Meeting minutes, Dec 12 (Barbara) December 13, 2007
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Present: Eleta, Thelma, Barbara, Meredith, Christina, Roland, Cindy
Remote from Keene: Chris, Irene
DigiTool Update
• Recently installed SP 17 which included improvements to METS viewer and browser compatibility making it now work with Firefox as well as IE.
• jpeg 2000 viewer-tiled, has a bug, may become default viewer
• SP 18 released today, not yet installed
• Greenstone, map viewers, etc. from open source projects should be installed to try out as alternative viewers
Digital projects-Bookeye3 scanner installed
• Students being trained to scan projects
• Two projects under way
o Krochmal thesis on smelt and History of Weare, NH
o Some graphics in both items
o Will need metadata
• Upcoming projects-glass plate negatives for Moran photos and air photos
• Other people interested in scanning
o Janet Sullivan from the herbarium inquired about scanning herbarium samples. Bookeye not useful for 3D scanning due to shadowing from lights.
o David Watters, English Department and the Rock Rest project
• Rock Rest was a resort in Kittery, ME for African American families
• Students are scanning a collection of photos, guest books, ephemera and will come over and use the scanner in the Digital Unit
• Watters is supplying a slide scanner
• Materials will be scanned into digital project space on server for now and delivery decided upon later
o Astrida Schaeffer, UNH Art Gallery-sought advice on photographing collection. We might eventual work with them on a deliver method for the collection.
Keene update (Irene)
• Flatbed scanners have not arrived. Looking for them in January
• Candidates for archivist being fielded, hope to recruit one soon
• Baumann collection project set back-hope to get to it next week
• Keene State art department interested in creating copyrighted collection
BLC-OCA-Eleta attended two meetings in Boston
• Tour of the scanning center at Boston Public Library
o Process and equipment different from our Bookeye
o Cradle is V-shaped, floating, pedal operated for bound books and uses two cameras to take pictures of opposite pages at the same time
o Upgradeable so that new cameras can be installed
o History of Weare, NH project would have been more efficient and less hard on the volume had we sent it to the scanning center.
• Group meetings with other library reps
o OCA accommodate volume fold-outs soon
o OCA will acquire microfilm scanner and will be able to accommodate our microfilm projects. Cost rates undetermined, might be about $14/roll
o Sent 10 test books free of charge which should be done by next week, held up because of trouble with bib numbers in iii
o Will take list of test books to faculty meeting and renew call for suggestions – will also send to staff library list
o Where does finished project end up? On the Internet Archive project site
o How do you find it? Will eventually try to link to OPAC. May also download digital objects and deliver in our content management system.
o Early correspondence of Donald Hall retained. Are they suitable for this treatment? Permission imperative and could be problematic.
Future Meetings-Is there any reason why we shouldn’t schedule our meetings bimonthly instead of monthly given the rate of workflow? All agreed to bimonthly meetings. Next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, 2/13/08, 2:00-3:00.
Other Business
• DigiTool interface needs adjustment
o PDF file in New Hampshire Bookshelf file, printing was a problem-text print button doesn’t work but print icon does
o Link used to go to both Keene and Durham libraries but now goes only to Durham. May have lost Keene link in SP 17 upgrade. Will fix.
Project Updates Sept. 21, 2007 September 21, 2007
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The renovation and outfitting of the Digital Imaging Lab (Rm 133D) is nearly complete. We are still waiting on some electrical upgrades and will need task lighting with the appropriate color temperature for quality assessment of digitized images. The BookEye3 (planetary) scanner has arrived and will be installed within the next couple of weeks. A large format flatbed scanner is on order. Once the remaining equipment is in place the Digital Unit will host an open house.
We have hired two student assistants and our graduate assistance has returned for another year.
Digital projects:
- The OCA (Open Content Alliance) project has been fully funded by BLC Libraries. UNH will be among the first to participate in scanning – our first shipment will be sent by the end of September pending successful connection to our z39.50 server by Internet Archive staff.
- Northern Junket Magazine has been completely implemented in METS format and ingested into DigiTool. The an updated version of the Project webage will be posted soon.
- Cross Civil War Journal and Letters have been implemented in METS and test ingested. The final ingests will take place next week pending the completion of transcription work and text markup. The finding aid will be posed on a new project site that links to the objects in DigiTool.
- Topo Maps – Jonathan Paul is cataloging these maps in batches of twenty. As each batch is completed the maps and records are ingested into DigiTool as complete multi-part objects. Links on the beta site are then updated: http://www.library.unh.edu/diglib/Topos/USGStopos.htm. This site will also be getting an overall update in the coming weeks.
- The Hitchcock Altas has been implemented in METS and ingested into DigiTool. The project Website will be updated next week to point to the new version. Hitchcock Atlas
- We are also reimplementing some of the smaller digital projects, such as the Boy Made of Meat, in DigiTool.
