Collections.ed – Launching the University Collections Online, Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh. This presentation was part of Repository Fringe 2014, which took place from 30th to 31st July 2014 in Edinburgh.

1. Collections.ed
Launching
the
University
Collections
Online
Ianthe
Sutherland
Repository
Fringe
2014

2. Background
• Repository
review
in
spring
2013
• Prolifera7on
of
project
websites
• Special
Collec7ons
requirements
• Digi7sed
content
(from
project
funding)
• Harves7ng
requirements
• Experience
and
knowledge
of
DSpace

3. Exposing
the
Collections
• More
“interac7ve”
exhibi7ons
• Greater
focus
on
audio/visual
elements
• Variety
of
metadata
schemas
• Casual
users
vs
domain
experts
• Working
closely
with
curators
• Metadata
ordering
• Specialist
ontologies

4. Why
use
DSpace?
• Team
experience
• Easy
to
import
data
• Quick
to
install
• Extendable
metadata
schemas
• Configurable
input
forms

5. DSpace
–
Collections
Manager
• Separate
DSpace
repository
from
our
research
publica7ons
repositories,
ERA
and
PURE
• Each
collec7on
can
then
have
administra7on
permissions
for
the
curators
• Addi7onal
metadata
fields
added
as
needed

6. Skylight
Solution
• Developed
by
the
Digital
Development
Team
at
The
University
of
Auckland
Library:
• Stuart
Lewis
(S)
-­‐
University
of
Edinburgh
• Kim
Shepherd
(K)
-­‐
University
of
Auckland
• Yin
Yin
La[
(Y)
-­‐
University
of
Auckland
• Thank
you
so
much
to
the
team
at
Auckland
for
their
support

7. Skylight
Solution
• Configurable
front-­‐end
• Faceted
search
and
browse
• Hidden
repository
• One
system
many
websites
• Template
to
make
sites
quick
to
launch
• Header
• CSS
• Sta7c
pages

8. SOLR
• Use
DSpace
discovery
• Schemas
determine
what
is
available
to
Skylight
user
interface
• In
theory
could
be
used
with
other
SOLR
indexes
–
not
7ed
to
DSpace

9. Architecture
Figure
from
Kim
Shepherd,
University
of
Auckland

10. Metadata
Munging
• Consistent
metadata
schema
needed
• Hierarchical
nature
• Searchable
• Browsable

11. Metadata
Munging
• Impor7ng
to
DSpace
from
• Museum
Collec7on
System
(Vernon)
• Archival
Systems
• Library
Management
System
• Metadata
‘munging’
gecng
from
different
standards
to
Dublin
Core
• Has
to
s7ll
be
useable
by
aggregators
• Not
the
na7ve
metadata
standard

12. Harvesting
and
Aggregation
OAI-­‐PMH
in
Dublin
Core
and
other
specialist
metadata
standards
• MIMO
h[p://www.mimo-­‐interna7onal.com
• Europeana
h[p://www.europeana.eu
• Cultural
Grid
h[p://www.culturegrid.org.uk
Art
dc
-­‐>
pndsdc
format-­‐>
UMIS
-­‐>
Culture
Grid
CLDs
dc
-­‐>
oai_rslp
format
-­‐>
UMIS
-­‐>
Culture
Grid
MIMEd
dc
-­‐>
lido
format
-­‐>
MIMO
-­‐>
Europeana
LUNA
vra
-­‐>
dc
format
-­‐>
European
Library
-­‐>
Europeana
Cloud

13. Design
of
Front-­‐End

26. Quick
Setup
for
New
Collection
• Can
use
DSpace
CSV
import
func7onality
• Used
official
University
colour
pale[e

29. Agile
Development
• Friday
releases
&
sprint
planning
for
the
week
ahead
• Using
JIRA
• Allocate
tasks
during
sprint
• Worked
very
well

32. What
Next?
• Currently
working
on
exam
papers
• Authen7ca7on
• Scocsh
Government
Books
• Exhibi7ons
• Skylight
2
/
Skylighter
• Improvements
currently
in
development
• Bootstrap
• DSpace
4

34. Code
on
Github
h[ps://github.com/skylightui/skylight

36. Live
Sites
• Collec7on
Level
Descrip7ons
h[p://collec7ons.ed.ac.uk
• Musical
Instruments
Museums
Edinburgh
h[p://collec7ons.ed.ac.uk/mimed
• Edinburgh
University
Art
Collec7on
h[p://collec7ons.ed.ac.uk/art
• Calendars
h[p://collec7ons.ed.ac.uk/calendars

37. Coming
Soon
• Exam
Papers
h[p://exampapers.ed.ac.uk
(coming
soon
UoE
only)
• IOG
h[p://
scocshgovernmentyearbooks.ed.ac.uk
• Exhibi7ons
h[p://exhibi7ons.ed.ac.uk

38. Thank
You!
• Any
ques7ons?
?
?
?