DSpace the “K” Way Heidi Butler, Kathryn Lightcap, and Stacy Nowicki NITLE DSpace User Community Meeting University of Puget Sound, 11 June 2008.

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DSpace the “K” Way Heidi Butler, Kathryn Lightcap, and Stacy Nowicki NITLE DSpace User Community Meeting University of Puget Sound, 11 June 2008

K College Process 1.Establish administrators 2.Define what the IR is, what it’s for 3.Write policies/“ideal” workflow plan 4.Write directions (“how to” materials) 5.Start practicing!

Eventually… Marketing + Roll-out = Party time!

Starting Point Policies –Clarifies and justifies –Establishes guidelines –Plans procedures –Efficiency –Time management –Diversify workload –Get input and create “buzz”

People Involved College Archivist Information Technology staff Cataloger Dean of Students Administrative Assistants Faculty

More Documents Metadata charts –Defines required or optional elements –Communities, collections, items Instructions –Instructions supplied by DSpace too technical –“How to” for submitting, cataloging, managing Non-Exclusive Distribution License –Authors retain copyright, but K College can upload and distribute

Copyright? Students used to sign paper License Agreement Registrar and Dean of Students say: –Don’t need student permission to post theses –Not against FERPA –Clause in Academic Catalog

DSpace Content [539] Student Work –Theses (SIPs) –Presentation posters –Limited to current students/faculty/staff Archival Materials –College histories – searchable! –Photos Presentations (Faculty/Staff)

Workflow Student (or IS staff!) scans material Students (or IS staff!) uploads material –Adds some metadata (title, author, abstract) Material available immediately Cataloger adds detailed metadata (LCSH, dates, etc.)

Plan v. Reality Plan: Use DSpace for access and preservation Reality: Preservation not likely –Pilot project’s 100 GB down to 50 GB in June 2008 –Too many big TIFF files for our storage capacity

Plan v. Reality Plan: Uploading done by those who take responsibility for a “Community” Reality: Most uploading done by IS staff and students

Plan v. Reality Plan: Administrative Assistants responsible for student theses in each department Reality: We’re still learning the system ourselves!

Heidi’s Turn Heidi Butler, College Archivist

About the “K” Archives Staffed part-time + students only College anniversary = special funds for digitization Collection includes at least 25,000 images Just beginning digital initiatives

Archives Materials in DSpace Photographs Historical documents New materials (most “born digital”) that would be archived in traditional format anyway –Talks, programs, etc. from anniversary events –Electronic version of new college history book

Choosing Materials “Index” information--researchers love it Use knowledge of what’s popular Keep track of interesting lesser-used images when reorganizing collection Choose based on existing descriptive info Ease of digitizing non-photo materials –If it’s a duplicate, we can chop off the spine! –Odd sizes, fragile items “for later”

Preservation Standards Photographs: 600dpi, unretouched/uncompressed TIF –We make JPEG derivatives for DSpace (and let DSpace make the thumbnails) –TIF files will go on CD/DVD backup and network tape drive Documents: PDF/A? Audio/video files: no idea!

Good Things We’re in OAISter Dublin Core & image capabilities = no need to purchase ContentDM, other Archival tools for special collections Thumbnail generation RSS and subscriptions Local/regional peers don’t have IRs yet so we are cool

Collection Examples

Kathryn’s Turn Kathryn Lightcap, Graphics and Multimedia Designer

Types of Scanners HP Scanjet 7650 (ADF scanner) –Items up to 8.5”x14” through ADF –Items up to 8.5”x11” on flatbed Epson Xpression XL (flatbed scanner) –Items up to 12”x17” Epson Xpression 1680 (flatbed scanner) –Items up to 8.5”x12”

Items Scanned Old Senior Thesis –Files are encrypted –Not PDF/A Photographs Yearbooks Misc documents

File Formats PDFs –Documents/books –Born digital files TIFF JPEG –Use for photographic images/images with smooth tone/color variations (lossy compression) GIF –Use for line art (lossless compression)

Student Worker Training File type education –When to use / for what –What is a PDF, JPEG, TIFF, GIF? Students do not understand the benefits/drawbacks for each of these files

Training – Scanning Images TIFF images converted to JPEGs in Photoshop –Batch conversion or use droplet Limited DSpace disc space / don’t upload TIFFs Images – 300 dpi

Training - Scanning Documents Senior thesis –Password protect thesis with Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 –Renumber PDF pages –Upload DSpace

Problems / Issues OCR scanners jammed –Heavyweight paper and rice paper = bad Older thesis with pics/graphs/tables glued to pages –Graphics are barely attached with old and brittle adhesive –Scan these pages separately on flatbed and insert into PDF document Password protecting the thesis files –Give student workers the password that encrypts these files?

More Problems / Issues Student workflow –Permission to upload to DSpace but they do not have rights to modify their submissions Computer and hardware issues: –OCR scanner at Circulation Desk Fast OCR scanner Renders searchable PDF slowly All-in-one computer with reasonable memory –OCR scanner in Center for New Media Design Not fast OCR scanner Creates searchable PDF reasonably fast Desktop computer, more powerful/more memory

PDF/A Compatibility Not allowed in document –Audio and video content –Encryption –Javascript and.exe file launches Any fonts used must be legally embedded Colorspaces must be specified Standards-based metadata is mandated

Born Digital Thesis Posters 7 years of 36”x48” PowerPoint posters Binders filled with 8.5”x11” proofs of thesis posters Convert to PDF files File Naming Convention –Name_SymposiumYear At thesis poster training session, I showed students that they could look at previous years –Very successful!