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Item Being an 'a11y': Increasing Accessibility in Born Digital Preservation(2014-03-25) Snider, Lisa; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at AustinIn the past few years, archivists and librarians have grappled with issues associated with the long term preservation of born digital materials. Are we considering the needs of people with disabilities when preserving these materials? This presentation will explore how we can increase accessibility when preserving born digital materials. Taken from an archival point of view, the presentation will focus on one solution that may make our born digital material more accessible to people with disabilities.Item Collection Development for an Institutional Repository through Collaborations between Departments(2013-03-26) Randtke, Wilhelmina; Detweiler, Brian; St. Mary's UniversityPoster presentation: St. Mary’s University School of Law’s Sarita Kenedy East Law Library recently launched an institutional repository. The School of Law and law library had no preexisting digital collections. In order to quickly acquire appropriate content, the law library focused on locating born digital materials, such as School of Law publications, which had not previously been formally archived. The law library also attempted to identify digitization performed as part of routine library operations, and to assess digitized material for long term archiving. The law library was able to quickly and efficiently build an online collection for the repository by collecting preexisting born digital material, and assessing for inclusion material provided digitally to professors after conversion from legacy formats such as microfilm, and audiotape. This poster presents on how interdepartmental collaborations provided the framework to populate a digital collection in the absence of resources or equipment dedicated specifically to digitization.Item The Truth of the Story Lies in the Details: Challenges of Providing Context in the Born Digital Materials of Writers(2017-05-24) Adams, Abby; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at AustinBy now, librarians and archivists are familiar with the challenges surrounding data recovery and preservation of born digital materials in archival collections but providing researchers access to such content, particularly in the papers of writers, can be a multi-faceted problem. As we know, not all legacy file formats are conducive to migration, and it is impossible to find applications to view each and every format. Conversely, many scholars want access to a creator’s works in the original environment they were generated in. Much can be discovered about an digital writing habits and computing history and what influence, if any, they had on his/her composition style. From the size of a computer screen to the sticky notes on a desktop to annotations in a word processing document, these details and more provide key contextual information that is often lost in a standard on-site access model where files are migrated to a software agnostic format and viewed on a modern day computer. As more and more researchers seek answers to these questions, answers that are much clearer with analog collection materials, what responsibilities do librarians and archivists have to gather and disseminate a creator’s computing history and digital writing habits, to collect and maintain obsolete hardware and software, to develop models for emulation and virtualization services? The presentation will address such issues using collections at the Harry Ransom Center as examples.