IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project Progress Update.
Presentation to Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA). October 2009. Incline Village, NV.
Full version of these slides is also available at the IMLS Digital Collections and Conent website at:
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/docs/cosla_FA2009_slides.pdf
IMLS DCC Progress Update to the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA)
1. IMLS DCC: Improving the Visibility and Value of Our Digital Cultural Heritage Richard J. Urban Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign COSLA, 27 October 2009
11. Emerging Strengths - Local History Main Street south from Third Street, ca.1890 Los Angeles New trolley tracks, Needham Corner, Main Street, Hartford, October 2, 1902. Tombrello Grocery Market 106 Main St. Birmingham, Alabama Main Ave., Durango, CO Oct. 1965 Sleigh Ride to Lake Tahoe
New Opening History Collection Policy 161 New IMLS funded collections 168 collections from Digital Library Federation (DLF) American Social History Online 391 collections from state libraries
Welcome recommendations from partners. Connecting with state blgs. Connecting to us from National Archives, etc.
Studies of researchers’ use of cultural heritage materials suggest that neither collection-level nor item-level metadata alone sufficiently meet their needs,. Problem is compounded when information is drawn from across libraries, archives, and museums into shared aggregations. Our current interfaces loosely connect collection-level descriptions and item-level records through hyperlinks, but our aim is provide users a quick sense of a collection's contours or the context from which items are drawn.
Studies of researchers’ use of cultural heritage materials suggest that neither collection-level nor item-level metadata alone sufficiently meet their needs,. Problem is compounded when information is drawn from across libraries, archives, and museums into shared aggregations. Our current interfaces loosely connect collection-level descriptions and item-level records through hyperlinks, but our aim is provide users a quick sense of a collection's contours or the context from which items are drawn.