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Texas Legacy Project Featured in Houston ChronicleThe Texas Legacy Project, a joint effort by the School of Information, the Conservation History Association of Texas, and the Center for American History was featured in the April 20th edition of the Houston Chronicle. This project is a video oral history collection of interviews with over 160 Texas conservationists from all areas of the state.The School of Information became involved with the project in September of 2001, in a research effort by Quinn Stewart and Shane Williams into the feasibility of using the iSchool and UT networks to distribute broadband video content. The project grew to include undergraduate students in the i312 class "Information in Cyberspace", who have done much of the SMIL captioning necessary for the site to meet accessibility standards. A group project in Don Turnbull's "Information Architecture and Design" class in the fall semester of 2002 conducted an extensive evaluation and redesign of the Web site, which was implemented this spring by Libby Peterek and Chad Hutchens. Future student projects will involve building database interfaces and search engines to access the video assets of the project. This collaboration with the Conservation History Association of Texas provides the School of Information with a large body of high-quality content free of copyright restrictions, and suitable for use in a wide variety of courses. The eventual inclusion of this project into the UT Knowledge Gateway is anticipated. The School of Information hosts the Web site for Texas Legacy, http://www.texaslegacy.org.
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