Title:
Building a Ten-Campus Digital Library Collection at the University of California
Building a Ten-Campus Digital Library Collection at the University of California
Author(s)
Berger, Sherri
Tingle, Brian
Tingle, Brian
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Abstract
The University of California (UC) Libraries and the California Digital
Library are nearing the conclusion of an ambitious project to build a shared
system for creating, managing, and providing access to unique digital
resources across ten campuses (see http://bit.ly/UCLDC).
The platform we are creating will have three major components: 1) a shared
digital asset management system for librarians to centrally add and edit
digital files and metadata, 2) a metadata harvest for digital resources
hosted on external platforms, and 3) an integrated public interface so
end-users can seamlessly search across these disparate resources. Together,
these components will provide critical infrastructure for the UC Libraries to
more efficiently, economically, and collaboratively manage and surface
digital content. We will also be leveraging this platform to participate in
the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and we are investigating the
possibility of extending it to facilitate participation in DPLA by additional
libraries, archives, and museums throughout California.
This session will build on a “Community Idea Exchange” poster
presentation from the 2013 Forum—at which point we had just begun the
project—to describe in more depth the components of the platform and the
technologies employed, as well as challenges to and changes in our approach
since we embarked. One of the more interesting aspects of our technology
stack is that we have opted to license and customize a vendor product for the
digital asset management system with which the digital library community may
not have much familiarity (Nuxeo, http://www.nuxeo.com/), and in this session
we will discuss our experiences with it. We will also describe how our
project and our platform will connect with other initiatives, most notably
the DPLA, and may provide a piece of the technical infrastructure needed for
institutions across California to share their respective digital resources.
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Date Issued
2014-10-27
Extent
29:00 minutes
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Moving Image
Resource Subtype
Presentation