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| DIGITAL INITIATIVES & TECHNOLOGY | JANUARY 2014 |
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197 handwritten and woodblock texts in Hán Nôm now digitized & accessible Yale University Library's IT group is developing a repository housing images and metadata to increase the accessibility of digital collections via a new (Blacklight) interface. This month the group launches a collection comprising 197 handwritten and woodblock texts in Hán Nôm, a writing method for the Vietnamese language—adapted from and incorporating modified Chinese characters. It was developed in the thirteenth century and used until the twentieth century. The collection was digitized thanks to support from the Arcadia Fund. Read more... |
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On Tuesday 14th–Making the Old New Again: Practical Emulation for Long Term Digital Preservation & Access Dirk von Suchodoletz, a lecturer and principal researcher in communication systems at the Institute for Computer Science in the University of Freiburg, Germany, will be giving a talk in the international room entitlted: "Making the Old New Again: Practical Emulation for Long Term Digital Preservation & Access". Dirk's talk will include discussion of the Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS) solution that we will soon be piloting for use in accessing old computer environments via web browsers within the Library. Read more... |
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Did you know... ...you can help us to make new digital collections available? Why not think about joining a group of testers to review the Blacklight interface that makes digital collections available to Yale patrons? Take a look at the sign-up form, fill it out, and we'll be in touch. Read more... |
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