1. Baylor University Digital Collections: Southern Baptist Convention annuals & the War of the Rebellion Atlas Eric S. Ames Digital Collections Consultant Kathy Hillman Director of Special Collections for Central Libraries Phoenix Staff Development Day, May 27 th, 2011

2. THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ANNUALS PROJECT Kathy Hillman

3. In the beginning … Mutual Agreement to Pursue the Project Negotiation Contract Certificate of Insurance Copyright and Attribution Statements

4. Logistics Assessment of Copies Owned by Baylor Planning for Use of SBHLA Copies Receipt of Materials (Use of GoogleDocs Spreadsheet to Track Volumes In and Out) Physical Inspection of Volumes Decisions Concerning Workflow Metadata Added to CONTENTdm Project Client during Loading

5. The Scanner and Scanning Kirtas APT BookScan 2400 Gold Automated, High-Volume Book Digitizer Capable of Capturing 2,400 Pages Per Hour Digitizes Books up to 4 Inches Thick As Small as 4.5” x 7” As Large as 11” x 14“

6. Kirtas APT BookScan 2400 Gold

7. Scope of the Project 154 Proceedings/Annuals Digitized (Baylor: 70, SBHLA: 68, Both: 17) 154 PDFs Generated (15.58 GB of Data) 75,366 Pages Digitized (129GB, 27 DVDs worth of Data)

8. The Product Collection homepage: http://contentdm.baylor.edu/cdm4/index_28ba ptann.php?CISOROOT=/28baptann Access requires PDF reader capability within the browser. Recommended plug-in is Adobe Reader, free from: http://get.adobe.com/reader/

9. SBC Annuals Collection homepage

10. Collection browse view

11. Item view

12. Phoenix Staff Development Day, May 27 th, 2011 Metadata view

14. WAR OF THE REBELLION ATLAS Eric S. Ames

15. “WoR Atlas” - Workflow Originals housed in special collection Student labor digitized Atlas using Cruse large-format scanner Images uploaded into CONTENTdm Staff member added in-depth metadata Quality control and final tweaking

16. “WoR” Atlas - Content 175 plates with more than 1,000 illustrations Material derived from original Union and Confederate sources Maps, diagrams, line art reproductions of photos Major battles, skirmishes, regional overviews Only full, high-resolution copy of Atlas online

17. War of the Rebellion Atlas collection homepage

18. Metadata view

19. Item display view using Zoomify

20. Magnified view

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