Building Digital Collections
with DALNET
&
Greenstone
Digital Library Software
...
LITA Forum 2004
about DALNET:
The Detroit Area Library Network is a multi-type library consortium
located in Southeast Michigan that serves academic, public,
school and special libraries as well as information organizations in
the seven county Metropolitan Detroit region.
• Botsford General Hospital
• Oakland County Law Library
• Rochester College
• Detroit Institute of Arts
• The Henry Ford - Benson
• Detroit Medical Center
Ford Research Center
• Detroit Public Library
• John D. Dingell VA Medical Center • University of Detroit Mercy
• Macomb Community College District • Walsh College
• Wayne County Community
• Marygrove College Library
College District
• Mount Clemens General Hospital
• Wayne State University
• Oakland Community College
• William Beaumont Hospital
Partnership for development:
DALNET Provides:
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Greenstone
Systems administration
Image Server
Metadata recommendations
Member Provides:
• Metadata recommendations
• Data conversion services
• Interface customization
• Website development
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•
Digitized objects
• Collection expertise
Metadata
• Knowledge of available organizational resources
Together, we develop/design/implement:
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Project plan
Interface functionality
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Collection interface specifications
Standards for data entry or conversion
LITA Forum 2004
Building the Library:
Greenstone
+ indexes
+ interfaces
build.pl
Metadata
DC.dot
interface
WRLC
DC.dot
Data
Conversion
Greenstone
Metadata
Provide
records
HTML-encoded
Dublin
Core
HTML-encoded
records
Collection
Objects
Digitization
Object URL
Image
Viewer
import.pl
Digital
objects
LITA Forum 2004
E. Azalia Hackley – Detroit Public
Library Sheet Music Collection
LITA Forum 2004
Developing the Hackley collection:
Staffing:
DALNET
Laura Sheble, Systems Librarian, (DALNET Project lead)
Duryea Callaway, Outreach Coordinator
Negib Sherif, Senior Systems Integrator
Anaclare Evans, Systems Librarian
Scott Muir, Assistant Director
George Marck, Lead Applications Tech Analyst Jacqueline Wrosch, Web Developer/Interim Director
Detroit Public Library:
Barbara Martin, Curator, E. Azalia Hackley Memorial Collection
Adrienne Aluzzo, Librarian II, Bibliographic Division,
Cheri Gay, Librarian III, Bibliographic Division (DPL Project lead)
Randolph Call, Assistant Director for Technical Services
LITA Forum 2004
Developing the Hackley collection:
Starting Place:
• Objects digitized
• Metadata created, MARC format
• MARC-DC Crosswalk draft
• Greenstone test collections successful
One: Project Plan
Project Standards:
File naming convention
MARC-DC Crosswalk
Image size, quality
Digital Library Structure:
Image location
Website
Division of Labor
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Developing the Hackley collection:
Two: Data, Metadata
Metadata Updates
Data Extraction
Filename transformation
Data conversion
Thumbnail image creation
thehackley.org
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# baseNmeta.pl : Script I've been
# hacking to process our MARC files.
Three: Website
Display
Content
Use policies
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Records Format
HTML encoded
Dublin Core
Greenstone
metadata
format
15 October 2003
Developing the Hackley collection:
Four: Inside Greenstone
Collection configuration
Index specifications
Display customization
Five: A Growing Collection
Adding objects
Quality control
Enhancements
Go to music by African American Composers >>
Go to music by Detroit Music Publishers >>
LITA Forum 2004
Record Display Format
Without image viewer
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Record Display Format
With image viewer
LITA Forum 2004