building without adobe: transforming your digital collections with free and/or open source tools
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Building Without AdobeTransforming Your Digital Collections with
Free and/or Open Source Tools
Sara Allain, Special Collections Librarian / Sarah Forbes, Scholarly Communications Librarian /
Digital Scholarship Unit, UTSC Library /
@archivalistic@4bes
@digitalutsc
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Our goals today
Reflect on UofT's move towards open source
Talk about why we use F/OSS
Introduce you to a few tools
Discuss!
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Open source at UofT
Publishing platforms: , Library website: Repository spaces: ,
OJS OCSDrupal
DSpace Islandora
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Why we use F/OSSLicenses for Photoshop + Illustrator + Dreamweaver = $1700 (that's how much it costs to employ a GSLA for 77 hours!)
Dissemination of workspaces/freedom of movementFormats are open and malleable
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Photoshop replacement
Free and open sourceSuite of command-line image manipulation toolsConverts, resizes, reformats, crops, adjusts colours...Can be used in the command line or through a user interface
ImageMagick
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& Photoshop & Illustrator replacements
Both free and open sourceNon-proprietary image formatsSupport layers, vectors, and other advanced formatting
GIMP Inkscape
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Dreamweaver replacement
Not open source, but it is free!Write XML, Dublin Core, MODS, python, etc...Support for snippets, macros, and other helpful featuresExtensions and plug-ins developed by the community
Sublime Text
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Best practicesSupports agile workflowsEvery staff member can have all the tools they need, whereverthey areNo version concerns - upgrades are free!Non-proprietary formats easier to migrate in the futureStrong user communities = strong support systemChance to give back to the community!
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DiscussionSara Allain, Special Collections Librarian /
Sarah Forbes, Scholarly Communications Librarian /
Digital Scholarship Unit, UTSC Library /
@archivalistic@4bes
@digitalutsc