Digital Library Progress Report

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Amanda Goodman

Digital Libraries

Bird

2010 October 24

Progress Report

Introduction

The eighteen sketchbooks, one notebook, and two binders that make up the A Ghost of

Daisies Foundation collection materials are proceeding smoothly as they are converted into an

online digital library. The key decision that has been made is that each book will represent one

object. However, each object will also have attached to it three sample pages. In the future, it is

desirable to digitize all pages for online viewing.

The Collection

A box listing of the books is included below. The records were placed in the folders with

the manuscripts in chronological order and then the sketchbooks are arranged in chronological

order based upon the start date for the first page of each sketchbook.

Box 1

Folder 1, Manuscript, Binder 1, 2002-2004


Folder 3, Manuscript, Notebook, 12/02/2008 – 10/19/2010Folder 4, Sketchbook, 07/18/2003 -- 09/22/2003

Folder 5, Sketchbook, 07/12/2004 – 02/11/2005

Folder 6, Sketchbook, 02/13/2005 -- 06/02/2005





Box 2










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Metadata Scheme

Dublin Core was decided to be the most efficient, flexible, and scalable metadata scheme

for the A Ghost of Daisies Foundation collection. The library will be using the Dublin Core

Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1 for this project. Since this collection focuses primarily on

artwork and short stories, a more complex vocabulary was deemed inappropriate for a broad

audience as this project was designed for.

Metadata Sample Records

<link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" /><link rel="schema.DCTERMS" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" />

<meta name="DC.Title" content="[Notebook]">

<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Amanda Goodman"

scheme="lcnaf">

<meta name="DC.Subject" content="Link" scheme="local">

<meta name="DC.Description" content="[Link short stories]">

<meta name="DC.Publisher" content="A Ghost of Daisies Library"

scheme="lcnaf">

<meta name="DC.Date.Created" content="12/02/2008 - 10/19/2010"

scheme="iso8601"><meta name="DC.Type" content="Text" scheme="dct">

<meta name="DC.Format.Medium" content="9 x 14 x 1.5 cm">

<meta name="DC.Format.Extent" content="Text/html">

<meta name="DC.Identifier" content="03">

<meta name="DC.Rights" content="Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives,

http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses ">

<link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" /><link rel="schema.DCTERMS" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" />

<meta name="DC.Title" content="[Sketchbook, 08/16/2010 –

10/17/2010]">


scheme="lcnaf">


http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses




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<meta name="DC.Description" content="Link character drawings">

<meta name="DC.Publisher" content="A Ghost of Daisies Library" scheme="lcnaf">

<meta name="DC.Date.Created" content="08/16/2010 – 10/17/2010" scheme="iso8601">

<meta name="DC.Type" content="Image" scheme="dct">

<meta name="DC.Format.Medium" content="23 x 29 x 2 cm">

<meta name="DC.Format.Extent" content="Image/jpeg">




<link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" />

<link rel="schema.DCTERMS" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" />


07/30/2006]"><meta name="DC.Creator" content="Amanda Goodman"

scheme="lcnaf">




scheme="lcnaf">

<meta name="DC.Date.Created" content="11/05/2005 – 07/30/2006"

scheme="iso8601">


<meta name="DC.Format.Medium" content="15 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm">







<meta name="DC.Title" content="[Sketchbook, 07/12/2004 – 02/11/2005]">


scheme="lcnaf">










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scheme="lcnaf">



<meta name="DC.Format.Medium" content="21 x 28.5 x 2.5 cm">








09/22/2003]">

<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Amanda Goodman"scheme="lcnaf">




scheme="lcnaf">



<meta name="DC.Format.Medium" content="23 x 31 x 1 cm">





Description of work progress

The twenty-one objects in this collection were sorted between being image manuscripts

or text manuscripts. They were then arranged in chronological order. Some challenges arose

when some of the sketchbooks were being created during the same time period. The decision was

made that the book that was started first is listed being chronologically older even if the range of

dates for its’ internal artwork surpassed the range of a sketchbook started during the same timeperiod. Each book was then labeled with a note giving the date range of the artwork inside. For

the notebook of handwritten short stories, three pages were typed by hand to be included with the

original scans.

