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#Digitization

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George Macgregor

Another blog post from one of our Arts Library Associates, coordinated by my colleague here at University of Glasgow. In this post Cassie Vaden delivers an overview of digitising flat materials, "allowing you to access priceless artifacts and records from the comfort of your own home."

Digitisation of UofG's Collections: A Primer universityofglasgowlibrary.wor #digitization #digipres #DigitalArchives #DigitalLibraries #Glasgow

University of Glasgow Library Blog · Digitisation of UofG’s Collections: A PrimerA guest post by Cassie Vaden, Arts Library Associate At the very back of the entrance floor of the library, there are two doors marked “Staff Only.” Behind them is a stairwell to the operations tha…
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Stefan Bohacek

"[Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C.] is part of the team that coordinates the more than 5,000 Citizen Archivists helping the Archive read and transcribe some of the more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog. And they're looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill."

usatoday.com/story/news/nation

USA TODAY · Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.By , USA TODAY
#archiving#digitization#cursive
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manisha

Out of the many things that I love about my job, one of them is that I get to have deep discussions with experts from not just #academia as we work towards building communities of practice. Today, in our Expert Dialogues session for the Digitization project, I learnt so much about human-centered design and design-thinking, something they never taught me when I was a computer science engineering undergrad.

One of the consortium members shared that they'd built this really beautiful app for a rural community in #India, spent a few crore INR in the process, and then no one ended up using it! 😬 I'm glad they are a member of this consortium and were willing to share this so that we don't make the same mistakes! Also learnt that while community members may answer positively to all your survey questions, that doesn't mean they'll actually use whatever digital solution you build - you need to embed yourself within the community and engage in dialogues to get to the crux of the problems they face.

Two of our PhD Fellows are working in the Himalayan region and during the meeting were facing bandwidth issues. Something we definitely need to keep in mind - if we want to design a solution for communities with limited internet connectivity.

@academicchatter

sage.echonetwork.inSAGE - DIGITIZATIONHost Institute: University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU) Host Academic Supervisor: Tabassum Ishrath Fathima, Assistant Professor, and M. Abdul Kareem, Centre Head and Associate Professor, Centre for Conservation of Natural Resources, University of Trans-Disciplinary
#Digitization#ecosystem#EcosystemStewardship
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petersuber

Questions for the hive mind:

We know (or can safely assume) that #AI companies are taking advantage of previously digitized #PublicDomain #OpenAccess texts in order to train their AI tools.

But are any AI companies undertaking new public-domain digitization projects for the purpose of training their AI tools?

If so, do those newly digitized texts ever become #OA? Or are they kept offline for internal use, perhaps to avoid the extra expense of hosting or to avoid helping rival companies?

#Digitization#LLMs
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Daniel Carkner🥀

Was happy to come across someone in the wild sharing this great article by my old boss Tara Robertson. I still think about it when I hear idealistic talk about digitising materials by marginalised people to save them. Things can be more complicated.

"I will look at the digitization of On Our Backs (OOB), a lesbian porn magazine that ran from 1984–2004, as a case study of where digitization and publishing this content online is inappropriate."
distantreader.org/stacks/carre

The opening paragraph for the following article: Not All Information Wants to be Free: The Case Study of On Our Backs Tara Robertson* Introduction “Information wants to be free” is one of those slogans that I see on t-shirts and tote bags at library conferences. Generally, librarians advocate for open access to information. In this chapter, I will look at the digitization of On Our Backs (OOB), a lesbian porn magazine that ran from 1984–2004, as a case study of where digitization and publishing this content online is inappropriate. First, I will locate myself and explain why I’ve been critical of Reveal Digital putting OOB online. Second, I will examine why it was problematic for Reveal Digital to put OOB online and will also look at why the reasons they gave for temporarily removing OOB were also problematic. Third, I’ll look at some of the copyright issues associated with digitizing this collection and I will argue that we need to go beyond just looking at copyright. I’ll conclude with a survey discussion of some other digitization projects that are approaching tricky ethical issues from a nuanced and thoughtful perspective and describe best practices, including having clear contact information, using appropriate technology, and working with communities from a community development perspective.
#archives#digitization
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grouchox

Let me present the essence of Germanness. The "Bonusheft".
It might be worth thousands in savings for dental work if you can prove an entry for a check-up every year for the last ten years (mine goes back to the late classical aera).

But now, it turns out, it's defunct. But gets serviced anyway. "Better keep it. Who knows what'll happen in two years" is my dentist's advice.

#digitization#germany
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NFDI

🏛️ Museum collections often have questions about digitization.

