Digital Special Collections (DSC)

Digital Special Collections (DSC)

Rosalie Lack

rosalie.lack@ucop.edu

4 things we’re working on

1. UC Shared Images

2. OAC Redesign

3. Collection Development

4. Flickr: The Commons

1. UC Shared Images

BerkeleyDavisIrvineLos AngelesMercedRiversideSan DiegoSanta BarbaraSanta CruzCDL

One UC Shared Image

That was then… This is now!

Reminder of why we are doing this

That was then… This is now!

There’s images, and then there’s UC Shared Images

ARTstor

UC Shared Images: Current Contributors

UCB, UCI, UCSB, UCSC Coming very soon: UCR

Over 60,000 images

UC Shared Images in ARTstor

http://library.artstor.org

UC Shared Images

Message Amazing content is

available in ARTstor. Use it!

UC Shared Images building ONE UC collection

2. OAC Redesign

http://oac4.cdlib.org

Improved:Collection information always available

New!Digitized items icons

New!PDF for collection guide

ImprovedCollection guide display

ImprovedCollection guides in context

Title Auto Complete

Did you mean

Google Map

User comments “The map is really rad…”

“It seems like you talked to people using the current OAC site and fixed all the things that didn’t work well.”

“It's great to have the call# always visible in the header area! Bravo.”

“…clearly tells you when there are no digital items online”

Collections (EAD vs MARC)

Difference? What difference?

OAC Redesign

Message Major usability improvements

Added A LOT more content--15,000 MARC collection records

--20,000 MARC items records

3. Collection Development

OAC/Calisphere Collection Development Policyhttp://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/dsc/collection_policy/

Who can contribute What can and cannot be

contributed

Tools Scan (help us help you)

What we offer and what’s out there

http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/resources/onres_dig_domgmttools.html

CLIR Hidden Collections Grant

CA$H for creating finding aids!

Partnering with UCLA, CHRAB, CALIFA Offer many options

Vendor

Archivist Toolkit

OAC Templates

And more…

Show me the collections

Fill out our questionnaire!

http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/aaeg3c774

Consider being a grant “participant” to get your collection descriptions online

3. Collection Development

Message We want to help, contact

us

Fill out the questionnaire

4. Flickr: The Commons

Library of Congress: The Success Story

DSCers say: “Me too” (of 42 respondents, only 2 had no interest at all)

May 2009 scheduled launch

Account holder: CDLCDL profile page

Content from all contributors aggregated and updated in the CDL “photostream”

Collection: The Bancroft Library Collection: Oakland Public Library

Description of the Library on the collection page

Description of the Bancroft on the collection page

Set: ”Famous people and events”Set: ”Oakland in the 1950s”Set: “William C. Barry collection” Set: “1906 Earthquake”

CDL’s Collections

Why Flickr?

More usage Make collections available & easier to find

Provide another access point back to your

digital content Get content to where users already are Constant stream approach makes it a

dynamic site for cultural exploration

Why Flickr?

More metadata Gain new information about

collections

Why Flickr?

More advocates Win friendly support for cultural

heritage organizations Build a bond with users and mobilize

them to become advocates on behalf

of your institution and its mission

Why Flickr?

More community Flickr is a virtual reading room The opportunity to exchange

information could be as important as the increased views of collections

Flickr is here

We get amazing stories now

Flickr provides a forum for current and new users to share with others, us, and each other

Most of the comments on Flickr are folks talking to each other

Current “comments” “…you have two or three pictures 'untitled' which are clearly Niagara Falls, from the Canadian side, circa 40's or early 50's, before the American observation deck was added.”

“Carl Klindt is my grandfather. Would you like more information on him? I would be happy to share the story of how he came to be in this photo.”

“I am very happy to have seen your site, the cannery that you have so gratefully chosen to talk about, was owned and operated by my Grandfather and his brother and family. Frank Perrelli my Grandfather lived in Richmond California, my mother Clare Perrelli his daughter, had three daughters of her own, and I am the middle child, born in Oakland Calif. in 1952. We spent every Sunday with my grandparents, the dinners were the traditional Italian meals each and every time, I can say I have learnt lot from them.”

Message Reach out to current users

and cultivate new ones Coming soon!

Questions?

Rosalie Lack

rosalie.lack@ucop.edu