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An overview

Wellcome Library

Digitisation Programme

@WellcomeDigital

#welldigi

Wellcome

Digitisation

Photography

19m images digitised

Who are we?

What have we got?

  • Books - mainly 19th century
  • Early Printed Books
  • Archives
  • Grey literature, serials
  • Manuscripts: Western and Arabic
  • Films
  • Artworks, posters, prints, transparecies
  • High resolution, Hasselblad/leaf
  • Oversize books and manuscripts
  • Items required for facsimile printing
  • Artworks, posters
  • Medium resolution, Canon Mark III
  • Archives
  • Books, grey lit
  • Copy stands
  • "Guardian" book systems
  • Conservation book cradle system
  • Flat copy stands
  • TT and Scribe book scanners
  • The free library for the "incurably curious"
  • Focus on history of medicine, health

  • Wellcome Trust "A global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds"
  • Striving to "embed biomedical science in the historical and cultural landscape"

  • Library is part of the Wellcome Collection, "exploring the intersection between medicine, life and art"

Dedicated staff

Formats

  • 3 FT Photographers
  • 1 FT Digitisation support officer + ad hoc support
  • Several FT/PT Project managers
  • 1 FT Digital Ingest Coordinator + ad hoc support
  • 1 FT Programme Manager
  • 1 FT Digital Curator
  • 21 on-site contractors (mostly Internet Archive)
  • + large contributions from the cataloguing team, conservation team, web content editing team, systems management team, library support teams
  • Images
  • Capture in RAW (in-house)
  • Convert to JPEG 2000 via TIFF
  • Lossy compression 8:1 or 10:1
  • Data
  • MARC21/AARC2 or ISAD(g) for metadata
  • ALTO XML for full-text
  • METS XML for digital object administration

Systems

Metadata

Goobi

Preservica

Cataloguing

Deliverable units

  • Permanent home for media
  • Exports media via API
  • Creates/exports technical metadata
  • Handles format migration
  • The unit digitised and made available is:
  • The "thing" that is catalogued*
  • The "thing" you would order/reserve*
  • All content is catalogued before digitisation
  • All records available via Encore "single search"
  • Links to digital content in Encore records
  • One user interface for digital and non-digital
  • Archives heirarchy built into Encore interface
  • Manages workflows
  • Media import
  • Format conversion
  • Format validation
  • Ingest to Preservica...
  • Tracking, error reporting
  • Metadata editor
  • METS creation & export
  • "Middleware"

*except when it's not

Digitisation-related metadata

Storage

Delivery system

  • ~50 TB of storage
  • Mostly "working" storage
  • Preservica currently holds >20 Tb
  • "Volatile" cache and "permanent" cache
  • Storage requires very active management!
  • Structural information
  • pagination
  • covers
  • TOCs etc.
  • Access restrictions
  • Licences/conditions of use
  • Preservation metadata
  • Sensitivity and copyright admin
  • "Digi" codes to tag collections
  • Bespoke Digital Delivery System (DDS)
  • Requests content from Preservica or cache
  • Controls access rights
  • IIP image converts JP2 to JPEG
  • Converts METS to JSON
  • Delivers media and metadata to Player
  • http://bit.ly/1RTQtEm
  • http://wellcomelibrary.org/moh/
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