UNC’s Digital Library Project: Current Initiatives, Future Plans Megan Winget Academic Technology Specialist Office of Arts & Sciences Information Services UNC- Chapel Hill [email protected]Copyright Megan Winget, 2003. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.
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UNC’s Digital Library Project:Current Initiatives, Future Plans
Megan WingetAcademic Technology Specialist Office of Arts & Sciences Information ServicesUNC- Chapel Hill
Copyright Megan Winget, 2003. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission
Why have a digital library?– Address increasing demand for access– Improve access to institutional materials– Publish individual or departmental collections
Collections Information
10 Major collections, and 15,000 images, including:– Ackland Art Museum– The Visual Resources Library (Art Department)
Bodman Collection (Islamic Art) Crusader Art and Architecture
– Country / Western Collection Includes video and audio objects
Login Screen
Welcome Screen
Personal Space: Demo Folder
Courses
CLAR 20 – Organization
CLAR 20 – Chapter 1, viewing options
CLAR 20 – Contact Sheet
CLAR 20 - Slideshow
CLAR 20 – Study Guide
ART 030 - Organization
Language: Audio
Audio – Retrieval Options
Who’s Using the Digital Library
Average of 15 courses per semester covering 7 departments – approximately 500 students per semester.
Student Reactions
Summary of Student Satisfaction Survey Spring 2002 (250 Respondents, 7 Courses)– 85% used the service throughout the semester– 96% agreed that it was important to have web
access to media files for media-intense courses– 81% said that unlimited access to these materials
via the web increased understanding of concepts and ideas presented in the course
Faculty Reactions
More qualitative – we haven’t done a survey. However, we do have more and more faculty
and instructors using the service, so the word of mouth is good.
Collaboration / Co-Operation
Copyright:– Work closely with University’s legal counsel– Working with their interpretation of ‘fair-use’
Password protectedAccess is linked to a specific courseAccess ends when the course ends‘Use agreement’ in the works
Process of Adding Collections / Growing the System
Currently Digital Library is in a pilot phase – very ‘support-intensive.’
With the help and collaboration of the University’s central computer support (ITS) We’re moving towards a production model, where the faculty can have a little more control of the process / We can be more ‘hands off’
– Integration with SIS: Registered students given automatic access to classes
– Administrative interface: We can input data more efficiently– Rights management: Faculty can give access to colleagues,
TA’s – currently we’re doing that.
Moving Forward
Arts Departments– Art & Art History: Course template: additional
function of integrating the system into the departmental curriculum. For courses that have different faculty teaching each semester, provide course folder that includes core images
Ancient World Mapping Center
Moving Forward (2 of 3)
Science Departments– Integration of more science departments
Biology tends to have a lot of images, although we don’t often think of it that way
Interactive lab books They also have different kinds of images (radio
spectrometry, X-rays…)
Moving Forward (3 of 3)
Institutional Repository– D-Space / Eprints.org (open source models)– Content DM / Luna (commercial models)– ArtSTOR (Mellon Foundation – subscription
services for images in large collections / integration with existing image databases)
Conclusions
Difference between true collaboration and co-ordination and co-operation. All are good and necessary, but if you can get some true collaboration, the project will have greater chances of long-term success.