Arts & Sciences Grant Awards 2018 Announced
As you probably know, with Oya Reiger transitioning into new roles at Cornell and with digital scholarship at large with Ithaka S&R, I will be joining Eric Rebillard (Classics) in the role of Co-Chair of the Visual Resources Advisory Group. I’d like to thank Eric for his continued leadership and collaboration on this program. It […]
Invitation to Apply for CUL Fellowship (formerly Digital Scholarship Fellowship)
We are pleased to invite applications for the CUL Fellowship. This year’s program builds on the Digital Scholarship Fellowship, which was hosted by the DSPS unit since 2012, by expanding it to all library programs. It aims to provide opportunities for CUL staff to expand their skills and experiences in developing, delivering, and assessing services and […]
Updates from Digital Consulting & Production Services (DCAPS) – January 2018
News Your idea + our technical expertise = a great digital collection Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts & Sciences We are pleased to announce the ninth round of the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, a program funded by the College and coordinated by the Library. The goal is to […]
Updates from Digital Consulting & Production Services (DCAPS) – August 2017
August 2017 Cornell University Library, a pioneer in the creation and management of digital resources, has assembled a team of experts to support digital scholarship initiatives for Cornell’s faculty, staff and community partners. Specializing in high-end digitization, metadata customization and creation, and online delivery, the DCAPS staff is recognized worldwide for creating innovative collections in support of instructional and research […]
New Arts & Sciences Grants Announced
We were delighted to receive twelve strong proposals for the seventh year of the Visual Resources Grants Program and are pleased to support three exciting projects, including one from a graduate student. Through these initiatives, we aim to expand our digital collections for research and teaching and contribute to the burgeoning field of scholarship in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Announcing the Preserving and Emulating Digital Art Objects White Paper
In 2013, Cornell University Library received a research and development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to design a framework for preserving access to digital art objects. The Preservation and Access Frameworks for Digital Art Objects project (PAFDAO) was undertaken in collaboration with Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities and the Rose Goldsen […]
Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
Launched in spring 2015, Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection is a collection of “persuasive maps” — maps intended to influence beliefs or communicate opinions, rather than convey solely geographic information. The 310 maps were donated to the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections by alum PJ Mode ‘60, and were digitized by Digital Consulting […]
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