Utilizing Trint, a speech-to-text web application that uses machine learning to transcribe audio and video, a summer project team made amazing progress towards the goal to eliminate the CBS, NBC… Keep reading
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Transcribing television news
Special Collections Photographic Archives soon to have a new home
The Campus Event Photography summer project team accepted the challenge of migrating 44,369 Photographic Archives digital images and their metadata from an old legacy database built in the 2000s to… Keep reading
Wikidata Bots: How library staff elevate faculty information and publications for research on the web
Almost everyone has heard of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia created and edited by volunteers, but what about its sister project, Wikidata? Like Wikipedia, Wikidata is a free and collaboratively… Keep reading
VandyCite
Following in the path of WikiCite: a worldwide, crowdsourced initiative to create a freely-accessible database of academic literature in Wikidata, the VandyCite team contributes bibliographic information about faculty at Vanderbilt… Keep reading
Publications and manuscripts now searchable through JSTOR
A small but mighty team of five library staff set out to make previously digitized but not publicly accessible items from the library’s general and special collections freely available to… Keep reading
Library PUP: Pick-up Program provides materials to users as quickly and safely as possible
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries staff designed a pick-up program (PUP) to safely provide materials that were not accessible while the library buildings were closed due to the pandemic…. Keep reading
Identifying and comparing government document duplicates
It is amazing what a team of ten student assistants and ten library staff from six different areas working together on a big project can accomplish! With a seemingly impossible… Keep reading