Evolving the digital library for digital scholarship in NUI Galway - Cillian Joy, Aisling Keane

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James Hardiman Library

Evolving the digital library for digital scholarship in NUI Galway Cillian Joy, Digital library developer cillianjoyAisling Keane, Digital archivistCONUL, 4 June 2015

Outline

Digital libraryStrategyIntegrationRecent workLessonsFuture

Digital library

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Some examples

Dataverse pilot with Duanaire

Digital library areas

Archives/Special

collections

Unique content, research potential

Publications

Existing repository

Curation, long-term

preservation, and analysis of research

A strategy for …

digital scholarship enablement

Enable digital scholarship

Create

PreserveAccess

The drivers

Gaps to be addressed

Lack of consistent publishing platformNeed to visit multiple online locationsDigital metadata policy and managementLong-term storage and preservation unclearAd-hoc selection of projects to date

University focus on archives for research and learning

Investment in high-profile archival collectionsJohn McGahernThomas KilroyDruid TheatreHuston FamilyÉamon de BuitléarAbbey Theatre

New large scale digitisation activity

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School Institute Name to go hereJames Hardiman LibraryBarth, J. (2011). Digital Library [screenshot from video]. Available from: http://vimeo.com/13963295 [17 July 2014].

About Google Cultural Institute. Retrieved from https://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/culturalinstitute/about/

In an era of large scale digitisation

But, only 10-14% of Library archives are digitised (ENUMERATE survey)

In a Sea of APT “Icebergs,” Are You Thinking Big Enough? (2015). Retrieved from https://blog.bit9.com/2015/02/13/in-a-sea-of-apt-icebergs-are-you-thinking-big-enough/.

New building, new neighbours

Gaps to be addressed

New digital projects

Duanaire, focus on data and visualisationBorn digital contentA focus on institutional open access

Many players, but working separately

The Library as the hubConnecting peopleA starting point for digital scholarshipConnects campus servicesProvides service layered with innovation and partnership

Strategy creation

Nov 2013: Digital Library Group formedUniversity Librarian, Head of Library Systems, Head of

Research Services, Digital Library Developer, Digital ArchivistJanuary-June 2014: working papers per topicJuly 2014: drafting and launch of initial versionSeptember-October 2014: consultationNovember 2014: publication

Key implementation areas

The team and governancePreservationStandardsTechnologyFinance

Integration

What are we doing: Our approach: integration

CALM (EAD)Collection,

hierarchy, and item level, a

context

AlgorithmExtract metadata, enrich MODS item

records with descriptive metadata

MODSMatch with

metadata with objects

Preservation storage Access

EAD hierarchy becomes

Web navigation

Recent work

Abbey theatre

Larger scale to previous digitisation projectsLittle appraisal or arrangement, the entire archive is being digitisedDifferent approach to metadataSystematic approach to ensure speed and precisionMultiple internal partners and external suppliers, communication and relationships are keyStorage and compute: Amazon and local tools

Brendan Duddy papers

Listed to item level in accordance with ISAD (G)Collection is digitised, and includes supplementary audio-visual material to contextualise itPilot project underway to test and improve the ingestion of metadata and digital objects to the digital repository

What are we doing: Example, from this

What are we doing: Example, to this

Tim Robinson

Comprehensive index of 567 town-lands in Connemara and the Aran Islands, maps, and manuscript materialListing and digitisation of town-lands indexObjectives include testing new pieces of the infrastructure for their capacity to create visualisation tools that draw in a broad, international audience

Tim Robinson

Lessons

What we have learnt

Differences between analogue and digital metadata creation and workflowsCustomising metadata to suit discoverabilityImportance of cross-disciplinary dialogue in the digital humanities

Challenges encountered and anticipatedIntellectual propertyExpanding number of standardsConsistency in process is very important to reduce effortIncreased user-expectationsCapacity planning

Future

What’s next

Complete and hone existing migrationsTake stockRecommendations and workflow for new archival collectionsBorn digital strategyMetadata management

Summary

Takeaways

Strategic approach, including top down driveNew ways of workingKeep it simpleContinuous improvementExpose our collections and collaborate with academic community

Questions

Evolving the digital library for digital scholarship in NUI Galway - Cillian Joy, Aisling Keane

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