Digital Collections at the University of Maryland Libraries supports the teaching and research mission of the university by facilitating access to digital collections, information, and knowledge. This is accomplished through enhancing access to selected library resources through the development, maintenance, and preservation of digital collections; by serving as a knowledge resource within the university for digital library issues and development; by participating in national and international initiatives which further the development of new forms of scholarly communication, tools, standards, and applications; and by providing training and support in digital library standards and formats.
University of Maryland Librarians are collaborating in a project to update a Memorial Book, which was published in 1961 and lists students and alumni who were killed in World War I, World War II and the Korean War.
For the complete story, see:
Memorial Book Project Transforms Names into Real People
To facilitate this collaboration, the UM Libraries digitized the Memorial Book, and it is available online through Digital Collections@UM:
Memorial Book, University of Maryland, 1961
The University of Maryland has digitized over 50 books relating to the history of the Civil War in Maryland and they are now available for viewing at the Internet Archive. Titles include:
In addition, the University of Maryland Libraries have numerous items relating to the Civil War in Maryland in their own Digital Collections@UM, including:
More information about collections relating to the Civil War in Maryland…
The University of Maryland Libraries are pleased to announce the newest digital collection: “In Transition: Selected Poems by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven,” edited by Tanya Clement. An electronic edition of poetry by the Dadaist artist, performer, and poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, this scholarly edition began as part of the dissertation entitled The Makings of Digital Modernism by Clement. The edition comprises digital surrogates and transcriptions of multiple manuscript versions of twelve poems by Freytag-Loringhoven. The original manuscripts are from the Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven papers, which are among the holdings in the Special Collections of the University of Maryland Libraries. For the edition, Clement created the TEI P5 XML-encoded transcriptions which comprise poetry drafts and scholarly annotations and introductions for each poem; the edition also includes images of original manuscripts as well as theoretical essays. Within the edition, these objects are incorporated into the free, open-source Javascript application called the Versioning Machine (http://v-machine.org/), which takes advantage of the TEI’s robust standards for parallel segmentation by allowing for cross-comparisons among the encoded texts. Clement augmented the Versioning Machine specifically for this edition in order to incorporate intra- and inter-lineal comparisons. The digital surrogates of the poetry drafts and the TEI-encoded texts are cross-searchable with the UM Libraries’ other digital collections within the Libraries’ Fedora digital epository system. “In Transition” represents an ongoing effort to make the poetic work of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven freely available online.
