1. A Peek Inside the Carolina Digital Repository
Michael Daines
Digital Repository Analyst
UNC – Chapel Hill

3. Goals

4. What’s in the repository?

5. What’s in the repository?
41158 images
18671 texts (PDF, Microsoft Word, text files)
11856 audio files
1438 datasets
54 video files
(As of July 17, 2013)

6. What’s in the repository?
Research Laboratories of Archaeology images (photographs and scans)
Electronic Theses and Dissertations 4035 PDFs
BioMed Central 1777 PDFs (articles)
(As of July 17, 2013)

7. How to show what we have?

10. https://github.com/UNC-Libraries/peek
“Peek”

15. How do we find interesting images?

16. Cover pages?

17. Random pages?

19. How do we find interesting images?
Query → Download → Split → Resize → Choose

20. Solr query Download public datastreams

21. CoreGraphics ImageMagick
Split, Resize
CoreGraphics
ImageMagick

22. Choose

23. 2000 objects 35855 images split 425 images for homepage
Initial set
2000 objects
35855 images split
425 images for homepage

24. Further work Larger sample? Automation? Integration with repository?
Collaborative filtering?
Image classification?
No processing step?
A/V objects?
Bias?

25. Try it! https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/ https://github.com/UNC-Libraries/peek