Building Without Adobe: Transforming Your Digital Collections with Free and/or Open Source Tools

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Building Without AdobeTransforming Your Digital Collections with

Free and/or Open Source Tools

Sara Allain, Special Collections Librarian / Sarah Forbes, Scholarly Communications Librarian /

Digital Scholarship Unit, UTSC Library /

@archivalistic@4bes

@digitalutsc

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Our goals today

Reflect on UofT's move towards open source

Talk about why we use F/OSS

Introduce you to a few tools

Discuss!

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Open source at UofT

Publishing platforms: , Library website: Repository spaces: ,

OJS OCSDrupal

DSpace Islandora

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Why we use F/OSSLicenses for Photoshop + Illustrator + Dreamweaver = $1700 (that's how much it costs to employ a GSLA for 77 hours!)

Dissemination of workspaces/freedom of movementFormats are open and malleable

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Photoshop replacement

Free and open sourceSuite of command-line image manipulation toolsConverts, resizes, reformats, crops, adjusts colours...Can be used in the command line or through a user interface

ImageMagick

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 & Photoshop & Illustrator replacements

Both free and open sourceNon-proprietary image formatsSupport layers, vectors, and other advanced formatting

GIMP Inkscape

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Dreamweaver replacement

Not open source, but it is free!Write XML, Dublin Core, MODS, python, etc...Support for snippets, macros, and other helpful featuresExtensions and plug-ins developed by the community

Sublime Text

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Best practicesSupports agile workflowsEvery staff member can have all the tools they need, whereverthey areNo version concerns - upgrades are free!Non-proprietary formats easier to migrate in the futureStrong user communities = strong support systemChance to give back to the community!

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DiscussionSara Allain, Special Collections Librarian /

Sarah Forbes, Scholarly Communications Librarian /

Digital Scholarship Unit, UTSC Library /

@archivalistic@4bes

@digitalutsc