The document provides an overview of the basics of digital projects, including how to plan a project by identifying goals, stakeholders, materials, copyright considerations, and costs. It also discusses how to implement a project through imaging, metadata, and promotion, and how to ensure long-term preservation of digital materials.
Presented at the Marathon County Historical Society, Wausau, Wisconsin, May 14, 2012. Part of the Wisconsin Historical Society's spring workshop series.
This document provides an overview of the Wisconsin Heritage Online (WHO) program and guidance for libraries, archives, and museums on building digital collections. WHO helps organizations across Wisconsin digitize and share local histories online. The document discusses planning a digital project, including defining goals, audiences, budgets, and digital preservation strategies. It also offers practical tips on selecting materials, scanning, adding metadata, and promoting completed digital collections.
Slides from the "Planning a Successful Digital Project" start-to-finish session presented at the Wisconsin Library Association annual conference, Green Bay, October 25, 2013. Presenters: Sarah Grimm, Electronic Records Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society and Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
This document provides an overview of a conference on building digital collections. It discusses selecting materials for digitization, setting priorities, copyright considerations, digitization methods, metadata, and file organization. Attendees learned about planning digital projects, choosing a scanner, assigning descriptive information, and creating standardized naming systems for digital files and folders. The presentation provided guidance on effectively building organized and sustainable online collections.
Successful partnerships between public libraries and local historical societies or museums can provide benefits to both organizations and the community. By sharing resources like space, equipment, programs and expertise, libraries and historical groups can preserve and promote local history more effectively while reducing costs. The examples from Luck, WI and New Glarus, WI showed how collaborations on projects like building a joint facility and digitizing collections strengthened relationships, increased access to materials, and better served community needs. Key elements for successful partnerships include open communication, clearly defined roles, and promoting each other's work.
Workshop presented at the Wisconsin Conference for Local History and Historic Preservation, Wisconsin Rapids, October 11, 2013. Presenters: Sarah Grimm, Electronic Records Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society and Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
Exploring Cultural History Online -- Winding Rivers Library System Kickoff EventRecollection Wisconsin
Slides from the Winding Rivers Library system's Exploring Cultural History Online kickoff event, La Crosse, Wisconsin, June 19, 2014. The WRLS ECHO project is an LSTA-funded initiative to digitize photographs and postcards held by member libraries and local historical societies in the region. Presented by Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
Presented at the Marathon County Historical Society, Wausau, Wisconsin, May 14, 2012. Part of the Wisconsin Historical Society's spring workshop series.
This document provides an overview of the Wisconsin Heritage Online (WHO) program and guidance for libraries, archives, and museums on building digital collections. WHO helps organizations across Wisconsin digitize and share local histories online. The document discusses planning a digital project, including defining goals, audiences, budgets, and digital preservation strategies. It also offers practical tips on selecting materials, scanning, adding metadata, and promoting completed digital collections.
Slides from the "Planning a Successful Digital Project" start-to-finish session presented at the Wisconsin Library Association annual conference, Green Bay, October 25, 2013. Presenters: Sarah Grimm, Electronic Records Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society and Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
This document provides an overview of a conference on building digital collections. It discusses selecting materials for digitization, setting priorities, copyright considerations, digitization methods, metadata, and file organization. Attendees learned about planning digital projects, choosing a scanner, assigning descriptive information, and creating standardized naming systems for digital files and folders. The presentation provided guidance on effectively building organized and sustainable online collections.
Successful partnerships between public libraries and local historical societies or museums can provide benefits to both organizations and the community. By sharing resources like space, equipment, programs and expertise, libraries and historical groups can preserve and promote local history more effectively while reducing costs. The examples from Luck, WI and New Glarus, WI showed how collaborations on projects like building a joint facility and digitizing collections strengthened relationships, increased access to materials, and better served community needs. Key elements for successful partnerships include open communication, clearly defined roles, and promoting each other's work.
Workshop presented at the Wisconsin Conference for Local History and Historic Preservation, Wisconsin Rapids, October 11, 2013. Presenters: Sarah Grimm, Electronic Records Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society and Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
Exploring Cultural History Online -- Winding Rivers Library System Kickoff EventRecollection Wisconsin
Slides from the Winding Rivers Library system's Exploring Cultural History Online kickoff event, La Crosse, Wisconsin, June 19, 2014. The WRLS ECHO project is an LSTA-funded initiative to digitize photographs and postcards held by member libraries and local historical societies in the region. Presented by Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
This document provides an overview of a presentation given at the Florida Library Association Conference on May 10, 2017. The presentation was given in three parts by Derek Davis and Maria Gebhardt.
Part I discussed why museums matter to communities and education. It also provided details on the Old Dillard Museum and Library, including its history and current collections and activities.
Part II focused on developing digital collections, including best practices for digitization, metadata, storage, promotion and project management tools.
Part III explored how museums collect and share resources, compared libraries and museums, and discussed ways to build repositories and engage communities.
Presented by Emily Pfotenhauer at the Local History - Historic Preservation 2016 Annual Conference on Oct 22, 2016.
Thinking about sharing collections online, but don’t know how to get started? Been scanning, but not sure what to do next? This workshop will discuss common challenges encountered in digitization and share strategies and resources for successful digital projects. Bring your questions -- we will include time to diagnose issues arising from your own experiences.
Planning and Managing Digital Library & Archive Projectsac2182
The document provides an overview of a workshop on developing and managing digital library and archive projects. It includes the workshop schedule, introductions from attendees, strategies for success, managing born-digital assets and digitized content, infrastructure requirements, and considerations for digital preservation over the long-term.
Handout for Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
The document provides guidelines for a grant program that will fund projects by Indiana libraries to digitize historical materials. Libraries can apply for subgrants to digitize materials from their collections to contribute to the Indiana Digital Library. Projects must follow standards for digitization and metadata and make materials accessible online. The deadline to apply is March 31, 2006. Successful applicants will be notified in early May 2006.
