Collections of Distinction:
Adding Value to the Online Community of Visual Resources

Jason Roy
University of Minnesota Libraries
03.20.2010
Research Primitives
... the primordial ooze of information
Discover
Gather
Create
Share
Adding Value
..at each part of the process
In the Flow
On Campus
Course Management
Student Portals
Refworks
Local Repositories
Across the Web
Google
Flickr
iTunes
Twitter
Facebook
Wikipedia
Coming to terms with what we know
Digital content is everywhere
Web 2.0 is mandatory
Community intelligence
ADD
Discovery Happens Elsewhere
IR: >50% direct links from search engines
Discovery at the network level
SEO
OAI
PURL
Discoverability
Collective Collection
collections of distinction and uniqueness
If not us, then who?
The Era of Mass Digitization Begins Yesterday
Google
Currently Digitized
5,556,837 volumes
1,944,892,950 pages
207 terabytes
66 miles
4,515 tons
850,279 volumes (~15% of total) in the public domain 
Large scale archival scanning
American Social Health Association
Green Revolution
200,000 scans
170,000 scans
Setting Priorities
Project Description
Audience
Project Impact
Previous Projects
Outside Funding
Strategic and Opportunistic
Personalization
Ratings
Reviews
Similarity to others
Those who liked
Privacy in an age of interconnectedness
Know me when I want you to know me
Identity management
UM's use of 'affinity strings'
Encouraging use and reuse
Mashups
Shared content
Community interaction
Content as dialogue
Enabling users to expose their creative output
UMedia Archive
The rich media initiative seeks to implement a new system for the management and delivery of digital objects and rich media. By leveraging open source technologies, the Libraries will provide a new user experience to the campus community, incorporating a strong repository model alongside an enhanced web experience.
Managing and delivering content in this new system will be done in two ways:

Curatorial - Allows content managers the ability to catalog and administer their digital collections
User-managed - Affiliated users will be able to upload, manage and deliver their own digital collections.
Conclusion?
Focus on value added services
Collections of distinction
Network the local
Enhance discovery
Stress less
In the Flow