News Archive for the 'Talks' Category

On July 9, DCR co-managers Dave Kennedy and Jennie Levine hosted a presentation at the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference (MADLC) entitled Implementing a Digital Repository with Fedora. The talk focused on the development and implementation of the University of Maryland’s Digital Collections repository, based on the Fedora digital asset management platform.

The presentation explored the technical and organizational issues faced in mounting a relatively complex architecture with limited resources, as well as the various metadata schemes used in the system and the development of an API, object and content classifications, and web services. Issues of migration, authentication and archival storage featured prominently in the discussion. The presentation concluded by addressing future enhancements and plans for development, as well as stumbling blocks and lessons learned from the process of building a digital collections repository.

The PowerPoint slides of the presentation are available for viewing here.

Date: May 16, 2008

Kate Murray presents “Sticky-shed, Dropouts and Warping: Issues in Preserving Your Audiovisual Collections.” This talk, sponsored by the MLA’s Academic Research Libraries division, addresses the broad issues in preserving audiovisual media, including the exploring the unique challenges inherent in audiovisual collections, examining survey and assessment tools, and discussing a variety of migration strategies to continue access to content. The presentation focuses on digital reformatting policies at UM Libraries.

Anne Turkos, University Archivist, recently presented a paper titled “Revere the Turtle: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the University of Maryland” at the fall meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archivists Conference (MARAC). Part of panel on archivists and anniversaries, Anne’s presentation included a brief section on the University AlbUM and how it was created.