Announcing a multi-part win for DLTS: the highlighting of PDF downloads on the ACO site.
Research Workspace & High Performance Computing Archive upgrades
Today, we successfully upgraded the software on the device that powers Research Workspace as well as HPC Archive.
Searchable PDFs now live: The Masses
Announcing our first collection with searchable PDFs!
Institute of Afro-American Affairs Audio Published
The Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) at New York University was founded in 1969 to research, document, and celebrate the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora. The collection includes recordings dating from 1971 to 1986 of…
Audio collections are coming!
DLTS published our first full audio collection, Fales’s Robert Flaherty Film Seminar Archive, earlier this year. We’ve been hard at work on the next several collections, including a re-publication of Voices from the Food Revolution that allows HTML5 streaming (and removes…
DLTS goes 3D
Digital Library Technical Services has joined the computational imaging crowd. We’ve done a short test of Reflectance Transformation Imaging, or RTI. This technology compiles multiple digital images into a virtual object that can reveal new information about the surface of…
Poly Portraits Nearing Completion
We have just digitized the last of the Poly Portrait collection, which features some interesting shots of the many scientists who graced the halls of the school now known as Tandon. Here’s an example:
The nitrate negative journey continues…
While we were digitizing the Sylveser Manor nitrate negative collection, we came across two negatives that were stuck together. Thanks to some help from our colleagues in Preservation, we were able to un-stick them. We’re glad we did, as they…
New Instagram Feed
DLTS’s Content Creation Group (CCG) has started an Instagram feed, featuring interesting images that they encounter during the digitization process. Check it out at www.instagram.com/nyuccg
Nitrate Negatives
We recently digitized some nitrate negatives from the Sylvester Manor collection. In addition to being fragile, this format can also be volatile, and so there’s an urgency to our work. We’re pleased that these negatives are incredibly sharp (see picture…