Digital humanities (DH) projects pose several digital preservation challenges due to their multimodal approaches and varying technology. Last year, Virginia Tech presented a potential strategy for preserving these projects through documentation and project component pac...

Digital Humanities (DH) projects are often complex and pose a challenge for digital preservation. Best practices and standard techniques for preserving combinations of databases, user interfaces, and documentation does not yet exist. At Virginia Tech University Librarie...

This presentation, in the 2019 Lager Lecture series, was created for the general public as part of the Library's outreach program in the year of "The Celebration of STEM." It is an overview of the entire history of cartography, from ancient times to the Apollo moon land...

Creating sustainable, preservable Digital Humanities (DH) projects is a challenge that is often left until after project completion if considered at all. This presentation explores a case study that is implementing a strategy of project management, preservation planning...

Data-driven modelling provides a general means to represent optically complex fenestration in daylight simulation by its Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function (BSDF). Radiance employs the tensor tree as a compact data structure to store the BSDF at high directi...

This lecture lists and describes the way to effectively use the five most heavily sought-after resources in the Lloyd Reeds Map Collection: topographic maps, aerial photographs, fire insurance plans, city directories, and local historical maps. Originally designed for a...

This presentation seeks to capture the content that went into the 2018 exhibit, "Gentleman, Soldier, Scholar & Spy" in the Tomlinson Gallery, McMaster Museum of Art. Clifford’s maps reveal a world on the cusp of an evolutionary shift in cartography brought about by the ...

2018 Conference paper presented at Strathmore University, Nairobi Kenya. Thematic area (Humanities and Social Sciences) The aim of this paper is to show how art is a rich and valid source of anthropological, historical and social information. Human beings have produced ...

Librarians and archivists have played prominent roles in initiatives aimed at preserving indigenous cultural heritage in recent decades. Such initiatives have evolved in response to the relative lack of legal protections for indigenous cultural heritage of an intangible...

In a rapidly changing environment the survival of the food service industry and the food retail markets depend to a large extent on their capacity to develop and market new or radically improved products. The identified product development tends provide insight into the...