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Toward Empathetic Digital Repositories: An Interview With Diego Pino Navarro, Sophia Ziegler
Toward Empathetic Digital Repositories: An Interview With Diego Pino Navarro, Sophia Ziegler
Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship
Diego Pino Navarro is a systems architect and open source software developer from Chile. He is the Assistant Director for Digital Strategy at the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) where he manages the digital services team. Diego is also the Lead Architect of Archipelago Commons, an open source digital library software for cultural heritage materials.
In this interview from October 18, 2021, Sophia Ziegler talks to Diego Pino Navarro about his work with Archipelago, and specifically how he invokes the role of empathy in ongoing digital library software development. Diego talks about his efforts to build a digital library …
Digitization On A Budget, Cara M. Key, Zachary G. Stein, Cheylon K. Woods
Digitization On A Budget, Cara M. Key, Zachary G. Stein, Cheylon K. Woods
Faculty Publications
Archives and libraries are seen as public hubs of information on demand. As expectations for digital information grows, it is imperative that archives and libraries strive to accommodate users' growing needs for effective online access, while ensuring the longevity of digitized and born-digital primary sources. There is still a struggle for digital access to archival and special collections; many factors, such as time, funds, and administrative support limit the digitization of archival collections. None of these things have to be a real hindrance to digital migration and preservation. In this presentation, we will explore "DIY" ways to establish a functioning …
The Process Of A Completed Digitization Project: Ingest, Cara M. Key, William W. Conlin
The Process Of A Completed Digitization Project: Ingest, Cara M. Key, William W. Conlin
Faculty Publications
As physical archival materials age and begin to degrade, there is a push to digitize for further access so that the originals can be better preserved. By making digital collections available online, scholarship is made more widely known. This workshop covers the process of completing successful digitization projects. The presentations will include selecting and evaluating materials to digitize, scanning and appropriate formats, ingesting digital surrogates for accessibility, storage and preservation, and copyright issues for digitized materials. Through lecture and discussion, participants will gain insight into what digitization projects entail so they can expand on their institutions' digitization programs. They will …