Oceania Digital Library ODiL UC San Diego Libraries Update

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Oceania Digital Library (ODiL)UC San Diego
Libraries Update

• Robin L. Chandler
• Director, digital library program
• November 19, 2009

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Discussion Scope

• Collections ODiL UCSD Libraries
• Discovery and Delivery
• UCSD Libraries Digital Library Collection
• Online Archive of California
• PRDLA Archive
• Project Milestones

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ODiL Building Digital Collections _at_ UCSD

• NEH proposal resubmit (decision May 2010)
• Papers of Roy Rappaport Edwin Cook
• UCSD Libraries Preservation funds
• Papers of Sylvester Lambert
• PRDLA ODiL grant / UCSD Libraries funds
• Papers of Roger Keesing and Harold Scheffler

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NEH proposal The Highlands of Papua New Guinea
and 20th Century Anthropology

• UCSD Libraries resubmit to National Endowment of
  the Humanities Access Preservation Grant for
  350,000
• NEH grant awardees announced May 2010
• Seek to build accessible online repository
• Document the History of anthropology social
  history of Papua New Guinea
• Roy Rappaport Papers (1926-1997)
• Maring people and human ecology, ritual, and
  acculturation
• Edwin Cook Papers (1932-1984)
• Manga (Narak-language) peoples transition into
  the modern world
• If funded, the project will digitize over 16,400
  items
• Photographs
• Anthropology Field notes
• Dissertations

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UCSD Libraries Preservation FundsSylvester
Lambert Papers (1920 1942)

• Sylvester Lambert Papers (1920 1942)
• The collection documents Dr. Lamberts public
  health work conducted in the Pacific Islands for
  the Rockefeller Foundation and is comprised of
  reports, writings, negatives, photographs, and
  lantern slides. Dr. Lamberts book Yankee Doctor
  in Paradise published in 1941 documents his
  experiences in Australia, Fiji, Vanuatu and
  Solomon Islands.
• 1,389 nitrate negatives, glass plate negatives,
  lantern slides

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Title Group of men, and a boy man on right has
large earrings. Sylvester M. Lambert Papers,
1918 - 1947

• Date 1930-1933
• Subject Headings
• Boys
• Children
• Jewelry
• Men
• Rennell Island (Solomon Islands)
• Solomon Islanders
• Solomon Islands

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Title Local people at Dilava Catholic mission,
one man with deformed leg.Sylvester M. Lambert
Papers, 1918 - 1947

• Date 1920-1921
• Subject Headings
• Boys
• Buildings
• Churches
• Men
• Missions
• Papua New Guinea
• Papua New Guineans

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ODiL PRDLA grant/ UCSD Libraries Keesing /
Scheffler Collections

• Roger Keesing Papers, 1962 - 1993
• Cultural and linguistic anthropologist and his
  papers document the research and material
  generated from his interest in the Solomon
  Islands, primarily in the culture, history and
  language of the Kwaio people.
• 2,878 black and white 35mm negatives color
  slides
• Harold Scheffler Papers, 1926 -1981
• Schefflers papers document his ethnographic
  research in the Solomon Islands , specifically
  his dissertation fieldwork on Choiseul Island and
  his comparative study of religious revitalization
  movements and separatist churches on Rendova
  Island.
• 1,370 black and white 35mm negatives color
  slides

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Title Men plaiting a wall of a house. Roger M.
Keesing Papers, 1963 - 1993

• Date 1963-1989
• Subject Headings
• Building - Solomon Islands
• Dwelling Solomon Islands
• Men Solomon Islands
• Weaving Solomon Islands

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Title Marketing or dividing betel nuts
(areca).Roger M. Keesing Papers, 1963 - 1993

• Date 1963-1989
• Subject Headings
• Betel nut--Solomon Islands
• Men--Solomon Islands
• Tatooing --Solomon Islands

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Title Canoe prow sculpture attached to canoe.
Harold Scheffler Papers, 1926 - 1981

• Date 1967
• Subject Headings
• Canoes--Solomon Islands
• Ghizo (Solomon Islands)
• Sculpture--Solomon Islands
• Choiseul Islanders (Solomon Islands people)

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Title Man with shell valuable. Ring with two
anthropomorphic figures. Harold Scheffler
Papers, 1926 - 1981

• Date 1959 - 1961
• Subject Headings
• Portraits--Solomon Islands
• Shell money--Solomon Islands
• Choiseul Islanders (Solomon Islands people)
• Choiseul (Solomon Islands)
• Men--Solomon Islands

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Discovery and Delivery

• UCSD Libraries Digital Collections
• Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) Public
  Access System
• Online Archive of California
• Finding Aids with links to digital objects
• PRDLA Archives
• OAI-Harvesting metadata

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UCSD Libraries Digital Library Collections Home
Page
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UCSD Libraries Digital Library Collections
Search Results
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UCSD Libraries Digital Library Collections
Digital Object Viewer
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Online Archive of California Finding Aids
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UCSD Libraries OAI-Harvesting Infrastructure
Testing with PRDLA Archive

• Harvestable DC Metadata

• Website for URL resolve

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Project Milestones

• Melanesian collections available in UCSD
  Libraries Digital Library Collections January
  2010
• OAI-PMH harvest testing can begin February 2010
• Melanesian collections available in Online
  Archive of California March 2010
• NEH grant decision May 2010

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Questions?

• Queries can be sent to
• Robin Chandler rochandler_at_ucsd.edu
• Luc Declerck ldeclerck_at_ucsd.edu
• Thank You