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Gettysburg Postcard Collection

Gettysburg Postcard Collection. GettDigital : A look at Musselman Library’s Virtual Special Collections and Archives. Shannon Johnson LBSC 690. Kayla Lenkner. Currently a Reference Librarian Has been covering various jobs around the library

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Gettysburg Postcard Collection

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  1. Gettysburg Postcard Collection GettDigital: A look at Musselman Library’s Virtual Special Collections and Archives Shannon Johnson LBSC 690

  2. Kayla Lenkner Currently a Reference Librarian Has been covering various jobs around the library Assigned to Special Collections last semester

  3. Musselman Library Part of the Gettysburg College Campus Serves both students and community members Special Collections is on the 4th floor

  4. GettDigital digitization and preservation effort by Musselman Library to provide virtual access to materials Anyone can access the documents at any time A form of public relations where they can showcase items donated to college They have a large screen that they can showcase the digital copy while also showing the original during class instruction

  5. Why Postcards? • Personal interest in history of them • Some classes on campus study tourism of the area/ how battle was remembered • Gather all postcards into one convenient place from many different collections

  6. The Process • Searched archives for all postcards • Scanned with Epson Expression 10000XL at 400dpi, 24-bit color • Saved the images in the archival tiff format to their server, saved in a file structure • The image you see online is a jpg

  7. The Data • In a separate spread sheet she entered the metadata about the postcards: • Controlled vocabulary • Numbering system to connect info to postcard • All postcards were assigned: • Description: what you see • Subjects: created by what people may be looking for • Date Ranges: these were fixed from reading into postcard history • The spreadsheet was saved in a tab delimitated file

  8. CONTENTdm digital collection software She uploaded the file structure photos and then the spreadsheet information CONTENTdm reads both files and marries them into the website you see The program has website and browser info and the structure of items Meta Schema is Dublin Core

  9. Example

  10. Spreadsheet

  11. What is uploaded to CONTENTdm

  12. Sample Vocabulary

  13. Problems • Writing controlled vocabulary • If she changed her mind had to physically change on all entries • If older building names had changed what to call them now • Battlefields tab on front page is acting up • Only retrieves 6 results when there are over 80 • She believes it has to do with the splash page, which was created by an intern

  14. Results for GettDigital Collections • 25 digital collections and counting • Don’t track stats by specific collection • All of GettDigitalfor the year June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2011, using Google Analytics.  • There were 17,290 hits to GettDigital pages total.  • Visitors to these pages came from 123 different countries (12,042 from the US; 883 from the UK; 471 from Australia; 462 from Canada; 291 from Germany; 254 from Italy; 219 from France; • They also tracked how people got to the pages: 29.53% of visits were from Google; 28.68% from gettysburg.edu sites; 18.44% were from directly typing in the address; 5.75% from yahoo; and then 4.67% linked in from Wikipedia

  15. Questions?

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