Brief presentation of CONTENTdm digital library project named Picturesque Church and Monastery Buildings in Bulgaria. The URL of my digital collection is: http://cdm15851.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15851coll105

1. Picturesque Church and
Monastery Buildings in Bulgaria
Digital collection developed by:
Marina Georgieva
Collection URL:
http://cdm15851.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/coll
ection/p15851coll105April 2015

2. Digital collection creation
Scenario
Scenario
• Bulgarian Cultural Heritage Institute: a
fictitious organization that develops and hosts
the collection
• Project purpose: promotion of Bulgarian
Cultural Heritage Sites as the ultimate goal is
to attract tourist from all over the world
• Project scope: Religious Heritage Sites in
Bulgaria from the period 5th through 19th
century.
• Religious heritage sites is subdivision of
Bulgarian Cultural Heritage Sites that focus
on church and monastery buildings with
architectural value
A view from the HOME page of the collection

3. Digital collection creation
Project realization
Project realization steps
• Deciding on the project scope in the context of the
scenario outlined in slide 2
• Gathering resources from organizations and
individuals (donations and permissions of use)
– URLs
– Photographs
– Films
– Books
• Creating resources especially for the collection
– Pamphlets with slides
– Audio recordings
– Video recordings
• Processing the analog resources
– Scanning photographs at 600 dpi | saving them in JPG
– Scanning books at 300 dpi | saving them in PDF
• Processing the digital resources
– Generating various formats of the audio-visual resources
– Retouching photographs in Photoshop when necessary
(adjusting contrast, brightness, color; cropping, removing logos
etc.)
• Developing metadata application profile (see slide
4 for details)
• Developing metadata template in CONTENTdm
based on the metadata application profile (see slide
5 for details)
• Organizing the digital collection for access
– Searching features | customized Quick View
– Suggested topics | facets | customized browsing
• Creating identity for the digital collection (see slides
12÷14 for details)
• Creating About and Help section (see slide 15 for
details)

4. Digital collection creation
Organizing the collection for access: METADATA
Page 1 from the MAP developed to meet the needs of the collection
Metadata Application Profile
• Important for developing local element set
• Facilitates the metadata creation
• Provides vital information for the metadata input
– Element name that’s displayed in the public interface
– Concise definition explaining the element scope
– Obligation of elements [Mandatory vs. Required vs. Optional]
– Occurrence of elements [Repeatable vs. Non-repeatable]
– Encoding schemes used with the various elements (TGN | TGM |
LCSH | AAT | ISO 6709 | W3CDTF, etc.)
– Mapping to the most appropriate Dublin Core element for data
interchange and OAI-PMH contribution
– Detailed input guidelines for clarity and examples for illustration of
correct metadata creation and consistency
• Promotes consistency of the collection metadata in
the long-run by giving specific rules, instructions and
examples for the metadata creators

5. Digital collection creation
Organizing the collection for access: METADATA
Part of CONTENTdm Metadata Fields based on MAP
CONTENTdm Metadata Fields
• Entirely organized on the MAP (slide 4)
• Consists of a local metadata element set featuring 25
elements, 12 of each are mandatory.
• Mandatory elements cannot be skipped during the
process of entering metadata, because they provide
vital information for the record
• The element Description is a Full Text Search
elements that facilitates the users in locating a
resource
• The elements are arranged in a way that provides
the most significant information for the resource first
and anything less important comes towards the end
• Regardless the optional character of some elements,
I strive for rich and descriptive metadata records
by doing my best to fill all the fields

6. Digital collection creation
Organizing the collection for access: METADATA
Specific Metadata Fields
• Purpose: to facilitate the potential tourists who plan
a trip to Bulgaria by giving them important information
about the name and the location of the historical site
• Fields with metadata in Bulgarian
– Purpose: to give the users the exact spelling of the names as they
appear in highway signs and road/online maps. Additionally in the
location element the ZIP code and the county are provided for
convenience
– Fields:
• Church/Monastery Name
• Church/Monastery Location (LAF)
• Geographic Coordinates field is intended to
disambiguate the exact location of the
historical site for buildings with very similar
names or located in the same county
Specific metadata fields circled in red

