King, LizTowery, StephanieWaugh, Laura2018-10-032018-10-032018-10-04King, L., Towery, S., & Waugh, L. (2018). From VHS to MP4: Improving access to 40 years of literary recordings. Poster presented at the Digital Frontiers Annual Conference, Lawrence, KS.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/7752This poster presentation outlines the collaboration between the academic community involved in this collaborative project, including representatives from a student-run, free, online literary journal as well as university librarians. A main focus is the potential impact on the research community - both scholarly and public - who will benefit from accessing the previously unpublished audiovisual materials. Details include how to ensure this remain a fully-open and accessible resource for anyone interested in digital humanities research. Considerations include budget and costs, digitization of outdated media, long-term preservation and storage, copyright, metadata, and creating a user-friendly, searchable website using open source tools.Image1 page1 file (.pdf)enliterary recordingsdigitizationpreservationopen sourcecollaborationscopyrightmetadataVHSMP4Poster