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Harvard University LibraryOpen Collections
Program
Andrew ClarkJoshua Parker
Rebecca Wingfield
October 16, 2008
LIS462 Digital Libraries (Schwartz)
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Introduction
• Aims to “advance teaching and learning on historical topics of great relevance by providing online access to historical resources from Harvard's renowned libraries, archives, and museums” (from OCP mission statement)
• Favors a topic-based approach to building digital collections.
• Creates open, useful, and persistent digital objects.
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Collections & Content
Completed projects:• Women Working, 1800-1930 • Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
• Contagion: Historical Views
of Diseases and Epidemics In progress:• The Islamic Heritage Project
• Scientific Exploration and Discovery in the Modern Age Madrāsī, Muḥammad Ṣibghat Allāh.
(1893 or 1894). Hādhā rūznāmah-ʼī maʻahu mīqāt layl wa-nahār wa-sāʼir al-awqāt al-maʻlūmah naqalahu Shaykh Wafā.
(From the Islamic Heritage Project)
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Metadata Systems Employed [1]
Descriptive:• Dublin Core; DACS;
CDWA Technical:• Digital Repository
Service; MIX Structural:• METS
Metadata Standards at Harvard University
Preservation:• OAIS; PREMIS; LDI
Rights:• Local practiceLocal formats:• VIA; Links to digital objects
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Metadata Systems Employed [2]
• Dublin Core • LCSH • Local information
Full record view for an item in Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Search Capability & Discovery [1]
Browsing–by Genre or Subject • Faceted arrays • Variation in layout/options
Searching
• Keyword search
• Advanced searchLeft-hand navigation from Women Working, 1800-1930
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Search Capability & Discovery [2]
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Search Capability & Discovery [3]
• Featured collections• Timeline• Browse by genre or subject• Advanced and full-text search
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Viewing & Using Content [1]
• Page Delivery Service
Page Delivery Service display of a detail from the title page of Rølvaag, O. E. (1925). I de dage-: riket grundlægges. Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co.
(from Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930)
• OCRed full text
• PDF download
• Photographs, drawings, and other images are displayed using the Visual Information Access (VIA) catalog.
oiu I. first Communication comes it re; . ■ I from Dr. EmanuelTfimonius, % ?ubl ; c \+~jr Renowned Fellow of the JRoyal lann Society at London, (well known to . some in :, Bi | Boston, who also actually knew the Truth of ' hat the matter of Fact now going to be related J to len Who Writes from Constantinople in December jing 171 3. And -he informs to this Effect-, The
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Viewing & Using Content [2]
Original page and OCRed text from Mather, Cotton. (1721). Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox. Boston: Sold by S. Gerrish at his shop in Corn-Hill.
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
User Services & Special Features• Short topical and thematic essays, including links to items in the collections
• Bibliographies
• "Today's Diary Entries" in Women Working, 1800 - 1930
• Help pages and FAQ, but no link to reference or research support Thematic content available for Women
Working, 1800 - 1930
• Consistency of the collections and interface
• Functional performanceof the interface
• Quality of images and text
• Scholarly value
• Does the Open Collections Program meet its vision and mission?
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Overall Evaluation
Isidore. (1472). Isidori iunioris Hispalensis Episcopi prologus in librum De responsione mundi & astrorum ordinatione: ad Sesibutum Rege[m] incipit feliciter. Augsburg: Gunther Zainer.
(From Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics)
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Questions?
This presentation is acompanied by an annotated resource guide.