Cultural Heritage Collections¶
About¶
This section describes our cultural heritage collections, infrastructure, and long term plans.
150 Years and Counting: Celebrating 150 Years of the City of Bryan, Texas¶
About¶
Homepage: Bryan 150 Exhibit
Item Count: 26 Works
Available on Digital Collections Page: Yes
Curator: Unclear
Current Stack¶
Fedora for Digital Asset Management
iriiifservice for IIIF Presentation
Delivery via Spotlight
Migration Plans¶
Archipelago for Digital Asset Management
Exhibit Updated to Pull from Archipelago
ADO Model: Image
Before Migration¶
Add Georeferencing to Migration Metadata
1940s Brazos County Aerial Photographs¶
About¶
This collections consists of a series of aerial photographs that have been indexed using a highway map from 1980. The images themselves appear to be flat JPGs with no image server.
The primary access point is an image map split into 3 regions. Once you click on a specific region, a new image map appears. Clicking on each image map renders the corresponding jpg in the window.
Homepage: 1940s Brazos County Aerial Photographs
Curator: Unclear
Current Stack¶
No digital asset management system
JPEGs are flat files on a library server with the subdomain webassets
An annotated bitmap image split into thirds links the satellite views to the corresponding region
There is no metadata
Migration Plans¶
Archipelago for Digital Asset Management
Exhibit Updated to Pull from Archipelago
Exhibit will Include a Newly Updated Map but will use Leaflet similar to Woellhof
ADO Model: Map
Before Migration¶
Image Assets need a descriptive metadata record
The record needs to have georeferencing information
Rights can be NKC or something like that unless we no for sure it should be NC
Images have dates. Can get that easily with Computer Vision
Can also use Identifier Data in Upper right for Title
Since no metadata record, easiest to start with a blank AMI set in special collections
Amazing, Fantastic, Weird: Science Fiction Studies in Texas¶
About¶
This is a collection of program and proceedings from the exhibit opening of: One Hundred Years Hence: Science Fiction and Fantasy at Texas A & M. It consists of PDFs, Powerpoints, etc. This is a complex collection that I need to learn more about. It doesn’t fit easily into a IIIF framework.
Homepage: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/92159
Curator: Jeremy Brett
Current Stack¶
DSPACE
Migration Plans¶
Archipelago for Digital Asset Management
ADO Model: Book
Some items are restricted
Before Migration¶
Convert Items (PPTX) to Web Accessible Formats
Restricted Items also come to the same collection
Instructions need to be added on how to access those
A.M.C. Yell Book Collection¶
About¶
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Yell Book Online Collection consists of bound Yell Books dating from 1904-1905 through 1931-1932. Included in the booklets are yells and songs that reflect the unique experience of cadets during this period, and the businesses that supported the printing of the booklets. Most of the booklets in this collection were owned by former students, so names, doodles, and in some cases homemade yells can be seen on the covers and within the booklets’ pages.
This is served with the Internet Archive Bookreader Application thus some assumptions are made about stack.
Homepage: https://library.tamu.edu/collections/digital-library/yell_books.php
Page turning via Internet Archive Bookreader
Search inside
Current Stack¶
Internet Archive Bookreader
Pages are Bundled
Text is Alto
Migration Plans¶
Archipelago for Digital Asset Management
ADO Model: Book or CWS with Page so we can programatically add text
Before Migration¶
Convert Alto to HOCR
Austin’s 1830 Map of Texas¶
About¶
This first edition of Stephen F. Austin’s 1830 Map of Texas is often described as “the first meaningful map of Texas” and was the first to accurately depict the rivers in Texas and illustrate many of the early settlements including Brazoria, Gonzales, Harrisburg, Matagorda, Victoria and Waco Village.
This map was published in eight editions through 1845 and is the first map of Texas printed in the United States. The map was produced as part of a land grant agreement with the Mexican government but it was also intended to be a showcase for new settlers to Texas. Therefore, it was made to be as open and as inviting as possible.
The map is split into 7 parts and each part is presented independently from the other parts.
There is a Georeferenced data package that is served over HTTP from OAKTrust and thus blocked. This should minimally be switched to HTTPS.
Current Stack¶
DSPACE
Spotlight
OAKTrust for Georeferenced Dataset
Migration Plans¶
Archipelago for Digital Asset Management
ADO Model: Map
Before Migration¶
Figure out what to do with georeferenced dataset. Can we leverage work done there already?
