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Item AtoM-izing Archival Collections(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-18) Richardson, MatthewLaunched in March 2020 (really!), the McGovern Historical Center (MHC)’s archival management system utilizes Artefactual’s AtoM (Access to Memory) application to provide access to archival finding aids as well as digitized and born digital assets. This short presentation will walk through the MHC’s workflow for creating archival description, importing it into AtoM via CSV, and making it available online.This lightning talk will give particular emphasis to the workflow as it relates to digital objects. The CSV upload includes links to Amazon S3, where the MHC stores its access files. From there, AtoM automatically generates thumbnail representations, which appear in-line with the archival description and link out to the full-size access files.While nothing is perfect, the MHC’s systems and workflow offer efficiencies for a small staff and seamless discoverability for users.Item Electrical Demand Analysis Software Tool Suite and Automatic Report Generation for Energy Audits(2015-05-06) Morelli, Franco JavierThe American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) defines an energy audit through a multi-tiered stratagem characterized by the level of in-depth analysis. The Level 1, or walkthrough survey is highlighted by low to no cost energy efficiency evaluations and a list of improvement measures that warrant further inquiry. Through the Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) at Texas A&M University, the Department of Energy's, Advanced Manufacturing Office maintains collaboration with academic entities to further the goal of reducing industrial and manufacturing energy consumption. As a result, the IAC at Texas A&M University performs ASHRAE Level 1 Energy Audits for manufacturing plants across gulf coast states. The IAC at Texas A&M University seeks to develop a series of electrical demand analysis and report generation software tools to optimize and enhance the electrical investigation inherent with establishing efficient industrial resource (electricity, water, natural gas) usage. Typically, such analysis are done through utility bill information, quantifying usage and capital charge characteristics, as well as usage trends over the course of the billing period. By establishing electrical analysis through the use of 15-minute or 30-minute demand data sets, available to industrial and manufacturing clients augmented with Interval Data Recorder (IDR) meters, the Industrial Assessment Center at Texas A&M has developed a suite of electrical analysis tools designed to increase analysis fidelity, identify pre-visit Energy Conservation Measures (ECM), establish unknown variables helpful in diagnosing ECMs, size systems design to optimize electrical usage, create a simple, user friendly interface and increase ECM implementation. While the conclusions and results for the following work and tools will not be known for some time, preliminary efforts have shown that the tools are effective in interpreting and diagnosing aberrant electrical usage. In particular, one instance in usage of the demand visualization tool diagnosed an issue where a facility was being charged double the amount of their typical demand. Supporting data, along with key IAC visits will be required to determine if the following tools are effective in increasing IAC implementation rates.Item The Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Preservation(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-23) Shapiro, AdrianDigital preservation is important, but how do I get started? This poster will provide a roadmap for how Texas Woman’s University built, and is continuing to build, a cross-departmental digital preservation program with the help of TDL’s Digital Preservation Service. It will provide tips and resources for beginners looking to build a digital preservation program at their institution.Item Transforming Access to Texts with 18thConnect and TypeWright(2014-03-14) Grumbach, Elizabeth; Texas A&M University18thConnect is a digital aggregator and virtual research environment (VRE) for eighteenth-century researchers. As part of a larger community of VRE’s, all organized under the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) and based on the NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) model for peer review and scholarship, 18thConnect has to tackle issues relevant to its period-specific research community. As a result, the TypeWright application was built for the 18thConnect platform in order to provide an easily-accessible, crowd-sourced correction tool for eighteenth-century texts. The TypeWright tool was designed to solve issues with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for early printed texts, specifically those in Gale/Cengage Learning’s Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) subscription database, to provide accurate text for full-text searching, data mining, and the creation of digital scholarly editions. Because these texts were photographed, microfilmed, and then digitized over a period of 40 years, their quality negatively impacts OCR text output. In addition, early printing conventions, especially early typefaces and paper quality, cause OCR engines to mis-recognize the word images on a page. To foster the sustainability and use of these texts in scholarship, TypeWright was created to enable users to correct, by hand, save, and share their editing with the 18thConnect community. For this poster presentation, I intend to focus on illuminating the following three aspects of the TypeWright tool: 1. Correcting a text in TypeWright, or, briefly explaining the accessible user interface. When a user accesses the 18thConnect site, they can search for “TypeWright-enabled” texts, right now consisting of the 183,000 documents contained in ECCO. Once a user has selected a text, they are ported into the editing interface, which displays snippets of the page image for transcription in the text editing box below. The text editing box already contains the text generated by a previous OCR process, so that the user can either edit the text, or confirm the current text is correct. 2. Liberating a text in TypeWright, or, how users can request full text and XML for a document after completing correction; After a user, or a group of users working collaboratively, have completed correcting a document, their work is reviewed by TypeWright administrators. If the work passes the evaluation process, then the user(s) are able to receive the corrected plain text or XML/TEI-encoded files. If the work fails evaluation (which is rare) users are instructed to look for common “correction” mistakes, and fix them. 3. Using a text after TypeWright correction, or, the benefit of crowdsourcing correction for the academic community. Once a user has received their corrected text files, 18thConnect administrators advise users to use this data in their digital project, then submit that digital project for peer review to 18thConnect. In addition, the corrected text, per our agreements with Gale/Cengage Learning, return to that database to improve the searchability of this proprietary product, which constitutes an important resource for the eighteenth-century scholarly community.