Digital Stewardship Completes 3-Year Migration
In June 2024, Department of Digital Stewardship completed a three-year migration to its new collections platform.
In June 2024, Department of Digital Stewardship completed a three-year migration to its new collections platform. The final collections migrated to the new platform include:
- Belfer Latin American 45s, which comprises nearly 3,000 digitized discs from throughout the Western Hemisphere that feature a variety of Latin American and Caribbean musical genres. This digital collection will eventually grow to include the more than 12,000 discs digitized in the Belfer Audio Laboratory from 2017 to 2022. Recordings were derived primarily from the Bell Brothers Collection of Latin American and Caribbean Recordings, held by the Special Collections Research Center.
- Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection, one of the Libraries’ earliest digitization projects, originally named to connect 21st century researchers to a late-19th/early-20th century audio format held by the Special Collections Research Center in the Belfer Cylinders Collection. The digital collection includes 1,740 recordings with more to come. In addition, the new landing page connects scholars and audiophiles to the unique components of this digitization project, including highlights from the collection, technical specifications, project history, and more.
- Character Studies Interviews, a collection of interviews with leading American playwrights, actors, directors, choreographers, lyricists, and composers which have been purchased and platformed by the Libraries. Materials are restricted to campus ip addresses for viewing.
- Our Stories, a site that includes the digitized output from the Black History Preservation Project (begun in 2008). The original project partnered with the Libraries to facilitate community scanning and host a virtual community museum. This collection includes a documentary on Syracuse’s 15th Ward which was the most viewed audio-visual file in the Digital Library in FY24 with total viewing time exceeding 1,500 minutes.
- Syracuse Aerial Photographs, a set of six mosaic aerial photographs of the city of Syracuse taken in 1926 with an accompanying composite sheet. Originals are held in the Map Room on the 3rd Floor of Bird Library. These are the earliest photographs of Syracuse for this date.