7. Digital collection creation
Organizing the collection for access: BROWSING
Browsing functionalities
• Buttons that promote browsing: Browse All | Audio |
Video | Books | Photographs | Monastery Guides
– Browse All provides access to all the items hosted in the
collection. The user can further narrow the results by applying
facets (see video tutorials at the end of the presentation)
– Audio | Video | Books | Photographs | Monastery Guides
buttons provide quick access and enable the users to browse in
the different categories. These buttons basically sort out the
resources according to their format and are convenient for the
user instead of having him to perform a format search himself
• Facets
– Located in the left navigation menu
– Time-saving and effortless browse result refinement
– Narrow your search by: allows the users to further refine the
browsing/searching by applying different filters
– Browse suggested topics: conveniently lists how many resources
are hosted in each of the subcategories and facilitates the user to
quickly switch to browsing a specific type of church/monastery
Buttons that promote browsing
Facetsontheleft
circledinred

8. Digital collection creation
Organizing the collection for access: BROWSING
Home screen browsing
• Home screen browsing allows the
users to quickly jump into the
collection without any initial
frustration how to get started
• Browse these suggested topics
(located below the collection
description) conveniently lists the
categories and the number of
resources in each of them. Users
can quickly access any of them by
following the links
• Recent additions allows the
returning users to browse what has
been recently uploaded to the
collection without the need to
browse through all the items
Home screen browsing:
Browse suggested topics (bottom) | Recent additions (right)

9. Digital collection creation
Organizing the collection for access: SEARCHING
Basic search
• This is the most intuitive search type. Users simply
need to type a keyword in the search box under the
navigation bar
• Basic search type searches for match of the entered
query within all the fields of the resources
• It usually has high recall
• Users can further narrow the search results by
applying facets available on the left
Full text search
• Very convenient feature that enables the users to
search within the description field of each resource
• Full text search box is located above the resource
description right below the title of the item
• Great for items that provide transcript of the
audio/video
Basic search box below the navigation bar
Facets for search refinement
Full text search in description field

10. Digital collection creation
Organizing the collection for access: SEARCHING
Advanced search
• This is the most precise type of search
• The default advanced search searches within the
Church/Monastery Type (AAT)
• Enables users to search in a specific field
• Enables users to search in multiple fields
simultaneously
• Enables users to search by keywords and exact
phrases
• Enables users to exclude a word or a phrase
from their search
• Supports Boolean operators search [AND | OR]
• This all is achieved by selecting various options
from the dropdown menus
• For demonstration please check the video
tutorials
Advanced search: Top: Select search mode | Middle: Select search
field | Bottom: Search in 2 fields with applied Boolean operator

11. Digital collection creation
Evaluating search/browse results: QUICK VIEW
Quick View
• Great tool for users to quickly and easily assess
the usefulness of the search/browse results
• Blue color of Quick view box makes it easily
distinguishable
• Quick view enables users to quickly access:
– Resource title
– Resource collection
– Church/Monastery name in Bulgarian
– Church/Monastery location encoded in TGN format
– Church/Monastery type encoded in AAT format
• Quick view is activated by hovering over the
resource image or the resource title
• Quick view works equally well in search mode
and in browse mode
• Quick view works equally well in both Thumbnail
and Grid display options
Quick view helps item assessment

12. Digital collection creation
Designing the interface: OVERVIEW
Home page layout
• Distinguishable
• Stylish
• Easy to remember
• Bright colors to attract
attentions
• Customized logo for
adding identity
• Customized image collage
with some featured
buildings that represent the
collection
• Brief collection
description
• Customized Recent
additions menu

13. Digital collection creation
Designing the interface: ADDING IDENTITY
Logo
• The specially designed logo
adds identity to the collection
and makes it stand out from
similar collection
– The tricolor background represents
the Bulgarian flag
– The figures of the 2 saints to the left
represent prominent Bulgarian
brothers who created the Cyrillic
alphabet in the distant 9th century
– The color graphic to the right features
the notable Rila Monastery – a symbol
of Bulgaria
Image Collage
• Represents the collection
• Intrigues users to explore it
• Displays prominent historic
buildings with architectural value
The logo of the collection
The image collage represents collection

14. Digital collection creation
Designing the interface: INTERFACE CONFIGURATION
Custom interface configurations
• Add additional identity to the collection
• Facilitate navigation through the collection
• Emphasize on the important elements
Applied configurations
• Adjusted appearance of the text [changing font style | font size | font color]
• Adjusted appearance of the result page [selected display option Grid view]
• Customized Image viewer [blue background | zoom levels]
• Customized PDF viewing option [PDF can be opened as a link]
• Enabled user-generated content [rating | tagging | comments | sharing]
• Enabled output options [print | download | save | share | email]

