1.
Collections.ed
Launching
the
University
Collections
Online
Ianthe
Sutherland
Repository
Fringe
2014

2.
Background
• Repository
review
in
spring
2013
• Prolifera7on
of
project
websites
• Special
Collec7ons
requirements
• Digi7sed
content
(from
project
funding)
• Harves7ng
requirements
• Experience
and
knowledge
of
DSpace

3.
Exposing
the
Collections
• More
“interac7ve”
exhibi7ons
• Greater
focus
on
audio/visual
elements
• Variety
of
metadata
schemas
• Casual
users
vs
domain
experts
• Working
closely
with
curators
• Metadata
ordering
• Specialist
ontologies

4.
Why
use
DSpace?
• Team
experience
• Easy
to
import
data
• Quick
to
install
• Extendable
metadata
schemas
• Configurable
input
forms

5.
DSpace
–
Collections
Manager
• Separate
DSpace
repository
from
our
research
publica7ons
repositories,
ERA
and
PURE
• Each
collec7on
can
then
have
administra7on
permissions
for
the
curators
• Addi7onal
metadata
fields
added
as
needed

6.
Skylight
Solution
• Developed
by
the
Digital
Development
Team
at
The
University
of
Auckland
Library:
• Stuart
Lewis
(S)
-­‐
University
of
Edinburgh
• Kim
Shepherd
(K)
-­‐
University
of
Auckland
• Yin
Yin
La[
(Y)
-­‐
University
of
Auckland
• Thank
you
so
much
to
the
team
at
Auckland
for
their
support

7.
Skylight
Solution
• Configurable
front-­‐end
• Faceted
search
and
browse
• Hidden
repository
• One
system
many
websites
• Template
to
make
sites
quick
to
launch
• Header
• CSS
• Sta7c
pages

8.
SOLR
• Use
DSpace
discovery
• Schemas
determine
what
is
available
to
Skylight
user
interface
• In
theory
could
be
used
with
other
SOLR
indexes
–
not
7ed
to
DSpace

9.
Architecture
Figure
from
Kim
Shepherd,
University
of
Auckland

10.
Metadata
Munging
• Consistent
metadata
schema
needed
• Hierarchical
nature
• Searchable
• Browsable

11.
Metadata
Munging
• Impor7ng
to
DSpace
from
• Museum
Collec7on
System
(Vernon)
• Archival
Systems
• Library
Management
System
• Metadata
‘munging’
gecng
from
different
standards
to
Dublin
Core
• Has
to
s7ll
be
useable
by
aggregators
• Not
the
na7ve
metadata
standard

12.
Harvesting
and
Aggregation
OAI-­‐PMH
in
Dublin
Core
and
other
specialist
metadata
standards
• MIMO
h[p://www.mimo-­‐interna7onal.com
• Europeana
h[p://www.europeana.eu
• Cultural
Grid
h[p://www.culturegrid.org.uk
Art
dc
-­‐>
pndsdc
format-­‐>
UMIS
-­‐>
Culture
Grid
CLDs
dc
-­‐>
oai_rslp
format
-­‐>
UMIS
-­‐>
Culture
Grid
MIMEd
dc
-­‐>
lido
format
-­‐>
MIMO
-­‐>
Europeana
LUNA
vra
-­‐>
dc
format
-­‐>
European
Library
-­‐>
Europeana
Cloud

13.
Design
of
Front-­‐End

14.
Quick
Setup
for
New
Collection
• Can
use
DSpace
CSV
import
func7onality
• Used
official
University
colour
pale[e

15.
Agile
Development
• Friday
releases
&
sprint
planning
for
the
week
ahead
• Using
JIRA
• Allocate
tasks
during
sprint
• Worked
very
well

16.
What
Next?
• Currently
working
on
exam
papers
• Authen7ca7on
• Scocsh
Government
Books
• Exhibi7ons
• Skylight
2
/
Skylighter
• Improvements
currently
in
development
• Bootstrap
• DSpace
4

17.
Code
on
Github
h[ps://github.com/skylightui/skylight

18.
Live
Sites
• Collec7on
Level
Descrip7ons
h[p://collec7ons.ed.ac.uk
• Musical
Instruments
Museums
Edinburgh
h[p://collec7ons.ed.ac.uk/mimed
• Edinburgh
University
Art
Collec7on
h[p://collec7ons.ed.ac.uk/art
• Calendars
h[p://collec7ons.ed.ac.uk/calendars

19.
Coming
Soon
• Exam
Papers
h[p://exampapers.ed.ac.uk
(coming
soon
UoE
only)
• IOG
h[p://
scocshgovernmentyearbooks.ed.ac.uk
• Exhibi7ons
h[p://exhibi7ons.ed.ac.uk

20.
Thank
You!
• Any
ques7ons?
?
?
?