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Item Accuracy & Cost Assessment for Archival Video Transcription Methods(2019-10-24) Vinson, EmilyIn order to make archival audiovisual collections more accessible, I have been exploring ways to transcribe content for the University of Houston Libraries Audio/Visual Repository in order to add closed-captioning, utilize synchronized audiovisual-transcript systems, and make available transcripts as data sets. This study examines the accuracy and return on investment of various methods of transcription, including vendor services, artificial intelligence-based software, and library employee-created transcripts. Many libraries and archives are struggling with enormous backlogs of audiovisual content that could be more accessible with transcripts. This small study specifically serves this audience because it includes various types of content common to archives and represents differing quality levels.Item Alternative Access: A Creative Solution to an Imperfect Digital Library(2016-08-06) Vinson, EmilyThe University of Houston Libraries is currently undergoing a transition in Digital Asset Management systems. With current limitations of the Digital Library making video playback difficult, this presentation discusses use of Omeka, a free exhibit software, paired with YouTube video streaming to provide improved access to one small portion of the KUHT Collection, the work of Dr. Richard I. Evans.Item Building it Small: Accessible Approaches to AV Digitization(2017-05-25) Vinson, EmilyInstitutions large and small face the challenge of preserving and creating access to audio and moving image collection materials. This presentation explores approaches the AV preservation community have taken to building modest AV digitization labs, with a focus on the University of Houston's effort to build a small lab to that can handle some of UH Special Collections most plentiful time-based formats.Item Card Catalog Conversion: The Revenant(2016-05-25) Scott, Bethany; Vinson, EmilyThroughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, libraries around the world tackled the monumental task of converting miles of card catalog to machine readable formats accessible by computer. While this immense undertaking was ably handled and traditional card catalogs are rarely seen in libraries today, they continue to be the only means of access to some legacy archival collections. This was the case with a substantial portion of the KUHT TV video collection at the University of Houston Special Collections. In the summer of 2015, six Rolodexes were donated along with several thousand videos representing almost 30 years of public television broadcasting in Houston. With a goal of gaining intellectual control and creating patron access to this unique video collection, Bethany Scott, UH Coordinator of Digital Projects and Emily Vinson, UH Audiovisual Archivist designed a pilot project to assess methodologies for card catalog conversion in the twenty-first century. In this presentation, we will discuss past approaches to card catalog digitization, and the two methods we utilized to convert our Rolodex card data into a usable digital format - manual data entry for handwritten cards and scanning, OCR, and data parsing for typewritten cards. We will discuss the pros and cons of each approach, how this pilot will inform future UH projects and ideas for others wishing to create digital access points for similar collections.Item Changing Channels: Adapting an Ecosystem for Audiovisual Assets(2017-06-24) Richardson, Matthew; Vinson, EmilyThe University of Houston Libraries is in the process of implementing a new digital curation ecosystem. The project, Bayou City DAMS, incorporates a combination of locally-developed and open source solutions to streamline and integrate access and preservation workflows. When UH Libraries was awarded a grant to digitize and make available over 300 videos from a local TV station, the preservation and access of audiovisual objects moved from a long-term goal to a high priority. This presentation addresses the challenges introduced by very large video files and how the team, composed of members of Metadata and Digitization Services, Special Collections, and Library Technology Services, employed Agile methodologies to adapt workflows and systems.Item Community Copies: Exploring Preservation Policies for Video Submissions(2016-11-12) Vinson, Emily"Community copies" are audiovisual duplications that weren't made for preservation, but usually for better access or sharing. Though they might not be high-quality copied, they are sometimes the only copies in existence or give much-needed context to the original. This term, "Community copies" comes from the research of this session's chair, Martin Johnson, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. - he gave it that name since he couldn't find a descriptive term to discuss these fascinating materials. In my discussion, I focus on the adjacent issue of submission videos in collections - like community copies, works submitted in application for awards are often not of preservation quality, but may be the only accessible copy. The purpose of this presentation is to introduce audience members some of the complexities of these items, and question how we leverage resources for the preservation of these materials with such complicated rights issues that may preclude access.Item KUHT: Preserving American's First Public Television Station(2015-11-20) Vinson, EmilyBroadcasting from the University of Houston, KUHT signed on the air for the first time on May 25, 1953, with the promise of providing the growing city with educational programming. Focused on preservation and access, the University of Houston has undertaken a project to digitize an initial selection of 16mm films from the station’s early years, while also endeavoring to gain intellectual control over the large broadcast collection, spanning five decades and a variety of formats.Item Metadata Works From Home: How Student Workers Continued to Work While Increasing Collection Accessibility(2020-11-09) Vinson, Emily; Weidner, Andrew; Cooper, Crystal; Tripp, NickFaced with campus closures, a University of Houston Libraries team developed plans to engage student employees in creating closed captions for hundreds of