2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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Item Digitizing for Accessibility: Building a Multimedia Disability History Archive That’s ADA Compliant(2017-05-24) Schenk, Krystal; Leverenz, Andrew; University of Texas at ArlingtonIn the late 1960s, disabled students convinced UT Arlington administrators to make the campus accessible to students with a wide array of disabilities, striving to make the school into a model campus for Texas and the greater Southwest. This pioneering spirit continues today with establishment of the Minor in Disability Studies in 2013, the first such program in the southern U.S. In order to support this new program and to preserve a rich campus history, the UTA Libraries assembled hundreds of items from its Special Collections relating to people with disabilities, including photographs, videos, reports, letters, and objects. Added to these were oral histories from a wide variety of disability rights activists, athletes and coaches in adapted sports, advocates for higher education accessibility, and alumni of UTA, among others. The resulting Texas Disability History Collection website was built using the Drupal content management system. The size and scope of the project posed several challenges, including how to merge metadata from 27 separate collections, how to prepare the materials to be accessible by people with disabilities, and how to design and test the website to ensure the broadest accessibility.Item The Government Documents Digitization Initiative: Shepherding Resources from Shelf to Server(2017-05-25) Laddusaw, Ryan; Sare, Laura; Buckner, Sean; Texas A&M UniversityIn Fall 2016, the Texas A&M University Libraries embarked on a project to digitize a collection of Flood Insurance Studies, published by the Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration and to submit them to HathiTrust. To enable long-term access and discoverability, we have decided to assign each item an Archival Resource Key (ARK) as both a persistent identifier and a uniform resource locator. We are using the EZID service to maintain our identifiers and their N2T (name-to-thing) resolver to persist and provide metadata for our items. We then create metadata for each report and process each one into a submission information packet according to HathiTrust’s guidelines and submit them for ingestion. A Flood Insurance Study (FIS) is a compilation and presentation of flood risk data for specific watercourses, lakes, and coastal flood hazard areas within a community. When a flood study is completed for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the information and maps are assembled into an FIS. For a few years, these studies were distributed to federal depository libraries. Many depository libraries are digitizing their collections for inclusion into HathiTrust. We noticed that some FIS digitized in HathiTrust were missing some of the foldout data tables, so we decided to digitize our collection and focus on making sure the maps and data tables were viewable in an online format. To ensure continued access to this collection, we have created an Archival Resource Key (ARK) for each item. ARKs are a type of persistent identifier that also function as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). This allows a user to enter the ARK and the N2T resolver’s hostname into a web browser and arrive at a page containing metadata that will enable them to easily identify and locate the desired resource. This allows researchers to embed the ARK in their work, and anyone can use this URL property to quickly locate and access the referenced material. By digitizing this collection, we are able to increase accessibility and discoverability of these resources. This project will produce a digital version of this collection, and will allow us to reduce the size of the physical collection and save space, without sacrificing access to any of these items. In this presentation, we will review the origins of the project, present the workflow involved from scanning to HathiTrust submission, and talk about the future of the project.