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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Digital Technologies and Access At Cornell University Peter B. Hirtle Cornell Institute for Digital Collections pbh6@cornell.edu
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Overview Describe some of the activities of CIDC Lessons learned –Projects are more than just scanning –Collaborative projects work well
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections What does CIDC do? Explores the use of digital technologies in teaching and research Cornell focus, but with a broader perspective Educates, through workshops and publications –Digital imaging workshops; DigiNews; D-Lib Magazine
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Representative projects Image collections –Slide libraries; Japanese theater; Contemporary African Art; Birds Textual materials – printed and MSS Textiles and costumes
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Museum Online project collaborative project with H. F. Johnson Art Museum digitize 25,000+ objects in the museum –purchase of high-end digital cameras –staffing and systems support –two year time frame add subject terms to public access catalog
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections SagaNet Collaborative project with the National Library of Iceland Scan 400,000+ manuscript pages, 100,000+ printed pages Create a comprehensive resource for Saga studies
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Making of America Previous Cornell project to scan 750,000 pages of 19 th -century journals New project to OCR and index the text, provide word access to the contents Available at
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Lessons learned Projects are still difficult – no “off the shelf” solutions Projects involve more than just scanning –Only a small portion of the tasks
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Importance of the full digitization chain Benchmark capture requirements –Purpose Preservation? Access? For how long? –Nature of documents Capture and conversion –QC is hardest part
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections More digitization chain Metadata creation File management and storage –Backups, migration Network infrastructure Display derivatives Output options – print, etc.
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections 2 nd Lesson Learned: Importance of Collaboration Almost all our projects involve collaboration –Museum, slide libraries, faculty, Computer Science, other schools Not a natural act… –Differ over access, fear of loss of control
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Value of collaboration For maintenance and support –Museum Project is one example Library provides technical support –Bits are bits… For technical exertise and advice – no one has all the answer –SagaNet good example
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections More benefits to collaboration To create an integrated resource –Can’t think in terms of collections –Can’t think in terms of repositories –Researchers use everything As a service to users
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Summary Digitization is more than scanning –Need a commitment to the full digitization chain –Recognize that your level of indexing will probably be higher than before Collaboration can be an effective way to decrease cost and increase value
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