The AMICAL Digital Library

The AMICAL Digital LibraryJeff GimaAMICAL DirectorAmerican University of Paris

AMICAL Annual Conference6 April 2012

Cultural heritage materials

Building digital collections

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Interest in systems for managing digital collections (2006)

72% Highly interested

Interest in shared consortial platform for institutional or collaborative collections (2006)

56% Highly interested

Systems used by AMICAL institutions

A shared consortial platform…

available to every member of AMICAL

scaleable and financially accessible

consortially shared collections

member collections shared on AMICAL’s platform

virtual collections drawn from member collections

AMICAL pilot consortial system based on LUNA

The LUNA+Insight system – discovery and use

The LUNA+Insight system – collection building and management

The LUNA+Insight system –standards support

Unicode

CDWA, VRA, Dublin Core…

OAI-PMH

3 ways AMICAL members can use this:

1. Basic use of consortial license (no direct charge)

Shared 20GB

Community support

3 ways AMICAL members can use this:

1. Basic use of consortial license (no direct charge)

Shared 20GB

Community support

2. Active Participant (starting at $1000/yr)

20GB for institution

Direct support

3 ways AMICAL members can use this:

1. Basic use of consortial license (no direct charge)

Shared 20GB

Community support

2. Active Participant (starting at $1000/yr)

20GB for institution

Direct support

3. Institutional license (starting at $3000/yr)

Separate installation

Direct support

AMICAL Digital Library - A pilot project for consortially-shared collection building

Consortial platform

Consortial collections

AMICAL Digital Library Committee:

Carolyn Runyon, AUC (Chair)

Jeff Gima, AMICAL/AUP

Stell Asderi, ACT

Safia Rafikova, AUCA

Hohannes Kizogyan, AUA

Coordination

AMICAL Digital Library Committee

Charge:

Implementation decisions

Guidelines for participation

Post-pilot evaluation

AMICAL Digital Library – Pilot through January 2013

AMICAL Digital Librarydl.amicalnet.org