Webinar from the Mountain West Digital Library Sandra McIntyre, MWDL Director Rebekah Cummings, MWDL Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a central search portal to over 800,000 digital resources from memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Hawaii. As a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium for the last twelve years, MWDL brings together 122 partners, including academic libraries, public libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, to share expertise and resources for digitization, hosting, and aggregated search. As one of the first six service hubs to the Digital Public Library of America, MWDL provides the on-ramp for DPLA participation to memory institutions in the Mountain West. Sandra and Rebekah will talk about how the MWDL network came together and how partners work together across the region. They will also discuss how to join the Mountain West Digital Library, what it means to be an MWDL partner, and the benefits of partnership.

1. Welcome to the
Mountain West Digital Library
The Power of Partnership

2. Overview
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The MWDL Collaborative
Resources of a Region
Working with an MWDL Hub
Sharing Regionally
Interoperability
Digital Public Library of America
Open Invitation

3. Mountain West
Digital Library
• Formed in 2001:
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 digital
collections in the Mountain West region
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Make content accessible to everyone
Offer local control
Keep it low cost
Standardize for interoperability

5. http://mwdl.org

6. MWDL Staff
• Sandra McIntyre
Director
• Rebekah Cummings
Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian
• Anna Neatrour
Digital Metadata Librarian
• Nick Hayen
Web Portal Assistant

7. MWDL Infrastructure
Support
• J. Willard Marriott Library at University
of Utah
• Occasional help from other partner
institutions

8. Partners
• Academic libraries
• Academic departments
• Archives
(counties, states, etc.)
• Historical societies
• Museums
• National heritage areas
• Natural history associations
• Public libraries
• Publishers
• Academic presses
• State Libraries
• Other state agencies

9. Partners
In these states:
• Utah
• Nevada
• Arizona
• Idaho
• Hawaii
• Soon: Montana

10. Governance and
Consultation
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UALC Council of Directors
UALC Digitization Committee
Advisory Committee (in formation)
Broader input groups

11. Funding
• UALC funding
• DPLA grants through Fall 2014

12. Digital access
RESOURCES OF
A REGION

13. Types of resources
in MWDL
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Photographs
Maps, plans, and drawings
Artworks
Scholarly documents (“institutional repository”)
Music, other sounds
Videoclips, animations, Powerpoint presentations
Books
Minutes, log books, plans, bills and ordinances
Birth and death records
Finding aids (“series guides,” “inventories”)

14. Pioneers
Uintah County Library

15. Settling the West
University of Nevada, Reno Library

16. Great Salt Lake
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

17. Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library

18. Basque
Idaho State Historical Society

19. African-American
Utah State Historical Society

20. Greek
Utah State Historical Society

21. Latino/Latina
Raul H. Castro Institute

22. Japanese-American
Internment Camps
Topaz Museum

23. Militarization
Delta City Library

24. Use/Abuse of
the Land
Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library

25. Managing Scarce Water
University of Nevada, Reno

26. Freely accessible
on the Internet

27. Searchable metadata

28. Access
• More accessibility of resources:
Free, round-the-clock, round-the-world
access
• Increased discoverability of items
• Less wear and tear on
fragile items

29. Digitization and hosting
WORKING WITH
AN MWDL HUB

30. MWDL Hosting Centers
(“Hubs”)
Salt Lake
Comm.
College
Utah
State
Archives
Univ of Utah Dvsn
Univ of
Idaho
Nevada
Arts &
Nevada
State
Reno
Museums
Utah
Arizona
Las Vegas
Archives Memory
State
Library
Project
Northern
Arizona
Univ
Weber
State
Univ
Univ of
Idaho
Utah
State
Univ
Family
Search
Utah
Valley
Univ
LDS Church
History
Souther
n Utah
Univ
Montana
Memory
Stacks
(Idaho)
BYU
Univ of
Utah
Snow
College
Mountain
West
Digital
Library
Boise
State

31. Digital Assets
Management Systems
NW Digital
Archives: Utah
EAD Files
BYU Finding
Aids
Repository

32. Tiered Services
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Distributed network
Flexible and scalable
Consolidates equipment and expertise
Reinforces standards

33. Tiered Services
Hub
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MWDL
Hub

34. Tiered Services
Hub
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MWDL
Hub

35. Services from Hubs
• Matched to a hub in your geographic or
organizational area
• Fee-based services:
– Digitization
– Training in assigning metadata
– Online hosting in digital assets management
system
– Metadata shared for MWDL harvest
– Long-term preservation (some hubs)