The Berger-Cloonan Collection of Decorated Papers¶
About¶
The Berger-Cloonan Collection of Decorated Papers contains more than 20,000 items representing five centuries of paper production and decoration from across the globe and is one of the most extensive collections of its kind. Among its many strengths are eighteenth-century Dutch gilt papers, thousands of unique marbled and paste papers, Japanese Chiyogami and Katazome, historic watermarks, and scores of papermakers’ sample books.
The collection was built by Dr. Sidney E. Berger and Dr. Michèle V. Cloonan in support of their research and teaching interests, and was acquired by Texas A&M University Libraries in 2016. This digital collection contains non-copyrighted papers in the Berger-Cloonan Collection. It is offered here as a starting point for students and researchers who wish to become acquainted with the collection. Digitization of the collection is ongoing, and high-resolution scans of papers will be uploaded as they become available.
Each work is served as a single canvas with manifests.
There are no context pages and only an index.
Current Stack¶
SAGE
Fedora
Some items are restricted
Migration Plans¶
Archipelago
Ado: Image
Restricted Items also come to the same collection
Instructions need to be added on how to access those
Charting Texas: A History of the State Through Maps¶
About¶
This exhibition features maps and books, documenting several centuries of exploration and political competition for one specific area of North America — Texas. With advancements in geographic knowledge, surveying techniques, and printing technology, one can begin to see Texas taking its now familiar form from the earliest depictions in the 16th Century.
The collection consists of 57 items that are mostly maps.
Current Stack¶
Spotlight
Fedora
Migration Plans¶
Archipelago
ADO Types: Map, Image, Book, Manuscript (Hand written Text?)
Update exhibit to pull from Archipelago
Before Migration¶
Update metadata to properly identify ADO types
Download tifs from Fedora and convert to jp2s
Cherokee Freedmen Collection¶
This collection consists of written testimonies, letters, and affidavits related to over 30 applications of African Americans and their families that were denied enrollment as Cherokee Freedmen. The hearings were mostly conducted at Fort Gibson or Muskogee, Oklahoma by the United States Department of the Interior’s Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes (a.k.a. the Dawes Commission). Images of the original envelopes are included for most of the documents, which are dated from 1901 to 1907.
Current Stack¶
Spotlight
Fedora
Migration Plans¶
Archipelago
ADO Types: Book
Update exhibit to pull from Archipelago
Before Migration¶
N/A
Post Migration Notes¶
This haas been migrated to Archipelago but needs to be organized as a CWS so users can browse folders.
Coleccion Los Palabristas¶
Contains a collection of 650plus radio interviews with writers and artists from Mexico, South, and Central America, and Spain.
Homepage: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://avalon.library.tamu.edu/collections/xs55mc14f
Current Stack¶
Avalon
Fedora
Migration Plans¶
Keep in Avalon
Would like to bring to Archipelago as a remote resource but need to figure out restricted content
Before Migration¶
N/A
College of Medicine Rosters¶
Made available online through a partnership between the College of Medicine and the University Libraries, these are a set of photos of class rosters from the college of medicine.
Current Stack¶
Sage
Fedora
Migration Plans¶
Migrate to Archipelago
Should include OCR
ADO type: Book? Image with Text? Does not need to be CWS as only 1 page
Before Migration¶
Nothing, tesseract will work fine
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences Image Collection¶
Digital collection that documents the history of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Include 1491 photographs.
Current Stack¶
Sage
Fedora
Migration Plans¶
Migrate to Archipelago
ADO type: Image
Before Migration¶
Nothing
Committee on South Asian Women Bulletin¶
This is a colleciton of PDFs from OAKTrust being served into Spotlight as issues.
Current Stack¶
Spotlight (presentation)
OAKTrust (Asset Management)
IRIIIFService and base64 delegates for Image Serving of PDFs
Github Pages for wrapping base64 delegates in IIIF manifests
Migration Plans¶
Migrate to Archipelago
ADO type: Book or CWS Book
Needs OCR (currently missing)
Put back in Spotlight with new manifests for provenance purposes
Before Migration¶
Compare tesseract output with new Impulse solution using DGX Spark
Cushing Exhibition Catalogs¶
Materials associated with physical exhibitions from Cushing Memorial Library.
