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The Western Waters Digital Library:
Building a Resource Through Multi-State Collaboration and
Technology
Dawn PaschalAssistant Dean, Digital Library and ePublishing Services
Morgan Library, Colorado State University
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What is the Western Waters Digital Library?
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“The Western Waters Digital Library (WWDL) provides free public access to digital collections of significant primary and secondary resources on water in the western United States.”
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Classic water literature, legal transcripts, maps, reports, personal papers, water project records, photographs, audio recordings, video, selected finding aids
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History of the Western Waters Digital Library
• Collaborative regional project of 12 research libraries in the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA)
• Funded by IMLS (2003-2005) and NEH (2007-2010) grants
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Dr. Gregory ThompsonAssociate Dean, Special Collections
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Participants
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Participants• Engaged team of 16 archivists, librarians,
technical experts– Guided by collection development policy
• Faculty advisors with expertise in western water issues– Recommended content based on
research value, uniqueness, demand by faculty, other scholars
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Audience
• Students, faculty, researchers of institutions (primary)
• Policy makers• Native American tribes• Professionals in various fields
(engineering, law)• Others interested in contemporary,
historic water issues
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Project Objectives
• Begin developing comprehensive information resource
• Establish a viable technical infrastructure• Serve as a collaborative model
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Initial river basins focus:Platte, Colorado, Rio Grande, Columbia
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Access to Content • Harvesting metadata to central server at
Utah• Creating aggregated index for virtual,
seamless searching of all collections from single website– PKP harvester– Sites mostly CONTENTdm users initially
• Balancing local control and central usability
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Project Outcomes
• Expanded collaborative relationships established in 2003-2005
• Exceeded objective to digitize 20,000 pages related to water policy and environmental history by digitizing or making accessible some 47,739 manuscript pages, legal documents, and photographic images
• Redesigned and enhanced the WWDL web site
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Also--Added initial repository of 30 Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids, with multiple ways to retrieve them
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Linked finding aid entries to corresponding digital objects for easy access by users
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Contributors
• Additional institutions (some outside GWLA) are contributing content to the WWDL via harvesting of metadata:
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Partnerships and Benefits
• United around common goals & objectives
• Developed collections, solved technological issues collaboratively
• Digitized greater variety of material• Widened use of metadata standards
– Testing, refining
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Are we interested?Yes!
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Website – http://westernwaters.org
Dawn Paschal, Assistant Dean, Digital Library & ePublishing ServicesMorgan Library, Colorado State [email protected](970)-491-1849
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