PRDLA

2009 ODiL Update: UCSD [PPT]

The definition and purpose of crowdsourcing and social engagement with users will be discussed with particular reference to the Australian Newspapers service http://newspapers.nla.gov.au, FamilySearch http://familysearchindexing.org, Wikipedia http://wikipedia.org and the Distributed Proofreaders http://www.pgdp.net. These services have harnessed thousands of digital volunteers who transcribe, create, enhance and correct text. The successful strategies which motivated users to help, engage, and develop the outcomes will be examined. How can the lessons learnt be applied more broadly across the library and archive sector and what is the future potential? Users no longer expect to be passive receivers of information and want to engage with data, each other and non-profit making organisations to help achieve what may seem to be impossible goals and targets. If libraries want to stay relevant and valued, offer high quality data and continue to have a significant social impact they are well advised to have active engagement strategies and harness crowdsourcing techniques and partnerships to enhance their services. Can libraries respond to the shift in power and control of information and do we dare give users something greater than power – freedom?

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The Hong Kong Memory Project (HKMP) was initiated by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government in 2002. The goal is to establish a web-based digital repository for the collection, preservation, presentation and dissemination of Hong Kong’s unique historical and cultural heritage. In 2006, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) donated US$10 million to fund the project for 5 years. At the same time, HKJC also asked the Centre of Asian Studies (CAS) and Libraries of The University of Hong Kong (HKUL) to participate in the project, responsible for content development and system setup of the repository.

CAS and HKUL have been working closely together with HKJC, HKSAR Government and other stakeholders to create the digital repository since November 2006. Much has been achieved over the past two and a half years, including putting together a team of dedicated staff, drawing up copyright guidelines and contracts, seeking support from contributors and recently, issuing the tender document for procuring hardware and software of the HKMP system. A prototype website has also been created to gauge comments from target groups through running a series of usability tests. It is expected that the HKMP website would be available to the general public by 2011, before the repository is handed over to the HKSAR Government for continual maintenance and development.

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The current status of University of Hawaii at Manoa Library Pacific-related image collections including the Steve Thomas Traditional Voyaging, George Grace and Margo Duggan collections, all posted to the web using the OAI harvestable Streetprint Digital Library software and the Henry P. Edmunds and William A. Bryan photographs of Rapanui and the venerable Trust Territory Archive photo collection will be discussed. The Pacific Collection future plans and wish lists for digitization of additional collections and their relationship with existing collections in the ODiL will be described.  Hawaii-related collections of images (Save our Surf) as well as text (Hawaiian Historical Society) will be highlighted and recent experiments with updating the Annexation of Hawaii web site and the UHM Library’s participation in the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program will also be described.  Thoughts (possibly scandalous or heretical) about the ODiL portal in light of very new developments such as the World Digital Library and slightly older initiatives such as the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia/Pacific may be voiced.

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Next-Generation Technical Services (NGTS) is an initiative developed by the University of California Libraries as an outgrowth of the UC Libraries Bibliographic Services Task Force Report and a strategic partnership with OCLC to develop a “Next-Generation Melvyl” to re-architect the systemwide OPAC in order to transform the user experience of search and retrieval. NGTS will build on and complement that work by redesigning technical services workflows across the full range of library formats in order to take advantage of new systemwide capabilities and tools, to minimize redundant activities, to improve efficiency, and to foster innovation in collection development and management to the benefit of UC library users.  The results of this initiative will most likely have far-ranging impact that will extend beyond the University of California libraries.

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Being a small country of four million people at the end of the world has its advantages and disadvantages, where the six degrees of separation is often reduced to two. One positive is that “all of country” initiatives are much more manageable than in some larger countries, although budgets are considerably smaller. This presentation showcases some of those national digital and digitisation projects such as Matapihi, KRIS, Digital New Zealand and the National Digital Forum, discusses issues around heritage and indigenous content, and asks questions generally about the nature of collaboration both within the library community and across other sectors.

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The new University of Southern California Digital Library is the outcome of significant transformations in the USC Libraries’ digitization philosophy, practice, and infrastructure. The new entity unites digitization processes, collection-development strategies, metadata services, distributed content creation, and a platform for new modes of intellectual investigation and outreach. It builds upon the libraries’ previous digital archive to engage the archival and research communities through more active channels, including content-contribution tools, digital-exhibition programs, and thematic visualizations as investigative pathways through the archives.

The session presents the USC Libraries’ Basel Mission image collection—a recently completed addition to the Internet Mission Photography Archive—as an end-to-end, philosophy-to-outreach case study of the USC Digital Library. The archives, global in scope, preserve a photographic record of 19th- and 20th-century European missionary contacts—some that are among the first such interactions—with Asia and Africa. The session will cover: the digital library’s contributor module that enables global partners to create content and descriptions; a pilot program with CHNM’s open-source Omeka exhibition platform; and a REST API pilot project that encourages mash-ups, social-media experimentation, and other means of building communities and enhancing discoverability.

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This paper explores the principles that underpin the the digital library program at UCLA, examples of collections being digitized, and the partnerships being developed to enhance the digital library collections, including discussion of the collaborative nature of creating metadata, joint projects, and collaborative agreements.  The paper also addresses the UCLA role in both the Google digitization and Open Content Alliance projects.  These discussions are in the context of the emerging UCLA collection management plan.

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ODiL began with a request for US$50,000 to digitize items from the libraries of the University of Auckland, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the University of California, San Diego as a starting point for the collaborative creation of an “Oceania Digital Library” (ODiL).  The project goal is creation of a single point of access for researchers seeking information about the cultures and history of Oceania (Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia). The digitization request was approved by the PRDLA Steering Committee at the PRDLA 2007 Membership Meeting, University of California, Berkeley on16 October 2007. The project website is: http://odldev.lbr.auckland.ac.nz/. Presenters will also discuss next steps regarding the creation of the ODiL portal and share the list of additional materials they hope to digitize in the future.

U. of Auckland Presentation (PDF)

U. of Hawaii Presentation (PowerPoint)

UC San Diego Presentation (PDF)

The Repository of Special Collections (RSC) is a sub-project of China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS) during China’s tenth Five-years Plan. It is headed by Wuhan University Library and follows unified Digital Library standards and protocols such as Metadata Standards, OAI Protocol, OpenURL and METS. Fifty-two academic libraries have joined the project. Within three years of development, 58 of 63 sub-projects passed the peer review of Project Expert Board in 2007 and began to serve the public.

The presentation will give a comprehensive introduction to this digital library project,
including the following issues:  1) principles, methods & contents, 2) project management & organization, 3) project implementation, 4) project achievement, and 5) further work

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