1. Minnesota Digital Library and HathiTrust Prototype an Image Preservation Archive 5 April 2011 CNI Spring Task Force Meeting

2. John Butler, University of Minnesota John Weise, University of Michigan Eric Celeste, Consultant, MDL

3. Minnesota Digital Library, Butler HathiTrusts Interest and Role, Weise Prototype and Lessons Learned, Celeste

4. Minnesota Digital Library Coalition Conceived in 2001 Early years – LSTA paycheck to paycheck Minitex (UMN) now the administrative home Signature project Minnesota Reflections 62k images, maps, documents 120 cultural heritage institutions Conceived in 2001 Early years – LSTA paycheck to paycheck Minitex (UMN) now the administrative home Signature project Minnesota Reflections 62k images, maps, documents 120 cultural heritage institutions

5. MDL Access...not possible without you

6. MDL Access...weve got ours and were keeping it

7. ...something we can all agree upon Viewed as common infrastructureEconomies/imperatives of scaleAccess need not be affected but might it be? Attracting broader interest including public radio & television A gift from Minnesotans Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding A digital MLAC for the state Viewed as common infrastructureEconomies/imperatives of scaleAccess need not be affected but might it be? Attracting broader interest including public radio & television A gift from Minnesotans Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding A digital MLAC for the state MDL Preservation

8. MDL Aspirations State-wide Digital Preservation Services

9. Nesting Consortia Policies Agreem ents Standar ds HathiTrust File Formats File Formats Procedures Procedures Formats BooksJournalsE xperiment: images & audio BooksJournalsE xperiment: images & audio Policies Governance Governance Rights Rights Costs Costs Mission Access Access Preservation Preservation Research foci Research foci Minnesota Digital Library

10. HathiTrusts Interest and Role

11. Mission of HathiTrust Contribute to the common good by… collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing …the record of human knowledge. Contribute to the common good by… collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing …the record of human knowledge.

12. Preservation Philosophy Maximize… partner contributions use of available resources Maximize… partner contributions use of available resources

13. Long Term Functional Objectives TRAC compliance Robust discovery mechanisms Open service definition (APIs) Support for formats beyond books & journals Data mining tools All functional objectives… http://www.hathitrust.org/objectiveshttp://www.hathitrust.org/objectives TRAC compliance Robust discovery mechanisms Open service definition (APIs) Support for formats beyond books & journals Data mining tools All functional objectives… http://www.hathitrust.org/objectiveshttp://www.hathitrust.org/objectives

14. HathiTrusts Interest Help MDL find a solution Explore image support Leverage MDL resources Empower MDL in the process Draft ingest specifications Establish a viable model for support of MDL and similar preservation cooperatives. Help MDL find a solution Explore image support Leverage MDL resources Empower MDL in the process Draft ingest specifications Establish a viable model for support of MDL and similar preservation cooperatives.

15. Design Operational logistics at the scale of HathiTrust have led to solutions that favor: consistency and standardization simplicity over complexity practicality over ideology Operational logistics at the scale of HathiTrust have led to solutions that favor: consistency and standardization simplicity over complexity practicality over ideology

16. HathiTrusts Role Scoping and guidance Lower barriers Raise bars Learn, grow and eventually provide Object ingest specifications for images Object preparation tools, esp. validation Scoping and guidance Lower barriers Raise bars Learn, grow and eventually provide Object ingest specifications for images Object preparation tools, esp. validation

17. All Together Now HathiTrust really is a collaborative effort. MDL and Michigan worked together under HathiTrust governance. HathiTrust really is a collaborative effort. MDL and Michigan worked together under HathiTrust governance.

18. What did MDL actually send to HathiTrust?

19. What MDL sent to HathiTrust Packages Reflections Simple Contone 22,186 Reflections Compound Objects 888 Minnesota Historical Society 6,860 Total29,934

20. ItemsGB Simple JP2 22,186429 Compound JP2 13,844407 Compound Bitonal TIFF 13,2721 JPEG9,57512 Total49,302849 What MDL sent to HathiTrust

21. Number of items transferred Amount of data transferred Objects What MDL sent to HathiTrust

22. An object sent to HathiTrust is a Submission Information Package and consists of many parts: a METS file with a variety of metadata, a set of image files, and a set of corresponding text files. The image files are the items sent. What MDL sent to HathiTrust

23. What did we learn from working together?

24. Get the full report at... http://mndigital.org/projects/preservation/ http://mndigital.org/projects/preservation/ Get the full report at... http://mndigital.org/projects/preservation/ http://mndigital.org/projects/preservation/

25. What is a master?

26. Where is the identifier? (CC-BY-NC-ND) Some rights reserved by Martin Gommel (CC-BY-NC-ND) Some rights reserved by Martin Gommel

27. Metadata madness! (CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by Saltatempo(CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by Saltatempo

28. Trust us. (CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by nick see(CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by nick see

29. Whos looking? (CC-BY) Some rights reserved by apdk(CC-BY) Some rights reserved by apdk

30. No free lunch. (CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by freefotouk(CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by freefotouk

31. No free lunch. (CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by freefotouk(CC-BY-NC) Some rights reserved by freefotouk Time as Producer Cost as Producer Time as Aggregator Cost as Aggregator Programmer672h 0m 0s$8,0002352h 0m 0s$28,000 Metadata Assistant100h 0m 0s$2,000 Manager40h 0m 0s$2,80030h 0m 0s$2,100 Totals$12,800$30,100

32. Next Steps for MDL? Trials with MetaArchive and OCLC Digital Archive. Paper and phone evaluations of a few others. Decisions in early summer about how to proceed. Trials with MetaArchive and OCLC Digital Archive. Paper and phone evaluations of a few others. Decisions in early summer about how to proceed.

33. Questions?