Stage Musicals

A Digital CollectionKristin AmsdenAileen MarshallTheresa Wagner

Planning Process

• Finding a topic– Stage musicals was a

topic for which we all had a keen interest

– All had physical objects in this area that we wanted to share.

Planning Process

• Creating purpose– Focus on just a few stage productions to offer

depth– Target audience

Digitization Process

• Digitized own contributions to project– i.e. playbills, music, etc.

• Did not have set requirements on types • Each used different equip as available

A few examples…

Digitization Specs

• We had to agree upon spec even though we were using different equipment for the digitization process.

• Images• We chose to scan these at this rate in order to have a manageable file

size for our end users, while still maintaining the image quality of the original.

• Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi• Depth: 24 bit color• Hardware: Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner / HP Photosmart C4180

All-in-One / Epson Perfection V700• Software: Adobe Photoshop Pro / Gimp

Specs• Text• Both grayscale and black and white imaging was used to

digitize our text objects. For the sheet music, the grayscale gave better reproduction quality.

• Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi• Depth: 8 bit grayscale• Hardware: Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner / HP

Photosmart C4180 All-in-One• Software: Adobe PrintShop Pro, also collected and

OCRed with Adobe Acrobat 8.0•

Specs

• Video• These were downloaded from Youtube and then converted to

usable formats.• Software: OnlineVideoConverter.com to convert flash video

to MPEG file, Windows Movie Maker to clean up video quality / FVL to MPEG Converter for Ipod .5.3

• File type: mpeg• Variable bit rate• Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels, aspect: 4:3, 30 frames/sec

Metadata

• Which standard– Dublin Core

• Justification– Flexibility– Have some optional fields

Required Fields• Title• Subject• Description• Publisher • Date Digital• Type • Format• Source• Website

Optional Fields

• Title Alternative• Creator• Contributor• Contributing Institution• Language• Date Original• Resource Identifier• Rights Management

Problems & Solutions

• Differences in Tech Experience– Each of us had a diff level of tech competency– Caused some confusion esp when communicating

over e-mail

• Possible Solution– Make sure to discuss these differences in person

at the beginning

Problems & Solutions

• Group Organization– Never named an official group leader or other

group functions– Work would have been more efficient

• Solution– Name a group leader to help facilitate discussion

and keep the focus of the project in order.

Problems & Solutions

• Division of functions of the DL team– It was rather inefficient for each member to go all

the tasks in preparing the objects for digitization

• Solution– Have one person do I ndividual functions like one

digitize, another apply metadata, etc.– Hard to do since we all live in diff. cities.

Which DAMS?

• There were many to choose from• Chose ContentDM• Reasons– Can upload to the Web– Most widely used software– Ease of Project Client interface

Example of DL Homepage

Thank You!

We had fun with this term project!