In this webinar, Sandra and Rebekah talk about how the MWDL network came together and how partners work together across the region. They will also discuss how to join the Mountain West Digital Library, what it means to be an MWDL partner, and the benefits of partnership.
Welcome to the Mountain West Digital Library: Update for New Partners
1. Welcome to the
Mountain West Digital Library
Sandra McIntyre, MWDL Director
Rebekah Cummings, MWDL Assistant Director
November 27, 2013
2. Overview
• The MWDL Collaborative
• Resources of a Region
• Working with an MWDL Hub
• Sharing Regionally
• Interoperability
• Digital Public Library of America
• Open Invitation
4. Mountain West
Digital Library
Goals:
§ Help more organizations to digitize
materials about our region’s history and
cultural heritage
§ Maintain a public portal to digital
collections in the Mountain West region
– Make content accessible to everyone
– Offer local control
– Keep it low cost
– Standardize for interoperability
6. MWDL Staff
• Sandra McIntyre
Director
• Rebekah Cummings
Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian
• Anna Neatrour
Digital Metadata Librarian
• Nick Hayen
Web Portal Assistant
7. MWDL Infrastructure
Support
• J. Willard Marriott Library at University of
Utah
• Occasional help from other partner
institutions
28. Access
• More accessibility of resources:
Free, round-the-clock, round-the-world
access
• Increased discoverability of items
• Less wear and tear on
fragile items
30. MWDL Hosting Centers
(“Hubs”)
Salt Lake
Comm.
College
Utah
State
Archives
Univ of Utah Dvsn
Univ of
Idaho
Nevada
Arts &
Nevada
State
Reno
Museums
Arizona
Utah
Archives Memory
State Las Vegas
Project
Library
Northern
Arizona
Univ
Weber
State
Univ
Univ of
Idaho
Utah
State
Univ
Family
Search
Utah
Valley
Univ
LDS Church
History
Souther
n Utah
Univ
Montana
Memory
Stacks
(Idaho)
BYU
Univ of
Utah
Snow
College
Mountain
West Digital
Library
Boise
State
35. Services from Hubs
• Matched to a hub in your geographic or
organizational area
• Fee-based services:
– Digitization
– Training in assigning metadata
– Online hosting in digital assets management
system
– Metadata shared for MWDL harvest
– Long-term preservation (some hubs)
38. Infrastructure:
Ex Libris Primo
• An integrated discovery system
• Powerful harvesting of digital collections
• Powerful searching and faceting
• “Did you mean...?” suggestions
• Online delivery via pointing to link
39. International Protocols
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
for transmitting metadata over the Web
http://openarchives.org
– Based on XML
– Commonly used for harvesting
41. MWDL Services
• Additional training for partners
• Metadata aggregation
• Powerful central search
• Sharing metadata for Digital Public
Library of America (DPLA) harvest
• Collaboration on standards and
technology
• Advocacy and funding
47. Standards and Policies
• Mountain West Digital Library
Partnership Agreement
– Partner retains control
– Partner sets digitization priorities
– Partner ensures privacy and other legal
considerations
– Partner selects the ‘branding’ for its
collections
49. Standards and Policies
• Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR)
document:
Digital Imaging Best Practices
50. Standards and Policies
• Qualified Dublin Core
• Metadata mappings to
QDC from other
systems
• 8 required fields; 2
other mandatory-ifapplicable fields
• Preservation fields
recommended
52. Current initiatives
• Digital Assets Management System
Interest Group
• Geospatial Discovery Task Force
• Training and Outreach subcommittees
• Scanning events: “Pioneers in Your Attic”
• Linked Data Task Force – new!
• Digital Preservation Task Force – new!
• Data Curation Interest Group – new!
53. Participating on a national stage
DIGITAL PUBLIC
LIBRARY OF
AMERICA
http://dp.la
54. What is the DPLA?
The Digital Public Library of America
will make the cultural and
scientific heritage of humanity
available, free of charge, to all.
55. National partners
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Institute for Museum and Library Services
Smithsonian Institution
National Archives & Records Administration
Harvard University
New York Public Library
Biodiversity Heritage Library
ARTStor
Univ. of Virginia Libraries
Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Cham. Library
Internet Archive
Hathi Trust
Creative Commons
Executive Director Dan Cohen
56. Digital Hubs Pilot
Create the on-ramp for memory
institutions – libraries, archives, and
museums – to contributing content to the
Digital Public Library of America
57. Digital Hubs Pilot
Service Hubs
1. Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts)
2. Digital Library of Georgia
3. Kentucky Digital Library
4. Minnesota Digital Library
5. South Carolina Digital Library
6. Mountain West Digital Library
59. Invitation to repository
managers
1. Open up your metadata for harvest
2. Link to MWDL and DPLA on your web
pages
3. Collaborate on standards and controlled
vocabularies
4. Be curious about new opportunities for
cooperation and sharing
60. Invitation to collection
managers
• Contact:
Rebekah Cummings
MWDL Assistant Director
(801) 587- 8893
rebekah.cummings@utah.edu
• Not quite ready? We can help you get there!
– New partner interview
– Hub services
– Training and support
61. Winter Webinar Series
• Every two weeks, November – March
• Two series: Partner Series/ Digital Tech Topics
• Check mwdl.org for updates
Month
November
MWDL
Partner
Series
Partnering
with
the
Mountain
West
Digital
Library
Date*
Thursday,
11/21
11:00
am
None
Digital
Tech
Topics
Date*
N/A
December
MWDL
as
a
Service
Hub
Thursday,
for
the
Digital
Public
12/5
Library
of
America:
11:00
am
Update
and
Plans
HarvesJng
Using
the
Open
Archives
IniJaJve
Protocol:
What
can
your
OAI
stream
tell
you?
Tuesday,
12/17,
11:00
am
January
HosJng
Hubs
Update:
Services,
Pricing,
and
Highlights
Tuesday,
Digital
Asset
Management
System
1/7,
11:00
OpJons:
Report
of
the
DAM
Review
am
Task
Force
at
the
University
of
Utah
Libraries
(Kinza
Masood)
Tuesday,
1/21,
11:00
am
February
Partnering
with
the
Mountain
West
Digital
Library
Thursday,
2/6
11:00
am
Thursday,
2/20
11:00
am
March
Cultural
Heritage
IniJaJves:
Arizona
Memory
Project
and
Montana
Memory
Project
(Jen
Birnel/
Richard
Prouty)
Tuesday,
GeospaJal
Interfaces:
Examples
of
3/4,
11:00
innovaJve
front-‐end
interfaces
am
(Michelle
Olsen
and
the
geospaJal
interface
sub-‐group)
GeospaJal
Discovery:
IniJal
recommendaJons
from
the
task
force
(Kristen
Jensen/Liz
WoolcoY)
*Dates subject to change. Check website for updates.
Tuesday,
3/18
11:00
am
62. Hubs Meeting
• March 2014 (Exact date/location TBD)
• MWDL decision-making
– Partnership Agreement
– Price list
– Future services
• Opportunity to connect
with regional hub managers
– Share best practices
– Find out what other digital libraries are doing
– Discuss important digital library topics