Library/Museum

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• Library/Museum
• Collaboration in Detroit

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Agenda

• About your speakers
• About WSU
• About Detroit
• About our projects

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Introductions

• Jeff Trzeciak
• Associate Dean
• Currently working on a PhD in Instructional
  Design
• PI on many of the grants awarded to WSU.

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Introductions

• Shawn McCann
• Web Librarian
• Adjunct Instructor, Library and Information
  Science Program

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Introductions

• Matthew Martin
• Digital Projects Librarian

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About WSU
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Introduction About WSU

• Wayne State
• Research Extensive
• 2,700 faculty
• 33,000 students
• More than 350 programs with strengths in Law,
  Med, Business, Engineering, Nursing, Pharmacy,
  Education, Fine and Performing Arts
• Two campuses in the heart of the Cultural Center,
  Detroit
• Five extension centers

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Introduction About WSU

• University Libraries
• 5 libraries (Law/Medicine)
• Office for Teaching and Learning
• Media Services (300 classrooms)
• Open access labs (800 computers)
• Advanced Computing Facility
• Mathematics Lab

UGL 10,000 visitors/day
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Introduction About WSU

• Staff 194 (106 prof/88 support)
• Blended librarians
• IT Staff
• Instructional Designers
• Audio-Video Specialists
• Multi-media Specialists

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Introduction About WSU

• Budget
• Materials 7m (1st in on e)
• Salaries 9.5m
• 1 among ARLs in of materials budget expended
  on e-resources

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Library and Information Science

• Nearly 600 students
• Instructional design emphasis
• Digital project track (new)
• Adjunct faculty (practitioners)

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The Urban Lab
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The Urban Lab

• Detroit Public Library
• Detroit Historical Museums
• Detroit Institute of Arts
• Science Museum
• African American Museum
• Childrens Museum
• Detroit Symphony
• Center for Creative Studies
• Detroit Opera

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The Urban Lab

• Proximity lends itself to close collaboration
• WSUs commitment to the community
• WSU has close ties to a variety of institutions
• K-12 Community
• Cultural Heritage Organizations
• City of Detroit

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The Urban Lab

• Our location provides unique opportunities for
  collaboration among libraries, archives, museums,
  and other cultural heritage organizations.

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The Urban Lab

• Three successful IMLS proposals in three years
  (2002, 2003, and 2004)
• More than 1m in funding

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The Urban Lab

• 2002 Virtual Motor City
• WSU Libraries
• Reuther Archives
• 16,000 images (selected from 800,000)
• Detroit News photo morgue

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The Urban Lab

• 2003 Digital Dress
• Collaboration with
• WSU Libraries
• Detroit Historical Museums
• The Henry Ford
• Meadow Brook Hall
• 5,000 images

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The Urban Lab

• FUNDED 21st Century Digital Projects Librarians
• Prepare LIS students for 21st century digital
  librarianship

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The Urban Lab

• Collaboration with
• WSU Libraries
• WSU Library and Information Science Program
• WSU Reuther Archives
• Detroit Public Library
• Detroit Historical Museums
• Michigan State University Libraries
• The Henry Ford (Museum)

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The Urban Lab

• Students will rotate
• Experience digital projects at
• public library,
• academic library,
• archives,
• museum

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The Urban Lab

• PROPOSAL 21st Century Fine and Performing Arts
  Librarians
• Prepare LIS students for 21st century
  librarianship in cultural heritage institutions

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The Urban Lab

• Collaboration with
• WSU Libraries,
• Library and Information Science Program
• Detroit Institute of Arts
• Detroit Symphony
• Michigan Opera

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The Urban Lab

• Students will be partnered with senior staff to
  gain valuable experiences in
• Well-established art library (DIA)
• Well-established music library (DSO)
• Newly created library (MOT)

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The Urban Lab

• Proposal Design Detroit
• Collaboration with
• Detroit Historical Museums
• Cranbrook
• The Henry Ford
• Images related to Detroits influence on 20th
  century design movements

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The Urban Lab

• And onand onand on
• Kantrowitz images from the first US whole heart
  transplant
• Herman Miller images from the Zeeland furniture
  manufacturer
• Tony Spina Images from the Detroit Free Press
• 2-D and 3-D objects (mostly in the fine,
  performing, creative arts photojournalism)

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Introductions

• Matthew Martin
• Shawn McCann
• Process
• Martinizing the McCannical

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Digital Dress 200 Years of Urban Style

• A Model Web Portal for Library/Museum
  Collaboration

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What Digital Dress Was Like
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Presentation Outline

• Project Background
• Data and Data Issues
• Images and Image Issues

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Project Background
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Dorthea June GrossbartCostume Collection

• Costume Collection owned by the Fashion Design
  and Merchandizing Department at Wayne State
• Contains 400 physical pieces
• Pieces are from 19th and 20th centuries

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Dorthea June GrossbartCostume Collection

• Demonstration Project (January 2002)
• 1st Digitization project
• 360 images of approximately 80 pieces
• Creation of Web accessible digital collection

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Costume Collection Web Site
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Dorthea June GrossbartCostume Collection

• Learning Experience
• Technology Acquisition
• Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS)
• Sample Collection

