digital library porject: stage musicals
DESCRIPTION
This is a presentation for my term project for a course on Digital Libraries taken at the University of South CarolinaTRANSCRIPT
Stage Musicals
A Digital CollectionKristin AmsdenAileen MarshallTheresa Wagner
Planning Process
• Finding a topic– Stage musicals was a
topic for which we all had a keen interest
– All had physical objects in this area that we wanted to share.
Planning Process
• Creating purpose– Focus on just a few stage productions to offer
depth– Target audience
Digitization Process
• Digitized own contributions to project– i.e. playbills, music, etc.
• Did not have set requirements on types • Each used different equip as available
A few examples…
Digitization Specs
• We had to agree upon spec even though we were using different equipment for the digitization process.
• Images• We chose to scan these at this rate in order to have a manageable file
size for our end users, while still maintaining the image quality of the original.
• Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi• Depth: 24 bit color• Hardware: Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner / HP Photosmart C4180
All-in-One / Epson Perfection V700• Software: Adobe Photoshop Pro / Gimp
Specs• Text• Both grayscale and black and white imaging was used to
digitize our text objects. For the sheet music, the grayscale gave better reproduction quality.
• Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi• Depth: 8 bit grayscale• Hardware: Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner / HP
Photosmart C4180 All-in-One• Software: Adobe PrintShop Pro, also collected and
OCRed with Adobe Acrobat 8.0•
Specs
• Video• These were downloaded from Youtube and then converted to
usable formats.• Software: OnlineVideoConverter.com to convert flash video
to MPEG file, Windows Movie Maker to clean up video quality / FVL to MPEG Converter for Ipod .5.3
• File type: mpeg• Variable bit rate• Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels, aspect: 4:3, 30 frames/sec
Metadata
• Which standard– Dublin Core
• Justification– Flexibility– Have some optional fields
Required Fields• Title• Subject• Description• Publisher • Date Digital• Type • Format• Source• Website
Optional Fields
• Title Alternative• Creator• Contributor• Contributing Institution• Language• Date Original• Resource Identifier• Rights Management
Problems & Solutions
• Differences in Tech Experience– Each of us had a diff level of tech competency– Caused some confusion esp when communicating
over e-mail
• Possible Solution– Make sure to discuss these differences in person
at the beginning
Problems & Solutions
• Group Organization– Never named an official group leader or other
group functions– Work would have been more efficient
• Solution– Name a group leader to help facilitate discussion
and keep the focus of the project in order.
Problems & Solutions
• Division of functions of the DL team– It was rather inefficient for each member to go all
the tasks in preparing the objects for digitization
• Solution– Have one person do I ndividual functions like one
digitize, another apply metadata, etc.– Hard to do since we all live in diff. cities.
Which DAMS?
• There were many to choose from• Chose ContentDM• Reasons– Can upload to the Web– Most widely used software– Ease of Project Client interface
Example of DL Homepage
Thank You!
We had fun with this term project!