IMLS NLG Collection Registry & Item-Level Metadata Repository

at the University of Illinois

Timothy W. Cole (t-cole3@uiuc.edu)Mathematics Librarian & Professor of Library Administration

Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@uiuc.edu)Project Coordinator & Visiting Asst. Prof. of Library Administration

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Web-Wise 2004: Sharing Digital ResourcesThursday 4 March 2004 (Session 2)Chicago, Illinois

http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/

Web-Wise 20044 March 2004

t-cole3@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 2

Outcomes of the IMLS Digital Library Forum

Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collectionshttp://www.imls.gov/pubs/forumframework.htm

Stresses reusability, persistence, interoperability, verification, and documentation of digital collections

Agreement with NISO to maintain Framework as an information standard (Nov. 2003)

DL Forum report, including recommendations encouraging: Creation of an IMLS Collection Registry Implementation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for

Metadata Harvesting by IMLS projects Development of infrastructure to facilitate interoperability

between IMLS projects and initiatives like NSDL

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t-cole3@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 3

Collection description and registry for National Leadership grant projects with associated digital content

Enhance discoverability; all registry fields searchable

Item level metadata repository via OAI-PMH Demonstrate potential of metadata for interoperability Serve as testbed for IMLS projects interested in OAI-

PMH Facilitate reuse of information resources

Research question:How can resource developers best represent collections and items to meet the needs of service providers and end users?

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t-cole3@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 4

IMLS Grantees -- A Diverse Community

Wide variation in technical skills and technology infrastructure & policy

Mix of library, museum, and archive traditions Diverse perspectives on intellectual property policy; use

and presentation of metadata and primary resources Diverse embedded knowledge structures

Wide range of vocabularies and descriptive practices Metadata created for diverse purposes Local vocabularies for type, subject, coverage, audience Wide range of granularity

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t-cole3@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 5

Institutional Diversity

95 NLG projects (as of 2002) with associated digital collections 51 of these are/were collaborative projects All together 237 institutions involved

Breakdown of Institutions (237 total)

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21 17 148 8 8 5 5 5

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t-cole3@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 6

OAI Readiness Among NLG Projects

NLG Projects (95 total) and OAI

19%

25%

14%

18%

24%

OAI data provider

In Development / Planned

No OAI but satisfyprerequisites

Do not meet prerequisites /unable to participate

Unknown

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t-cole3@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 7

Current Projects Addressing Similar Issues

NSDLDigital library of resource

collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels.

NOF-Digitize / EnrichUKDescription and aggregation of

digitized collections funded by the New Opportunities Fund

Minerva ProjectCreating an agreed European

common platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitization, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation

Web-Wise 20044 March 2004

t-cole3@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 8

Collection Registry

Collection-Level description schema based on RSLP & DCMI working group

NLG projects surveyed to collect information for initial population of registry

Projects will be able to edit & update records online

Browseable & fully searchable

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t-cole3@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 9

Metadata Repository

Currently Harvesting: 17 Collections 77,816 Metadata Records

Will be linked to Collection Registry

Ongoing analysis of metadata

Documenting practices Potential for normalization Implications for interface

& search engine design

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t-cole3@uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois at UC 10

On to the Demos

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Raising the Impact of Digital Content Through Metadata Harvesting

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South: Bringing Primary Source Materials to Light Online

University of Minnesota. Poster Art from the World Wars

Washington State University, Vancouver. Heritage of the Columbia River Basin: An Online Learning Center on the Pacific Northwest

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Building Bridges to Art

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.CAMEO: Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online