On behalf of the TDL Dataverse Implementation Working Group, the Texas Digital Library invites you to attend a webinar on October 6th at 10:30am to hear about the launch of the Texas Data Repository, an online platform dedicated to the long-term access and management of research data from TDL member institutions.
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Mark your calendars!
The Texas Digital Library conference committee is pleased to announce that the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries will be held May 23 – 25, 2017 in Austin, Texas.
TCDL 2017 will be held at the Commons Learning Center on the J.J.
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The Texas Digital Library (TDL) has an opening for the position of Software Engineer.
The TDL seeks a full-time Software Engineer to design, code, test, and analyze software programs and applications for providing online access to and preservation of the unique digital collections of Texas academic libraries.
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The TDL DSpace Education Working Group is looking for individuals or groups who are interested in helping others learn about DSpace. If you have any experience or knowledge of using DSpace, you can be a training resource!
While we are trying to grow a pool of trainers who could lead in-person workshops in their local areas,
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The Texas Digital Library, through its home institution the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, is excited to be the recipient of a 2016 Library Cooperation Grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission for the project “Development of a Statewide Aggregation Service for Texas Digital Collections.”
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Technology, Research and Growth
Texas State University, Alkek Library is focused on technology, research and growth. As a recently designated, Carnegie class higher research university, Alkek library is currently proactively expanding technology capacity, online digital research possibilities and learning commons infrastructures.
In terms of physical technologies,
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SAVE THE DATE! The Texas Digital Library will hold its first ever TDL Data Symposium, hosted by Baylor University Libraries on November 15th and 16th, 2016 in Waco, Texas.
This two-day event is designed to support the development of a core community of TDL member librarians who support research data services on their campuses.
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The Texas Digital Library is happy to welcome Nicholas Woodward to our team as a Software Engineer. Nicholas comes to the TDL with experience at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, the University of Texas (UT) Austin Libraries, and the Library of Congress. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
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The Texas Digital Library (TDL) will launch a new data repository service in Fall 2016 for the benefit of faculty, students, and staff and its member institutions. The data repository is an implementation of Dataverse, an open source data repository platform developed at and used by Harvard University. The Dataverse software platform allows researchers to publish,
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The Texas Digital Library is pleased to sponsor the formation of a Texas Archivematica Users Group for those institutions exploring or actively using Archivematica, an open source suite of tools for processing digital objects for long-term preservation.
Drew Krewer, Digitization Services Coordinator at the University of Houston Libraries,
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