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Working with the experts

  1. 1. Working with the experts: Faculty and student contributions to metadata for Cuban theater collections at the Cuban Heritage Collection Matt Carruthers, University of Miami Libraries, May 21, 2013
  2. 2. Cuban Heritage Collection • Cuba and Cuban Diaspora • Collections heavily used by students and faculty
  3. 3. UM Digital Collections • Currently 88 digital collections publicly available • http://merrick.library.miami.edu
  4. 4. Project Overview • Dr. Lillian Manzor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures • Champion of Digital Humanities • Director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive • http://cubantheater.org
  5. 5. Project Overview • Project goals: • Utilize existing subject expertise • Introduce budding humanities scholars to incorporating digital resources into their research • Growing Digital Humanities movement
  6. 6. Project Overview • Graduate course on 20th Century Latin American Literature • Students doing research with CHC collections focused on Cuban theater • Collaboration with the Library to introduce students to the process of creating digital resources
  7. 7. Project Overview • Students choose a small number of objects from the archival collections • Create structured metadata • Add metadata and digitized objects to CTDA and UML Digital Collections
  8. 8. Challenges • Teaching fundamentals of metadata creation • Only one in-class session • Used Blackboard to facilitate further communication
  9. 9. Challenges • What is the best way to capture and store the metadata? • Utilize web form in CDTA
  10. 10. Challenges • Lag time between when students complete their projects and when they see the finished product online • Digitization efforts must be balanced with other concurrent projects in the Library
  11. 11. Finished Product • Digitized objects and metadata will be presented in both CTDA and UML Digital Collections
  12. 12. Benefits • Students: • Hands-on experience structuring information • Learn value of Digital Humanities, both in performing and disseminating their research • Library • Significant value added to metadata by students’ subject expertise • Opportunity for the Library to engage more broadly with faculty and students
  13. 13. Thank You!

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