15. Digital collection creation
ABOUT US | HELP sections
About us
• Provides important information for the users
• Introduces the digital initiative and the project
• Has the following subsections:
– Collection scope
– The project and the audience
– Collection policy
– Recommendations
• Linguistic skills
• Software
– Support us
– Credits
– Copyrights and permissions
– Contact information
Help
• Supplements the general CONTENTdm help
section
• Written in plain language without any terminology
• Aims to disambiguate any confusion
• Aims to provide answers to FAQ
• Provides video tutorials and demonstrations
• Has the following subsections:
– Format | Playing media | Online Streaming
– Downloading | Viewing resources
– Permanent links to items
– Users’ contribution
– Quick view
– Language | Abbreviations
– Copyrights and permissions

16. Digital collection creation
ABOUT US | HELP screenshots
Help section (p. 1)
About us section (partial view)

17. Digital collection creation
Visual aids
Video tutorials
• Important part of the help section
• Demonstrate the users how to navigate |
search | browse the collection
• Introduce tips and tricks for efficient search
• Great for novice users
• Appropriate for expert users who need a quick
refresher
• Great for users who access the digital collection
outside the business hours and cannot get help
over the phone
• Quick starter that saves time and frustration
Links to video tutorials
• Intro | Navigation
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R5EPxMBeE
I&feature=youtu.be
• Exploring collection
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81q9ya1tOmA
&feature=youtu.be
• Searching collection
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad54syMA4sc
&feature=youtu.be
• About | Help
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
t4D2rf30yc&feature=youtu.be

18. Digital collection evaluation
Criteria
Evaluation criteria
• The outlined criteria are from users’ perspective
• During the development of the collection these criteria were taken under consideration for achieving the
ultimate goal of the project: informative and interesting digital library that not only attracts users to search
for resources but also encourages users to actively participate in the development by donating items
or providing permission of use. Additionally the digital library is a mini-social network where users can
actively share thought and insights for various resources.
• Criteria:
– Interface usability [search | browse | navigation]
– IR efficiency and effectiveness
– Information organization
– User satisfaction
– Aesthetic appearance

19. Interface usability
[search | browse | navigation]
• The collection promotes easy navigation by variety of
navigation buttons and quick links. All navigation
elements are in legible font style, visible font color and
appropriate size
• The collection supports excellent search functionality by
providing basic and advanced search supplemented by
full text search in the Description field. Moreover, the
search results can be further refined which promotes high
precision
• Browsing is very intuitive: users can browse from the
home page or anytime when they are reviewing the
results – by accessing the browse by topic option of the
left side of the screen
IR efficiency and effectiveness
• These are a result of the combined efforts of the
interface usability and the information organization
• In Picturesque Church and Monastery Buildings
in Bulgaria IR efficiency and effectiveness is made
possible by the rich and well-structured metadata in
the records as well as opulence of search and browse
features
Digital collection evaluation
Applying evaluation criteria

20. Digital collection evaluation
Applying evaluation criteria
Information organization
• Knowing the crucial effect of well-structured and consistent
information organization in any digital library, when designing
Picturesque Church and Monastery Buildings in Bulgaria,
I made my best efforts to meet this important criterion that is
tightly interrelated with IR efficiency and effectiveness
• Controlled vocabularies are used in 10 of the fields to
ensure ultimate organization of the data
• List with controlled vocabularies
– TGN = Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
– LAF = Local Authority File specially developed for this project
– AAT = Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
– TGM = Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
– LCSH = Library of Congress Subject Headings
– ISO 6709 = Geographic coordinates
– W3CDTF = W3C Data and Time Format
– IMT = Internet Media Type
– DMCIType = Dublin Core Type of Resource
– ISO 639-2 = Library of Congress Language Codes
Aesthetic appearance
• All efforts have been done to make the digital
collection visually compelling with aesthetically
pleasing and stylish design
User satisfaction
• By allowing to users to actively express opinion and
comments and provide feedback we can judge about
their satisfaction
• Checking the statistics of the website (number of
viewing, downloading, printing items) also provides
vital information about users’ satisfaction
• I will be happy to have your feedback because there
is always room for improvement!

21. The end
Thank you for your time!
I hope you have enjoyed the collection!
Your feedback is highly appreciated!
Picturesque Church and Monastery Buildings in Bulgaria
URL:
http://cdm15851.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15851coll105
Copyright 2015 Marina Georgieva