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
This document provides an overview of planning and implementing a digital library project. It discusses defining the project goals, planning activities such as selecting content and writing a proposal, and implementing digitization and metadata creation. The document emphasizes selecting materials that are locally unique and of statewide interest, following standards, and developing sustainable projects through partnerships and technical planning. It also reviews the Indiana State Library's LSTA grant application process and requirements. The overall aim is to help libraries develop "good digital collections" that are interoperable, persistent, and reusable.
Spark Fest Twin Digital Humanities PlenaryMark Tebeau
The document discusses the challenges of digital curation, particularly in the mobile age. It defines curation as collecting, preserving, archiving, exhibiting, contextualizing, and interpreting. Curation is now more interactive, collaborative, and performed through social media where everyone can act as a curator. Examples are given of curating public art, oral histories, and interpreting urban landscapes through mobile tools. Key challenges discussed include content management, metadata, and making curation more dynamic and open through aggregation, remixing, and connecting projects.
The document discusses modern services provided by the Geo Milev District Library in Montana. It outlines the library's goal of providing access to information resources and acting as an intermediary between users and information. The library provides services like internet access, electronic databases, reference services, and training in computer and information literacy. It aims to transform from a book storage space into a community center that meets the needs of diverse groups.
Digital collections can be put online following copyright laws using free and inexpensive tools. Volunteers, interns, or staff can digitize materials using affordable scanners and free software. Platforms like Omeka, Viewshare, Flickr, and WordPress allow hosting digital collections for free with basic features. Successful examples from libraries in South Carolina and neighboring states demonstrate how digital collections can be created with limited budgets.
OCLC Research project on archival approach to managing born-digital materials in research libraries, including how archivists' skills and knowledge can benefit broader digital library development.
Digital Oral History in Higher Education with Brooke BryanBrooke Bryan
This document discusses doing oral history in the digital era. It covers:
- Defining what is meant by the "digital era" and "digital oral history".
- The opportunities and complications that digital technologies present for informed consent processes and managing copyright for oral history projects.
- Resources available at www.ohla.info for digital oral history collections, tools, and tutorials.
This document provides a checklist for libraries to evaluate their accessibility and inclusiveness. It addresses physical accessibility, policies regarding meeting rooms and displays, intellectual freedom and censorship, privacy, cultural awareness, and more. Libraries are encouraged to consider barriers they may be putting up unintentionally and ensure all patrons feel welcome. The checklist can be used to identify areas for improvement and provide more equitable access to library resources.
The document summarizes projects developed by the CCL including a digital library called e-corpus containing over 2 million documents, the development of an e-learning tool on book binding restoration techniques, and plans for an educational video game to raise awareness of cultural heritage preservation among young people while entertaining them with puzzles and mysteries to solve.
This document summarizes Christine Mackenzie's presentation on discovering library websites and IFLA.
The presentation discusses trends in users' expectations of library websites including demands for more social and mobile features. It highlights opportunities for libraries to engage users through personalized services and user-generated content on sites like BiblioCommons.
The presentation also provides an overview of IFLA, describing it as the leading international body representing libraries. It outlines IFLA's core values of access to information, its strategic plan, and benefits of involvement for libraries. Mackenzie shares her experience participating in IFLA committees to advocate for libraries on the global stage.
The Digital Presence of Museums and the Implications for Collective Memory by...CarlaEverstijn
This study examines the role cultural heritage professionals envision for their institutions’ digital presence, finding that far from being secondary to the physical institutions they represent, cultural heritage websites are experiences in and of themselves. Through digital-only resources and experiences, cultural heritage institutions are making possible a “visit” not replicable in the physical museum. Many galleries, libraries, archives, and museums are attempting to engage online visitors in a variety of ways, creating opportunities for user participation and personalization of their experience. In addition, because of their roles in managing, disseminating, and curating information, cultural heritage professionals are in the position through these online visits to influence the collective memory of society. What opportunities are cultural heritage professionals creating on these sites, and how are visitors engaging with them? This study presents the results of exploratory interviews with cultural heritage professionals about their expectations for user participation and how they envision their institutions’ digital presence. It includes a discussion of the implications for shaping the collective memory of society and directions for future research.
Presented at the Capital Region regional meeting in Brodhead, Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Council for Local History, August 14, 2014.
Lighting Talks: Innovations in Digital ProjectsWiLS
Delivered for WiLSWorld 2018 on July 24th in Madison, WI by Laura Damon-Moore, Community Engagement Librarian, Madison Public Library; Ann Hanlon, Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives and DH Lab, UW-Milwaukee; Erin F. H. Hughes, Mukurtu Hub Manager, WiLS; Greg Kocken, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, UW-Eau Claire; Emily Pfotenhauer, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Randi Ramsden, Program Coordinator, National Digital Newspaper Program, Wisconsin Historical Society; Tamara Ramski, Digitization Assistant, South Central Library System; and Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collections, WiLS
This fast-paced session highlights new tools and innovative approaches Wisconsin libraries are using to create, share and preserve digital collections. Projects include efforts to collect oral histories and music memorabilia from community members, partnerships with local artists to reimagine digitized special collections, text mining of historical newspapers, managing Indigenous digital collections in culturally responsive ways, centralized digitization training and support for public libraries, and building LIS students’ skills in digital stewardship through hands-on fieldwork at small libraries, archives and museums around the state.
This document provides an overview of a presentation given at the Florida Library Association Conference on May 10, 2017. The presentation was given in three parts by Derek Davis and Maria Gebhardt.
Part I discussed why museums matter to communities and education. It also provided details on the Old Dillard Museum and Library, including its history and current collections and activities.
Part II focused on developing digital collections, including best practices for digitization, metadata, storage, promotion and project management tools.
Part III explored how museums collect and share resources, compared libraries and museums, and discussed ways to build repositories and engage communities.
Presented by Emily Pfotenhauer at the Local History - Historic Preservation 2016 Annual Conference on Oct 22, 2016.
