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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
Digital Technologies and AccessAt Cornell University
Peter B. Hirtle
Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
Overview
Describe some of the activities of CIDC
Lessons learned– Projects are more than just scanning– Collaborative projects work well
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What does CIDC do?
Explores the use of digital technologies in teaching and research
Cornell focus, but with a broader perspective
Educates, through workshops and publications– Digital imaging workshops;
DigiNews; D-Lib Magazine
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Representative projects
Image collections– Slide libraries; Japanese theater; Contemporary
African Art; Birds
Textual materials – printed and MSS Textiles and costumes
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Museum Online projectMuseum Online project
collaborative project with H. F. Johnson Art Museum
digitize 25,000+ objects in the museum – purchase of high-end digital cameras
– staffing and systems support
– two year time frame
add subject terms to public access catalog
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SagaNet
Collaborative project with the National Library of Iceland
Scan 400,000+ manuscript pages, 100,000+ printed pages
Create a comprehensive resource for Saga studies
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Making of America
Previous Cornell project to scan 750,000 pages of 19th-century journals
New project to OCR and index the text, provide word access to the contents
Available at <http://cdl.library.cornell.edu>
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Lessons learned
Projects are still difficult – no “off the shelf” solutions
Projects involve more than just scanning – Only a small portion of the tasks
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Importance of the full digitization chain
Benchmark capture requirements– Purpose
Preservation? Access? For how long?
– Nature of documents
Capture and conversion– QC is hardest part
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More digitization chain
Metadata creationFile management and storage
– Backups, migration
Network infrastructureDisplay derivativesOutput options – print, etc.
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2nd Lesson Learned: Importance of Collaboration
Almost all our projects involve collaboration– Museum, slide libraries, faculty,
Computer Science, other schools
Not a natural act…– Differ over access, fear of loss of control
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Value of collaboration
For maintenance and support– Museum Project is one example
Library provides technical support
– Bits are bits…For technical exertise and advice
– no one has all the answer– SagaNet good example
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More benefits to collaboration
To create an integrated resource– Can’t think in terms of collections– Can’t think in terms of repositories– Researchers use everything
As a service to users
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Summary
Digitization is more than scanning– Need a commitment to the full
digitization chain– Recognize that your level of indexing
will probably be higher than beforeCollaboration can be an effective way
to decrease cost and increase value