Post on 21-Dec-2015
Contents
• In Place - overview
• The project’s metadata requirements
• Metadata workflow
• Metadata schema
• Metadata in practice
• Some clever stuff
New Opportunity Fund (NOF)
• The British Library received £3.4m
• Approximately 50 digitisation projects
across the whole of the United Kingdom
• NOF digitise - A total of £50m grants
Project overview
• The Library’s largest digitisation project
• 100,000 objects from 20 collections
• Free access to material to ‘Lifelong Learners’
• In Place considered to be at the heart of the
Library’s strategic vision
• The project complete by summer 2004
Criteria for selection
• Objects linked to a location
• Three themes
– Your Place in the Nation
– Britain - in Sight and Sound
– Beyond Britain
• No conservation issues
• British Library copyright
Project Team
Project Board
Project Manager
Studio ManagerMetadata Team
ManagerWeb Delivery
ManagerIS Lead
Studio Team7 x photographers
2 x LibraryAssistants
Metadata Team11 x Metadata
Creators
Web designAgency
Content Manager
2 x ResearchersIS development &
support
NOF metadata requirements
• Common standards across all NOF digitise projects
• Dublin Core
• NOF digitise portal
The collections
• Maps
• Early Printed Collections
• Manuscripts
• Newspapers
• Music
• Oriental and India Office
• National Sound Archive
Early Printed Collections
• 3000 I´mages from 19C photographically illustrated books
• 13,500 pages text and illustrations
• 3000 x Victorian ephemera
National Sound Archive
• 300 hours audio
• British Dialects
• British wildlife
recordings
• Ethnographic wax
cylinders
Audience and accessibity
• Lifelong learners
– General or casual users
– Local historians
– Learners - in and out of formal education
– Academic researchers
Evolution of schema
• Review object selection with curators - ‘What are the key data elements you must have to describe the objects’
• Identify end users
• Adjust schema to match our requirements
The final schemaDC No. Field Name Sample Data
DC22 Collection British topographical booksDC1 Title The entrance to Portreath, CornwallDC19 Unique Identifier 004ZZZ0000189E6U00018000
DC20_1 Shelfmark 189E6
DC20_2 Item number 18
DC20_3 Location
DC18_1 Length 278
DC18_2 Width 204
DC18_3 Scale mm
DC2_1 Alt Title 1 A Voyage Round Great Britain
DC1_2 Alt Title 2 With a Series of Views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features ofthe Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
DC1_3 Alt Title 3
The final schemaDC No. Field Name Sample DataDC13 Object Type ImageDC14 Object Genre Topographical print
DC16 Object Medium Etching
DC5 Keywords Cornish, Seascape, Pier, Water Transport, Sailing Ship
DC6 Description Despite it's small size Ayton says of Portreath; 'It is, nevertheless, a place ofconsiderable bustle and business, and has a harbour, which is always crowdedwith vessels, that bring coals to it from Swansea and Neath, and return withcopper and tin ore'
'While we were standing on the pier-head we saw a small brig running for theharbour, and though the weather was moderate, we could not see her, evenwillfully, advance towards the rocks, without a sense of anxiety andbreathlessness'.
DC23 ExistingReferences
DC25_1 OS GridReference 165500 , 45500
DC25_2 OS Gazetteer Portreath, Cornwall
The final schemaDC No. Field Name Sample Data
DC3 Creator William Daniell
DC4 Creator role Artist
DC10_1 Contributor 1
DC10_2 Contributor 2
DC10_3 Contributor 3
DC11_1 Contributor Role 1
DC11_2 Contributor Role 2DC11_3 Contributor Role 3DC21_1 Language 1 EnglishDC21_2 Language 2
DC21_3 Language 3
The final schemaDC No. Field Name Sample Data
DC8 Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Browne, Paternoster-Row; and WilliamDaniell, No 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square
DC9 Place ofPublication
London, England
DC12_5 Publication DateDC12_1 Key Date 1813
Date Description Early 19th Century
DC12_2 Original CreationDate
1814
DC12_3 Map Survey DateDC12_6 Map Revision
DateDC7_1 OS Map scale
DC7_2 Scale descriptionDC15 Digital_medium image/TIFFDC17 Digital_size 123,000 KBDC27 Rights NOF statement on rights.
Practical issues
• How do you uniquely identify each object in a meaningful way?• The issue -
Add.74000, f.1 Eva.100 WD1234,f321x X321(123)Cotton MS Vitellius A.X11 H.1260.1(16.) Mss.Eur F174/2336OSD 222 H.3981.42.(52) Mss.Eur F174/2336 K.Top 1153.2 K.Top vol 102 (part 3) 2 Mss.Eur B360b (65) C45/1733189.E.7 H1783.p.(59.) Mss.Eur F1234/9876 (1234B) Add.147
Practical issues
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0 0 4 Z Z Z 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 9 E U 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 4 Z Z Z 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 9 E U 0 0 0 1 8 0 0 0
0 0 4 Z Z Z 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 9 E U 0 0 0 1 8 0 A 0
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Shelfmark: 189E f18 (1)
Topographical print>Seascape>Sailing ship
The entrance to Portreath, CornwallWilliam Daniell, 1814
Despite it's small size Ayton says of Portreath; 'It is, nevertheless, a place of considerable bustle and business, and has a harbour, which is always crowded with vessels, that bring coals to it from Swansea and Neath, and return with copper and tin ore'
'While we were standing on the pier-head we saw a small brig running for the harbour, and though the weather was moderate, we could not see her, even willfully, advance towards the rocks, without a sense of anxiety and breathlessness'.
Etching278 x 204mm
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Object level example
Practical issues
• Map interface – Coordinates - point verses area
• Dates– Original creation date – Key date
The website
• OliveSoft
• Penny Illustrated - 40,000 pages
• Scan from microfiche - OCR and image
• Clever user interface
• Demo
The website
• How does a user view a large image
• Largest map dimensions here
• Zoomify demo
Conclusion
• Understand your material and your users
• Exploit technology - CMS
• Wherever possible use what’s already there
• Metadata the hardest part of the project