Please see announcement for general information on this digitization program, or for sharing info with potential contributors

Description

• LYRASIS sponsored  mass digitization program that is very affordable but is conditional to only bound, printed text materials.  (Sloan Foundation grant funded )

• Initial materials selected by Centennial Celebration committee (Rice history, expanding to local history)
  

• Digitized materials also housed locally within the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (http://scholarship.rice.edu/) for preservation purposes

• Digitization specifications: Master jpeg2000 files of pages, OCR'd PDFs plus more; basic metadata taken from catalog. Bound copies can be split for digital display.
• Members: Amanda, Debra, Jenn, Monica, Ying

   

Collections

see books online at http://www.archive.org/details/riceuniversity

current stats: 421 total items (approx 45K pages)

Batch I

104 items (approx 30K pages)

• General Announcements (1914/15 - 2008/09) http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/35949
• Presidential Inauguration Speeches  http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/35951
• Out of print books on Rice History http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/35947

Batch II

mpr update as of 28-Jun-2011: All files downloaded from IA, pending ingest to IR (target date early August)

 255 items (approx 9.6K pages)

• See title list at \\fonlibstor.rice.edu\Projects\Centennial\workingPapers\Batch02\WonderfetchBatch 2.xlsx

• Architecture at Rice series (only a selection from  AatR series were digitized as a number of issues still remain under copyright by publishers or photographers) 

• Friends of Fondren - Flyleaf publications (circa 4,000 pages) -- items to be placed in new collection under the Fondren community
• Presidents' Annual Reports : 1961-1998 are in 4 bound volumes with 37 annual reports, appropriate for digitization in terms of content. --  items to be placed in existing collection "History of Rice University" @ http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/35948
• 2 books : "Mathematics Faculty Publications" @ http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/17014

Batch III

62 items (approx 5K plus page)

• See Axson 18th British Drama project for more details

Pending or possible future works:

• Yearbooks (early years) - no definite response yet as of 3/7/2011 | Issues with privacy concerns -- On Hold
• Note: preliminary yearbook metadata has been created
  

Workflow

general steps

• Material Selection and build awareness of program:
• Create talking points for reference and content development librarians - Team - DONE
• Create podcast - Debra/Monica - POSTPONED
• Discuss program at CMDC - Amanda/Jenn - DONE
• Discuss program at Staff Advisory - Debra
• Discuss ideas with Rice Historian  - DONE
• Metadata
• transform metadata from pre-existing catalog records or create basic info for both IA wonderfetch and IR's QDC format 
• Preparing materials
• Conduct physical review materials to note any scanning issues and add notes to wonderfetch spreadsheet. Issues may include: loose covers/pages, any pull outs, inserts or oversized pages; torn or fragile pages may need preservation treatment prior to sending out.
• Digitized materials are harvested from IA, stored locally and ingested to IR

Information

Other documentation located on FonLibStor : Centennial folder

• Metadata for Internet Archive, see template and instructions found @ \Centennial\Lyrasis\[Wonderfetch TemplateSample.xlsx]Wonderfetch Key
• FOR IA Metdata example (Batch 1) SEE file @ Centennial\Lyrasis\returns16JUN2010.xlsx
• Metadata re: volume numbers treated differently for IA than local/DC 
  
• Preparing materials for scanning and selection, see \Centennial\Lyrasis\MDC Procedures Details 100322.pdf
• Metadata crosswalk between IA wonderfetch and local Dublin core qualified (DSpace), see \Centennial\workingPapers\[metadata_crosswalk.xlsx]Notes&Map 
• Lyrasis Digital Book Scanning Request/Attribution Form, see \Centennial\Lyrasis\LyrasisReqAttribution Instructions and Form Rice 2010May.docx

future work:

• Enter links in Fondren catalog for both IA and IR urls. For Batch 1 materials, see tab in spreadsheet: \Centennial\workingPapers\[metadata_dublinCore.xlsx]Fondren Catalog Rcd  -- Jenn