Hello everyone, and welcome to our poster,
Oregon Digital : Reimagined for Reuse,
redesigning a digital library to improve the capacity,
the reuse of digital collections.
I'm Kate Cornell, the digital scholarship librarian
at the University of Oregon libraries, and I'm here today with my colleague
Chris Petersen, archivist at Oregon State University Libraries and press.
Later in this presentation, Chris will talk about the context of
Digital Collection reuse, but before that, I'd like to provide us
with some context about what is Oregon Digital.
Oregon Digital is a cultural heritage digital library that emphasizes
the history of Oregon and the histories of the University of Oregon
and Oregon State University.
Originally released in 2014, Oregon Digital is currently being
upgraded to the latest version of the Samvera Community's Hyrax release,
a process that is also including a major refresh of look and functionality.
What's been important to our process has been the emphasis of our users:
the Oregon Digital users.
Our users connect with digital collections for a variety of purposes,
and most often discover the materials through search rather than
navigation through Oregon Digital. They are people who are
at all levels of academia, as well as publishers, advocationalists,
and non - profit organizations, government agencies, and also
OSU and UO alumni.
As part of this project, we also have been emphasizing
what are their specific wants and desires from Oregon Digital.
Across all of these users, there is a need to repurpose
special collections in our title content for research,
scholarship, illustration, identifications and historical context for land use,
instruction, outreach and sharing.
-Okay, as Kate mentioned, the focus of this presentation
is on reuse of content within Oregon Digital and in the matrix
that we have embedded in our poster.
You can see lots of different things we've done to improve
the reuse capacity for our users but want to focus on
3 specific ones for this mini presentation.
And the first is downloads. We have 2 tabs open here
that we'll do a compare and contrast from Oregon Digital 1 to
Oregon Digital 2, Katy can you take us to the first tab?
So we see here, this is a yearbook from OSU and the download button
is on the right. If you were to click on that,
you would have access to a- it's what we're calling
standard resolution, it's actually a low resolution
to access copy of the content. The only way to get high resolution
is to log in, but the only way to log in is to ask us to have an account
made for you, that's the situation in current Oregon Digital 1.
In Oregon Digital 2, on the other hand, you'll have the ability to download
high resolution, standard resolution and metadata for anything
that you'd find, just about anything you find
in Oregon Digital, and the login is mediated
by your institutional affiliation. There is no need for you to ask
for an account. If you are not affiliated with
one of the institutions, you can create an account on your own.
You have to ask a human being for any of that specific stuff for it.
The second thing we want to talk about is copyright.
So this is a major question that we get asked all the time
is "Can I use it?" And in the current Oregon Digital,
the only indication of copyright is a right statement that shows up
in the metadata that's linked to (inaudible).
Actually, if you were to click on that, it would take you into
everything else in Oregon Digital that has that same facet.
And for this one, there's almost 40,000 items.
It's not very helpful.
In Oregon Digital 2 on the other hand, we have copyright information in
multiple locations, showing up on the upper right hand side
right there, it's also down in the metadata.
And clicking on that takes you to an external link for rightstatements.org
or for creative commons that actually explains what the situation is
with the copyrights. That's a lot more helpful for the user
in terms of asking that question, can I use it?
In many cases, you still are going to need mediation
from me, being from an archivist, to help you navigate this process
and this is the third thing I want to talk about,
is the improved workflow for contacting us.
So current Oregon Digital, we have a very small and
not easy to locate contact link down in the footer.
And the advantage is it's in the footer,
the disadvantage is it's hard to find.
You're not totally sure what you're getting
when you click on it.
In Oregon Digital 2 on the other hand, we have created a tab
next to the metadata-- above the metadata here.
When you click on that, you get a form that makes it
much more clear that this is something that I can use
to get help with this particular item. So all different pieces of enhancement
that we hope will improve these, your experience
and your ability to reuse content.
in Oregon Digital.
So that is our presentation.
If you'd like to know more, please reach out.
Our contact information is in the footer of our poster,
and thank you very much.