Overview of theMountain West Digital Library

The Power of Partnership

Overview

• The MWDL Collaborative• Value of Partnership • Working with an MWDL Hub • Sharing Regionally: MWDL • Interoperability • Sharing Nationally: Digital Public Library of

America • Open Invitation to Participate

• Formed in 2001 as a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium

Mountain WestDigital Library

Mountain West Digital Library

Goals:

Help more organizations to digitize materials about our region’s history and cultural heritage

Maintain a public portal to pull together the digital collections in the Mountain West region at mwdl.org

MWDL

Discovery portal

Digital library community

Digital Public Library of America on-ramp

http://mwdl.org

Types of resources

Photographs, maps, artworks, scholarly documents, music, sounds, books, birth and death records, finding aids, and more!

Over 900,000 items in 690 collections

Digital Library Community

• History in Your Attic

• Public Library Partnerships Project

• Digitization Mini-Contracts

• MWDL Webinar Series

• Task Forces

• In-person training

Public Library Partnerships Project

Training for Public Librarians

Public Librarians workshop, May 2014

Partners

164 institutions• Academic libraries• Academic departments• Archives • Historical societies• Museums• National heritage institutions• Natural history associations• Public libraries• Publishers • Academic presses• State Libraries• Other state agencies

Partners

In six states:• Utah• Nevada• Arizona• Idaho• Montana• Hawaii

MWDL Staff

• Sandra McIntyreDirector

• Rebekah CummingsAssistant Director/Outreach Librarian

• Anna NeatrourDigital Metadata Librarian

• Our newest addition! Evan Young Web Development Assistant

DPLA Onramp

DPLA Onramp

Governance and Consultation

• UALC Council of Directors• UALC Digitization Committee• Advisory Committee (in

formation)

Funding and Support

• UALC funding• DPLA sub-grants 2013-2015• In-kind support from Marriott Library

WORKING WITH AN MWDL HUB

Digitization and hosting

Grand Canyon from Point McKinnon on the North Rim.

Tiered Infrastructure

Three tiered model• Collections Partners Tier

(“Partners”) –Own and manage collections

• Hosting Tier (“Hubs”) - Host the digital materials

• Central Aggregating Server Tier (MWDL) – Harvest metadata from hubs

Digital Library Community

Tiered Services

• Distributed network• Flexible and scalable• Consolidates equipment and

expertise• Reinforces standards• Facilitates collaboration

Digital Assets Management

Systems

NW Digital Archives: Utah EAD

FilesBYU Finding

Aids Repository

Hub Services

• Digitization• Metadata Assignment/ Assistance• Online hosting in digital assets

management system• Metadata shared for MWDL harvest• Long-term preservation (some hubs)

MWDL Services

• Harvesting metadata/ aggregation

• Training for new partners

• Central search portal• Sharing access with

DPLA• Collaboration on

standards and best practices

• Platform for collaboration

Infrastructure: Ex Libris Primo

• An integrated discovery system• Powerful harvesting of digital

collections• Powerful searching and faceting• “Did you mean...?” suggestions • Online delivery via pointing to link

• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)for transmitting metadata over the Web http://openarchives.org– Based on XML– Commonly used for harvesting

International Protocols

INTEROPERABILITYWorking together to make it happen

Standards and Policies

Partnership Agreement

http://mwdl.org/docs/MWDL_Partnership_Agreement_ver12_2008-03-14.pdf

Standard Prices

• Qualified Dublin Core

• 8 required fields; 2 other mandatory-if-applicable fields

• Preservation fields recommended

Metadata Standard

• Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) document:Digital Imaging Best Practices

Imaging Standard

“The planisphere of Copernicus, or Copernicus' hypothesis of the entire universe, in a planar view”

University of Utah

Setting Up a Repository

http://mwdl.org/getinvolved/repository_setup.php

Submitting a Collection

OPEN INVITATION

Jumping on board

An invitation to an inspection and wetting-down party. Brigham Young University – Hawaii

Campus.

Invitation to repository managers

1. Open up your metadata for harvest2. Link to MWDL and DPLA on your web

pages3. Collaborate on

standards and controlled vocabularies

4. Be curious about new opportunities for cooperation and sharing

Invitation to collectionmanagers

• Contact:Rebekah CummingsMWDL Assistant Director(801) 587-8893rebekah.cummings@utah.edu

• Not quite ready? We can help you get there! – New partner interview – Hub services– Training and support

Get Involved with MWDL

• Resources for members and perspective members: http://mwdl.org/getinvolved/getinvolved.php

• Like us on Facebook + follow on Twitter (@MWDigLib)

• Check out our blog: http://mwdlnews.blogspot.com/

Fall Webinar Series

http://mwdl.org/events/webinars/webinarschedule.php

MWDLPartnership Summit

• Open to any eligible group that has agreed to MWDL Partnership Agreement

• Discuss future directions for MWDL

• Network with colleagues!

Questions?

• Sandra McIntyreDirector(801) 585-0969sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu