Undergraduates to Develop Search Personalization for Visual History Archive in Annual UCLA Program

Wed, 07/12/2017 - 5:00pm
Four undergraduate students from around the world are hard at work developing new search capabilities for the Visual History Archive as part of the annual Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) program hosted by the UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM).
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Visual History Archive Migrates to New Storage and Archive Manager File System

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 5:00pm
The ITS team meets to plan the SAMFS migration
The ITS team meets to plan the SAMFS migration
The work includes hardware and software updates to systems that have been in use in the Shoah Foundation digitization, archive and storage process for testimony ingest for over nine years.
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Managing Testimony Data Gets an Update

Tue, 05/03/2016 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation’s ability to capture and preserve important information about each testimony has gotten a critical update.
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Indexing Software Developed for “Group Testimonies”

Tue, 01/19/2016 - 5:00pm
The latest, most significant update to the Visual History Archive’s indexing software since 2008 addresses the growing need for a way to index testimonies with more than one survivor.
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USC Shoah Foundation Participates in #AskAnArchivist Day for Second Year

Tue, 09/29/2015 - 5:00pm
Thurs., Oct. 1 is your chance to interact live on Twitter with USC Shoah Foundation archivists Sandra Aguilar and Daryn Eller.
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RIPS Math Students Create New and Improved Algorithm for Searching the Visual History Archive

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 5:00pm
The four undergraduates working with USC Shoah Foundation during the summer Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) program at UCLA presented their new method for achieving more relevant search results in the Visual History Archive to staff on Wednesday.
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New “Flavor Files” Will Lower Costs and Expand Access to Visual History Archive

Thu, 07/16/2015 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation’s ITS department is one month into a yearlong project that will ultimately change the way universities access the Visual History Archive.
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Hundreds of Librarians Visit USC Shoah Foundation Exhibit at ALA Conference

Wed, 07/08/2015 - 5:00pm
Librarians from colleges, cities and prisons were among the steady stream of ALA conference attendees who visited USC Shoah Foundation's first table at the ALA Conference expo hall June 26-29.
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Undergraduates Work to Improve Search Relevance in Visual History Archive

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 5:00pm
It’s that time of year again: four talented college students are diving into the math and technology behind the Visual History Archive as part of the annual Research in Industrial Projects (RIPS) program at the UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM).
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