IMLS DCC Project Briefing ( ) Jenny Benevento ( benevent@uiuc.edu ) Timothy W. Cole

IMLS DCC Project Briefing(http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/)

Jenny Benevento (benevent@uiuc.edu)Timothy W. Cole (t-cole3@uiuc.edu)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Statewide Digitization Planners Meeting25 June 2005

@ ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL

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Context

Project began December 2002 Project Objectives:

Implement a collection registry of digital collections created or developed with funding from IMLS NLG program

Use OAI-PMH to implement an item-level metadata repository for content objects contained in NLG collections

Carry out associated research related to: Utility and usability of Registry & Repository Current metadata practices of IMLS NLG grantees Implications for interoperability (Framework of

Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections)

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Accomplishments to Date

Collection Registry publicly accessible:http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/collections/

Item-Level Metadata Repository ready for public release Selected Research Publications to Date:

Shreeves, S.L. & Cole, T.W. 2003. Developing a Collection Registry for IMLS NLG Digital Collections [Poster Abstract]. In DC-2003: Proceedings of the International DCMI Metadata Conference and Workshop p. 241-242.

Cole, T.W. & Shreeves, S.L. 2004. Search and discovery across collections: The IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project. Library Hi Tech 22(3): 307-322

Palmer, Carole L. and Ellen M. Knutson. 2004. Metadata practices and implications for federated collections. In Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology , Edited by Linda Schamber & Carol L. Barry. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc: 456-462.

Shreeves, S.L., Knutson, E.M., Stvilia, B., Palmer, C.L., Twidale, M.B., & Cole, T.W. (2005). Is ‘quality' metadata ‘shareable' metadata? The implications of local metadata practice on federated collections. In H.A. Thompson (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 7-10 2005, Minneapolis, MN . Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.

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IMLS-DCC Collection Registry

108 primary NLG collection records Includes additional 40 records for sub-collections Also 29 associated / 61 physical collections

158 projects represented Objects represented in registered collections

Images: prints, posters, photographs Text: books, archival finding aids, newspapers Digital surrogates of physical objects: artifacts, specimens,

textiles Sound: oral histories, sound files, wax cylinders Interactive resources Moving image Datasets

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Collection-Level Description

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IMLS-DCC Metadata Repository

30 collections represented 35 repositories harvested ~200,000 item-level records indexed

Harvest in Simple Dublin Core & MARC 21 XML Testing with Qualified Dublin Core

Issues explored: How metadata best practices are being adopted Interface customization based on audience Local context versus global context Intentional creation and collection development of digital

collections

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Sample of Metadata Statistics http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/resources.htm#shareablemetadata

Collection 1 Collection 2 Collection 3 Collection 4

Number of records in collection

27,444 14,425 1,599 35

Type of collection

Large collaborative digitization project

Large academic library

Small academic library and public library collaboration

Small academic library

% of records with DC element <title>

100 99 100 100

% of records with DC element <creator>

59 100 57 83

% of records with DC element <subject>

97 100 57 0

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Plans for next 2 years

Proposal in to IMLS to extend grant

Will add a handful of Illinois LSTA-funded projects in 2006 More LSTA projects in 2007

Themes for proposed extension Metadata normalization, transformation, and enrichment Interface & metadata design for targeted audiences Collection Identity & metadata granularity Knowledge diffusion of metadata best practices What’s next?

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Contact information

Tim Cole

PI, IMLS Digital Collections and Content

University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign

t-cole3@uiuc.edu

Jenny Benevento

Project Coordinator, IMLS Digital Collections and Content

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

benevent@uiuc.edu

217-244-7809

Presentation available at http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/about.htm