Supporting the curriculum with digital collections Thomas Farrell Digital Initiatives Librarian, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053 E-mail:

Supporting the curriculum Supporting the curriculum with digital collectionswith digital collections

Thomas FarrellThomas FarrellDigital Initiatives Librarian, Santa Clara Digital Initiatives Librarian, Santa Clara

University, Santa Clara, CA 95053University, Santa Clara, CA 95053

E-mail: E-mail: [email protected]

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Vancouver, BCVancouver, BC

October 27, 2009October 27, 2009

04/19/23 Supporting the curriculum Thomas Farrell AACE E-Learn

TraditionallyTraditionally Store and organize intellectual contentStore and organize intellectual content Provide public accessProvide public accessMore recently, provideMore recently, provide User-friendly discovery and retrieval interfacesUser-friendly discovery and retrieval interfaces Content access both onsite and from remote locationsContent access both onsite and from remote locations Preservation of content by digitizing materialsPreservation of content by digitizing materials Dissemination of items not locally housedDissemination of items not locally housed

Evolving library rolesEvolving library roles


Digital libraries - a recent Digital libraries - a recent product of this evolution.product of this evolution.

Philosophical originsVannaver Bush - 1945 article As We May Think

Practical enablersPractical enablers 1990s - rise of the Internet and the graphical 1990s - rise of the Internet and the graphical

World Wide WebWorld Wide Web


Some examplesSome examples

The Library of Congress's American Memory The Library of Congress's American Memory ProjectProject

CalisphereCalisphere

The American Memory Project from the Library of Congress

Calisphere from the University of California


Library/Faculty partnershipsLibrary/Faculty partnerships

HistoryHistory Material selectionMaterial selection information literacy teachinginformation literacy teaching topic-focused research training modulestopic-focused research training modules

Santa Clara University InitiativeSanta Clara University Initiative Construct custom digital collections of primary Construct custom digital collections of primary

source materials for course use. source materials for course use. Directly support the teaching mission of SCUDirectly support the teaching mission of SCU


Two examples from SCUTwo examples from SCU

The Holocaust Oral History ProjectThe Holocaust Oral History Project


Two examples from SCUTwo examples from SCU

The Mission Santa Clara Sacramental RecordsThe Mission Santa Clara Sacramental Records


Holocaust Oral History ProjectHolocaust Oral History ProjectOld modelOld model

Collaboration between the SCU English Department and the Collaboration between the SCU English Department and the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project (Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project (BAHOHPBAHOHP). ).

Students used VHS interview tapes to abstract content.Students used VHS interview tapes to abstract content.

LimitationsLimitations Consumer-grade players used for playback was damaging Consumer-grade players used for playback was damaging

to the tapesto the tapes As time went on, fewer students had access to videotape As time went on, fewer students had access to videotape

playersplayers The process of viewing analog tapes for abstracting The process of viewing analog tapes for abstracting

purposes was cumbersomepurposes was cumbersome SCU had no venue for presentation of student workSCU had no venue for presentation of student work


Holocaust Oral History ProjectHolocaust Oral History ProjectNew modelNew model

SCU University Library's Digital Initiatives departmentSCU University Library's Digital Initiatives departmentcreated a digital collection of the tapescreated a digital collection of the tapes Digital videos are presented with bibliographic and Digital videos are presented with bibliographic and

descriptive informationdescriptive information

StudentsStudents Add their content abstracts to the recordsAdd their content abstracts to the records Create audio-visual essays: a particular survivor, subject or Create audio-visual essays: a particular survivor, subject or

themetheme Incorporate related photo, video, and audio reference Incorporate related photo, video, and audio reference

material from other sourcesmaterial from other sources


Holocaust Oral History ProjectHolocaust Oral History ProjectChallenges and solutionsChallenges and solutions

Technical ChallengesTechnical Challenges No support infrastructure for digitizationNo support infrastructure for digitization

SolutionsSolutions New partnership between the Library and Media ServicesNew partnership between the Library and Media Services H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compressionH.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression New hardware/software for streaming videoNew hardware/software for streaming video Lab module added for digital editingLab module added for digital editing



Technical challengesTechnical challenges Insufficient metadataInsufficient metadata Basic subject metadata from BAHOHPBasic subject metadata from BAHOHP

