By Addison, Jessica, and Lauren
Management
• The Mountain West Digital Library is a program of
the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC)
• Three Governing Bodies
o UALC Council
o UALC Digitization Committee
o MWDL Program Director
 Sandra McIntyre
• Guidelines and Policies
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Content Scope
Metadata Guidelines
Digital Image Standards
• Tiered Infrastructure
Collections Partners Tier
Hosting Tier
Contributing Site
Regional Hosting Hub
Full-Service Hosting Hub
o Central Aggregating Server Tier
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Create a distributed digital repository
of significant, rare, and/or unique
resources
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Provide a public portal accessing
digital collections
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Expand the digital library vision and
environment for the Mountain West
region
The Mountain West Region
• Arizona
• Colorado
• Idaho
• Montana
• Nevada
• New Mexico
• Utah
• Wyoming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_mapMountain_states.png
1Birth
Date is either when the repository was first registered in ROAR or the earliest
record found via the OAI-PMH interface.
2Deposit activity measures the number of days in the last year that had "low" (1-9),
"medium" (10-99) or "high" (100+) numbers of records deposited.
Collection
Partners
• Utah
49 Universities
• Nevada
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5 Universities
• Idaho
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2 Universities
• Hawaii
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1 University
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Utah Academic Library Consortium
Institute of Museum and Library
Services funding under the Library
Services and Technology Act as
administered by the Utah State Library
Private donations to the MWDL Partners
Contributed time and equipment from
the MWDL Partners
• As MWDL is a consortium with aggregate content
from a variety of University and Archive
contributors- the resources vary widely
• Most content is readily downloadable
• Most content may be accessed “in browser” with
convenient PDF readers, image viewers or streaming
video/audio options (CONTENTdm, OCLC)
•MWDL assumes responsibility for accepted
content
•What warrants resources valuable enough
for inclusion?
- Cultural, historical value to the region
- Content needing preservation
- Content that may be unique or rare
- “promote an informed citizenry, i.e.
politically, legally and medically”
• Tag your own resources
• External vocabulary encoding schemes
• Consistent metadata across repositories
• Cost of maintenance
From: Toy-Smith, Vicki(2010) 'UALC Best Practices Metadata Guidelines: A Consortial
Approach', Journal of Library Metadata , 10: 1-12
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Eight fields required: date,
description, format,
identifier, rights, subject,
title, type
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Two additional mandatory "if
applicable" fields:
conversion specifications
and creator
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Additional fields allowed to
serve local needs, i.e. data
specific to user community,
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Master Archival Files have
additional special metadata
fields - including parsed
preservation elements (e.g.
"masterchecksum" )
• researchers
(novelists, media, theater,
scientists, land
surveyors, genealogists)
• musicians
• cities
• students
• smaller DL consortiums
• people looking for
partners to build their
own collections
• state agencies
• international audiences
• by format (text, image, audio,
video)
• by keyword across all formats
• by partnering institution
• by collection
• advanced search (by title,
creator, subject, or all 3 in
conjunction with format)
• featured collections on the
index page
• keyword textbox is on every
page
• featured collections
• item level pages are
hosted by the
partner that owns
that collection but
look and feel is the
same
• Result list –
thumbnails, title,
collection name,
item description
http://www.clir.org/dlf/forums/fall2010/25DLFseo.pdf