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Digitizing Dissertations For The Escholarship@Umms Institutional Repository, Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer
Digitizing Dissertations For The Escholarship@Umms Institutional Repository, Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer
Mary E. Piorun
Our presentation will describe the process and costs associated with our first digitization project: digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at UMass Medical School. We will start at the beginning: selecting team members and identifying their roles, choosing the right repository system, and identifying a manageable first project. We will explain how we partnered with our Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and contacted alumni for permission to digitize their dissertations. We will also discuss technical information and decisions such as software and equipment used to scan and create searchable text, using OCR technology to convert abstracts, …