Library Tech Talk

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Screenshot of University of Michigan Online Exhibits Homepage
  • Nancy Moussa
Omeka is a content management systems (CMS) that facilitates the creation of online exhibits. Traditionally, exhibit creators needed to have web design skills to create a webpage. Using Omeka, the process for creating exhibits websites is simpler, which allows exhibit creators to easily extend the presence of our physical objects.
Linked Data Explained: You're No Dummy
  • Jodee J Jernigan
If you have heard about linked data, but you're not quite sure what it means, look no further. Find out what linked data is, why it is important and how it will transform the web.
Page from early printed edition of Dante's Divine Comedy with an elaborate border and capital N.
  • Aaron Elkiss
HathiTrust started out with only content digitized by Google, but a goal from early on was to support digitized book material from a variety of sources. One early effort provided a toolkit to partners for preparing content, but which turned out to require more technical effort than was reasonable. We rethought our approach and simplified the requirements for partners while maintaining the same high quality standards for HathiTrust.
Skew in a Google-digitized volume in HathiTrust
  • Kat Hagedorn
This is a re-posting of a HathiTrust blog post. HathiTrust receives well over a hundred inquiries every month about quality problems with page images or OCR text of volumes in HathiTrust. That’s the bad news. The good news is that in most of these cases, there is something they can do about it. A new blog post is intended to shed some light on the thinking and practices about quality in HathiTrust.
Windows administrative tools icon
How to secure connections regardless of which network the clients are on.
A comparison between a text editor filled with buttons and one with far fewer options.
  • Colin Smith Fulton
If you really love something you might have to let it go.
U-M Library staff working with ME 450 students on the linear book scanner.
  • Meghan JK Musolff
Here at the U-M Library, we’re committed to identifying opportunities for engagement between Library staff and students. But identifying these opportunities can be difficult for our Library’s IT unit since we’re not involved with students as part of our day-to-day work. How do we as tech professionals engage with the student community?
Workflow for Proposing and Producing Digital Projects: Overview
  • Kat Hagedorn
It’s possible we should have written this blog post years ago, when we first created our workflow for how we shepherd digitization projects through our Digital Library. Well, we were busy creating it, that’s our excuse. Three years later, we’re on our third iteration.
University of Michigan Library search
  • Jodee J Jernigan
Search is the cornerstone of the library website, and the primary goal of our online presence: to help users find resources and information so that they can do their work.
Person sitting at a desk using screen magnification software.
  • Colin Smith Fulton
The University of Michigan Library is working hard to improve the accessibility of all our websites. This brings up a simple question: what does it mean to make a website accessible?