Thinking about sharing collections online, but don’t know how to get started? Been scanning, but not sure what to do next? This workshop will discuss common challenges encountered in digitization and share strategies and resources for successful digital projects. Bring your questions -- we will include time to diagnose issues arising from your own experiences.
Planning and Managing Digital Library & Archive Projectsac2182
The document provides an overview of a workshop on developing and managing digital library and archive projects. It includes the workshop schedule, introductions from attendees, strategies for success, managing born-digital assets and digitized content, infrastructure requirements, and considerations for digital preservation over the long-term.
Handout for Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
The document provides guidelines for a grant program that will fund projects by Indiana libraries to digitize historical materials. Libraries can apply for subgrants to digitize materials from their collections to contribute to the Indiana Digital Library. Projects must follow standards for digitization and metadata and make materials accessible online. The deadline to apply is March 31, 2006. Successful applicants will be notified in early May 2006.
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
This document provides an overview of planning and implementing a digital library project. It discusses defining the project goals, planning activities such as selecting content and writing a proposal, and implementing digitization and metadata creation. The document emphasizes selecting materials that are locally unique and of statewide interest, following standards, and developing sustainable projects through partnerships and technical planning. It also reviews the Indiana State Library's LSTA grant application process and requirements. The overall aim is to help libraries develop "good digital collections" that are interoperable, persistent, and reusable.
Spark Fest Twin Digital Humanities PlenaryMark Tebeau
The document discusses the challenges of digital curation, particularly in the mobile age. It defines curation as collecting, preserving, archiving, exhibiting, contextualizing, and interpreting. Curation is now more interactive, collaborative, and performed through social media where everyone can act as a curator. Examples are given of curating public art, oral histories, and interpreting urban landscapes through mobile tools. Key challenges discussed include content management, metadata, and making curation more dynamic and open through aggregation, remixing, and connecting projects.
The document discusses modern services provided by the Geo Milev District Library in Montana. It outlines the library's goal of providing access to information resources and acting as an intermediary between users and information. The library provides services like internet access, electronic databases, reference services, and training in computer and information literacy. It aims to transform from a book storage space into a community center that meets the needs of diverse groups.
Digital collections can be put online following copyright laws using free and inexpensive tools. Volunteers, interns, or staff can digitize materials using affordable scanners and free software. Platforms like Omeka, Viewshare, Flickr, and WordPress allow hosting digital collections for free with basic features. Successful examples from libraries in South Carolina and neighboring states demonstrate how digital collections can be created with limited budgets.
OCLC Research project on archival approach to managing born-digital materials in research libraries, including how archivists' skills and knowledge can benefit broader digital library development.
Digital Oral History in Higher Education with Brooke BryanBrooke Bryan
This document discusses doing oral history in the digital era. It covers:
- Defining what is meant by the "digital era" and "digital oral history".
- The opportunities and complications that digital technologies present for informed consent processes and managing copyright for oral history projects.
- Resources available at www.ohla.info for digital oral history collections, tools, and tutorials.
This document provides a checklist for libraries to evaluate their accessibility and inclusiveness. It addresses physical accessibility, policies regarding meeting rooms and displays, intellectual freedom and censorship, privacy, cultural awareness, and more. Libraries are encouraged to consider barriers they may be putting up unintentionally and ensure all patrons feel welcome. The checklist can be used to identify areas for improvement and provide more equitable access to library resources.
The document summarizes projects developed by the CCL including a digital library called e-corpus containing over 2 million documents, the development of an e-learning tool on book binding restoration techniques, and plans for an educational video game to raise awareness of cultural heritage preservation among young people while entertaining them with puzzles and mysteries to solve.
This document summarizes Christine Mackenzie's presentation on discovering library websites and IFLA.
The presentation discusses trends in users' expectations of library websites including demands for more social and mobile features. It highlights opportunities for libraries to engage users through personalized services and user-generated content on sites like BiblioCommons.
The presentation also provides an overview of IFLA, describing it as the leading international body representing libraries. It outlines IFLA's core values of access to information, its strategic plan, and benefits of involvement for libraries. Mackenzie shares her experience participating in IFLA committees to advocate for libraries on the global stage.
The Digital Presence of Museums and the Implications for Collective Memory by...CarlaEverstijn
This study examines the role cultural heritage professionals envision for their institutions’ digital presence, finding that far from being secondary to the physical institutions they represent, cultural heritage websites are experiences in and of themselves. Through digital-only resources and experiences, cultural heritage institutions are making possible a “visit” not replicable in the physical museum. Many galleries, libraries, archives, and museums are attempting to engage online visitors in a variety of ways, creating opportunities for user participation and personalization of their experience. In addition, because of their roles in managing, disseminating, and curating information, cultural heritage professionals are in the position through these online visits to influence the collective memory of society. What opportunities are cultural heritage professionals creating on these sites, and how are visitors engaging with them? This study presents the results of exploratory interviews with cultural heritage professionals about their expectations for user participation and how they envision their institutions’ digital presence. It includes a discussion of the implications for shaping the collective memory of society and directions for future research.
Presented at the Capital Region regional meeting in Brodhead, Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Council for Local History, August 14, 2014.
Lighting Talks: Innovations in Digital ProjectsWiLS
Delivered for WiLSWorld 2018 on July 24th in Madison, WI by Laura Damon-Moore, Community Engagement Librarian, Madison Public Library; Ann Hanlon, Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives and DH Lab, UW-Milwaukee; Erin F. H. Hughes, Mukurtu Hub Manager, WiLS; Greg Kocken, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, UW-Eau Claire; Emily Pfotenhauer, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Randi Ramsden, Program Coordinator, National Digital Newspaper Program, Wisconsin Historical Society; Tamara Ramski, Digitization Assistant, South Central Library System; and Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collections, WiLS
This fast-paced session highlights new tools and innovative approaches Wisconsin libraries are using to create, share and preserve digital collections. Projects include efforts to collect oral histories and music memorabilia from community members, partnerships with local artists to reimagine digitized special collections, text mining of historical newspapers, managing Indigenous digital collections in culturally responsive ways, centralized digitization training and support for public libraries, and building LIS students’ skills in digital stewardship through hands-on fieldwork at small libraries, archives and museums around the state.
