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WHAT IS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS?
THE UNIT
THE PROJECT
Digital Collections as a “repository”
• One back-end database that could be searched through multiple web fronts…
• But a common repository interface that can accommodate everything
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
What’s the Big Picture
Our Needs• Ending the creation of more “silos”• Allows us to standardize our own procedures for
metadata and digitization• The ability to absorb digitized items in a
continual, ad hoc processOur Users’ Needs• Easy ability to browse through the repository• More power to follow connections between items• Access to as many items as we can make
available, even if they aren’t perfect
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS: BEHIND THE SCENES
Web interface
SQLDatabase
objects
Index
XML database
Request / Initialize Project
Digitization
Metadata
Programming
Request / Initialize Project
Current Selection Model: Ad Hoc
• We collect into the repository objects digitized via day to day activities– Patron requests– Exhibit/publication needs– Preservation needs
• So far the department has done ALL of the digitization, but this may change to a more distributed system
• The individual digital objects are added and when possible added to generic “thematic” collections
• They are also linked to finding aids whenever possible
Selecting “collections”
• Larger groups of materials to digitize– Perhaps small collections or parts of collections– Perhaps across collections–More than 50 scans OR anything requiring
audio or visual conversion– No pressing deadline
• Can have a “collection” status online or can simply be added to the repository
• MUST be free of copyright and privacy issues
Digitization
Metadata
Programming
WHAT’S NEXT FOR DIGITAL COLLECTIONS?
What’s Next?
The Good:• Implementing the OAI-PMH to expose records• More collection-based digitization• Revamping our EAD interface and the navigation between
finding aids and the digital repository• Migrating the objects in older static-HTML exhibits into the
new repository• Adding more audio• Participating with UNC-CH and the State Library on an NC
ECHO grant• Developing the NC Digital Collections CollaboratoryThe Bad:• An operating budget of close to $0 (our equipment is still in
pretty good shape and we recently bought some space)The Ugly:• A dramatic decrease in student help