UWDC Center

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UWDC Center

• Digital Content Group
• Transformation to digital formats
• Documentation and Guidelines
• Library Technology Group
• Infrastructure for access navigation
• Production support
• Range of expertise and skills

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Transformation to Digital Formats

• Create required formats
• Metadata
• Encoded Text
• Images
• Audio
• Archival Finding Aids

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High-Speed Scanning
Audio Reformatting
Pulnix Overhead Scanner
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Managing Projects

• Project Contributor outside UWDC Center
• Content responsibility
• Material assessment
• Initially for proposal
• Detailed analysis for managing tasks

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DCG staff meet with selectors to discuss and
evaluate projects
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Managing Projects

• Identifying required tasks and amount of each
• Imaging or Audio
• Metadata or Encoding
• Identify technical requirements
• Reformatting and Metadata completion
• Quality Control

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Bibliographic Multimedia Model

• Sample project Africa Focus
• http//digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/AfricaFocu
  s

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E-Facsimile Model

• Sample work DNR Technical Bulletin
• http//digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EcoNatRes.
  DNRBull191

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Encoded Text Collections

• Using HTML, SGML or TEI encoding
• Displays actual text characters with highlighted
  terms
• Historical Primary Sources Texts
• http//libtext.library.wisc.edu/HistPriSrc/

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EAD-Encoded Finding Aids

• WHS Finding Aids - La Follette papers
• http//digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/whsead

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Multi-type Projects

• Belgian American Collection
• http//digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/BelgAmrCol

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• OAI Compliance
• Persistent URLs Handles
• Outsourcing

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Documentation and Guidelines

• Standards and Guidelines
• Non-proprietary formats
• Standard metadata schema and encoding to
  facilitate searching across collections at other
  locations

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• Nolan Pope
• Library Technology
• UW-Madison General Library System
• Madison, WI 53706
• 608.262.6141
• npope_at_library.wisc.edu