1. Digital Collections Update
Kyle Rimkus Faculty Meeting, University of Illinois Library December 6, 2017
Links for use in live presentation:

2. Browse our Collections
74 Collections of locally managed digitized books, photographs, newspapers, maps, and other research materials from all these systems are available at

4. Where our Digital Collections Live
Monographs
HathiTrust Digital Library (
Internet Archive (
Newspapers
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections (
Chronicling America (
Scholarly Content
IDEALS (
Illinois Data Bank (
Digital special collections
Digital Collections (
Digital Public Library of America (

5. Digital Preservation
(much of site is restricted)

6. 110TB, 10,000,000 files

7. Integrating Access with Preservation

8. Collection Landing Page
Search collection metadata
Representative image
Description
Owning repository
Digital items
Finding aid

9. External Collections

10. Rightsstatements.org rights category
Item Viewer
Contact Curator
Page turner
Metadata
Download options
Persistent link
Rightsstatements.org rights category

11. IIIF Protocol
Uses International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF, ), allowing user to
Pan and Zoom in image
View metadata
Download image (rights permitting)
Embed image in other websites

12. Canteloupe Image Server
Developed locally by programmer Alex Dolski
Used internationally

13. Curated Collections High-quality item-level metadata
Metadata shared with Digital Public Library of America
Single images or multi-page documents

14. Born Digital Collections
Born-digital content acquired from donors
Collection-level description and folder/file browse
Searchable embedded file metadata (if available)

15. Search and Discovery Search for « Alma mater » results in:
Collection records containing records that refer to Alma Mater
Historical architectural drawings of Alma Mater design from digitized curated collections
Recent photographs of Alma Mater from born digital collections

16. Expanding Metadata Search in 2018
Goal:
Search across all locally managed content using a single search interface/API
Already searches
Digital Collections
Will search
IDEALS
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
digitized books in HathiTrust and Internet Archive

17. Questions?
Medusa Digital Library Manual:
Contact: