What Digitization Can Do For You - South Carolina Digital Library Technology Update and Coastal Region Services Explained. South Carolina Library Association Annual Conference, October 22nd, 2014.

1. Heather Gilbert
Interim Head, Digital Scholarship & Services, College of Charleston
Project Director, Lowcountry Digital Library
Associate Director for the Coastal Region, South Carolina Digital Library
October 24, 2014 South Carolina Library Association Annual Conference,
Columbia, SC

2. Website Upgrade
• Moved from Drupal 7 into Wordpress
• Easier to add content
• Collection homepages
• Participating Institutional Information
• Partner documentation
• Easier to maintain
• Drupal 7 required over 65 modules to enable
preferred functionality
• Wordpress only needs 18 plugins
• Not as many security updates required
• Just as many features

3. New Website - Homepage
• Search Centered
• Facet Focused
• User Friendly

4. New Website –Browse Pages
• Clean
Layout
• Easy to
Read
• Mobile
Friendly

5. New Website –Collection Pages
• Clean
Layout
• Easy to
Read
• Related
Terms
• Mobile
Friendly

6. New Website –Admin
• Easier to
Use
• Familiar
Technology
• Stricter
control over
Website
CVs

7. Discovery Layer/Harvester Upgrade
• Moved from PKP Harvester into Blacklight
• Highly Scalable, More Robust
• Able to accommodate more OAI feeds
• PKP harvester had known issues beyond
250k records
• Better User Experience
• Facets = better browse experience
• Ability to control searchable facets = better
accuracy
• More results
• PKP would only return 500 items/search
• Blacklight can return total catalog

8. New Harvester
• Faster
Harvesting
• Multiple OAI
Feeds
• Better
Partner
Feed
Schedule
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GNvxqLkVd4stdJinKS
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9. New Discovery Layer
• Highly
Granular
• Better
Limiters
• Better User
Experience
• Faster
Searches

10. New Discovery Layer
Want to see manuscripts by Isaiah DeQuincy Newman regarding Benedict College in Richland County?

11. New Discovery Layer
SCDL is an aggregator. All SCDL results always link to your home repository.

12. • Coastal Region Repository
• 17+ Partner Institutions
• 60,000+ records
• Provides Digitization, Description and Digital
Preservation Services to Members at No Cost
• As SCDL Regional Hub
• Provides Guidance and Training for Digitization,
Description and Digital Preservation across the
region
• Works with Regional Repositories to Improve
Metadata Compliance

13. Inventory of Equipment
• 3 Epson Expression 10000 XL scanners with
slide inserts (12” x 17” scan bed)
• 1 DLSG Book Edge Scanner (12” × 17″ scan bed)
• 1 Plustek Optibook A300 Book Edge scanner (12” ×
17″ scan bed)
• 1 BookEye 4V1 Overhead scanner with motorized
book cradle (Can scan up to 26” x 36″)
• 1 Plustek Optifilm 7600i Ai 35m film and slide
scanner
Further Knowledge
We have experience with Optical Character
Recognition Software, Lyrasis digitization programs,
and the digitization of tightly bound, fragile materials
and all varieties of transparencies.
While we specialize in MODS and Dublin Core, we also
have experience with VRA, CDWA and Darwin Core
metadata schemas.

14. What Can Digitization Do For You?
• Collection Exposure
• 3700+ users/month
• 4500+ sessions/month
• 33,000+ pageviews/month
• Faculty Engagement
• Over 10 unique faculty project referrals in the last year
• Across Campus: English, History, Archeology, GIS
• Grant Funding
• NHPRC Digital Dissemination & Access to Historical
Records
• NEH Humanities Collections & Reference Resources
• IMLS Museums for America
• CLIR Hidden Collections (possibly, will announce program changes in Jan. 2015)

15. October 24, 2014 South Carolina Library Association Annual Conference, Columbia, SC