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Introducing the Texas A&M University Libraries Digital Asset Management Ecosystem
(2017-05)After several years of planning and technical development across Texas A&M University departments, the University Libraries are excited to announce the deployment of the first round of production-level services and ... -
Texas Data Repository: A Year in Review
(Texas Digital Library, 2018-05-16)The Texas Data Repository (TDR) is a consortial data repository using the Dataverse platform. In this presentation we discuss ongoing efforts to develop the TDR as a shared service. The presenters include TDR liaisons from ... -
Library Workflow Exchange: Sharing is Caring
(2018-05-16)The Library Workflow Exchange is a wiki designed to help librarians share best practices across institutions. Created in 2015 by Liz Woolcott and Anna Neatrour, this site is a valuable tool for libraries and universities ... -
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Accessing the Inaccessible: Capturing and re-purposing metadata prior to digitization to ensure adequate description and access
(2018-05-16)In October of 2017, UNT Special Collections embarked on a large-scale digitization project involving a portion of the highly requested A/V materials from the NBC-5/KXAS Television News collection, using a third-party vendor. ... -
Birthing Coetzee s Digital Archive
(2018-05-16)J. M. Coetzee s global reputation rests on his literary output, for which he received a Nobel in 2003. Before he embarked on a career as a scholar and writer, the South African-born author was a computer programmer in the ... -
Post-Custodial Praxis at LLILAS Benson: Lessons in Digitization, Access, and Community Partnerships
(2018-05-16)LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies & Collections works in partnership with archival organizations and community partners in Latin America to digitally preserve underrepresented histories and human rights documentation. ... -
Making History (Y)Our Own: Augmentation of the Smithsonian Exhibition Hometown Teams through Digital Means
(2018-05-16)The Smithsonian exhibition Hometown Teams is about to complete its six-year tour at the end of 2018. A part of the Museum on Main Street traveling exhibitions program, this presentation is designed to share the ... -
Foster the Light: Orphan works and Underrepresented Communities
(2018-05-16)Historically disadvantaged groups such as women, the LGBT community, and minority groups have often been underrepresented and overlooked as creative communities. For this reason there has also been a lack of intellectual ... -
From Meow to ROAR: University of Houston s Expansion of Open Access Repository Services
(2018-05-16)As part of the University of Houston (UH) Libraries 2017-2021 Strategic Plan, a cross-departmental implementation team was formed to expand our open access research repository services beyond electronic theses and ... -
Beyond the Pages: Early Printed Books in Digital Collections
(2018-05-16)For early printed books, somewhere in the middle ground between simple image display and multispectral imaging, between metadata searches and virtual reality experiences, there are practical, low-cost, high-impact practices ... -
The renewed interest in the Ethnology Teaching Collection
(2018-05-16)The focus of a collection can change over the course of time. The University Museum at Illinois State University closed its doors in 1991. While artifacts of an ethnographic nature were sent to the Anthropology department ... -
Digging into Linked Data: Perspectives from the Long Tail
(2018-05-16)The success of the semantic web depends on widespread participation by cultural heritage institutions and other organizations in making connections between open, structured datasets. Large university libraries are beginning ... -
A Platform for Exploration: Bringing together African American History at umbrasearch.org
(2018-05-16)Umbra Search African American History (umbrasearch.org) makes African American history more broadly accessible through a freely available widget and search tool, umbrasearch.org; digitization of African American materials ... -
Exploring our Collections: The Many Colors of the UNT Digital Library
(2018-05-16)This 24x7 presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter. #ColorOurCollections is an initiative to promote the use of digital ... -
Box of Chocolates: Surfacing Unique Collections in Small-Bite Form
(2018-05-16)The University of Texas Libraries (UTL) is undertaking an approach to small-scale digital exhibition projects with the goal of surfacing a broad range of unique collections while minimizing workflow impacts on the Libraries ... -
Buildings of Texas: Supporting Visual Browsing of Geospatial Archival Holdings through Web Mapping
(2018-05-16)Providing access to geospatial archival and library holdings through visual browsing has profound implications for academic fields such as digital humanities as well as non-academic audiences. LIS institutions must navigate ... -
Piloting Photogrammetry in the UNT Digital Library
(2018-05-16)Building on the 3D scanning and model hosting already developed at the University of North Texas Libraries (UNT), members of the Digital Projects Unit (DPU) piloted a technique new to its digitization lab: photogrammetry. ... -
Community Webs: Creating Community History Web Archives
(2018-05-16)Many public libraries have active local history collections and have traditionally collected print materials that document their communities. The ascension of the web as the primary publishing platform, however, has led ... -
Open access: necessary but insufficient for societal impact and serving specific communities?
(2018-05-16)The internet has brought great change to human society, but even after 20 years, the impact of the internet has been uneven. As attributed to William Gibson, The future is already here it's just not very evenly distributed ...
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