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Presentation by Sandra McIntyre, director of the Mountain West Digital Library, a digital collaborative serving memory institutions in the Mountain West states of the U.S. Part of "Librarians as Digital Leaders: Collaborating in the Development and Use of Digitized Collections," a panel at the American Library Association Annual Conference sponsored by ACRL and led by Maura Marx, deputy director of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in Las Vegas, June 28, 2014.
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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) [email protected]: @sinawava, @MWDigLibBlog: http://mwdlnews.blogspot.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/mountainwestdigitallibrary