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SSDN News
A newsletter of the Sunshine State Digital Network
Welcome to the bi-monthly newsletter of the Sunshine State Digital Network (SSDN), the Florida Service Hub of the Digital
Public Library of America (DPLA). As the Sunshine State's service hub, we provide partner metadata to the DPLA. The DPLA is a portal of over 40 million digital cultural heritage items from thousands of organizations around the country.
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Archival Terminology of the Month
Archive-It
n. ~ a subscription service of the Internet Archive
that provides tools, support, and a platform for institutions to select and harvest web content and manage web archives.
Source: Dictionary
of Archives Terminology by the Society of American Archivists (SAA).
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Hidden Gems
Highlights from our DPLA partners
For a timely hidden gem under the searing Florida temperature is a classic number—not in a supposedly wishful form
of Ethel Waters' 1933 lyrical expression that would surely increase the mercury tempo, so to speak—in pageantry reference to a 101.5 cm x 49 cm color drawing, titled
Coppertone "Irving Berlin's Tropical Heat Wave" float design.
Housed
in the University of Miami Special Collections, the undated image depicts a parade float of a tropical scene—hued in pink with brushes of yellow, blue, and grey—of palm trees and riders in swimwear and tropical costumes set against a large sun.
The drawing was once owned by the Orange Bowl Committee which was created in 1935 with the mission of generating tourism for South Florida through an annual football game and supporting events.
How about a toast to cooler months ahead?
Explore this and other historic photos, maps, artifacts, oral histories and more from SSDN's contributors at Sunshine
State Digital Network (dp.la).
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Training Opportunities
A roundup of digital library related training from Florida and beyond.
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Join us for a discussion about Digital Preservation
Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 2-3pm ET
What is Digital Preservation? How can I be sure I am following best practices? If you have digital collection or you are just getting started, digital preservation
is an important part of maintaining the longevity of these items. Join us for a one-hour discussion to talk about and learn what other professionals are doing, ask questions, and share your experiences with Digital Preservation.
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Before the discussion, learn more about digital preservation with this brief introduction!
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Recorded Trainings
Recordings now available for: Building Capacity for Caribbean Collections:
a dLOC workshop series for galleries, libraries, archives and museums held spring 2023.
Building Capacity for Caribbean Collections provides
a collaborative learning space for anyone working with Caribbean collections—whether in galleries, libraries, archives, museums, or other cultural organizations.
Each workshop will provide tools, methods, and resources for addressing common obstacles and growth opportunities in the creation, development, management, and
preservation of Caribbean collections. Workshops will be interactive to foster connectivity and collaboration across our shared communities of practice.
The series is sponsored by the Revitalizing the Digital Library of the Caribbean initiative, a Mellon Foundation-supported program.
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Metadata Creation for dLOC
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Spanish Language Metadata and Subject Headings
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Transferring Tapes: Working with Vendors to Digitize AV Materials
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Introduction to Web Archiving
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Best Practices for Digital Collection Development
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Exhibit Design for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums
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Best Practices for Digitization
Recordings and workshop descriptions available at: https://dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/workshops/
ALA CopyTalk Webinar Archive
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/copytalk
CopyTalk is a series of webinars on specific copyright topics that include orphan works, mass digitization, international copyright developments, pending and recent copyright court cases, the copyright implications of new technologies, and more.
NARA - NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION - Webinar on Digitizing Permanent Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj_yvyRq2QA
This webinar was presented by the Office of the Chief Records Officer for the U.S. Government on June 6, 2023. It is an overview of the regulations in 36 C.F.R Subpart E which contain NARA's requirements to agencies for digitizing permanent records for eventual
transfer to the National Archives. A transcript of this video is available on our website at
https://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/policy/transcript-webinar-on-digitizing-permanent-records.pdf
Digital Preservation Coalition - Looking Back to Make Progress with Advocacy in Digital Preservation
The DPC organizes this webinar together with the International Council on Archives (ICA) to celebrate their 75th anniversary! Looking back to make progress in digital preservation: what we’ve learned; what to ask for; and how to ask for it will examine core
and emerging challenges of digital preservation and introduce participants to tools and methods that will help them build a compelling and impactful basis for investment in digital archives.
Slides:
Recording: https://youtu.be/XZdxbSrHYIs
View SSDN's full catalog of recorded training sessions on our
YouTube channel.
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Copyright Corner
For those interested in a quick copyright workflow refresher for digital collections, check out this clear and informative LibGuide from the North Dakota State
Library. Scroll to the bottom to find four useful resources for determining copyright, including a link to Stanford's copyright renewal database. https://library-nd.libguides.com/digitalprojectstoolkit/copyright
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Metadata Minute
The
Cataloging Lab is a collaborative effort to develop crowdsourced lists to experiment with and improve controlled vocabularies. In addition to their crowdsourced lists, check their
welcome page for monthly roundups including articles and news related to “critical cataloging, focusing on the ethical implications of library metadata, cataloging, and classification practice, standards, and infrastructure.”
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Teachers’ Corner
Featured Primary Source Set of the Month
Negro League Baseball
Baseball is one of America’s favorite sports, but over the years the professional league has been impacted by political and cultural influences, often limiting
who could professionally play in the game. Some African Americans played baseball in the minor and major leagues following the Civil War, but that changed with Jim Crow segregation, leading African Americans to form their own professional leagues. This month’s
featured
Primary Source Set takes a look at
Negro League Baseball , examining some of the experiences of African American baseball players in the Negro leagues, the impact on the Civil Rights Movement, and its significance in US history.
The primary source set includes original photographs, oral history recordings, and historical texts to gain a better understanding of the lives and experiences of Negro League Baseball players like Jackie Robinson, and challenges students to discuss whether
professional athletes should take a stand on important issues in society.
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A team photograph of the St. Louis Stars, World's Champions National Negro League
World Series, 1928.
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A request from our Partners at Florida Digital Humanities Consortium:
The State of Digital Humanities in Florida - Survey Invitation
Dear colleagues,
We are working on a project to assess the state of digital humanities work within academic institutions across the state of Florida and invite you and your colleagues to participate in our study. As priorities change across institutions and across the state,
the level of support that researchers have within the digital humanities may have also seen a shift. This survey aims to gauge the degrees to which institutions support researchers and programs, individual researcher experiences, and researcher views on the
future of digital humanities work.
Digital humanities work is broad and there is no singular definition of what it includes. For the purposes of this survey, we welcome your responses if you think your work is related to the use of technology and computational methods in the study of humanities.
The research team consists of members of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) board. Results will be presented at a future FLDH conference and compiled into a report on the state of digital humanities work in Florida.
This survey is open for a two-month period beginning August 1 to September 30, 2023. If you choose to participate, you may voluntarily participate in the electronic survey, which should take 10-15 minutes to complete. Your responses will be anonymous, as no
personally identifying information is requested. There is no compensation provided for participating in the survey.
You can access the survey at the following link:
State of Digital Humanities in Florida
Thank you in advance for your assistance with collecting this information. We look forward to sharing our results.
Sincerely,
Nancy Schuler, Eckerd College
Hélène Huet, University of Florida
Mia Tignor, Indian River State College
Molly Castro, Florida International University
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Getting Started as an SSDN Content Contributor
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Are you interested in sharing your organization's digital collections with the Digital Public Library of America?
We have a document that will walk you through the steps and requirements for becoming an SSDN partner. It is not as intimidating or difficult as you might think!
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