 Good morning, I'm so pleased to be here and have the opportunity to talk to you this morning Y'all know we are famous for tobacco bourbon and horse racing so that aside We I'll hope you will understand after I talked to this morning about why we were selected as one of the hubs We are so pleased to be a part of this project and I've been watching it since it's very very beginning So I'm just thrilled We started digitizing and building a digital library around 1998 in Kentucky with the support of the Council on post-secondary education and the state assisted Academic libraries around the state. We started out with finding aids That was our first project was getting find eggs from the archives around the state and providing access so that people could know What are in these archives and expose that content that went really well then we thought well We could do photographs we could you know, that was doable. So we did that And if you can do photographs you can do maps, you know, so we added maps to the mix then The English department at UK had a microfilm scanner that they gave to the library It's like well, what can we do with this microfilm scanner? We've got microfilm You know, we've got lots of microfilms So we did a book project with the support of IMLS to get books about Kentucky That were damaged rare that we had on microfilm make those accessible digitally this with this was just such a precious project We just like made it so But it was very boutique and if the images look great and then we thought well If you can do books on microfilm certainly we could do newspapers Then we saw the announcement from NEH for the national digital newspaper program And we never ever thought about outsourcing this work. We thought oh, we can do this It's like kind of like those old Judy Garland Movies where they say we can have a show. It's like yeah, we can have a show we can digitize new newspapers It's like oh gosh, I would never advise anybody to start with newspapers. Let me just say that then we went into archival collections manuscripts and Then finally audio and video in our oral history rich oral history collections So I'll tell you a little bit about those different kinds of content as we go forward This you know these early projects we had they were very boutique and as I'm I call them precious objects because we you know every pixel was perfect and We spent a lot of time we quickly realized it was not scalable It was not cost efficient There was no way we could do the volume that we really needed to do if we approached the projects in that way we learned a lot from that and took those learnings and Move them forward As we move from this boutique process to a mass digitization project Process that we use as we go forward. We are taking everything that we can Automating it making it fast doing everything that we can to create the tools to make this a quick process So that we can work toward mass digitization scale So we are we continue to come tweak that and make it better each This is something that's a continuing ongoing process for us and it is working We are happy to say that it is actually working So as we looked at our archival collections, we worked with our archives to say, how are you? Processing these collections and they were wanting to get their collections on quickly as well And so how are you going to do that? Can you work on that workflow from the very beginning to processing the collections up through? Digitizing them and they were amenable to doing that. So we're continually working on that and ramping that up so we can get more content on very quickly our repository infrastructure we have been forced through a number of Changes technically to examine that that structure. We had content management systems But we didn't have the preservation aspect that we really wanted so Over the last couple of years. We've been working on building a repository structure It is based on the model the microservices model from that was developed really with the California Digital Library and we Start with just a file store Anything can go into it. We can package up We're thinking about born digital collections Congressional collections coming to us that are all digital. Where are we going to do that? We can't don't have the luxury of sticking those in a box in the basement till we have time to Process them so we want to make sure they're secure forever So we are building that into that workflow into the repository infrastructure We were going to build this Management system ourselves because we're a can-do kind of shop in Kentucky We we know we can develop a whole digital management system and I think we could do it but our Programmers went to curate camp and they met the folks from the Florida Center and Library and administer Automation and They had rewritten their dates software dark archive in the Sunshine State and I don't think they really go use that Rackern out or the full blown Title for that any longer. It's it's really they refer to it as dates and our guys came back and said hey You know they're built they've built out using Ruby are the programming language that we use They've built this out already so we have adopted that We've also have put on a discovery layer using black light So it's a very it's all built with open-source tools and the important thing about this is we can store things in a very secure Repository so all of our digital content is protected and we're confident that it's protected In addition to that we are sharing that software all the work that we have done over the last two years We're making it available so the other libraries can take that on and don't have to spend that development time and can Easily tweak it and put it in place for their