Members of the Libraries’ Ultraviolet Data Repository project team recently presented on their work at the Open Repositories conference in Denver. Laura Henze, Senior UX Designer in DLTS, presented on accessibility principles, recommendations for making institutional repositories accessible, and specific tools…
New guidelines for responsible scholarly publishing
As the web expands and becomes more experiential, scholarly publications are no longer static, limited spaces where the user’s functions are limited to scrolling and clicking. In the present day, an appendix for a digital scholarly work will include links…
Three Cheers and a Fond Farewell to Eric Stedfeld!
A short celebration of our colleague and friend Eric Stedfeld, whose 23-year tenure at DLTS ends today.
The Many-Handed Move of Research Workspace
Research Workspace is a centrally located storage device that NYU users can mount locally on their desktops, allowing for large amounts of data to be accessed and shared. Continuing our work to maintain reliable service, the storage device that powers this service was relocated to a new facility as part of a large infrastructure reshuffle.
Letters to the Sugar Plum Fairy
We have just published the finding aid for the Joe Campbell Collection of Dorothy Dean Letters; these objects were photographed by the members of our Imaging Lab.
The Big Ancient World Migration
DLTS successfully moved over 200 books from the original Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) site to the new site. This process took several attempts over a period of years to make it happen.
New, Flash-Free HIDVL
The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, a collaboration between New York University Libraries and NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, preserves and makes accessible videos documenting the expression of social and political life through performance in the many cultures…
Wrecked Beach to Recognized Speech: AI Transcription Correction
It’s an oft-repeated anecdote that when demonstrating the first vocoders (the data compression of audio signals containing speech and voice), Manfred Shcroeder, a German physicist for Bell Laboratories, noted that the machines and the people hearing them repeatedly tangled themselves…
Spanish Civil War Poster Collection
We have just published the finding aid for the Spanish Civil War Poster Collection, including digitizing many of these gorgeous and important artifacts.
A/V captions and transcripts; Soul of Reason
Our latest win is many wins in one! We just rolled out the infrastructure to be able to display captions and transcripts for A/V content.
We published captions and transcripts for “Soul of Reason”
We published captions and transcripts for “Soul of Reason”