All Projects by Title – Digital Library Technology Services

Afghanistan Digital Library Afghanistan Digital Library retrieves, restores and makes available the first sixty years of Afghanistan's published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871-1930 as it is possible to identify and locate. The project also trained staff at the National Archives in Kabul in conservation and digitization and engaged in the cataloging and digitization of materials held in various public and private collections inside Afghanistan. Providing universal availability to this broad historical span of Afghanistan's published history and, in the process, constructing a national bibliography for the… …
Arabic Collections Online (ACO) Arabic Collections Online (ACO), organized by NYU in partnership with Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, American University of Beirut, and American University in Cairo, is one of the largest digital collections of out-of-copyright Arabic texts, with new texts added every month. ACO is the largest digital reformatting project that Digital Library Technology Services has undertaken to date. …
Archives and Special Collections DLTS provides a self-publishing service for finding aids created by the archives and special collections at NYU, the New-York Historical Society, and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Over 1,400 finding aids can be searched and viewed through our Finding Aids portal. DLTS also creates high-quality digital versions of some collections. …
ArchivesSpace Built by archivists for archivists, ArchivesSpace is the open source archives information management application for managing and providing web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects. ArchivesSpace was developed by a partnership among the New York University Libraries, the University of California, San Diego Library, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. …
Archiving the Political Web Working with the California Digital Library, NYU is capturing, curating and preserving collections of Web-based government and political information. This work was originally sponsored by the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program. …
Book Collections DLTS creates high-quality digital versions of books from the NYU Libraries collection: [Commonplace book] / manuscript [Commonplace book], / manuscript Dutch Maritime Manuscript Dwarf stories Friedlaender Collection from the Institute of Fine Arts Musical scrapbook of Marietta Gazzaniga (1824-1884), an Italian soprano A new song on the Vere-Street Club Persian Manuscript Receipt book 1786 : manuscript Sonia v tsarstvie diva: The first Russian edition of Alice in Wonderland Verbatim Report of the proceedings against Edwards and Passingham for conspiracy to blackmail George Townshend Forrester (book 1 and book 2): the frank and unexpurgated text of a trial concerning alleged homosexual… …
Coca Crystal Video Recordings and Papers published Coca Crystal (1947-2016) was a journalist, television personality, and political activist. She contributed to the East Village Other, writing about counterculture politics with a strong focus on women's issues. …
Connected Youth and Digital Futures This series explores young people’s day-to-day lives and futures. The volumes consider changes at the intersection of civil and political reform, transformations in employment and education, and the growing presence of digital technologies in all aspects of social, cultural and political life. …
Conspiracy to blackmail, in 1805 Britain: trial text published We just published the Verbatim Report of the proceedings against Edwards and Passingham for conspiracy to blackmail George Townshend Forrester. This is the frank and unexpurgated text of a trial concerning alleged homosexual acts, which were illegal and taboo in Regency England …
Enhanced Networked Monographs A collaboration between NYU Press and Digital Library Technology Services, Enhanced Networked Monographs (ENM) is an experimental open access publishing project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The ENM Topic Explorer provides free, web-based access to selected eBooks from NYU Press, University of Minnesota Press, and University of Michigan Press. Expanding on work done for the NYU Press Open Square website, ENM’s prototype discovery and reading environments enable full-text search and navigation via a “topic map” derived from back-of-book index entries. https://enm.dlib.nyu.edu …
Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship A project that aims to investigate the preservability of a variety of enhanced digital scholarly books to identify which of their features can be preserved at scale using tools currently available, and which are likely to be lost over time. …
Faculty Digital Archive The Faculty Digital Archive is a highly visible repository of NYU scholarship, allowing digital works — text, audio, video, data, and more — to be reliably shared and securely stored. …
Finding Aids Redesign: The Design Process DLTS, in partnership with Archival Collections Management (ACM), Special Collections, and Application Architecture and Development (AAD), has launched the redesigned Finding Aids and Finding Aids publication system. …
Freedom Freedom was a newspaper founded in Harlem, New York by activists Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham during the Cold War and McCarthy eras. It openly challenged racism, imperialism, colonialism, and political repression and advocated for civil rights, labor rights and world peace. Its writers and contributors included W.E.B. Du Bois, Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry. http://dlib.nyu.edu/freedom …
Guantánamo: Stories From the Prison Outside the Law Guantánamo: Stories From the Prison Outside the Law is a collection of the narratives of lawyers who represented detainees at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. These men, who came from over forty different countries, were detained without charges, trial, or a fair hearing. Denied any legal status or protection, they were truly outside the law: imprisoned in secret, denied communication with their families, and subjected to extreme isolation, physical and mental abuse, and,… …
Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library Building on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, this video library is a partnership between DLTS and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. It preserves and makes accessible approximately 100 hours of video per year documenting the expression of social and political life through performance in the many cultures and political landscapes of the Americas. http://hidvl.nyu.edu Related News: …
Indian Ocean Digital Collection The Indian Ocean Digital Collection gathers together a diverse group of materials from the region. This site is a collaboration of several departments: site vision and content curation from Charlotte Priddle of Fales and Tim Johnson of Tamiment-Wagner, funding for digitization from NYU Abu Dhabi, and digitization and publication from DLTS. This site represents the first substantial library collection that focuses on the Indian Ocean as a whole. The site will offer a wide range of materials, including books, maps, postcards, illustrations, and sea charts. …
Keywords The books in the Keywords series collect essays by authors across the humanities and social sciences, with each essay focusing on a single term and set of debates. The Keywords website provides access to online essays selected from each of the volumes, as well as preview text for all of the print-only essays. https://keywords.nyupress.org …
MediaCommons In collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book, and with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, DLTS has created a set of networking tools that serve MediaCommons, an all-electronic scholarly publishing network in the humanities. This set of tools, which bring together the functions of e-portfolio software, social networking systems, and electronic publishing platforms, enables participants using MediaCommons to find one another, collaborate, and disseminate their work in new ways. Within this social network, scholars are able to make available a wide range of their work, including published texts ranging from the monograph to the… …
Mirador IIIF viewer available for all books We have officially launched our Mirador pilot! This open-source, IIIF-ready viewing environment is a worthy alternative to our home-grown viewer. …
MODIYA The MODIYA Project is an open source resource for exploring the interrelation of Jews, media, and religion as an area of research and teaching. Within this wide-ranging field, the MODIYA Project addresses such issues as: how uses of media figure in Jewish religious practices, how Jews discuss the opportunities and challenges new media pose to religious life, and how the engagement with media engenders new notions and experiences of Jewish community, continuity, and spirituality. …
Mondays With Merce Mondays With Merce was a series of webcasts from behind the scenes at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company studio, including Merce teaching advanced technique classes and conducting rehearsals. Episodes also featured interviews with Merce Cunningham and his associates, including current and former dancers, artists and musicians, and choreographers who were influenced by his work. This material was made possible, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, Pamela and Richard Kramlich, and the Rockefeller Foundation New York City Cultural Innovation Fund. Special thanks to the Bay Area Video Coalition, the Moving Image… …
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 to others publications or studies; even more frequently, an e-publication will feature interactive charts or streaming video content. A researcher's project website might encourage dialogue between the user and the site itself, creating new interrogative spaces in the digital academic world--and of course, new solutions for how to preserve those bytes for future scholars. NYU Libraries is pleased to share… …
Open Square Open Square is NYU Press’s platform for publishing and reading open access books. A browser-based reading platform, Open Square enables us to increase the impact of scholarly work by making it freely available in a digital format and to experiment with new ways of presenting scholarship and adding enhanced content to traditionally published books. …
Palante Palante was a bilingual newspaper published by the Young Lords Party. The group was founded in July 1969 as the New York chapter of the Young Lords Organization and renamed itself in May 1970 after separating from the Chicago Young Lords. In July 1972, the Young Lords Party became the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization. Palante focused on the Puerto Rican independence movement, the oppression of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in the United States, and global struggles for liberation. http://dlib.nyu.edu/palante …
Preserving Digital Public Television In collaboration with WNET, WGBH and the Public Broadcasting Service, NYU participated in a project to establish the first procedures, structures and national standards necessary to preserve public television programs produced in digital formats. WNET and WGBH were the two largest producers of public television content in the United States. This work was sponsored by the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program. …
Sir William Jones Manuscripts collection: 18th Century comparative linguistics studies We just published the manuscripts of Sir William Jones (1746-1794), a British lawyer in India and pioneer of comparative linguistic studies. Included are documents in Sanskrit and Persian relating to astrology, botany and law. …
Southern Worker Distributed between 1930 and 1937, Southern Worker was a regional newspaper produced by the Communist Party, USA. First edited by Solomon “Sol” Auberbach, who adopted the pseudonym “James S. Allen,” Southern Worker documents the Communist Party's attempt to unify Black and white laborers and farmers in a common struggle against capitalism, corporations, and inequality. In the inaugural August 16th, 1930 issue, the Southern Worker announces, “It is a paper of and for both white and black workers and farmers. It recognizes only one division, the bosses against the workers and the workers against the bosses. In this class struggle, the… …
Syria collection published Acquired from photographer Xenia Nikolskaya and researcher Heba Habib, the Syria Collection includes 1,255 photographs including black and white gelatin silver prints and color photographs. …
The 2nd Avenue Online Archive 2nd Avenue Online is a multimedia Yiddish theater digital archive established to preserve the history of the Yiddish stage of yesterday, and to bring together a new audience for its present and future. The project is named after Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater on Second Avenue and 12th Street, the longest running repertory theater in New York City's history. The archive contains histories of the the Yiddish theater, oral histories, scripts in Yiddish and English, photographs, video clips and music. This collection is based on prototype created by NYU's Center for Advanced Technology. https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/44516 …
The Ancient World Digital Library The Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) comprises an interrelated a set of initiatives by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World to accelerate and enhance access to the emerging global library of digital publications on the ancient world. …
The Fight Against War and Fascism The Fight Against War and Fascism (1933-1939) was published by the American League Against War and Fascism. It was an initiative of the Communist Party, USA, but its membership was very broad and included members of other left-wing groups, trade unions, and African American civic organizations. …
The Liberator Started in 1918 by Max Eastman and his sister Crystal Eastman to continue the work of The Masses and provide a platform for publishing John Reed's reporting on the Bolshevik Revolution, The Liberator continued the political and labor writing of its predecessor, as well as its emphasis on art, poetry, and fiction. …
The Masses The Masses, a richly illustrated radical magazine, was published monthly in New York from 1911 until 1917, when it was suppressed by the government for its anti-war and anti-government perspective. The Masses blended art and politics and included fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and illustrations by many of the leading radical figures of the day. …
The Real Rosie the Riveter World War II was a major turning point in the history of America's working women. As millions of men entered the armed forces, the traditional division of labor between the sexes was swept aside as women were hired for "men's jobs" in the war industries. The New York based film and documentary company Spargel Productions produced "The Real Rosie The Riveter Project," a series of high definition video histories documenting the life stories of the women who went work in America's defense plants during the Second World War. The interviews, performed by filmmakers Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly, comprise… …
Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories (TIPR) was a partnership among NYU, Cornell University and the Florida Center for Library Automation, funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The task of preserving our digital heritage for future generations far exceeds the capacity of any government or institution. Responsibility must be distributed across a number of stewardship organizations running heterogeneous and geographically dispersed digital preservation repositories. For reasons of redundancy, succession planning and software migration, these repositories must be able to exchange copies of archived information packages with each other. Practical repository-to-repository transfer will require a… …
Undercover Reporting Undercover Reporting is a resource for scholars, researchers, and journalists that provides links or reproductions of both recent and long-buried journalistic investigations in all media, going back nearly two hundred years. The database is searchable by keyword, media outlet, date, or author, or can be browsed by series. The initial collection grows out of Prof Brooke Kroeger's research for her book Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception (Northwestern University Press, 2012). https://undercover.hosting.nyu.edu/s/undercover-reporting/page/home …
Witness to the Early American Experience The New-York Historical Society, the NYU Fales Library and Special Collections and DLTS created a digital library of primary source material from the American Revolutionary War, documenting events in the New York City region. The material includes all of the items in the Richard Maass Collection at Fales, one of the more significant collections of material documenting activities during America's Revolutionary War in New York State, the William Alexander manuscripts from the New-York Historical Society, and the Robert Erskine/Simeon De Witt collection of survey maps from New-York Historical Society. This digital library was developed through funding from the Institute of… …