Tag Archives for Digital Collections
New FADGI MXF AS-07 Specification and Sample Files Published
The AS-07 Application Specification specifies a vendor-neutral subset of the MXF file format for the long-term archiving and preservation of moving image and other audiovisual content, including all forms of Ancillary Data, together with Associated Materials. Among other features, AS-07 … Continue reading
User Navigation in Large-Scale Distributed Digital Libraries: The Case of the Digital Public Library of America
This article presents the findings of a case study that examined user navigation in a large-scale digital library in the context of academic use. Using the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) as a case, the study explored user navigation … Continue reading
A Splendid Torch: Learning and Teaching in Today’s Academic Libraries
Six essays, written collaboratively by current and former CLIR postdoctoral fellows, explore the contributions that today’s academic libraries—as providers of resources, professional support, and space—are making to learning and teaching. Topics include the continuing evolution of the learning commons, information … Continue reading
Lessons Learned in Partnerships and Practice: Adopting Open Source Institutional Repository Software (Practice Article)
This case study examines three specific projects and workflows providing access to digital undergraduate honors theses, university serials, and music concert recordings. Lessons learned during the project include the success strategies for partnership formation along with the identification of project … Continue reading
Bibliographic Classification in the Digital Age: Current Trends & Future Directions
Bibliographic classification is among the core activities of Library & Information Science that brings order and proper management to the holdings of a library. Compared to printed media, digital collections present numerous challenges regarding their preservation, curation, organization and their … Continue reading
Libraries and the Evolution of Alternative Digital Publishing in the Humanities
The growth and evolution of digital scholarship in the humanities has produced new genres of scholarly work and publication, reliant upon new ways of representing and sharing evidence, analysis, and interpretation. Meanwhile, extant systems of scholarly communication, including publication, discovery, … Continue reading