2012 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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Outreach & Collaboration: Strategies for Digital Repositories
(2012-05-25)The University of North Texas (UNT) launched the UNT Scholarly Works repository in October 2010. Since that time, UNT Scholarly Works has continued to grow as a tool for promoting access to the research, scholarship, and ... -
Digital Collaboration: Effective Partnerships & Repository Management
(Texas Digital Library, 2012-05-25)The 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 ... -
The Browning Letters Online
(Texas Digital Library, 2012-05-25)The 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 ... -
TDL Systems and Support: Developing Our Connected Future
(2012-05-25)This presentation discusses Texas Digital Library (TDL) staffing changes, the helpdesk, software, and systems. -
Student Scholarship: A Valuable Asset and Explaining Downloads
(2012-05-25)This presentation draws on the experience of a group of Texas State student papers which have been downloaded over 370,000 times (400 papers) for average downloads of over 900. These extraordinary download rates are a ... -
Archiving on the Go: Facilitating Auto-Archiving of Evolving Digital Collections
(2012-05-25)For more than 10 years now, archivists have proclaimed the importance of early intervention during the records creation process in order to assure their long-term preservation. In the academic context, the infrastructure ... -
The Wiki Method: All the Promises of Web 2.0 for Minimal Fuss
(2012-05-25)Since 2009, we have been looking for a way to revamp Texas Tech University’s Digital collections. In December of 2010, we started discussing the idea of using a wiki for displaying the collections. Using Mediawiki (the ... -
Streaming Texas - A Case Study of the Texas Archive of the Moving Imager
(2012-05-25)In an online environment proliferated by video, but in which few organizations are independently streaming their own content, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) has rapidly developed as a leader in the field. TAMI ... -
Texas Digital Library: Building a Connected Texas
(2012-05-25)The ability of scholars and institutions to provide access to research data, publications, and special collections of materials has become a necessity for all institutions of higher learning. This need provides a tremendous ... -
Corral: A Texas-scale Repository for Digital Research Data
(2012-05-25)At the end of 2010, the Regents of the University of Texas funded an investment of $23 million in research cyberinfrastructure, including a replicated, multi-petabyte research data repository and a dedicated research network ... -
Enhancing Educational Access to Art
(2012-05-25)Art 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 ... -
International Collaboration and Digital Archives: The Guatemalan National Police Historical, Archive Project at UT Austin
(2012-05-25)This presentation will showcase a large-scale collaborative digital initiative undertaken at UT Austin in 2011: the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive (AHPN) project. We believe the AHPN project provides a ... -
Connecting with Users beyond Language Boundaries through Multilingual Information Access for Digital Collections
(2012-05-25)Very few digital collections in the United States support multilingual information access (MLIA) that enables non-English users to search, browse, recognize, and use information from multilingual digital objects. In the ... -
A Digital Repository for the World of Physical Culture
(2012-05-25)The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center is a burgeoning special collection library, archive, and museum that celebrates the world of physical culture and sports. The collection includes hundreds of thousands of cataloged -- and ... -
The Story of the Realia Collections at UT Austin: How Three-Dimensional Teaching Objects Can Intersect With Digital Libraries
(2012-05-25)In the theme of collaborative digital projects between cross-campus university entities, I will present the story of The Realia Collections (TRC) at the University of Texas at Austin, spanning the following topics: • Survey ... -
The Sissy Farenthold Papers Digitization Project: Creating an Online Exhibit Through Cross-Departmental Collaboration
(2012-05-25)Frances T. “Sissy” Farenthold is a well-known, important figure in Texas politics and the national women’s movement. She also spent much of the last four decades working on global human rights issues. The Bernard and Audre ... -
10 Weeks to Success: How to Quickly and Effectively Build a Collaborative Digital Collection
(2012-05-25)Creating a digital collection typically requires a lot of time and thoughtful planning. But what would happen if you only had 10 weeks to plan and build a digital collection from scratch? That was the dilemma faced by the ... -
“Mapping the Southwest”: UNT-UTA Collaborative Project
(2012-05-25)Mapping the Southwest is a 3-year project (2010 to 2013) funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) We the People grant. For this project, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries partner with the University ... -
Building Relationships with Researchers and Enhancing the Library's Reputation through Digital Services
(2012-05-25)Connecting with faculty, students, and staff is a major objective for many librarians. We do this through many avenues like reference, instruction sessions, collection development activities, library and university committees, ...
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