Digital Special Collections Users Council Annual Meeting May 9, 2008

Digital Special Collections (DSC) Update Program Overview –Data Acquisitions –OAC –Calisphere –UC Image Service

DSC vs DA Digital Special Collections = Access; create and support end user sites –Calisphere –OAC –UC Image Service Data Acquisitions = Ingest; contributor relations. –Support Calisphere, OAC, UC Image Service contributors -Mass digitization projects (Google, Microsoft and Online Content Alliance)

Data Acquisitions Collection development policy Research cost recovery models Update contributor documentation Expand the digital content creation tools we can support Investigate contributor training possibilities New content types: PDF and audio “TIFFs” project for new zoom-and-pan tool Integration with other CDL systems

Online Archive of California (OAC) 9,000 online finding aids Over 100 contributing institutions from across California The site serves researchers of all levels

OAC Redesign Timeline –Fall 2007: Planning –January-August 2008: User interface design, iterative prototype design, and user evaluation activities –September 2008: Prototype release –February 2009: Live Launch

End User Experience A clear understanding of the purpose of the site and of finding aids Search results provide sufficient information to determine relevance; easy to scan Clearly understand what is available online and what is not Easily navigate finding aids Able to find information in order to contact the relevant institution Satisfied because the site was easy to use and understand Wealth of information organized in a clear, intelligible way

OAC Redesign Overview Improve finding aid navigation and display

OAC Redesign Overview Improve finding aid navigation and display Address usability issues MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!)

OAC Redesign Overview Improve finding aid navigation and display Address usability issues MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!) Back end infrastructure upgrades Modernize the display Upgrade to features/functions that are now common on sites

OAC Redesign Overview Improve finding aid navigation and display Address usability issues MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!) Back end infrastructure upgrades Modernize the display Upgrade to features/functions that are now common on sites Improve contributor tracking tools (new!) Calisphere/OAC

Two Audiences, Two Sites Online Archive of California (OAC) Archivists Historians Researchers Calisphere K-12 Teachers General public Undergraduates

Over 200,000 digitized primary sources From the UC campuses and institutions across California Serves the general public, and is tailored to meet the needs of K- 12 educators

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA) More than 10,000 photographs, oral histories, and other documents bring you inside the story of Japanese-American internment

California Cultures Images and documents that explore the continuing impact of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans on California’s cultural heritage.

Calisphere visitors Approximately 140,000 visits/month –Includes site visits and image views 50% from search engines –Google Images, Google primarily

Consistently among the most view items

K-12 Activities Build more themed collections

Sample Themed Collection Topic

K-12 Activities Build more themed collections Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12 –Conference presentations and booths

K-12 Activities Build more themed collections Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12 –Conference presentations and booths –Workshops

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K-12 Activities Build more themed collections Marketing, marketing, marketing -- increase usage by K-12 –Conference presentations and booths –Workshops –Newsletter and blog

UC Image Service What is the UC Image Service? –Shared collections hosted in ARTstor; available to UC only –Make digital images for teaching broadly available for faculty and students UC-wide How did it start? –Visual Resource Curators’ desire to share with each other and to provide access to images for teaching /

UC Image Service Collection development program proposal to CDC –Phase 1: local campus collection development –Phase 2: system-wide steering/advisory group for collection development Visual Resources curators to build collections for fall 2008 Work with CDL DPR on preservation Assessment Activities

Questions Rosalie Lack

What will not be there … yet Social networking bonanza (user tagging, tag clouds, “others who viewed this …”) –Why? User priority Metasearch/harvest other finding aids –Why? Our priority Browse (subject, name) –Why? Inconsistent metadata Request-it Feature –Why? Inconsistent metadata and current work practices

OAC Redesign Overview Improve finding aid navigation and display Address usability issues MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!) Back end infrastructure upgrades Modernize the display Upgrade to features/functions that are now common on sites Improve contributor tracking tools (new!) Calisphere/OAC

OAC Redesign Overview Improve finding aid navigation and display Address usability issues MARC in OAC; collection and item records (new!) Back end infrastructure upgrades Modernize the display Upgrade to features/functions that are now common on sites Improve contributor tracking tools (new!) Calisphere/OAC

Calisphere: UC Web Sites Over 500 web sites We need more! Subjects include history, math, literature, anthropology, fine arts, oceanography, film, medical and health issues, and much more

UC Web Sites Over 300 UC campus web sites Subjects include history, math, literature, anthropology, fine arts, oceanography, film, medical and health issues, and much more