Name: #w1b: Tales from the Archive: Reports from the CLIR Digitizing Hidden Special Collections & Archives Class of 2015
Start: 2017-10-25T09:00:00-0400
End: 2017-10-25T09:55:00-0400

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#w1b: Tales from the Archive: Reports from the CLIR Digitizing Hidden Special Collections & Archives Class of 2015

Tales from the Archive: Reports from the CLIR Digitizing Hidden Special Collections & Archives Class of 2015
Elizabeth Gushee(1), Jullianne Ballou(1), Adriana Marroquin(2), Winston Atkins(3), Sarah Bost(4), Danielle Butler(4)
1: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 2: Smithsonian Institution; 3: Duke University; 4: University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Using a compare and contrast model, representatives from four Digitizing Hidden Collections projects will share their strategies and experiences, offering guidance for accomplishing large-scale digitization and access projects. Topics will include benefits and challenges for single and multi-institution projects, in-house vs. outsourcing digitization services, digital preservation, rights management, and usability.

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