This document summarizes a presentation about the Recollection Wisconsin digitization project. It discusses why libraries and museums digitize materials, an overview of the Recollection Wisconsin program and its goals of making more Wisconsin historical materials available online. It covers topics like selecting materials for digitization, copyright issues to consider, and ways to promote and support use of digital collections once completed. The presentation aims to provide guidance to participating institutions on best practices for contributing to the statewide Recollection Wisconsin online collection.
Presented by Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collection & Recollection Wisconsin for DPLAFest 2019 on Wednesday, April 17 in Chicago, IL.
Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC), a two-year, IMLS grant-funded program managed by WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin, a DPLA Service Hub for Wisconsin cultural heritage organizations. Launched in December 2017, CCDC aims to 1) provide digital stewardship practicum experience for information school graduate students; 2) to help small or under-resourced institutions in Wisconsin develop and sustain a digital preservation program; and 3) to build community around digital preservation work within Wisconsin and beyond.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Karen Cariani, Casey E. Davis, WGBH....FIAT/IFTA
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is a joint collaboration between WGBH and the Library of Congress to preserve significant historical content from public radio and television dating back to the 1950s. The initial collection includes 40,000 hours of content from over 100 public media stations across 38 states. The archive faces challenges in preserving born-digital media formats and making the collections accessible while respecting intellectual property rights. The goals of the archive are to continue growing the collection, helping stations with archiving, and providing public access to tell the story of public media and document American history at national and local levels.
Digital collections: Increasing awareness and useButtes
This document discusses various strategies for increasing awareness and use of digital collections, including:
1) Creating print materials like bookmarks and press releases to promote collections.
2) Scheduling in-person events such as presentations and open houses.
3) Contacting media sources like newspapers, magazines, and blogs.
4) Sharing metadata through tools like OCLC WorldCat to increase global discovery.
5) Leveraging the web through a library's website, search engine registration, and social media platforms.
Wisconsin Heritage Online (WHO) is a digital portal that aggregates metadata and digital content from local history collections across Wisconsin. It provides shared standards for digitization, metadata, and digital preservation. WHO works with various partners, including historical societies, museums, libraries, and the Wisconsin Historical Society, to digitize local history collections and make them accessible online. It also provides training and support to help smaller organizations overcome challenges to digitization. A new WHO website is being developed to provide a more engaging experience for exploring Wisconsin's local history and cultural heritage collections.
Community collections: Exploring three distinct approaches to collaboration a...jdgwynn
The digital projects unit of the UNCG University Libraries has in recent years been involved in three different grant-funded projects designed to increase community outreach and participation in our work. The LSTA-funded “Textiles, Teachers, and Troops” initiative was a large digitization project that involved collaboration between all five universities and colleges in Greensboro plus the Greensboro Historical Museum and the Greensboro Public Library. The “Community Collections” project was funded through a UNCG Community-Based Research Grant and involved working with local institutions to identify unique and “hidden” materials, and to test innovative filed digitization techniques. The IMLS-funded “DGHi Explorers” program expands on “Community Collections” through collaboration with Greensboro’s Hayes-Taylor YMCA in its work with diverse and underserved communities, and involved working directly with at-risk youth in their home communities. This presentation will explore the successes and challenges of these initiatives and the lessons learned through three very different collaborative models.
Community Generated Databases for NY State History Conference 2013Larry Naukam
This document discusses community generated databases (CGDBs) which utilize volunteers outside of traditional organizations to create searchable historical records and collections. It provides examples of the Church Records Preservation Committee, New York Heritage, and Viewshare projects. CGDBs make collections more accessible and useful by indexing, transcription, and digitization done by community volunteers. Standards and training are important to ensure quality. CGDBs can unlock underutilized collections and engage new audiences through volunteer contributions.
The document discusses the University of Notre Dame Archives' transition to digitizing and curating photograph collections in response to increased remote access during COVID-19. It provides background on the Archives' history and collections. It then describes the Archives' previous process of digitizing photographs on demand for in-person researchers. During COVID, the Archives began digitizing entire collections in anticipation of remote requests. The document outlines the Archives' implementation of the Preservica digital preservation system to manage digital assets through defined workflows, including the workflow developed for digitized analog photographs.
Andrea Coffin (WiLS) and Rose Fortier (Marquette University) presentation at the Brown Deer Public Library to Milwaukee County librarians. March 24th, 2014.
Re-Reading the British Memorial Project #de2012Nicole Beale
This document summarizes a project that aims to record church memorials and artifacts in a coastal region using open source and community-based approaches. The project team is multi-disciplinary and uses techniques like Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to digitally capture objects. They work with local community groups and investigate open source tools, open practices of collaboration, and open access/data approaches to documentation. The goal is to preserve this cultural heritage while empowering communities and making the data widely accessible.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Jamie Kohler and Stephen Marvin on promoting small museum content through digital social networking media. The presentation introduced Kohler from West Chester University's Special Collections and Archives and Marvin from the Sanderson Museum. It provided highlights about the Sanderson Museum collection and West Chester University's Special Collections. The presentation discussed potential partnerships between small museums and university collections, including sharing content online through sites like Facebook, blogs, and YouTube. It addressed issues like copyright and evaluating the effectiveness of partnerships. The goal was to explore how social networking technologies could help small museums and libraries reach wider audiences.
The DPLA and NY Heritage for Tech Camp 2014Larry Naukam
This is an introduction to the Digital Public Library of America and to New York Heritage. It was put together for showing these web sites to school media librarians and others, an helping them to use it more effectively. It may also be used to find items for use in the Common Core curriculum.
Making the Black Hole Gray: Implementing the Web Archiving of Specialist Art ...The Frick Collection
Report on the New York Art Resources Consortium's investigation into web archiving born-digital art research materials.
