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SUMMIT RE-CAP
In November 2018, Texas Digital Library and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission helped organize a Texas Statewide OER Summit,
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Digital Preservation Management Workshop Offers Roadmap to Starting Point
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TDLBy Lea DeForest, Texas Digital Library Communication Strategist
August 28, 2018
For a digital archivist like Kristen Weischedel, being a perfectionist is an internal struggle. Tasked with developing a digital preservation program for her library was a daunting project for Kristen,
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Digital Preservation Update for August 2018
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Digital Preservation Management Workshop Highlights
We sat down with TDL members who took advantage of our recent Digital Preservation Management Workshop. Find out what they learned and how DPMW will help their careers and their institutions on our blog.
Monthly Call for Digital Preservation Members
Texas Digital Library will convene all digital preservation members for a monthly call to ask questions and discuss issues.
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Sign Up: Vireo Community Sprints Start October 1st
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TDLThe Vireo User Group (VUG) and the Texas Digital Library (TDL) are proud to announce the first Vireo Community Sprint.
Sign up at https://goo.gl/forms/LwEyrLP9O2HrrSqo1
This fall, starting with a 2-week sprint from October 1-12, and continuing periodically with further sprints through the fall and spring,
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TDL Hyku Pilot Report Available
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TDLAlong with our pilot partners at the University of Houston, UT Austin and Trinity University, the Texas Digital Library recently underwent a brief, 6-month exploration of the Hyku application. In particular, we were interested in the feasibility and community benefits of hosting Hyku,
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Texas Data Repository: A Year in Review [webinar]
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TDLThe Texas Data Repository (TDR) is a consortial data repository using the Dataverse platform. In this presentation we discuss ongoing efforts to develop the TDR as a shared service. The presenters include TDR liaisons from participating institutions. We reflect on the past year of using the TDR and speak from diverse perspectives: the experience of small and large institutions;
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Re-launch of Texas Digital Library DSpace User Group
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TDLWe are excited to announce the re-launch of our DSpace User Group, chaired by Ed Warga, Digital Collections Librarian at TDL member library, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi.
Our first meeting (virtual) will be on August 15, 2018 from 2-3pm CST. A sign up form is below.
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UT Rio Grande Valley Releases “Hometown Teams” Exhibition
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UTRGV Library’s Special Collections & Archives is pleased to announce the opening of their upcoming exhibition Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, and the complimentary digital exhibition Hometown Teams of the Rio Grande Valley, available at https://hometownteamsrgv.omeka.net/.
This digital exhibition was presented at the TCDL in May,
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Dataverse Reports for TDR Liaisons Now Available on GitHub
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TDLThe Texas Digital Library has created bi-weekly reports for our Texas Data Repository (TDR) institutional liaisons. The TDR hosts 11 Texas Institutional Dataverses. Researchers at those institutions use the TDR as a platform for publishing and archiving datasets and other data products created by faculty,
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Free Training Available for Texas Data Repository Users
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Texas Digital Library has produced a set of five introductory training videos for users of the Texas Data Repository. The video series can be accessed on YouTube here, and is based on a similar video set created by the Odum Institute.
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