 collections in the DMR, including
• Architectural Drawings and Slides• Artwork • Audio and Video• Maps and Atlases• Photographs• Publications (Newspapers; Scholarly Journals)• Sheet Music
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New Public Interface - January 2010
• Working Group charged with improving the user experience, enhancing navigation, utilizing Web 2.0 technologies, and adding new search options
• New interface increases visibility, search engine rankings, usability, and use
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Some Google Analytics and Survey Results
• 95% of DMR users are able to view wider pages without having to scroll horizontally
• 95% use browsers that support Java and all users had some version of flash installed
• 85% prefer to browse using an alphabetical arranged list of collection titles
• Narrative responses indicated a preference for more information than just titles and images on the Browse pages
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Enhancements to DMR Public Interface
Web 2.0 Enhancements include:
• Cooliris media viewer to allow users to browse collections from home page in an interactive environment
• AddThis social bookmarking tool to allow users to easily share DMR content on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Delicious.
• Flickr photostream to encourage user interaction with digital assets
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Enhancements to DMR Public Interface
Navigation and Browsing Enhancements include:
• Left side navigation bar on all pages with options to browse by subject, location, format, and contributors
• Browse pages that arrange content by subject, location, format, contributor, and individual collections
• Added brief descriptions of collections to the Browse pages
• “Spotlight on New Collections” with user controlled revolving images
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Enhancements to DMR Public Interface
Searching Enhancements include:
• Search boxes added to splash pages
• Predefined advanced searches by subject, location, format, and contributors
• Faceted searching
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New DMR Public Interface
Let’s see the new DMR interface in action
http://libx.bsu.edu
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