Research Libraries UK AGM 2010 Oxford. Camera Shy: special collections and digitisation
•Download as PPT, PDF•
1 like•236 views
A presentation to the annual general meeting of Research Libraries UK on the challenges relating to systematically digitising special collections materials.
Recommended
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (20)
Viewers also liked
Viewers also liked (8)
Similar to Research Libraries UK AGM 2010 Oxford. Camera Shy: special collections and digitisation
Similar to Research Libraries UK AGM 2010 Oxford. Camera Shy: special collections and digitisation (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Research Libraries UK AGM 2010 Oxford. Camera Shy: special collections and digitisation
- 1. Camera Shy? Special collections and digitisation John Scally University of Edinburgh RLUK AGM, Oxford, 21 April 2010
- 2. Camera Shy? Context – Special Collections & Digitisation Defining the activity What next? The ultimate success indicator?
- 4. Special collections are a nexus where technology and content are meeting to advance scholarship in extraordinary new ways. We can see existing special collections being supplemented and expanded by digital representations of the physical materials; tomorrow’s special collections will include a growing proportion of material that has always and only been digital. Cliff Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (Dec 2009)
- 8. Four Strands • Strand 1 Digitisation on Demand • Strand 2 Digitisation for conservation & ‘the iconics’ • Strand 3. specialist, research driven, high quality. JISC, AHRC, Philanthropic, etc • Strand 4. Mass in collaboration, traversing EEBO, ECCO, IA, Google, HATHI Trust.
- 10. Under the camera or scanner p.a. 3,000 high quality / 5,250 low quality Offline Legacy 5,000+ high quality 200 full-text books (b&w) 500+ images on CD
- 11. Flirting with Mass Digitisation EEBO: the really rare stuff
- 13. Digital Imaging Unit Special Collections and University Archives Lothian Health Services Archive Conservation Talbot Rice Gallery EUCHMI Historic Musical Instruments Fine Art Collection Cockburn Geological Museum Natural History Collection & Museum School of Scottish Studies Archive Polish School of Medicine Collection Anatomy Collection Museums Support & Development Projects & Innovation
- 14. What next? • Steady as she goes –digitisation in the workflow, end to end. • Presentation Online • Research-driven projects (AHRC, JISC …) • Metadata, not inventory, or listing. • Getting to know the stuff. • Impact • Scalability
- 15. Funding • JISC – digitisation is now part of core activity ‘HE and FE institutions in … Scotland … are not eligible to bid …’ • AHRC etc – incidental expense, pay for research- impact • Themed: Modern Genetics and its Foundation • Commercial partner, Proquest … • Philanthropic • Us – internal budget line?
- 16. RLUK Role • What can we add from RLUK? COPAC, Archives Hub • Technical architecture in RLUK institutions • RLUK as promoter of sources of funding, partnerships (JISC), statistics on digitisation • RLUK Digitisation Fund • RLUK as champion of Special Collections
- 18. The ultimate success indicator at Edinburgh The Treasures Room
- 19. John Scally, University of Edinburgh john.scally@ed.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
- S2 Elements: UOE LAMs, basic facts ‘Mooring’ Structural setup Space and Centre for Research Collections (CRC). Collaboration – Outside the Silos LAM RLG UOE inititiatives - what we’ve done, where it has led University Collections Digital Collaboration Stories The Horse comes to the library
- Special Collections at the Cusp of the Digital Age: A Credo, Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC
- Similar to the
- 1,825 of the 3,000 are free work (internal projects, iconic items, etc)
- This project, funded by AHRC (0.5M£) seeks to unlock the complex archival collection of the pioneering folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912), focusing on his 26 field notebooks and five volumes of his later transcriptions. These notebooks contain Carmichael’s original recordings and form the foundation of the Collection. They allow us to decipher what he actually recorded and to research the life stories of the characters who gave Carmichael his lore in the first place and to give back this knowledge to the communities from whom he originally collected. Alongside an intense research and dissemination programme, on line resource development will see the notebooks fully indexed to item level, comprehensively indexed, transcribed and encoded using TEI, and a selection will be digitised. In addition there will be a series of research tools including a handwriting guide and biographical EAC records created. EDINA are currently working on a delivery system which will utilise this output and allow users to quickly locate relevant material and link between related items. The output will be delivered via a user interface hosted by a fully re-designed website. The physical arrangement of the collection has been muddled over the years and the collection displays a lack of an underlying structure which often makes the categories of material and their significance unclear. This phase of the project is intended to open up and unlock the foundations of the collection by creating a comprehensive on-line resource that will make the field notebooks of Alexander Carmichael, which lie at the heart of the collection, accessible to a whole range of disciplines and interest groups. It is hoped that the technologies that will be combined in this project and the delivery system that will be created can be used as a blueprint for future projects and help to increase accessibility of many other collections.
- S5 - Space and Co-location Centre for Research Collections, CRC Let’s add some more detail by emphasising space & location. CRC at centre and other sites in orbit, trg, euchmi (2 sites), sss, nhc, geol, classical sculpture. CRC as hub for activity, discussion and planning for UC. There is no better agent of cooperation or convergence than co-location and space-sharing, combined with a strong mandate. The CRC is that space. The LAM report helped us confirm we were on the right track. Gone further than co-location in a new space, sitting next to each other at fancy workstations.