Using Wikipedia to Increase the Visibility of CUL- Digital Collections: Take One
As part of an ongoing effort to better promote CUL’s digital collections, we have embarked on an initiative to strategically link newly digitized content to appropriate entries within Wikipedia. Going forward, this will be integrated into our overall digital project workflow, to guarantee broader points of access to our collections. Wikipedia is ideologically aligned with […]
HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp2015
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) held its third annual UnCamp over March 30 and 31. The HTRC has continued to demonstrate its commitment to the evolution of tools of tools and functionality of interest to scholars in the digital humanities, this year adding two additional tools to the environments, algorithms and datasets that it already […]
Google Books Digitization – wrap-up report
This is a follow up to Oya Rieger’s announcement to CU-LIB on 2/18/2015. In the early weeks of January of 2015, the last book from Cornell’s last shipment to Google for digitization was reshelved, bringing to a conclusion a long and successful collaborative effort by Cornell and Google to digitize well over 500,000 books. Digitization […]
DCAPS/Kheel Center Collaboration Begins
It is with much enthusiasm that we begin digitization of the Kheel Center’s collection of Collective Bargaining Agreements. Over the next two years, Digital Consulting & Production Services (DCAPS) will digitize upwards of 2000 agreements, representing contracts from the American educational services and retail industries. The series selected range in length from two pages to […]
Summer Graduate Fellowship Program in Digital Scholarship
In July-August 2014, Cornell University Library (CUL) and the Society for the Humanities co-sponsored a second year of its five-week summer fellowship program for graduate students in the humanities. Piloted as an internship in Summer 2013, this program was inspired by the recognition that humanities graduate students at Cornell need additional opportunities to develop digital skills and […]
Interactive Digital Media Art Survey: Key Findings and Observations
In February of 2013, Cornell University Library in collaboration with the Society for the Humanities began a two-year project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to preserve access to complex born-digital new media art objects. The project aims to develop a technical framework and associated tools to facilitate enduring access to interactive […]
Ongoing Considerations in AV Preservation at CUL
In an audiovisual preservation workflow, there is a bit of a wormhole effect to each decision you make. For instance, when choosing whether to accommodate the digitization of a new format in-house, one must consider long-term support for the equipment involved, including cleaning, maintenance, tools and supplies, as well as technical expertise. All of these things add […]
Recent Collections from DCAPS
DCAPS is pleased to announce these recently launched digital collections: Mnemosyne Atlas: The Mnemosyne Atlas explores the complex work of the 20th century scholar, Aby Warburg. A collaboration between DCAPS, the Cornell University Press, the Warburg Institute, and the German Studies Department, the site is a digital corollary to the CU Press publication, Memory, Metaphor, […]
Invitation to Apply for DSPS Fellowship
We are getting ready to invite applications for the Digital Scholarship Fellowship position. Hosted by the DSPS unit 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 […]
Strategies for Expanding E-Journal Preservation
Academic libraries are increasingly dependent on commercially-produced, born-digital content that is purchased or licensed. For instance, CUL’s e-journal title count increased by 100% between FY07 and FY13. As libraries consolidate their print collections in order to open up space for new programs or to downsize physical footprints, users increasingly rely on the digitized versions of historical […]
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