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 o Content Scope o Metadata Guidelines o Digital Image Standards Tiered Infrastructure o Collections Partners Tier o Hosting Tier  Contributing Site  Regional Hosting Hub  Full-Service Hosting Hub o Central Aggregating Server Tier

Create a distributed digital repository of significant, rare, and/or unique resources Provide a public portal accessing digital collections 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

1 Birth Date is either when the repository was first registered in ROAR or the earliest record found via the OAI-PMH interface. 2 Deposit 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 o 49 Universities Nevada o 5 Universities Idaho o 2 Universities Hawaii o 1 University 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

Eight fields required: date, description, format, identifier, rights, subject, title, type Two additional mandatory "if applicable" fields: conversion specifications and creator Additional fields allowed to serve local needs, i.e. data specific to user community, 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