Successes and Growing Pains: The Indiana University Digital Library Program Jenn Riley Metadata Librarian Indiana University Digital Library Program January 20, 2006

1/20/06 California Digital Library 2 Mission The Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP) is dedicated to the production, maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a wide range of high- quality networked resources for scholars and students at Indiana University and elsewhere. Organizational partners  IU Libraries  University Information Technology Services (UITS) Research partners  School of Library and Information Science  School of Informatics Strong user-centric approach

1/20/06 California Digital Library 3 History Created in 1997 to provide a common home for fledgling digital library initiatives Separate from IU Library Information Technology (LIT) department Conceived with system-wide responsibilities (8 IU campuses) Grown consistently since inception Involved in $8M in grant awards

1/20/06 California Digital Library 4 Staffing Funded by both libraries and UITS Permanent staff  3 librarians  8 professional staff  1 support staff Grant-funded staff  9 professional staff .5 librarian

1/20/06 California Digital Library 5 Many forces influencing our development Moving from project-based model to a true “program” Digital initiatives increasingly integrated into all library operations IU Libraries administration currently in flux Recent consolidation of reporting lines for DLP and LIT Metadata as one of the first outreach areas CDL model is interesting to us

1/20/06 California Digital Library 6 A sampling of IU DLP initiatives Wright American Fiction Variations/Variations2/Variations3 Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection The Chymistry of Sir Isaac Newton METS Navigator EAD creation and delivery Redesign of DL infrastructure

1/20/06 California Digital Library 7 Wright American Fiction “Traditional” digital library project providing open online access to published materials TEI encoding and page images of books from Lyle Wright’s bibliography, Began at IU, continued as cooperative CIC project Delivered with DLXS Text Class Project Web site

1/20/06 California Digital Library 8 Variations/Variations2/Variations3 Variations  Live April 1, 1996  Streaming audio MPEG 1 Layer II  Experimental online scores in HTML  Audio available only in Music Library Variations2  Research project  Streaming audio (MP3), digitized scores, encoded scores  Pedagogical tools  Metadata research  Expanded access Variations3   Generalize system for use at other libraries  More metadata research Didactic purpose Flagship projects

1/20/06 California Digital Library 9 Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection Online access to archival materials Launched in Fall 2003 ca. 15,000 color slides shot Faceted browsing Integration of TGM I thesaurus structure Public Web site

1/20/06 California Digital Library 10 The Chymistry of Sir Isaac Newton Faculty-led project TEI and page images of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts CDL’s XTF for TEI search and display IU’s METS Navigator for image navigation and display Public Web site Project Wiki

1/20/06 California Digital Library 11 METS Navigator Software development project for use with multiple collections Page turner interface written in Java Runs off of structural metadata in a METS document Intended to be used in conjunction with external search system Source code soon to be released…really Jane Johnson Collection is first production instance Jane Johnson Collection

1/20/06 California Digital Library 12 EAD creation and delivery Service provided to University departments Lilly Library (rare books & manuscripts) and IU Archives staff encode finding aids with using an IU template Currently delivered with DLXS Finding Aids class Soon to be delivered in XTF Validation and submission system using Schematron currently in development Schematron Public Web site

1/20/06 California Digital Library 13 Redesign of DL infrastructure Building systems around a Fedora repository Should manage digital content of all types, but starting with still images and text Likely will use XTF for searching Some other core functions  Metadata creation  Thesaurus management  Digitization management  Preservation

1/20/06 California Digital Library 14 Discussion time