Session 3A | TDL Services Rodeo

In collaboration with our member institutions, Texas Digital Library (TDL) provides services and infrastructure that enable equitable access to and preservation of digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory. In this panel presentation, TDL leadership will be joined by TDL staff members who support these services to give attendees a roundup of quick-fire updates on TDL’s stable of services -- including what TDL has accomplished over the past year and what it has planned for the year ahead. Among other things, attendees will learn about: TDL’s newest metadata aggregation service for the Digital Public Library of America; Recent improvements to our institutional repository and academic journal hosting services; A pilot project to accommodate larger datasets in TDR through remote storage; Outcomes of the IMLS-funded Digital Preservation for Private and Sensitive Data project; Plans for accessibility assessments and improvements for all hosted applications; Efforts to provide simple pathways from our hosted repositories and journals to digital preservation storage; Updates on the roll-out of Vireo 4, and what’s coming next; Outcomes from TDL’s first two years of Open Education Network membership