Browsing by Author "Jin, Ying"

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    Digital Preservation: Tales from the Precipice between theory and practice
    (2013) Rivero, Monica; Focke, Amanda; Jin, Ying
    Long-term access to digital materials relies on active management of these resources. A major challenge for today’s data stewards is how best to apply the plethora of recommended standards and emerging technologies not only to newly created digital content but to legacy digital data. This poster describes our ongoing activities and methods used in applying standards and best practices in support of the preservation and continuous use of our digital assets. This includes gathering the history of the data in digital curation profiles, analysis of file formats, archiving of high-resolution master files, and ensuring critical preservation metadata is maintained.
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    The Electronic Vesalius: Embodying Anatomy Atlases
    (The MIT Press, 2018) Mulligan, John; Wettergreen, Matthew; Jin, Ying; Rasich, Benjamin; Phillips, Isaac
    A multidisciplinary team at Rice University transformed the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Library’s collection of rare anatomy atlases into a physical-digital, human-sized atlas-of-atlases. The Electronic Vesalius installation gives these old books new life, informed by contemporary media theory and the centuries of medical and aesthetic criticism provoked by these multimedia image-texts.
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    The Road From DSpace 6 to DSpace 7 and Beyond: Building (and Building on) Two Modern Digital Repositories at Rice University
    (Rice University, 2024-06-03) Jin, Ying; Mulligan, John; Evans, Kenneth
    In October 2023, the Digital Scholarship Services team in Fondren Library at Rice University upgraded its digital repository. The process was both challenging, rewarding, and instructive for our future work on digital collections. We took a mixed approach in which 27% of our content was moved to Quartex, which could be curated as digital cultural heritage, 11% was retired, and the remainder migrated from the DSpace 6.4 system to the new 7.6 deployment. We are now using our two new platforms’ APIs to enable a microservices-based approach to customized UI presentations for special collections, and semi-automatic metadata enrichment, and document submission workflows. This poster describes our preliminary attempts in this space on two collections: geo-located photographs of Chinese subway advertisements over two decades and the geographically dispersed papers relating to the United States President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology