Digital Collection: Erase COVID Posters

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Buchmiller ◽  
Edward Timke
Keyword(s):  
Digital Collection

54 Benthic marine algal herbarium of long island sound digital collection

2003 ◽  
Vol 39 (s1) ◽  
pp. 19-19
Author(s):  
S. Cudiner ◽  
N. Gillies ◽  
C. Yarish
Keyword(s):  
Long Island ◽  
Long Island Sound ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Marine Algal ◽  
Island Sound

More product, more process: metadata in digital image collections

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Therrell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Less Is More ◽  
New York Public Library ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Collection Level

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the implications of current theories that advocate for minimal levels of description in digital collections. Specifically, this paper looks at the archival theory of “More Product, Less Process” and its encouragement of collection-level description. The purpose of the study was to analyze how levels of description impact resource retrieval. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzed 35 images from a New York Public Library (NYPL) digital collection present on the NYPL website and on Flickr. The methodology was designed to reflect users’ information seeking behavior for image collections. There were two research questions guiding this study: what are the descriptive terms used to describe items in digital collections? and what is the success rate of retrieving resources using assigned descriptive terms? Findings The results of this study revealed that the images from the NYPL collection were more difficult to find on the institution’s website as compared with Flickr. These findings suggest that lesser levels of description in digital collections hinder resource retrieval. Research limitations/implications These findings suggest that lesser description levels hurt the findability of resources. In the wake of theories such as “More Product, Less Process”, information professionals must find ways to assign metadata to individual materials in digital image collections. Originality/value Recent research concerning description levels of digital collections is several years old and focuses mostly on the usefulness of collection-level metadata as a supplement to or substitute for item-level metadata. Few, if any, studies exist that explore the implications of description levels on resource retrievability and findability. This study is also unique in that it discusses these implications in the context of less-is-more theories of archival processing.

scholarly journals Digital application solutions in collections management : the photographer's catalogue database : case study : Sally Mann

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga M Dlugosz
Keyword(s):  
Model Solution ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Working Model ◽  
Digital Collection

The author proposes a working model solution for a digital collection catalogue database, in FileMaker Pro. The catalogue cross-references photographs, publications, exhibitions, sales, correspondence, and other activity incidental to a photographer's career and body of work. The studio and archive of Sally Mann, an influential and highly regarded American photographer, is used as an illutrative example.

scholarly journals Digital application solutions in collections management : the photographer's catalogue database : case study : Sally Mann

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga M Dlugosz
Keyword(s):  
Model Solution ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Working Model ◽  
Digital Collection

The author proposes a working model solution for a digital collection catalogue database, in FileMaker Pro. The catalogue cross-references photographs, publications, exhibitions, sales, correspondence, and other activity incidental to a photographer's career and body of work. The studio and archive of Sally Mann, an influential and highly regarded American photographer, is used as an illutrative example.

scholarly journals Digital Support Services and the UF Digital Collection

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea Dinsmore
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Current Location ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Current Content

The UF Digital Collections are home to over 15 million pages of historic and current content which are routinely visited by millions of visitors every month. This article explores the growth and development of the program from it's beginnings in borrowed space to it's current location with a full department to support it. 

scholarly journals Hatice Gonnet Bağana Anatolian Civilizations and Hittite Digital Collection

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Çiğdem Maner ◽  
Senem Acar ◽  
Derya Soğuksu ◽  
Tuba Akbaytürk
Keyword(s):  
Digital Collection

A collaborative digital oral history collection

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Beth J Thompson ◽  
Rebecca A Baugnon
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Oral History ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Latino Community ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Faculty And Staff ◽  
The University

