The Wonderful Technicolor World Digital Goodness @ Smithsonian Libraries (which sometimes appears in glorious archival black and white). Martin R. Kalfatovic. Digital Programs Advisory Committee, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. 22 March 2012.

1. The Wonderful Technicolor World
Digital Goodness @ Smithsonian Libraries
(which sometimes appears in glorious archival black and white)
Digital Programs Advisory Committee
22 March 02012 | Smithsonian Institution
Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Libraries

4. Smithsonian Libraries' Mission
(Smithsonian Directive 500)
As the largest and most
diverse museum library in the
world, SIL leads the Smithsonian
in taking advantage of the
opportunities of the digital society.
SIL provides authoritative
information and creates innovative
services and programs for
Smithsonian Institution
researchers, scholars and
curators, as well as the general
public, to further their quest for
knowledge. Through paper
preservation and digital
technologies, SIL ensures broad
and enduring access to the
Libraries’ collections for all users.

5. History of Science and Technology
Latino History and Culture
Materials Research
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museology
Native American History and Culture
Natural History
Postal History
Tropical Biology
Trade Literature
World’s Fair Ephemera
African Art
African American History and Culture
Anthropology
American Art
American History
Asian and Middle Eastern Art
Aviation history and Space Flight
Design and Decorative Arts
Environmental Management and Ecology

6. Where We Are
Washington, DC Washington, DC +
> Anacostia Museum > National Postal Museum Library
& Center for African > National Zoological Park Library
> American History & > Smithsonian American Art
Culture Library Museum/National Portrait
> Anthropology Library Gallery Library
> Botany & Horticulture > Warren M. Robbins Library,
Library National Museum of African Art
> The Dibner Library
of the History of Suitland & Landover, MD
Science and > Museum Support Center Library
Technology > National Museum of the
> Freer Gallery of Art & American Indian Library
Arthur M. Sackler > PennSIL
Gallery Library
> Hirshhorn Museum &
Edgewater, MD
Sculpture Garden Library
> Smithsonian Environmental
> Joseph F. Cullman 3rd
Research Center Library
Library of Natural History
> Museum Studies & Reference Library
> National Air and Space Museum Library New York City
> National Museum of American History Library > Cooper-Hewitt, National Design
> National Museum of Natural History Library Museum Library
Republic of Panama
> Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute Library

7. And a friend in Massachusetts ...
John G. Wolbach Library and Information Resource Center
August 2011

8. Smithsonian Libraries by the numbers
Collections = 1.9 million
50,000+
rare books
10,000+
manuscripts
> 500,000+
trade literature items

9. SIBIS
Smithsonian Institution Bibliographic Information System

10. Smithsonian Libraries Digital Pre-history
Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment, 1996

11. Smithsonian Libraries Digital Pre-history
US Exploring Expedition, 2003

12. Smithsonian Libraries & Digital Pre-history
Biologia Centrali-American, 2004

13. The Biodiversity Heritage Library, 2005
Smithsonian Libraries
2007-2012/Feb
5,603 Titles
14,599 Items
5,851,496 Pages
400 pages/item
1,044 pages/title

14. The Biodiversity Heritage Library, 2005
14 member libraries
2007-2012/Feb
54,246 Titles
103,182 Items
38,059,980 Pages
369 pages/item
702 pages/title

15. Digitization Costs: CY 2011
Direct Staff Contributions
 5.3 FTE
 $408,164
Other Costs
(equipment, shipping,
paid scanning, etc.)
 $242,948
Funding Received
(internal & grants)
 $537,607

16. Scanning Operations: PennSIL
Equipment
 Phase I
 BC 100
Staff
David Holbert
Imaging Specialist
Stefaan Hurts
Imaging Specialist

17. Scanning Operations: NMNH
Equipment
 Internet Archive
Scribe machine
Staff
Daniel Euperat
Internet Archive

18. Scanning Operations: FedScan
Equipment
 12 Internet Archive
Scribes
 1 large van
 Many book carts
 Whole lotta shrink
wrap

19. Scanning Operations: Macaw

20. Workflow Mark as
DB scanned
SIRIS
Item level Title level
metadata MARC URLs in MARC record
Initiate
workflow
Creates Item
Select & Check out Check in Check in
metadata Scanning available in
Dedupe and Ship and QC Add link
“Bucket” IA/BHL
Transforms
.tiffs
Images,
creates
derivatives
Macaw
Page level Temp.
metadata Backup to
added NAS
Packages JP2000s
files for + metadata
transfer Internet
Archive
In-house workflow with Macaw

21. Digital Projects: Index Animalium

22. Digital Projects: Art & Artists Files

27. Supplemental Projects
The key to unlock the
door to the storehouse of
knowledge is the
scientist and the
historian, but the light
illuminating the room
is the library.
Smithsonian Institution
Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations
US Senate. 89th Congress, 2nd session, HR 14215. 1966

28. Thanks …
Keri Thompson
Suzanne Pilsk
and the staff of
the Smithsonian
Libraries