2012 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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Item 10 Weeks to Success: How to Quickly and Effectively Build a Collaborative Digital Collection(2012-05-25) Allen, Christy; University of Texas at ArlingtonCreating a digital collection typically requires a lot of time and thoughtful planning. But what would happen if you only had 10 weeks to plan and build a digital collection from scratch? That was the dilemma faced by the University of Texas at Arlington when the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, the Library, and the Department of Modern Languages collaborated on the digital collection “A Continent Divided: The U.S. – Mexico War.” This ambitious effort involved scanning and describing dozens of items, writing detailed essays and biographies, translating Spanish language materials, and designing/building a MySQL database and website to access the collection. All of this and more was accomplished in less than 3 months. Digital Projects Librarian, Christy Allen, will discuss the project and offer insights, guidance, and lessons learned, relevant to anyone who may be implementing a digital collection in a brief period of time.Item The Browning Letters Online(Texas Digital Library, 2012-05-25) Stuhr, Darryl; Baylor UniversityThe Baylor University Electronic Library Digitization Group partnered with the special collection Armstrong Browning Library in summer 2011 to digitize, and place online, 2,800 letters written to and from Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. Wellesley College also joined the partnership and offered to share 573 of their digitized letters with Baylor to help develop the virtual collection of Browning Letters. Baylor was excited to partner with Wellesley because they own the original love letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. The presentation will share the Digitization Group’s experience and will cover the collaborative component of the project, in-house and outsourced digitization, project workflow including data migration between systems, batch loading metadata and objects into The Baylor Library digital collection access system CONTENTdm, and the handling of full-text transcripts to the digital objects. The target audience is libraries interested in mounting digital letter collections and those interested in collaborative digital projects.Item The Wiki Method: All the Promises of Web 2.0 for Minimal Fuss(2012-05-25) Bueno, Natalie; Perrin, Joy Marie; Texas Tech UniversitySince 2009, we have been looking for a way to revamp Texas Tech University’s Digital collections. In December of 2010, we started discussing the idea of using a wiki for displaying the collections. Using Mediawiki (the same software that Wikipedia uses) and the Mediawiki Semantic Extension, we processed a few key digital collections into the wiki. We have started testing the wiki digital collections with Faculty in Spring 2012. The benefits of the method have been immediately apparent. We have more control over how our collections are displayed than we ever have. We have more options for collaboration since wiki’s are designed to be edited from the browser. This has allowed us to do experiments in crowdsourcing OCR correction, and playing with semantic web concepts in digital collections. In this presentation, we will review the work we’ve done at Texas Tech. We will discuss the many options for how to organize digital collections in Mediawiki, some interesting uses of the Semantic Extension, and describe some of the response we’ve gotten from faculty during our testing period.