Naval EOD Technology Division

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Managing Digital Collections
Military Librarians Workshop 9 December 2004
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Overview

• Command Mission Librarys Role
• Digital Determinations
• Beyond Documents
• Challenges
• Benefits

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Command Mission

• EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal
• Exploit technology and intelligence to develop
  and deliver EOD information, tools, equipment,
  and their life cycle support, to meet the needs
  of the Joint Services.

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Librarys Role

• Serves the entire Command
• Historical roots Operations Department
• Operations Department generates EOD procedures
  and publications
• Library acts as archive and research center

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Digital Determinations

• Sirsis Hyperion DMA
• Week long Requirements Workshop

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And Processes

• Two part approach
• Electronic donations/scan new donations
• Scan existing source data
• Process steps
• Scan (tif) or download
• OCR Optical Character Recognition
• Quality Review
• Convert to PDF
• Create OrgUnit in Hyperion
• Link to bibliographic record

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Beyond Documents

• Photos
• X-Rays
• Video
• Animation (including 3D)
• Of course, many of the scanned documents have
  photos, figures, tables
• Only 2 of the digitized collection falls into a
  non-document category.

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Inert Ordnance Collection

• Added thumbnails to inert ordnance records

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Challenges

• Attitudes
• Digitize for access, hard copy for posterity
• Quick lookup vs. I want to touch everything.

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Challenges

• Technology
• How long is this presentation?
• File format

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Challenges Formats
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Challenges Formats
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File Conversions
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Ergh!
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Problem Solved?

• Do we tell the server, or the PC?
• Tell your machine.
• And why is my computer acting up?
• I will come up now and check it out.
• Tell your machine I will come up now and check it
  out.

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Benefits IRs
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Benefits Project Source Data
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More on Project Source Data
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And More
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Questions?
Ann Cashin Librarian NAVEODTECHDIV Cashin_at_eodpoe2.
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