Julie Hardesty
Metadata Analyst, Library Technologies
Indiana University Bloomington
Jon W. Dunn
Interim Assistant Dean for Library Technologies
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University (IU) has embarked on an ambitious plan to digitize all audio and video objects on its campuses judged to be important by experts by the time of the University’s bicentennial in 2020. The collections to be digitized include nearly 300,000 objects held by over 80 campus units. The project is supported in part by $15 million in funding from the offices of the President, Provost, and Vice President for Research and is being carried out under the joint direction of IU’s Chief Information Officer and Dean of University Libraries. Preservation-level digitization will be conducted in partnership with a private vendor and is scheduled to begin in spring 2015. In this session, we will provide an overview of the initiative, cover the planning efforts and prior work that led to this project, and discuss work to date and plans in the areas of inventory, selection, prioritization, physical logistics, digitization, quality control, digital preservation, rights, and online access. Time will be provided at the end for audience discussion of considerations and challenges in the mass digitization of audiovisual materials.