SolutionSolution Produce extensible template based on emerging standards, Produce extensible template based on emerging standards,

using Dublin Core in an XML formatusing Dublin Core in an XML format


Holocaust Oral History ProjectHolocaust Oral History ProjectDigital video emerging standardsDigital video emerging standards

There are a variety of emerging standards There are a variety of emerging standards for the descriptive, administrative, and for the descriptive, administrative, and technical fields of digital video metadatatechnical fields of digital video metadata

There are a variety of emerging standards There are a variety of emerging standards for the descriptive, administrative, and for the descriptive, administrative, and technical fields of digital video metadatatechnical fields of digital video metadata


Holocaust Oral History ProjectHolocaust Oral History ProjectCollection metadataCollection metadata

Metadata fields and the Metadata fields and the corresponding DC corresponding DC mappingsmappings



Intellectual PropertyIntellectual Property No experience in contracts/licenses of this kindNo experience in contracts/licenses of this kind Student unfamiliarity with IP concepts for gathered Student unfamiliarity with IP concepts for gathered

materialsmaterials

SolutionsSolutions Negotiate a contract with a balance of University, student, Negotiate a contract with a balance of University, student,

BAHOHP interestsBAHOHP interests Librarian-taught module on proper attribution/use of Librarian-taught module on proper attribution/use of

outside materialoutside material


Holocaust Oral History ProjectHolocaust Oral History ProjectResults of the projectResults of the project

OutcomesOutcomes Objectively, student assessment scores have Objectively, student assessment scores have

increasedincreased Subjectively, student engagement has Subjectively, student engagement has

increasedincreased The interview content is digitally preservedThe interview content is digitally preserved


Mission Santa Clara Sacramental Mission Santa Clara Sacramental RecordsRecords

Collaboration among Collaboration among SCU LibrarySCU Library SCU History DepartmentSCU History Department Huntington Library and Research Center in San Huntington Library and Research Center in San

Marino, CaliforniaMarino, California

For use in SCU history class: population migrationFor use in SCU history class: population migration


Mission Santa Clara RecordsMission Santa Clara RecordsComponents and processComponents and process

SCU has handwritten volumes of the records of SCU has handwritten volumes of the records of sacramental ceremonies performed at the Mission sacramental ceremonies performed at the Mission between 1777 and 1850between 1777 and 1850

Huntington has a text-based relational database of Huntington has a text-based relational database of Sacramental recordsSacramental records

SCU supplied the volumes to the HuntingtonSCU supplied the volumes to the Huntington Huntington scanned to digital, supplied derived Huntington scanned to digital, supplied derived

metadatametadata


Mission Santa Clara RecordsMission Santa Clara RecordsChallenges and solutionsChallenges and solutions

Ease of use issuesEase of use issues The Huntington’s ECPP is useful for genealogists, The Huntington’s ECPP is useful for genealogists,

but very complexbut very complex

SolutionSolution Derive fields for a flat field text-searchable Derive fields for a flat field text-searchable

collection from the ECPP database for classroom collection from the ECPP database for classroom useuse


Mission Santa Clara RecordsMission Santa Clara RecordsMetadata fieldsMetadata fields

The fields allow searching The fields allow searching across a wide range of across a wide range of variablesvariables


Mission Santa Clara RecordsMission Santa Clara RecordsChallenges and solutionsChallenges and solutions

PreservationPreservation - Source documents - Source documents

are fragileare fragile - Scan to digital format- Scan to digital format

PreservationPreservation Source documents are fragileSource documents are fragile

SolutionSolution Scan to digital formatScan to digital format


Mission Santa Clara RecordsMission Santa Clara RecordsAdvantages of new modelAdvantages of new model

ECCP is session-basedECCP is session-based SCU collection has savable sub-collectionsSCU collection has savable sub-collections

ECCP is transcript-basedECCP is transcript-based SCU collection is graphical, showing the original SCU collection is graphical, showing the original

documentdocument

SCU collection API allows GIS, etc.SCU collection API allows GIS, etc.


Importance of metadataImportance of metadata

DC is a baseline standardDC is a baseline standard allows inclusion in WorldCatallows inclusion in WorldCat allows discovery by OA repositories, allows discovery by OA repositories,

GoogleGoogle

DC in XML form is software and platform DC in XML form is software and platform independent, adaptable to emerging independent, adaptable to emerging technologiestechnologies

Documents

Supporting the curriculum with digital collections Thomas Farrell Digital Initiatives Librarian, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053 E-mail: