Quest for the Treasures of UCLA - SCaLE 17x UpScale Lightning Talks
Channel: Opensource.com
Date: 12/07/2019

In this lightning talk from SCaLE 17x 2019, Jen Diamond examines the digitization of UCLA Library collections that the team of UCLA developers is working on. 

The UCLA Library possesses incredible treasures that have previously only been easily available to student and researchers. (things like Anais Nin's and Susan Sontag's diaries) UCLA developers are currently working on a project that uses two open source repositories, Samvera and Blacklight, which enable the searching and browsing of our collections and reveal these incredible treasures to the world for anyone to discover and use for their own creation. We operate under the principle that higher education is a non-profit organization working to improve our society through teaching people skills and knowledge, and how to learn.