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
   

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2. Introduction
   *Image Credits: Rick Johnson, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
   

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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.
   

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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.
   

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5. Database Coordinator
   

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6. Year 1
   

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7. Lessons learned
   

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8. Inventory
   

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9. Metadata Team
   

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11. Year 2
    • Data remediation workflow
    • Rights metadata
    • Facilitating browsing through metadata
    

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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
    

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13. "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
    

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14. Our Sources
    "Wall socket" by Anh Nguyen Tuan is licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0
    

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15. Building Adapters
    "Apple USB Power Adapters" by Shanghai Daddy is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
    

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16. Common Output
    "Apple USB Power Adapters" by Shanghai Daddy is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
    

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17. "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
    

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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
    

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19. "Electrons" by James Milstid is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
    

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20. "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
    

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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
    

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22. "Floor Lamp 3D Model Download" by Ramiz Vardar is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
    

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23. See speaker notes for attribution
    

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24. Questions/Thoughts
    

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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
    

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