Building Digital Collections with DALNET Greenstone Digital Library

Building Digital Collections with DALNET & Greenstone Digital Library Software . . . LITA Forum 2004

about DALNET: The Detroit Area Library Network is a multi-type library consortium located in Southeast Michigan that serves academic, public, school and special libraries as well as information organizations in the seven county Metropolitan Detroit region. • Botsford General Hospital • Oakland County Law Library • Rochester College • Detroit Institute of Arts • The Henry Ford - Benson • Detroit Medical Center Ford Research Center • Detroit Public Library • John D. Dingell VA Medical Center • University of Detroit Mercy • Macomb Community College District • Walsh College • Wayne County Community • Marygrove College Library College District • Mount Clemens General Hospital • Wayne State University • Oakland Community College • William Beaumont Hospital

Partnership for development: DALNET Provides: • Greenstone • Systems administration • Image Server • Metadata recommendations • Data conversion services • Interface customization • Website development Member Provides: • Digitized objects • Metadata • Collection expertise • Knowledge of available organizational resources Together, we develop/design/implement: • Project plan • Interface functionality • Collection interface specifications • Standards for data entry or conversion LITA Forum 2004

Building the Library: Greenstone + indexes + interfaces build. pl Metadata DC. dot interface WRLC DC. dot Data Conversion Greenstone Metadata Provide records HTML-encoded Dublin Core HTML-encoded records import. pl Collection Objects Digitization Object URL Image Viewer Digital objects LITA Forum 2004

E. Azalia Hackley – Detroit Public Library Sheet Music Collection LITA Forum 2004

Developing the Hackley collection: Staffing: DALNET Laura Sheble, Systems Librarian, (DALNET Project lead) Duryea Callaway, Outreach Coordinator Negib Sherif, Senior Systems Integrator Anaclare Evans, Systems Librarian Scott Muir, Assistant Director George Marck, Lead Applications Tech Analyst Jacqueline Wrosch, Web Developer/Interim Director Detroit Public Library: Barbara Martin, Curator, E. Azalia Hackley Memorial Collection Adrienne Aluzzo, Librarian II, Bibliographic Division, Cheri Gay, Librarian III, Bibliographic Division (DPL Project lead) Randolph Call, Assistant Director for Technical Services LITA Forum 2004

Developing the Hackley collection: Starting Place: • Objects digitized • Metadata created, MARC format • MARC-DC Crosswalk draft • Greenstone test collections successful One: Project Plan Project Standards: File naming convention MARC-DC Crosswalk Image size, quality Digital Library Structure: Image location Website Division of Labor LITA Forum 2004

Developing the Hackley collection: Two: Data, Metadata Updates Data Extraction Filename transformation Data conversion Thumbnail image creation thehackley. org #!/usr/local/bin/perl # # base. Nmeta. pl : Script I've been # hacking to process our MARC files. Three: Website Display Content Use policies LITA Forum 2004

Records Format HTML encoded Dublin Core Greenstone metadata format 15 October 2003

Developing the Hackley collection: Four: Inside Greenstone Collection configuration Index specifications Display customization Five: A Growing Collection Adding objects Quality control Enhancements Go to music by African American Composers >> Go to music by Detroit Music Publishers >> LITA Forum 2004

Record Display Format Without image viewer LITA Forum 2004

Record Display Format With image viewer LITA Forum 2004