🤝 The NFDI4Culture consortium provides support through advice, expertise, and exchange, such as in the digitization campaign of the Gutenberg Museum of Printing Arts in Mainz. 📜

This ensures that cultural assets like the Gutenberg Bibles remain accessible and alive in the digital world! 💡

More information: nfdi4culture.de/resources/use-

#fdm#rdm#culture
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Ms. Que Banh

Did you know? The #UnitedChurch once operated a home and school in #VictoriaBC for #Chinese and #Japanese girls and women. Today, many are surprised to learn this. Margery Hadley, a professional #archivist and member of #FirstMetropolitanUnitedChurch in Victoria, has recently completed a #digitization project that makes the images of the Oriental Home and School available online. It opens to us a now distant world and its concomitant issues.

pacificmountain.ca/oriental-ho

#FirstMetArchives has been privileged to care for two important historical documents from the #OrientalHomeAndSchool. The first is the #ChineseRescueHome Advisory Committee minute book, 1896-1915. The second is the Oriental Home and School album, a fascinating assemblage of 95 photographs of the Oriental Home community, mainly between 1907 and 1916.

The Oriental Home and School album is now available online. It is part of First Met’s #historic #photographs digitization project that involved digital scanning and description of over 500 images from our #archival collections. These photographs are available to the public on #Flickr. The Oriental Home and School album is one of ten sets of First Met’s #HistoricalPhotographs available for public viewing.

First Met gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of the #BritishColumbia #History #Digitization Program (2015), sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, #UBC.

flickr.com/photos/firstmetarch

pacificmountain.caOriental Home and School Photos Online – Pacific Mountain Region
#AsianMastodon#YYJ#Lekwungen
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AAPB

📣 New to the AAPB: The Voices of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Exhibit 📣

Featuring television and radio programs from the 1950s and 1960s, this exhibit presents historic testimonies from movement participants, telling the complex history of integrating the segregated South and achieving full citizenship rights for African Americans.

Explore the exhibit: americanarchive.org/exhibits/c

americanarchive.orgVoices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement | American Archive of Public BroadcastingVoices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement presents educational and noncommercial television and radio programs from the 1950s and 1960s that offer historic testimonies – in interviews, speeches, documentaries, panel discussions, and on-the-spot news reports – from many movement participants, both well-known and unknown. National leaders, local leaders, community organizers, students, clergy, lawyers, educators, academics, writers, and even a comedian and a documentary filmmaker relate often riveting stories that document a range of individual and group experiences and perspectives. The exhibit presents accounts from a variety of locales, each a distinct piece of the complex history of the struggle to integrate the segregated South and achieve full citizenship rights for African Americans.The original Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement exhibit, launched in 2015 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, consisted of radio programs that had been broadcast as the historical events they covered were taking place. In 2024, we have expanded Voices to include National Educational Television (NET) programs about the Southern Civil Rights Movement from the 1960s to comprise a visual component of the exhibit. Kenneth Alexander Campbell, an intern in the 2020 Library of Congress/Howard University Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced (AHHA) Internship Program, curated the update. Following his internship, Kenneth, an accomplished documentary film artist, received a Masters of Fine Arts in Cinematic Arts from Howard University, taught graduate courses in film history and African cinema at Howard, served as Impact Producer on the acclaimed documentary MLK/FBI, and joined the Department of Mass Communications at North Carolina Central University, his alma mater, as an assistant professor. Kenneth passed away on April 19, 2024. We dedicate this exhibit to his memory. In a blog post about his AHHA internship, Kenneth discussed the significance of the NET programs we have added to Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Before moving to Washington, I became involved with the SNCC Critical Oral History Project at Duke University, back home in North Carolina. This project documented the experience of veteran members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, which later evolved into the Black Power Movement. My personal involvement with that intergenerational, face-to-face, personal exchange deeply affected my understanding of the history of the people of this country… This AHHA research experience has further expanded my understanding of the history the people of this country - and the incalculable impact that public broadcasting can have on how our history unfolds. The long-form work of NET Journal demonstrates what an effective vehicle cinéma vérité and journalistic documentary can be. The “Realities” of the series Public Broadcast Laboratory provide a robust visual landscape of faces to replace the opaque and cliché terms “the public” or “the masses.” And the series Of People and Politics often delves much deeper into the nuances of the public discourse around voting rights and the transition to human rights than I ever expected. NET created a profoundly unique moment in broadcast history. And it documented a profoundly unique moment in American history. But perhaps more importantly, it demonstrated the potential of the camera to be a highly effective tool for broadcasting the densely rich visual history of this land.
#PublicMedia#PublicBroadcasting#AAPB
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