Current Stack¶
OAKTrust
Migration Plans¶
Migrate to Archipelago
ADO type: Book or CWS Book
Needs OCR (currently missing)
Before Migration¶
Do we need to split into JPGs or JP2s for OCR?
Cushing Historical Images Collection¶
Old Flickr images that were done 2 decades ago. Over 22000 images. Some have metadata, some do not, some have some AI generated metadata.
Current Stack¶
OAKTrust
Migration Plans¶
Migrate to Archipelago
ADO type: Image
Before Migration¶
Figure out if this meets minimal standards for metadata according to our Archipelago docs.
Dallas Women’s Gallery¶
The Video Oral Histories of the DWG Project celebrate a defining chapter in Texas’s cultural history. They help reconstruct the story of DW Gallery (Dallas, 1975–1988), an upstart, alternative, artist-run space that would launch the careers of some of the most prominent artists in Texas and America. Founded by eight women who struggled to have their work shown in the mainstream Dallas art scene, DW Gallery stood as a model of resilience, ingenuity, collaboration, and inclusion; within its first year, it began to show the works of emerging male artists as well. These oral histories preserve the voices and stories of the artists who shaped DW Gallery, one of the state’s most influential but under-acknowledged art spaces. The Project is a multi-year initiative of the Texas Art Project at Texas A&M and Art This Week.
This is a collection created by Tiana Uchayz and delivered by the Libraries.
Current Stack¶
Avalon
Migration Plans¶
keep in Avalon but create a work type that can serve this in Archipelago as a redirect via IIIF
Before Migration¶
Just create new ADO type
The Frederick C. Cuny/INTERTECT Collection¶
Frederick C. Cuny was an American humanitarian and preeminent disaster relief specialist who worked to improve the lives of people affected by natural and man-made disasters around the world. Over his 26 year career, Cuny worked in crises in more than fifty countries, including Biafra, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Iraq, Kuwait, Somalia, Bosnia, and Chechnya. His larger than life personality, uncanny ability to “make things happen,” and his innovative ideas drove him to the forefront of the disaster response field.
The collection contains the working library, office files, press clippings, slides, photographs and Beta and VHS tapes of Cuny and his team at the disaster relief/response firm, Intertect, and at the non-profit organization he co-founded in 1987, the Intertect Institute. The items currently digitized represent a small section of the collection chosen for their significance by members of the Cuny Center for the Study of Societies in Crisis.
The digital Cuny Archive was made available in part through funding assistance from USAID.
Current Stack¶
DSPACE
Migration Plans¶
Images to Archipelago as image
PDFs to Archipelago as books
If PDF is HTR, bring as manuscript instead.
Before Migration¶
Identify ADO type for all items in collection
Geologic Atlas of the United States¶
A set of 227 folios published by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1894 and 1945. Each folio includes both topographic and geologic maps for each quad represented in that folio, as well as descriptions of the basic and economic geology of the area. The Geologic Atlas collection is maintained by the Maps unit. Contact: Maps, Texas A&M Libraries
Current Stack¶
DSPACE
SAGE
Migration Plans¶
Download tifs and convert to jp2s
Move to Archipelago as Book
Historic Maps of Cuba¶
A set of 49 maps of Cuba containing information such as soils and population. Also includes XML files with coordinates. The Historic Maps of Cuba collection is maintained by the Maps unit. Contact: Maps, Texas A&M Libraries
Current Stack¶
DSPACE
SAGE
10 maps are restricted access on OAKTrust
Migration Plans¶
Move 39 open access maps to Archipelago as Map
Restricted Items also come to the same collection
Instructions need to be added on how to access those
Before Migration¶
Extract coordinates from XML files
Determine rights statement for restricted items
Live to Build a Better World¶
Digital collection accompanying a physical Cushing exhibit in 2021. Mostly scans of over 100 book jackets and movie posters. Now hosted on Spotlight as a permanent digital exhibit.
Contact: Jeremy Brett
Current Stack¶
Fedora
Spotlight
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as Image
Before Migration¶
N/A
Maps of Brazos County, Texas¶
This digital collection features maps of Brazos County, the cities of College Station and Bryan, and the campus of Texas A&M University. These are all tifs. Contact: Maps, Texas A&M Libraries
Current Stack¶
Fedora
SAGE
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as Maps
Before Migration¶
Download tifs from Fedora and convert to jp2s
Determine rights statements of four items that have no URIs
Music Activities Collection¶
Halftime performances of Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band during football games.
