diglib: Fw: UO uncataloged or underrepresented

["Mark R. Watson" <mrwatson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>]

DigLib:

At our meeting today we agreed to take up the
topic and task of setting down principles to guide the
rationale development of digital collections.  As
the predecessor to DigLib outlined, this necessarily
involves establishing principles in four areas:

--The decision to include a given item or set of items in
our digital collection (Collection Development aspect)
--The process of creating or converting the information
into digital form (Technical aspect)
--The provision of storage space and server capacity for
the digitized product (Systems aspect)
--The provision of tools and methods for providing access
to the digital information (Access)

Before getting too far down the road of digitization, we
need to answer the question: "How do academic libraries
set about creating a body of knowledge and begin to convert
traditional print [analog] collections to a digital format in order
to satisfy what today's researchers want?"  In other words,
what will our digital collections include and why?

There are many answers.  In a message to the Orbis Collection
Development group, Faye suggested possibilities for
digitization (see below).  Do these resources suggest an underlying 
theme or rationale for digitization?  Paula De Stepano explores
this question in her article "Selection for Digital Conversion in
Academic Libraries" (see Digitalography).  Manfred Thaller
does the same.  

At our next meeting on April 11, we will take up these issues.
I invite you to spend the next month reading and reflecting on
this topic.  The Digitalography contains some interesting 
articles on this topic.  The earlier work of the Digital Library
Initiative Task Force and especially its "Value Set Questions"
is instructive.  If you have other ideas and suggestions, please forward
them to the list.

Thanks, Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Faye Chadwell" <chadwelf@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 3:04 PM
Subject: UO uncataloged or underrepresented



Best Candidates For Digitization

We have several projects already underway that might be of interest to some
Orbis members.  We thought these were good candidates for digitization
since we embarked on the projects.

1) E-Asia e-books-we are digitizing approximately 500 East Asian books in
English and the vernacular.  I think our site is restricted to UO only, but
if you want to try it, see
http://fluffy.uoregon.edu/read/

2) Selected photos from the Doris Ulmann Collection of  paper prints,
negatives with
subjects from Appalachia (1920's - 1934), approximately 9,000 images.
See http://libweb.uoregon.edu/aaa/vrc/demo/ulmannl.html

3) Eugene Print Collection is approximately 118 historic photographs of
Eugene in the 19th and 20th centuries.

4) Selected aerial photos for Eugene and Corvallis that are requested
frequently; see
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/orephoto/digital_index.htm

Some specific possibilities that we might easily digitize because the
permission to digitize might be relatively easy to obtain.  I think all of
these would be valuable to Orbis, especially the Oregon members and they
would be valuable to the state as a whole.  Thanks to Katy and Heather for
these ideas.

5)  F874.3.O7 1978  A cemetery survey for the state of Oregon / by The
Oregon Dept. of Transportation; Salem, Or. : The Dept., [1978 or 1979]
                    

6) Index of Oregon Marriages (Bride and Groom) (1906-1970) (Ask at
Microforms desk) 
                              
7) Marriage Index by Groom [for Oregon] (Ask at Microforms desk) - A
publication of the State of Oregon, covering 1961 to the present  
                              
8) Marriage Index by Wife [for Oregon] (Ask at Microforms desk) - A
publication of the State of Oregon, covering 1961 to the present  
                             
9) Oregon Death Index (Ask at Microforms desk) - A publication of the state
 of Oregon covering 1903 to the present.  A separate Death Index for
Portland goes back to 1881.

10) Oregon Biography Index (edited by Patricia Brandt and Nancy Guilford)
(Or. Coll. and Ref.  Z 5305.U5 B7) -  tells which directories to use to
find biographical
information about Oregonians, especially 19th and early 20th century
persons.  
This title was published by the OSU Press so maybe they would collaborate
with us to publish this electronically.