own repositories So a little bit about our collections Emily mentioned we have 800,000 pages of newspaper content and we do it's a lot of newspapers We have books finding aids photographs my manuscripts and archival collections Maps oral histories and then other kinds of serial publications and paginated publications This is growing exponentially if you look at those numbers, you know If I was trying to think about how to put it on a graph, and I'll just describe it It's just ramping up incredibly fast for instance in the last year We have tweaked these processes so much that in the last year we scanned in our shop over 300,000 pages 300,000 images are of this content that we have were done in the last year So it is ramping up very very quickly Now the one thing that we're hoping That will happen and I'm confident this will happen is that we're reaching out to other libraries and archives around the state and The DP LA the chance for them to have this on-ramp to a national program Is going to be the hook that we need to get them to participate with us with the Kentucky Digital Library? So we're very Grateful for the opportunity and it really falls in line with the mission that we had already So we are the way we're going to spend the money is we're going to focus on our strengths the strengths that we have The National Digital Newspaper Program really provided us that framework to do newspapers We know newspapers and while we did it ourselves We were the only one of the first partners that didn't think of outsourcing it It's like it just never occurred to us people say why didn't you contact the vendor because everybody else did It's like we didn't really think of it, you know You know, we we wanted to do it ourselves and we were confident we could do it ourselves I think we actually were given the money thinking can they really do this? I mean, I really think there was some skepticism at the beginning, but we did it and While we went through that process. We learned newspapers I think we know newspapers as much about newspapers as any place in the country And so we we've done we've participated in in DNP and we're so grateful for that support And it's been wonderful and we have taken that knowledge and has expanded it way beyond our in DNP content so the standards were set there was a high volume and we pushing that Project forward we've now we do outsourced pieces of this now But we're retaining those parts that need our expertise and we have learned which parts to give away and to Contract with to make it faster Here's an example of a paper that is It was the Kentucky Gazette this this is a partnership with our Lexington Public Library they had a whole run of this paper starting from 1789 and 1789 was a long time ago in terms of newspapers, but they had these they had a bad microphone copy So we thought you know, let's see if we can digitize this from the source documents Using what we know about newspapers and really go for it. And so this is how it displays up in our in our Content management system in blacklight. We've got the page image You can switch the user can switch views from that image So you can see the thumbnails of how many your objects are in that issue for instance You can get the details of that the metadata that's there and then the text it is We did some OCR on it It's kind of crazy OCR because you've got these characters that look like f's, but they're s's But so the user can actually look through there This is a project that I think we could do some hand cleanup with Volunteer effort a collaborative kind of thing to make the searching even better for this and then you can get a PDF Version of this as well the the newspaper. So you can get deep down into it. You can look at it This paper is so interesting. There's lots of ads on the front pages for people that are missing It's like people went missing all the time apparently in 1789 and I thought it was so interesting because For one example like apprentices, they must have treated their apprentices really badly Because people they were constantly running away and there were ads for them things like and he is wearing this But he might have friends that could give him a different suit of clothes. It's like really they had one outfit That's it. You can identify somebody by the clothes, you know So it's those kinds of things that you don't know it gives you a sense of what life was like in the 1789 in Lexington, Kentucky. So I thought it was very interesting So our newspaper content is rich. We have so much newspaper content Because Kentucky the way it was placed a lot of the westward expansion happened right through Kentucky And this is documented in our newspapers. We have Appalachian titles So learning about Appalachia what kind of what life is like in these communities in Coal camps in Appalachia. We've got that we've got some African American newspapers that are rare rare rare and You just can't find them. We're always on the search. We've partnered with the African American encyclopedia project and as they look for content for that they're on their lookout for newspapers as well Civil war newspapers. We've got lots of civil war newspapers and because we're a border state We have both perspectives on that war and then the daily racing form, you know This goes back to our horse racing. We have digitized a lot of the daily racing form in partnership with Keeneland library at the Keeneland race course. And so oral history is another thing Emily mentioned our oral histories And we've got a long history with oral history. We've got 30 years of oral history some really rich collections and we've got The new Louis B. Nunn Center for oral history at the University of Kentucky and Really one of the experts in