AV Preservation Census
We are pleased to announce that the Cornell AudioVisual Preservation team is launching a campus-wide census which will gather important data regarding our ‘at-risk’ AV formats. We will assess condition, format stability, uniqueness, and scholarly value. This is an important first step in developing a more comprehensive preservation strategy. This pilot initiative is being jointly […]
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, […]
Reception for the Grants Program for Digital Collections
Faculty from across the College of Arts and Sciences braved frigid temperatures on Feb. 27 to attend the first reception in support of the Grants Program for Digital Collections. The program — now in its fifth year —has funded more than 20 incredible projects Funded by the College of Arts of Sciences and coordinated by Cornell […]
Cornell AV in Bloom(ington)
In late October, we had the opportunity to visit members of Indiana University’s Media Preservation Task Force with two colleagues from Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology, Karl Fitzke (Audio Engineer at Macaulay Library), and Bill McQuay, (Supervising Audio Engineer, Macaulay Library). Our goal was to learn more about IU’s ambitious preservation plan to digitize its AV […]
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Arts and Sciences Visual Resources Program
Visual resources are critical in enabling and enhancing learning and teaching in the humanities and arts. During the last two decades, we have witnessed the digital shift in several ways, including the replacement of slide collections with personal digital image collections and an increased reliance on shared online visual resources such as ARTstor. And although […]
Responsive Design at CUL
Responsive design is a web design approach that aims to create an optimal viewing experience across a range of devices — from large desktop screens and smaller laptops, to tablets and smartphones. Responsive design uses CSS media queries to craft web pages that will respond to a browser’s size, or viewport. Whereas previous web development […]
Enhanced Access to HathiTrust
The 8 million print volumes in the Cornell University Library are a rich resource for students, faculty, and staff. However, for Cornellians with print disabilities such as visual impairment, learning disabilities, or other disabilities, using printed resources can be difficult. Thanks to an innovative program of the HathiTrust, many of these volumes can be made […]
Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects
In February of 2013, Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS) began a two-year NEH-funded project to preserve access to the complex born-digital media art objects in CUL’s Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Read the press release here. The Goldsen Archive’s collections span a 50-year history of aesthetic experimentation with electronic media, from early […]
Arts and Sciences Graduate Internship Program Pilot
In collaboration with the Society for the Humanities and Olin/Uris Library, CUL Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS) is piloting a small-scale graduate student digital scholarship internship program this summer. DSPS is joining forces with Olin/Uris Library to organize orientation and mentoring sessions for five graduate students in Arts and Sciences. The objectives of this program […]
Recast Copyright For The Digital Age
(by Peter Hirtle) One of the more interesting experiments in citizen democracy is the White House petition. Anyone can propose a petition; if it gets enough signatures (currently 100,000), the White House has to respond. My favorite so far has been the petition proposing that the government build a Death Star. The official White House […]
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