Tag Archives for Digital Content
The Abbey Theatre Digital Archive: a digitization project with dramatic impact
The Digital Archive enables new types of research, including text and data mining, and has reshaped undergraduate curricula. It has also had a transformative effect on the Library as leader of the project. The role of the archivist has changed … Continue reading
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
OpenAthens Cloud launches at the Frankfurt Book Fair
OpenAthens builds upon its global access tools for digital content providers through its new cloud-based single sign-on solution OpenAthens, the international identity and access management software provider for the information industry, today officially launches its cloud-based content provider solution at … Continue reading
ProQuest enriches Ebook Central platform user experience
ProQuest has again teamed with students and other researchers to make the experience of using the Ebook Central platform more efficient, effective and valuable. The popular ebook platform has enhanced its book detail pages to boost usability with simplified workflows, … Continue reading
Remote teaching and learning gaining traction in education sector
Kaltura, a video technology provider, published on 20 September its fourth annual State of Video in Education report, an international study that examines the evolving use of video in education. Read More
Hacking the Literature Review: Opportunities and Innovations to Improve the Research Process
This article proposes a methodical, reproducible, three-stage process that harnesses the power digital tools bring to the research cycle, regardless of the user’s preferred platform or operating system. Focusing just on the literature review phase, we develop a conceptual framework, … Continue reading
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
A collaborative digital oral history collection: Building a digital collection of student scholarship documenting Latino Americans in southeast North Carolina
A collaborative oral history project was recently completed at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) by students enrolled in a Spanish seminar course and library faculty and staff members at the University. The course, ‘Hispanics in N.C.: Service Learning … Continue reading
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
Innovative Delivers Market-Leading Digital Asset Management with Responsive Web Experience in Vital Release 8.0
Innovative Interfaces has launched Vital Release 8.0 with a new fully responsive user interface that provides instant access to important repositories from any device. Vital, Innovative’s digital asset management solution, allows libraries and other institutions to create a beautiful and … Continue reading