Coming soon:
- Scanning of Moran photos from glass plate negatives
- Hurd Atlas in METS
- Brown Company Air Photos
- Harris Letters Collection
- Bulk Ingests from Photo Services
- Bulk Ingests from Art Dept
Imaging Guidelines September 13, 2007
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I’ve just posed our imaging guidelines on the library’s digital collections Webpage :
Meeting Minutes, July 11, 2007 (Roland) September 10, 2007
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Present: Eleta Exline, Meredith Ricker, Roland Goodbody, Thelma Thompson, Lori Nolan, Tracey Stoddard, Christina Bellinger, Jonathan Paul, Chris Pratt (Keene), Jen Diffen (Keene)
1. Meredith is now working full-time in the Digital Library unit.
2. Work on the new Digital Library workspace (the old kitchen-cum-Preservation Lab-that-never-was) will begin soon. The furniture has been ordered.
3. Christina reported that she used a spreadsheet to facilitate ingestion of descriptive metadata for the topographical maps. Jonathan has created about 20 records thus far. Eventually, Eleta will ingest the records into Digitool.
4. Meredith is working on XML files for the Northern Junket preparing them for ingestion into Digitool.
5. Jen reported that Keene’s digital projects are in a lull at the moment. The component parts for the scanners are being sent from separate locations. The planetary scanner will arrive by the end of the summer and the flatbed scanner in the fall. In the meantime, they have been working on Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for the Endicott Image collection. The committee looked at Keene’s customized presentation of their digital collections.
6. Thelma reported that the New England Section of the Geological Society met here at UNH in the spring. It has surplus funds that need to be spent, and would welcome a proposal to be discussed at the General Meeting in Denver in October. One possibility is to digitize the guidebooks for the NE InterCollegiate Geological Conference.
7. Currently, PDF objects do not open in Digitools via the Mozilla Firefox browser. Eleta and Meredith will look into saving the PDFs as TIFs and then, via METS, a new application called ALTO will (or should) allow the searching of terms and words.
Meeting Minutes, March 14 (Tracey) March 20, 2007
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Present: Eleta Exline, Lori Nolan, Doug Prince, Meredith Ricker, Tracey Stoddard
Barbara Grant, an M.A. in Liberal Studies candidate, presented her plans for creating a film database as her thesis project. This database would focus on the translation of literature into film, specifically books from female authors as depicted by male directors. This database would contain information on hundreds of films, upwards of 1,000. Lisa McFarlane, believing this database will be useful to English professors, suggested Barbara contact the library to see if it would be something the Digital Committee would want to take on, to help her develop, or to give her advice about.
Unfortunately, because the project does not contain digitized materials and would take considerable staff resources to implement, it is not a project the members present of the Digital Committee felt we would be able to help with at this time. However, committee members gave Barbara some ideas to explore such as Wikipedia, a developer-hosted blog with such as WordPress.com, creating a pubpage (the public server space for students, staff & faculty available at http://pubpages.unh.edu), or hosting her own Website with an SQL database. Academic Technology hopes to provide graduates with some kind of e-portfolio option for their work at UNH in a year or two. They provide the Web Solutions service for hire, but that is usually to departments.
Eleta passed out a letter from Tracy Birmingham, Special Counsel to USNH. The letter addresses copyright issues specific to mounting digitizing images for the Art Department. Replicability and ease of distribution are two concerns that make the use of digitized slides different from the use of analog slides. For this reason, there are many restrictions on the use of digitized images. The images will not be allowed to be downloaded or saved (for example, to PowerPoint). Items entered into DigiTool would only be available to the general University community as thumbnails and metadata records. Full image access would only be allowed through Blackboard for specific classes, and only following fair use provisions of copyright law. Only images not currently available in digital form through a vendor could be scanned from the current Art Dept. slide collection. This issue will be discussed again at the April Digital Committee Meeting.
Minutes, Feb 28 (Christina) March 2, 2007
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Present: Jen Diffen, Chris Pratt; Eleta Exline, Christina Bellinger; Elizabeth Slomba, Meredith Ricker, Tracey Stoddard, Lori Nolan, Thelma Thompson
Claudia Morner attended as a guest
Digitool is down for a while. The harvester is not working correctly at the moment. Wei, our technical support person at Ex Libris, recommends that we try an alternative method of harvesting. Eleta and Jen Diffin will work with him on that.
The Digital Crew is making progress on phase 1 of the Topomap Project. This includes linking existing Quadrangle, Town, and Image indexes directly into DigiTool. When the project is released as a demo, it will exist side-by-side with the current project page for an indefinite period of time. Christina will be working on creating the metadata for the topomaps with Thelma. Jonathan Paul will be working on adding the metadata records.
Eleta will be giving a demo during Spring break. She will demo the New Hampshire History Bookshelf and the Photo Services project at the same time. She also expects to be able to have one volume of the Northern Junket in METS format for the demonstration.
ECG will be supplying a test server for Digitool; Ex Libris will have to install Digitool on it. Eleta hopes that the new installation will will have had some of the implementation issues we experienced with our first installation resolved by the application of Service Packs. The test server will allow us to experiment with the Digitool implementation, especially customization, without bringing the public system down.
Siobhan has recently completed an annotated list of digital projects in libraries across the country. Eleta will see that it is loaded onto a public server soon.
