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Workflows We Offer

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workflows workflows

• Images scanned at local repositories in response to researcher requests
• Content produced from Harvard Library special projects
• Content produced from in-house projects or acquired from a vendor or donor by local repositories

The Procedure to Use this Service

1. Contact Submit an Imaging Services (see the "Imaging Services Contact" section at the end of this page)project proposal by following the link in this page.
2. Determine the workflow with Imaging Services (see the "Workflows We Offer" section above and their detailed descriptions)
3. Copyright clearance
4. Set up the file delivery method/procedure with Imaging Services (see "File Delivery Method" section below)
5. Provide DRS related information to Imaging Services (see the "DRS information" block in the "Check List ..." section below)
6. Arrange to ran a pilot batch with Imaging Services if necessary
7. Confirm a fee if applied
8. Schedule file deliveries (one time or regular)

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• Shared directory on Imaging Services File Server
• Hard disk or flash drive
• Shared Google Drive (managed by Imaging Services)
• Next Cloud space managed by LTS (pilot)
• Repository or vendor managed file sharing platform
• Shared directory using MS or Google (for a small set of files)
• Harvard Secured File Transfer (https://filetransfer.harvard.edu)

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• It is recommended that the repository sends an email to inform Imaging Services that a batch is ready to be processed.
• Repository should always keep a copy of data.

Batching

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Batching Batching

We expect files are delivered in batches.  We refer a batch as a deposit unit in a reasonable "size".   The "size" could be considered from the combination of several factors:

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• Structural metadata for PDS objects.
• Descriptive metadata before or after depositing.

Fees

$0 - $50 per batch based on the workflow.  Please follow the links in "Workflows We Offer" section above to see the details.

File Format and File Organization

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Question for using this service:

• Bill Comstock (comstock@fas.harvard.edu)
• Mingtao Zhao (mzhao@fas.harvard.edu)

Batch deposit: 

• Mingtao Zhao (mzhao@fas.harvard.edu)
• Hilary Kline (kline@fas.harvard.edu) 

Billing and Others: 

Imaging Service Office, 
G81 Widener Library, 
Imaging@fas.harvard.edu
617-495-3995

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Examples Examples

Examples

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PDS object in Harvard Viewer
Alfred G. Meyer letters from the USSR, 1958. Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Collection, H.C. Fung Library, Harvard University.

Multi-Repository:

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Scanning Key Content (SKC)

See the SKC project wiki page (esp. the "Deposit" section)

Fee: $50/batch during Harvard Library Lab project phase.  $0/batch after it was established as Library-wide project.

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• Cataloging involved
• Files need to renamed and re-grouped
• Image processing involved
• Error checking with the image-provider involved (corrupted images and file grouping)

Deliverable examples:

• A PDS document list object: Ili geziti
• A PDS object: Ili geziti. [Xinjiang?]: [publisher not identified], 1965.
• Record in HOLLIS: Ili geziti, [Xinjiang?], [publisher not identified], Harvard-Yenching Library.

Harvard Kennedy School Library: Depositing Working Papers

Original files and delivery:

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• A PDS object: Tourism and economic development : considerations for tribal policy and planning
• and its record in ALMAHOLLIS:   http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990023595690203941/catalog

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