Library/Museum

Collaboration in Detroit
 Agenda
 About your speakers
 About WSU
 About Detroit
 About our projects
 Introductions

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

 Shawn McCann
 Web Librarian
 Adjunct Instructor,
Library and Information
Science Program
 Introductions

 Matthew Martin
 Digital Projects Librarian
About WSU
 Introduction – About WSU

 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

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

 Staff: 194 (106 prof/88

support)
 Blended librarians
 IT Staff
 Instructional Designers
 Audio-Video Specialists
 Multi-media Specialists
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
 Library and Information Science

 Nearly 600
students
 Instructional
design
emphasis
 Digital project
track (new)
 Adjunct faculty
(practitioners)
The Urban Lab
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
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
 The Urban Lab
 Our location provides unique
opportunities for collaboration
among libraries, archives,
museums, and other cultural
heritage organizations.
 The Urban Lab
 Three successful
IMLS proposals
in three years
(2002, 2003,
and 2004)
 More than $1m
in funding
 The Urban Lab
 2002: Virtual
Motor City
 WSU Libraries
 Reuther Archives
 16,000 images
(selected from
800,000)
 Detroit News
photo morgue
 The Urban Lab
 2003 Digital
Dress
 Collaboration
with:
 WSU Libraries
 Detroit Historical
Museums
 The Henry Ford
 Meadow Brook
Hall
 5,000 images
 The Urban Lab
 FUNDED:
21st Century
Digital
Projects
Librarians
 Prepare LIS
students for
21st century
digital
librarianship
 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)
 The Urban Lab
 Students will
rotate
 Experience
digital projects
at
 public library,
 academic library,
 archives,
 museum
 The Urban Lab
 PROPOSAL:
21st Century
Fine and
Performing Arts
Librarians
 Prepare LIS
students for 21st
century
librarianship in
cultural heritage
institutions
 The Urban Lab
 Collaboration
with
 WSU Libraries,
 Library and
Information
Science Program
 Detroit Institute
of Arts
 Detroit
Symphony
 Michigan Opera
 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)
 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
 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)
 Introductions
 Matthew Martin
 Shawn McCann
 Process
 Martinizing the McCannical
Digital Dress: 200
Years of Urban Style

A Model Web Portal for Library/Museum

Collaboration
What Digital Dress Was Like

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 Presentation Outline
 Project Background
 Data and Data Issues
 Images and Image Issues
Project Background
Dorthea June Grossbart
Costume 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
Dorthea June Grossbart
Costume Collection
 Demonstration Project
(January 2002)
 1st Digitization project
 360 images of approximately 80
pieces
 Creation of Web accessible
digital collection
Costume Collection Web Site
Dorthea June Grossbart
Costume Collection

 Learning Experience
 Technology Acquisition
 Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS)
 Sample Collection
 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
 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
 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
 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
The Data
 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)
 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
 How Do We Make It Work?

 ISSUE: Integrating data from

different sources

Solution: Export data to a common format

 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

 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
Detroit Historical Collection Site
Henry Ford Collection Site
Meadow Brook Hall Collection Site
Search/Browse Results
Full-Image View
Description View
Unified Search Page
 Work Flow (Data)
MB HF DH

Export data and add image filenames

WSU

Convert data to HTML tables and create Dublin Core mappings

DLXS

Use DLXS to convert HTML to SGML, normalize, and index

The Images
 Image Standards

 File Formats
 TIF (uncompressed) - Archival image
 JPG - Access Images (Web)
 100 pixel max dimension Thumbnail
 1500 pixel max dimension access image
 JP2 (JPEG 2000) - through DLXS is used
to create access jpgs on the fly for
zooming and panning
 Photography Standards
 Professional Photographers
 Neutral, plain backdrop
 Dress forms
 6 megapixel digital camera
(minimum)
 At least 4 pictures per garment
(front, side, back, 3/4 angle)
3/4 and Front Views
Side and Back Views
Detail Views
Label Views
Interior View
Workflow(images)

Photographers

WSU rep. downloads images to laptop, and renames files

Tif Images copied

WSU
to a storage array

At WSU batch process set up to create thumbnail images and

access images for DLXS

DLXS
 Toys and Art
 Detroit Historical Museum.
 IMLS Grant recipients do the
digitization and metadata creation.
 Digital Video and Photography.

 WSU Art Collection

 Students work under guidance of
the curator.
 Still photography and QTVR.
 Student Research

 Metadata Standards.
 Digital Image Formats and
Standards.
 Digital Video Standards.
 QuickTime VR.
 Digital Collection Software.
 Training

Digital Photography
Scanning
Videography
QTVR
MacOS
Digital Collecting
Digital Image Standards

 Uncompressed TIFFs stored on Xserv.

 JPEG 2000 will be used for display on the
world wide web.
 One file has the ability to be displayed at
different sizes.
Digital Video Standards

 QuickTime MPEG 4
 MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC standard developed by
MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group).
 Flash Video FLV.
 Proprietary.
 Capturing objects that have motion and sound
using a Sony HC 5 miniDV.
 Continue testing different compression
techniques including H.264, Sorenson, Real,
WMV, and Flash video encoder
 QTVR

 Positives.
 Free.
 Modest demand on client side
technology.
 Dynamic, interactive presentation.
 Negatives.
 Detail can be lost.
 Heavy demand on server.
 Images can be warped and not to scale at all
times.
 QTVR

 Recommendations.
 Only use QTVR for objects that would benefit
the user to see all sides.
 Use QTVR in combination with traditional still
images
 Workflow

 Pre production.
 Prep art. Flat art attached to foam core.
 Set camera for Raw image capture @ ISO 200
 Post Production
 RAW images are cropped, color corrected, and
sharpened in PhotoShop.
 Saved as archival TIFFs without compression.
 TIFFs are stored on storage.lib.wayne.edu.
 TIFFs are also used to convert JP2000s and Thumbs
using Graphic Converter.
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