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Digital Initiatives

The Digital Initiatives department coordinates the digitization, digital presentation, and digital preservation of archival collections and other library resources. We develop and enforce standards and procedures, including quality control mechanisms, for digital projects.

Projects & Partnerships

For Archivists

Projects

Digital Collections

CONTENTdm digital collection management software runs our growing Digital Collections website of rare and unique images, documents, oral histories, and electronic theses and dissertations from our archives, special collections, and other campus units.

Digital Exhibits

Omeka open-source software showcases our Digital Exhibits.

Transcription Project

Omeka and the Scripto plugin enables transcription of textual files. Our pilot project will use this technology to crowdsource the transcription of a historic African American newspaper, the Louisville Leader.

Open Access Publishing

Open Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems tools from the Public Knowledge Project can be used to publish open access e-journals and conference proceedings.

Partnerships

We are a founding member the MetaArchive Cooperative, a digital preservation network created and hosted by and for memory organizations, and participate in the National Digital Stewardship Alliance.

In addition, we partner with the following organizations to preserve and provide broader access to our digital collections:

• Archive-It, a web archiving service, preserves web resources relating to the August 4, 2009 Flood.
• Historypin showcases Louisville scenes drawn from our Photographic Archives collections.
• The Internet Archive provides access to rare, public domain monographs from UofL Libraries collections.
• Kentucky Digital Library serves as a gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives, including the University of Louisville.

• CONTENTdm Cookbook : metadata guidelines for Digital Collections
• Digital Project Proposals: login required