Riley, Jenn. "Successes and Growing Pains: The Indiana University Digital Library Program." California Digital Library, January 20, 2006.

1. Successes and Growing Pains:
The Indiana University Digital
Library Program
Jenn Riley
Metadata Librarian
Indiana University Digital Library Program
January 20, 2006

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Mission
 The Indiana University Digital Library Program
(DLP) is dedicated to the production, maintenance,
delivery, and preservation of a wide range of high-
quality networked resources for scholars and
students at Indiana University and elsewhere.
 Organizational partners
 IU Libraries
 University Information Technology Services (UITS)
 Research partners
 School of Library and Information Science
 School of Informatics
 Strong user-centric approach

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History
 Created in 1997 to provide a common home
for fledgling digital library initiatives
 Separate from IU Library Information
Technology (LIT) department
 Conceived with system-wide responsibilities
(8 IU campuses)
 Grown consistently since inception
 Involved in $8M in grant awards

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Staffing
 Funded by both libraries and UITS
 Permanent staff
 3 librarians
 8 professional staff
 1 support staff
 Grant-funded staff
 9 professional staff
 .5 librarian

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Many forces influencing our development
 Moving from project-based model to a true
“program”
 Digital initiatives increasingly integrated into
all library operations
 IU Libraries administration currently in flux
 Recent consolidation of reporting lines for
DLP and LIT
 Metadata as one of the first outreach areas
 CDL model is interesting to us

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A sampling of IU DLP initiatives
 Wright American Fiction
 Variations/Variations2/Variations3
 Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
 The Chymistry of Sir Isaac Newton
 METS Navigator
 EAD creation and delivery
 Redesign of DL infrastructure

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Wright American Fiction
 “Traditional” digital library project providing
open online access to published materials
 TEI encoding and page images of books from
Lyle Wright’s bibliography, 1851-1875
 Began at IU, continued as cooperative CIC
project
 Delivered with DLXS Text Class
 Project Web site

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Variations/Variations2/Variations3
 Variations
 Live April 1, 1996
 Streaming audio
MPEG 1 Layer II
 Experimental online
scores in HTML
 Audio available only
in Music Library
 Variations2
 Research project
2000-2006
 Streaming audio
(MP3), digitized
scores, encoded
scores
 Pedagogical tools
 Metadata
research
 Expanded access
 Variations3
 2005-2008
 Generalize
system for use
at other
libraries
 More metadata
research
 Didactic purpose
 Flagship projects

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Charles W. Cushman Photograph
Collection
 Online access to archival materials
 Launched in Fall 2003
 ca. 15,000 color slides shot 1938-1969
 Faceted browsing
 Integration of TGM I thesaurus structure
 Public Web site

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The Chymistry of Sir Isaac Newton
 Faculty-led project
 TEI and page images of Newton’s alchemical
manuscripts
 CDL’s XTF for TEI search and display
 IU’s METS Navigator for image navigation
and display
 Public Web site
 Project Wiki

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METS Navigator
 Software development project for use with multiple
collections
 Page turner interface written in Java
 Runs off of structural metadata in a METS
document
 Intended to be used in conjunction with external
search system
 Source code soon to be released…really
 Jane Johnson Collection is first production instance

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EAD creation and delivery
 Service provided to University departments
 Lilly Library (rare books & manuscripts) and IU
Archives staff encode finding aids with <oXygen/>
using an IU template
 Currently delivered with DLXS Finding Aids class
 Soon to be delivered in XTF
 Validation and submission system using
Schematron currently in development
 Public Web site

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Redesign of DL infrastructure
 Building systems around a Fedora repository
 Should manage digital content of all types,
but starting with still images and text
 Likely will use XTF for searching
 Some other core functions
 Metadata creation
 Thesaurus management
 Digitization management
 Preservation

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Discussion time
 www.dlib.indiana.edu
 jenlrile@indiana.edu