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Connecticut History Online A digital library? By Todd Vandenbark.
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Transcript of Connecticut History Online A digital library? By Todd Vandenbark.
CHO: Goals
“to create a digital resource center that is composed of a variety of research materials serving the needs of scholars, secondary school teachers and students, genealogists, and the general public.”
CHO: Goals
“Connecticut History Online will provide a comprehensive chronicle of events, people, and places documenting Connecticut, and American, social, business, political, educational, cultural, and civic life.”
But is it a digital library?
Selected on the basis of criteriaLocated in a logical place, though
they may be distributedOrganized, with most aspects of
authority control presentChanged in a standardized wayInformation resources (most of them)Limited to specific classes of users
But is it a digital library?
Disappearance of objects is controlled
The only services are those performed by computer software
Human specialists can be foundSome classes of objects have
associated user groups, and/or an intended audience.
Legal criteria
“Is the material restricted because of privacy, content, or donor concerns? Is it copyright protected? If so, do you have the right to create and disseminate digital reproductions?”
("Digital Imaging Tutorial," 2003)
Why the answer is “Yes”
Period: 1760 - 2000Categories:
DiversityLivelihoodsLifestylesEnvironment Infrastructure
Why the answer is “Yes”
Images of physical itemsDigital mediaHosted on a single web siteMetadata:Class of usersHuman specialists & control
Content Goals
2,000 broadsides 550 maps 450 artifacts 40 oral histories with
audio clips 3,800 manuscript
items 200 journals and
minute books 2,000 photographic
images
Formats
Images:Scanning: 300 dpi
TIFFs, 24-bit colorPresentation: JPEG
or JPEG 2000, width 700 px
Audio:Capture: WAVPresentation: Real
Audio
Modes of Navigation
Search by key word and advanced keyword searches by subject, creator, date, place name, collection, institution, and title
GeoLocator Journeys Collection-level cataloging
records
Educational resource
Journeys is “designed to help you explore a specific theme from Connecticut history. A selected group of images from the database will provide a brief introduction to the topic and to the types of related material that you will find in CHO.”
Educational resource
Classroom provides “basic information, lessons, activities and other resources to help teachers and students use Connecticut History Online as a window to the past and tool for discovery and understanding.”
Common practice
IBM and design principles: Interface must “positively support users’
endeavors and never intrude adversely.”Design should reflect simplicity, support,
familiarity, obviousness, encouragement, satisfaction, availability, safety, versatility, and affinity.
IBM. (1999). Web design guidelines. Retrieved 6/23/2008, 2008, from https://www-306.ibm.com/software/ucd/designconcepts/designbasics.html
Other shortcomings
Uses HTML but no CSS
Fails Section 508 accessibility test
No personalization
Unusable features
GeoLocator ??