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PROJECTS
The Afghanistan Digital Library
The Afghanistan Digital Library will retrieve and restore works
published in Afghanistan between 1870 and 1930. The long-term
objective is to collect, catalog, digitize and make available over
the Internet and on CD-ROM/DVD as many of Afghanistan's publications
for this period as it is possible to find.
Project Lead: Jennifer Vinopal (vinopal@nyu.edu)
Archiving the Political Web (NDIIPP)
Working with the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Stanford University Computer Science Department and Sun Microsystems Inc., NYU's Digital Library Team is seeking to develop Web archiving tools that will be used by libraries to capture, curate and preserve collections of Web-based government and political information. The collections will focus on local political activities and movements, such as the California gubernatorial recall election of 2003.
Project Lead: TBD
This project, a collaboration between the UCSD Libraries, New York University Libraries, and the Five Colleges, Inc., is developing an open source application that will provide archives with a turn-key system to support major archival functions and activities. The objective is a system that will support all aspects and functions of archival administration and description (including components for digital and analog media asset tracking and management), and which will be easily deployable in a range of archival repositories from small historical societies to large multi-repository consortia such as the Online Archive of California.
Technical Lead: Lee Mandell (lee@nyu.edu)
The Database of Recorded American Music
In partnership with New World
Records, a company specializing in documenting American
music largely ignored by the commercial recording companies, NYU's
Digital Library Team is building a database of American music.
This system will provide subscribing institutions with a searchable
database of American music recorded by New World Records, as well
as access to complete digital versions of the recordings in
New World Record's catalog.
Project Lead (New World Records): Lisa Kahlden (lkahlden@newworldrecords.org)
Project Lead (NYU): Rick Ochoa (rick.ochoa@nyu.edu)
Digital Archive of Public Television (NDIIPP)
In collaboration with the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), WGBH Educational Foundation, and the Public Broadcasting Service, New York University (NYU) is participating in a project sponsored under the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program to establish the first procedures, structures and national standards necessary to preserve public television programs produced in digital formats. EBC and WGBH are the two largest producers of public television content in the United States. Through PBS, their productions are made available to audiences from coast-to-coast. Together, these three entities produce and distribute the majority of public television in the United States. The four partners will focus on such influential series as "Nature," "American Masters," "NOVA" and "Frontline," which are increasingly being produced only in digital formats, including the new high-definition standard (HDTV). The project will also examine issues associated with the preservation of important corollary content, such as Web sites that accompany broadcasts.
Project Lead: Chih-Mei Lin (mei@nyu.edu)
The Hemispheric Institute Performance Video Archive
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a consortium
of institutions, artists, and scholars dedicated to exploring
the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed as
performance) and social and political life in the Americas. The
Digital Library Team, working in conjunction with the Hemispheric
Institute and NYU's Humanities Computing Group, is developing an online archive of over 200
performance videos to be made publicly available over the Internet.
Project Lead: Jennifer Vinopal (vinopal@nyu.edu)
The New-York Historical Society, The Fales Library at NYU and NYU's Digital Library Team are currently collaborating on a project to create a digital library of primary source material from the American Revolutionary War documenting events in the New York City region. Material to be added to the library include all of the items in the Richard Maass Collection at Fales, one of the more significant collections of material documenting activities during America's Revolutionary War in New York State, the William Alexander manuscripts from the New York Historical Society, and the Robert Erskine/Simeon De Witt collection of survey maps from New York Historical Society.
Project Lead: Melitte Buchman (melitte.buchman@nyu.edu)
Second Avenue Online is a multimedia Yiddish Theatre digital archive established to preserve the history of the Yiddish stage of yesterday, and to bring together a new audience for its present and future. The project is named after Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater on Second Avenue and 12th Street, the longest running repertory theater in New York City's history. The archive contains histories of the the Yiddish theater, oral histories, scripts in Yiddish and English, photographs, video clips and music. The prototype was created by NYU's Center for Advanced Technology using a Microsoft platform (SQLServer; ASP; IIS); the Digital Library Group is migrating the project into DSpace.
Project Lead: Kate Pechekhonova (ekate@nyu.edu