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IMLS DCC: Improving the Visibility and Value  of Our Digital Cultural Heritage Richard J. Urban Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign COSLA, 27 October 2009
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Collection Recruitment
State Collections added to Opening History* 28 Nebraska 1 Montana 69 Arizona 17 Oklahoma  92 Louisiana 35 New York 18 Ohio 12 Idaho 88 Utah 33 Georgia Coll. State
Collections Contributed by Hosting Institution State
Emerging Strengths
Emerging Strengths - Local History Main Street south from Third Street, ca.1890  Los Angeles New trolley tracks, Needham Corner, Main Street, Hartford, October 2, 1902.   Tombrello Grocery Market  106 Main St. Birmingham, Alabama Main Ave., Durango, CO Oct. 1965 Sleigh Ride to Lake Tahoe
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IMLS DCC Progress Update to the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA)

Notas del editor

  1. Regrets from Carole. My background.
  2. Contextual mass - see Companion to DH.
  3. New Opening History Collection Policy 161 New IMLS funded collections 168 collections from Digital Library Federation (DLF) American Social History Online 391 collections from state libraries
  4. Sine 2008. Items 0 136,324 8,500 600 25,000 66,000 0 22,628 13,275 0
  5. Sine 2008. Items 0 136,324 8,500 600 25,000 66,000 0 22,628 13,275 0
  6. Welcome recommendations from partners. Connecting with state blgs. Connecting to us from National Archives, etc.
  7. Studies of researchers’ use of cultural heritage materials suggest that neither collection-level nor item-level metadata alone sufficiently meet their needs,. Problem is compounded when information is drawn from across libraries, archives, and museums into shared aggregations. Our current interfaces loosely connect collection-level descriptions and item-level records through hyperlinks, but our aim is provide users a quick sense of a collection's contours or the context from which items are drawn.
  8. Studies of researchers’ use of cultural heritage materials suggest that neither collection-level nor item-level metadata alone sufficiently meet their needs,. Problem is compounded when information is drawn from across libraries, archives, and museums into shared aggregations. Our current interfaces loosely connect collection-level descriptions and item-level records through hyperlinks, but our aim is provide users a quick sense of a collection's contours or the context from which items are drawn.