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Duke Digital Collections: From Projects to Program

Jill Katte VermillionDigital Collections Program

Duke University Libraries

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Documentary ArtsJames Karales Photographs: “The Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March, 1965”

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Duke History

Duke Football Programs: “Duke vs. University of North Carolina, 1981 Nov 21”

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Advertising & Consumer Culture

Medicine and Madison Avenue: “She's a Calendar Girl - But She Has No Dates!” 1957

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Transcultural ExperiencesSidney D. Gamble Photographs: “Robert Fitch & Three-Man Chair,” 1917-1919

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Digital Collections

Program

Collections & User Svs

Digital Production Center

Preservation

Cataloging & Metadata Svs

Special Collections Tech Svs

Discovery & Core Svs

Digital Experience Svs Priorities

Assessment

Digital o

bjects

Conservation

MetadataMetadata

Stor

age

Tech

infra

stru

ctur

e

Web interfaces

Duke Digital Collections: Distributed model

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Sidney Gamble Photographs, 1917-1932North China Union Women’s College, Library, 1917-1919

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Lessons Learned: Sidney Gamble Photographs

• Digitize at-risk formats to provide access• Promote digital collections actively• Use external tools for internationalization and

mapping

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Lessons Learned: AdViews

• Promote digital collections actively x2• Digitize at-risk formats to provide access x2• Take a risk-management approach to

copyright/permissions• Explore external hosting: iTunes U, Flickr,

YouTube, etc.• Be realistic about internal resources/workload

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Alternative Interfaces: Duke Mobile iPhone App

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Lessons Learned: Alternate Interfaces

• Provide one open data source (Media RSS) to enable multiple interfaces

• Separate content from presentation• Expose data using standards• Let other people do the development work

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Takeaways• Let users help set digitization priorities• Digitization is just the first step• Normalize metadata, esp. names, dates,

geographic terms• In-house and home-grown are not always the

low-cost approaches• Optimize for search engines• Promote digital collections and assess use

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Resources

• “Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the Flow [PDF]” (OCLC Programs and Research, 2007)

• “Well-intentioned practice for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online [PDF]” (OCLC Programs and Research, 2010)

• State Historical Records Advisory Boards; IMLS State Programs

• Consortia-sponsored digitization programs• Communities of practice

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Connect with us

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/

Jill [email protected]


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