Photograph and Video Collection of Grey Inglish

By Sarah InglishMay 5, 2009 http://www.slideshare.net/singlish

Purpose, Users, and User Needs

Purpose: Improve my own understanding of

digital libraries Increase my own understanding of

digital library technology Electronically preserve my own

photograph and video collection Share photographs and videos with

family and friends

Purpose, Users, and User Needs

Users: Family Friends Professor Students

Purpose, Users, and User Needs

User Needs: Sharing photographs and videos Preservation photographs and videos

Collection

Photographs Collection of

over 50 images

Born digital Jpg- file

format Gif- file format

Videos Collection of

over 15 videos Born digital QuickTime-

file format AVI- file

format

System Architecture and Functions of DSpace

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) v2.0 DSpace item records can be made

available from harvesting Institutions have an option to turn on

or off OAI Institutions can choose to register as

data provider or not

System Architecture and Functions of DSpace

Mark-up language~ HTML/XHTML Script languages~ Java Script Hardware requirements~ UNIX

operating system Recommended~ good server with

memory and disk storage

System Architecture and Functions of DSpace

System Architecture and Functions of DSpace

Submit items using a web based interface

Data files/bitstreams are organized together

Item is archived with metadata Collection is part of a community Offers functional preservation End-user can browse and search

Metadata

• Dublin Core metadata• Some metadata is done

mechanically File sizes Checksums Full-text indexing

Metadata

Information about the content creator (rights, contributors, publisher)

Information about the content that will help it to be found (coverage, description, title, subject, relationships)

Information about the resource (formats, system requirements, date, identification)

Optional Dublin Core metadata can be added at the catalogers discretion

Metadata• “dc.date.created” can be used when

the “date of creation or manufacture of intellectual content if different from date issued” (DSpace)

• “dc.format” can be used as a “catch-all for any format information not defined by qualifiers” (DSpace)

• “dc.format.requires” can be used when a “referenced resource is required to support function, delivery, or coherence of item” (DSpace)

Metadata

For this project Descriptive metadata Added several subjects Age Location Video Title- used names of people or animals

User Interface and Functions

Basic Search~ enter a term Advanced Search~ users can

choose “and”, “or”, “not” and enter terms in 3 search boxes

Browse, by title or subject~ best for my collection

User Interface and Functions

Added “video” as a subject for all videos Videos can be found together

Unable to create sub-collections by age Used “one year old”, “four years old” so

that photos/videos of ages can be found together

DSpace http://dspace-slis.kent.edu:8080/jspui/password-login

Part V: User Interface and Functions

Part VI: Implementation Issues using DSpace

Interoperability Formats that are

unrecognized are unsupported

DSpace does not know enough about these files to preserve them

Scalability Does not seem to

be an issue Need a good server

with memory and storage