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Item Here Be Dragons: Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Legacy Thesis and Dissertation Digitization(2021-05) Wu, Annie; Cooper, Crystal; Davis Van-Atta, Taylor; Jones, Jerrell; Ramirez, Ada Laura; Scott, Bethany; Thompson, Santi; Washington, Anne; Weidner, AndrewDigitizing 19,000 print theses and dissertations for ingest into an institutional repository is a daunting task fraught with pitfalls and peril. In the Fall of 2018, the Theses and Dissertations Digitization (TDD) Task Force at the University of Houston (UH) Libraries fearlessly set out to accomplish just that. We have learned many lessons about the legal and technical environment surrounding the retrospective digitization of scholarly works. This poster, presented at the 2021 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, provides an overview of the project and highlights the many challenges the team faced as it assessed the project scope, developed workflows, and bootstrapped production activities.Item Images, An Overview(Elsevier, 2023-06-23) Jones, JerrellImages have been historical records since the advent of photography. High-resolution photography laid the groundwork for the digitization process known today and has continued to bolster the cultural heritage sector. An overview of images in the context of library and information science (LIS) is a story of how libraries have adopted aspects of the commercial image production environment, expensive digitization equipment, and considerable information technology infrastructure to provide image resources to their users. This entry discusses images in the LIS field and considers the concepts, tools, and best practices that surround the prevalence of images as primary sources.Item Improving Image Processing Through Iteration and Automation(2021-05-25) Jones, Jerrell; Watkins, SeanUH Libraries has been building a robust and flexible digital collections ecosystem since 2016. In 2020, UH Libraries launched its digital collections ecosystem that supports efficient digital collections management, effective digital preservation, and integration with library systems. These goals encompassed new tooling in the image processing workflow to help manage the demand at scale and facilitate the production of high-quality output. UH Libraries has implemented command-line based scripts to address inefficient legacy workflows. We will give examples of what workflows were created, tools developed and utilized for key processes, the progression of these tools through the digital projects agile team, and automation developed into UH Libraries digital projects management application, Mason. We will also examine some of the transformative knowledge gained during these iterative processes that contribute to a more efficient production environment. As UH Libraries continues its migration of collections into a new repository, these tools continue to be applied and improvements are being made to the image processing workflow and its tools.Item Stop Storming and Start Performing: Developing a DAMS using Scrum(2021-05) Watkins, Sean; Scott, Bethany; Jones, Jerrell; Zepeda, Christin; Ramirez, Ada LauraTo answer calls for improved access, discovery, and system integration, UH Libraries has been building a flexible digital collections ecosystem over the past several years. In 2020, UH Libraries launched its digital collections ecosystem that supports efficient digital collections management, effective digital preservation, and integration with ArchivesSpace to better support discovery and retrieval of digital objects. This complex and challenging undertaking resulted in the adoption of a project management approach called Agile using a framework called Scrum. In this presentation, we will give an overview of the DAMS, and describe our project management trajectory from its earliest days, through its transformation into a highly effective team regularly delivering value-added increments to our users and stakeholders. We will give examples of different parts of the agile processes, the pivot points in the project, and the lessons learned from each iteration of our team. We are substantially underway with our migration of collections from CONTENTdm to our new repository and continue to benefit from the success of our Scrum approach.