Building a Unified Discovery System for Libraries and Museums

The Hesburgh Libraries and Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame have embarked on a three-year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a unified platform for the discovery of digitized collections. This session will underscore the importance of GLAM collaboration and explore how the development of this open source software will facilitate publication of institutional collections online. For institutions interested in providing unified discovery across multiple databases, or institutions looking to publish collections online, this session will cover the project overview, the challenges in mapping disparate library and museum data together, and the progress made during our first year and a half.

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1. Building a Unified Discovery System for Libraries and Museums University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries & Snite Museum of Art
2. Introduction *Image Credits: Rick Johnson, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
3. Project Description The Hesburgh Libraries and Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame will develop a digital collections exhibition that will bring together their diverse collections in order to encourage comparative research, innovative joint exhibitions, and deeper integration of artwork, rare books, and artifacts into University teaching. It will also benefit the scholarly community writ large by making available to other institutions an optimized open-source solution for collections preservation, curation, and scholarly and pedagogical use.
4. Outreach Specialist Abigail Shelton ashelto3@nd.edu Outreach Specialist Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame Abigail is the Outreach Specialist for the project and serves in one of the two grant-funded positions. She is responsible for coordinating and managing user input and feedback from a broad group of stakeholders across the University to ensure that designs meet stakeholder needs.
5. Database Coordinator
6. Year 1
7. Lessons learned
8. Inventory
9. Metadata Team
11. Year 2 • Data remediation workflow • Rights metadata • Facilitating browsing through metadata
12. A set of methods and tools to share from our various silos of data What We're Making "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
13. "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
14. Our Sources "Wall socket" by Anh Nguyen Tuan is licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0
15. Building Adapters "Apple USB Power Adapters" by Shanghai Daddy is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
16. Common Output "Apple USB Power Adapters" by Shanghai Daddy is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
17. "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
18. Processes digital objects and metadata from diverse data sources: • Maps metadata to common format • Transforms images • Loads the search index • Wraps original metadata in IIIF Presentation Manifest Pipeline "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
19. "Electrons" by James Milstid is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
20. "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
21. Using GatsbyJS, we take the normalized data and make a static website that includes a dynamic search. Site Builder "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Nothing all that special… except we've set this up to build multiple customizable sites that use subsets of data
22. "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
23. See speaker notes for attribution
24. Questions/Thoughts
25. Project Documentation • https://osf.io/cusmx/ Contact Information • Victoria Perdomo: vperdomo@nd.edu • Hanna Bertoldi: hbertold@nd.edu • Jeremy Friesen: jfriesen@nd.edu More Information