Wotanin Wowapi - University of Montana

The "Montana Memory Project" is
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A collection of digital collections relating to Montana's cultural
heritage.
Access is free and open through the Internet material.
Many item are digitized copies of historical materials.
Some items are contemporary.
It serve as a resource for education, business, pleasure, and
lifelong learning.
Over time, contents may include digital
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maps, copies of photographs, rare books, historic documents,
diaries, oral histories, audio and video clips, paintings,
illustrations, art, etc.
The Montana Memory Project documents the Montana
experience.
http://mt.memory.org
History of the Montana Memory Project
• 2004 – first meeting of Libraries, Archives, and Museums to discuss digital resources
and needs
• 2005 – Purchased server and licensed CONTENTdm from OCLC
• 2006 & 2007 – Slow growth
o OCLC offers Content Cooperative pilot
• 2007 – MSL opts for an OCLC hosted solution
• 2008 – The Montana Historical Society joins the MMP
o New interface developed
o MMP Guidelines and Project Planning Document drafted
o Growth accelerates
• 2009 – MMP Executive Committee formed
o Licensed the OCLC Digital Archive
• 2010 – First dedicated staff available (partial FTE from MHS)
o First annual MMP membership meeting
o Added first scanner/laptop kits
• 2011 – Growth continues to increase
o New interface released in November
o First newspapers loaded
o Partnering with Montana Preservation Alliance on the Touchstone Project
• 2012 - Increased LSTA funding
o Katie Beall hired
o Will soon make digitization grants available
Current contributors
• Butte Silver Bow Public Library • Carroll College Library
• Fallon County Library
• Flathead County Library
Systems
• Fort Peck Tribal Library
• Lewistown Public Library
• Liberty County Library
• Maureen & Mike Mansfield Library
• Miles City Public Library
• Miles Community College
Library
• Montana Historical Society
• Montana State Library
• Montana Tech Library
• MSU – Billings Library
• Montana State University Libraries
• Park High School Library
• Parmly Billings Library
• Rocky Mountain College Library
• Rocky Mountain Laboratories Library
• Sidney Richland County Library
• State Law Library
• UM Western
Carson Library
• Yellowstone Research Library
Collection overview
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338,072 items as of April 4, 2012
Geographic distribution covers almost the entire state
Collections include
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Photographs
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Maps
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County histories
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Brand records
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Radio recordings
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Yearbooks
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Digitized texts
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Newspapers
Usage
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User Google Analytics to understand
usage
Average 2000 visits per month
Users from all over the world
1/3 visitors are return visitors
Executive Committee
• Montana Historical Society - Molly
• Academic Libraries - Jason Clark (Montana State University Library
• Public Libraries - Janice Kalvig (Flathead County Library System)
• Special Libraries – Donna McCrea (UM Archivist)
• Public Representative – Kathy Robins (Parmly Billings Library)
• School Libraries – Norma Glock (Columbus Public Schools)
• Museum Representative – Steve Jackson (Museum of the Rockies)
• Ex-officio – Statewide Projects Librarian
• Ex-officio – Mike Price
• Ex-officio - Katie Beall
Strategic planning
• Goal 1: To grow a rich body of culturally and historically
significant, digitally-reformatted materials that lead to new
understandings of Montana’s past and present.
• Develop methodologies and standards for ingesting
digitized newspapers (2011).
• GOAL 2: To build a digital resource that demonstrates current
best practices for usability and is responsive to the needs of end
users.
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GOAL 3: To expand visibility and usership.
Project Funding
• Local funds
o Banks
o Utilities
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Foundations
• State funds
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Historical Society
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State Library
• Federal Funds
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Institute of Museum and Library Services
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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Department of Education
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National Archives
Inventory
• Wotanin Wowapi Newspapers 1971 – 2008 – 32,032 pages
• Poplar Standard microfilm 1/7/1955 to 12/30/1955, 1/1/1960 to 12/31/1965,
1/3/1975 to 1/30/1976. 7 reels.
• Poplar Shopper microfilm 1/3/1975 to 12/31/1998 9 reels
The inventory, scanning, OCR and metadata applications to the estimated 32,032 pages
of newspapers and 14,400 pages of microfilm cost $33,985. This part of the project was
outsourced to University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library.
The project was completed in June 2011 and Fort Peck Tribal Library provided a
Terabyte external hard drive to hold all the digital images and metadata.
Wotanin Wowapi back files
The paper copies of the Wotanin Wowapi were delivered to the Mansfield Library in
October 2009. There were 18 boxes of newspapers.
This project has made the tribal newspaper and local Poplar papers
available to anyone who has Internet access anywhere in the world.
Fort Peck Tribal Library has presented information about this project at
several national conferences and information about Montana Memory
Project was well received with interest and questions about how it could
done elsewhere
The Digitization Process
• Inventory
• Scan newspapers
• Post-processing
• Metadata
• Quality control
• Publish
Inventory
• Track what was received
• Track what was returned
Scanning
• Scanner settings
- Color mode
- PPI
- Compression mode
- File format
• File names
- FP_[mstr/drv]_[yearmonthday]_[vol]_[no]_[page#
sectionpart].tif
- FP_drv_2002104_33_01_01a.tif
Post-Processing
• Straighten
• Crop
• Remove fingers
• Adjust levels
• Create access images
• OCR
Metadata
• Schema/Application profile
• Granularity
• Data entry
• Issues
Quality Control
• Image quality
• Completeness
• Accuracy
Publish in MMP
Format metadata
Organize files
Upload files