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Digitizers’ Blog
Explore Open Collections: Epigraphic Squeezes
Collaborative projects are at the heart of the Digitization Center. Today, we are highlighting the work done with UBC’s Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies (CNERS) and students from the From the Stone to Screen project. From Stone to Screen is a multidisciplinary, open access and collaborative digitization project entirely run by students […]
New Project Announcement: Digitizing PRISM International
We are excited to announce that we will be digitizing issues of PRISM International, Western Canada’s oldest literary magazine out of Vancouver, British Columbia, whose mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. The digitization project is in partnership with the UBC Creative Writing department and […]
Explore Open Collections: Discorder
In a collaborative effort between the UBC Library Digitization Centre and CiTR 101.9 FM, the Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia, we have completed digitizing the entire run of the Discorder, a magazine devoted to in-depth coverage of Vancouver’s independent music scene and published by CiTR 101.9 FM. This collection greatly enhances access […]
Ethel Johns fonds Available Online!
Last week we mentioned in a tweet that UBC Library’s Digital Collections site has the records of Ethel Johns, the first director of the School of Nursing at UBC, available online, which includes correspondence, reports, minutes, notes, photographs, drafts of Johns’ unfinished autobiography and related papers, and manuscripts of a considerable number of her articles and […]
Celebrating Families in Our Digital Collection
In celebration of Family Day we are sharing some of our favorite family portraits found within our digital collections. Want to see more? Simply type in “family” in on our digital collections page! Refine your search to only find images within specific collections. Click on the images to see them enlarged. What are your plans […]
How We Digitize: Digital Preservation 2
In the last post we looked at Why a digital preservation strategy is necessary. This post outlines a few of the steps we are taking here at the Digitization Centre to enact our preservation goals. Planning for preservation starts at the creation of our digital objects. We need to choose digital formats that are suitable […]
How We Digitize: Digital Preservation
The How We Digitize series has been looking at the process of creating files for UBC Digital Collections. But how do we store them all for the long term? Well, that is a BIG issue! In general, for each item you see displayed in Digital Collections we have one unedited master file and one edited […]
British Columbia, the Gold Rush, and the Klondike
The Gold Rush (1858 to 1863) was an important period in British Columbia’s history that brought thousands of prospectors and adventurers to the province. All the activity produced by the Gold Rush led to significant impacts on BC’s people and land, such as conflicts with the native peoples who inhibited the land, increased development throughout BC, […]
BC Sessional Papers Phase 2 Now Online!
Phase 2 of the BC Sessional Papers project (from 1887-1911) is now complete and available online. Phase 2 has increased our collection by 25 years! Click here to visit our digital collections page to view the volumes we have digitized. Click here to read more about what sessional papers are and how they can be utilized […]
