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VALA2020 Session 10 Williams

Will the people that follow in your footsteps know why you were wearing those shoes? Documenting your digitisation and digital collections processes

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 10
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 15:20 – 15:50

Kimberley Williams
  • Digital Curation Specialist
  • University of Sydney

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Abstract

Knowledge sharing is central to the way libraries see themselves as institutions. We are content creators, provide high-resolution digital surrogates to our clients, and open up access to our unique, valuable and special collections in a way we have never been able to before. We can digitally reunite our items across the globe and let people play and experiment with our collections. That said, we also need to remember to leave contextual information for those that follow in our footsteps as to why we made the decisions we made, and how exactly we went about creating our collections.

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VALA2020 Session 9 Sommerfeldt

Looking to the future to learn from the past: using specialist imaging technologies to aid research into historic books and manuscripts at the University of Sydney Library

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 9
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:25 – 11:55

Julia Sommerfeldt
  • Manager, Rare Books & Special Collections
  • University of Sydney Library

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Abstract

Current trends within academic libraries see many divesting substantial amounts of their print collections. Within this environment, rare and special collections can stand out as significant and unique features distinguishing one University Library from another. In the last two years, Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC) at the University of Sydney Library has initiated and supported several multi-disciplinary and cross-institutional research projects using specialised imaging technologies to investigate historic books and manuscripts. This paper will examine and evaluate the inception and early stages of several ongoing projects, focusing on the potential benefits and limitations of these non-destructive techniques.

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VALA2006 Session 8 Coleman

VALA2006Sydney University Press: publication, business and the digital library

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Digital and e-publishing
Thursday 9 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-8-coleman

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperRoss Coleman

Manager, Innovation and Development, University of Sydney Library
http://library.usyd.edu.au

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Abstract

This paper argues that the business strategies of the emerging e-press movement benefit from the values and standards that are part of the digital library. The paper will discuss these values and standards and their relationship to the business processes of e-publishing. The paper will explore these relationships through developments at Sydney University Press (SUP), recently re-established as an electronic publisher based on the digital library platform of SETIS, the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service of the University of Sydney Library. The paper will also consider the integration of repository content into these publication processes within the broader context of eScholarship