Smart Web Exhibit

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Smart Web Exhibit

• Delivering Enhanced Library and Museum
  Collections Online, On Target, and On Time

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
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Project Goals

• Web-accessible, high-quality, high-value
  content will be delivered and preserved over
  time.
• Project will generate the organizational
  model, and authoring, indexing, and usage
  analysis tools that add value to content.
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• Research in human factors and imaging, and
  the collaboration of museum and libraries in the
  service of education.

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Partners

• Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
• Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer
  Science
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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Content
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Textual

• Herbert A. Simon Collection
• Allen Newell Collection
• Earl Douglass Collection
• Diplodocus Collection

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Textual Materials

• Scanned at 400 or 600 DPI
• Full Metadata Created for Each Image
• Handwriting and Marginalia Transcribed

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Size of Textual Collections

• Simon Collection 130,000 images
• Newell Collection 186,000 images
• Douglass and Diplodocus Collections 2,600 images

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Video

• Source Materials in a Variety of Formats
• Remastered to BetaCam SP
• Digitally Remastered

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Digital Video

• Stored as Uncompressed Digital Video for
  Preservation Purposes
• Compressed to MPEG-1 for Access Purposes

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Access for Video

• Real Video (Fast and Slow)
• Media Player (Fast and Slow)
• MPEG-1
• QuickTime

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Photographs

• Scanned at 600 DPI
• Dublin Core Metadata

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Books

• In Public Domain or Have Permission
• Scanned at 600 DPI
• Dublin Core and MARC Metadata

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Metadata

• MetaScan -Metadata Interface
• Generalizable Solution to Metadata Creation

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Access and Delivery System

• DIVA Digital Information Versatile Archive
• Oracle Based System
• Supports Multimedia
• Offers Boolean and NLP Searching
• Perform both Logical and Physical Browsing

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Human Factors Research

• Conducted Protocols
• Used Feedback to Make Changes to Exhibit
• Full Report Due

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Collaborations

• Collaborations Require a Great Deal of
  Communications
• Sometimes Partners Dont Really Understand What
  They are Agreeing to
• Expect To Do More

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What Did We Learn?

• A Lot About Digitizing Video
• There Are No Benchmarking Standards for Video
  Preservation