Author: Hannah C Frost

Digital library services news – summer 2020

Digital Library Services News - summer 2020

September 10, 2020

by Hannah Frost

Welcome!  As summer draws to a close, it’s time to highlight hot news in digital library services.

Featuring contributions from: Cathy Aster, Hannah Frost, Dinah Handel, Amy Hodge, Michael Olson, and Sarah Seestone. 

Celebrating the accomplishments of 2020 students via the SDR

Anqi Xu, Stanford Class of 2020

September 5, 2020

by Hannah Frost

Anqi Xu, pictured above, is one of 240 students who deposited their work to the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) as part of completing their programs of study at Stanford in 2020. Xu received her MA in East Asian Studies. Her thesis, available at PURL and SearchWorks, is a case study using a combination of business and design thinking analysis methods to explore the intersection of engineering, art making, and art viewing. She is one of five Stanford students selected for a fellowship to pursue a master’s degree in global affairs at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing. 

Major progress on AV media accessioning

Chart of accessioned media measured in TB deposited over time

March 29, 2020

by Hannah Frost

TL;DR: The Stanford Media Preservation Lab (SMPL) and the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) have together reached a major milestone with over half a petabyte of preserved AV media content accessioned in the repository. This summer, SMPL expects to complete working through the backlog of digital audio and video files accumulated over the past decade. 

SDR Deposit of the Month: Player piano rolls jump to the 21st century

Roll mechanism of a Welte-Mignon reproducing piano.

November 3, 2019

by Hannah Frost

Who could have guessed it? Player pianos rolls, those curious scrolls of punched, now brittle and yellowed paper you might come across at the thrift store, are at the center of new research underway at – where else? — the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
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