From the monthly archives: January 2009

How We’re Found (or, Referrer Stats for 2008)

On January 23, 2009 By

Now that 2008 is over, we’ll be posting a few charts & graphs that illustrate some interesting trends in how our digital collections (and our shiny new system) have been used in the past year. This post focuses on “referrers,” or, those other sites that people come from that [...]

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Building collections that work together

On January 20, 2009 By

Some of my favorite objects in Duke’s digital collections are images of children.  Some of them are touching, some of them are funny, and some of them are just plain cute.  But when I see images of children, like this one from the Michael Francis Blake Photographs, I wonder: Who are they? What [...]

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Building the Broadsides collection-Part 1

On January 12, 2009 By

Over the the next few months, we’ll be writing a series of posts that offer a behind-the-scenes look at all of the work and decision-making that goes into building one digital collection, from selection, conservation, and physical processing to scanning, metadata, and publication.  We’ve chosen to blog about our work on the Broadsides [...]

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3D Wall View in Search Results

On January 9, 2009 By

Yesterday, we introduced a new feature in our digital collections interface: the 3D Wall. This is an exciting new interactive view of search results that enables quicker navigation through pages of thumbnails and between items, smooth zooming to high-quality images, and image slideshows.

Here’s a 4-minute demo:

(see larger, high-quality version)

3D Wall uses [...]

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First Wednesday Jan 7 – A Metadata Tool Project

On January 6, 2009 By

Slides for my First Wednesday presentation tomorrow on the metadata tool project, including the exciting new project “code name” (which has been determined, pending a better idea) …

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