1. Digital Library Services staff | RLI-DLS Retreat | Jan. 11, 2010
Coordination and Collaboration: Building a 21st-Century Digital Library
Digital Library Services staff | RLI-DLS Retreat | Jan. 11, 2010
Iowa City Flood |

2. Digital Library Services, aughts-style (ca. 2005) 3 FTE
product: Iowa Digital Library
production: in-house
client: Libraries
model: just in case
Szathmary Recipe Pamphlets|

3. Digital Library Services, 2010 style 6 FTE (plus!)
products: Iowa Digital Library, Iowa Research Online, [e-Research projects]
production: mainstreamed
client: University
model: just in time
Editorial Cartoons of J.N. “Ding” Darling |

4. collaboration & project management

5. Collaborators Anthropology Art & Art History English Geosciences
President
Vice President for Research
VPR for Research in the Humanities
Office of the State Archeologist
Public Policy Center
Vice President for Student Services
Senior VP and Treasurer
Risk Management
Provost
International Programs
UIMA
UI Press
University Honors Program
Graduate College
Liberal Arts & Sciences
VP for Medical Affairs
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
VP for Legal Affairs
VP for Strategic Communication
Alumni Association
Center for Media Productions
University Relations
UITV
Anthropology
Art & Art History
English
Geosciences
History
Library Science
Linguistics
Music
Political Science
Psychology
Collaborators

6. A couple of highlights…
Eve Drewelowe Digital Collection will launch in March and features personal papers, portraits, photographs, and sketchbooks
Example of standard reformatting project, yet l-to-r employed & addition of SAAH images…completeness, user-driven, collaborative

7. IRO contains over 50 UI Press editions
Press online reference collection underway
Exploring partnership for technical papers

8. Project management
Identify
Explore
Plan Do
Document
Maintain

9. Reformatting (Scanning)
Some straightforward document scanning still done in DLS
Preservation scans low volume journals (Iowa Alumni Pubs, Dada Surrealism) and brittle materials (Medieval Manuscripts, Pleyel Editions)
High volume journals outsourced (Daily Iowan, Railroad Telegrapher, Wallace Papers)
Audio and Video digitized by Center for Media Productions (formerly photography services)
University of Iowa | digital.lib.uiowa.edu/victor

10. CONTENTdm ver.5, redesigned client
over 300,000 items in ~70 collections
Audio/Video content delivered through ITS-designed flash player
ver.6, no timeline and rumored to completely redo item viewer

11. Metadata coordination
Production
Records created from scratch
Primarily routed through CTS-ARC
Migration
Re-use existing data (e.g. in-house; MARC)
Data manipulation assistance from Circulation
Research Collections Images|

12. Highlights
Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes
Wallace Papers
UIMA
Finding aids
Research Collections Images|

13. Iowa Research Online institutional repository and e-journal publishing service
ir.uiowa.edu
Involves collaborations with liaisons and departments, Centers/Institutes, and journal editors

14. Conference Management with IRO
Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ir.uiowa.edu/icru)
Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting (
academic conferences sponsored by a UI department, research unit, or center
professional and scholarly society conferences organized by UI faculty and staff

15. Conference Management Services
Provide software demonstrations and training for conference managers
Migrate past content into the system
Assist with copyright guidelines
Liaise with IRO customer support to offer custom-designed sites and custom metadata

16. Collaborating with UI Press
UI Press Digital Editions (digital.lib.uiowa.edu/uipress)
two series of digitized books in IRO
UI Press Reference Collection of custom database applications

17. UI Press in IRO Iowa Short Fiction Award Singular Lives
(ir.uiowa/uipress_isfa)
(ir.uiowa/uipress_sl)
Over 50 fully indexed, freely downloadable PDFs of UI Press titles, many currently out of print
under development: Iowa Poetry Prize Series

18. UI Press Reference Collection
The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (digital.lib.uiowa.edu/uipress/bdi)
Partnered with Apps & Web Services to build freely available searchable database
under development: The Vascular Plants of Iowa

19. support for e-research

20. Capturing Tweets: Exploring the Impact of Microblogging on Political Communication

21. ?
queries

22. data
queries

23. Questions?
Editorial Cartoons of J.N. “Ding” Darling |