• Metadata re-write: Moving Avalon metadata from XML to RDF 

  Hardesty, Juliet (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2017-04-12)

  The Avalon Media System is an open source system for managing and providing access to large collections of digital audio and video. The project is led by the libraries of Indiana University Bloomington and Northwestern ...
• Indiana Limestone Photograph Collection: Building a Nation 

  Dalmau, Michelle; Weber, Licia (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2017-02-08)

  A previously unknown collection of over 25,000 black and white architectural photographs were discovered in a dilapidated house owned by the Indiana Limestone Company in Bedford, Indiana. These images of residences, churches, ...
• Imago’s role in the promotion of data accessibility, metadata sharing, reproducibility of science, and preservation of digital objects 

  Motz, Gary; Laherty, Jennifer; Ng, Wen (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2017-04-26)

  Imago is a prototypic ‘next-generation’ digital repository that is dynamically linked to the collection management databases supported by a unique partnership between the IU Libraries and the Center for Biological Research ...
• Makers’ Mark: A Survey of Makerspace Initiatives at IU 

  Nay, Leanne (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2017-04-19)

  In recent years, the “maker movement” has gained serious traction in higher education. Makerspaces, fab labs, and hackerspaces are popping up in universities and libraries around the world, including Indiana University. ...
• SATA, IDE, USB... Oh My: Getting a Handle on Born Digital Materials in Our Special Collections 

  Mellon, Mary; Menzies, Luke (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2017-02-15)

  Recently the IU Libraries has seen major progress in managing born digital materials within some of the special collections units. The Born Digital Preservation Lab, established in January 2016, has been developing workflows ...
• Encoding Song in the Troubadour Melodies Database 

  Chapman, Katie (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2017-03-22)

  The Troubadour Melodies Database is a Drupal-platform site that includes basic information about and transcriptions of the extant troubadour melodies as they are found in the 13th-14th century manuscripts preserving the ...
• Saying goodbye to Variations 

  Ponella, Philip; Whitaker, Maria (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2017-03-29)

  Until recently, the Variations Digital Music Library provided online access to approximately 30,000 selected recordings and scores from the Indiana University Cook Music Library. First implemented in 1996 with support from ...
• Paged Media Project: Developing a Hydra-based page turning application and turning a Plum into a Pumpkin 

  Cowan, William; Homenda, Nicholas (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2017-02-01)

  The IU Libraries have a long history of delivering access to digital musical scores beginning with the Variations project in 1997. In 2014, the IU and IUPUI Libraries began work on a collaborative project to develop a new ...
• Decoding Digital Preservation 2.0 

  Kelly, Heidi (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-11-16)

  Building on the conceptual framework of her DLBB presentation from the spring, Heidi Dowding will present a more in-depth look at digital preservation in 2016. She will discuss current state-of-the-art projects like ...
• Up and Running with the HathiTrust Research Center 

  Cline, Nicholae; Nay, Leanne (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-11-30)

  The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) provides research support for the growing corpus of over fourteen million volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) through a suite of tools for text analysis. This session will ...
• An Inside Look At Managing MDPI Digitization 

  Casey, Michael; Dapuzzo, Andrew (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-09-21)

  Audiovisual archivists agree that media holdings must be transferred to the digital domain as soon as possible in order to survive. Because this work requires significant resources, it must be conducted as efficiently as ...
• Avalon's Role in the Digital Collections Ecosystem 

  Cameron, Jon (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-11-02)

  As the need to manage and provide access to collections of digital content grows, the ecosystem of software solutions designed to meet these needs has greatly expanded. Into this pool of software comes Avalon, but what ...
• Using Text Mining to Expose Spies and Detectives in a Digital-History Exploration of the Spanish-Cuban-American War 

  Craig, Kalani; Diaz, Arlene (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-10-05)

  In 1897-1898 secret agents from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency were following American war correspondents in Havana, Cuba. These agents were all Americans yet they all seemingly had a common employer: the Spanish ...
• Making connections: Turning the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection into a Linked Open Data set 

  Hardesty, Juliet (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-09-28)

  What does it mean to turn data into Linked Data? That is the question we are attempting to answer with this project. The IU Libraries released the metadata for the Cushman Photograph Collection under a CC-BY license as a ...
• Hypershelf: A Multidimensional Browser for Exploring Content Across the Library 

  Allen, Colin; Murdock, Jaimie (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-08-31)

  Research libraries continue to reinvent themselves in the face of increasing demand from users for digitized texts. As physical books move from stacks to deep storage, many researchers lament the reduction in the serendipitous ...
• Trends in Digital Scholarship: Stories from Indiana University Bloomington 

  Dalmau, Michelle; Homenda, Nick (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-04-20)

  The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries' Digital Collections Services department has offered Digital Project Planning consultation services twice a week since the opening of the Scholars' Commons in September 2014. ...
• Transcodes and Transfers: Exploring the MDPI Back-end Processing 

  Wheeler, Brian (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-04-06)

  The process of converting the digitized MDPI media into something that can be used for web delivery is conceptually simple: transcode each one into derivatives and transfer them to the delivery system. However, like most ...
• [Untitled]: How to lose your metadata and keep your search results 

  Hardesty, Juliet (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-03-30)

  It is an interesting time in the libraries for metadata. We have a lot of things described and described well, but is it feasible to keep all of that description in a useful way moving forward? And how do we offer up a ton ...
• A Collaboration of 3-D Modeling and Automated Box Manufacture for Library Special Collections Enclosures 

  Sanders, Doug (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-03-09)

  The manufacture of protective enclosures is part of routine work in many libraries and museums. This presentation summarizes a novel collaboration of 3-D scanning and modeling technology provided by digital technology ...
• Development of a Participatory Interactive Documentary: The Vietnam War from All Sides 

  Osgood, Ron (Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2016-02-10)

  “The Vietnam War/American War: Stories from All Sides” is a transmedia project that includes a PBS style documentary and participatory website. Initially funded through an IU New Frontiers Grant, currently more than 135 ...

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