Welcome to the Mountain West Digital Library: The Power of Partnership

Welcome to theMountain West Digital Library

The Power of Partnership

Overview

• The MWDL Collaborative• Resources of a Region• Working with an MWDL Hub• Sharing Regionally• Interoperability• Digital Public Library of America• Open Invitation

• Formed in 2001:A program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium

Mountain WestDigital Library

Mountain West Digital Library

Goals: Help more organizations to digitize

materials about our region’s history and cultural heritage

Maintain a public portal to digital collections in the Mountain West region – Make content accessible to everyone– Offer local control – Keep it low cost– Standardize for interoperability

http://mwdl.org

MWDL Staff

• Sandra McIntyreDirector

• Rebekah CummingsAssistant Director/Outreach Librarian

• Anna NeatrourDigital Metadata Librarian

• Nick HayenWeb Portal Assistant

MWDL Infrastructure Support

• J. Willard Marriott Library at University of Utah

• Occasional help from other partner institutions

Partners• Academic libraries• Academic departments• Archives (counties, states,

etc.)• Historical societies• Museums• National heritage areas• Natural history associations• Public libraries• Publishers • Academic presses• State Libraries• Other state agencies

Partners

In these states:• Utah• Nevada• Arizona• Idaho• Hawaii• Soon: Montana

Governance and Consultation

• UALC Council of Directors• UALC Digitization Committee• Advisory Committee (in formation)• Broader input groups

Funding

• UALC funding• DPLA grants through Fall 2014

RESOURCES OF A REGION

Digital access

Viola Jimulla (1878-1966)

Types of resourcesin MWDL

• Photographs• Maps, plans, and drawings• Artworks• Scholarly documents (“institutional repository”)• Music, other sounds• Videoclips, animations, Powerpoint

presentations• Books• Minutes, log books, plans, bills and ordinances• Birth and death records• Finding aids (“series guides,” “inventories”)

Over 805,000 resourcesin 572 collections

Pioneers

Uintah County Library

Settling the West

University of Nevada, Reno Library

Great Salt Lake

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library

Basque

Idaho State Historical Society

African-American

Utah State Historical Society

Greek

Utah State Historical Society

Latino/Latina

Raul H. Castro Institute

Japanese-American Internment Camps

Topaz Museum

Militarization

Delta City Library

Use/Abuse of the Land

Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library

Managing Scarce Water

University of Nevada, Reno

Freely accessible on the Internet

Searchable metadata

Access

• More accessibility of resources:Free, round-the-clock, round-the-world access

• Increased discoverability of items• Less wear and tear on

fragile items

WORKING WITH AN MWDL HUB

Digitization and hosting

Grand Canyon from Point McKinnon on the North Rim.

MWDL Hosting Centers (“Hubs”)

Mountain West

Digital Library

Univ of

Utah

BYU

Southern Utah

Univ

Utah Valley Univ

Utah State Univ

Weber State Univ

Salt Lake Comm. College

Utah State

Archives

Utah State

Library

Univ of Nevada

Las Vegas

Univ of Nevada Reno

Utah Dvsn Arts &

MuseumsIdaho State

Archives

Arizona Memory Project Snow

CollegeNorthern Arizona

UnivUniv of Idaho

Family

Search

LDS Church History

Montana Memory

Stacks

(Idaho)

Boise State

Digital Assets Management

Systems

NW Digital Archives: Utah EAD

FilesBYU Finding

Aids Repository

Tiered Services

• Distributed network• Flexible and scalable• Consolidates equipment and

expertise• Reinforces standards

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Tiered Services

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Services from Hubs

• Matched to a hub in your geographic or organizational area

• Fee-based services:– Digitization– Training in assigning metadata– Online hosting in digital assets

management system– Metadata shared for MWDL harvest– Long-term preservation (some hubs)

New collection

SHARING REGIONALLY

Metadata harvested into MWDL

Joe’s Valley Reservoir, Central Utah

Infrastructure: Ex Libris Primo

• An integrated discovery system• Powerful harvesting of digital

collections• Powerful searching and faceting• “Did you mean...?” suggestions • Online delivery via pointing to link

• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)for transmitting metadata over the Web http://openarchives.org– Based on XML– Commonly used for harvesting