A collaborative oral history project was recently completed at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) by students enrolled in a Spanish seminar course and library faculty and staff members at the University. The course, ‘Hispanics in N.C.: Service Learning and Research,’ was created and offered as one component of a public programming grant awarded to UNCW by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association through these institutions’ initiative called ‘Latino Americans: 500 Years of History.’ The course provided students with an opportunity to interview individuals in the southeastern North Carolina Latino community about their experiences in the United States. Students captured an audio recording of the interview which they later transcribed and provided a photograph of the interviewee. Library faculty and staff members were tasked with creating a digital collection to highlight the oral histories. Working within a limited time frame and with no funding for the project, the planning and implementation for the digital collection was completed by librarians in the library’s Information Technology and Systems, Special Collections, and Technical Services departments. Utilizing technology, systems, and skill sets that were already in place at Randall Library, a final product titled, ‘Somos NC: Voices from North Carolina’s Latino Community,’ was created. This article seeks to provide a practical discussion of the oral history project, outlining the Library’s processes and project workflows as well as assessment and reflections. Synthesizing knowledge gained through the experience, the intent is to provide an example of how, through collaboration and innovation, small to midsized libraries can accomplish similar projects.

Respecting the language: digitizing Native American language materials

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-214
Author(s):  
Mary Wise ◽  
Sarah R. Kostelecky
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Project Sustainability ◽  
Native American Language

Purpose Many academic libraries use digital humanities projects to disseminate unique materials in their collections; during project planning, librarians will consider platforms, scanning rates and project sustainability. Rarely, though, will academic librarians consider how members from the communities that created the materials can contribute to digitization projects. The purpose of this study is to explain how collaboration with Zuni Pueblo (a Native American tribe in the southwest) community members improved a digital humanities project to disseminate Zuni language learning materials. Design/methodology/approach Methodologically relying on critical making, which involved community member feedback throughout the process, the Zuni Language Materials Collection will provide digital access to 35 language learning items. Findings The authors argue that collaboration with members of the community of creation dramatically improved item description, collection discoverability and collection interactivity. This study historicizes CONTENTdm and describes how the team modified this content management system to meet user needs. This project produced a prototype digital collection, collaboratively authored metadata and an interactive portal that invites users to engage with the collection. Practical implications Libraries continue to struggle to reach and reflect their diverse users. This study describes a process that others may use and modify to engage nearby Native American communities. Originality/value This piece shares a unique strategy of partnering with Native American community members on all aspects of digital humanities project development and design. This case study attempts to fill a gap in the literature as the first study to describe a digitization process using CONTENTdm with a Native American community.

Image embedded metadata in cultural heritage digital collections on the web

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emad Isa Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Metadata Record ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Image Metadata ◽  
The Web

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the availability of embedded metadata within images of digital cultural collections. It is designed to examine a proposed hypothesis that most digitally derived images of cultural resources are stripped of their metadata once they are placed on the web. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 603 images were selected randomly from four cultural portals which aggregate digitized cultural collections, then four steps in the data collection process took place to examine image metadata via the web-based tool and windows application. Findings The study revealed that 28.5 percent of the analyzed images contained metadata, no links exist between image embedded metadata and its metadata record or the pages of the websites analyzed, and there is a significant usage of Extensible Metadata Platform to encode embedded metadata within the images. Practical implications The findings of the study may encourage heritage digital collection providers to reconsider their metadata preservation practices and policies to enrich the content of embedded metadata. In addition, it will raise awareness about the potential and value of embedded metadata in enhancing the findability and exchange of digital collections. Originality/value This study is ground breaking in that it is one of the early studies, especially in the Arab world, which aim to recognize the use of image embedded metadata within cultural heritage digital collections on the web.

FORMATION OF DIGITAL COLLECTIONS: SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE GUIDE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES

Infolib ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (22) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Elena Zhabko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Practice Guide ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Practical Task

Currently, the formation of digital collections is becoming an urgent scientific and practical task for Russian libraries. The process of creating a digital collection is a multi-step process, starting with the development of the concept of the collection and ending with the presentation of the collection on the library portal. The scientific and practical manual of the Presidential Library "Formation of digital collections" is devoted to a detailed consideration of all stages of the formation of a digital collection. The manual has been prepared on the basis of the results of theoretical research and practical activities of the Presidential Library in the field of formation of digital collections

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