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Kentucky Digital LibraryFrom Boutique to Mass Digitization

+Content

Finding Aids

Photographs

+Content

Photographs Maps

+Content

Images Books on Microfilm

+Content

Books on Microfilm

Newspapers

+Content

ObjectsOral

History transcripts

+Boutique

Early projects – looked goodNot cost effectiveNot scalableBut formative

+Beyond the Shelf - 2002

Microfilm to digital (books)Focused on making perfect digital objects

Labor intensive

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How About Newspapers????

+Newspaper digitization

NDNP Standards set by LCHigh volumeDo parts of the process that require our expertise

+Didn’t really learn our lesson

Daily Racing FormVery complicated specificationVery expensive

+Archival Collections

More Product Less ProcessArchivist’s ToolkitExport EAD

+Archival Collections

Tweak Workflow for VolumeProcess collections at folder level

Digitize collections as they are in the folders

+Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS)Making oral history searchableTime stamp transcriptMoving beyond the transcriptPlug ins for other CMS

+Education and Training

Metamorphosis film to digital workshops

Moving to an online learning environment

+CollectionsNewspapers (800,000 pages)Books (300,000 pages)Finding Aids (5,000)Photographs (110,000)Archival folder contents (22,000)Oral Histories (800)Maps (4,700)Other paginated publications (200,000)

+Jewels in the Crown

Kentucke Gazette – 1789 – 1849Civil War collectionsWPA materialsCivil rights materialsFrom Combat to KentuckyDaily Racing Form

+Grants1998 – NHPRC Planning Grant $10,0002000 = INSO Corp Dynaweb SGML -

$30,0002002 – IMLS National Leadership

“Beyond the Shelf” - $230,0002005 – NEH NDNP - $310,0002005 – NEH Appalachian Collections -

$250,503

+Grants

2006 – Keeneland Daily Racing Form - $625,000

2007 – NEH NDNP2 - $399,8862009 – NEH NDNP - $393,0812011 – NEH NDNP - $107,2522011 – IMLS NLG OHMS - $195,853

+Infrastructure

1999 – Dynaweb SGML2001/2002 – SiteSearch2003/2004 – migrated to DLXS2011/12 – migrated to micro-services repository with Blacklight discovery layer

+Repository Infrastructure

BlacklightDAITSS

Micro servicesFile Store

+Going forward

Automating everything that we canFocusing on creating tools and servicesContinuing to streamline digitization

workflowCreating more structure and guidelines