Expanding Access To Your Collections

Expanding Access to Your Collections

Orange County Heritage Coordinating Council ● November 2009 ● Orange, CA

Discussion Points 1. CDL Context 2. Expanding Access to Your Primary Resource Collections: Calisphere p and OAC 3. Become a Contributing Member 4 Looking Forward 4.

What is the CDL? ƒ Established in 1997 as the “11th 11th library” of the University of California (UC) system ƒ Provides tools and services that support the educational mission of the UC http://www.cdlib.org – Union catalog (MELVYL) – Periodical databases – Websites to digitized primary resources and government statistics (Calisphere, OAC, Counting California) – Faculty and UC Press publications (eScholarship)

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Established in 1997: “11th library” of the University of California (UC) system Administered under the UC Office of the President – not campus-specific Di it l S Digital Special i lC Collections ll ti iis one off fifive programs Provides tools and services systemwide for UC and partner institutions and audiences, e.g.: g non-UC p • • • • •

Melvyl® (Bibliographic Services) Periodical/A&I licensing, mass digitization (Collection Development & Management) F Faculty lt and d UC P Press publications bli ti (eScholarship ( S h l hi Publishing) UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository (Digital Preservation)) Calisphere and OAC

Discussion Points 1. CDL Context 2. Expanding Access to Your Primary Resource Collections: Calisphere p and OAC 3. Become a Contributing Member 4 Looking Forward 4.

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Different audience needs, different sites

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Calisphere ƒ ƒ

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Emphasizes digitized primary resources (only!) K-12 instructional use; undergraduate use

OAC ƒ

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Emphasizes p collection g guides ((some digitized g primary p y resources online, but mostly describes physical collections): California finding aid hub Historical research

Collection guides or “finding aids” ((EAD))

 ((ca. 15,000))

describe collections, their intellectual and physical organization, and their provenance

Digital primary and archival resources (METS) • Images I

photos, drawings, paintings, posters...

• Texts

letters, oral histories, reports, scrapbooks...

(ca. 210,000)

http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu

How are CDL services used in the Local Hi t History Digital Di it l R Resources P Project j t (LHDRP)? ƒ ...

http://www.oac.cdlib.org

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Meet users where they they’re re at Provide leads to Calisphere or OAC: more o e context, co te t, more o e collections, co ect o s, more o e resources

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Example #1: Push indexing of collection guides and objects by major search engines – –

~44% of users arrive from Google Search engine optimization via metatags

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Example #2: Push metadata for objects to other aggregators

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Example #3: Push metadata for collection guides to other aggregators

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Example #4: Push metadata for themed collections to other aggregators

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Example #5: Seed relevant Wikipedia articles with citations to objects

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Example #6: Marketing collections through AddtoAny bookmark and sharing service (forthcoming)

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Example #7: Marketing collections through social networking services –

Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/calisphere)

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Example #8: Marketing collections through social networking services –

Fan us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/calisphere)

Discussion Points 1. CDL Context 2. Expanding Access to Your Primary Resource Collections: Calisphere p and OAC 3. Become a Contributing Member 4 Looking Forward 4.

http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/dsc/contribute/

Become a Contributing Member •

Who? –

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California academic, public, and private libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums

What? – –

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EAD collection ll i guides id METS digital objects (image, PDF, TEI)

How Much? –

No fees

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Broaden public access to your collections Persistent management of digital assets in ou our repository epos to y Usage and extent statistics Expanded grant opportunities

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Local History Digital Resources Project LSTA grant

EAD and METS encoding tools and consultation services

Discussion Points 1. CDL Context 2. Expanding Access to Digital Primary and Archival Resource Collections: Calisphere p and OAC g Member 3. Become a Contributing 4. Looking Forward

Looking Forward •

Support non non-EAD EAD collection descriptions ƒ

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MARC records

Support for new file formats ƒ

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Audio/visual resources

Support pp new tools that facilitate creating g EAD and METS ƒ ƒ

Archivists’ Toolkit Archon

Thanks!

Adrian d Turner CDL Digital Special Collections Phone: (714) 289-1822 289 1822 E-mail: [email protected]