James Shulman
Executive Director
ARTstor
ARTstor, an initiative of the Mellon Foundation to create and distribute a library of digital images for educational purposes, will be testing its content and service at a number of museums, colleges, and universities in the Fall. The update will focus on ARTstor’s progress to date in collection building, community relations, delivery issues, licensing terms, and plans for the Fall testing and beyond.
Vicky Reich
Director of LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
The decentralized, cooperative, preservation and archiving model embodied in the LOCKSS Program capitalizes on the traditional roles of libraries and publishers. The open source software enables institutions to locally collect, store, preserve, and archive Web-based journals, thus safeguarding their community’s access to that content. The model enforces the publisher’s access control systems and, for many publishers, does no harm to their business models.
The LOCKSS Program is moving towards implementation by:
This session will outline the current status of these activities and frame the community’s next steps.
PowerPoint Presentation:
Building an Affordable E-Journal Archive and Preservation System: Moving Toward Implementation of the LOCKSS Program
Stephen Vaughn
Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Modern technology gives us the ability to create a virtual archive that could capture the intellectual life of the university for any given year in an unprecedented way. Yet vital information that might be of great value to future generations is often not being collected, and what is collected faces the prospect of rapid deterioration and inaccessibility because the technology with which it was created has become obsolete. Several generations of important research are in danger of being lost or seriously imperiled.
At the University of Wisconsin, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication has created an electronic archive that makes the Schoolís history much more accessible to students, faculty, and alumni. Future goals include adding additional J-School records to this archive, connecting the archive to the archival holdings of other departments on campus, and eventually building a network of departmental and faculty archives with many other universities.
Handout:
Building a “Virtual University of the Past”: Archives and Electronic Media in the 21st Century (MS Word)
David Bearman
President
Archives & Museum Informatics
Jennifer Trant
Partner & Principal Consultant
Archives & Museum Informatics
In 1997 the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) was formed to enable educational use of museum multimedia. After five years, more than four million potential users have access to the digitized portions of the collections of 39 member museums. The massive potential scale of this enterprise, and the delicate balance of interests that must be maintained among academic users, museums, rights holders, and data distribution functionality make the enterprise an important laboratory. AMICO’s position with respect other initiatives in this arena will be directly adfdressed.
Mark Korhbluh
Director of MATRIX
Michigan State University
Dean Rehberger
Associate Director of MATRIX
Michigan State University
Michael Fegan
Senior Project Manager of MATRIX
Michigan State University
The recent emergence of online digital archives has brought educators a major step closer to bringing original, reusable digital objects into undergraduate classrooms. Yet having to search multiple archives through mind-numbing search-and-browse routines can make it difficult for educators to use the repositories successfully in their curriculum. The Spoken Word Project, a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), proposes to create complex digital objects by reducing the search for relevance, expanding the metadata with user-specific annotation, and tying the libraries’ content directly to course materials. The key to creating these resources will be to build distributed networks of users and repositories.
Cost containment often severely limits the amount of descriptive metadata that can be catalogued. Students and instructors will create topical annotated bibliographies or lists of media clips (or segments of media clips) and “publish” these for class, work group, or more general use. Allowing teachers and students to annotate and segment media as well as build their own galleries greatly enhances the educational value of digital objects by augmenting the minimal descriptive metadata and facilitating the building of complex digital objects tailored to the needs of specific education standards and curricula. The project uses a METS XML schema that provides an encoding format for administrative, descriptive, and structural metadata that is fully compliant with OAIS, and Cocoon applications to facilitate ingestion and delivery.
Handout:
The Challenge of Building Complex Objects from Digital Repositories (MS Word)