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Item Session 2H | The Keeper App: Creating a Participatory Digital Archive(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Zipperer, RachaelThis presentation explores the opportunities and challenges that have arisen in implementing the University of North Texas University Archive’s web application for donating digital materials: Keeper. By discussing the design of the application, the promotion of its use both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the outcomes of community use of the app, this presentations hopes to provide a model for other institutions creating and managing their own participatory digital archives.Item Session 3C | I solemnly swear I will finish this project: Tackling a long-term digital preservation project(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-25) Clark, KristinIn the fall of 2020, the Special Collections & University Archives at Texas Woman’s University embarked on its first ever born-digital processing and digital preservation project in an effort to collapse and preserve an over 60 cubic foot collection of born-digital University Archives photographs stored on roughly 4,500 CDs. The project began in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that had many students and staff telecommuting, and over a year later the first phase of the project is coming to an end with phase two already underway and phase three on the horizon. To date, over 600 GB and 80,000 files have been extracted from the digital media in the collection. The project is multifaceted including born-digital processing, physical processing, digitization, finding aid creation, stakeholder access point creation, and weeding. During the course of this project a number of stumbling blocks and questions were presented- Can we do this from home? What equipment do we need? These discs are not reading, what do I do? How do we create a finding aid for this collection for Special Collections staff? What do stakeholders need from this project? How do I work on this massive project when I have so many other projects to complete? Oh no, now we are out of server space! This presentation will discuss creating remote projects, adaptability when working with different stakeholders, managing long-term projects, and digital preservation tools for processing CDs.Item Session 3I | Beyond the Reading Room: Virtual Archival Engagement with Interactive Visualizations(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Hetrick, EmmaIn this talk, I address a key issue faced by many university archives right now--when in-person visits aren’t available, how can students engage with collections? In Fall 2020, I used metadata for over 15,000 texts in the Harry Ransom Center’s Comedias Sueltas and Spanish Theater collection to create an interactive data visualization with Tableau software featuring the collection’s authors, publishers, and translators. Interactive visualizations enable archival exploration and instruction that center student agency and address barriers to archival access. Ultimately, I argue, this type of virtual engagement with the archive should continue to be expanded even after archives reopen.