4. Future:
• Born digital
– University records
– Student publications
• Web archiving
– University web content
• In progress via Archive-It
– Social media
• Digital special collections
6. Now:
• Digital Services Librarian
• Systems Specialist
• Brilliant student workers
• With help from:
– Archives and Special Collections
– Cataloging
– Library administration
– University Information Resources
8. Future:
• Flexible, project-based staffing
• Full implementation of workflow
• Better project tracking
• More collaboration with other University
departments, community partners
10. Now:
• In house
– Photographs
– Documents
– Negatives
– Slides
• Outsourcing
– Bound volumes
– Oversized materials
– Web archiving
11. Future:
• Digitization by:
– Campus and community partners
– Faculty and other scholars
– Donors
– Citizen archivists
• Digital accession:
– Automated harvest
– Digital submission
– Boxes of old CDs/floppies
• ASERL webinars
13. Now:
• Customized schemas for
specific collection needs
• Based on Dublin Core
• OAI-PMH enabled
– Best practices guide
• Map to MARC using
WorldCat Digital Collection
Gateway
• Collection level
– Object level
• Page/image level
19. Future:
• Automated harvesting
• User-submitted metadata and corrections
• Linked data!
• DPLA?
– 2-year pilot with Service and Content Hubs
– Metadata harvested from Hubs via OAI-PMH
– See draft DPLA metadata schema (RDF)
– Dataset available via API
29. Now
• Workstation holds full resolution
repository
• Onsite backup to external drives
• Offsite backup via Jungle Disk to
Amazon S3
• CONTENTdm server in data center
holds access images and metadata
• Some materials also available on
Internet Archive
• Archive-It stores web archiving
data
49. User feedback
“I just want to say thank you to the University for putting the yearbooks on
line. My father… graduated in 1940. I had not seen that photo in 30 years.”
“You have no idea how thrilled my sister and I are to see these images. My
father died when I was four so I never knew him.”
“My son… presented the pictures on a wall board that I recv’d at my
surprise 80th birthday party. My eight grandchildren were tasked with
finding ‘Pop-Pop.’ I appreciate all you have done in making the past
available for my family.”
“I’ve been wanting to access peer theses for years… it’s suddenly easy to do.”
52. Future
• More refined implementation and
frequent review of analytics
• Alerts for social media posts
• Articulate value of digital collections and
relation to University mission
