UnSub: Sundry Thoughts, Employing Data from the Wiley e-Journal Package

The authors reviewed the UnSub tool using journal download data from Wiley for 2020. Some of the lead author\u27s concerns with cancelling the Wiley journal package and proceeding with UnSub\u27s Open Access-dependent approach are detailed

Wiley Journal Package: UNL Download Activity by Subject

Because the field of librarianship has been reconsidering its relationship to commercial academic publishers and their \u27Big Deal\u27 journal packages, the authors decided to review the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\u27s usage of Wiley\u27s package. In this report, the authors looked into whether UNL\u27s downloads by subject were such that subscribing to a number of hypothetical smaller, subject-specific packages, rather than to the entire Wiley package, might be a viable strategy

Scaling Up Video Digitization at the University of Maryland Libraries: A Case Study

In 2015, a team at the University of Maryland Libraries collaborated on a pilot project to digitize 100 VHS tapes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange collection and, in doing so, established organizational workflows for video digitization and access. After completing the pilot phase of the project, staff who worked on the project published a case study in this journal that articulated a question echoed throughout that process: “Is this enough?” Enough descriptive metadata? Enough technical metadata? Enough storage space? This article will reflect on the pilot project, detail how the digitization specifications and workflows established during the pilot project have changed over the intervening years, and how they were scaled-up to digitize and make accessible the remaining videos 1,125 videos in the collection under the auspices of a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities grant

Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Up Digitization Projects During the Pandemic

The University of Maryland Libraries received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2019 to digitize the Dance Exchange collection, a video collection of performances and rehearsals and their corresponding paper programs. The Dance Exchange was founded by Liz Lerman, a well-known choreographer whose ethos of “dance for all” underscores the type of work and community programs created by the company and the performers, including all ages and differently-abled participants. This paper will discuss a brief history of the project and content, why this collection was prioritized by the curator, and the importance to the wider dance community. We will focus this report on the Libraries’ best practice technical standards implemented and expanded for this project and why implementing the metadata was important as we were moving to new digital preservation technologies. The standards include video technical specifications, metadata XML specifications, and embedded metadata specifications. We will also elaborate on how we scaled up workflows built to handle previous projects of a few hundred items to a project of over 1,100 items, and the challenges of reviewing, modifying, and moving the large amount of metadata and data. A major impediment for this project was that the university and our vendor closed due to the pandemic at a key point when we were receiving files back for review. We will examine how we changed digitization and review workflows due to the need to move the project work remotely. A final challenge we are currently experiencing is a massive repository and digital preservation archive migration. We will share how we are working with repository managers and digital preservationists during the university closure to complete the work necessary for getting the content online. We will conclude by discussing how we will implement the changes we made to future av digitization projects.The University of Maryland Libraries received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2019 to digitize the Dance Exchange collection, a video collection of performances and rehearsals and their corresponding paper programs. This paper will discuss a brief history of the project and content, best practice technical standards implemented by the Libraries and expanded for this project, scaling up workflows built to handle a project of a few hundred items to a project of over 1,100 items, changing digitization workflows due to pandemic closures and the need to move the project work remotely, and a repository and digital preservation archive migration that occurred during the course of the project. The report will share how we overcame challenges and will implement the changes we made to future av digitization projects.The National Endowment for the Humanitie

Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting 2019

This presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and related stakeholders held on April 18, 2019. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project is in its seventh year and fourth grant phase. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to brainstorm outreach and programming ideas

Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting Fall 2020

This presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and related stakeholders held on October 28, 2020. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to determine title selection for Phase 5 of the grant (2020-2022)