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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
Digital Technologies and AccessAt Cornell University
Peter B. Hirtle
Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
Overview
Describe some of the activities of CIDC
Lessons learned– Projects are more than just scanning– Collaborative projects work well
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What does CIDC do?
Explores the use of digital technologies in teaching and research
Cornell focus, but with a broader perspective
Educates, through workshops and publications– Digital imaging workshops;
DigiNews; D-Lib Magazine
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Representative projects
Image collections– Slide libraries; Japanese theater; Contemporary
African Art; Birds
Textual materials – printed and MSS Textiles and costumes
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Museum Online projectMuseum Online project
collaborative project with H. F. Johnson Art Museum
digitize 25,000+ objects in the museum – purchase of high-end digital cameras
– staffing and systems support
– two year time frame
add subject terms to public access catalog
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SagaNet
Collaborative project with the National Library of Iceland
Scan 400,000+ manuscript pages, 100,000+ printed pages
Create a comprehensive resource for Saga studies
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Making of America
Previous Cornell project to scan 750,000 pages of 19th-century journals
New project to OCR and index the text, provide word access to the contents
Available at <http://cdl.library.cornell.edu>
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Lessons learned
Projects are still difficult – no “off the shelf” solutions
Projects involve more than just scanning – Only a small portion of the tasks
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Importance of the full digitization chain
Benchmark capture requirements– Purpose
Preservation? Access? For how long?
– Nature of documents
Capture and conversion– QC is hardest part
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More digitization chain
Metadata creationFile management and storage
– Backups, migration
Network infrastructureDisplay derivativesOutput options – print, etc.
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2nd Lesson Learned: Importance of Collaboration
Almost all our projects involve collaboration– Museum, slide libraries, faculty,
Computer Science, other schools
Not a natural act…– Differ over access, fear of loss of control
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Value of collaboration
For maintenance and support– Museum Project is one example
Library provides technical support
– Bits are bits…For technical exertise and advice
– no one has all the answer– SagaNet good example
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More benefits to collaboration
To create an integrated resource– Can’t think in terms of collections– Can’t think in terms of repositories– Researchers use everything
As a service to users
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Summary
Digitization is more than scanning– Need a commitment to the full
digitization chain– Recognize that your level of indexing
will probably be higher than beforeCollaboration can be an effective way
to decrease cost and increase value