SFX/MetaLib will probably be installed in March and implementation will take place late spring in and into the summer. SFX will be implemented first; Keene and Plymouth are anxious to begin using it. First SFX has to be installed on its own server at ECG. Once that happens Systems will no longer be responsible for the technical aspects of SFX. Jen Carroll will still be in charge of running SFX and will oversee the implementation of MetaLib. The MetaLib group still has to be formed.
Claudia had several announcements about BLC digital projects. The BLC has set up 3 groups, one for policy, one for digital collections and one for the technical /logistical aspects of digitization. The first group is made up of directors and will work with digitization partners, the second is made up of collection development librarians, and the third is made up of systems people (Eleta is part of this group). The Board is working with various groups, including the Brewster Kale Open Content Alliance, on the project to digitize pre-1923 imprints. They are also working on a national conference of administrators concerned with the future and direction of digitization in libraries. Claudia will keep the Library posted on developments.
New Digital Colletions page January 12, 2007
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Check it out : http://www.library.unh.edu/dlp/index.shtml
Project Update (Eleta) January 10, 2007
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The new Digital Collections Webpage will be ready for viewing soon…probably tomorrow. I’ll send you the link when the time comes.
DigiTool: There continue to be unresolved issues with the security certificates. Rob and Wei are working on this. Jim will offer us a second Meditor training session, which I’ll be scheduling soon.
Photo Services: The first ten images have been ingested and can be seen on the DigiTool page. To browse the images, look at the collections on the bottom half of the page. Preliminary metadata has been added, but Elizabeth, Christina, and I are still discussing the details. Right now the JP2 images are available, which is what the user will see. I also will make the tiff images available for download, but for Photo Services staff only. This will probably require those users to log in in with a password in order to save the images.
Northern Junket: Since the tiff images for this project were scanned as double pages, each image has to be save as two cropped images before we can make METS object with them. Meredith and I worked out an automated batch process for this task in Photoshop, and Meredith is carrying out the work.
New Hampshire History Bookshelf: Christina had been busy creating records for this project. We ran into a bit of a snag with MARC records mapping to the Resource Discovery DC scheme. This is an issue I’ll take up with ExLibris, but we’re continuing the work using DC for the moment so that we can have the collection ready for release into the wild as soon as is possible.
GRANT topo maps: Fay has provided a sample image and record for DigiTool testing. I’ll be focusing on this project more when the NHHB is up and running.
BLC cooperative scanning project: The Boston Public Library has a scanner and is hiring technicians. Selection will be tied into the results we get from the OCLC Collection Analysis tool. More to come on this project later…
PDF/A: The workshop is set for Feb 5, 2:30 in the multimedia classroom. I’ll send out a general invitation to the library when the date gets closer.
Meeting Minutes, December 14 (Jen) December 28, 2006
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Submitted by Jen Carroll on Dec. 15
Present: Eleta Exline, Thelma Thompson, Lori Nolan, Siobhan Eaton, Jen Diffin
Digitool Update
Service Pack 13 has been installed and Eleta is hoping it will solve most of the stability and functionality problems with Digitool. JPEG 2000 ingest is working as is the METS ingest and MODS has been added as a metadata scheme. Jen said the apostrophe issue has also been worked out. There are still a few odd things happening in Meditor but Ex Libris is working on this now.
Meditor Training Webinar – The basic functions of Meditor were covered but time ran out before they got to the more advanced options. Eleta is going to schedule another session after the Holiday Break for advanced functionality. Eleta recorded the session if anyone would like to watch it.
Project Updates
New Hampshire History Bookshelf – This collection is just about ready for prime time. Eleta plans to launch it in the spring semester along with a redesign of the digital projects page.
Topographic Maps – Siobhan has been adding dates to files to make them more searchable and browsable. This collection may be opened up this spring as well if no one objects to making it available before the full metadata is done. Eleta received a metadata template from GRANIT that is much more complex than what we use and she has been looking at it to see if there is anything we need to incorporate into our metadata.
Northern Junket – Meredith has all of the JPEGs and TIFs in one location and will start creating METS objects. Then, she will need to test the online index to make sure it works with the METS objects.
Art Dept. Pilot – Eleta is going to start mapping the Art Dept. metadata to MODS and the folks at Ex Libris are also taking a look to see what kinds of fields we need.
Photo Services Pilot – With JPEG 2000 fixed, Eleta hopes to show this to people when we get back from the Holiday Break. Lori asked about rights management for this project. She would like to be able to limit the people who can view and download the images. Eleta thought this could be done.
Overview of PDF/A
Webinar – will be held on Feb. 5 from 2:30-3:30 in the multimedia classroom on the second floor.
Handout – Eleta passed out an explanation of PDF/A concepts
http://digitalunh.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/pdfa.doc
Call for Projects
Eleta put out a call for new projects and would like to look at proposals at the next meetings.
Update on Census Project
Meredith is trying to get more information from the census people. This will be the next project for the Digital Library if there is a role for us in that project.
Keene Update
They will start loading more objects in the spring semester now that things have been stabilized with Service Pack 13.
