Library Blogs

The thinking behind our decision to normalize files associated with the Microsoft Word program to the PDF/A-2u format for access and preservation purposes, and a brief overview of the migration process.

In this interview, Dr. Kathy Klinich, research scientist at the UM Transportation Research Institute, describes their research and why they decided to share their data sets entitled "Finite Element Models of Wheelchairs and Associated Components to Support Wheelchair Transportation Research" and "Evaluating Wheelchairs for Potential Use as Aircraft Seating: Test Data."

In this interview, Brian Derstine, research staff analyst with Morphomic Analysis Group in Michigan Medicine, describes their research and why they decided to share their data sets entitled "Dataset for: Relative muscle indices and healthy reference values for sarcopenia assessment using T10 through L5 computed tomography skeletal muscle area" and "Quantification of hepatic steatosis on post-contrast computed tomography scans using artificial intelligence tools [Dataset]" in Deep Blue Data.

In this interview, Dr. Jenna Stolzman, a recent graduate from the Mechanical Engineering PhD program describes their research and why they decided to share his data set entitled “Dataset for: Effects of crosswind and shroud geometry on performance of low-flow, non-assisted flares,” in Deep Blue Data.

In this interview, Dr. María Natalia Umaña describes her research and why she decided to share her data set entitled "Dataset of wood and leaf traits of tropical dry forests seedlings and adults" in Deep Blue Data.

In 2020, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship in Atlanta, Georgia reached out to the University of Michigan to contribute to the Sounding Spirit Digital Library (SSDL). They asked the Bentley Historical Library, the U-M Library, and the William L. Clements Library to contribute titles in our collections that would expand their digital collection. This post looks at the range of titles contributed, discusses the equipment used to digitize the titles, and analyses the ways that SSDL and U-M Library align and vary in their digitization efforts.

In Web Archiving, do you get just the images or the entire site with most functionality intact?

This blog will cover the process of just getting the image files and related text in Part 1. Part 2 will cover the process of making the JavaScript-enabled site function when run locally, allowing the content to have more meaning by being displayed in context.

In 2024, The U-M Library Digital Preservation Lab uncovered an almost decade-old mistake in our metadata workflow. Luckily, we were able to use this as a learning experience to think about how we can anticipate future changes to metadata formatting standards in the digital archaeology space.

Spotlight on food history posters prepared by students enrolled in the Food Literacy for All (Winter 2024), a community-academic partnership course hosted by the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative.

In response to the rise in book challenges in Michigan and across the country, a new web archive has been created to preserve, to the best of our ability, information regarding attempts to change collection development policies in public schools and public libraries.