Digital Scholarship Lab Workshop Series
Milner Library is hosting a series of workshops for faculty, course instructors and staff to engage with principles and practices of digital preservation planning. In fall 2024, they will offer four workshops. While the series takes a holistic look at the subject of digitization from start to finish, participants can sign up for individual sessions.
The Digital Scholarship Lab will issue a certificate acknowledging achievement to participants who complete all of the workshops and projects over the course of the school year.
Accessibility notice: all of the above workshops focus on the production of digital surrogates of visual materials and include highly visual components.
Workshops
Preservation Planning
Synchronous Session:
Friday, October 18 • 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location:
Milner 165
Facilitator:
Sean M. Winslow, Milner Library
This workshop will introduce the principles of preservation planning, how to identify stakeholder communities, significant properties, and how to scope projects. Registration is required.
Principles of Photography
Synchornous Session:
Friday, November 1 • 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location:
Milner 165
Facilitator:
Sean M. Winslow, Milner Library
This workshop will cover the physical and digital limitations that affect the digitization process, what can be captured and represented. Topics include sensors, light, and color management. Registration is required.
Digitization Lab
Synchronous Session:
Cancelled
Location:
Milner 165
Facilitator:
Karmine Beecroft, Milner Library
Take a tour of the Milner Library Digitization Lab and see how the library approaches this subject with actual example materials. The director will prepare practical exercises for participants to make decisions capturing digital images of actual objects using the studio equipment. Registration is required.
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
Synchronous Session:
Friday, December 6 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Location:
Milner 165
Facilitators:
Sean M. Winslow, Milner Library
John McEwan, University of Kansas
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) is a specialized form of image capture that has significant applications where there are low contrast edges and the directionality of light matters a lot. It is often used in numismatics and archaeology and has applications as diverse as capturing reflective surface highlights and brush strokes in oil paintings. This workshop will introduce both the dome and manual processes, as well as processing in ReLight. Registration is required.