Collaborating in the Mountain West: Access to Digital Resources and a Whole Lot More

Collaborating in the Mountain WestAccess to Digital Resources and a Whole Lot More

Formed in 2001:A program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium

Mountain WestDigital Library

Goal

Share primary sources of the Mountain West

for broad access online

Strategies

Discovery portal

Digital library community

Digital Public Library of America on-ramp

http://mwdl.org

Types of resourcesin MWDL

• Photographs• Maps, plans, and drawings• Artworks• Scholarly documents (“institutional repository”)• Music, other sounds• Videoclips, animations, Powerpoint

presentations• Books• Minutes, log books, plans, bills and ordinances• Birth and death records• Finding aids (“series guides,” “inventories”)

900,000 resourcesin 678 collections

159 Partners

• Academic libraries• Academic departments• Archives (counties, states,

etc.)• Historical societies• Museums• National heritage institutions• Natural history associations• Public libraries• Publishers • Academic presses• State Libraries• Other state agencies

159 Partners

In these states:• Utah• Nevada• Arizona• Idaho• Montana• Hawaii

31 Hosting Hubs

Provide hosting in a digital assets management system and other digital services

Distributed Network

The growing national network

Services from Hubs

• Digitization services• Metadata assignment services

(some hubs)• Online hosting in digital assets

management system• Metadata shared for MWDL harvest• Long-term preservation

(some hubs)

Services from MWDL Staff

• Facilitating standards development by the collaborative

• Training in assigning metadata• Data enhancement services• Aggregation into Digital Public

Library of America• Assistance with digital exhibits

MWDL Infrastructure Support

• J. Willard Marriott Library at University of Utah

• Help from other partner institutions

Digital Library Community

Linked Data Workshop

Public Librarians digitization training

Digital Library Community

Public Librarians digitization training

Current initiatives

• Digital Assets Management System Interest Group

• Geospatial Discovery Task Force• Scanning events: “History in Your

Attic”• Linked Data Task Force • Digital Preservation Task Force • Data Curation Interest Group

MWDL Staff

• Sandra McIntyreDirector

• Rebekah CummingsAssistant Director/Outreach Librarian

• Anna NeatrourDigital Metadata Librarian

• Nick HayenWeb Portal Assistant

Nick, Rebekah, Sandra, and Anna

Governance and Consultation

• UALC Council of Directors• UALC Digitization Committee• Advisory Committee (in

formation)

Funding

• UALC funding• DPLA grants 2013-2015

Partnership Agreement

http://mwdl.org/docs/MWDL_Partnership_Agreement_ver12_2008-03-14.pdf

Standard Prices

• Qualified Dublin Core

• 8 required fields; 2 other mandatory-if-applicable fields

• Preservation fields recommended

Metadata Standard

Setting Up a Repository

http://mwdl.org/getinvolved/repository_setup.php

Sharing with DPLA

Part of thenational network

Robert Darnton in Utah

Open Access ofDigital Collections

• Open Access movement • Increasingly networked environment =

higher expectations • IMLS requirements and other government

funding that mandates openness• U.S. Registrar of Copyrights, 3/20/2013:

“Call for Updates to U.S. Copyright Law”• White House commitment to Open Data

MWDL service hub

The Digital Public Library of America

will make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all.

Data Licensing

Questions?

Sandra McIntyreMWDL Director(801) 585-0969sandra.mcintyre@utah.eduTwitter: @sinawava, @MWDigLibBlog: http://mwdlnews.blogspot.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/mountainwestdigitallibrary