Category Archives for University Collections & Archives
User Engagement with Digital Archives for Research and Teaching: A Case Study of Emblematica Online
Researchers increasingly engage with the digital archives built by libraries, archives, and museums, but many institutions still seek to learn more about researchers’ needs and practices with these digital collections. This paper presents a user assessment study for Emblematica Online, a … Continue reading
Integrating the IR into Strategic Goals at the University of Toledo: Case Study
The purpose of this case study is to demonstrate a current model as well as explore future models for integrating institutional repositories in higher education goals at the University of Toledo. Read More
Extending Omeka for a Large-Scale Digital Project
In September 2016, the department of Special Collections and Archives, Kent State University Libraries, received a Digital Dissemination grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to digitize roughly 72,500 pages from the May 4 collection, which documents … Continue reading
eLearning Modernization In Higher Education: Case Study
See how a large university migrated eLearning content from old technology to a format consumable by students in the 21st century. Read More
Libraries of the Future Focus on Digital Collaboration and Scholarship
Some big-name libraries have gone digital with their resources. Harvard University Library has also taken advantage of technology to make operations more efficient across the more than 70 Harvard Library units through a new cloud-based tool. Read More
The digital library futures project
“Paul Gooding” describes a joint project looking at the impact of the expansion of legal deposit to include digital material and the challenges that these e-legal deposits pose for the academic sector and its interactions with institutional and regulatory system. Read … Continue reading
Conference Paper: “News Verification Suite: Towards System Design to Supplement Reporters’ and Editors’ Judgements”
The News Verification Suite aims to provide users with a set of functions to verify information in the news. This paper offers a conceptual basis and a vision of system elements towards automated fact-checking in news production, curation, and consumption. … Continue reading
Research On Dark Data Analysis To Reduce Data Complexity In Big Data
There is one portion of data within a main data source which is not in regular use but it can help in decision making. This portion is known as “Dark Data”. It is important to find solutions such that dark … Continue reading
The Library of Congress Launches Two New Collections of Archived Web Content: Webcomics Archive and Web Cultures Archive
The two new archives focus on new genres and emergent cultures enabled by networked technologies, and are ongoing collections. Read More
Apple undercuts Facebook in the augmented reality platform war
Facebook may be the world’s most powerful app, but it’s still just an app on Apple’s operating system. Apple has once again used its control of the mobile operating system to build a wider platform than Facebook can, this time … Continue reading