expanding a regional digital library collaborative: facilitating the on-ramp for more libraries,...
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Interview presentation at the University of Utah Mountain West Digital LibraryTRANSCRIPT
Expanding a Regional Digital Library Collaborative: Facilitating the On-Ramp for More Libraries,
Museums, and Archives
Rebekah CummingsJuly 10, 2013
University of Utah
Image found at: http://youngeducationist.com/
My background
Special Collections Silos
Outreach
Metadata
Innovation
OUTREACH
“May all your problems be technical”- Jim Grey
Starbucks – 11,000McDonalds – 14,000Public Libraries – 17,000Museums – 35,000
WE’RE EVERYWHERE!
Image courtesy of The Atlantic Cities, compiled for the National Civic Day of Hacking using IMLS data
Mountain West Collecting Institutions
The Salt Lake City Public Library
Parowan Old Rock Church Museum “Mother Town of the Southwest"
Outreach• Needs assessment
• Making connections
• Presentations
• Workshops
Raising the visibility of MWDL
• Social Media
• Conferences
• Webinars
• Testimonials
METADATA
“That which cannot be indexed, cannot be retrieved”- Marcia Bates
Sine loco [s.l.] = we don’t know where this item was published
Standardization
• July 10, 2013
• 10 July 2013
• July 10th, 2013
• 7/10/13
• 7/10/2013
• 07/10/2013
• 7-10-13
• 2013-07-10
• 2013-7-10• 07-10-2013• 7 – 10 – 13• 07 – 10 – 13• 07 – 10 - 2013• 7 – 10 – 2013• 07 – 10 – 2013• 07 – 10 – 2013
Crosswalks
Metadata Harvest
“Wheat Harvest” courtesy of Brigham Young University - Harold B. Lee Library. http://thoth.library.utah.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MWDL&afterPDS=true&docId=digcoll_byu_12RelEd/699
INNOVATION
“An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
- Stephen Fry
DPLA’s Scannebago
Cohen, D. (2013, May 22). Digital Public Library of America has Launched DP.LA. Los Angeles Public Library. Retrieved from http://dp.la/info/2013/06/11/video-dan-cohen-presents-at-los-angeles-public-library/
New Types of Collections
“Voting” Digital image courtesy of Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University.
K-12 Education Modules: Black History Month
Linked Open Data
Disambiguation: Madonna?
Wrapping it up
Questions?
