DLF Forum 2018

Presentations
 
Relive the past: digital library facilitates access to archaeological data
Xiying Mi, Richard Bernardy
University of South Florida Libraries, United States of America
 
This presentation focuses on how the digital library accommodates archaeological data in various format and provides data management, access and preservation services to the data.
 
 
Beyond Makerspaces: Fabricating a Bibliographic Community
Courtney Jacobs(3), Marcia McIntosh(1), Kevin M. O’Sullivan(2)
1: University of North Texas, United States of America; 2: Texas A&M University, United States of America; 3: University of California, Los Angeles
 
3Dhotbed is leveraging 3D technologies and a robust institutional repository to build a collaborative bibliographic community. This talk will focus on the promises and challenges of broadening the project to incorporate partner institutions while ensuring quality metadata and long-term preservation.
 
 
The Virtual Blockson: The Challenges and Promises of VR in Education
Jasmine Lelis Clark, Henry Alexander Wermer-Colan
Temple University, United States of America
 
The Virtual Blockson is a collaborative project to construct a learning module aimed at high-school students, recreating Temple University’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection in virtual reality. The VR module will offer curated historical materials in an immersive, interactive environment as course supplements to teach primary source literacy.
 
 
Digital Collections in Virtual Reality: Seeing with New Eyes
Brandon Patterson
University of Utah, United States of America
 
The Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL) is a discipline-specific, open access repository of digital materials about the human eye. With the help of librarians, content experts, and interactive media specialists, a series of educational modules in virtual reality help visualize existing content in new ways.