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Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources
Images held by the University of California System. Collection of Digital Archives across the institution.
Middletown Oral History : Browse
Excellent example of an oral history collection in CONTENTdm with audio and a transcript. Interface is also well organized with Windows Media Player embedded on top and PDF of transcript below.
Digital Asset Management Systems RLG DigiNews December 15, 2006, Volume 10, Number 6
Article discussing the use of DAMS in museums in three parts. Edited by Gunter Waibel.
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Add Sticky NoteMet’s commitment to asking and answering a series of questions not always built into the development process for digital asset management activities in the not-for-profit world. Our questions included quantitative ones such as: “How big is the collection of assets?” and “How much storage will be required?” We asked questions about proprietorship and access: “Who uses the assets?” and “Who will manage them?” We wondered about the quality and value of the assets: “Should images that are made available to the public be color corrected?” and “If the object’s descriptive record has not been reviewed, may it be distributed along with the asset?” and finally, “Are existing descriptions adequate to support successful searching at all?” We also asked a number of questions that forced the Met’s staff and executives to think through fundamental intellectual property policy positions: “Who decides who may use the assets, both inside and outside of the museum?” and “Is the Met’s goal to profit from the licensing of images, or to support an educational mandate for broad distribution?” All of these questions needed to be considered in light of a process that would, inevitably, seek to automate the answers. Processes and policies that had heretofore been entrusted to individuals within the organization would need to be formalized so that a system might manage them; decisions that had been made on an ad hoc basis now needed to be seen as patterns that formed policies. And as we found answers to our questions, the scope of the project inevitably grew.
- Make sure we ask these questions that non-profits don't always ask in development. Last couple of sentences is crucial to understand because an automated process is hard to overcome once it is established. - on 2009-11-04
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Despite the shift from a return-on-investment to a mission-driven rationale, the project retained its inventory and cataloguing elements, building into each phase activities intended to develop additional inventory and enhance cataloguing. The decision to maintain this emphasis on content development has helped the project to achieve widespread support throughout the institution.
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SAA: CAMPUS CASE STUDIES
Cases of Universities that are dealing with Archival issues and the print to electronic transition.
Digital Projects at the UNR Libraries; the University Digital Conservancy
Lists projects and the CONTENTdm field properties for each. Great comparison resource. Also has some data dictionaries for some collections.
Wheaton College - Dspace Home page.
Wheaton's search interface within a consortium of colleges and universities using DSpace.
Wheaton College: Library: Digital Repository at Wheaton College
Implementation plan and documentation of Wheaton using Dspace.
Minnesota Reflections :: Home
Minnesota Reflections brings you nearly 31,000 images and documents shared by more than 95 cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a broad view of Minnesota's history for researchers, educators, students, and the public.
Digital Case Home Page
Case Western Reserve Univeristy's Digital Library. Excellent browsing interface with tabs for Collections, Exhibits, and Scholarship. Also includes tabs for format.
DuraSpace
Merger of the DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons. Will continue to support these two platforms but will also pursue new data solutions.
World Digital Library Home
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Created by the Library of Congress and supported by UNESCO
The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
* Promote international and intercultural understanding;
* Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
* Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
* Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.
Roman de la Rose: Page turner: Walters Art Museum, W. 143
Cool page-turning interface to this medieval manuscript held at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
Our Documents - Home
Archives website that posts the 100 milestone documents in American history.
ATLA CDRI
Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries. The creation of CDRI was made possible by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation; it is now an ongoing ATLA program.
The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
Macalester Digital Scholarship Initiatives
Not only Contentdm but also uses Digital Commons and other resources for collections.
Cal Digital Lib Strategic Direction progress_report_2005
Progress report on the 2004 Strategic plan from the California Digital Library.
Environmental Scan of Moving Image Collections in the United States
Report from Jennifer Mohan published September 2008 by the Digital Library Federation .
Claremont Colleges Digital Library : Browse
Excellent example of CONTENTdm use. Includes a submission form for theses and dissertations and a beautiful interface.
The Online Books Page
35,000 free books on the web at Sept. 25, 2009. Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely responsible for the content of the site.\n\nAvailable to OAI harvesting. A very collaborative project that began at Carnegie Mellon in 1993 and moved to Penn.
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