2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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An Update on Development of the Vireo 4.x ETD Submission and Management System
(2017-05-23)The Vireo ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) submission and management system, an open source project managed by the Texas Digital Library (TDL) has seen years of real-world use processing thousands of ETDs at dozens ... -
UNT Libraries ETD Citation Analysis Project
(2017-05-24)This presentation will explore the project plan for an upcoming citation analysis of University of North Texas Libraries' Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Collection. The goal of this project is to create and ... -
Mulling Over Multilingual Metadata: Making the Case for Ethical Compromise
(2017-05-24)Descriptive metadata provides an initial filter through which users discover, select, and access information resources, often facilitated by use of standardized language and controlled vocabularies. However, multilingual ... -
Performing Arts Research and Linked Digital Artifacts
(2017-05-24)Using the production of a record album by New Zealand artist Donna Dean as a case study, I am working to create a digital archive that will allow researchers in the Performing Arts to collect and archive data from their ... -
Scholars@TAMU, an Integrated Research Information Management System, as Sociotechnical System: Contextualized Use Cases for Different Disciplinary Communities
(2017-05-24)Scholars@TAMU is a new research information management system (RIM) at Texas A&M that compiles scholarly expertise profiles for faculty and other research investigators to improve the discoverability of scholarly expertise, ... -
The Board of Regents Reports and Minutes digitization case study: how we did it faster, cheaper, and better
(2017-05-24)Alkek Library's Digital & Web Services Department at Texas State University is digitizing the University Archives' Board of Regents Reports and Minutes collection. The collection is comprised of an estimated 45,000 pages ... -
Best Practices for Driving Adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER)
(2017-05-24)Over the course of a semester, I identified instructors at the University of Texas at Austin currently building or utilizing open educational resources (OER) as course materials. I interviewed those instructors to learn ... -
Beyond the Classroom: The Advantages of Open Educational Resources and Digital Collections in University Instruction and Research
(2017-05-24)Digital access platforms to special collections and archived materials paired with the increase in open educational resources (OER) has caused significant change in the tools scholars and instructors use to access, retrieve, ... -
Designing and implementing a digitization workflow for post-custodial initiatives at the Benson Latin American Collection, UT Austin
(2017-05-24)This poster will detail the book digitization workflow developed at the University of Texas at Austin's Benson Latin American Collection in Fall 2016, implemented as part of a British Library Endangered Archives Programme ... -
Approaches developed to ensure accuracy and consistency of metadata for TRAIL reports
(2017-05-24)The TRAIL collection is a compilation of technical reports funded by government research and published primarily ranging from 1920’s to 1980’s about a variety of topics. The TRAIL consist of National Advisory Committee for ... -
Measuring Repository Use at Texas A&M University
(2017-05-24)This poster concerns usage statistics for Texas A&M University's DSpace repository, OAKTrust. It will describe current data being gathered and reported, the scope and limitations of data types and sources, and undertakings ... -
SHARE: A free, open, data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle
(2017-05-24)SHARE is a higher education initiative whose mission is to maximize research impact by making research widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. To fulfill this mission SHARE is developing services to gather and freely ... -
Developing a long-term and large scale project to digitize photographic negatives
(Texas Digital Library, 2017-05-25)Texas State University received a 2017 TSLAC TexTreasures Grant, funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, to digitize at-risk photographic negatives in the University Archives. For the initial stages ... -
Creating Value of Digital Services: Helping Others Share Their Stories
(Texas Digital Library, 2017-05-25)How do you show value of various digital projects to administrators or to other key constituencies? How do you connect these services and projects to the strategic planning process? This presentation will share ideas on ... -
Siloed No More: Collaborations Between Digital and Special Collections
(Texas Digital Library, 2017-05-25)Baylor University is home to several special libraries, each with distinct missions and collecting focuses. This presentation explores a series of collaborations between a rare books cataloger and a metadata librarian in ... -
Managing Digital Assets from Curation to Exhibition
(2017-05-25)As the Libraries at Texas A&M University continue to accumulate digital assets and cultivate a Digital Asset Management Ecosystem (DAME), an urgent need is developing for metadata annotation workflows and the marshalling ... -
Developing the DPLA Texas Service Hub, v.2. Collaboration to build the next generation aggregator for Texas
(2017-05-25)In 2016, the Texas Digital Library received an LSTA grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to develop a prototype of a new Service Hub for Texas which will provide metadata from collections across the ... -
Three Problems in Digital Libraries We Can Fix Now
(2017-05-25)As Texas Tech’s Digital Library has passed phase 2 of their Digital Library Initiative, phase 3 requires a broadening of our scope and looking at problems at the national level. There are three national level problems ... -
Building It Small: Accessible Approaches to AV Digitization
(2017-05-25)Institutions large and small face the challenge of preserving and creating access to audio and moving image collection materials. This presentation will explore approaches the AV preservation community have taken to building ... -
The Government Documents Digitization Initiative: Shepherding Resources from Shelf to Server
(2017-05-25)In Fall 2016, the Texas A&M University Libraries embarked on a project to digitize a collection of Flood Insurance Studies, published by the Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration and to submit them to HathiTrust. ...
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