TLR Update January 21, 2010 | Digitization: Brave New World, Brave Old World

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Digitization: Brave New World, Brave Old World
Paul R. Burley, Northwestern University Transportation Library
January 21, 2010

Slide 2 : Digitization: brave new world, brave old world

Paul R. Burley, Technical Services Librarian, Northwestern University Transportation Library

Slide 3 : Transportation Libraries and Digitization

• Define "digitization"
• CARLI project: lessons learned
• OAIS
• Discussion questions

Slide 4 : "Digitization"

• Digitization process
• Workflow
• Metadata
• Storage
• Economics of digitization
• Collections building
• Digital library building
• Copyright, copyright, copyright
• Access: portals, permissions
• Visualization
• Digital preservation
• Metrics: collection size, usage

Slide 5 : Digitization Defined

"To convert […] into a sequence of digits, generally for use in a digital computer, etc.; to represent in digital form"—Oxford English Dictionary.

Slide 6 : CARLI

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Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

Slide 7 : CARLI Application

CONSORTIUM OF ACADEMIC & RESEARCH LIBRARIES IN ILLINOIS

BOOK DIGITIZA ON PROJECT PROPOSAL COVER SHEET

FY 2009

PROJECT NAME: Reports and items authored by the Chicago Transit Authority and the Illinois
Regional Transportation Authority

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CARLI MEMBER INSTITUTION: Transportation Library, University Library, Northwestern University

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PROPOSAL INFORMATION:

Contact Person: ___________________________________

Address:

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City: ____________________________ State: _________ ZIP: __________

Phone: _________________________ Fax: _________________

Slide 8 : CARLI Digitalization: Lessons Learned

CalDigitial

Cheng and Tsui, 2005

Slide 9 : Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)

"[P]rovides the concepts needed by non-archival organizations to be effective participants in the preservation process"--

Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). CCSDS 650.0-B-1, Blue Book, January 2002.

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OAIS: Administration Model

Slide 11 : Digitization Projects: Selected Pros and Cons

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Slide 12 : Digitization Projects: Selected Pros and Cons

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Collections building

Slide 13 : Digitization Projects: Selected Pros and Cons

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Costs

Slide 14 : Digitization Projects: Selected Pros and Cons

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Internationalization

Slide 15 : Digitization Projects: Selected Pros and Cons

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Costs

Slide 16 : Digitization Projects: Selected Pros and Cons

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Complex formats

Slide 17 : Discussion questions

Are there are print materials used in common by all transportation libraries for which is would make sense to cooperate on the national level on a digitization project, similar to what NUTL did at the state level in Illinois?
Would a similar project best be channeled through existing, disparate repositories?
Are there lessons learned from ongoing digitization that we might bring together among
all transportation libraries?
Broad/shallow vs. narrow/deep