Developments at the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC)
The HathiTrust Research Center has announced an important development towards the availability of the full HathiTrust corpus to scholars that use computational methods (“text-mining”) in their research. The press release also includes a timeline for future steps that will make the entire corpus of HathiTrust, regardless of copyright, open for scholars using computational methods. What […]
AV Streaming Group Recommendations
As some may recall, an AV Streaming Policy Group was formed in Fall of 2014 to coordinate the development of streaming workflows and policies utilizing the existing Cornell services, including eCommons, MediaSpace, and Blackboard. I’d like to extend warm thanks to those involved in the group- Danielle Mericle (Chair, formerly DSPS), Peter Hirtle (formerly […]
Digital Image Collections Consolidation in Shared Shelf
For almost a decade, we have been supporting and maintaining the LUNA Insight and ARTstor visual image delivery platforms for various types of visual resources. LUNA was added earlier as an asset manager for images, and many of our legacy collections were until very recently housed there. The LUNA architecture was administrated in-house. ARTstor was […]
Recently Launched: CUL Digital Collections Portal
The Digital Collections Portal Team, consisting of staff from Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services (DSPS), CUL Information Technology (CULIT) and Library Technical Services (LTS), recently released the beta version of the new Digital Collections portal. The portal provides access to several digital collections, including those being migrated from DLXS to Hydra, as well as selected Cornell collections […]
arXiv Annual Update
arXiv started 2015 with an important milestone as we added the one-millionth paper at the end of December 2014 (press release & video). Since its inception in 1991 with a focus on the high energy physics community, arXiv has significantly expanded both its subject coverage and user base. During 2015, the repository saw 105,000 new submissions and over 139 million […]
Invitation to Apply for Digital Scholarship Fellowships
We are pleased to invite applications for the Digital Scholarship Fellowship position. Hosted by the DSPS unit since 2012, the fellowship program aims to provide opportunities for CUL staff to expand their skills and experiences in developing, delivering, and assessing digital scholarship services. It supports the CUL objectives of “empowering staff to explore gaps in their […]
Digital Books Just Keep Getting Better…
Cornell has engaged a workflow that allows for the improvement of digital books made through our partnership with Google and deposited in HathiTrust. The workflow is responsive to alerts from HathiTrust regarding the need for improvement of specific pages, and also engages the Single Page Insertion and Replacement workflow that Google has set up for […]
RepoExec, or The CUL Repository Executive Group
The Cornell University Library’s Repository Executive Group, colloquially known as RepoExec, has been meeting since the beginning of the year to explore and address the issues surrounding digital repositories at CUL. A digital repository is a system for managing and storing digital items, potentially including a wide range of content (visual images, digital images, research […]
Updating Our Images: Page Insertion and Correction
A new workflow has made it possible for us to attend to quality issues within our Google-digitized books. As reported a few years ago, Cornell digitizes books by the thousands with our partners at Google, and the resulting digital books are deposited into the HathiTrust Digital Library. Google has many methods to maintain and even […]
Project Euclid Launches New Website
Project Euclid launched a new website in early January. Planning, design, and development of the site took place over 18 months, and included discussions with numerous researchers, publishers, and librarians. The new site maintains what people liked about the previous site, its performance and clean appearance, while incorporating many new tools and features. Project Euclid […]
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