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Preview of the W. Duke, Sons & Co. Digital Collection
It was September 6, 2011 (thanks Exif metadata!) and I thought I had found one–a T206 Honus Wagner card, the “Holy Grail” of baseball cards. I was in the bowels of the Rubenstein Library stacks...
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Today is the New Future: The Tripod3 Project and our Next-Gen UI for Digital...
Yesterday was Back to the Future day, and the Internet had a lot of fun with it. I guess now it falls to each and every one of us, to determine whether or not today begins a new future. It’s certainly...
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Onwards, Outwards: Remediating Metadata for Migration to Tripod3
Duke University Libraries has been sharing its rich resources by creating and publishing digital collections for more than 20 years (remember the Scriptorium?), and to date the digital projects team...
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Zoomable Hi-Res Images: Hopping Aboard the OpenSeadragon Bandwagon
Our new W. Duke & Sons digital collection (released a month ago) stands as an important milestone for us: our first collection constructed in the (Hydra-based) Duke Digital Repository, which is...
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Snow Daze: Winter Weather Survival Tips
Snow is a major event here in North Carolina, and the University and Library were operating accordingly under a “severe weather policy” last week due to 6-12 inches of frozen precipitation. While...
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