Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Andrew Clark Joshua Parker Rebecca Wingfield October 16, 2008 LIS462 Digital Libraries (Schwartz)

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Introduction Aims to “advance teaching and learning on historical topics of great relevance by providing online access to historical resources from Harvard's renowned libraries, archives, and museums” (from OCP mission statement) Favors a topic-based approach to building digital collections. Creates open, useful, and persistent digital objects.

Aims to “advance teaching and learning on historical topics of great relevance by providing online access to historical resources from Harvard's renowned libraries, archives, and museums” (from OCP mission statement)

Favors a topic-based approach to building digital collections.

Creates open, useful, and persistent digital objects.

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Collections & Content Completed projects: Women Working , 1800-1930 Immigration to the United States , 1789-1930 Contagion : Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics In progress: The Islamic Heritage Project Scientific Exploration and Discovery in the Modern Age Madr ā s ī , Muḥammad Ṣibghat All ā h. (1893 or 1894). H ā dh ā r ū zn ā mah- ʼī ma ʻ ahu m ī q ā t layl wa-nah ā r wa-s āʼ ir al-awq ā t al-ma ʻ l ū mah naqalahu Shaykh Waf ā . (From the Islamic Heritage Project )

Completed projects:

Women Working , 1800-1930

Immigration to the United States , 1789-1930

Contagion : Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics

In progress:

The Islamic Heritage Project

Scientific Exploration and Discovery in the Modern Age

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Metadata Systems Employed [1] Descriptive: Dublin Core; DACS; CDWA Technical: Digital Repository Service; MIX Structural: METS Metadata Standards at Harvard University Preservation: OAIS; PREMIS; LDI Rights: Local practice Local formats: VIA; Links to digital objects

Descriptive:

Dublin Core; DACS; CDWA

Technical:

Digital Repository Service; MIX

Structural:

METS

Preservation:

OAIS; PREMIS; LDI

Rights:

Local practice

Local formats:

VIA; Links to digital objects

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Metadata Systems Employed [2] Dublin Core LCSH Local information Full record view for an item in Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930

Dublin Core

LCSH

Local information

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Search Capability & Discovery [1] Browsing–by Genre or Subject Faceted arrays Variation in layout/options Searching Keyword search Advanced search Left-hand navigation from Women Working, 1800-1930

Browsing–by Genre or Subject

Faceted arrays

Variation in layout/options

Searching

Keyword search

Advanced search

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Search Capability & Discovery [2]

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Search Capability & Discovery [3] Featured collections Timeline Browse by genre or subject Advanced and full-text search

Featured collections

Timeline

Browse by genre or subject

Advanced and full-text search

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Viewing & Using Content [1] Page Delivery Service Page Delivery Service display of a detail from the title page of Rølvaag, O. E. (1925). I de dage-: riket grundlægges . Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co. (from Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 )

Page Delivery Service

OCRed full text PDF download Photographs, drawings, and other images are displayed using the Visual Information Access (VIA) catalog. Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Viewing & Using Content [2] oiu I. first Communication comes it re; . ■ I from Dr. EmanuelTfimonius, % ?ubl ; c +~jr Renowned Fellow of the JRoyal lann Society at London, (well known to . some in :, Bi | Boston, who also actually knew the Truth of ' hat the matter of Fact now going to be related J to len Who Writes from Constantinople in December jing 171 3. And -he informs to this Effect-, The Original page and OCRed text from Mather, Cotton. (1721). S ome account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox . Boston: Sold by S. Gerrish at his shop in Corn-Hill.

OCRed full text

PDF download

Photographs, drawings, and other images are displayed using the Visual Information Access (VIA) catalog.

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program User Services & Special Features Short topical and thematic essays, including links to items in the collections Bibliographies "Today's Diary Entries" in Women Working, 1800 - 1930 Help pages and FAQ, but no link to reference or research support Thematic content available for Women Working, 1800 - 1930

Short topical and thematic essays, including links to items in the collections

Bibliographies

"Today's Diary Entries" in Women Working, 1800 - 1930

Help pages and FAQ, but no link to reference or research support

Consistency of the collections and interface Functional performance of the interface Quality of images and text Scholarly value Does the Open Collections Program meet its vision and mission? Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Overall Evaluation Isidore. (1472). Isidori iunioris Hispalensis Episcopi prologus in librum De responsione mundi & astrorum ordinatione: ad Sesibutum Rege[m] incipit feliciter. Augsburg: Gunther Zainer. (From Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics )

Consistency of the collections and interface

Functional performance of the interface

Quality of images and text

Scholarly value

Does the Open Collections Program meet its vision and mission?

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program Questions? This presentation is acompanied by an annotated resource guide .

This presentation is acompanied by an annotated resource guide .