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Digital Libraries and Digital Archiving The Bahá’í World Centre Library experiment Bryn Deamer 19 March 2002. A depository Library for the Bahá’í Community. Established 1977 at the Bahá’í World Centre Haifa, Israel. Currently 17 FTE – only one archiving electronic items. Outline:
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Digital Libraries and Digital Archiving The Bahá’í World Centre Library experiment Bryn Deamer 19 March 2002
A depository Library for the Bahá’í Community. • Established 1977 at the Bahá’í World Centre Haifa, Israel. • Currently 17 FTE – only one archiving electronic items.
Outline: • How we got to where we are. • What materials are being saved. • How are they saved. • Some of the problems encountered.
Our internet History: • Full time connection established 1994. • First Intranet pages in Lynx 1995. • First PC in the Library c.1996. • Enterprise wide move to GUI using Windows 98 1998/99. • Updated to Windows 2000 Professional.
Web Design Criteria: • Use only system wide tools as much as feasible. • But Webstripper” had to be added to save web sites. • Simple navigation based on known customer usage patterns. • primarily geographic.
Digital materials collected. • Community Newsletters: • Fully Formatted: eg. Word, PDF. • Semi Formatted plain text emails. • HTML formatted emails.(saved via Outlook Web access) • HTML web pages saved directly from the Web.
Articles from Online Newspaper and Journals. • First year’s index in textual format:
Articles from Online Newspaper and Journals. • Second year in Table format for ease of sorting in spreadsheet.
Sound files from Web Radio: • E.g. BBC programs. • (Web page saved as screen shot – hot spot added) • Free recording software used on home PC to overcome block on streaming audio at work.
National Community web pages (proposal only) • E.g. Russia (note font challenges). • Save on an annual basis.
How are these items saved? • Formatted files received by email simply saved to C: drive and “dragged and dropped” into correct FrontPage Web folder. • HTML and text emails saved using Web Access to Outlook to create “simple” HTML files. • Individual Web pages saved using I.E. “save as” function. • Multiple pages/entire web sites saved using “Webstripper”. • Sound recorded with free software on PC at home out of office hours.
Major problems: • Special Effects on some Web pages just cannot be saved. • Loss of context in advertising when Online articles saved. • FrontPage cannot handle large webs, requiring a new “web” each year, seamlessly linked to from one index web. • No access to the collection yet from the Library’s primitive WEB OPAC. • Some items linked “backwards” simply to remind users that they are looking at a Library Collection.
CONCLUSIONS • Brewster Kahl’s Internet Archive our greatest hope. • Nevertheless, this experiment in saving a very specific sub-set of the web has been intriguing and will continue. • Full subject access to the digital collection will depend on the purchase of an Integrated Library Management System for the Library.
Bryn Deamer (bryn@deamer.org) Electronic Information Systems Librarian Bahá’í World Centre Library Haifa, Israel Electronic Information Systems Librarian:xlib@bwc.org Public web page: http://library.bahai.org Internet Librarian International 2002.