Contact: Krista Oldham
Current Stack¶
Avalon
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as StreamingVideo
Restricted access
Before Migration¶
Set up access restrictions
Nicholas A. Basbanes - Audio Interviews¶
991 interviews by Nicholas Basbanes of authors.
Contact:
Current Stack¶
Avalon
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as StreamingVideo
Restricted access
Before Migration¶
Set up access restrictions
Nicholas A. Basbanes - Interviews for a Gentle Madness¶
11 interview excerpts by Nicholas Basbanes of authors. Excerpts come from Basbanes Audio Interviews collection.
Contact:
Current Stack¶
Avalon
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as StreamingVideo
Before Migration¶
N/A
Owens Folk Music¶
Recordings of folk music performances in 1930s and 1940s as part of the research of William Owens.
Contact: Anton DuPlessis
Current Stack¶
Avalon
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as StreamingVideo
Before Migration¶
N/A
The Raiford L. Stripling Collection¶
Contains 272 items, mostly architectural drawings and construction plans. Includes a few maps and newspapers.
Contact: Anton duPlessis
Current Stack¶
DSPACE
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as Image, Book, and Map
Before Migration¶
Determine ADO types for each item in collection
Ensure Books have OCR
Determine rights statement
Science Fiction Radio Show¶
Radio episodes of a show featuring interviews with science fiction and fantasy authors.
Contact: Jeremy Brett
Current Stack¶
Avalon
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as StreamingVideo
Before Migration¶
N/A
Stephen Powys Marks London Collection¶
Consists of two Spotlight exhibits, one with 10 maps, and one with 54 maps of London in the 18th-20th centuries.
Contact: Maps, Texas A&M Libraries
Homepage: https://spotlight.library.tamu.edu/spotlight/london-collection
Homepage: https://spotlight.library.tamu.edu/spotlight/london-maps-batch-2
Current Stack¶
Fedora
Spotlight
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as Map
Some items have coordinates on accompanying XML files
Before Migration¶
Extract coordinates from XML files
Download tifs from Fedora and convert to jp2s
Texas A&M Forest Service Radio Broadcasts¶
Contains 136 public service announcement radio broadcasts about forest fires and prevention.
Contact: Krista Oldham
Current Stack¶
Avalon
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as StreamingVideo
Before Migration¶
N/A
A Time of Resolve: Texas A&M during the Great Depression¶
Contains 140 items from the late 1920s and 1930s.
Contact: Krista Oldham
Current Stack¶
Fedora
SAGE
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as Image, Book, and Map
Before Migration¶
Determine ADO types for each item in collection
Ensure Books have OCR
Toward a Better Living: African American Farming Communities in Mid-Century Texas¶
Contains 100 photographs from the Agricultural Communications Office of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Images date from 1930s-1970s.
Contact: Krista Oldham
Current Stack¶
DSPACE
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as Image
Before Migration¶
N/A
Veterans of the Valley¶
Contains 150 interviews conducted by Tom Turbiville with veterans from Brazos County.
Contact: Anton duPlessis
Current Stack¶
Avalon
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as StreamingVideo
Before Migration¶
N/A
Wheelan Collection¶
Contains 686 photographs from the Mexican Revolution taken from 1910-1920.
Contact: Anton duPlessis
Current Stack¶
DSPACE
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as Image
Before Migration¶
N/A
World War I Postcards¶
Contains 142 mostly English language postcards on OAKTrust. Later augemented with 415 more postcards taken from the Archive of World War I German and Austrian Documents. Initial 142 items were uploaded to DSPACE, latter 415 were uploaded to Fedora.
Contact: Anton duPlessis
Current Stack¶
DSPACE
Fedora
SAGE
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as Book
Before Migration¶
N/A
Who in the World am I? Ah, That’s the Great Puzzle¶
Digital collection accompanying a physical Cushing exhibit. 27 illustrations depicting scenes in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Some are scanned from books, others are stand-alone illustrations. Now hosted on Spotlight as a permanent digital exhibit.
Contact: Jeremy Brett
Current Stack¶
Fedora
Spotlight
Migration Plans¶
Move to Archipelago as Image
Before Migration¶
determine reformatting values