The following is a list of current and past Fondren Library digital projects. Each project has its own page or pages containing more detailed documentation. Documentation may include: collection description, file formats, metadata application profile, digitization workflows, etc.

 

Content development

 

Active projects or on-going collections

• Electronic Thesis and Dissertations
• Faculty Publications
• Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards  - Annually updated
• HART-Art History Department (Faculty Images from research travel grants)
• Houston Asian American Archives oral histories and related material
• News from Fondren collection - Biannual updates
• Research Data Management  
• Rice Patents Collection
• Rice University Commencement Programs - Retrospective collection completed in Sept 2011. Annually updated.
• Rice University Historical Images workflow (including Rice University athletic and centennial spectacle events on video)
• Shepherd School of Music Performances and Programs
• Real to Real reformatting project : Years covered 1975 -1983; final report Summary-Updates-2012(Shepherd).pdf
• Recital Programs : Years covering 1980-2012.
• Teaching Archive  (including guidelines for Metadata for Open Educational Resources)
• Thresher project overview  - Phases: Years covering 1916-2000, Completed in 2012;  Years covering 2001-2012, Completed in 2016 (last of the printed newspapers); Born-digital materials (color) starting for period Fall 2012 forward.
• Undergraduate Honor Theses  

 

 

Completed projects

• Axson 18th British Drama
• Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive (Chao Center)
• Lyrasis | Mass Digitization Collaborative Program
• Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) -- for documentation, see project web site
• Rice Institute Pamphlet -- Completed Dec 2011
• Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) -- for documentation, see project web site
• Voyage au Bresil book folio  
• Weber Staub Briscoe architectural collection -- Completed Jan 2013

 

 

Others

Other types of digital projects such as digital exhibits, format research, usability, etc.

 

• Viewshare.org (visualization/exhibit tool : applied research) Online Exhibits Research
• Testing Omeka plug-in for Shared Shelf Collections  
• Steps for annotating images   (imagemagick)
• JPEG 2000 - Ying/Marcus/Monica (earlier studies: Amanda/Sid) - Completed Aug, 2011 JPEG2000 Profile
• Video - Audio-Video processing workflow
• Embedding video metadata - in process
• Convert TEI P4 to P5  
• IR FAQ study - Lauren/Monica - Completed March, 2012 : Full Report (pdf)
• Copyright practices updated for sound recordings, donor consent forms, etc. See Digital copyright workflow page for updates - completed Sept/2012
• Duracloud/Archive-IT pilot - Amanda/Monica (see announcement: New Pilot Program: Universities Join DuraCloud/Archive-it Collection Back-up Test )