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Services in support of:
Digital collections | Metadata collections | E-publishing initiatives
Digital collections are those resources that are compilations of digital objects with
attached metadata. They are typically collections of photographs, interviews, sound
recordings, maps, historical documents, videos, sheet music, etc. Digital collections are
often digitized reproductions of physical objects rather than materials that were born
digital.
Depending on the nature of the material, DLS provides these services in support of digital
collections:
- Production – defining workflows, identifying appropriate standards and best
practices, working with vendors to outsource scanning and other production work;
we will have only limited in-house production capabilities, though production areas
exist elsewhere in the library and on campus
- Metadata – identifying
appropriate standards, defining workflows and templates for easy metadata creation,
automating batch metadata, developing metadata crosswalks, and providing
mechanisms to expose metadata for harvesting where appropriate
- Rights management – recommending strategies for acquiring rights when needed or
for limiting public access
- Hosting – in collaboration with the library’s Information Systems Support Team
(ISST) as well as with Information Technology Services (ITS), providing storage
space for the digital objects and hosting the metadata on a digital library management system (DLMS) for search and retrieval
- User interface – assisting with the development of a custom “proprietary” interface
as well as enabling access through a more general “unified” interface for collections
mounted on the Iowa Digital Library
- Preservation – in consultation with the Preservation department, developing a plan
for archival preservation and perpetual storage, with strategies to ensure availability
of file formats and physical preservation of the storage media
- Open standards – identifying appropriate standards for scanning (e.g., archival
TIFF), metadata (e.g., Dublin Core), and delivery (e.g., Open Archives Initiative and support for evolving metasearch standards)
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