Presented at the Archive-It Partner Meeting, Salt Lake CIty, Utah, November 12, 2013
This document discusses a project to catalog the National Educational Television (NET) collection to improve discoverability. The project involves:
1) Creating a comprehensive catalog of 8,000-10,000 entries covering 1953-1972 NET content with descriptive data and location information.
2) Designing a new web interface for the catalog to accommodate different types of data and user search behaviors.
3) Enriching the catalog with linked open data by reconciling descriptions with library authority files and assigning identifiers.
The goal is to make this historically significant but scattered public media collection more accessible through a centralized online portal. Challenges include the complexity of the content and lack of original metadata.
1:1 Community Interview Examples & Tips for LibrariesWiLS
Presented at WLA 2021 Annual Conference, November 19th, by Laura Damon-Moore, WiLS; Martín Alvarado, Madison Public Library; Jon Mark Bolthouse, Fond du Lac Public Library
In this session, attendees will hear about three different case studies for using 1:1 interviews as an information gathering method in a library or other municipal setting: 1) to learn how people currently use a city service and how that service might evolve to better suit community needs; 2) to learn about the wider community’s and individuals’ goals and aspirations, and challenges they see or experience in order to inform a library’s planning process; 3) to tell a more complete story of a community’s history through 1:1 interviews. Along with these case studies, session organizers will offer some best practices and practical tips for conducting 1:1 interviews to support these similar yet distinct information gathering efforts.
Presented for WLA 2021 Annual Conference, November 17th, by Melissa McLimans, WiLS and Kim Kiesewetter, WiLS
Surveys, focus groups, your annual report data: it’s all telling you a story about your library and your community. Join Melissa and Kim as they share ways in which libraries can use data to tell the story of both their communities and institutions. It will include an overview of different types of data that a library might use ranging from existing resources to inspiration for new research. To tie everything together, the session will conclude with ways to present selected data in a compelling, narrative format to tell a larger story to a variety of audiences.
he Past Through Tomorrow: Empowering Digital History at the LibraryWiLS
This document summarizes presentations from three organizations on empowering digital history projects. Kristen Whitson, Steven Rice and Beth Renstrom discussed Recollection Wisconsin's efforts to support local historical societies through a Digital Readiness Community of Practice. They provided examples of projects including the Door County Speaks oral history kit and efforts to capture agricultural demonstrations on video. The presentations emphasized starting projects even if not perfect, seeking partnerships and funding, and allowing room for unexpected outcomes.
Can Do! The WiLS Toolbox for Building a Culture of Shared WorkWiLS
At the 2021 WLA Support Staff and Circulation Services (SSCS) conference, held on May 27th, our WiLS Administrative Team presented, Can do!: The WiLS Toolbox for Building a Culture of Shared Work. Lisa Marten, Rebecca Rosenstiel, and Melody Clark shared their favorite tools and strategies for streamlining work in a way that honors individual accountability and contributions, ensures everyone supports one another, aims to continuously improve, and builds a strong culture of teamwork. These practices have helped everyone stay engaged and know what’s expected of them and their fellow team members - and most importantly, it creates an atmosphere of fun and cooperation in our remote office. Our entire WiLS staff and our members reap the benefits of this high-functioning team! Check out their presentation slides and feel free to contact us at information@wils.org if you have any questions.
This annual report summarizes WiLS' activities and accomplishments in 2020, a challenging year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses how WiLS supported members by transitioning services online, launching new digital resources, and awarding grants to promote innovative projects. It also outlines WiLS' strategic priorities for 2021, which include improving the member experience, highlighting its role as a connector, showcasing responsive services, and operationalizing its values around equity and inclusion.
Setting Your Library's Course with Community DemographicsWiLS
Demographic data provides valuable insights about a community’s past, current, and future needs and can help libraries make critical decisions related to resource allocation, service provision, and even library staffing. This presentation covers what demographics are, how you can find them about your community, and how you can use the information to make data informed decisions for your library.
Presented by Kim Kiesewetter and Melissa McLimans for the Wisconsin Library Association's 1-Day Virtual Conference on November 11, 2020.
Lead the Way 2020: Facilitation Tools, Techniques, and Tips WiLS
Placing the community at the center of how the library plans and operates is vital, whether it is engaging residents to learn about aspirations or developing a collaboration with community partners. To be most successful when engaging community members or partners, quality facilitation is required. In this program, we share facilitator techniques and tools, including best practices for running effective meetings and holding conversations, that you can use to constructively manage both the process and people in different facilitation situations. In addition, we share our on-the-ground facilitator tips developed from our organization’s experience providing facilitation for different needs and environments.
Presented by Andi Coffin and Melissa McLimans for UW-Madison's Lead the Way conference on November 17, 2020
This document summarizes the key points from a WiLS membership meeting:
1) The meeting included discussions on past conferences like the Games in Libraries Conference and OER Create Fest, as well as upcoming events and funding opportunities from the Ideas to Action Fund.
2) Members provided feedback on what they want to accomplish in the upcoming year and potential changes to WiLS's business model, like contracting and learning opportunities.
3) Upcoming cooperative purchasing promotions and digital projects funded by IMLS grants were highlighted, as well as an upcoming Taco Tuesday potluck focused on usage data.
Mukurtu Hubs & Spokes: A Sustainable Platform for Community Digital ArchivingWiLS
Mukurtu is a grassroots project that aims to empower indigenous communities to manage, share, and exchange their digital cultural heritage in culturally respectful ways. The project goals are to establish regional hubs to provide training and support for communities using the Mukurtu content management system, engage with tribal organizations, foster collaborations between communities and institutions, and expand the system's features. The mission is to maintain an open, community-driven approach to the platform's development and help build a system that fosters relationships of respect and trust.
Presented by Maria Dahman, User Experience Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 24th in Madison, Wisconsin.