International Protocols

New collection

MWDL Services

• Additional training for partners• Metadata aggregation• Powerful central search• Sharing metadata for Digital Public

Library of America (DPLA) harvest• Collaboration on standards and

technology• Advocacy and funding

INTEROPERABILITYWorking together to make it happen

Record in DAMS

Dublin Core record via OAI

Results in MWDL

Standards and Policies

Standards and Policies

• Mountain West Digital LibraryPartnership Agreement– Partner retains control – Partner sets digitization priorities– Partner ensures privacy and other legal

considerations– Partner selects the ‘branding’ for its

collections

Standards and Policies

• Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) document:Digital Imaging Best Practices

Standards and Policies

• Qualified Dublin Core

• Metadata mappings to QDC from other systems

• 8 required fields; 2 other mandatory-if-applicable fields

• Preservation fields recommended

Standards and Policies

Standards and Policies

Current initiatives

• Digital Assets Management System Interest Group

• Geospatial Discovery Task Force• Training and Outreach

subcommittees• Scanning events: “Pioneers in Your

Attic”• Linked Data Task Force – new!• Digital Preservation Task Force – new!• Data Curation Interest Group – new!

DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA

Participating on a national stage

Map at http://dp.la

What is the DPLA?

The Digital Public Library of America

will make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all.

National partners

• Institute for Museum and Library Services• Smithsonian Institution• National Archives & Records Administration• Harvard University• New York Public Library• Biodiversity Heritage Library• ARTStor• Univ. of Virginia Libraries• Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Cham. Library• Internet Archive• Hathi Trust• Creative Commons

Executive Director Dan Cohen

Digital Hubs Pilot

Create the on-ramp for memory institutions – libraries, archives, and museums – to contributing content to the Digital Public Library of America

Digital Hubs PilotService Hubs

1.Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts) 2.Digital Library of Georgia 3.Kentucky Digital Library 4.Minnesota Digital Library 5.South Carolina Digital Library6.Mountain West Digital Library

OPEN INVITATION

Jumping on board

An invitation to an inspection and wetting-down party. Brigham Young University – Hawaii

Campus.

Invitation to repository managers

1. Open up your metadata for harvest2. Link to MWDL and DPLA on your web

pages3. Collaborate on standards and

controlled vocabularies4. Be curious about new opportunities

for cooperation and sharing

Invitation to collectionmanagers

• Contact:Rebekah CummingsMWDL Assistant Director(801) 587- [email protected]

• Not quite ready? We can help you get there! – New partner interview – Hub services– Training and support

Winter Webinar Series

• Every two weeks, November – March• Two series: Partner Series/ Digital Tech Topics• Check mwdl.org for updates

Month MWDL Partner Series Date* Digital Tech Topics Date*November Partnering with the

Mountain West Digital Library

Thursday, 11/2111:00 am

None N/A

December MWDL as a Service Hub for the Digital Public Library of America: Update and Plans

Thursday, 12/511:00 am

Harvesting Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol: What can your OAI stream tell you?

Tuesday, 12/17, 11:00 am

January Hosting Hubs Update: Services, Pricing, and Highlights

Tuesday, 1/7, 11:00 am

Digital Asset Management System Options: Report of the DAM Review Task Force at the University of Utah Libraries (Kinza Masood)

Tuesday, 1/21, 11:00 am

February Partnering with the Mountain West Digital Library

Thursday, 2/611:00 am

Geospatial Discovery: Initial recommendations from the task force (Kristen Jensen/Liz Woolcott)

Thursday, 2/2011:00 am

March Cultural Heritage Initiatives: Arizona Memory Project and Montana Memory Project (Jen Birnel/Richard Prouty)

Tuesday, 3/4, 11:00 am

Geospatial Interfaces: Examples of innovative front-end interfaces (Michelle Olsen and the geospatial interface sub-group)

Tuesday, 3/1811:00 am

*Dates subject to change. Check website for updates.

Hubs Meeting

• March 2014 (Exact date/location TBD) • MWDL decision-making

– Partnership Agreement– Price list – Future services

• Opportunity to connect with regional hub managers– Share best practices– Find out what other digital libraries are

doing– Discuss important digital library topics

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Questions?

• Sandra McIntyreDirector(801) [email protected]

• Rebekah CummingsAssistant Director/Outreach Librarian(801) [email protected]