2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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Curation and Preservation Services: Adapting Frameworks and Tools to Enable Sustainable Programs
(2013-04-30)Since 1996, the digital preservation community has been developing and refining standards and practice. For more than a decade, organizations responsible for managing digital content over time have been adapting and adopting ... -
ETD Embargoes: A Comparison of Institutional Policies and Practices
(2013-05-09)ETD embargoes policies and practices vary widely among institutions. Although institutional websites often make embargo policies quite clear, the practices that support those policies is less so. Even more interesting, ... -
The Monster MeSH!—Taming Medical Subject Headings for an ETD Collection
(2013-03-26)In 2012, the repository administrator and metadata manager developed a semester-long project to review and modify subject headings for the electronic theses and dissertations collection within the UT Southwestern institutional ... -
@InstitutionalRepository How Do I Preserve Internet Ephemera? #Twitter #Wordpress
(2013-03-26)University repositories are tasked with collecting and preserving the intellectual output of their institutions. Colleges and departments are adopting social media to connect with alumni, participate in disciplinary ... -
Metadata Quality in Texas Woman's University's Digital Collection
(2013-03-26)Accessibility to information despite physical proximity is now an expectation of many students and professionals. However, few appreciate what it takes to translate physical media and archival items into digital representations ... -
Resource Description & Access -- Now or later?
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When Too Many Cooks Do NOT Spoil the Broth: Selecting and Implementing a New Web Scale Discovery Tool for a Large University Library.
(2013-04-29)In early spring of 2011, the University of Texas at Austin Libraries convened a working group to recommend a discovery tool to be implemented on the Library’s Web site. The group's broad membership of user services staff, ... -
On the Road Again: Mapping a Texana Collection
(2013-03-26)Digital mapping and charting holds great potential for repositories. Mapping print collections provides visualization for digital exhibits and context for remote users. This poster presentation will showcase a prototype ... -
Google-izing Projects: Managing Large-Scale Digitization Projects via the Cloud
(2013-03-26)The Riley Digitization Center at Baylor University manages many projects throughout the year, digitizing thousands of items and hundreds of thousands of pages. To handle high-volume throughput, track project status, manage ... -
Looking Through the Eyes of Texas
(2013-03-26)This poster will describe the creation and advertisement of a virtual historic walking tour for the University of Texas at Austin using HistoryPin, a publicly available interactive website based on linking or “pinning” ... -
Mapping the Southwest Project: Putting the Region’s Maps Online
(2013-03-26)The University of North Texas Libraries and its partner, the University of Texas at Arlington’s Special Collections, are working on a 3-year (2010 to 2013) collaborative “Mapping the Southwest” project, sponsored by a ... -
Collection Development for an Institutional Repository through Collaborations between Departments
(2013-03-26)Poster 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 ... -
Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort
(2013-03-26)As part of the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) project, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit (DPU) has been working with the University of Arizona (UA) during the last three ... -
Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata
(2013-03-26)Three years ago, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit (DPU) chose to switch from the International Standards Organization (ISO) date standard to the Library of Congress' Extended Date Time ... -
The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto
(2013-03-26)On May 22, 2012 at the University of North Texas, a group of technologists and librarians, scholars and researchers, university administrators, and other stakeholders gathered to discuss and articulate best practices and ... -
The Development and Implementation of an Interdepartmental Digitization Workflow
(2013-04-19)The science of creating workflows that involve multiple departments within a large organization can be challenging, especially when the projects handled by the workflow are complex and involve a number of stakeholders. ... -
“This is totally going on our blog.” Using WordPress and Edublogs to Enhance Access to Digital Collections
(2013-03-26)From its first post on November 9, 2011 to the present, the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections Blog has been access 10,630 times by users around the world. Increasingly, the blog serves as a major entry point ... -
Digital Curation Micro-Applications: Digital Lifecycle Management with AutoHotkey
(2013-03-26)Maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions that address the many challenges at various stages of the digital object lifecycle. Digital curation activities enhance access and ... -
CONTENTdm to DSpace- Why?
(2013-03-26)This poster outlines TTU’s decision to move all our digital library content from CONTENTdm to DSpace. The poster will include statistics and results from some of our tests that showed that for us CONTENTdm was not serving ... -
Uncovering the Mysteries of Metadata Harvesting: Optimizing Digital Library Content for Summon Discovery Tool Access
(2013-03-26)One of the most valuable attributes of a discovery system is its ability to harvest locally owned digital materials and make them discoverable through a single search box along with the rest of the library’s collection. ...
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