Digital Curation Round One by Gretchen Gueguen is

Digital Curation: Round One by Gretchen Gueguen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution. Non. Commercial-Share. Alike 3. 0 Unported License. DIGITAL CURATION: ROUND ONE Gretchen Gueguen University of Virginia Formerly of East Carolina University

Agenda • What is Digital Curation • The Digital Curation Lifecycle Model • Case Study: The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library, 2003 -2011

What is Digital Curation? Preservation Maintenance Collection Archiving Selection

Key elements of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model

Key elements of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model • Data • any information in binary digital form, is at the centre of the Curation Lifecycle.

Key elements of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model • Full Lifecycle Actions – Description and Representation Information – Preservation Planning – Community Watch and Participation – Curate and Preserve

Key elements of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model • Sequential Actions – Conceptualise – Create or Receive – Appraise and Select – Ingest – Preservation Action – Store – Access, Use and Reuse – Transform

Key elements of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model • Occasional Actions – Dispose – Reappraise – Migrate

Case Study The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library

The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library: the 4 W’s Who: • Joyner Library at East Carolina University+ What: • A digital library of books+ about eastern North Carolina When: • 2003 -2004, initial project • 2004 -2007, partnership project

The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library: the 4 W’s Where: You are here.

The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library: the 4 W’s Why: • ECU is the largest university in the eastern region, serving some of the poorest and most under-served counties in the state. • Material on eastern NC not widely available • The expertise and interest existed in the library to create a great digital project.

The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library: and 1 H How: ASP. net interface Digitization Lesson Activities Transcription Metadata

Case Study: The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library The End. …until

Case Study: The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library • 2008 -2009, creation of Joyner Library Digital Collections, a sister repository more broad in scope • 2010 -2011, migration of ENCDL into JLDC

Comparing ENCDL JLDC • Text. ML / ASP. net • Non-standard metadata (aside from TEI transcriptions) • Two basic material types • Non-standard filenaming • Significant supplementary documentation for each object • Text and Image/artifact in different search and browse • Extensive web-presence with educational activities • Text. ML / ASP. net • Metadata standards (METS, MODS, MIX, TEI) • Variety of materials • Each object has Persistent Identifier (PID) and consistent filenaming • Full-repository search • Basic web-presence, but robust searching tools

Digital Curation Round One…

Applying the lifecycle model • Community Watch and Participation – What are the common standards endorsed by our community? • • • JPEG 2000 EPUB PREMIS NC ECHO’s PMDO Flash HTML 5 • Curate and Preserve – What are the standards that will best fit our curation and preservation needs?

Applying the lifecycle model • Preservation Planning – What actions are in the best long-term interest of the ENCDL? JLDC? • Meetings with stakeholders • Web analytics • Reproduction requests • Review of infrastructure • Migration – Digital objects, metadata, web application

Applying the lifecycle model • Create a new collection in the repository • Create a “PID” for each digital object into the repository • Create METS/MODS/MIX/TEI/PREMIS record for each – Incorporate supplemental metadata – Create new PREMIS records for each • Create new hybrid object type for image + video • JPEG 2000 for all images • pdf and epub for books

Applying the lifecycle model • JPEG 2000 – Complicated algorithms – Inadequate software – Web application development with Kakadu – Presentation copies only at this time. • Metadata – PREMIS – Mapping and scripting multiple times • Repository structure – Modeling new object types – Functional requirements for UI and metadata – Use case scenarios in ENCDL mapped to JLDC

Applying the lifecycle model • Access, Use and Reuse – Recreate the book viewer using JPEG 2000 – Create subject and map browse for the entire repository – Recreate ENCDL pages with repository’s stylesheet

The End • Curation • Preservation • Community Watch and participation

What Have We Learned? • Many of us will eventually need to migrate not just data, but collections and “experiences” into other repositories. • Digital Curation Lifecycle Model can help us think through Curation activities and evaluate them. • The Lifecycle Model is not linear, nor will our activities be. • The Lifecycle Model is not finite, but iterative.

Thanks! • East Carolina University – – – – Michael Reece Joe Barricella Justin Tew Mark Custer Maury York John Lawrence Linda Teel Hazel Walker • At-Large – Emily Gore – Justin Vaughn – Amy Chiles • In Spirit… – Chuck Jones

Contacts Gretchen Gueguen Email: gmg 2 n@virginia. edu Web: http: //www. gretchengueguen. com Eastern North Carolina Digital Library http: //digital. lib. ecu. edu/historyfiction Joyner Library Digital Collections http: //digital. lib. ecu. edu