IT Tutorials DSpace Digital Archiving Project, Spring 2007

Lisa SchmidtJulia McGarey andNicole Soriano

School of Information Tutorials

Designed to facilitate the development of application and internet-based computer skills

First tutorial produced in 1998 by Quinn Stewart

Tutorial Components Narrated instructional video

Website containing clearly written instructions

Downloadable transcripts and handouts

School of Information Tutorials Community Past and Present • 2005: Melanie Cofield established the archives

• 2006: Leanda Gahegan, Kris Kelly, and Dana Lamparello created an ingest workflow for IT lab staff

• 2007: focus on providing access to tutorial files in Dspace, particularly video files

Tutorial Videos Creation Process

Created using Camtasia, a screen recording software

End result is numerous uncompressed AVI video (or Camrec) files and a Camtasia Project File

AVIs then encoded to produce various “access” copies; these are linked to the website

A person viewing videos from the website never sees the AVI originals, s/he sees the encoded “access” copies

Lows• Logistics!• Inability to conduct full inventory• Inability to Render AVI videos

Highs• Discovery of TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSSC)

• Developing a true “medium plus” level of service– Access copies– Text file of content– README file

Future Recommendations

• Take a full inventory• Develop a preservation strategy for at-risk file formats and older tutorials

• Include other metadata, such as Video MD and LOM

• Refine access copy policies

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