IMLS DCC Project Overview http:imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu

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IMLS DCC Project Overview http//imlsdcc.grainger.
uiuc.edu/

• Jenny Benevento (benevent_at_uiuc.edu)Museum
  Informatics, 03/07/06

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Context

• Project began December 2002
• Project Objectives
• Implement a collection registry of digital
  collections created or developed with funding
  from IMLS NLG program
• Use OAI-PMH to implement an item-level metadata
  repository for content objects contained in NLG
  collections
• Carry out associated research related to
• Utility and usability of Registry Repository
• Current metadata practices of IMLS NLG grantees
• Implications for interoperability (Framework of
  Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections)

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Accomplishments to Date

• Collection Registry and Item-Level Repository
  publicly accessible
• http//imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/collections/
• http//imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/search/
• Selected Research Publications to Date
• Shreeves, S.L. Cole, T.W. 2003. Developing a
  Collection Registry for IMLS NLG Digital
  Collections Poster Abstract. In DC-2003
  Proceedings of the International DCMI Metadata
  Conference and Workshop p. 241-242.
• Cole, T.W. Shreeves, S.L. 2004. Search and
  discovery across collections The IMLS Digital
  Collections and Content Project. Library Hi Tech
  22(3) 307-322
• Palmer, Carole L. and Ellen M. Knutson. 2004.
  Metadata practices and implications for federated
  collections. In Proceedings of the 67th Annual
  Meeting of the American Society for Information
  Science and Technology , Edited by Linda Schamber
  Carol L. Barry. Medford, NJ Information Today,
  Inc 456-462.
• Shreeves, S.L., Knutson, E.M., Stvilia, B.,
  Palmer, C.L., Twidale, M.B., Cole, T.W. (2005).
  Is quality' metadata shareable' metadata? The
  implications of local metadata practice on
  federated collections. In H.A. Thompson (Ed.)
  Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of
  the Association of College and Research
  Libraries, April 7-10 2005, Minneapolis, MN .
  Chicago, IL Association of College and Research
  Libraries.

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IMLS-DCC Collection Registry

• 120 primary NLG collection records
• Includes additional 40 records for
  sub-collections
• Also 29 associated / 61 physical collections
• 170 projects represented
• Objects represented in registered collections
• Images prints, posters, photographs
• Text books, archival finding aids, newspapers
• Digital surrogates of physical objects
  artifacts, specimens, textiles
• Sound oral histories, sound files, wax cylinders
  
• Interactive resources
• Moving image
• Datasets

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Collection Registry Demo

• http//imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/collections/
• Other Collection Registries
• http//imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/resources.htm

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IMLS-DCC Metadata Repository

• 32 collections represented
• 37 repositories harvested
• 200,000 item-level records indexed
• Harvest in Simple Dublin Core MARC 21 XML
• Testing with Qualified Dublin Core
• Issues explored
• How metadata best practices are being adopted
• Interface customization based on audience
• Local context versus global context
• Intentional creation and collection development
  of digital collections

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Sample of Metadata Statistics http//imlsdcc.gra
inger.uiuc.edu/resources.htmshareablemetadata
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Item Level Demo

• http//imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/search/

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Plans for next 2 years

• Will add a handful of Illinois LSTA-funded
  projects in 2006
• More LSTA projects in 2007
• Themes for extension
• Metadata normalization, transformation, and
  enrichment
• Interface metadata design for targeted
  audiences
• Collection Identity metadata granularity
• Knowledge diffusion of metadata best practices
• Whats next?

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Current Research

• Collection identity in digital collections isnt
  the same as in real life collections.
• Shareable metadata that works outside of the
  original context and is consistent is most
  valuable and able to be aggregated.
• How does collection identity affect a digital
  object? How do people search for digital items,
  and how do we show them the collections they come
  from? (Richard)

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Why Would Museums Be Interested?

• See what their peer institutions are doing.
• Not repeat projects others have done.
• Get traffic to their site
• Audience of federated collection might not know
  about their site
• Marketing of federated collection brings new
  people with no extra work for them
• Assist users in finding individual items from
  many collections in one place, preferably themed.
• Show users, through finding one matching item
  that there is a whole collection of interest to
  them.
• Aggregators can add value to records (i.e.
  education)

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Interface Direction Changes

• New homepage
• http//hades.grainger.uiuc.edu/matt/imls/imlsdcc.h
  tm
• http//cicharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/heritage/colle
  ctions.asp
• Project emphasis changing
• Research---service orientation
• Comments welcome!

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Contact information

• Jenny Benevento
• Project Coordinator, IMLS Digital Collections and
  Content
• benevent_at_uiuc.edu
• 217-244-7809
• Presentations available at
• http//imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/about.htm