University of New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository
University Library Scholarship University Library
8-1-2008
Building New Hampshire History
Eleta Exline
University of New Hampshire - Main Campus, eleta.exline@unh.edu
Follow this and additional works at:https://scholars.unh.edu/library_pub
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Recommended Citation
Exline, Eleta, "Building New Hampshire History" (2008).University Library Scholarship. 59.
Building New Hampshire History
ExLibris Users of North America, August 1, 2008
Eleta Exline
Digital CollecEons Librarian University of New Hampshire
New Hampshire
History Bookshelf Northern Junket Magazine Colonel Edward E. Cross CollecEon
Clement Moran
Photography CollecEon Historic Topographic Maps of NE and NY Granite Monthly Magazine
New Hampshire
History Bookshelf
The New Hampshire History Bookshelf is a joint project of the University of New Hampshire
Library and New Hampshire Division of Archives and Records Management.
It includes the New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers, the Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the
Rebellion, and a selecEon of New Hampshire town histories.
New Hampshire
History Bookshelf
Challenges:
• Our first DigTool project
• No access to original scans
• Missing pages
New Hampshire
History Bookshelf
Workflow:
• Ingest files stream w/no relaEonship.
• Extract MD from ILS using MarcEdit, convert
to Dublin Core, aZach in Meditor.
• Create itemized collecEon.
• Links to DigiTool from collecEon Website.
New Hampshire
History Bookshelf
Lessons:
• Individual collecEon Websites require too
much maintenance.
• StarEng over may be beZer than reworking
old materials.
Northern Junket
Magazine
The Northern Junket magazine, part of the Ralph Page CollecEon, provides direcEons and tunes for squares, contras, and folk dances, as well as folk songs, recipes, riddles, tongue-‐
twisters, old wives' tales, and other folklife tradiEons.
Northern Junket
Magazine
Challenges
• Complicated file naming system and folder
hierarchy.
• Poor quality text – no OCR.
• Missing, skipped pages.
• Lost data.
• hZp://www.izaak.unh.edu/dlp/NorthernJunket/
Northern Junket
Magazine
Workflow
• Flat METS structure, find and replace file
names.
• TIFF and JPEG
• Extract MD from ILS and convert to DC using
Northern Junket
Magazine
Northern Junket
Magazine
Northern Junket
Magazine
Lessons:
• Overly complex filenames and folder
structures cause problems.
• Technology gets beZer – upgrade.
Colonel Edward E.
Cross CollecEon
The Colonel Edward E. Cross CollecEon consists of the correspondence, military reports,
passport and war-‐Eme journal of Colonel Edward E. Cross, commander of the Fi`h Regiment of New Hampshire during the American Civil War.
Colonel Edward E.
Cross CollecEon
Challenge:
• Civil War era script is hard to read.
Colonel Edward E.
Cross CollecEon
Workflow:
• Flat METS structure
• TIFF, JPEG, JP2, and TXT w/ minimal HTML
formabng
• DC created in Meditor a`er ingest.
Colonel Edward E.
Cross CollecEon
Colonel Edward E.
Cross CollecEon
Lesson:
• Tiny text is also hard to read.
Clement Moran
Photography CollecEon
The University Archives Clement Moran
Photography CollecEon contains historic
images of the University of New Hampshire taken between 1914 and 1940.
Clement Moran
Photography CollecEon
Challenges:
• Original project scans low resoluEon and
quality.
• No project documentaEon.
• hZp://www.izaak.unh.edu/dlp/UNH-‐Archives/
pages/index.htm
Clement Moran
Photography CollecEon
Workflow:
• Rescan images from original glass plates.
• Extract MD from Filemaker Pro database.
• CSV ingest
• TIFF, JP2
Clement Moran
Clement Moran
Clement Moran
Photography CollecEon
Lessons:
• Image quality benchmarking works.
• Rescanning may be the only good opEon.
• Pre-‐ingest metadata cleanup and
Historic Topographic Maps
of NE and NY
Historic USGS Maps of New England & New York. The United States Geological Survey began its topographic atlas of the United
States in 1882. This online collecEon of more than 1500 USGS topographic maps includes complete geographical coverage of New
England and New York from the 1890s to 1950s.
Historic Topographic Maps
of NE and NY
Challenges:
• This collecEon is extremely popular.
• Maps we scanned in four pieces with low
quality equipment.
• Current interface uses hyperlinked indexes for
navigaEon.
• File naming inconsistent.
• hZp://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/nhtopos.htm
Historic Topographic Maps
of NE and NY
Workflow:
• SEtch quarter-‐quads into whole maps using
Photoshop. Automated by a script.
• Divided into 60 batches, alphabeEcal by
filename.
• Complex object CSV.
Historic Topographic Maps
of NE and NY
Historic Topographic Maps
of NE and NY
Historic Topographic Maps
of NE and NY
Lessons:
• Replace funcEonality when re-‐implemenEng
collecEons.
• Some flaws are fundamental.
• Some soluEons are temporary.
Granite Monthly
Magazine
The Granite Monthly, a New Hampshire
magazine devoted to history, biography,
literature and state progress. Published from 1877 to 1930.
Granite Monthly
Magazine
Challenge:
Granite Monthly
Magazine
Workflow:
• Send books to OCA for scanning.
• Convert OCA book ID into URL.
• CSV with URLs ingest or PDF manifestaEon.
• Extract MD from ILS using MarcEdit, convert
Granite Monthly
Magazine
Granite Monthly
Magazine
Granite Monthly
Magazine
Granite Monthly
Magazine
Lessons:
• Evaluate soluEons in light of new informaEon.
• MulEple access points are a good thing.
• Mass digiEzaEon is preZy cool.
• hZp://www.library.unh.edu/diglib/
digitalbooks.shtml
What we’ve learned
• Re-‐implementaEon of legacy collecEons can
be harder than starEng over.
• Standards maZer.
• ImplementaEon is ongoing, especially when
new technologies or processes are added.
• CollaboraEve collecEon building can be a big
What’s next?
• Implement Handle and Alto.
• Rights management.
• Move further away from curaEon of collecEons
and toward larger scale digiEzaEon.
• Develop sustainable, consistent metadata
pracEces.
• Integrate digital with ILS and other collecEons.
• Collaborate, contribute, and coordinate.
Contact info: eleta.exline@unh.edu hZp://www.library.unh.edu/diglib/
