The history and new directions for the NUI Galway digital library. Presented at #conulconf15 4th June 2015, as part of the digital library & resource discovery track. Speakers Cillian Joy (@cillianjoy), NUI Galway (@nuigalway) and Aisling Keane (@AislingNiC), NUI Galway. Chair: Arlene Healy, TCD

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Evolving the digital library for
digital scholarship in NUI Galway
Cillian Joy, Digital library developer cillianjoy
Aisling Keane, Digital archivist
CONUL, 4 June 2015

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Outline
Digital library
Strategy
Integration
Recent work
Lessons
Future

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Digital library

5. pillars of old bridge from the Galway to Clifden railway line on the River Corrib 4 (2011)
chiarraigrrl. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/chiarraigrrl/5810040214.

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Some examples
Data
Dataverse pilot
with Duanaire

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Digital library areas
Archives/
Special collections
Unique
content,
research
potential
Publications
Existing
repository
Data
Curation,
long-term
preservation,
and analysis of
research data

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A strategy for …

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digital scholarship
enablement

12. Enable digital scholarship
Create
PreserveAccess
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The drivers

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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

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University focus on archives for research and learning

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Investment in high-profile archival collections
John McGahern
Thomas Kilroy
Druid Theatre
Huston Family
Éamon de Buitléar
Abbey Theatre

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New large scale digitisation activity
Picture of abbey process
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19. In an era of large scale digitisation
But, only 10-14% of Library archives are digitised (ENUMERATE survey)
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In a Sea of APT
“Icebergs,” Are You
Thinking Big
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New building, new neighbours
Gaps to be addressed

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New digital projects
Duanaire, focus on data and visualisation
Born digital content
A focus on institutional open access

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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

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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

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Key implementation areas
The team and governance
Preservation
Standards
Technology
Finance

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Integration

26. 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
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Recent work

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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

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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

32. What are we doing: Example, from this
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33. What are we doing: Example, to this
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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

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Tim Robinson

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Lessons

39. 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
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Challenges encountered and anticipated
Intellectual property
Expanding number of standards
Consistency in process is very important to reduce effort
Increased user-expectations
Capacity planning

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Future

42. What’s next
Complete and hone existing migrations
Take stock
Recommendations and workflow for new archival collections
Born digital strategy
Metadata management
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Summary

44. Takeaways
Strategic approach, including top down drive
New ways of working
Keep it simple
Continuous improvement
Expose our collections and collaborate with academic community
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Questions