archival videos on the Libraries’ Audio/Video Repository. Panelists describe the project and address unique challenges related to transcribing archival content, including dated and offensive content.Item Metadata Works From Home: How Student Workers Continued to Work While Increasing Collection Accessibility(2021-02) Vinson, Emily; Weidner, AndrewFaced with campus closures, a University of Houston Libraries team developed plans to engage student employees in creating closed captions for hundreds of archival videos on the Libraries’ Audio/Video Repository. Panelists describe the project and address unique challenges related to transcribing archival content, including dated and offensive content.Item Metadata Works From Home: How Student Workers Continued to Work While Increasing Collection Accessibility(2021-05) Vinson, Emily; Weidner, AndrewTo keep our on-site student staff gainfully employed in early 2020, as the realities of the coronavirus pandemic came into sharp focus, a University of Houston Libraries team hatched a plan for student employees to create high quality closed captions for hundreds of digitized archival films and videos. The project team developed training materials and began working with twenty-six students from six units across the libraries within two weeks of the campus closure. This presentation will discuss the project design, unique challenges of training and communicating with student employees, and the outcomes of the effort. This is a presentation that was delivered at the 2021 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries.Item A New Approach to Outreach Assessment: Evaluation of ROI for Out-of-Class Student Programs(2018-12-05) Santiago, Ariana; Vinson, Emily; Warren, MeaThe University of Houston Libraries’ 2017-2021 Strategic Plan includes a focus on positioning UH Libraries as a campus leader in student success initiatives. To ensure the success of this goal, a team was assembled and tasked with assessing the return on investment for the Libraries’ involvement in out-of-class programs that enrich the student experience. This poster will describe the project goals, methodology, findings, and recommendations. The goals of this project were to identify out-of-class programs that the library sponsors or has significant participation in, assess their purpose and impact, and make recommendations for how to prioritize and allocate resources moving forward. Team members defined the scope of the project, collected and categorized data on student-focused programs across branches and departments, and holistically assessed their purpose and impact to determine the return on investment and make recommendations. The presenters will share practical strategies for facilitating a cross-departmental team of librarians and staff on an assessment project with a short timeline. The completion of this project led to the creation of new workflows and communication strategies in order to enact the project recommendations, enabling this assessment project to be sustainable and affect future practices. This poster will present a unique project within the broader landscape of academic library outreach assessment. Much of the literature focuses on assessing outreach efforts at the individual program level - for example, how to gather data to assess the impact of a specific event. This project focused instead on assessing the Libraries’ outreach programming from a holistic perspective. This is a significant endeavor as this type of assessment had not previously been undertaken at UH Libraries and is not often represented in the broader literature. The return on investment project was completed in 2017 and the recommendations are now being operationalized. The results of this project have implications for outreach assessment and libraries’ impact on student success through engagement with their out-of-class experience.Item Preserving Regional News: Creating access to the KUHT Collection(2017-07-22) Vinson, EmilyThe University of Houston Libraries is home to the archives of KUHT-TV, Houston’s public television station established in 1953. In 2016, UHL was awarded a grant to digitize and make available two news magazine series produced in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These series, “Almanac” and “The Capitol Report,” detail major local and state-wide events, and feature interviews with prominent politicians from across Texas. Over 300 episodes have been digitized and cataloged, and will soon be made available online, including in an Omeka exhibit site. This presentation will explore the project, and efforts to improve online access to time-based media at UHL.Item Progressive Programming at KUHT: People are Taught to be Different(Houston History Magazine, 2017) Vinson, EmilyPeople are Taught to be Different was broadcast in 1958 just five years after KUHT-TV went on air as the country’s first noncommercial educational television station, and was distributed to educational stations nationwide. Envisioned by Dr. Henry Allen Bullock and developed by Texas Southern University and University of Houston-owned KUHT, the series featured an all-African American cast who, in twelve episodes, explored experiences common to all mankind.Item "Several sides to every story": Preserving KUHT's Local News Magazines(2017-12-01) Vinson, EmilyIn 2016, the University of Houston Libraries received a grant to digitize and make available over 500 items from the KUHT Collection video holdings. In particular, local news magazines and documentaries produced between the 1970s and early 1990s were selected. This poster describes the process by which these analog materials were digitized, described, and made accessible, as well as the rich content retrieved from the long-unseen on obsolete formats.Item Telling Your Family Story with Tropy: The Basics of a Photo Management Tool(2020-03-07) Vinson, EmilyGenealogical research is bursting with digital images that fill hard drives with rich but difficult to access information. At the Houston Genealogical Forum meeting on March 7, Emily Vinson introduced Tropy, a free open-source software that can transform an overwhelming digital accumulation of photos and documents into a sortable, searchable collection. She demonstrated how to import photos into Tropy, edit photos, create metadata, and add tags and notes.