From Basement Storage to Online Access: Processing and Digitizing the Mathematical Association of America General Mathematics Film Production Elements

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Justin Kovar, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at AustinFollow

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Publication Date

10-2016

Abstract

A two-part case study of a film project processed and digitized by an archival institution, from the planning stages through online access. Using a single title, "The Kakeya Problem," as an entry point, these videos detail the process of shipping, identifying, rehousing, describing, and digitizing a film collection, with a focus on the rationale that shaped these processes at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

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Justin Kovar attended the University of Texas at Austin's School of Information for his MSIS, where classes by Sarah Cunningham, Karen Pavelka, and Dr. Pat Galloway let him know he was in the right program. While in school he worked as a GRA in the Historical Music Recordings Collection, a Teaching Assistant for the Intro to Audio Preservation course, and a Digitization Intern for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Since graduating in 2009, he has worked at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, currently as the Audio and Moving Image Archivist - Music Curator.