1. DIGITAL ARCHIVES Into the Light
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Head Digital Library Initiatives Carnegie Mellon University

2. A Sound Digital Archives
Accessibility
Interoperability
Sustainability
Preservation
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

3. Carnegie Mellon’s Digital Collections
Senator Heinz - 850,000 images
Herbert Simon - 153,000 images
Allen Newell - 145,000 images
Over 1 Million Images Online
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

4. Other CMU Digital Projects
SmartWeb Exhibit
Million Book Project
Universal Library
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

5. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
History
1992 Began work on Senator Heinz Papers
1995 Developed Helios System to digitize, create metadata, OCR, and provide access to collection
1999 Applied technology to Simon and Newell Collections
2000 Migrated to DIVA
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

6. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
DIVA
Digital
Information
Versatile
Archive
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

7. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
DIVA
New platform
Oracle based
Takes in any XML File
Supports heterogeneous collections
Full text or fielded searching
Browsing and sorting
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

8. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

9. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

10. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

11. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
Use of Standards
Metadata Creation – EAD, Dublin Core, etc
Imaging – 600 DPI, 8 Bit Greyscale, 24 Bit Color
OCR – ASCII Text
Data Structure – Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

12. What is it and why is it important?
Metadata
What is it and why is it important?

13. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
Descriptive Metadata
Data that describes the digital object such as a bibliographic record or finding aid, i.e. MARC record
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

14. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
Structural Metadata
Represents the relationship between multiparts objects, i.e. chapters of a book
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

15. Administrative Metadata
“Data that supports the unique identification, maintenance, and archiving of digital objects, as well as related functions of the organization managing the repository”, i.e.who created this object, which software, version was used, etc.
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

16. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
What We Are Using
Archival Collections - Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Books, Journals, Photographs, etc. – Dublin Core
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard - METS
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

17. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

18. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

19. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
METS
Incorporates descriptive, structural, and administrative metadata
Allows you to bind heterogeneous collections together and show relationships between information
Becomes a wrapper for the collection
XML DTD
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

20. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University
Goals
Accessibility
Interoperability
Sustainability
Preservation
Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

21. Thank You