Audio Published Poem Overlays Notebook Pages
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A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way
to Digital Commons
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Some Background
• The Wesley McNair Papers
• Teaching the making of poetry
• “Poem cluster” concept
• “New & Selected”
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Challenge
• Capturing audio
– Wes read the poems
– Digital Marantz recorded them
– Pat edited the wav files and converted them to
mp3
Colby College Special Collections
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Challenge
• Choosing poem notebook pages
– Evolution of poem creation
– Three pages for each cluster
– Transcription of content
Colby College Special Collections
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Challenge
• Making the notebook pages legible
– Wes deciphered notebook pages
– Jack (student assistant) deciphered the
transcription
– Outcome: “scripts” in Word
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Challenge
• Scanning Notebook Pages
– NARA guidelines
– Legibility
– File naming
• McNair_ShortyTowers_D12-4_001_m
– Collection Name
– Abbreviated poem title
– Notebook identifier
– Sequence of notebook page (001, 002, 003)
– m (for master file; c for cropped file)
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Challenge
• Describing and Finding
– Dublin Core
– Complex objects
• Digital Commons
– Simple objects only
– Relationship links too far down on the page
• What to do?
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Existing Search Outcomes
•• Keyword
11object
Keyword
object
•• Keyword
1
object
You might really want…
Keyword
1
object
Change the Paradigm
•• Keyword
11object
Keyword
object
•• Keyword
11object
Keyword
object
•• Keyword
1
object
Keyword
1
object
•• Keyword
1
object
Keyword
1
object
•• Keyword
1
object
Keyword
1
object
•• Keyword
1
object
Keyword
1
object
•• Keyword
1
object
Keyword
1
object
But
– How?
•
Keyword
1
object
But would you
•• Keyword
11object
Keyword
object
•
Keyword
1
object
give up before you
•• Keyword
1
object
Keyword
1
object
found it?
•• Keyword
1
object
Keyword
1
object
•• Keyword
1
Keyword 1object
object
Colby College Special Collections
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Solution Logic…IF
• IF HOLDINGS are GENERIC
– Not changeable (…a rose is a rose is a rose…)
• AND IF COLLECTIONS are UNIQUE
– Changeable (audio, video, McNair, poetry)
• THEN
– HOLDINGS are OBJECTS
– COLLECTIONS are UNIQUE CODE
– And can be interpreted as an OO situation
Solution Logic…THEN
• GIVEN that
– Special Collections are
OBJECT-ORIENTED
• We should then be able
to USE OO logic in
describing, identifying
and displaying them
• YES!
Digital Commons Presentation
Digital Commons
Presentation to Digital Commons
• Requesting
– Change in their application
– Virtual display before object
display
Outcome
• Agreement!
But…it would be
at least 2 years before
we would see it.
Sooooo….
The Interim Tool Search
• Web-based
• Able to mimic:
– Complex object display
• Collection identity
– Dublin Core metadata storage
– Digital Commons keyword search
– Google content search
• Easy to use and maintain
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Why WordPress
• Free on Web
• WPMU being installed
• Complex object display
– HTML capability
– Categories
• Dublin Core metadata
– Content Management
• Google and keyword search
– Tags
• WYSIWYG intuitive
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Target Digital Commons Architecture
Object
Build real-time
Relationship Display
~~~
Select Object
Search
“The Mute”
by Wes McNair
Single
Object
MD
Display simple object or
complex relations?
C S
Finds “The Mute” and related objects
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Target WordPress Architecture
Poem Title
Audio
Published Poem
To object…to metadata
NBP1
TRN1
SBS1
NBP2
TRN2
SBS2
NPB3
TRN3
SBS3
Too Much of a Good Thing
A “virtual” plague
of
Tags and Categories
1st “OMG” Moment
• Proliferation of posts…
– 12 thumbnail objects per virtual Poem cluster
PLUS
– 3 objects per virtual Side-by-Side
(opacity vs. duplication)
PLUS
– 12 matching metadata objects
PLUS
– 12 enlarged simple objects
PER POEM!
Colby College Special Collections
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2nd “OMG” Moment
• Plague of tags and categories
– 5 system admin tags
WITH
– Up to 5 categories
WITH
– Up to 10 search tags
PER POEM!
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Rethinking the Mimicry Thing
• Do ONLY 5 poems for Digital Commons
(-192 objects)
(-3,840 tags and categories)
• Use WP search for Google capabilities
(-8240 tags and categories)
• Ditch the displays that we didn’t need
(-6 objects)
(-120 tags and categories)
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Follow the Rules
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Strict file naming convention
Strict image sizing and resolution guidelines
Extensive use of templates
50% opacity for overlays
Font size and color
Source image size
Colby College Special Collections
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After-the-Fact Epiphany
• Original author requirement:
– Ability of users to read while listening
– Ooops!
• Realization that the almost-final site design
did not include this
• Mel was…dismayed…to hear this news
Colby College Special Collections
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Design by Iteration
Is inherently stressful…
• Prototype 1
– We love it!
• Prototype 2
– We hate it!
• Prototype 3
– Ditch it – go back
• Prototype 4
– Let’s start over…
But it can lead to really insightful solutions…
2 Different but Equal Clusters
• 5 Digital Commons
Cluster
– Virtual display
LEADING TO…
• Image objects
leading to…
– metadata
• Audio objects
leading to…
• 42 Teaching Clusters
– Virtual Display
LEADING TO…
• Reading/Listening
pages
• Commentary from
Poet
• Teaching aids
– metadata
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Digital Commons Cluster
1.
Private
1. Mimics virtual display
2. Links to objects
2a.
2b.
2c.
2d.
2c.
2d.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Audio
Published Poem
Notebook Pages
Transcript Overlays
3. Links to metadata
2c.
2d.
Teaching Cluster
Public
1. Click to enlarge
(any image)
2. Links to audio
“Reading while
Listening”
b) Embedded audio on page
2b.
2a.
1.
3.
4.
3.
4.
a)
3. Notebook Pages
4. Transcript Overlays
5. Audio
1.
1.
3.
4.
Status
• Design phase concluded (or else!)
• Clusters still being added
• Non-cluster audio being added
• Teaching Clusters ready for promotion
• Digital Commons demo ready for presentation
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
Observations
• “It’s a good thing we didn’t know
what we were in for.”
• “Stay organized.”
• “Keep your sense of humor!”
Colby College Special Collections
http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections
You’ve experienced
THE ADVENTURE,
Now view
THE DEMO!
(continue)
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Home Page
Commentary
Lovers of the Lost
Notebooks
10 Teaching Questions
Teaching Tools
Reading Poetry Aloud
Scored Poem
Content Search
Content Search Result
Teaching Cluster Components
Audio
Published
Poem
Notebook
Pages
Overlays
Notebook Pages
Overlays
Reading and Listening
Listening
Metadata Object
Metadata Editing View
Dashboard - Posts
Dashboard - Pages
Dashboard - Templates
Tags and Categories
A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way
to Digital Commons
Q&A
Pat Burdick
Erin Rhodes
Mel Regnell
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