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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
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Conservation
MetadataMetadata
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Tech
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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: CoolIris 3D Wall
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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