Special Collections in the Digital Age: Partnerships and Collaboration ARL/CNI An Age of Discovery October 15-16, 2009 Fred Heath, Aaron Choate, Ladd Hanson, Christian Kelleher, Jennifer Lee, Mark McFarland, Amy Rushing, T-Kay Sangwand, Kevin Wood
Web Host Shuts Down Hutu Rebel Group Site
University of Texas Human Rights Initiative: Priorities: 1. Bulk harvesting of human rights sites from the WWW 2. Custom harvesting of human rights themes from Internet 3. Preservation and disclosure of born-digital documentation
Bulk Web Harvests •Congo •El Salvador •Gaza •Guatemala •Myanmar •Rwanda •Tibet
Custom, Thematic Harvests
Grands Lacs PDF now archived at UT Digital Repository
Non-Custodial born-digital resources (never on the web)
Testimony from Kigali Memorial Center
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Work ahead: 2009-2010 • Fine-tune tools under development • Improve meta-data workflow • Development of controlled vocabulary • Shoah Foundation Thesaurus • Witness Subject Thesaurus • Amnesty International keywords • Development of Human Rights Web Site: Human Rights Documentation Initiative • Human Rights Collaboratory • University of Texas • Aegis Trust • Shoah Foundation • Center for Research Libraries • Other universities
• Text disclosed to web browsers • Transcript time stamped to video • Transcripts often inexpertly rendered from original tongue • Tape is the primary record • Map link offers other transcripts
Death row video interviews
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