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Absent: David Caruso, Anna Headley, Hillary Kativa, Amanda Shields

 

Goal to get ppl from various dpts to have cross conversations and make decisions–inform various staff

Stephanie Lampkin intro, not even here yet!

Start having convos on standards, data, imaging, big picture stuff

Photo-Hillary's overview, recently created access database, been using 300dpi, may be interested in 400, cataloging in MARC, INTRODUCTION

MD: Goal: Conversation across departments; make CHF-wide decisions; inform various staff in our departments

  Future topics: standards and policies for metadata, imaging, rights and permissions

 

DEPT. OVERVIEWS

Photography - MD: read Hillary's overview- Word Doc. Hillary also recently created Access database revealed mostly been using 300dpi, some in 400dpi and above. Now cataloging in MARC and moved from object to folder/collection level cataloging

Jim-Rare Books - JV: European  Questioned what standards are for imaging to get funding digital projects - (MD/CL - 400 dpi) (, FADGI Guidelines), ; imaging standards discussion likely at next meetingrare book images from neville dig project, title pages of neville colelction, everybook wtih ). Images from Neville digital project to illustrate Neville collection, every book with little exception has title page and maybe a few more images, more plates from interesting books (random)technology ; technology changed, most valuable books imaged badly, first and poorly; good for reference still but otherwise worthlessbut not good for digital library, 5000 nevile Neville books, 3 images per book, thumbnail 15,000, images recorded in access database, filenames parsable, start off with bibrecord, loosely linked to catalog record with metadata, website . Website collections separate, one off, legacy data/images (about 50), largely same images, few instances taken for magazine, jim's . JV has also taken images personally, one offs given to andrea to upload to opac, shoots to highest res of camera, 70mb dropped 8mb, outside . Outside of neville Neville about 1500 books, working on workflow where books are imaged every year when they come in, ask elsa . Ask Elsa for paperwork from neville project, bob? Neville project. Former employee Bob Hull also has spreadsheet on what each image is , andrea will look for it- AT to send to MD and CL.

Erin-Museum collections, - EM: handout prepared by amanda, pp5 also document AS (not present). PastPerfect 5 also documents exhibitions, conservation and condition reports stored somewhere else, intern this summer surveying high/low res jpegs to determine concrete details, have a lot of assets in different places, don't have full control over, includes fine art, objects on website also one offs that were copy copied and pasted by hand

jim's data, can write script to recover data, but messier. pp5 data has historical inconsistencies.

Patrick/Archives: accessioning-excel files, pp5 used for stamp colleciton ; CL got data out of PastPerfect and began mapping, but needs clean-up.

Archives - PS: accessioning in Excel files, PP5 used for stamp collection and advertisements, haven't used in a while, no plans in future. accessioning Accessioning moving into archivespace ArchivesSpace module moving forward. Archival digitizing very rare outside of image collections, will do pdfs for access purposes to send offsite. processing Processing for media kept with a/v formats. finding Finding aids historically choosing choose local rules, moving forward marking up with eadEAD, with minimal dacs DACS requirements. accession Accession spreadsheet will stay because of museum crossover.

Lee/Oral Histories - LB: about 700 oral histories completed, 200 in various stages. all All have digital component, each interview gets standardized file strcuture structure on P Drive. Final comprised of Pdfs, word files, mp3s, wavs, digital photographs. Had excel Excel spreadsheets and access Access databases trying to capture info about all of these files–first spreadsheet then accessAccess database, stopped sometime 2008, then relied on HighOrbit (workflow software) to keep tha tinfo that info and track OH progress. Data extractable from highorbit system–with chuckHighOrbit system–with Chuck's help into access Access database, very hodgepodgy, cataloging in MARC as part of marc OPAC catalog, separately separate input into website CMS.

Andrea/Archives/OH/RB: Opac Library OPAC - AT: Catalog has 67,000 ind. titleindividual titles, 135,000 ind. item records, 165 of about 270 archival records with FA out of 270ishhave finding aids, 38 image colelction collection records with pdf fafinding aids, 4,303 records from neville, with Neville collection. With some title variation, use MARC, LCSH, original cataloging also shared on OCLC.

MD - imaging, rights, and data standards all over the place across dptsdepartments, rights statements at least 3 diff onesdifferent rights statements exist on website. Big project ahead.

 

Hydra Demo Links

HYDRA DEMO LINKS

MD - Hydra is a DAMS , that also offers backend preservation, images will be checksumed for file integrity. ALso Also has rights/access management, linked data capability. Not out-of-the-box solution, spanning all diff but can span diverse collections. Develop Will develop in house . Will be moving and move through project phases.Digital Commonwealth (image collection), All HYdra  All Hydra has faceted browsing, using metadata we input. Data has can have geolocation, link back to catalog, creative commons license, links to social media, has page turner mechanisms for books, zoom in on images, download PDFs or high res images.