Next, three pages were selected from each book for scanning. The scanning of the objects

and pages has been completed. After examining the broad range of characters in the images and







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stories, it was decide that a simple metadata scheme would be most efficient for this collection.

Scanning was accomplished by using a Canon Canoscan D1250U2F scanner.

Timeline

The next step is to create an online repository using Drupal. This repository will include asearchable database that can sort the objects by date and resource type (image or text). The cover

of each object will be included on the entry along with the three sample pages for each item. For

the nine sample textual pages (three from each manuscript object), they will be OCR by using

Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional. These pages will be made available as PDFs that can be

downloaded by users.

The work of setting up this online repository is expected to take the most time and should

be completed by November 19, 2010. After the repository is in place, the uploading of objects

and their sample pages is expected to take only a week. The website will be then inspected and

this project within its’ limited scope will be completed by December 2010.



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Inventory of the

A Ghost of Daisies Sketchbook and Notebook Collection

2002-2010

Dates: 2002-2010

Quantity: 2 linear feet

Repository: A Ghost of Daisies Library

Restrictions: Works may only be shared under the Creative Commons license,

Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

Inventory prepared by: Amanda Goodman, 2010

Provenance

This collection is mostly the works of Amanda Goodman but works created by Jessica Laney

may be within the collection. The collection was created in the following cities: Asheville, N.C.;

Avon, N.C.; Tacoma, W.A.; Greensboro, N.C.; Washington, D.C. The entire collection was kept

by Amanda Goodman in her possession until she donated it to the repository.

Biographical Information

Amanda Goodman was born on April 28, 1985 in Asheville, North Carolina, as the oldest child

of Edward Keith Goodman and Clara Mae Bowling Goodman. Her parents separated in 1991

and later divorced. Goodman attended multiple schools but graduated from T.C. Roberson High

School in Asheville, North Carolina in 2004. In high school (2000-2004), she was actively

involved in the National Honors Society, Junior Classical League (Latin), Poetry Club, and an

Anime Club. She attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville (2004-2008) and

graduated with a B.A. in Multimedia of Arts and Sciences (MMAS). She specialized in video

editing. She then attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2009-2011) for her

master’s in Library and Information Studies where she was a graduate assistant for the

department chair, Dr. Clara Chu. Goodman’s duties included building a new department website

and a personal website for Chu’s project called the International and Comparative Librarianship

Communitas.



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From 2002-2010 Goodman began to collaborate with Jessica Laney on a fictional story. The

story was originally called Neo Project but later became known as Link . This collaboration

spawned 5,636 drawings, which the sketchbooks in this collection are only a portion of the total.

Goodman and Laney also wrote 695 short stories as part of their collaboration.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of eighteen sketchbooks, one notebook that contains short stories, and

two binders with loose-leaf print outs of other short stories. All the objects in this collection are

in paper format. The manuscripts focus on the years 2002-2004 and 2009-2010. For the

drawings, they are not concentrated more heavily in any single year compared to other years.

Records are arranged in chronological order within the sketchbooks. There is some overlap in the

sketchbooks however due to smaller sketchbooks having been carried in Goodman’s purpose

while she also maintained a larger sketchbook at home during the same time period. The order of

the short stories in the binders is undetermined and Goodman stated in her donation that theywere printed out alphabetically but may not have been put into any particular order in the

binders. The records were placed in the folders with the manuscripts in chronological order and

then the sketchbooks are arranged in chronological order based upon the start date for the first

page of each sketchbook.

Series Description

Manuscripts -- .5 lin. Ft. Inclusive dates: 2002-2004 and 2009-2010. Arranged chronologically.

Subjects: Family, romance, adventure and Bildungsroman stories

Sketchbooks – 1.5 lin. Ft. Inclusive dates: 2002-2010. Arranged chronologically.Subjects: Individuals, couples, families, action drawings

Box Listing

Box 1



Folder 3, Manuscript, Notebook, 12/02/2008 – 10/19/2010










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Box 2












Documents

Digital Library Progress Report