• REVEAL: Read and View English and American Literature 

  Law, Kristin (2015-04-28)

  While the Harry Ransom Center holds a vast collection of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, and works of art, our digital collections website displays only a fraction of these treasures. This past year we launched a ...

• Teaching Digital Curation: Access and Preservation 

  Plumer, Danielle (2015-04-28)

  Digital curation is a broad concept. Many institutions focus on the preservation aspect of the curation lifecycle; others lean toward access and use. This presentation will describe graduate courses addressing both aspects ...

• Digitization Project Rubric 

  Rankins, Derek; McIntosh, Marcia (2015-04-28)

  The ability to accurately estimate the completion of a digitization project is highly valuable when working with multiple collections, stakeholders, and deadlines. Unfortunately, when encountering a wide variety of objects ...

• Archiving in the Cloud: Tackling Security, Scale and Savings 

  Corley, Alex (2015-04-28)

  With an ever-increasing volume of digital records and compliance requirements, digital archiving is shifting from a more routine approach to delivering strategic value across public sector organizations. Mission critical ...

• Elements of Successful Online Journal Publishing 

  Wackerman, Dillon; Reynolds, Phil (2015-04-28)

  At the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU), we have discovered that there are many complex details to launching a successful online journal-publishing program. In our lead ...

• The Sweet Smell (and Taste) of Success: Incentivizing ORCID iD Sign-Ups Among Faculty and Graduate Students 

  Chan-Park, Christina; Peterson-Lugo, Billie (2015-04-28)

  ORCID identifiers (ORCID iDs) are a persistent unique identifier for researchers and scholars and enable the automation of links to research objects such as publications, grants, presentations, data, patents and more -- a ...

• Chronicling Space Shuttle Columbia through Digital Archives 

  Marsh, Corrie (2015-04-28)

  Twelve years ago, on February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over East Texas and Louisiana. This presentation will highlight how the Stephen F. Austin State University community was a key member of the ...

• Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: Forming UH Libraries Digital Preservation Landscape 

  Thompson, Santi; Krewer, Andrew; Wu, Annie; Manning, Mary; Spragg, Rob (2015-04-28)

  As more institutions digitize rare and unique materials and acquire born digital objects, the need for a robust and sustainable digital preservation program is critical for long-term access to this content. In the summer ...

• Piloting a Peer-Review Process for Trusted Digital Repositories 

  Waugh, Laura; Tarver, Hannah; Alemneh, Daniel; Krahmer, Ana; Phillips, Mark (2015-04-28)

  In 2014, the University of North Texas (UNT) and the University of Florida (UF) began a collaborative process to each complete a self-audit using the Trusted Repository Audit Checklist (TRAC) for their institutions’ digital ...

• Zine Party! Collaborating across UT Libraries to Experiment with Methods, Workflows & Tools, Build Awareness of a Collection, and Teach Metadata Literacy 

  Hecker, Jennifer; Pad, Rebecca; Choate, Aaron; Cofield, Melanie; Schwartz, Laura; Marchock, Ann (2015-04-28)

  Recent donations of two large collections of zines* to UT’s Fine Arts Library have highlighted the need to improve access to the zines and, at the same time, staff across the Libraries have become more and more interested ...

• All In For the Bears: The History and Impact of the Baylor University Libraries Athletics Archive 

  Stuhr, Darryl; Ames, Eric (2015-04-27)

  When members of the Digital Projects Group in Baylor’s Electronic Library first sat down with legendary football head coach Grant Teaff, they couldn't have predicted the scope and impact the resulting Baylor University ...

• Voices from Small Places 

  Snowden, Kelley; Beisel, Perky; Reynolds, Linda (2015-04-27)

  When the economic power of a small rural community declines, there’s still value in the social history that defines a place. Researchers at Stephen F. Austin State University help communities preserve and pass on what’s ...

• ArchivesDirect Pilot - Road-testing Archivematica hosting in DuraCloud 

  Mumma, Courtney; Rushing, Amy; Barrera-Gomez, Julianna (2015-04-27)

  UTSA Library was one of 9 pilot partners who tested Archivematica hosted in DuraCloud over several months in the Fall/Winter of 2014/2015. The purpose of the testing was to launch the first open-source, OAIS digital ...

• Using Islandora for Open-Source Powered Digital Collections 

  Keswick, Tommy (2015-04-27)

  Islandora brings together the Fedora Repository Project, the Drupal content management system, and the Apache Solr search platform to enable librarians and other content managers to easily ingest and create collections ...

• Hitting the Road towards a Greater Digital Destination: Evaluating and Testing DAMS at the University of Houston Libraries 

  Thompson, Santi; Wu, Annie; Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Prilop, Valerie; Vacek, Rachel (2015-04-27)

  Since 2009, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries has digitized tens of thousands of rare and unique items and made them available for research through its UH Digital Library (UHDL) based on CONTENTdm. Six years later, ...

• Introducing the Expanding Dataverse 

  Castro, Eleni; Quigley, Elizabeth (2015-04-27)

  The Dataverse Project started in 2006 at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science as an open­ source software application to share, cite and archive data. From its beginnings, Dataverse (then referred as the ...

• Emerging Trends and Evolving Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications 

  Alemneh, Daniel; Helge, Kris; Priyanto, Ida Fajar; Tmava, Ahmet Meti (2015-04-27)

  The manner in which scholarly research is conducted is changing rapidly. As researchers continue to produce and share a wide variety of research outputs and scholarly contributions, in new ways, understanding of the factors ...

• Using Omeka and Neatline to Build an Interactive Campus Map 

  King, Max; Strohm, Adam (2015-04-27)

  The Illinois Institute of Technology campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and contains a building, Mies van der Rohe's S.R. Crown Hall, that was named a National Historic Landmark in 2001. ...

• “The sight of your letter pricks my heart through”: Digitizing the Brownings’ Correspondence at the Harry Ransom Center 

  Floyd, Susan (2015-04-27)

  This presentation will hit upon several of the conference’s broad areas of concern, highlighting unexpected finds within these important collection materials, institutional partnerships, and “showing off a digital project.” ...

• The Digital Dilemma: Examining the Practicality of Digital Forensics in Cultural Institutions 

  Kelley, Angelique (2015-04-27)

  In today’s world, technology has become a vital component of our day-to-day lives; impacting everything from the pictures we take to the ways we communicate to the methods we use to safeguard important pieces of data. It ...

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