Digital Library Services staff | RLI-DLS Retreat | Jan. 11, 2010 Coordination and Collaboration: Building a 21st-Century Digital Library Digital Library Services staff | RLI-DLS Retreat | Jan. 11, 2010 Iowa City Flood | http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/u?/flood,2776

Digital Library Services, aughts-style (ca. 2005) 3 FTE product: Iowa Digital Library production: in-house client: Libraries model: just in case Szathmary Recipe Pamphlets| http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/u?/szathmary,1586

Digital Library Services, 2010 style 6 FTE (plus!) products: Iowa Digital Library, Iowa Research Online, [e-Research projects] production: mainstreamed client: University model: just in time Editorial Cartoons of J.N. “Ding” Darling | http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/u?/ding,8498

collaboration & project management

Collaborators Anthropology Art & Art History English Geosciences President Vice President for Research VPR for Research in the Humanities Office of the State Archeologist Public Policy Center Vice President for Student Services Senior VP and Treasurer Risk Management Provost International Programs UIMA UI Press University Honors Program Graduate College Liberal Arts & Sciences VP for Medical Affairs Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology VP for Legal Affairs VP for Strategic Communication Alumni Association Center for Media Productions University Relations UITV Anthropology Art & Art History English Geosciences History Library Science Linguistics Music Political Science Psychology Collaborators

A couple of highlights… Eve Drewelowe Digital Collection will launch in March and features personal papers, portraits, photographs, and sketchbooks Example of standard reformatting project, yet l-to-r employed & addition of SAAH images…completeness, user-driven, collaborative

IRO contains over 50 UI Press editions Press online reference collection underway Exploring partnership for technical papers

Project management Identify Explore Plan Do Document Maintain https://groupshare.uiowa.edu/libraries/projects/default.aspx

Reformatting (Scanning) Some straightforward document scanning still done in DLS Preservation scans low volume journals (Iowa Alumni Pubs, Dada Surrealism) and brittle materials (Medieval Manuscripts, Pleyel Editions) High volume journals outsourced (Daily Iowan, Railroad Telegrapher, Wallace Papers) Audio and Video digitized by Center for Media Productions (formerly photography services) University of Iowa | digital.lib.uiowa.edu/victor

CONTENTdm ver.5, redesigned client over 300,000 items in ~70 collections Audio/Video content delivered through ITS-designed flash player ver.6, no timeline and rumored to completely redo item viewer

Metadata coordination Production Records created from scratch Primarily routed through CTS-ARC Migration Re-use existing data (e.g. in-house; MARC) Data manipulation assistance from Circulation Research Collections Images| http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/u?/rescoll,69

Highlights Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/ictcs/ Wallace Papers http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/wallace/ UIMA http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/uima/ Finding aids http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/findingaids/ Research Collections Images| http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/u?/rescoll,69

Iowa Research Online institutional repository and e-journal publishing service ir.uiowa.edu Involves collaborations with liaisons and departments, Centers/Institutes, and journal editors

Conference Management with IRO Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ir.uiowa.edu/icru) Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting (http://ir.uiowa.edu/cdm_mw2010) academic conferences sponsored by a UI department, research unit, or center professional and scholarly society conferences organized by UI faculty and staff

Conference Management Services Provide software demonstrations and training for conference managers Migrate past content into the system Assist with copyright guidelines Liaise with IRO customer support to offer custom-designed sites and custom metadata

Collaborating with UI Press UI Press Digital Editions (digital.lib.uiowa.edu/uipress) two series of digitized books in IRO UI Press Reference Collection of custom database applications

UI Press in IRO Iowa Short Fiction Award Singular Lives (ir.uiowa/uipress_isfa) (ir.uiowa/uipress_sl) Over 50 fully indexed, freely downloadable PDFs of UI Press titles, many currently out of print under development: Iowa Poetry Prize Series

UI Press Reference Collection The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (digital.lib.uiowa.edu/uipress/bdi) Partnered with Apps & Web Services to build freely available searchable database under development: The Vascular Plants of Iowa

support for e-research

Capturing Tweets: Exploring the Impact of Microblogging on Political Communication http://www.flotzam.com/archivist

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data queries

Questions? Editorial Cartoons of J.N. “Ding” Darling | http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/u?/ding,13292