Services

Services related to creation:

• Content discovery through outreach to faculty, staff, and other audiences
• Materials assessment
• Digitization and reformatting
  • Image scanning
  • Text encoding
  • Audio processing
• Metadata creation
• Data & content harvesting
• Coordination of externally-created metadata and content
• Project management
• Consultation

Services related to stewardship:

• Collection content management: identifying, filling gaps in coverage
• Content archiving and migration
• Definition and documentation of content and metadata standards
• Participation in international standards
• Persistent identification of digital objects
• Workflow management
• Production support

Services related to access:

• Content hosting
• Content discovery
  • Local searching & retrieval
  • Exposing metadata for harvesting by external services
  • Publicity
• Integration with:
  • Other infrastructure components
  • E-learning environments
  • Portal
  • Metasearch tools
  • Citation managers
• User interface selection, development
• Digital object display and navigation
• Web design
• Accessibility
• Request fulfillment

Services related to outreach and education:

• Training content owners in metadata creation
• Consultation and training in digitization
• Presentations to faculty, staff, students
• Publicity for new content
• Library staff awareness
• Partnership with DoIT Educational Technology to increase faculty awareness of DL collections