Library/Museum Collaboration in Detroit

1. Library/Museum Collaboration in Detroit

2. Agenda • About your speakers • About WSU • About Detroit • About our projects

3. Introductions • Jeff Trzeciak • Associate Dean • Currently working on a PhD in Instructional Design • PI on many of the grants awarded to WSU.

4. Introductions • Shawn McCann • Web Librarian • Adjunct Instructor, Library and Information Science Program

5. Introductions • Matthew Martin • Digital Projects Librarian

6. About WSU

7. Wayne State Research Extensive 2,700 faculty 33,000 students More than 350 programs with strengths in Law, Med, Business, Engineering, Nursing, Pharmacy, Education, Fine and Performing Arts Two campuses in the heart of the Cultural Center, Detroit Five extension centers Introduction – About WSU

8. Introduction – About WSU • University Libraries • 5 libraries (Law/Medicine) • Office for Teaching and Learning • Media Services (300 classrooms) • Open access labs (800 computers) • Advanced Computing Facility • Mathematics Lab UGL: 10,000 visitors/day

9. Introduction – About WSU • Staff: 194 (106 prof/88 support) • Blended librarians • IT Staff • Instructional Designers • Audio-Video Specialists • Multi-media Specialists

10. Introduction – About WSU • Budget: • Materials: $7m (1st in % on e) • Salaries: $9.5m • #1 among ARL’s in % of materials budget expended on e-resources

11. Library and Information Science • Nearly 600 students • Instructional design emphasis • Digital project track (new) • Adjunct faculty (practitioners)

12. The Urban Lab

13. The Urban Lab • Detroit Public Library • Detroit Historical Museums • Detroit Institute of Arts • Science Museum • African American Museum • Children’s Museum • Detroit Symphony • Center for Creative Studies • Detroit Opera

14. The Urban Lab • Proximity lends itself to close collaboration • WSU’s commitment to the community • WSU has close ties to a variety of institutions: • K-12 Community • Cultural Heritage Organizations • City of Detroit

15. The Urban Lab • Our location provides unique opportunities for collaboration among libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations.

16. The Urban Lab • Three successful IMLS proposals in three years (2002, 2003, and 2004) • More than $1m in funding

17. The Urban Lab • 2002: Virtual Motor City • WSU Libraries • Reuther Archives • 16,000 images (selected from 800,000) • Detroit News photo morgue

18. The Urban Lab • 2003 Digital Dress • Collaboration with: • WSU Libraries • Detroit Historical Museums • The Henry Ford • Meadow Brook Hall • 5,000 images

19. The Urban Lab • FUNDED: 21st Century Digital Projects Librarians • Prepare LIS students for 21st century digital librarianship

20. The Urban Lab • Collaboration with: • WSU Libraries • WSU Library and Information Science Program • WSU Reuther Archives • Detroit Public Library • Detroit Historical Museums • Michigan State University Libraries • The Henry Ford (Museum)

21. The Urban Lab • Students will rotate • Experience digital projects at • public library, • academic library, • archives, • museum

22. The Urban Lab • PROPOSAL: 21st Century Fine and Performing Arts Librarians • Prepare LIS students for 21st century librarianship in cultural heritage institutions

23. The Urban Lab • Collaboration with • WSU Libraries, • Library and Information Science Program • Detroit Institute of Arts • Detroit Symphony • Michigan Opera

24. The Urban Lab • Students will be partnered with senior staff to gain valuable experiences in: • Well-established art library (DIA) • Well-established music library (DSO) • Newly created library (MOT)

25. The Urban Lab • Proposal: Design Detroit • Collaboration with: • Detroit Historical Museums • Cranbrook • The Henry Ford • Images related to Detroit’s influence on 20th century design movements

26. The Urban Lab • And on…and on…and on… • Kantrowitz – images from the first US whole heart transplant • Herman Miller – images from the Zeeland furniture manufacturer • Tony Spina – Images from the Detroit Free Press • 2-D and 3-D objects (mostly in the fine, performing, creative arts; photojournalism)

27. Introductions • Matthew Martin • Shawn McCann • Process • Martinizing the McCannical

28. Digital Dress: 200 Years of Urban Style A Model Web Portal for Library/Museum Collaboration

29. What Digital Dress Was Like

30. Presentation Outline • Project Background • Data and Data Issues • Images and Image Issues

31. Project Background

32. Dorthea June GrossbartCostume Collection • Costume Collection owned by the Fashion Design and Merchandizing Department at Wayne State • Contains 400 physical pieces • Pieces are from 19th and 20th centuries

33. Dorthea June GrossbartCostume Collection • Demonstration Project (January 2002) • 1st Digitization project • 360 images of approximately 80 pieces • Creation of Web accessible digital collection

34. Costume Collection Web Site

35. Dorthea June GrossbartCostume Collection • Learning Experience • Technology Acquisition • Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS) • Sample Collection

36. Digital Dress • Combine costume collections from several institutions in Metro Detroit into one searchable Web accessible databases • Collections number more than 40,000 items from 200 years of fashion (1800-2000) • IMLS 2003 National Leadership Grant for Museum and Library Collaboration • 2 year period and award of $249,443

37. Digital Dress: Partners • Detroit Historical Museums • 30,000 items from a wide range of Detroit denizens • Henry Ford Museum • 10,000 pieces ranging from everyday dress to couture garments • Meadow Brook Hall • 500 pieces from Matilda Dodge Wilson and family

38. Digital Dress: Partners • Wayne State University Library System • Charged with creating, structuring, maintaining the Web accessible collection • Wayne State University School of Fashion Design and Merchandizing • Contribute images from DJG Costume Collection • Faculty Members provide expertise and conduct testing

39. Digital Dress: Goals • Build a unique resource that virtually unifies our collections and provides a new means of access while preserving the existing collections • Create a simple and powerful portal that promotes use of our multi-institutional collection • Serve as a model for library/museum collaborations

40. The Data

41. Metadata Sources • Data comes from a variety of sources • Detroit Historical Museums: FoxPro database • Henry Ford: Argus database • Meadow Brook Hall: Paper Database (3x5 cards)

42. Data Issues • Integrating data from different sources • Partners do not use the same field names • Partners have different numbers of fields • Partners have different needs for searching

43. How Do We Make It Work? • ISSUE: Integrating data from different sources Solution: Export data to a common format

44. How Do We Make It Work? • ISSUE: Partners do not use the same field names • ISSUE: Partners have different numbers of fields • ISSUE: Partners have different needs for searching SOLUTION: Give each partner their own collection

45. How Do We Make it Unified? • DLXS allows for cross-collection searching • We establish common fields amongst the collections (read: Dublin Core) • We use controlled vocabulary where possible for subject terms • Library of Congress Subject Headings • Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus

46. Detroit Historical Collection Site

47. Henry Ford Collection Site

48. Meadow Brook Hall Collection Site

49. Search/Browse Results

50. Full-Image View