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Meet the TCDL 2025 Planning Committee

The goal of the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries is to bring together those working on digital projects in order to build a practical, usable, and sustainable model for digital libraries.

Our planning committee defines the conference each year by developing a theme, identifying a keynote speaker,

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Reigniting Curiosity at TCDL 2024

The Texas Conferences on Digital Libraries convened in-person May 21-23, 2024 at the Commons Conference Center in Austin, Texas. The conference brought together over 160 librarians, archivists, technologists, students, and information professionals to share their latest endeavors, inspire each other with pioneering projects and ideas,

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Born Digital Processing and Preservation Collaborative Project

By: Ima Oduok, Digital Librarian

As I started my second year of residency, I looked for a project that would be more long-term and focused on my interest in gaining hands-on experience in digital processing and preservation. It worked out that a TDL member, the University of Houston Libraries,

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Getting Digital POWRR

By: Ima Oduok, Digital Librarian

What is Digital POWRR anyway?

This was a question posed by a member of the TDL Digital Preservation Interest Group (DPIG). In a group which has expressed interest in more training opportunities, this question presented a great opportunity to share my experience of a grant-funded workshop tailored around the experiences,

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A Journey through Geospatial Metadata in the Texas Data Repository

By: Ima Oduok, Digital Librarian

It’s GIS Day on Wednesday, November 15! To celebrate, we want to share a bit about a geospatial data project being worked on within the TDL community. 

The Geosteer project is a Python toolkit which allows users to transform their geospatial metadata for the Aardvark schema,

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Meet Christopher, TDL’s New Vireo Product Manager Consultant

Christopher Starcher (he/him) joined TDL in October 2023 as the Vireo Product Manager, a consulting role. Christopher is Associate Librarian, Digital Resources, faculty at Texas Tech University. In his 2-year term, he will assist with coordination and growth of the Vireo Open Source Community (OSS) and software development.

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Meet Ke’ara, TDL’s New Outreach & Member Engagement Coordinator

Ke’ara Hunt (she/her) joined TDL in September 2023 as the Outreach and Member Engagement Coordinator.

Where did you go to school?

I received a BS in Radio-Television-Film and BA in English at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Born-digital Preservation Workshop Rundown

Maintenance Culture (MC) is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded program created by Myriad, a non-profit consulting organization that seeks to help smaller cultural heritage institutions preserve their collections. The focus of MC is on building a community of practice around the preservation of creative complex, born-digital objects. With several in-person skillshare and workshop events planned in major cities across the United States, MC seeks to assist creators and cultural heritage professionals (such as archivists and curators) to build off existing digital preservation knowledge and apply them to a variety of time-based media objects.

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Meet Ima, TDL’s New Digital Librarian & ACRL Diversity Resident

Ima Oduok (she/her) joined TDL in September 2022 as the Digital Librarian and ACRL Diversity Resident. 

Where did you go to school?

I got my BA in French at Trinity University in San Antonio. I’m currently pursuing my MLS at UNT and graduating this December (2022).

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September 2009 issue of TDL Update newsletter is now available

Check out the latest issue of TDL Update, the newsletter of the Texas Digital Library, to discover the exciting things going on at the TDL.

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