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A River Runs Through It: The Arizona v. California
Digitization ProjectSWALL Annual Meeting
March 22, 2014
Erik Beck, Karen Selden & Jane Thompson
The Arizona v. California Litigation (1952-1963)
Graphic by Caleb Trantow
Project: The Inspiration
• The serendipitous conversation at law school commencement (May 2012)
CLYDE MARTZ SUMMER CONFERENCE, August 15-16, 2013Arizona v. California at 50: The Legacy and Future of Governance, Reserved Rights, and Water Transfers
Project: Revisiting the Stacks
• The Arizona v. California volumes (33 v.)
Project: Our Questions
• When and from whom did we acquire these documents?
• What organizational scheme was employed to group and bind them, and does it make sense?
• Do we have a complete collection?• Do our print holdings overlap significantly
with other libraries?• Has another library digitized them and, if
not, who would be interested in them?• How much time would it take to create a
digital archive?
Project: An Exciting Discovery
Project: The Team
Project: The Process
Due Diligence
ElectronicBookplate
Metadata
Scanning/Ingestion
Landing Page & Interviews
Demo & Publicity
Project: Cover Sheets
Project: The Role of Researchers (June/July 2013)
Professors Jason Robison & Larry MacDonnellJason A. Robison & Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Arizona v. California & the Colorado River Compact: Fifty Years Ago, Fifty Years Ahead, 4 ARIZ. J. ENVTL. L. & POL’Y (forthcoming 2014).
Project: Identify Needed Content and Place ILL Requests
Appendix 1Special Master’s
Draft ReportMay 5, 1960
Project: Identify Needed Content and Place ILL Requests (cont’d)
• Libraries who lent us materials or made scans:
• Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
• Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries• John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, California State
University, Los Angeles• Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA School of Law• Special Collections & Archives, Water Resources
Collections, UCR Libraries, University of California, Riverside
• William M. Rains Library, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles• Wyoming State Library• The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia Law
School• United States Department of the Interior Library
Project: What Did We Learn?
• Court documents: difficult to manage, but available for digitizing
• Team projects: rewarding and surprising• Project management: old and new
methods work• Involvement of researchers improves the
final product• Conference tie-in boosted awareness by
expert group, but more publicity is even better
Project: Publicity Plan (Asana.com)
Featured in The Water ReportCOLORADO ARCHIVE WESTARIZONA V. CALIFORNIA COLLECTION - The William A. Wise Law Library
Project: Hopes for the Future
• Improve workflow and processes for future projects
• Include our holdings in the Western Water Digital Library -http://www.westernwater.org/
• Identify and scan/collaborate re: additional content held by other libraries
• Create a hyperlinked finding aid
Metadata
Cataloging Decisions & Processes
Managing the Workflow
Metadata
Research & Retrieval Needs
Hey girl.You know I’mnot usually thejealous type…but, who is MARC?
MARC Fields• 520: Case summary
MARC Fields• 524s: Citations to brief &
to landmark case
MARC Fields• 730s: Uniform titles for:
the case; the entire collection;
sub-collections
MARC Fields• 856: Link to Digitool bib
record• 970: Electronic Bookplate
The Template
Party Copy Cataloging
Original Cataloging
Total
California 46 27 73
Arizona 25 6 31
Nevada 17 5 22
United States 11 3 14
New Mexico 8 2 10
Utah 7 7
Colorado 1 1 2
Total 121 47 168
Original Image by Julieta Felix
Digital Collections Workflow
• Step 1: Image Capture
• Step 2: Editing
• Step 3: Add to Repository
• Step 4: Incorporate Into Landing Page
Image Capture
Bookdrive Pro from Atiz
• Metal frame• LED lights and hood• Angled cradle on track• Glass guard• Cameras not included
Produced archival images between 4 and 5 megabytes in size.
Product details at http://pro.atiz.com
Irregular Artifacts
Editing
Blk&wht, text only Blk&wht, text and image Color, image or textOriginal type- text Original type- text Original type- Photo/Printed Photo
or Text-PhotoSimplex/Duplex- 2 sided Simplex/Duplex- 2 sided Simplex/Duplex- 2 sidedResolution– 200dpi Resolution – 300dpi Resolution – 300dpiFile type- PDF File type- PDF File type- PDF: multi-page,
JPEG: Single page
Density- middle setting Density- middle setting Density- middle settingColor- Black Color- Grey scale Color- Full ColorScan size - auto Scan size – auto Scan size – auto
Editing Standards
Metadata Conversion
MARC MARCxml
The Repository
Digital Collections of Colorado: http://digitool.library.colostate.edu
The Repository
Digital Collections of Colorado: http://digitool.library.colostate.edu
• Branding
• Unique Access Point
• Specialized Searching
Collection “Landing Page”
• Designed imagery for the collection (Branding)
• Hosted a page on library website with unique content about the collection.
• Special search functionalities to augment full-text searching offered through the repository.
Using Drupal
Used Drupal CMS to create additional search functionality.
Essentially had to create a second database for metadata to target specific fields for searching.
Connecting Resources
LawLibrary.Colorado.edu Digital Collections of Colorado
Connected via Hyperlink
Specialized searching of targetedfields: Year, Author, Title
Searches full text of document and more detailed metadata record.
Quality Assurance Testing
After staff review, we added the following design elements:
• Instructional text.
• Emphasis of unique text in title.
• List nodes in chronological order.
• Results Counter
• Inclusion of clear button.
Collection Usage
Regular traffic to page after initial launch with intermittent spikes.
High average time on page.
Lessons Learned
• Adobe optical character recognition insufficient for indexing documents for digital collections. Alternative options: Abbyy FineReader, Tesseract
• Creating dual interfaces produces extra work, duplicates effort.
• Faster computers are worth the investment.
Project: Searching the Collection
Project: Searching the Collection
Project: Refining Search in Repository
Project: Refining Search in Repository (cont’d)