moving oral history into the digital age How do you provide access to this and we've got a lot of the expertise resides With dr. Doug Boyd at the Louis B. Nunn Center One thing that we have struggled with and that's been a sort of an impediment to getting oral history online is how do you search it? How do you find the part you know to listen to a two-hour? Interview for that part that you that one little part that you want that can be You know kind of hard and then getting the transcripts That is one of the impediments or the transcripts for it costs about two hundred dollars an hour to do a transcript for an oral Oral history and so that really that barrier is for smaller places That is just enough to make them say we can't do it And so we're really moving beyond the transcript looking at indexing things We have developed some software that allows you to search through if you have a transcript to search through the transcript and get to that part of the interview to listen to that part and we're realizing that in In addition to that people when they're going to talk for instance about this about civil rights They don't say now I'm going to talk about desegregation You know they'll talk all around the subject, but they never say the word desegregation so you can't search on that word so we're looking at Indexing putting it overlaying that with an index that would allow you to look at that and then get to that part a subject index for these oral histories and With and I would mention that we're working on that own software with support from my MLS This is a grant that we're going to make this available this software for any content management system that we can think of Including content DM which many many small libraries have so that they can get their oral histories online This is a project. I think it's so exciting this from comeback to Kentucky This is an interviews that we did with student veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan We thought we'll capture these stories as they come back from the war and as they integrate back into campus life around Kentucky And so we've done a number of these interviews the theater department at UK has then taken that and created the Play around it and then they actually performed that off-Broadway So there's these kind of things can build once you get that content out there Now we I'd like to show you one of these interviews and we're going to Play this this Taylor Tyler Gayheart who was returned from Iraq and This shows the index that you can get to so you can actually search the index You can hear Tyler speak and then if you flip over to the transcript You can actually scroll down through that transcript If you find a part you want you click and it goes to that part of the transcript or you can do a search through the transcript to get to Something if you search on parents for instance, I think let's see if we can I don't know if they can type up there Can you type parents into that keyword search box? And see then you can see scroll down in the index below if you click on one of these on the side I'm originally and it goes to that point in the interview. So so this I was born in Ashland, Kentucky So I think these are Kind of amazing kind of moments that you can get when you get your oral history out there So if we can just go back to the presentation, that would be great So I think that's where the magic happens when you get those that kind of content together We've got collections on all these kind of topics. We've found around the state There are some interviews with World War one veterans Those are very rare and they're on audio on real-to-real tapes So as part of this we're going to digitize that and get those online But we've got lots and lots of collections around the state that on various topics that'll be very very interesting I think on our archival collections. These are some of our strengths in our archival collections. We've got civil war slavery civil rights Commerce we've got Tom's Clark with one of our historians went around the south and collected ledgers from small country stores So we've got all those so those are the kinds of things We want to get into the DP LA There's an example of a Civil War diary that we have and I think one of the community engagement pieces we'd like to get transcripts Made from these so somebody civil war buffs and there are lots of them Would be happy to do a crowdsourcing project and get these so they're searchable and they're fascinating when you read them It's a really part of what we want to do is empower others We want to do metadata training for the archives around the state will do digitization from some of these smaller places and then create that on ramp for other institutions to get online We want to do public events We're going to have scanning events where people bring their treasures and we scan them and add That content into our library and really engage with those specialized communities like civil war buffs like Genealogists and those kind of things and so really this is helping us get that last mile that we've Struggled with it's like how do we get to those places? This is allowing us to do what we want to do anyway This is allows us to do that fulfill that part of the mission that we never had the ability or the funding to do This is doing it for us and we're just so happy about it And so we really want to engage The community in such a real way and this is going to be a huge thing for us So thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you to all the funders We are extraordinarily grateful for this opportunity and we hope to do you proud. We'll I'm excited to work with the rest of the partners and it's going to be awesome. Thank you very much