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Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons Poster, Elizabeth Chance, Jennifer Sauer Oct 2017

Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons Poster, Elizabeth Chance, Jennifer Sauer

M. Elizabeth Downing

This poster was presented at DC-HUG 2017 in Rolla, MO. Forsyth Digital Collections presents their content on more than one digital collections platform. Since the acquisition of Digital Commons and the launch of the FHSU Scholars Repository in January 2016, there has been an institutional effort to determine which platform is best suited to displaying existing content. Beginning in 2009, the FHSU Reveille Yearbooks collection had been hosted in CONTENTdm. This collection suffered from issues relating to access and user experience. In 2014 additional effort was put into improving the collection though those efforts did not achieve the desired result. …

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Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons, Elizabeth Chance Oct 2017

Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons, Elizabeth Chance

M. Elizabeth Downing

Forsyth Digital Collections presents their content on more than one digital collections platform. Since the acquisition of Digital Commons and the launch of the FHSU Scholars Repository in January 2016, there has been an institutional effort to determine which platform is best suited to displaying existing content. Beginning in 2009, the FHSU Reveille Yearbooks collection had been hosted in CONTENTdm. This collection suffered from issues relating to access and user experience. In 2014 additional effort was put into improving the collection though those efforts did not achieve the desired result. In the spring of 2017 it was determined that the …

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Digitization And Working With A Mountain West Digital Library Hub, Catherine Mcintyre Aug 2014

Digitization And Working With A Mountain West Digital Library Hub, Catherine Mcintyre

Catherine McIntyre

This presentation, which includes a brief video, focuses on some best practices for public libraries or other cultural memory institutions to follow when considering undertaking a digitization project. Given from the perspective of a Mountain West Digital Library digitization hub, Utah Valley University, we offer tips on planning and managing a digitization project and which key questions to ask of the hub, to make sure that each partner knows its responsibilities and expectations. This makes for a successful digitization project!

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From Multiple Perspectives: Commemorating The Los Angeles Aqueduct At Loyola Marymount University, Shilpa Rele, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian Dec 2012

From Multiple Perspectives: Commemorating The Los Angeles Aqueduct At Loyola Marymount University, Shilpa Rele, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

This joint presentation showcases three Loyola Marymount University Digital Collections commemorating the centennial of the Los Angeles Aqueduct: J. D. Black Papers, Big Pine Citizen Newspaper Collection, and Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection. Shilpa Rele discusses the initiation of this digital project with grant funding from the Metabolic Studio, collaborative project management, and digitization of historical materials housed in the William H. Hannon Library’s Archives and Special Collections. Rachel Wen-Paloutzian elaborates on the three diverse digital collections, creation of descriptive metadata for these collections, and metadata best practices guideline for the CONTENTdm content management system. 

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Best Practices For Descriptive Metadata For Lmu Digital Collections, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian, Shilpa Rele Dec 2012

Best Practices For Descriptive Metadata For Lmu Digital Collections, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian, Shilpa Rele

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

In Summer 2013, with consultation of Shilpa Rele, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian wrote the best practices guidelines for descriptive metadata creation and management of LMU Digital Collections. From then to Summer 2015, Wen-Paloutzian successfully implemented the best practices in creating and enhancing over 3,400 original descriptive metadata records for 12 digital collections at LMU.

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