building strong community connections through digital collections

Building Strong Community Connections through Digital

Collections

Mike Conroy, Community Digital Projects Analyst & Coordinator, BC Digitization Coalition

Simon Neame, Director, Irving K Barber Learning Centre

Jillian Povarchook, Collections Associate, Museum of Vancouver

BC Digitization Coalition

• Multi-sector partnership

• Goal: to build an infrastructure that supports the access and discovery of digitized content from BC’s cultural and memory institutions

• Steering Committee

• Technical Sub-committee

• Collaborative funding model, additional support from IKBLC

Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone

Archives Association of BC | BC Electronic Library Network| BC Libraries Cooperative | BC Historical Federation | BC Libraries Federations | BC Museums Association |BC Teacher Librarians’ Association | Canadiana.org | Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | Simon Fraser University | Vancouver Public Library | University of Northern British Columbia | University of Victoria | Union of BC Indian Chiefs | University of British Columbia Library

BC Bibliography Project

• Goal: build a single searchable database of the bibliography of BC, based on searchable digital versions of the books from volumes 1-3 (1849 – 1950)

• Phase 1 pilot – 166 items

• Phase 2 – 4,000 items from UBC holdings

• 7293 items in all three volumes

• High res, high quality scans

• http://bcbib.library.ubc.ca/

• West Beyond the West: Books

• Potential to integrate other themed collections e.g. newspapers, videos

West Beyond the West Hosting

West Beyond the West Search Portal

Problem #1

Searching through digital collections takes a lot of time

• You mean I have to go to each library’s digital collections?!

Problem #2 Searchers don’t always think about visiting your digital collection.

Guys, have you checked out my website yet?

Problem #3 – Everything!

How many FTEs do you think we have anyway?

“There’s an app for that”

Projects:

West Beyond the West Hosting

West Beyond the West Search Portal

- Metadata Wrangling

West Beyond the West Hosting

June 2013

Powered by AtoM

WBTW Hosting Features

– Branded institution page [Coalition sponsored]

– Text, image, audio, video

– Full text search

– Exports to Canadiana & West Beyond the West Search Portal [Coalition sponsored]

– Remote back-up protects against equipment failure/disaster

– Ability to select metadata schema at the collection level [Coalition Sponsored]

– Priced for small to medium sized institutions

http://collections.westbeyondthewest.ca

West Beyond the West Search Portal

West Beyond the West Search Portal Features

You mean I have to go to each library’s digital collections?!

When Data meets Data

Solving Problem #1

West Beyond the West Search Portal Features

Solving Problem # 2

• Find and be found…

– Aids users in discovery

– Aids institutions in visibility

West Beyond the West Search Portal Features

• Getting Social

westbeyondthewest.ca

Metadata Wrangling

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How it all works

West Beyond the West

• Search and browse across BC digital Collections

• Relies on Canadiana metadata

Digital Collection Hosting Service with

enhancements to AtoM • Hosts digital collections

for small institutions • Institutional branding • CMR Metadata Export

Metadata Wrangling Service • Transformation of

metadata from smaller institutions with existing digital collections to CMR

Canadiana

• Central metadata repository for WBTW

AtoM 2.0

AtoM 2.0

AtoM 2.0

community instances

Participate!

Michael.Conroy@ubc.ca

604-827-4960