The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) is a collaborative digital library that was formed in 2001. It aims to help more organizations digitize materials about the region's history and maintain a public portal called mwdl.org to provide access to these digital collections. The MWDL uses a three-tiered infrastructure model with partner institutions that own collections, hosting partners that manage digital assets, and the MWDL that aggregates metadata. It has over 164 partner institutions across 6 western states and provides services like training, hosting, and standards development to promote collaboration and access to digital collections in the region.
Overview of the Mountain West Digital Library (for Rhode Island's HELIN Project), 08/26/2014
1. Overview of the
Mountain West Digital Library
The Power of Partnership
2. Overview
• The MWDL Collaborative
• Value of Partnership
• Working with an MWDL Hub
• Sharing Regionally: MWDL
• Interoperability
• Sharing Nationally: Digital Public Library of
America
• Open Invitation to Participate
3. Mountain West
Digital Library
• Formed in 2001 as a
program of the Utah
Academic
Library Consortium
4. Mountain West
Digital Library
Goals:
Help more organizations to digitize
materials about our region’s history and
cultural heritage
Maintain a public portal to pull together
the digital collections in the Mountain
West region at mwdl.org
5. MWDL
Discovery portal
Digital library community
Digital Public Library of America
on-ramp
7. Types of resources
Photographs, maps, artworks,
scholarly documents, music, sounds,
books, birth and death records,
finding aids, and more!
8. Digital Library
Community
• History in Your Attic
• Public Library Partnerships Project
• Digitization Mini-Contracts
• MWDL Webinar Series
• Task Forces
• In-person training
10. Partners
164 institutions
• Academic libraries
• Academic departments
• Archives
• Historical societies
• Museums
• National heritage institutions
• Natural history associations
• Public libraries
• Publishers
• Academic presses
• State Libraries
• Other state agencies
11. Partners
In six states:
• Utah
• Nevada
• Arizona
• Idaho
• Montana
• Hawaii
12. MWDL Staff
• Sandra McIntyre
Director
• Rebekah Cummings
Assistant Director/
Outreach Librarian
• Anna Neatrour
Digital Metadata Librarian
• Our newest addition!
Evan Young
Web Development
Assistant
18. Tiered Infrastructure
Three tiered model
• Collections Partners Tier (“Partners”) –
Own and manage collections
• Hosting Tier (“Hubs”) -
Host the digital materials
• Central Aggregating
Server Tier (MWDL) –
Harvest metadata from hubs
22. Hub Services
• Digitization
• Metadata Assignment/ Assistance
• Online hosting in digital assets
management system
• Metadata shared for MWDL harvest
• Long-term preservation (some hubs)
23. MWDL Services
• Harvesting metadata/
aggregation
• Training for new partners
• Central search portal
• Sharing access with DPLA
• Collaboration on standards
and best practices
• Platform for collaboration
24. Infrastructure:
Ex Libris Primo
• An integrated discovery system
• Powerful harvesting of digital collections
• Powerful searching and faceting
• “Did you mean...?” suggestions
• Online delivery via pointing to link
25. International Protocols
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
for transmitting metadata over the Web
http://openarchives.org
– Based on XML
– Commonly used for harvesting
30. Metadata Standard
• Qualified Dublin Core
• 8 required fields; 2
other mandatory-if-applicable
fields
• Preservation fields
recommended
31. Imaging Standard
• Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR)
document:
Digital Imaging Best Practices
“The planisphere of Copernicus, or Copernicus' hypothesis
of the entire universe, in a planar view” University of Utah
32. Setting Up a
Repository
http://mwdl.org/getinvolved/repository_setup.php
34. Jumping on board
OPEN
INVITATION
An invitation to an inspection and wetting-down party.
Brigham Young University – Hawaii Campus.
35. Invitation to repository
managers
1. Open up your metadata for harvest
2. Link to MWDL and DPLA on your web
pages
3. Collaborate on
standards and
controlled vocabularies
4. Be curious about new opportunities for
cooperation and sharing
36. Invitation to collection
managers
• Contact:
Rebekah Cummings
MWDL Assistant Director
(801) 587-8893
rebekah.cummings@utah.edu
• Not quite ready? We can help you get there!
– New partner interview
– Hub services
– Training and support
37. Get Involved
with MWDL
• Resources for members and perspective
members:
http://mwdl.org/getinvolved/getinvolved.php
• Like us on Facebook + follow on Twitter
(@MWDigLib)
• Check out our blog:
http://mwdlnews.blogspot.com/
39. MWDL
Partnership Summit
• Open to any eligible group
that has agreed to MWDL
Partnership Agreement
• Discuss future directions for
MWDL
• Network with colleagues!
40. Questions?
• Sandra McIntyre
Director
(801) 585-0969
sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu