Evolving the digital library for digital scholarship in NUI Galway

James Hardiman Library

Evolving the digital library for digital scholarship in NUI Galway

Cillian Joy, Digital library developer cillianjoy

Aisling Keane, Digital archivist

CONUL, 4 June 2015


Outline

Digital library

Strategy

Integration

Recent work

Lessons

Future


Digital library

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Some examples

Data

Dataverse pilot with Duanaire


Digital library areas

Archives/ Special collections

Unique content, research potential

Publications

Existing repository

Data

Curation, long-term

preservation, and analysis of research data


A strategy for …


digital scholarship enablement

Enable digital scholarship

Create

Preserve Access



The drivers


Gaps to be addressed

Lack of consistent publishing platform

Need to visit multiple online locations

Digital metadata policy and management

Long-term storage and preservation unclear

Ad-hoc selection of projects to date


University focus on archives for research and learning


Investment in high-profile archival collections

John McGahern

Thomas Kilroy

Druid Theatre

Huston Family

Éamon de Buitléar

Abbey Theatre

http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2012/1022/media-3420435.html


New large scale digitisation activity

Picture of abbey process

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In an era of large scale digitisation

But, only 10-14% of Library archives are digitised (ENUMERATE survey)


In a Sea of APT “Icebergs,” Are You Thinking Big Enough? (2015). Retrieved from https://blog.bit9.com/2015/02/13/in-a-sea-of-apt-icebergs-are-you-thinking-big-enough/.


New building, new neighbours

Gaps to be addressed


New digital projects

Duanaire, focus on data and visualisation

Born digital content

A focus on institutional open access


Many players, but working separately

The Library as the hub

Connecting people

A starting point for digital scholarship

Connects campus services

Provides service layered with innovation and partnership


Strategy creation

Nov 2013: Digital Library Group formed

University Librarian, Head of Library Systems, Head of Research Services, Digital Library Developer, Digital Archivist

January-June 2014: working papers per topic

July 2014: drafting and launch of initial version

September-October 2014: consultation

November 2014: publication


Key implementation areas

The team and governance

Preservation

Standards

Technology

Finance


Integration

What are we doing: Our approach: integration

CALM (EAD) Collection, hierarchy,

and item level, a context

Algorithm Extract metadata, enrich MODS item

records with descriptive metadata

MODS Match with metadata

with objects

Preservation storage Access

EAD hierarchy becomes Web

navigation



Recent work



Abbey theatre

Larger scale to previous digitisation projects

Little appraisal or arrangement, the entire archive is being digitised

Different approach to metadata

Systematic approach to ensure speed and precision

Multiple internal partners and external suppliers, communication and relationships are key

Storage and compute: Amazon and local tools


Brendan Duddy papers

Listed to item level in accordance with ISAD (G)

Collection is digitised, and includes supplementary audio-visual material to contextualise it

Pilot project underway to test and improve the ingestion of metadata and digital objects to the digital repository

What are we doing: Example, from this


What are we doing: Example, to this





Tim Robinson

Comprehensive index of 567 town-lands in Connemara and the Aran Islands, maps, and manuscript material

Listing and digitisation of town-lands index

Objectives include testing new pieces of the infrastructure for their capacity to create visualisation tools that draw in a broad, international audience


Tim Robinson


Lessons

What we have learnt

Differences between analogue and digital metadata creation and workflows

Customising metadata to suit discoverability

Importance of cross-disciplinary dialogue in the digital humanities



Challenges encountered and anticipated

Intellectual property

Expanding number of standards

Consistency in process is very important to reduce effort

Increased user-expectations

Capacity planning


Future

What’s next

Complete and hone existing migrations

Take stock

Recommendations and workflow for new archival collections

Born digital strategy

Metadata management



Summary

Takeaways

Strategic approach, including top down drive

New ways of working

Keep it simple

Continuous improvement

Expose our collections and collaborate with academic community



Questions

Education

Evolving the digital library for digital scholarship in NUI Galway