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Northeast Kansas History A kete of local history, culture and genealogy

Digitizing Hidden Collections Photo courtesy of smoothdemente (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ikostic/2749693373)
Libraries and Local History
Hidden Collections
Benefits
Challenges
Possible solutions
Kansas Memory
Northeast Kansas History

Gallery
Requires :
Web hosting ($10 a month)
Gallery account (gallery.menalto.com) and configuration
Link to your Library Web site

Kansas Memory

Kansas Memory
Historical and local history primary sources = originals and no genealogy
Photos: buildings, people, pools/parks, local industry, railroad buildings
Documents: journals, letters, and diaries
Focus: state and local history with target audience of history buffs, researchers, students and teachers

Kansas Memory
Standards and Procedures
Scan front and back
Leave ¼ inch border zone
Deskew/square the image
Follow Reflective Scans guidelines
Library:
Organize and catalog collection
Scan onto an external harddrive
Add metadata to KHS spreadsheet
Historical Society:
Creates derivatives
Host and Post on kansasmemory
Add ‘facets’ (subject headings)

2011 Heritage Grant

Rossville Community Library and Kansas Memory Collaboration Pilot
Cataloging/Indexing of a Photo collection
Rossville, NEKLS Foundation and NEKLS
Application boiler-plate – 6 page narrative
Consultant
Timeline
Budget
Sharing Results

Parallel Approach Kete: - “A knowledge basket of images, audio, video and documents which are collected and catalogued by the community.”

Kete Horowhenua
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ga3JeAzi9k

Culture and Heritage

Local History

Genealogy

Orlando Memory

Open source
Community built = community interaction
Wiki-style user interface mirrors live site
Accommodates community-contributions and unique library collections
Creative Commons license and simple Terms and Conditions, House Rules and Policies
Ability to link Topics (articles) with images, videos, audio, documents and discussions

House Rules

Policies and Best Practices
Kansas Historical Society Guidelines
Scan, archive and rely on digital file
Details = 800 dpi (or higher)
David’s “Digitization on a shoestring”
Schema – title, description, subject headings.
Simple Dublin Core
Controlled vocabularies – LCSH
File naming – unique identifiers for each artifact

Baskets
Baskets for each Library or Group of Libraries
Password protected
Moderate ‘member’ contributions
Differentiate between community-added content and Library’s special collections
Search entire site or individual baskets for content

Kete Beta, Maybe Omeka?

Resources
OITP | Perspectives – “Digitizing Hidden Collections in Public Libraries” by Gwen Glazer (from nekls.org Tech Day 2011 page)
Gallery – http://gallery.menalto.com
Kansas Memory - www.kansasmemory.org
2011 Heritage Grants from Kansas Humanities Council (from nekls.org Tech Day 2011 page)
Northeast Kansas History kete - http://history.nekls.org
Kete Horowhenua - http://horowhenua.kete.net.nz/
Kete Kawerau - http://ketekawerau.peoplesnetworknz.info
Selwyn Kete - http://keteselwyn.peoplesnetworknz.info
Orlando Memory – http://dc.ocls.info/
Omeka – http://www.omeka.org
Digital Amherst – http://www.digitalamherst.org
Digitization on a Shoestring (from nekls.org Tech Day 2009 page)
What to Expect When You’re Digitizing: A Primer for the Solo Digital Librarian (from nekls.org Tech Day 2011 page)
Sharon’s Blog Posts - http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/category/digitization/

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