Reflections on My Time at cIRcle
Image courtesy of UBC Library Communications and Marketing. I started my work as the Digital Repository Research Assistant at the cIRcle Office last September as I entered my third year of my MAS/MLIS program. Through my graduate coursework and professional positions, I had experience with digital asset creation and metadata processing; I also understood many […]
In cIRcle: Slocan History Series
Photo courtesy: Beginnings of the Bosun Ranch : reminiscences of Joseph Colebrook Harris The Slocan History Series by Professor Emeritus Cole Harris (1936-2022) in UBC’s Department of Geography, is available in cIRcle. The series documents the social and industrial history of British Columbia’s Slocan Valley, including early settler experiences and resource development. The series was recently […]
How Do File Formats Affect Accessibility & Preservation?
Image courtesy of Margo Yacheshyn / UBCO University Relations To support cIRcle’s mission of open access and long-term preservation, cIRcle’s File Format Guidelines offer recommendations and suggestions on how to create accessible, stable, and usable digital files. Through this resource, we aim to help UBC community members who wish to deposit their works to cIRcle […]
Student submissions to cIRcle: What, why, and how?
Photo courtesy UBC Library Communications and Marketing As UBC’s institutional repository, cIRcle supports all current UBC students seeking to make their research and course outputs openly accessible online. Our student collections grow each semester, with more than 2,000 non-thesis graduate level publications and nearly 3,000 undergraduate works currently available in Open Collections. Read on to find out more about […]
Re-newed in cIRcle: BIRS Workshop Video Recordings
Photo courtesy: geralt via Pixabay The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) holds mathematical workshops at several locations worldwide, and creates video recordings of presentations held during these workshops. BIRS has been a long-standing project partner with cIRcle, collaborating over a decade ago to build an automated deposit feed of these video […]