digital special collections users council annual meeting may 9, 2008
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Digital Special Collections Users Council Annual Meeting May 9, 2008. Digital Special Collections (DSC) Update. Program Overview Data Acquisitions OAC Calisphere UC Image Service. DSC vs DA. Digital Special Collections = Access; create and support end user sites Calisphere OAC - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Digital Special Collections
Users Council Annual MeetingMay 9, 2008
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Digital Special Collections (DSC) Update
Program Overview– Data Acquisitions
– OAC
– Calisphere
– UC Image Service
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DSC vs DADigital Special Collections = Access; create
and support end user sites– Calisphere– OAC– UC Image Service
Data Acquisitions = Ingest; contributor relations. – Support Calisphere, OAC, UC Image Service
contributors- Mass digitization projects (Google, Microsoft
and Online Content Alliance)
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Data Acquisitions
• Collection development policy• Research cost recovery models • Update contributor documentation
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/dsc/contribute/
• Expand the digital content creation tools we can support
• Investigate contributor training possibilities• New content types: PDF and audio• “TIFFs” project for new zoom-and-pan tool• Integration with other CDL systems
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Online Archive of California (OAC)
• 9,000 online finding aids
• Over 100 contributing institutions from across California
• The site serves researchers of all levels
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OAC Redesign
Timeline– Fall 2007: Planning
– January-August 2008: User interface design, iterative prototype design, and user evaluation activities
– September 2008: Prototype release
– February 2009: Live Launch
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/oacredesign.html
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End User Experience• A clear understanding of the purpose of the site and of
finding aids• Search results provide sufficient information to determine
relevance; easy to scan• Clearly understand what is available online and what is not• Easily navigate finding aids• Able to find information in order to contact the relevant
institution• Satisfied because the site was easy to use and understand• Wealth of information organized in a clear, intelligible way
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OAC Redesign Overview
• Improve finding aid navigation and display
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OAC Redesign Overview
• Improve finding aid navigation and display
• Address usability issues
• MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!)
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OAC Redesign Overview
• Improve finding aid navigation and display
• Address usability issues
• MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!)
• Back end infrastructure upgrades
• Modernize the display
• Upgrade to features/functions that are now
common on sites
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OAC Redesign Overview
• Improve finding aid navigation and display• Address usability issues• MARC in OAC; collection and item records
(new!)• Back end infrastructure upgrades• Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now
common on sites • Improve contributor tracking tools (new!)• Calisphere/OAC
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Two Audiences, Two Sites
Online Archive of California (OAC) • Archivists• Historians• Researchers
Calisphere• K-12 Teachers• General public• Undergraduates
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• Over 200,000 digitized primary sources
• From the UC campuses and institutions across California
• Serves the general public, and is tailored to meet the needs of K-12 educators
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Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)
More than 10,000 photographs, oral histories, and other documents bring you inside the story of Japanese-American internment
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California Cultures
Images and documents that explore the continuing impact of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans on California’s cultural
heritage.
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Calisphere visitors
• Approximately 140,000 visits/month– Includes site visits and image views
• 50% from search engines– Google Images, Google primarily
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Consistently among the most view items
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K-12 Activities
• Build more themed collections
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Sample Themed Collection Topic
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K-12 Activities
• Build more themed collections
• Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12– Conference presentations and booths
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K-12 Activities
• Build more themed collections
• Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12– Conference presentations and booths
– Workshops
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K-12 Activities
• http://animoto.com/play/64202046391848cc16e09742054b261f
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K-12 Activities
• Build more themed collections
• Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12– Conference presentations and booths
– Workshops
– Newsletter and blog
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UC Image Service
• What is the UC Image Service?– Shared collections hosted in ARTstor; available
to UC only
– Make digital images for teaching broadly available for faculty and students UC-wide
• How did it start?– Visual Resource Curators’ desire to share with
each other and to provide access to images for teaching
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/image/
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UC Image Service
• Collection development program proposal to CDC – Phase 1: local campus collection development– Phase 2: system-wide steering/advisory group
for collection development
• Visual Resources curators to build collections for fall 2008
• Work with CDL DPR on preservation• Assessment Activities
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What will not be there … yet• Social networking bonanza (user tagging, tag
clouds, “others who viewed this …”)– Why? User priority
• Metasearch/harvest other finding aids– Why? Our priority
• Browse (subject, name)– Why? Inconsistent metadata
• Request-it Feature– Why? Inconsistent metadata and current work
practices
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OAC Redesign Overview
• Improve finding aid navigation and display• Address usability issues• MARC in OAC; collection and item records
(new!)• Back end infrastructure upgrades• Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now
common on sites • Improve contributor tracking tools (new!)• Calisphere/OAC
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OAC Redesign Overview
• Improve finding aid navigation and display• Address usability issues• MARC in OAC; collection and item records
(new!)• Back end infrastructure upgrades• Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now
common on sites • Improve contributor tracking tools (new!)• Calisphere/OAC
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Calisphere: UC Web Sites
• Over 500 web sites
• We need more!
• Subjects include history, math, literature, anthropology, fine arts,oceanography, film, medical and health issues, and much more
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UC Web Sites
• Over 300 UC campus web sites
• Subjects include history, math, literature, anthropology, fine arts,oceanography, film, medical and health issues, and much more