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Exploring digital collections
This presentation introduces digital tools for exploring local history through Sonoma Heritage Collections and other resources. It discusses how digital archives can be used to learn more about the past and future of a community. The presentation concludes by thanking the audience and inviting any questions.
Exploring digital collections
- 1. Digital Tools For ExploringLocal History Sonoma Heritage Collections & More Geoffrey Skinner
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Editor's Notes
- #2 [SLIDE 1: Title slide] If you don’t know me, I’m Geoffrey Skinner – the cataloger for the library and largely responsible for managing our digital collections of local historical materials. We’re going to cover a lot of material in the next 15 minutes, so please hold questions until the end
- #3 [SLIDE 2: Intro (cont.)] Library has great special collections – History & Genealogy Library, Petaluma History Room, Wine Library, Sonoma County Archives and hidden treasures in the branches – including over 40,000 photographs We’ve built a set of digital tools to help people explore them Useful and fun for students and scholars, local history buffs, writers, wine enthusiasts and others Many people don’t know about them – not visible from library home page. Who has explored the Library’s digitized collections? If so, what have you used?
- #4 [SLIDE 3: HIP display of photographs] A brief history of our digital universe: Staff and volunteers began digitizing photos in 1997 Links in the catalog when we got HIP Photo thumbnails and links to bigger images in 2008:
- #5 [SLIDE 4: HIP Display of a photo record] Example of a photo record in HIP – adequate, but not too exciting and HIP not really designed for this Guide to the Archives live in 2009 Sonoma Heritage Collections live in 2012, along with blogs, social media and a collection on Internet Archive
- #6 [SLIDE 5: Sonoma Heritage Collections Home Page] Collections on SHC Platform for discovery and display of photographs (33,000, or 2/3 of Library’s collection), graphics and maps, digitized print materials (1/2 WL pre-1923 materials), video, audio Accessible by keyword, browse or by SHC theme Enhanced by Google Maps and other external content SCL and partners: Western Sonoma Co. Historical Society, SC Historical Society
- #7 [SLIDE 6: Sonoma Heritage Collections Home Page – Collections and subjects] Currently 17 collections, ranging from the general SCL Library Photograph Collection to the Biblioteca Vinaria Sonoma and Speaking of Wine Note the list of topics on the right side
- #8 [SLIDE 7: Sonoma Heritage Collections Themes] 22 broad topics to help locate items – each of the 33,000 assigned a theme
- #9 [SLIDE 8: Sonoma Library Photograph Collection home page] General collection. All sorts of photos in our biggest collection, including some pretty funny ones
- #10 [SLIDE 9: Sonoma Library Photograph Collection record] Example of a photo: Sarah Neil posing with a friend
- #11 [SLIDE 10: Sonoma Library Photograph Collection record] Example of image from Photograph Collection record: Example of Google Streetview – when we don’t have a street address, you usually see a map Geyserville High School students in 1928
- #12 [SLIDE 11: Sonoma Library Photograph Collection record] Another example of Google Streetview Gould-Shaw House located at 215 North Cloverdale Blvd., Cloverdale, California, 1991
- #13 [SLIDE 12: Sonoma County Visionaries, Immigrants and Winemakers Collection record] We even have wine labels in the SC Visionaries, Immigrants and Winemakers Collection: From Santa Rosa, from early 20th century Alpine Winery ""this is our battlefield"--long live Alpine
- #14 [SLIDE 13: Sonoma County Visionaries, Immigrants and Winemakers Collection record] As well as postcards of various types From 1960s advertising campaign That "Little Old Winemaker" of the Italian Swiss Colony
- #15 [SLIDE 14: Sonoma County Visionaries, Immigrants and Winemakers Collection record -- Metadata] A quick look at all the information below the picture – essentially the same as in HIP – with various enhancements
- #16 [SLIDE 15: IA display of SCL uploads] Photos digitized by a variety of vendors, as well as staff Books digitized by Internet Archive Digitized books – read them on your choice of platforms – or displayed through SHC
- #17 [SLIDE 16: Biblioteca Vinaria Sonoma record] Biblioteca Vinaria Sonoma includes scans of some really old books -- using IA display: Act for limiting and settling the prices of wines at the Parliament begun at Westminster, the 17th day of September, Anno Domini 1656
- #18 [SLIDE 17: Biblioteca Vinaria Sonoma record] As well as others as recent as 1922 (this is actually from 1920) Vintage festival : a play pageant & festivities celebrating the vine in the autumn of each year at St. Helena in the Napa valley
- #19 [SLIDE 18: Speaking of Wine record] Even oral histories: listen to the interview and read the transcription: Robert Meyers: Geyserville Growers’ Assoc.
- #20 [SLIDE 19: History & Genealogy Library blog (Then & Now)] Publicize H&G collections Highlight research
- #21 [SLIDE 20: SCL on YouTube] A few movies for now on the Sonoma County Library channel – will be available through SHC, too
- #22 [SLIDE 21: SC Archives record] Sonoma Co. Archives – historical record of County, managed by the Library Making the archives visible Redwood Township Justice Court Records, 1937-1964
- #23 [SLIDE 22: The Future] SHC Additional content to current collections, including remainder of existing photos from catalog New collections, including video and audio, and partnerships With new website, SHC moving to new platform, Islandora SC Archives Also migrating to a new platform (later) Finding aid enhancements – data from accession sheets and add abstracts Add SCL archival collections