36. New collection

37. Metadata harvested into MWDL
SHARING
REGIONALLY

38. Infrastructure:
Ex Libris Primo
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An integrated discovery system
Powerful harvesting of digital collections
Powerful searching and faceting
“Did you mean...?” suggestions
Online delivery via pointing to link

39. International Protocols
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
for transmitting metadata over the Web
http://openarchives.org
– Based on XML
– Commonly used for harvesting

40. New collection

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Additional training for partners
Metadata aggregation
Powerful central search
Sharing metadata for Digital Public
Library of America (DPLA) harvest
• Collaboration on standards and
technology
• Advocacy and funding

42. Working together to make it happen
INTEROPERABILITY

43. Record in DAMS

44. Dublin Core record
via OAI

45. Results in MWDL

46. Standards and Policies

47. Standards and Policies
• Mountain West Digital Library
Partnership Agreement
– Partner retains control
– Partner sets digitization priorities
– Partner ensures privacy and other legal
considerations
– Partner selects the ‘branding’ for its
collections

48. Standards and Policies

49. Standards and Policies
• Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR)
document:
Digital Imaging Best Practices

50. Standards and Policies
• Qualified Dublin Core
• Metadata mappings to
QDC from other
systems
• 8 required fields; 2
other mandatory-ifapplicable fields
• Preservation fields
recommended

51. Standards and
Policies

52. Current initiatives
• Digital Assets Management System
Interest Group
• Geospatial Discovery Task Force
• Training and Outreach subcommittees
• Scanning events: “Pioneers in Your Attic”
• Linked Data Task Force – new!
• Digital Preservation Task Force – new!
• Data Curation Interest Group – new!

53. Participating on a national stage
DIGITAL PUBLIC
LIBRARY OF
AMERICA
http://dp.la

54. What is the DPLA?
The Digital Public Library of America
will make the cultural and
scientific heritage of humanity
available, free of charge, to all.

55. National partners
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Institute for Museum and Library Services
Smithsonian Institution
National Archives & Records Administration
Harvard University
New York Public Library
Biodiversity Heritage Library
ARTStor
Univ. of Virginia Libraries
Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Cham. Library
Internet Archive
Hathi Trust
Creative Commons
Executive Director Dan Cohen

56. Digital Hubs Pilot
Create the on-ramp for memory
institutions – libraries, archives, and
museums – to contributing content to the
Digital Public Library of America

57. Digital Hubs Pilot
Service Hubs
1.Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts)
2.Digital Library of Georgia
3.Kentucky Digital Library
4.Minnesota Digital Library
5.South Carolina Digital Library
6.Mountain West Digital Library

58. Jumping on board
OPEN
INVITATION
An invitation to an inspection and wetting-down party.
Brigham Young University – Hawaii Campus.

59. 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

60. 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

61. Winter Webinar Series
• Every two weeks, November – March
• Two series: Partner Series/ Digital Tech Topics
• Check mwdl.org for updates
Month
November
MWDL Partner Series
Partnering with the
Mountain West Digital
Library
Date*
Thursday,
11/21
11:00 am
None
December
MWDL as a Service Hub
for the Digital Public
Library of America:
Update and Plans
January
Digital Tech Topics
Date*
N/A
Thursday,
12/5
11:00 am
Harvesting Using the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol: What can your
OAI stream tell you?
Tuesday,
12/17, 11:00
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Hosting Hubs Update:
Services, Pricing, and
Highlights
Tuesday,
1/7, 11:00
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Digital Asset Management System
Options: Report of the DAM Review
Task Force at the University of Utah
Libraries (Kinza Masood)
Tuesday,
1/21, 11:00
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February
Partnering with the
Mountain West Digital
Library
Thursday,
2/6
11:00 am
Geospatial Discovery: Initial
recommendations from the task
force (Kristen Jensen/Liz Woolcott)
Thursday,
2/20
11:00 am
March
Cultural Heritage
Initiatives: Arizona
Memory Project and
Montana Memory
Project (Jen
Birnel/Richard Prouty)
Tuesday,
3/4, 11:00
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Geospatial Interfaces: Examples of
innovative front-end interfaces
(Michelle Olsen and the geospatial
interface sub-group)
Tuesday,
3/18
11:00 am
*Dates subject to change. Check website for updates.

62. Hubs Meeting
• March 2014 (Exact date/location TBD)
• MWDL decision-making
– Partnership Agreement
– Price list
– Future services
• Opportunity to connect
with regional hub managers
– Share best practices
– Find out what other digital libraries are doing
– Discuss important digital library topics

63. Questions?
• Sandra McIntyre
Director
(801) 585-0969
sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu
• Rebekah Cummings
Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian
(801) 587-8893
rebekah.cummings@utah.edu