Digital Library of Collections from Cultural Institutions in Plovdiv

This report presents the project outcomes for digital presentation of historical artefacts from the region of Plovdiv, related to the Balkan War (1912-1913). The selected collections include digitized periodicals, postcards, photographs, museum objects and paintings by Bulgarian artists. Problems related to the digitization, creation, storage and visualization of digital objects from the funds of these cultural institutions are also discussed. The content of this digital library is expected to be completed with other collections at cultural institutions in Plovdiv. The idea is as a next step to integrate the project with the other digital libraries. The project website „Digital library of collections from cultural institutions in Plovdiv” is also presented here - http://plovdivartefacts.com/ (Figure 1).

The Digital Memory of Catalonia, Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia

The Digital Memory of Catalonia, Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia, contains open-access digitized collections of photographs, drawings, maps, posters, pamphlets, incunabula, ancient Catalan periodicals and many other items with a total of over two million documents related to Catalonia from 18 different institutions (universities, specialized libraries, institutes, archives, etc.).

Using Statistics to Set Priorities

In November 2015-March 2016, I assigned my Graduate Assistant, David Durden, a project to compile usage statistics and trends for digitized collections between 2013-2015 from UMD Digital Collections and our contributions to the Internet Archive between 2008-2015. The original intent of the project was to provide usage metrics to assist the Digitization Initiatives Committee in prioritizing projects or content areas. The project also uncovered trends that should impact how we think about making digital collections discoverable and accessible. For example, if 50-60% of traffic into UMD Digital Collections comes from outside the University or College Park, MD, how will this impact the potential usage of content when access is restricted to campus due to licensing, copyright, or ownership restrictions? With a growing population using mobile browsers, how will a flash-based viewer restrict users’ access to content? How might we develop content or its discoverability for a growing social media user base? In this talk, I will briefly discuss the usage trends for the represented collections, how we may use these in prioritizing future projects, and issues I will discuss with collection managers as we develop project plans and the Manager of Digital Programs and Initiatives as we develop the digital collections repository.

On some small collections of inland shells from South America / Fritz Haas.

v.34:no.35(1955)

Chilopods in the collections of Field Museum of Natural History, by Ralph V. Chamberlin.

v.28:no.4(1944)

Fashioning tradition : Maya huipiles in the Field Museum Collections / J. Claire Odland.

n.s. no.38(2006)

The millipede collections of the world / Petra Sierwald, Abigail Julia Reft.

n.s. no.103(2004)

Catalog of type, figured, and referred Mazon Creek fossils in private collections / Mary R. Carman --

n.s. no.19(1990)

Frogs of Vietnam : a report on new collections / Robert F. Inger, Nikolai Orlov, Ilya Darevsky.

n.s. no.92(1999)

Japanese sword-mounts in the collections of Field Museum / by Helen C. Gunsaulus, assistant curator of Japanese ethnology, 61 plates. Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology.

v.16(1923)

Curators, collections, and contexts : anthropology at the Field Museum, Stephen E. Nash and Gary M. Feinman, editors.

n.s. no.36(2003)

Mesquakie (Fox) material culture : the William Jones and Frederick Starr collections / James W. VanStone.

n.s. no.30(1998)

Material culture of the Chilcotin Athapaskans of west central British Columbia : collections in the Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone.

n.s. no.20(1993)

Ethnographic collections from the Assiniboine and Yanktonai Sioux in the Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone.

n.s. no.26(1996)