The American University of Beirut just joined us as a partner in the Arabic Collections Online project. AUB will contribute upwards of 7,000 Arabic-language texts to the project, which will raise the number of texts we will offer online significantly.…
Judson collection is live!
Items from the Judson Memorial Church Archive – over 10,000 images – are now live and available to the public. This collection from Fales Library spans nearly two centuries (1839-2001). During that time, Judson Memorial Church was a center of worship…
Open Access Books
We have launched a Web site for NYU Press to provide open access to some of their books. The site, located at openaccessbooks.nyupress.org, offers several dozen books for reading on a computer, tablet, or phone. It’s powered by Readium, a javascript-based,…
Format migration
When we preserve digitized content in our repository, we make a commitment not just to the content as it exists today, but also to migrating the content to a new format as standards and technologies change. We have two collections…
Take-Down Policy
Certain collections contain materials with multiple copyright holders. Even if NYU Libraries owns a collection, we may or may not be able to make all of its materials available to the public online. For this reason, Special Collections developed a…
Publication Workflows
As some of you saw at the table-top discussion on March 19, DLTS is standardizing its publication workflows. In the past, we built Web sites. Now, we run a publication service that puts content online according to its type. Image…
Format Challenges
We just finished digitizing a collection from Tamiment-Wagner of photos from Camp Kinderland. The original photos were on glass negatives, which posed an interesting challenge in digitizing. We had to reset our camera to handle this format. Now, as we…
ACO Update
As many of you may know, the Arabic Collections Online project is the largest digitization effort DLTS has ever undertaken. Ultimately, it will include over 10,000 books. We are pleased to report that the wheel is turning and we have…
Putting Afghanistan Digital Library in context
A recent article in the New York Times provides some context for the Afghanistan Digital Library. We are continuing our efforts to make materials available through ADL, as previously described.
Updates on the Afghanistan Digital Library project
The Afghanistan Digital Library project, begun at NYU in 2003, was designed to digitize and make available on the web as many Afghan publications as possible from the period 1871–1930, the first sixty years of Afghanistan’s published cultural heritage. Users can browse…