You’ve gathered website analytics, run surveys, and observed how people use your website and other digital resources– now what? Impressive user research doesn’t matter much if the research isn’t used. More than just communicating what we learned in our research, communicating what we recommend for website or application improvements and framing the recommendations to our audiences in meaningful ways is a skill of its own. In this workshop, we’ll look at findings from several types of research projects and work through positive and negative examples of how the findings are used to create recommendations. This is useful for both qualitative user experience research (interviews, usability testing) and quantitative research (page analytics, usability scales). Be a better advocate for your users. Make the hard work from your interviews and other user research count!
Building Belonging: Libraries and Social JusticeWiLS
This document discusses advancing social justice and equity in public libraries. It begins by framing the importance of social justice principles like belonging, opportunity, and abundance. It then outlines Madison's racial equity initiative and provides examples of libraries advancing equity through initiatives like empathy programs, embedded librarians, and read woke collections that promote representation and understanding across communities. The document advocates for universal design of services, active listening to marginalized groups, and collaboration over services to build relationships and advance equity.
This document discusses the importance of challenging the status quo and creating positive change in libraries. It argues that librarians should take ownership of problems, find like-minded colleagues, think creatively about solutions, and enact change without permission. Specific issues that need attention include the culture of librarian education, ongoing funding struggles, negotiating digital content costs, addressing climate change and attacks on democracy. The overall message is that librarians have a duty to improve libraries and pass them on in better condition than they found them.
Choosing Privacy: Raising Awareness and Engaging Patrons in Privacy IssuesWiLS
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1. BASICS OF DIGITAL PROJECTS
E M I LY P F O T E N H A U E R
O U T R E A C H S P E C I A L I S T, W I S C O N S I N H E R I TA G E O N L I N E
E P F O T E N H A U E R @ W I L S .W I S C . E D U
2. TODAY’S AGENDA
• Introductions
• Wisconsin Heritage Online; examples of digital projects
• Planning for a digital project
• Why digitize?; Selecting materials; Copyright; Digital preservation
• LUNCH @ noon
• Sharing projects in progress
• Putting your plan into action
• Imaging; Metadata
• Promoting your project
• Questions and discussion
• Finished @ 3:00pm
3. WHAT DO YOU MEAN, DIGITIZE?
• Selecting materials
• Reformatting materials
(scanning or
photographing)
• Adding metadata
(descriptive
information)
• Making available online
• Storing and maintaining
digital files and data
(digital preservation) Wisconsin Historical Society
4. WHAT IS WISCONSIN HERITAGE ONLINE?
• A public research portal providing access to digital
collections of primary sources related to Wisconsin
history from libraries, historical societies and
museums across the state: wisconsinheritage.org
• A statewide set of standards and guidelines for
digitizing historical primary source materials
• A resource network providing training, consulting
and collection hosting services to members
• Sponsored by Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) with
support from the Nicholas Family Foundation
5. PLANNING A DIGITAL PROJECT
• Identifying your goals
• Identifying your
stakeholders, partners
and audience
• Selecting materials
• Considering copyright
• Budget
• Funding
• Planning for digital
preservation
New Berlin Historical Society
6. IDENTIFYING GOALS: WHY DIGITIZE?
(CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AUDIENCE)
• Save photos for future generations
• Access for research, awareness
• Educational purposes
• Closer access; deeper access
• Make rare/local/unique available
• Protect fragile documents from handling
• Easier to organize and find
• Encourage contributions/fill in blanks
• Revenue (purchase reproductions; encourage donations)
• PR for institution
• Googleability
• People can identify images
7. IDENTIFYING GOALS: WHY DIGITIZE?
• Go where your
audience is
• Reach new audiences
• Improve access to
“invisible” materials
• Protect fragile or
heavily used materials
• Learn more about your
collections
• Contribute to our
collective knowledge South Wood County Historical Museum
8. STAKEHOLDERS AND PARTNERS
• Board
• Staff and/or volunteers
• Local experts
• Community members
• Chamber of Commerce
• Local government
• Students
• Other organizations in
your
community/county/regio
n
McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids
• Who else?
9. AUDIENCES
• Local residents
• Students and teachers
• Genealogists
• Specialists (Civil War re-
enactors, railroad buffs)
• Academic researchers
• Curious Wisconsinites
• Everyone!
College of Menominee Nation
10. SELECTING MATERIALS
• Photographs
• Postcards
• Letters
• Diaries
• Scrapbooks
• Yearbooks
• Newspaper clippings
• City directories
• Local histories
• Magazines
• Pamphlets
• Maps
• Material culture objects
• Oral histories
• Sound recordings
• Video recordings
• What else? Appleton Public Library
11. SELECTING MATERIALS
• Careful selection will help
keep your project focused,
manageable, and useful
• Keep your audience in
mind: How will putting this
item online help users
better understand local or
state history?
• Is information available
about the item, or is more
research needed?
• Physical condition of
original materials
• Copyright status
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
12. SELECTING MATERIALS
• Consider your existing mission
statement and/or collection
development policy
• An online collection is not a
substitute for a collection
inventory or other internal
recordkeeping
• Two approaches:
• Curatorial: Select materials
based on a specific
theme/topic/type of
object/photographer
• Organizational: Digitizing as an
opportunity to sort that mystery
box in the archives
• Digital New Zealand: Make it
Digital Scorecard Neville Public Museum of Brown County
http://makeit.digitalnz.org/
13. CONSIDERING COPYRIGHT
• Disclaimer: I am not a
lawyer
• Owning a physical item does
not necessarily mean you
hold the copyright to that
item
• Public domain = no longer
under copyright. In the US
in 2012 that means the item
was:
• published before 1923 –OR–
• Unpublished; creator died
before 1942 –OR–
• Unpublished; unknown
creator; made before 1892
UW-Milwaukee Libraries
• http://copyright.cornell.edu
14. CONSIDERING COPYRIGHT
• Works under copyright,
copyright holder is known:
• Contact copyright holder IN
WRITING to request
permission to make available
online
• Works presumed to be
under copyright; copyright
holder is unknown or
cannot be located
• Due diligence has been made
to identify and locate
copyright holder
• Be prepared to remove item
from digital collection if
challenged
Three Lakes Historical Society
15. USE OF YOUR DIGITAL CONTENT
• Fair Use. Under US copyright
law, individuals can use the
low-resolution materials you
make available online for
personal use, research or
teaching purposes
• Publications or other
commercial uses require
permission of the copyright
holder
• You may choose to sell
reproductions—prints and/or
high-resolution digital files—of
materials in your collection
(with permission of the
copyright holder where
applicable) Langlade County Historical Society
16. SAMPLE RIGHTS STATEMENTS
• For an item presumed to be in the Public Domain:
• There are no known restrictions on the use of this digital resource.
