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Kentucky Digital Library

From Boutique to Mass Digitization

+Content

Finding Aids

Photographs

+Content

Photographs Maps

+Content

Images Books on Microfilm

+Content

Books on Microfilm

Newspapers

+Content

ObjectsOral

History transcripts

+Boutique

Early projects – looked good

Not cost effective

Not scalable

But formative

+Beyond the Shelf - 2002

Microfilm to digital (books)

Focused on making perfect digital objects

Labor intensive

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How About Newspapers????

+Newspaper digitization

NDNP Standards set by LC

High volume

Do parts of the process that require our expertise

+Didn’t really learn our lesson

Daily Racing Form

Very complicated specification

Very expensive

+Archival Collections

More Product Less Process

Archivist’s Toolkit

Export EAD

+Archival Collections

Tweak Workflow for Volume

Process collections at folder level

Digitize collections as they are in the folders

+Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS)

Making oral history searchable

Time stamp transcript

Moving beyond the transcript

Plug ins for other CMS

+Education and Training

Metamorphosis film to digital workshops

Moving to an online learning environment

+Collections

Newspapers (800,000 pages)

Books (300,000 pages)

Finding Aids (5,000)

Photographs (110,000)

Archival folder contents (22,000)

Oral Histories (800)

Maps (4,700)

Other paginated publications (200,000)

+Jewels in the Crown

Kentucke Gazette – 1789 – 1849

Civil War collections

WPA materials

Civil rights materials

From Combat to Kentucky

Daily Racing Form

+Grants

1998 – NHPRC Planning Grant $10,000

2000 = INSO Corp Dynaweb SGML - $30,000

2002 – IMLS National Leadership “Beyond the Shelf” - $230,000

2005 – NEH NDNP - $310,000

2005 – NEH Appalachian Collections - $250,503

+Grants

2006 – Keeneland Daily Racing Form - $625,000

2007 – NEH NDNP2 - $399,886

2009 – NEH NDNP - $393,081

2011 – NEH NDNP - $107,252

2011 – IMLS NLG OHMS - $195,853

+Infrastructure

1999 – Dynaweb SGML

2001/2002 – SiteSearch

2003/2004 – migrated to DLXS

2011/12 – migrated to micro-services repository with Blacklight discovery layer

+Repository Infrastructure

Blacklight

DAITSS

Micro services

File Store

+Going forward

Automating everything that we can

Focusing on creating tools and services

Continuing to streamline digitization workflow

Creating more structure and guidelines