1. We Work for the Users! User-centric Digitization for the
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Panhandle Library Access Network
August 18, 2016
Slides:
Chelsea Dinsmore, dLOC Technical Director
Miguel Asencio, dLOC Director
Slides:

2. dLOC: Building the Partnerships
Shared Governance
Content Management System and Long-term Preservation
40 Partners – Caribbean, Europe and US
Over 80 million hits since 2006
Over 3 million pages of open access content
20,000+ titles with 132,000+ items
Training Programs: Digitization, Curriculum Integration, Data Curation
Scholarly Collaborations
Educational Outreach
New Initiatives
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)—a unique, open access, collaborative, international, multi-lingual digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean, providing access to and ensuring preservation of Caribbean materials (digitized and born-digital).
dLOC's diverse partners serve an international community of scholars, students, and publics by working together to preserve and to provide enhanced electronic access to cultural, historical, legal, governmental, and research materials.

3. What Collaboration Can Do: The Digital Library of the Caribbean Governance and Building Communities of Practice
tomorrow at 10:45am!
We are going to talk about the history and collaborative governance of dLOC tomorrow…

4. User-Centric Digitization
User-centric digitization. What is user centric digitization?
Well, digitization is pretty simple –well, simple to define.
According to Google, digitization is the act of converting information into a digital format. That information may have started as book, or a newspaper, or a record, a wax cylinder, a vhs tape, or an African beaded mask. Google goes to say that, “In this format, information is organized into discrete units of data (called bit s)….” However, bits are not very useful by themselves, so usually when libraries talk about digitization it includes the additional steps of description—creating metadata, and curation. When we are really on the ball it also includes project planning, which Krystal Thomas will be speaking about tomorrow, sadly also at 10:45. So, you will have to choose between dLOC and project planning.
User centric means we put the needs and goals of the community

5. Digitization
“Digitization is the act of converting information into a digital format.”
User-centric digitization. What is user centric digitization?
Well, digitization is pretty simple –well, simple to define.
According to Google, digitization is the act of converting information into a digital format. That information may have started as book, or a newspaper, or a record, a wax cylinder, a vhs tape, or an beaded mask. Google goes on to say that, “

6. Digitization
“Digitization is the act of converting information into a digital format.
In this format, information is organized into discrete units of data (called bit s)….”
---Google
Google goes to say that, “In this format, information is organized into discrete units of data (called bit s)….” However, bits are not very useful by themselves, so usually when libraries talk about digitization it includes the additional steps of description—creating metadata, and curation to provide organization and or context. When we are really on the ball it also includes project planning, which Krystal Thomas will be speaking about tomorrow, sadly also at 10:45. So, you will have to choose between dLOC and project planning.
When it comes to defining User it isn’t quite so straight forward. Let me ask you—who do you think the user is?
User centric means we put the needs and goals of the community

7. User-Centric Digitization
Scanning the information that the users want to have or make available and serving it in a context that makes that content useful

8. User-Centric Digitization
Scanning the information that the users want to have or make available and serving it in a context that makes that content useful.
So, how do a group of disparate institutions, with various levels of resources (content, people, money, technology) and working in a multitude of languages work together to create a digital library platform?

9. We use technology to meet the needs of the users

10. We use technology to meet the needs of the users
But not in a vacuum!

11. Socio-Technological Supports
Materials
Training
Grants
This is a simple presentation on a complex topic so I am going to just talk about the materials, the training and the work with grants that dLOC does. In the talk tomorrow there will be much more information about the community and the digital scholarship

12. Materials
What can go into dLOC?

13. Materials
What can go into dLOC? Just about anything Print Images Audio/Video 3-D items Data sets

14. Materials
How do they get into dLOC?

15. Materials
How do they get into dLOC? -- It Depends

16. Materials

17. Single Item ingest

18. Single Item ingest

19. Batch Loads Scanning large sets of materials Working with a vendor
Harvesting already scanned materials
Sneaker-net

20. What about Metadata?
Really need those subject terms, dates, Geo spatial coordinates authors names

21. What about Metadata? Manual entry for individual items
Spreadsheet ingest
Marc record ingest
OAI harvest

25. Training

26. Training
Site visits Advanced Training Institutes Online resources

27. Grants

28. Grants
Foundational
Seed grants
External grants

30. Not one size fits all; many solutions, many options, many resources, designed with partners for partner needs.

31. Thank You & Questions www.dLOC.com
Photos from prior advanced training institutes