Digital Special Collections

Users Council Annual MeetingMay 9, 2008

Digital Special Collections (DSC) Update

Program Overview– Data Acquisitions

– OAC

– Calisphere

– UC Image Service

DSC vs DADigital Special Collections = Access; create

and support end user sites– Calisphere– OAC– UC Image Service

Data Acquisitions = Ingest; contributor relations. – Support Calisphere, OAC, UC Image Service

contributors- Mass digitization projects (Google, Microsoft

and Online Content Alliance)

Data Acquisitions

• Collection development policy• Research cost recovery models • Update contributor documentation

http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/dsc/contribute/

• Expand the digital content creation tools we can support

• Investigate contributor training possibilities• New content types: PDF and audio• “TIFFs” project for new zoom-and-pan tool• Integration with other CDL systems

Online Archive of California (OAC)

• 9,000 online finding aids

• Over 100 contributing institutions from across California

• The site serves researchers of all levels

OAC Redesign

Timeline– Fall 2007: Planning

– January-August 2008: User interface design, iterative prototype design, and user evaluation activities

– September 2008: Prototype release

– February 2009: Live Launch

http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/oacredesign.html

End User Experience• A clear understanding of the purpose of the site and of

finding aids• Search results provide sufficient information to determine

relevance; easy to scan• Clearly understand what is available online and what is not• Easily navigate finding aids• Able to find information in order to contact the relevant

institution• Satisfied because the site was easy to use and understand• Wealth of information organized in a clear, intelligible way

OAC Redesign Overview

• Improve finding aid navigation and display

OAC Redesign Overview

• Improve finding aid navigation and display

• Address usability issues

• MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!)

OAC Redesign Overview

• Improve finding aid navigation and display

• Address usability issues

• MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!)

• Back end infrastructure upgrades

• Modernize the display

• Upgrade to features/functions that are now

common on sites

OAC Redesign Overview

• Improve finding aid navigation and display• Address usability issues• MARC in OAC; collection and item records

(new!)• Back end infrastructure upgrades• Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now

common on sites • Improve contributor tracking tools (new!)• Calisphere/OAC

Two Audiences, Two Sites

Online Archive of California (OAC) • Archivists• Historians• Researchers

Calisphere• K-12 Teachers• General public• Undergraduates

• Over 200,000 digitized primary sources

• From the UC campuses and institutions across California

• Serves the general public, and is tailored to meet the needs of K-12 educators

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)

More than 10,000 photographs, oral histories, and other documents bring you inside the story of Japanese-American internment

California Cultures

Images and documents that explore the continuing impact of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans on California’s cultural

heritage.

Calisphere visitors

• Approximately 140,000 visits/month– Includes site visits and image views

• 50% from search engines– Google Images, Google primarily

Consistently among the most view items

K-12 Activities

• Build more themed collections

Sample Themed Collection Topic

K-12 Activities

• Build more themed collections

• Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12– Conference presentations and booths

K-12 Activities

• Build more themed collections

• Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12– Conference presentations and booths

– Workshops

K-12 Activities

• http://animoto.com/play/64202046391848cc16e09742054b261f

K-12 Activities

• Build more themed collections

• Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12– Conference presentations and booths

– Workshops

– Newsletter and blog

UC Image Service

• What is the UC Image Service?– Shared collections hosted in ARTstor; available

to UC only

– Make digital images for teaching broadly available for faculty and students UC-wide

• How did it start?– Visual Resource Curators’ desire to share with

each other and to provide access to images for teaching

http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/image/

UC Image Service

• Collection development program proposal to CDC – Phase 1: local campus collection development– Phase 2: system-wide steering/advisory group

for collection development

• Visual Resources curators to build collections for fall 2008

• Work with CDL DPR on preservation• Assessment Activities

Questions

Rosalie Lack

rosalie.lack@ucop.edu

What will not be there … yet• Social networking bonanza (user tagging, tag

clouds, “others who viewed this …”)– Why? User priority

• Metasearch/harvest other finding aids– Why? Our priority

• Browse (subject, name)– Why? Inconsistent metadata

• Request-it Feature– Why? Inconsistent metadata and current work

practices

OAC Redesign Overview

• Improve finding aid navigation and display• Address usability issues• MARC in OAC; collection and item records

(new!)• Back end infrastructure upgrades• Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now

common on sites • Improve contributor tracking tools (new!)• Calisphere/OAC

OAC Redesign Overview

• Improve finding aid navigation and display• Address usability issues• MARC in OAC; collection and item records

(new!)• Back end infrastructure upgrades• Modernize the display • Upgrade to features/functions that are now

common on sites • Improve contributor tracking tools (new!)• Calisphere/OAC

Calisphere: UC Web Sites

• Over 500 web sites

• We need more!

• Subjects include history, math, literature, anthropology, fine arts,oceanography, film, medical and health issues, and much more 

UC Web Sites

• Over 300 UC campus web sites

• Subjects include history, math, literature, anthropology, fine arts,oceanography, film, medical and health issues, and much more