Contact [your institution] to purchase a high-resolution version of
this image.
• For an item under copyright; copyright holder has
granted permission to put online:
• This image has been published with permission of the copyright
holder and has been provided here for educational purposes only.
Commercial use is prohibited without permission. Contact [your
institution] for information regarding permissions and
reproductions.
• For an item in which copyright status is unclear:
• This material may be protected by copyright law. The user is
responsible for all issues of copyright. Contact [your institution]
for information regarding permissions and reproductions.
17. POTENTIAL PROJECT COSTS
• Flatbed scanner
• Digital camera and
related equipment
• Internet access
• Digital storage
• Archival storage supplies
• Outsourcing imaging to a
commercial vendor
• Be sure to budget for
TIME and SPACE
Merrill Historical Society
18. FUNDING
• Grants
• Historical societies: WI Council
for Local History mini-grants
• Public libraries: LSTA
Digitization of Local Resources
grants (Dep’t of Public
Instruction)
• Donations
• In-kind contributions
• Tech support
• Equipment use
• Biggest expense is TIME
• Paid staff time
• “Free” volunteer time
• Students/interns
Ripon College
19. DIGITAL PRESERVATION
• Definition from the Library of
Congress:
• The active management of
digital content over time to
ensure ongoing access.
• Two threats to digital
content:
• Obsolescence
• Physical damage
• http://digitalpreservation.gov
Beloit College
20. DIGITAL PRESERVATION
• Save more than one copy of
each file
• On more than one type of
storage media
• In more than one location
• Document what, where, when
and how
• Spot-check annually
• Migrate as necessary
• Recommended storage options:
• Archival quality (gold) CDs or
DVDs
• RAID device
• External hard drive
• Network storage Wetherby Cranberry Library
• Cloud storage (online backup)
21. PHYSICAL PRESERVATION
• Don’t compromise
collections care in order to
digitize
• A digital project can be an
ideal time to assess
collection conditions and
rehouse materials
• Resources for collections
care:
• Wisconsin Historical Society
Field Services staff
• Wisconsin Archives Mentoring
Service
• National Park Service
Conserve-O-Grams
Richland County History Room
22. TIPS FROM OTHER DIGITIZERS
• If I could do it all over again, I would:
• Tackle a smaller group of materials at first
• Make sure two people started the project at the same time so we could
help each other
• Start with a clearer plan
• Take the time to sort and research the physical collection before
digitizing
• Other things I learned:
• Volunteers/local residents are the best source for historical information
• Looking at examples of similar collections is helpful to figure out what
you’re doing; it’s also inspiring and can spur some competitiveness
• Uploading one item at a time can go faster than working in batches if
you’re working with a lot of interruptions
• Having a firm deadline helped me stay on track
23. SAMPLE PROJECT PLAN
• What: Approx. 100 glass negatives depicting Main Street
between 1880-1900
• Why: To improve access to a fragile collection and to
document a period in our community’s history when local
commerce flourished downtown
• Who: Jane Smith will coordinate the project and handle
copyright and reproductions; two volunteers from the local
high school will scan images and rehouse in archival sleeves;
two board members will do historical research and write
descriptions
• When: 25 images online before our annual meeting in
September; full collection online by April 2013
• How: Scan slides using Epson Perfection V600; store images
on archival DVDs and Carbonite online backup; record
metadata in Excel spreadsheet and upload to online collection
24. PUTTING YOUR PLAN INTO ACTION
• Digital imaging
• Scanning photographs
• Scanning texts
• Object photography
• File naming
• Metadata
• What is it?
• Basic elements
• Where does it go?
Milwaukee Public Library
25. SCANNING
• Goals of scanning:
• Create a digital representation
that’s faithful to the original
item
• Create the highest quality scan
you can achieve with available
resources
• Scan once—don’t expect to
return to re-digitize
• Save two copies of each
scan:
• High resolution TIFF (20-
40MB) for archiving and
printing
• Lower resolution JPEG (1-5MB)
for online
collection, email, easy access UW-Madison Archives
26. SCANNING PHOTOGRAPHS
• Scan all photographs in 24-
bit color, even if image is
black and white
• Scanning resolution (ppi)
depends on size of original
item
• 8 ½ x 11 or larger = 300ppi
• 8 x 10 = 400ppi
• 5 x 7 = 600ppi
• 4 x 2 or smaller = 1200ppi
• Slides and negatives require
a transparency unit and
holders to keep slide from
touching scanner glass
(these may come with your UW-La Crosse
scanner)
27. TIP: USE YOUR HISTOGRAM
• A histogram is a graph that
shows the distribution of dark
and light pixels in a digital
image
• Using the Histogram function
improves the accuracy/fidelity
of your scan
• Do a preview scan
• In
advanced/professional/custom
mode, select the Histogram
function
• Move the left and right sliders to
each end point of the histogram
• Do not move the sliders INTO
the histogram
• Scan the image
30. SCANNING DOCUMENTS
• Handwritten texts
• Scan in 24-bit color to
retain character of
original
• 300-400ppi is generally
sufficient
• If feasible, create a
transcription
• Use care when unfolding
papers or handling tightly
bound volumes
Wisconsin Historical Society
31. SCANNING DOCUMENTS
• Printed texts
• Scan in 8-bit grayscale or
24-bit color
• 300ppi is generally
sufficient
• Use OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) software to
make the text computer-
searchable
• May be provided with your
scanner software
• ABBYY Fine Reader
• Adobe Acrobat
• OCR is never 100% L. E. Phillips Memorial Library, Eau Claire
accurate, but that’s ok
32. GENERAL SCANNING TIPS
• Use
advanced/professional/cust
om mode, not basic mode
• Don’t use any auto
correction settings
• Dust scanner bed regularly
• Designate a specific space
for scanning and keep it
relatively uncluttered (no
coffee!)
