Tag Archives: General Information

Loan, Give, Tip: How Your Materials Can Become a Part of Our Collections

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Eric Ames

One of the most rewarding parts of our work in the DPG is knowing that our efforts will lead to better exposure for Baylor’s unique collections and a better understanding of the world in which we live. The materials housed … Continue reading →

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The DPG Team: An Essential Primer

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Eric Ames

After one of our previous posts went viral, exposing us to a much larger audience, we decided it would be a good time to formally introduce our team to the world. So, without further ado, meet the folks who scan, … Continue reading →

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“So We Can Throw These Out Now, Right?”: What We Learned From Microfilming Newspapers and How It Shapes Our Digitization Strategy

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Eric Ames

Recently, I attended a workshop for a topic mostly unrelated to my work in digital collections. At introduction time, I gave a nutshell view of what I do by saying my group digitizes Baylor’s special collections and makes them available … Continue reading →

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Hot and Bot-hered: The Joys of Moderating Spam Comments

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Eric Ames

One of the unexpected joys of writing this blog is filtering out the spam comments we receive on almost every post. Many are garden variety garbage gathered by spambots and spit back out as “comments.” These get caught by the … Continue reading →

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Go With the (Work)Flow: How Things Get Done in the RDC

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Eric Ames

One thing we’ve learned about digitizing Baylor’s unique collections is the importance of front-end planning for the overall success of a project. It’s the crucial step that separates a “well, that went smoothly” project from a “nightmare of epic proportions” … Continue reading →

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The Education of a Digitization Projects Group: A Dispatch from TCDL 2012

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Eric Ames

When the Digitization Projects Group isn’t busy saving the world (one scan at a time), we’re taking time to recharge our creative batteries and hone our technical skills at various conferences, symposia and workshops. This past week, half of the … Continue reading →

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Mrs. Neff’s Portrait: Or, The Things We Scan That Aren’t Online

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Eric Ames

If you’re a regular reader of this blog,* you know we feature items in this space that are drawn from our digital collections that we believe are unique, interesting or otherwise worthy of added exposure. And for that purpose, we … Continue reading →

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Everyone’s a Curator!

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Eric Ames

There was a time in the not so distant past when the word “curator” wasn’t heard much outside the polished marble halls of the world’s museums. People imagined curators as bespectacled, retiring types who, armed with a PhD in art … Continue reading →

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Want An Easier Way to Get Updates?

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Eric Ames

Just a quick note to tip you off to a feature we’ve enabled here at the Digital Collections blog: subscribe via email! Look over in the right-hand sidebar and find the “subscribe by email” box. Just enter your email address … Continue reading →

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A Post for the Statisticians in the Audience (Or, Who’s Been Looking at Our Stuff?)

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Eric Ames

The phenomenal success of the Browning Letters Project did more than just expose the world to the first digitized images of more than 1,400 pieces of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s correspondence. It also exposed the server that hosts the … Continue reading →

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