The Colorado digitization program: a collaboration success story

Bailey-Hainer, Brenda; Urban, Richard J.

doi:10.1108/07378830410560044

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“…While there are standards to promote the interoperability of systems (e.g., OAI) and retrieval of records (e.g., Z39.50 and SRU), these records may need to be modified if they are to be integrated with local systems or as part of cooperative collections. Differences in stock description techniques have been found to be particularly obstructive in establishing joint digital collections [27,55]. Libraries must therefore consider whether the efforts involved in overcoming these and additional hurdles, such as the high cost of digitization [23,34,27], ongoing preservation costs associated with maintenance and renewal of digital media [56], and copyright and other rights-related issues [57], are justified.…”

Section: Challenges and Best Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Library Collaboration: A Service-Oriented Perspective

Buchanan

Gibb

Simmons

et al. 2012

The Library Quarterly

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Collaboration in the digital domain offers an opportunity to provide enhanced digital services and extended reach to the community. This article adopts a serviceoriented perspective through which it considers environmental drivers for digital library collaboration; discusses emergent collaborative partnerships across UK educational institutions, social services, health services, private industry, and cultural sectors; considers associated challenges; and identifies best practices. Existing and potential synergistic relationships are explored across the broader cultural sectorin particular, with the respective processes of libraries, museums, archives, arts and broadcasting organizations comprehensively identified and mapped (commonality), and the relationship to service-oriented architecture highlighted. The degree of digital service collaboration is also explored through an indicative review of Scottish public library websites, encompassing thirty-two regional library networks and including the National Library. Collaboration is found to be evident but limited in the digital domain, with strategic and architectural recommendations made.

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Section: Challenges and Best Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Library Collaboration: A Service-Oriented Perspective

Buchanan

Gibb

Simmons

et al. 2012

The Library Quarterly

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“…Although libraries use standard classification systems (such as DDC or LCC) and employ cataloguing standards (e.g. MARC, ISBD, RDA), there is no single standard to which they all subscribe with differences in stock description techniques having been found to be particularly obstructive in establishing joint digital collections (Tonta, 2008;Bailey-Hainer and Urban, 2004).…”

Section: Information Strategymentioning

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Planning Strategically, Designing Architecturally: A Framework for Digital Library Services

Buchanan¹

2010

Advances in Librarianship

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In an era of unprecedented technological innovation and evolving user expectations and information seeking behaviour, we are arguably now an online society, with digital services increasingly common and increasingly preferred. As a trusted information provider, libraries are in an advantageous position to respond, but this requires integrated strategic and enterprise architecture planning, for information technology (IT) has evolved from a support role to a strategic role, providing the core management systems, communication networks, and delivery channels of the modern library. Further, IT components do not function in isolation from one another, but are interdependent elements of distributed and multidimensional systems encompassing people, processes, and technologies, which must consider social, economic, legal, organisational, and ergonomic requirements and relationships, as well as being logically sound from a technical perspective. Strategic planning provides direction, while enterprise architecture strategically aligns and holistically integrates business and information system architectures. While challenging, such integrated planning should be regarded as an opportunity for the library to evolve as an enterprise in the digital age, or at minimum, to simply keep pace with societal change and alternative service providers. Without strategy, a library risks being directed by outside forces with independent motivations and inadequate understanding of its broader societal role. Without enterprise architecture, it risks technological disparity, redundancy, and obsolescence. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this conceptual paper provides an integrated framework for strategic and architectural planning of digital library services. The concept of the library as an enterprise is also introduced.

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“…As notes, "these collections are widely dispersed, with limited access, sometimes poorly organized and generally underutilized" [4]. One significant advantage of collaboration was the ability to aggregate access to similar types of collections at disparate institutions that otherwise would not be associated (Bailey-Hainer and Urban, 2004). Bishoff (2004) also outlines some of the economic benefits that followed when resources were pooled to develop one set of standards, one infrastructure, one database platform, one training program, and the like.…”

Section: The Collaborative Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Collaboration, though, did not come without its challenges. Bailey-Hainer and Urban (2004) cite the difference between building a "collaborative" versus merely a "cooperative" relationship between domains as being one of the more time-consuming aspects of creating the CDP, particularly when it came to communicating the impact of local practices in a shared environment. In summarizing the types of cross-domain collaboration that already existed in Colorado at the time, Allen (2000) notes that while most welcomed the idea of partnerships, there were nevertheless "fundamental assumptions about competition for collections and visitors that must be overcome" [9].…”

Section: The Collaborative Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Having grown to include several partners from outside of Colorado, the first version of the metadata best practices was replaced in January 2003 by the Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices. This document was revised by a Metadata Working Group with representatives from Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Utah (Bailey -Hainer and Urban, 2004). In an effort to contextualize the best practices, members of the Metadata Working Group published case studies on how their institutions provided the metadata for their CDP projects and, specifically, how the best practices were used in that process (Cronin, et al, 2003;Meagher, 2003;Meagher, 2002).…”

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Metadata provision and standards development at the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP): A History

Cronin

2008

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What began in 1998 as the Colorado Digitization Project is now known as the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP), or CDP@BCR. The CDP’s Heritage West database represents not only the primary product of the organization, but also one of the oldest continuously-operating collaborative repositories of cultural heritage metadata in the country. As a basis for the author’s forthcoming quantitative and qualitative analysis of Dublin Core metadata in Heritage West, the following article offers a history of how the CDP has, over time, organized and managed the metadata provision for its digitization projects.

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The Colorado digitization program: a collaboration success story

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Digital Library Collaboration: A Service-Oriented Perspective

Digital Library Collaboration: A Service-Oriented Perspective

Planning Strategically, Designing Architecturally: A Framework for Digital Library Services

Metadata provision and standards development at the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP): A History

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