This "24x7" session consists of 7-minute presentations, each comprising no more than 24 slides.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (Susan S. Kung, Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, UT Austin)
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a completely digital repository at the University of Texas at Austin, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. AILLA has no physical presentation space; its collections are accessible only through its website (www.ailla.utexas.org) via parallel interfaces in both English and Spanish.
AILLA's primary mission is the preservation of irreplaceable linguistic and cultural resources in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America, most of which are endangered. AILLA's secondary mission is to make these valuable and useful resources maximally accessible via the Internet while simultaneously protecting personally, culturally and politically sensitive materials from inappropriate use and supporting the intellectual property rights of the creators.
Being an 'a11y': Increasing Accessibility in Born Digital Preservation (Lisa Snider, Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin)
In the past few years, archivists and librarians have grappled with issues associated with the long term preservation of born digital materials. Are we considering the needs of people with disabilities when preserving these materials?
This presentation will explore how we can increase accessibility when preserving born digital materials. Taken from an archival point of view, the presentation will focus on one solution that may make our born digital material more accessible to people with disabilities.
Digital Collections in a Small Archives: Using Google Services to Help Present and Promote An Oral History Project (Erin Wolfe, Dole Archives, University of Kansas)Providing online access to media collections, such as oral histories, can be challenging to do well, particularly for smaller institutions with limited resources. This presentation will focus on a recently completed project in which the Dole Archives leveraged freely available tools to provide access to a high profile oral history collection in a variety of formats, including streaming audio/video, full text searching capabilities, and a finding aid with direct links to digital content. By integrating Google services into our own website, the project receives benefits both from (a) local branding and exhibit/content hosting and (b) the increase of visibility of the materials to a wider audience through Google-based searches. Designed with end-user access in mind, it is our hope that this project will help to expand our audiences beyond the academic and be useful (and usable) for a variety of purposes, from K-12 student research to serving as a case study for future fundraising opportunities. This presentation should be of interest to institutions looking for a low-cost approach to providing online access to media collections or those who may be interested in seeing a new approach to using web-based tools to provide access to archival materials.
Digital Repository for Beach Management Data (Laura Kane McElfresh, Texas A&M University, Galveston Campus; David R. Baca, Texas A&M University, Galveston Campus)The Galveston Island Park Board of Trustees, a governmental entity created in 1962 by the Texas Legislature, is responsible for preserving and promoting the Island's natural resources, including its beaches. The Park Board produces data and documents -- studies, reports, policy advisories, and other information -- which may not necessarily fall under the purview of government document depository mandates, but should still be openly accessible to citizens. Texas A&M University at Galveston, as an institute dedicated to higher education and scholarship in the marine sciences, marine engineering, and maritime professions, is a natural home for this kind of scientific and economic information. In January 2014, the Jack K. Williams Library at Texas A&M - Galveston and the Galveston Island Park Board of Trustees formed a partnership to create a repository for preservation and open sharing of these documents. This brief presentation will outline our progress to date.
Examining Massive Digital Libraries (Andrew Weiss, California State University, Northridge)Massive Digital Libraries can be defined as digitized book collections that rival or even surpass the current size of most physical "brick and mortar" libraries. Many of these MDLs reach sizes of several million volumes. The largest is Google Books at nearly 30 million volumes and the HathiTrust is a distant second at 11 million volumes.
This presentation will examine the results of two related studies. For the first, a study currently being conducted examines levels of access for four Massive Digital Libraries, including Google Books, HathiTrust, Open Content Alliance’s Open Library, and Internet Archive among Spanish language and English language random samples.
In the second study, the author examines rates of error and problems associated with scanning Japanese language books found in the Google Books and HathiTrust Massive Digital Libraries.
The results of both studies suggest that aggregated content development in massive digital libraries may be impacted negatively by a lack of diversity in partnerships. Furthermore, problems of mass digitization of non-English, non-Western books occur due not only to the limited numbers available but also due to issues of copyright clearance, availability of materials and non-Western book binding techniques and printing technologies.
National Museum of the Pacific War Oral History Program (Sarah Walch, National Museum of the Pacific War)
The Oral History program at the National Museum of the Pacific War (NMPW) has been a major volunteer effort for more than a decade. Recently, the program transitioned leadership to the Nimitz Education and Research Center’s (NERC) archivist and librarian, as part of a larger effort to both provide long-term storage for analog and digital audio and transcript materials as well as to professionalize the program as the NERC team prepares to launch an oral history website to the public.
The Niiyama Japanese Poetic Pottery: The unintended adaptation of a unique collection (Patrice-Andre Prud'homme, Milner Library, Illinois State University) From the compilation of this exemplary collection of short poems of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu in 1235 to its interpretation in ceramics exhibited at the Tokyo American Club in 1981, this presentation will examine the interactive digital transformation of a collection of one hundred pieces of pottery displayed in Flash and HTML5 with CSS3. Through his work, the potter Mitsuya Niiyama reveals the nature of Japanese sensitivity. The purpose of this case study is three-fold: 1) Demonstrate the collaborative work of the digitization process with departments inside and outside the library, 2) Explore the innovative process in the production of an interactive presentation, including HTML5 for added accessibility to mobile devices and 3) Adhere to digital preservation strategies and actions about content creation associated with metadata development. This elaborate transformative process of a unique collection of pottery is even more important in that it leads to the premise of accurate rendering of authenticated content over time, particularly when institutions with fewer resources may find it difficult to successfully engage in digital preservation.
Success and Growth: the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (Timothy Logan, Baylor University)
Since its launch in 2006, the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (BGMRP) at Baylor University has become a nationally recognized effort to catalog, capture and preserve materials from America’s “golden age” of black gospel music. Spurred by an impassioned New York Times op-ed written in 2005 by Baylor journalism professor Robert Darden, the BGMRP began with a lead gift from Charles Royce that provided for the purchase of equipment and the hiring of an audio engineer. What started with a small scanner in borrowed space has grown to an active center for digitization and preservation. Today, the gospel project’s team includes an audiovisual digitization specialist, a curator, an assistant director, and a number of graduate and undergraduate student workers. Their work focuses on the digitization of gospel recordings, regardless of the recording form from the original collections. The records are received, cleaned, cataloged, digitized, and returned to their owners, and other materials such as hymnbooks and sheet music are treated with equal care.
Working with major collectors across the country, the project has grown to include more than 2,200 digitized albums (78s, 45s, and 33s) whose digital objects are comprised of 8,196 images and 4,740 accessible audio tracks. The collection is open to the world via the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections (http://digitalcollections.ba
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