Post on 22-Dec-2015
Best Practices in Digitization and
Digital Curation at McGill Libraries:the Osler Library Prints Collection
KarinaKawaguchi AlesiaRudnitskaya
XeniaKurguzova VickyVassiliou
Osler Library of the History of MedicineMcGill University Library
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Sources: McGill Campus Scenes. http://www.mcgill.ca/photos/2003/january/Osler Library. The William Osler Photo Collection. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/osler/large/CUS_033-001_P.jpg
Osler Library Prints Collection
• Value: historic and artistic
• Themes
• Physical properties
Let’s digitize!
Budget – special donation
Technology: scanners in place
Staffing:
team of librarians
specialized experts and support staff brought in
McGill’s Best Practices
Repository Functions
The OAIS Functional Model
Source: Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0m2.pdf
Best Practices
Digital images: standards and quality
TIFF
•Storage
JPEG
• Access and delivery
Thumbnails/full record/full screen/zoom
Scalable view (up to 6,450px × 4,500px)
High quality resolution (up to 15 KB)
Best Practices
Exhaustive annotations
• each digital object described by art historian/curator
Dublin Core metadata scheme
• easy to use• interoperable• OAI-PMH –
compliant
Controlled vocabulary
• LC subject headings
• authority files
Best Practices
Comprehensive finding aids and rich metadata
Best PracticesComprehensive finding aids and rich metadata
Best PracticesComprehensive finding aids and rich metadata
user-centered interface
ease of navigation
visual aids
multiple access points
Best Practices
Display and access
High quality digital images
Comprehensive and precise finding aids and rich metadata
Usability of the Website
Accessibility
Information discovery
Preservation
Contribution to
knowledge
Best Practices
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Challenges
• Documentation of policies
• Preservation strategies and contingency planning
• Copyright
• Visibility on the web
Challenges
• Besser, H., Hubbard, S., & Lenert, D. (2003). Introduction to imaging. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute.
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). (2002). Guidelines for digitization projects for collections and holdings in the public domain, particularly those held by libraries and archives. Retrieved from http://www.ifla.org/publications/guidelines-for-digitization-projects-for-collections-and-holdings-in-the-public-domain
• Federal Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group. (2009). Technical guidelines for digitizing cultural heritage materials: Creation of raster image master files. Retrieved from http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/FADGI_Still_Image-Tech_Guidelines_2010-08-24.pdf
• Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow (HATII) and The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). (2003). The NINCH guide to good practice in the digital representation and management of cultural heritage materials. Retrieved from http://www.nyu.edu/its/pubs/pdfs/NINCH_Guide_to_Good_Practice.pdf
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO). (2007). A framework of guidance for building good digital collections. Retrieved from http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/framework3.pdf
• RLG-NARA Task Force on Digital Repository Certification. (2005). An audit checklist for the certification of trusted digital repositories. Retrieved from http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/trac_0.pdf
• RLG/OCLC Working Group on Digital Archive Attributes, Research Libraries Group, & OCLC. (2002). Trusted digital repositories: Attributes and responsibilities : an RLG-OCLC report. Mountain View, CA: RLG.
References
• Christopher Lyons, Head of the Osler Library
• Megan Chellew, Metadata Librarian
Acknowledgements
alesia.rudnitskaya@mail.mcgill.ca
karina.kawaguchi@mail.mcgill.ca
vicky.vassiliou@mail.mcgill.ca
ksenia.kurguzova@mail.mcgill.ca
Questions?
Thank you!