Presentation to ARL CNI Conference October 2009

Special Collections in the Digital Age:

Partnerships and Collaboration

ARL/CNIAn Age of DiscoveryOctober 15-16, 2009

Fred Heath, Aaron Choate, Ladd Hanson, Christian Kelleher, Jennifer Lee, Mark McFarland, Amy

Rushing, T-Kay Sangwand, Kevin Wood

Web Host Shuts Down Hutu Rebel Group Site

1. Bulk harvesting of human rights sites from the WWW

2. Custom harvesting of human rights themes from Internet

3. Preservation and disclosure of born-digital documentation

University of Texas Human Rights Initiative: Priorities:

•Congo•El Salvador•Gaza•Guatemala•Myanmar•Rwanda•Tibet

Bulk Web Harvests

Custom,Thematic Harvests

Grands Lacs PDF now archivedat UT Digital Repository

Non-Custodial born-digital resources(never on the web)

Testimony fromKigali Memorial Center

Waiting for some stuff from Aaron

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Work ahead: 2009-2010

• Fine-tune tools under development

• Improve meta-data workflow • Development of controlled vocabulary

• Shoah Foundation Thesaurus• Witness Subject Thesaurus• Amnesty International keywords

• Development of Human Rights Web Site: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

• Human Rights Collaboratory• University of Texas• Aegis Trust• Shoah Foundation• Center for Research Libraries• Other universities

• Text disclosed to web browsers• Transcript time stamped to video• Transcripts often inexpertly rendered from original tongue• Tape is the primary record• Map link offers other transcripts

Death row video interviews

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