Digitisation Projects at Wellcome Library

Digitisation Projects at Wellcome Library

3 May 2013

Matthew Brack

Digitisation Project Manager

What is a ‘library’ today?

“I think if you were to treat the research library as though it were a start‐up, and if you were to start from today, you would look at creating a product that emphasised connecting people to information as quickly and as efficiently as possible….”

Digitisation is not innovative

“Providing access to digital content isn’t really innovative … it’s just keeping up.”

– Chrystie Hill, Community Relations Director OCLC

“It’s quite ‘steady state’ in terms of digital provision now. That means we’re failing to exploit the possibilities of the technology and really to drive out the innovation that the technology can offer…”

“You can have many thousands of users using one original text, you can have clever analytical tools applied to the text which simply could never be applied to the physical original. That’s where the digital material will start adding more value, becoming more valuable potentially than the original…”

Problems to overcome

“If I ask you to talk about your collections, I know you will glow as you describe the amazing treasures you have…

Wellcome Digital Library Programme

But then if I look at the results of [your] digitization projects, I find the shittiest websites on the planet.

It’s like a gallery spent all its money buying art and then just stuck the paintings in supermarket bags and leaned them against the wall.”

- Nat Torkington, Libraries: Where It All Went Wrong in Simon Tanner, Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value Model

Overall, how would you rate your experience of the following aspects of digital library collections? Responses: 50

Content – the information made available in the collection

Design – how easy, or not, it was to access and use that information

Functionality – the extent to which that information could be shared or manipulated

The nature of digitisation


The nature of digitisation



CATALOGUE

RETRIEVAL

CONSERVATION FINAL PREP

CAPTURE

SYSTEMS

Digitisation Workflow and Logistics

Early European Books Genetics Books

London MOH Reports

ProQuest EEB Project Overview

Project Scope:

14,000 books

5.5 million images

Incunabula to 1700

Printed outside UK

Access in UK and HINARI – 10

yearsFirst 2000 books now online: http://eeb.chadwyck.com


Wellcome Digital Library Programme


Cataloguing (metadata)


Retrieval and final prep

1. Generate unique ID2. Create ‘scan list’3. Create ‘review file’4. Make unavailable to users5. Create barcodes6. Retrieve items7. Insert barcodes8. Deliver items for imaging9. Update tracking list

[Re-work]

a. Returnb. Remove barcodesc. Update tracking listd. Make available to userse. Pray for no more re-workf. Repeat for next batch


Conservation

BOOKS IN STACKS

IN SCOPE

NOTE

STAY ON SHELF

ONLINE CAT?

PRINT CAT?

NOTE GENE-RATE

SHELF LIST

DUPLI-CATE

CHECK

SINGLE SHELF LISTS

SORT BY

SIZE

CHECK OUT

CHECK OUT

CON ASS-ESS

UPDATE SHELF LIST

RETURN TO SHELF

DIGI-TISE

CONDI-TION?

REPAIR

BOX

TO CATALO-

GUE?

CATA-LOGUE

1.22 STORE

215B STACKS 1.22 STORAGE CONSERVATION CATALOGUING

NO

NO

YES

YES

LARGER

NO WAY

NOT OK

OK

FAIR

POOR

YES

1.22 STORE

NO

1.22 STORE

START

1a

1b

1c

1d

2

3

4

5

6

11

7

8

9

10

BOOKS IN STACKS

IN SCOPE

NOTE

STAY ON SHELF

ONLINE CAT?

PRINT CAT?

NOTE GENE-RATE

SHELF LIST

DUPLI-CATE

CHECK

SINGLE SHELF LISTS

SORT BY

SIZE

CHECK OUT

CHECK OUT

CON ASS-ESS

UPDATE SHELF LIST

RETURN TO SHELF

DIGI-TISE

CONDI-TION?

REPAIR

BOX

TO CATALO-

GUE?

CATA-LOGUE

1.22 STORE

215B STACKS 1.22 STORAGE CONSERVATION CATALOGUING

NO

NO

YES

YES

LARGER

NO WAY

NOT OK

OK

FAIR

POOR

YES

1.22 STORE

NO

1.22 STORE

START

1a

1b

1c

1d

2

3

4

5

6

11

7

8

9

10

1.21 DIADEIS


Project Scope:

Up to 2,000 books

600,000 images

1850-1990

Freely available

ALCS copyright clearance

Future OCR


Managing Ingest

AUGUST 2012

APRIL 2013

GOOBI

ARCHIVES

PQ

WDL

3RD PARTY

GENETICS

MOH

London MOH Reports Project Overview


Project Scope:

8,000 reports

Up to 1 million images

London boroughs

Mid-19th to mid-20th century

Full OCR


MOH REPORTS:Preparation Phase

Retrieval

Conservation

Cataloguing

945 global update MARC export

Goobi bib import

Create barcodes

Packing and shipping

Matt Debs June Joao

DIGITISATION

MOH REPORTS:Digitisation Phase

Create inventory

Pre-scanning preparation

Imaging

Pre-stage QA

OCR / image editing

Final QA

GOOBI INGEST

Microformat Planman

Receive DMD and originals

Image delivery

Packing and shipping

Wellcome

Error reporting

Feedback

Receive originals

MOH REPORTS:Goobi Ingest Phase

Image QA

Image upload

Edit METS

Ingest Officer 1 Ingest Officer 2

JPG conversion

Automatic

SDB ingest

Feedback

Planman

#DigiDoctor


A free one-day workshop that explored the practicalities of digitisation and to facilitate conversation between those involved in digitisation projects.


Thanks

[email protected]

@WellcomeDigital

Education

Digitisation Projects at Wellcome Library