Digital Collections and Research is pleased to announce the launch of a new integrated repository for delivering digital content. Based on the Fedora platform, this site allows federated searching across all digital content, as well as more focused searching of individual collections. This first release includes full access to the collections Films@UM, Jim Henson Works, and A Treasury of Worlds Fairs Art and Architecture which include still and moving images, and full text documents (encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines).
Check back over the summer for the release of University AlbUM, containing more than 1400 images documenting the rich history of the University of Maryland.
Films@UM collects nearly 500 digital videos on a wide variety of subjects which can be used in the classroom or independently. Spanning documentaries, public television programming, taped performances and feature films, Films for Teaching covers many areas of interest with significant concentrations in Asian studies, Performing arts, Business management and economics, Politics and government, The state of Maryland, Literature, Women’s studies, and Religion. Films are discoverable via the Catalog, the Digital Collections search interface, and the Films@UM home page.
The Versioning Machine 3.1
Lessons in Open Source Software [Re]Development
Susan Schreibman, Ann Hanlon, Tony Ross, Sean Daugherty
Digital Humanities 2007
June 4, 2007
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Ann Hanlon and Susan Schreibman shared the results and implications of a user study for the Versioning Machine in a poster session at Digital Humanities 2007, the annual joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The study was designed to collect data on navigability and ease of use, as well as the utility of the Versioning Machine – and by extension, tools for the digital humanities in general – for the scholars and practitioners to whom it is directed. The survey included over 30 detailed responses collected via an online survey, as well as five in-person interviews in April and May 2007.
