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Item Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Up Digitization Projects During the Pandemic(Association of Moving Image Archivists, 2021-04-15) Pike, Robin C.; McClanahan, PamelaThe University of Maryland Libraries received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2019 to digitize the Dance Exchange collection, a video collection of performances and rehearsals and their corresponding paper programs. This paper will discuss a brief history of the project and content, best practice technical standards implemented by the Libraries and expanded for this project, scaling up workflows built to handle a project of a few hundred items to a project of over 1,100 items, changing digitization workflows due to pandemic closures and the need to move the project work remotely, and a repository and digital preservation archive migration that occurred during the course of the project. The report will share how we overcame challenges and will implement the changes we made to future av digitization projects.Item The Digital Diamondback: Unfolding University History through Open Standards and Open Data(2018-06-14) Aughenbaugh, Kendall; Caringola, Liz; Pike, Robin; Westgard, JoshuaStudent newspapers have a long tradition of capturing unfolding narratives of campus history. As such, they are an invaluable resource for researchers interested in campus history and our staff when answering reference questions. Though microfilmed to ensure long-term preservation, many researchers find microfilm tedious to use, and it can also be prohibitive for researchers unable to travel to campus to use it. In response, staff at the UMD Libraries began planning in 2013 for a multi-year project to make digitized issues of The Diamondback accessible through the Libraries' website. As of the end of March 2018, nearly 7,900 issues of The Diamondback spanning from 1910 to 1998 are available online with full-text searching and browsing by date and title. The panelists from Digital Systems and Stewardship (DSS) and Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) will discuss different aspects of the project, including: Fundraising using UMD's crowdfunding platform, Launch UMD; metadata based on the National Digital Newspaper Program specifications; data modeling that enables our metadata to be repurposed across applications; and the impact of having The Diamondback digitized and online for our users and staff. Presented at the 2018 UMD Libraries Research and Innovative Practice Forum.Item Management of Digital Programs in Special Collections(2017-07-19) Pike, Robin C.Class lecture on digitizing special collections for CUA CLSC 747 Special Collections. Presented in 2015, 2016, and 2017 with minor modifications.Item Maryland Digital Newspapers(2017-06-14) Pike, Robin C.; Wack, Rebecca E.A discussion of the United States Newspaper Program, and how that led to the National Digital Newspaper Program. The progress and activities of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, and a demonstration on how to use Chronicling America. The progress made in hosting newspapers at the University of Maryland, College Park Libraries, and how we hope to turn this into the Maryland Digital Newspaper Repository.Item Maryland Newspapers in Chronicling America(2017-06-08) Pike, Robin C.The Historic Maryland Newspaper project, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant project, has digitized over 211,000 Maryland newspaper pages since 2012, and is currently in its third grant to digitize more than 100,000 additional pages. The newspapers are ingested into Chronicling America, the Library of Congress database, which is freely accessible to the public, and now contains over 11.7 million newspaper pages published across the US. This presentation will demonstrate several features of Chronicling America and other extras so that librarians can use this resource in reference inquiries or other projects.Item Delaware and Maryland in the News(2017-05-12) Pike, Robin C.; Olney-Zide, MollyOne-hour workshop presented at the 2017 Maryland Library Association and Delaware Library Association Joint Library Conference. Delaware and Maryland in the News will discuss the National Endowment for the Humanities National Digital Newspaper Program and the two states' newspaper digitization projects. You will learn how to use the Chronicling America database for different levels of research, and some educational and outreach tools to promote this resource.Item Digitization Initiatives Committee Charter(2013-08) Pike, Robin C.; Archer, Joanne; Foss, Heather; Harrington, Eileen; Montori, CarlaThis is the charter of the Digitization Initiatives Committee (DIC) of the University of Maryland Libraries. The committee was established “to collect and document proposed outsourced digitization projects across the UMD Libraries, match these projects with available or proposed fiscal resources, and prioritize the projects...based on available fiscal resources, Libraries strategic initiatives, division priorities, and available staff resources for the specific projects.”Item Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting(2016-11-17) Pike, Robin C.; McElrath, DouglasThis presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and and related stakeholders held on November 17, 2016. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project is in its fifth year and third grant phase. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to brainstorm outreach and programming ideas.Item Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting: Management and Production of Digital Collections(2014-03-20) Pike, Robin C.The Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting plan was written in 2012 and revised 2013-2014, as a five-year plan for the newly established department at the University of Maryland Libraries under the Digital Systems and Stewardship Division. The plan focuses on increasing digitization production, both in-house and through vendors, and creates a model for the management of this production.Item The Historic Maryland Newspapers Project(2016-06-08) Caringola, ElizabethThis poster addresses frequently asked questions regarding the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, such as "What is the National Digital Newspaper Program?" and "How are titles selected for digitization?" It also provides information about the project's funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), newspaper titles digitized by the project to date, and the future of the project. This poster was presented at the UMD Libraries Research & Innovative Practice Forum, McKeldin Library, June 8, 2016.