Here, There and Everywhere: Creating Collections of Manuscripts and Libraries

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Here, There and EverywhereCreating Collections
of Manuscripts and Libraries

• IMLS Projects for Spring 2008

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2 Projects

• Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project (CLIP) for the
  School of Library and Information Science
• Mentors
• Shana Stuart
• Mark Anderson
• Padmini Srinivasan
• Medieval Manuscript Collection for Special
  Collections
• Mentors
• Mark Anderson
• Special Thanks
• Jennifer Wolfe
• David Schoonover
• Kristin Baum
• Greg Prickman

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Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project

• Purpose
• to create and organize digital information about
  Iowas Carnegie Libraries
• Goals
• Add items to CLIP Digital Library
• Update and Organize existing items
• Assist with creation of new website
• Design 2009 Calendar

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Adding to Collection

• Digital photos-- SLIS Multimedia assignment
• Weeding
• Metadata

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Updating and Organizing

• Uniform metadata and titles
• Create Monographs
• Single page for each city so easy to link to from
  new website
• Demo of CLIP Digital Library

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New Website

• Old website http//mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/
  CLIP/
• Pages not linked
• Unfinished
• New website http//clip.grad.uiowa.edu/
• Shiny and new!
• Dynamic navigation and pages
• More information on cities and libraries, will
  link to CLIP Digital Library
• Drupal--easy for updating

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Issues

• Amber is not an organized person
• Many different people have worked on this project
• Shows how project evolved
• Difficult to know how to proceed

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, What did I do??!! moment

• Deleted all compound objects
• Hooray for Backup Copies!

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Future?

• Continue to add to, update and organize Digital
  Collection
• Finish adding library information to new website
  and add links to Digital Collection
• Still need to design Calendar!

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Medieval Manuscripts Collection

• Purpose create a digital collection of items in
  Special Collections Medieval Manuscript
  Collection so that students and researchers will
  be able to study items remotely providing higher
  accessibility and preservation of the items
• Goals
• Develop Metadata scheme and plan of action
• Create digital copies of items in collection
• Upload to ContentDM

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Metadata

• Couldnt find a good existing metadata schema for
  medieval manuscripts
• Unsure about Vocabulary

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Single Leaves
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Digitizing Process

• Easy to scan with protective Mylar sleeves
• Edited in Photoshop
• Save as Tiff and Jpeg
• Upload Jpeg to ContentDM and add metadata
• Demo of Book of Hours Leaf

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Books
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Digitizing Process

• Cannot scan with flatbed scanner
• Too large for scanner
• Stress on spine and binding
• Cant put painted pages directly on glass
• Use Digital Camera in Map Room
• Photograph all rectos, then all versos
• Use Bridge edit photos
• Upload to ContentDM
• Demo of Spanish Charter

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, What did I almost do??!! moment

• Realize that I have no idea how to safely set-up
  books for photographing
• Asked Conservation Department for help
• Re-evaluation of project

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New Plan

• Which books can be safely digitized?
• Develop workflow form
• New metadata using input from Conservation and
  Special Collections
• Photograph largest and safest books, wait for
  top-down scanner for others

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Future?

• Continue digitizing books--top-down scanner this
  summer?
• Update existing items with new metadata scheme

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Thank you!

• Any Questions?