Expanding a Regional Digital Library Collaborative: Facilitating the On-Ramp for More Libraries, Museums, and Archives

Expanding a Regional Digital Library Collaborative: Facilitating the On-Ramp for More Libraries,

Museums, and Archives

Rebekah CummingsJuly 10, 2013

University of Utah

Image found at: http://youngeducationist.com/

My background

Special Collections Silos

Outreach

Metadata

Innovation

OUTREACH

“May all your problems be technical”- Jim Grey

Starbucks – 11,000McDonalds – 14,000Public Libraries – 17,000Museums – 35,000

WE’RE EVERYWHERE!

Image courtesy of The Atlantic Cities, compiled for the National Civic Day of Hacking using IMLS data

Mountain West Collecting Institutions

The Salt Lake City Public Library

Parowan Old Rock Church Museum “Mother Town of the Southwest"

Outreach• Needs assessment

• Making connections

• Presentations

• Workshops

Raising the visibility of MWDL

• Social Media

• Conferences

• Webinars

• Testimonials

METADATA

“That which cannot be indexed, cannot be retrieved”- Marcia Bates

Sine loco [s.l.] = we don’t know where this item was published

Standardization

• July 10, 2013

• 10 July 2013

• July 10th, 2013

• 7/10/13

• 7/10/2013

• 07/10/2013

• 7-10-13

• 2013-07-10

• 2013-7-10• 07-10-2013• 7 – 10 – 13• 07 – 10 – 13• 07 – 10 - 2013• 7 – 10 – 2013• 07 – 10 – 2013• 07 – 10 – 2013

Crosswalks

Metadata Harvest

“Wheat Harvest” courtesy of Brigham Young University - Harold B. Lee Library. http://thoth.library.utah.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MWDL&afterPDS=true&docId=digcoll_byu_12RelEd/699

INNOVATION

“An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.”

- Stephen Fry

DPLA’s Scannebago

Cohen, D. (2013, May 22). Digital Public Library of America has Launched DP.LA. Los Angeles Public Library. Retrieved from http://dp.la/info/2013/06/11/video-dan-cohen-presents-at-los-angeles-public-library/

New Types of Collections

“Voting” Digital image courtesy of Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University.

K-12 Education Modules: Black History Month

Linked Open Data

Disambiguation: Madonna?

Wrapping it up

Questions?

More questions?

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