2014 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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"Think Different"
(2014-04-15)Library practices are based on a rich history covering centuries of expert knowledge. That's the up-side. The down-side of that rich tradition is that there is so much of our practice that is based on "We've always done ... -
Inside the Digital Public Library of America
(2014-04-15)DPLA Executive Director Dan Cohen goes behind the scenes to discuss how the DPLA was created, how it functions as a portal and platform, what the staff is currently working on, and what's to come for the young project and ... -
Conceptualizing and implementing a webinar series: lessons learned from the Mountain West Digital Library Webinar Series
(2014-03-14)Webinars are a low-cost and efficient training model that allow librarians to disseminate valuable information, connect with colleagues, and build and expand their communities beyond geographic and institutional boundaries. ... -
Who is Using Online Special Collections? The CUL Digital Collections Case Study
(2014-03-14)Since 2008, Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Central University Libraries (CUL) have digitized, cataloged and made available on the CUL Digital Collections web site some 35,000 image, text, video, and audio files ... -
Unifying Digital Collection Software: Considerations at Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México
(2014-04-16)Nowadays digital collections managers face situations like: collection managed with different software, different content formats, different user needs, need of having a unique search box for all the resources, give the ... -
Transforming Access to Texts with 18thConnect and TypeWright
(2014-03-14)18thConnect 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 ... -
Texas Documents: What are They Good For?
(2014-03-14)Although some people might have thought to use these documents as fuel to keep warm this past winter… UT Arlington Libraries has decided to digitize a core collection of legacy documents produced by Texas state agencies. ... -
Texas Cowboy Churches: a Collection of Oral Histories
(2014-03-14)The poster exhibits a project that is collaborative in nature, and unique in that it features a small demographic group not widely represented in current research. The project showcases primary resources for researchers ... -
Sharing Research Broadly: Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) at Texas A&M Universit
(2014-03-14)The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®), initiated at the University of Queensland, Australia, is a competition in which graduate students attempt to convey the impact of their research to a general audience using compelling words ... -
Re-Engineering a Website Into a Digital Humanities Project - We Think!
(2014-04-21)What happens when you have a website that needs a facelift and you want to evolve the contents into a digital humanities project? What makes it different? This poster session explores a process we are attempting at the ... -
Pushing the Boundaries of Open Access
(2014-03-14)The Open Access (OA) movement has become increasingly important in shaping the ways that academic libraries provide services to support the creation, organization, management and use of digital contents. The University of ... -
Providing a Spatial Context for Library and Archival Collections: Mapping Historic Aggieland
(2014-03-13)Libraries and archives have large collections of historic maps and photos. Creative digital exhibits allow users a unique framework to these collections, with mapping platforms providing a spatial context to collections ... -
The Power of Collaboration: Creative Opportunities with Faculty
(2014-04-07)With the growth of digital humanities, e-science and other web-based initiatives, there are many new and exciting opportunities for librarians to collaborate with faculty and the community. For the past couple of years, ... -
Harvesting Quality: Evaluating Metadata for Digital Collections
(2014-03-25)Metadata creation practices for digital library projects vary widely amongst libraries. Digital library projects often have to deal with multiple metadata creators, new formats and resources, and dynamic metadata standards ... -
Beyond Web-based Scholarly Works Repositories: The effect of institutional mandates on the faculty attitudes towards Institutional Repositories
(2014-03-25)In the last decade there has been a push from academic institutions to encourage faculty to deposit their work in web-based scholarly work repositories, commonly known as institutional repositories (IR). IRs are responsible ... -
The Niiyama Japanese Poetic Pottery: The Unintended Adaptation of a Unique Collection
(2014-03-14)From the compilation of this exemplary collection of short poems of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu in 1235 to its interpretation in ceramics exhibited at the Tokyo American Club in 1981, this presentation will examine the ... -
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
(2014-03-25)The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a completely digital repository at the University of Texas at Austin, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. AILLA has no physical presentation ... -
Flowcharting a Course Through Open-Source Waters, an eMOP guide to OCR
(2014-03-14)The Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP), an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded grant project running out of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) at Texas A&M University, intends to use font and ... -
Digitizing the Fred Fehl Dance Collection
(2014-03-25)The Harry Ransom Center’s performing arts department holds two vast collections of photographs by Fred Fehl—a prolific mid-twentieth century photographer of theater and dance based mainly in New York City. The Fred Fehl ... -
Did We Scan That Book Twice?: Weeding the Texas Tech Dark Digital Archive
(2014-03-25)The Texas Tech University Libraries' digital collections began in 2004 with the intent to digitize as many books as possible in the name of open access. By the fall of 2013, that mission had been revised to focus on the ...
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