• Handle each item carefully
and return it to its storage
location when you’re done
scanning
Waterford Public Library
33. OBJECT PHOTOGRAPHY
• Digital camera
• SLR that can shoot RAW
files (can convert to TIFFs)
• Tripod
• Two adjustable lights
(500 watts)
• Reflective umbrellas (or
sheets)
• Paper or cloth backdrop
Photo setup at Pabst Mansion
34. NAMING YOUR FILES
• Use only lower case letters, numbers, and dashes or
underscores
• Don’t use spaces or punctuation
• Use leading zeroes for consecutive numbering. For
example, a multi-page letter could have file names
mac001.tif, mac002.tif, mac003.tif, etc.
• Tie your file names to existing catalog numbers if possible
• Document any file naming conventions you develop
• Examples:
• Photograph with accession # 2011.32.1 = 201132001.tif –OR–
2011_32_001.tif
• Series of images by photographer John Smith = smith001.tif,
smith002.tif, smith003.tif
• Not so good: Glassplate16039 Auto repair in basement 025.tif
35. METADATA: WHAT IS IT?
• Information about stuff
• Technical metadata =
information about the
digital file (size, type, etc.)
• Descriptive metadata =
information about the
content of the item (what
are we looking at?)
• Lets users find what
they’re looking for
• Organized, standardized,
consistent, searchable
Grant County Historical Society
37. ASSIGNING TITLES
• Descriptive and unique
• Capitalize first word and
proper names
• Not so good:
• Woman and man
• Woman and man, trees
• Good:
• Woman, man and child in
apple orchard
• Ida and Peter Swartz with
son James in apple orchard,
Wausau
38. WRITING DESCRIPTIONS
• Expand on the information provided in the Title
• Record information about people, places, events and
themes depicted in the item
• You can provide historical information (if cited), but don’t
get bogged down in too much detail
• Remember your audience is broad. Provide enough
information to add meaning for non-local users
• Make use of other metadata elements for information
like dates and materials
• Don’t use abbreviations, ampersands (&) or paragraph
breaks (hard returns)
39. WRITING DESCRIPTIONS
• Not so good (too little):
• People with apple trees.
• Good:
• A woman and a man in an apple
orchard with wooden barrels filled
with apples. A child rides a tricycle
at the right.
• Not so good (too much):
• A woman wearing a hat and dress
and a man in overalls stand in
front of an apple tree. Twelve
barrels containing apples are lined
up in a row in front of them. The
roof of a barn is visible behind the
trees. Apples were a popular crop
in America in the 19th century
thanks to Johnny Appleseed. The
first commercial apple orchard in
Wausau was established in . . .
40. METADATA: WHERE DO I PUT IT?
• Software solutions compatible
with the WHO portal
• CONTENTdm (hosted by
Milwaukee Public Library)
• ResCarta
• Omeka.net (Gold, Platinum plans)
• Not directly compatible with
WHO (but can be moved to a
compatible option)
• PastPerfect
• File Maker Pro
• Microsoft Access
• Excel spreadsheet
• Omeka.net (Basic, Plus, Silver
plans) Wisconsin Folksong Collection, UW-Madison
41. DIFFERENT MATERIALS, DIFFERENT APPROACHES
• Printed texts
• Scanning straightforward but can be
time-consuming (lots of pages);
metadata usually straightforward; need
to OCR
• Handwritten texts
• Scanning straightforward; metadata
relatively straightforward; transcripts
recommended
• Photographs
• More care in scanning; more detail in
metadata
• Maps and other oversized items
• Outsource scanning to a vendor
• Artifacts
• Object photography needs more
equipment and more space; more detail
in metadata
• Sound and video
• Talk to me
Mineral Point Historical Society
42. ENCOURAGING USE OF YOUR COLLECTIONS
• Google is not enough
• Moving away from “if you
build it, they will come”
approach
• Bring your content to your
audience—find them where
they already are
• Let them look behind the
curtain and see projects in
progress, warts and all
• Participatory archives
concept—shared authority,
community engagement Milwaukee Public Library
43. WHO PROMOTIONAL EFFORTS
• Quarterly email
newsletter
• Facebook
• facebook.com/wisconsin
heritage
• Twitter
• twitter.com/wiheritage
• Tumblr
• wiscohisto.tumblr.com
• Viewshare Rock County Historical Society
44. LOCAL PROMOTIONAL EFFORTS
• Add introduction/background
information on your own website
• http://www.newberlinhistoricalsociety.org
• Highlight an item of the
day/week/month
• https://www.facebook.com/lacrosse.
history
• Host an opening event
• Whitefish Bay Public Library
• College of Menominee Nation
• Host a slide show or exhibition
• South Wood County Historical
Museum
• Mineral Point Historical Society
• Press release to local media
• What else? South Wood County Historical Museum
45. WHAT NEXT?
• Interested in participating in
Wisconsin Heritage Online?
• Consult with me about a project
you might have in mind
• Sign on as a member ($50 or
$100 annually)
• Fill out our Collection Hosting
Application to have your
collection hosted in CONTENTdm
by the Milwaukee Public Library
• Schedule a training session with
me to get started on creating
metadata and uploading items
• Get your collection harvested
into the WHO portal
Marquette University
46. THANK YOU!
E M I LY P F O T E N H A U E R
O U T R E A C H S P E C I A L I S T, W I S C O N S I N H E R I TA G E O N L I N E
E P F O T E N H A U E R @ W I L S .W I S C . E D U