Digital Collections on a Dime
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Digital collections can be put online following copyright laws using free and inexpensive tools. Volunteers, interns, or staff can digitize materials using affordable scanners and free software. Platforms like Omeka, Viewshare, Flickr, and WordPress allow hosting digital collections for free with basic features. Successful examples from libraries in South Carolina and neighboring states demonstrate how digital collections can be created with limited budgets.
Digital Collections on a Dime
- 1. Digital Collections on a Amanda Stone South Carolina State Library astone@statelibrary.sc.gov * * Winged Liberty Head Dime, 1917 http://imagesearch.library.illinois.edu/u?/tdc,1502
- 2. What Can We Put Online?
- 10. Copyright • Follow normal copyright laws • —Add digital rights statement to future donor agreements, secure agreement if possible on past collections • —Carefully-phrased copyright statements are your friend "It is the user's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when reproducing materials found in the Libraries' collections." (U of Miami)
- 11. We Have No $$$ • —If you can buy 1 big-ticket item, buy the best scanner you can afford. • —Epson Expression 10000xl is a common workhorse ~$4,500 • Probably 600 dpi, 24-bit color & large enough scanning for your needs is good enough for now! (Amazon, as low as $200)
- 12. Ask Friends Groups, Family Trusts, Local Businesses— set up a tip jar for donations. http://megawattpr.wordpress.com/2008/09/
- 13. Digitizing
- 14. Who? • Volunteers • Interns from local colleges • Really responsible Teen Groups • Make it a part-time responsibility for a couple of people • Scanning on a smaller service desk (Richland Library’s South Carolina Room) Student Assistants at USC Political Collections, http://library.sc.edu/scpc/intstud.html, https://twitter.com/IEPexperience/status/308527202474008576
- 15. How? • —Software that comes with your scanner may be fine to use for now (Epson Scan, Nikon Scan, Canon ScanGear) • Make sure you can save in formats and resolution you want
- 16. —There are other scan software programs for fairly cheap (examples) •VueScan ($39.95, $79.95) •SilverFast SE (starts at $49.00)
- 17. Editing Use free programs to edit your images! • GIMP • Paint.net • Irfanview
- 19. Now What? There are free and cheap non-technical options for putting your collections online.
- 20. Omeka • —Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web- publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. • From the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and George Mason University • For non-IT specialists • Omeka.net: Basic plan for free, $49-999 a year Collections, Tagging, Controlled Vocabulary, Timelines, Google Maps, RSS feeds, QR Codes, and more!
- 23. Viewshare • —Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views that allow users to experience your digital collections. • —From the Library of Congress • —Does not host digital images, creates interfaces to your online digital collections — Interactive maps, Timelines, Facets, Tag clouds
- 29. • Online photo management and sharing application • —Free account-2 videos, 300MB of photos every month • Pro account-unlimited pretty much everything 1 year for $24.95 — *made with spell with flickr
- 33. Tumblr • Social media site for posting text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos. • Lowcountry Digital Library lowcountrydigitallibrary.tumblr.com • Auburn Avenue Research Library Program Division aarlprogram.tumblr.com —PS-check out womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com water-cooler trivia: Yahoo just bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion
- 36. Facebook • Most libraries have a Facebook page to promote events, share photos, keep in touch with patrons • Many libraries & organizations add historical photos to their Facebook account!
- 39. Wordpress • —Web software for making websites or blogs. Wordpress.org has software you host yourself. • —At Wordpress.com, they can host your site for you! Free with wordpress.com address, some customization options and 3 GB of space, no video storage
- 43. Social Media Pros & Cons usually very easy, often nice-looking interface, comments on individual items, may work with your existing social media, Google-friendly not branded to your organization, may not have adequate "digital collection" features, cannot trust as long-term storage
- 44. Thrifty Partners in SC
- 45. Thrifty Partners in Georgia Based at the University of Georgia Libraries, the Digital Library of Georgia has operated since 2000 as part of Georgia’s GALILEO virtual library.
- 46. DPLA • —The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a project aimed at bringing about a large-scale public digital library. • Millions of items from Abbeville County Soil Maps (1932) to Zion Baptist Church, Marietta, GA (1980) • Digital Library of Georgia: 139,190 items • South Carolina Digital Library: 54,383 items
- 48. They Did It, You Can Too! • The Ultimate List of Historical Digital Collections in SC: http://1.usa.gov/11v9h66 • 60 entities • 12 public libraries • 31 academic, 16 are USC • 17 are historical societies, museums, state agencies Public libraries with digital collections
- 49. Examples Shown • Omeka.wabcphilly.org • http://viewshare.org/views/localhisto ry1431/lower-richland-historic- houses • professorevans.net/SWAG.html • http://www.flickr.com/photos/pcls • http://lowcountrydigitallibrary.tumblr. com • https://www.facebook.com/pages/Un ion-County-Historical- Society/162696527114058 • http://www.flickr.com/photos/liveoak pl/sets/72157624172174125 • lowcountrydigitallibrary.tumblr.com • aarlprogram.tumblr.com • http://warrants.salisburynh.info • heeleyhistoryworkshop.wordpress.c om • scmemory.org • dlg.galileo.usg.edu • dp.la
- 50. Go Forth and Create! Amanda Stone South Carolina State Library astone@statelibrary.sc.gov