2012 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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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 Digital Collaboration: Effective Partnerships & Repository Management(Texas Digital Library, 2012-05-25) Tarver, Hannah; Moore, Jeremy; University of North TexasThe UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit regularly collaborates with other departments, campus entities, and external institutions. We currently have over two hundred partners of various kinds contributing to the more than 260,000 digital objects in our system. Our presentation will discuss procedures and techniques that can help to streamline collaborative projects, and outline some of the concerns that institutions may want to keep in mind when starting similar projects. We will focus on providing suggestions to help others have more successful collaborative digital projects including: considerations at the initial point of contact, managing the practical aspects of the process to make digitization run smoothly, and the benefits of collaborative projects for participants and the users that access their digital items.Item Enhancing Educational Access to Art(2012-05-25) Higgins, Jessica; Karadkar, Unmil P.; Pavelka, Karen; Zinser, Catherine; University of Texas at AustinArt museums are an important unit on several university campuses. These museums bring value to the university community by serving as custodians of paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. These museums serve as a resource of unparalleled importance in education related to art, architecture, language, and culture by providing instructors with access to rare artifacts of cultural significance. While the museum staff is committed to helping faculty locate items of interest, they are hard pressed for time and do not always possess the domain-specific vocabulary used by instructors in diverse disciplines. Artifacts in the museums are organized and described by museum professionals, while they are used by academics. The resulting disconnect between the expectations of both groups affects the use of these artifacts. We aim to address this issue by enhancing a collection of prints and drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art with a rich, domain-specific description that meets the expectations of a multi-disciplinary faculty. Instructors in several departments at UT Austin use the Prints and Drawings Collection as a teaching tool. This collection includes over 13,000 artifacts, which were executed over four centuries. This is a closed collection and the collection manager provides access to specific prints and drawings upon request. The metadata related to the prints can be accessed only through computers situated in the museum, further limiting access to it. Thus, instructors are unable to browse the collection at their convenience and rely heavily on the Blanton staff to provide suggestions for relevant works. This practice results in a small pool of items being viewed repeatedly, while other prints of interest go unnoticed. We take a used-centered design approach to create a prototype of a richly described repository of artifacts from this collection. We started by conducting interviews of faculty in the areas of Art, Art History, French, and Architecture to gain an understanding of their challenges in accessing the collection and their needs for effectively locating items of interest. Based on the responses from these instructors, we have made two modifications to the infrastructure: firstly, we populated a repository using CollectiveAccess, an open source repository software, with representative samples of prints used by these instructors to enable long-distance, internet-based access. We also augmented the metadata contained in the museum’s proprietary cataloging software to include fields and content desired by the instructors using the Getty Institute’s CDWA Lite schema. The resulting repository is thus based on open standards, improving the potential for its use by various demographics on campus, as well as, improving its visibility for remote users and repositories through interoperability protocols. We are currently evaluating this prototype repository. In the first stage, we are evaluating our design with the help of the instructors who set the expectations for this repository. This evaluation will help us fine tune the interface features, repository architecture, as well as our use of the CDWA Lite schema.