DLIT Projects - 2007 Report

KVRC deployment

DLDS

Knight Visual Resources Collection contains digital images that support instruction at Cornell University. It includes a broad range of images of art including art history, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, material culture, maps, and other documentary material. This growing collection is an initiative of the Knight Visual Resources Facility of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. http://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=6093806&DB=local

LSDI storage

DLDS

CUL/CIT agreement for LSDI Tier 4 storage

Digital Asset Management

DLDS

CUL/CVM/CIT agreement for development of Fedora-based DAM system

Euclid

EPT

Completed first major Euclid upgrade since 2003 (to DPubS 2.0).

Euclid

EPT

Doubled the amount of content in Euclid.

DPubS

EPT

Public release of DPubS 2.1.

EPT operations

EPT

Consolation of all non-Euclid publications onto a single DPubS 2.1 system.

Cornell Daily Sun

DMG

Vol. 1-50 (1880 - 1930) digitized.  Updated to deliverables in METS/ALTO format (as National Digital Newspaper Program standard)  currently on test at: http://cdsun-test.library.cornell.edu/ Will launch publically available in January 2008.  75 of first 100 years completed.

Amazon Print-on-Demand

DMG-Web

completed submission of files, total ~6K titles.  Will enter revenue-generation stage in early 2008. 

Alumni & Friends

DMG

transition of site from CIT hosted to CommonSpot at CUL

eCommons

DMG-Web

eCommons@Cornell (the change from DSpace to eCommons)

Aerial Photographs

DMG-Web

http://aerial-ny.library.cornell.edu/ny/

DMG-RMC Workflow

DMG

Thorough work-flow analysis, revamping of price structure, improved relations

LSD-I

DMG

QC/QA; Project oversight; In-house operation; Unit Library coordination

Goldsen Archive

DMG/Web

http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/

Staff IT support and services

DS

Through a unit re-organization in mid-February, Desktop Services transitioned from having a single, dedicated IT service provider assigned to each Library unit to a unified team-based Help Desk. As a result of this change, we improved service responsiveness to Library staff IT requests and reinforced common standards of practice within our group. The change enabled us to implement an issue tracking system and facilitated the development of internal procedures and documentation, improving our effectiveness. We directly support approximately 300 Library staff (plus student staff), representing almost 400 staff desktop and laptop computers in units residing within six campus buildings.

Provisioning public computers

DS

Of the approximately 200 desktop public computers Desktop Services maintains in a dozen buildings across campus, we replaced over 90 this past summer as part of our regular 4-year public computer replacement schedule. We also replaced, and expanded by over 30 laptops, the public loaner laptop program's 3-year old laptops with 75 laptops in seven libraries (increased from five libraries). Uris Library still has over 30 loaner laptops, and Olin Library now loans out an additional 30. We are also replacing the last of the public CRT monitors with contemporary LCD monitors, and are pleased to report that our public monitors are now on a regular replacement schedule.

Staff computer and monitor replacements

DS

We successfully addressed a backlog of 50 older staff computers, enabling us to get back on track to replacing approximately 100 staff systems each year as part of our standard 4-year staff computer replacement schedule. In the spring we also entered the third year of our planned 5-year CRT-to-LCD staff monitor replacement program, during which we purchased and deployed so many extra staff LCDs that we'll be able to complete the upgrade program a full year earlier than planned.

eNerf development and implementation

SDG

Working with Liisa Mobley and other staff members in LTS, Matt Connolly adapted the MANTIS open source software for the purpose of eresource workflow management. The new software increases the speed and efficiency of our acquisitions workflow significantly.

web log statistical server

SDG

Pete Hoyt developed a replacement for Nettracker that improves and expands the quantity and quality of reports available on the use of our online resources. Our next step is to develop an AJAX interface that will allow users to queue up and save reports.

Web Vision report

SDG

Adam was a member of the team that researched and wrote the Web Vision report that sets our strategic online direction for the next couple years. Adam is also chairing the group responsible for implementing OCLC WorldCat Local as a replacement for our Voyager OPAC.