Examples:

Digital Commonwealth (image collection), https://www.digitalcommonwealth.UCSDorg/ 

UC San Diego http://library.ucsd.edu/dc 

Institut del Teatre (museum, small institution) http://colleccions.cdmae.cat/

John Hopkins Levy Collection - view PDF download functionshort term plan, levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/ 

MD - Short term plan for website launch in november November with migrated data , from current website as digital collections site, later page. Later to be replaced by Hydra page as Collections on website.

Using website stuff  

METADATA INTRO

CL - Mapping data currently in website as intro to Dublin Core - flexible, has been used for by curators to describe all different types of collections CHF has, can be broad,

Dublin Core - object level cataloging that describes file and not whole bookthe digital file. So if it's an image from a book, it describes that image, not the whole book.

15 core elements - Example Publishing element can include localized fields and repeat fieldsCreator , Creator - person related to the creation;

LB: Can some departments enter more information than others? (MD - Yes, and we will meet with different departments individually after this meeting to agree guidelines)

JV: What will the workflow be? Jim- seems Seems like a lot of work. Cat: do you know some of the (MD - Combination of machine clean-up and human involvement, might be different for different departments, could explore two step QA process and centralizing digtization to employ library interns)

CL: Encourages staff to identify harder to catalog items? How , can explore how these would these map onto Dublin Core?

CL clarifies coding on metadata spreadsheet: Blue items on spreadsheet - descriptive metadata, about the content of the collection item; Green is administrative metadataNew , New ID - digital object identifier URI issued by system

JV - Rare Books - most won't be local guidelines, where do we pull controlled vocabularies? (CL identifying examples; MD to set meeting with JV afterwards to discuss rare books)

PS - Archives isn't wedded to what you've done - mapadvertisements any system; advertisements and stamps at item level - folder level on OPAC

CL - Do people want to keep divisions between departments as on current website? No - Archives and Rare Books in Library, but do we want to identify Rare Books as collection within Library? Ask Erin - does she

Should Rare Books be a separate collection from library?

anna building server infrastrucutre, starting with sufia

next phase is starting with object ingest–dublincore template

next want to keep Museum distinctions?

MD- First project phase: AH building server infrastructure, starting testing with Sufia (basic file ingest example for Hydra), next will try ingesting objects with out-of-the-box Dublin Core template

Next step is identifying core collection of about 50 objects from each curator, must be single image for ingestionbatch upload needs ingests, AT will work on batch upload scripts for mapping, sit down but needs to know what dataset will look like first. Depts to discuss top 50 items, level depth and quality of data they'll provide, and thinking about basic elementsJimwhich Dublin Core elements they want/need

JV: wants to see what's been done for rare books and dublin coreMeasurements Dublin Core at other institutions, ex. Measurements for rare books, ? (CL - Similar to various artifacts with different labels)

Discussion General discussion on taking messy data and images not according to standard, MD - do we move forward with things that don't meet guidelines? Having guidelines cross the board will help with grants and zoom functions.Not  Not all legacy stuff is items unusable–photographs and some past perfect museumPastPerfect museum items have good imaging and workable data. Think through how to centralize workflow–digitization queue.

PatrickPS: Archives to start by choosing object record of each file that is representative from each Finding Aid.Jim: Could archival collections that represent each Finding Aid, with a link to Finding Aid in OPAC.

JV: Rare Books could use the manuscripts that Penn digitized. Complex objects like fully digitized books will have to wait for page turning, but could do a representative image. Manuscripts still need to be cataloged in the OPAC.

LB: For oral histories, how to control access to audio and full transcript? Search everything, but not display everything? (MD-not positive yet, but we'll find a way. Oral histories unfortunately has to wait due to many unique requirements.Start with the sets, )

MD: Re: workflow, will start with these datasets and come up with stats and re:how much time it actually takes to develop, catalog and ingest.

PatrickPS: Plans for current CMS? MD/CL - no current plans for CMS. Different project, will pass on info from Night Kitchen as available. 

MD: Next step: Curators to go down list of fields and think what fields info they want to capture, coming up with 50 thingsidentify around 50 items to begin cataloging for first batch ingest, probably first start wiht with Hillary's image archives.

JV: Plans for search integration? MD- eventually could do a discovery layer like VUFind that integrates catalog and digital collections–pros n collections, but pros and cons to discuss. could also remain ; some benefit to them remaining separate catalogs. the For website launch, might have two searches, one searches website, other searches digital collections, could merge, but we want to use solr so likely won't be integrated. Could merge datasets for website, but needs more discussion. Early discussion with Night Kitchen revealed they have not worked much with Solr.