New Arts & Sciences Grants Announced
We are pleased to announce the following projects have been funded for the 2015 Arts & Sciences Grants Program for Digital Collections. These initiatives will expand our digital primary material collections for research and teaching. They will also contribute to the burgeoning field of scholarship in the digital humanities through the use of innovative digital […]
Mapping options – a DSPS Fellowship report
Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services had the good fortune to host Noah Hamm, Public Services Assistant at Mann Library, on a brief DSPS fellowship from from 9/2014-2/2015. One current need that arises as we seek to support of scholars is their need for tools that visualize data as maps. Given Noah’s interest in the visualization […]
Expanded Alexander Kluge Website
We are pleased to announce the release of the newly expanded digital collection revolving around the works – and intellectual networks – of Alexander Kluge: Alexander Kluge: Cultural History in Dialogue. Alexander Kluge is a leading public intellectual, filmmaker, and cultural theorist in Germany, whose vast corpus of work engages with a broad range of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp 2013
HathiTrust currently contains about 10.8 million volumes. Approximately 32% of these volumes are in the public domain. (HathiTrust provides a variety of contemporary snapshots of its holdings.) The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is an independent but associated entity that currently enables computational access for nonprofit and educational users to published works in the public domain. […]
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 […]
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