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Digital Dress

• Combine costume collections from several
  institutions in Metro Detroit into one searchable
  Web accessible databases
• Collections number more than 40,000 items from
  200 years of fashion (1800-2000)
• IMLS 2003 National Leadership Grant for Museum
  and Library Collaboration
• 2 year period and award of 249,443

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Digital Dress Partners

• Detroit Historical Museums
• 30,000 items from a wide range of Detroit
  denizens
• Henry Ford Museum
• 10,000 pieces ranging from everyday dress to
  couture garments
• Meadow Brook Hall
• 500 pieces from Matilda Dodge Wilson and family

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Digital Dress Partners

• Wayne State University Library System
• Charged with creating, structuring, maintaining
  the Web accessible collection
• Wayne State University School of Fashion Design
  and Merchandizing
• Contribute images from DJG Costume Collection
• Faculty Members provide expertise and conduct
  testing

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Digital Dress Goals

• Build a unique resource that virtually unifies
  our collections and provides a new means of
  access while preserving the existing collections
• Create a simple and powerful portal that promotes
  use of our multi-institutional collection
• Serve as a model for library/museum collaborations

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The Data
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Metadata Sources

• Data comes from a variety of sources
• Detroit Historical Museums FoxPro database
• Henry Ford Argus database
• Meadow Brook Hall Paper Database (3x5 cards)

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Data Issues

• Integrating data from different sources
• Partners do not use the same field names
• Partners have different numbers of fields
• Partners have different needs for searching

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How Do We Make It Work?

• ISSUE Integrating data from different sources

Solution Export data to a common format
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How Do We Make It Work?

• ISSUE Partners do not use the same field names
• ISSUE Partners have different numbers of fields
• ISSUE Partners have different needs for searching

SOLUTION Give each partner their own collection
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How Do We Make it Unified?

• DLXS allows for cross-collection searching
• We establish common fields amongst the
  collections (read Dublin Core)
• We use controlled vocabulary where possible for
  subject terms
• Library of Congress Subject Headings
• Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus

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Detroit Historical Collection Site
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Henry Ford Collection Site
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Meadow Brook Hall Collection Site
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Search/Browse Results
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Full-Image View
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Description View
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Unified Search Page
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Work Flow (Data)
MB
DH
HF
Export data and add image filenames
WSU
Convert data to HTML tables and create Dublin
Core mappings
DLXS
Use DLXS to convert HTML to SGML, normalize, and
index
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The Images
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Image Standards

• File Formats
• TIF (uncompressed) - Archival image
• JPG - Access Images (Web)
• 100 pixel max dimension Thumbnail
• 1500 pixel max dimension access image
• JP2 (JPEG 2000) - through DLXS is used to create
  access jpgs on the fly for zooming and panning

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Photography Standards

• Professional Photographers
• Neutral, plain backdrop
• Dress forms
• 6 megapixel digital camera (minimum)
• At least 4 pictures per garment (front, side,
  back, 3/4 angle)

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3/4 and Front Views
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Side and Back Views
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Detail Views
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Label Views
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Interior View
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Workflow(images)
Photographers
WSU rep. downloads images to laptop, and renames
files
Tif Images copied to a storage array
WSU
At WSU batch process set up to create thumbnail
images and access images for DLXS
DLXS
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Toys and Art

• Detroit Historical Museum.
• IMLS Grant recipients do the digitization and
  metadata creation.
• Digital Video and Photography.
• WSU Art Collection
• Students work under guidance of the curator.
• Still photography and QTVR.

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Student Research

• Metadata Standards.
• Digital Image Formats and Standards.
• Digital Video Standards.
• QuickTime VR.
• Digital Collection Software.

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Training
Digital Photography Scanning Videography QTVR MacO
S
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Digital Collecting
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Digital Image Standards

• Uncompressed TIFFs stored on Xserv.
• JPEG 2000 will be used for display on the world
  wide web.
• One file has the ability to be displayed at
  different sizes.

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Digital Video Standards

• QuickTime MPEG 4
• MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC standard developed by MPEG
  (Moving Picture Experts Group).
• Flash Video FLV.
• Proprietary.
• Capturing objects that have motion and sound
  using a Sony HC 5 miniDV.
• Continue testing different compression techniques
  including H.264, Sorenson, Real, WMV, and Flash
  video encoder

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QTVR

• Positives.
• Free.
• Modest demand on client side technology.
• Dynamic, interactive presentation.
• Negatives.
• Detail can be lost.
• Heavy demand on server.
• Images can be warped and not to scale at all
  times.

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QTVR

• Recommendations.
• Only use QTVR for objects that would benefit the
  user to see all sides.
• Use QTVR in combination with traditional still
  images

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Workflow

• Pre production.
• Prep art. Flat art attached to foam core.
• Set camera for Raw image capture _at_ ISO 200
• Post Production
• RAW images are cropped, color corrected, and
  sharpened in PhotoShop.
• Saved as archival TIFFs without compression.
• TIFFs are stored on storage.lib.wayne.edu.
• TIFFs are also used to convert JP2000s and Thumbs
  using Graphic Converter.

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3D Objects
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3D Objects
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3D Objects Detail
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3D Objects Detail
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Delivery Options
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Delivery Options
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Discussion