EDUCAUSE | Digital Collections

CNI Podcast: Digital Humanities Centers- An Interview with Mark Kornbluh, Director of MATRIX

gbayne — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:24:56 -0500

This 21 minute podcast features an inteview with Mark Kornbluh, Director of MATRIX and Professor of History at Michigan State University. Our conversation was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota where Mark co-presented the session, "Digital Humanities Centers: Models, Missions, and Challenges".

MATRIX: The Center for Humane, Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University seeks to advance critical understanding and promote access to knowledge through world-class research in humanities technology. Humanities technology brings together the humanist's quest for deeper understanding of human nature, thought, expression, and behavior with the tools, methods and applications of computer science, engineering, and information and library sciences. MATRIX researchers use networked technologies to advance, mediate, and inform the humanist disciplines of history, literature, language, philosophy, as well as disciplines within the arts, social sciences, and education. At MSU, MATRIX partners in music, speech and audiology, history, education, international studies, museum studies, and libraries are building new, global, networked resources and services that give life to the metaphor of "matrix" as the multiple intersections and applications of interdisciplinary research. MATRIX therefore applies humanities technology to all the elements of MSU's mission: research, education, outreach, and service to multiple public and professional communities. Guided by basic scholarly and humanist values of excellence, education, access, and inclusiveness, and conducted according to proven, collaborative, scientific methods and principles, MATRIX aims to be one of the top humanities technology centers in the world.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Section 108 Copyright Study Group's Report Recently Released

agould — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:19:22 -0500

The Section 108 Copyright Study Group (www.section108.gov), which was assembled to study and look for potential changes to copyright law, released its report on March 31. Established under the watch of the Library of Congress, this group of independent experts was charged with finding areas in copyright law that might need changes in order to better balance the positions of rights holders and "cultural memory organizations such as libraries and archives in the digital world."

The group has worked on this issue for nearly three years. Among their recommendations, they conclude:

Museums should be included for Section 108 eligibility, since they perform many of the same functions as libraries and archives.
A new exception should be added to Section 108 to permit certain qualified libraries and archives to make preservation copies of at-risk published works prior to damage or loss.
Libraries and archives should be permitted to make a limited number of copies to create and maintain a single replacement or preservation copy. This would allow libraries to more securely preserve digital materials.

For more information, please see their full report at:http://www.section108.gov/docs/Sec108StudyGroupReport.pdf.

Tune in March 25 for a Free Web Seminar on Teaching with Digital Collections in Undergraduate Curriculum

pkurkowski — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:35:38 -0500

Many academic digital collection projects are focused on special collections and college archives. Such projects seek to bring collections "out of the basement" and enable greater access to valuable and specialized research materials. However, undergraduate students and faculty often have very different needs and expectations of these digital materials than experienced researchers or the general public.

What does it take to implement a digital asset management system that not only improves access to collections but also allows faculty to integrate digital materials into their teaching? In this free March 25 EDUCAUSE Live! web seminar, Teaching with Digital Collections in the Undergraduate Curriculum, presenters Marianne Colgrove, Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Director of Web Support Services, Reed College, and Dena Hutto, Director of Reference and Instruction, Reed College Library, will share their experiences in implementing a CONTENTdm-based digital image collection for the classics and humanities.

Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on DAMS, Digital Collections, Learning Objects, and Teaching.

Latest EDUCAUSE Quarterly Covers Top Higher Ed IT Issues and More

cluckett — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:38:08 -0500

The latest issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly is now online. Among the issue's features are:

Stephen R. Ruth, Martha Sammons, and Lindsey Poulin on distance learning challenges
Benoît Burdet, Cédric Bontron, and Pierre-Yves Burgi on digital lecture-capture at the University of Geneva
Joseph Rene Corbeil and Maria Elena Valdes-Corbeilon on using mobile devices for teaching and learning
Complete findings from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Current IT Issues Survey

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: DigitalWell

Carie417 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:25:21 -0600

In this 24-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Nate McQueen in a session entitled DigitalWell: Solutions for Digital Content Collections. McQueen explains how the University of Washington, in collaboration with ResearchChannel, uses the DigitalWell Digital Asset Management System to encode, manage, and distribute large content collections through streaming and podcast technologies.

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Project Builder

Carie417 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:25:00 -0600

In this 32-minute presentation from the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Michael Fegan and Dean Rehberger in a session entitled Project Builder: Building Rich, Contextualized Web Presentations from a Digital Archive. They explain how the Project Builder CMS helps faculty members and cultural institutions create rich, multimedia digital archives and Web sites that are easily maintained and augmented.

E2005 Podcast: Developing Legal and Policy Frameworks to Sustain Digital Scholarship

podcaster — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:45:52 -0600

This 54 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Developing Legal and Policy Frameworks to Sustain Digital Scholarship.

E2005 Podcast: Strategies for Building Successful Digital Initiatives

podcaster — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:55:46 -0600

This 53 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Strategies for Building Successful Digital Initiatives at Small to Medium-Sized Institutions.

E2005 Podcast: Collaborating on Digital Collections

podcaster — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:55:03 -0600

This 54 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Getting IDEAS: Liberal Arts Colleges Collaborating on Digital Collections for Asian Studies.

E2005 Podcast: Mount Holyoke's Class Project Becomes a Digital Archive

podcaster — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:08:15 -0600

This 36 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Transformations: Mount Holyoke's Class Project Becomes a Digital Archive.