DPIP Activities, February 2007

Current

Visual Resources Collection slide conversion: 160,000 images

E-Reserves prototype

Classics Department slides: 35,000 images

Yale Glee Club image collection

World War I pamphlets and other related non-standard material (Collections Collaborative)

Yale Daily News (including local implementation of CONTENTdm software)

IDIR participation (Integrated Digital Image Resources, Katherine Haskins)

DPIP presence in the VRC: technical consulting

Digital selection policy and collection identification (two groups appointed by Ann Okerson)

Coordination of digital production services (Jen Weintraub, subgroup chair)

Sharing of facilities / expertise, joint projects, avoiding duplication of effort, cost savings, outsourcing, equipment, software, maintenance agreements, etc.

DLF Aquifer distributed digital library project (http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/index.htm)

Yale participation in Usability Subgroup (Katie Bauer)

Assessment & usability studies

Participation in VITAL / Fedora repository implementation

Digitization of content from YUL preservation reformatting process (full text of books)

DPIP public web site (http://www.library.yale.edu/dpip/)

Completed

DPIP Final Report and Recommendations (Aug 2006, http://www.library.yale.edu/iac/dpip/)

Hellenic Studies Byzantine collection (July 2006)

History of Photography image collection (Aug 2006)

Possible Future Production / Integration Activities

Asian Studies image collection

Performance Studies (Mellon Grant, Prof. Roach, Susan Brady)

Ross Archive of African Art (with Art Gallery)

Islamic audio tapes

Diaries of Colonel House (3000 typed pages from MSSA)

YIPP (Yale Indian Papers Project, Paul Grant-Costa)

World War I newspapers (with Preservation Dept)

Metadata practices (with Metadata Services Group)

Copyright / IP policy and practice

Mass Digitization (in partnership with Google or Microsoft / Kirtas)?

DPIP technology & digitization service in the SML Nave and/or SSLIS?

Future Operational Activities

Forums

Periodic reports

Workflow tracking system

DPIP, ELI, Davis, SQI, IDIR, VRC, RSC, ITS ITG relationships