DIGITAL ARCHIVES Into the Light Gabrielle V. Michalek, Head Digital Library Initiatives Carnegie Mellon University

A Sound Digital Archives Accessibility Interoperability Sustainability Preservation Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon’s Digital Collections Senator Heinz - 850,000 images Herbert Simon - 153,000 images Allen Newell - 145,000 images Over 1 Million Images Online http://diva.library.cmu.edu/ Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Other CMU Digital Projects SmartWeb Exhibit http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/IMLS/MindModels/ Million Book Project http://www.rr.cs.cmu.edu/mbdl.doc Universal Library http://ul.cs.cmu.edu/ Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University History 1992 Began work on Senator Heinz Papers 1995 Developed Helios System to digitize, create metadata, OCR, and provide access to collection 1999 Applied technology to Simon and Newell Collections 2000 Migrated to DIVA Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University DIVA Digital Information Versatile Archive Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University DIVA New platform Oracle based Takes in any XML File Supports heterogeneous collections Full text or fielded searching Browsing and sorting Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University Use of Standards Metadata Creation – EAD, Dublin Core, etc Imaging – 600 DPI, 8 Bit Greyscale, 24 Bit Color OCR – ASCII Text Data Structure – Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

What is it and why is it important? Metadata What is it and why is it important?

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University Descriptive Metadata Data that describes the digital object such as a bibliographic record or finding aid, i.e. MARC record Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University Structural Metadata Represents the relationship between multiparts objects, i.e. chapters of a book Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Administrative Metadata “Data that supports the unique identification, maintenance, and archiving of digital objects, as well as related functions of the organization managing the repository”, i.e.who created this object, which software, version was used, etc. Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University What We Are Using Archival Collections - Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Books, Journals, Photographs, etc. – Dublin Core Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard - METS Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University METS Incorporates descriptive, structural, and administrative metadata Allows you to bind heterogeneous collections together and show relationships between information Becomes a wrapper for the collection XML DTD http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University Goals Accessibility Interoperability Sustainability Preservation Gabrielle V. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

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