An All Purpose Archives Viewer: Displaying Large Scale Archival Collections in Digital Libraries
Community Notes
For several years, many academic and research libraries have been exploring ways to scale-up their digitization and web publication of archival collections. These initiatives sought to transfer the methods of mass digitization developed for published materials with the unique, local special collections.
At UCLA, digitization of complete archival collections has been a goal for a number of years. However, we still didn't know how best to display these digital archives on the web. This spring we decided to draw up functional requirements for an archival collections web interface. Our digital library system is Islandora, so we worked with Discovery Garden, Inc., to build a "Manuscripts Solution Pack." While the solution pack is Islandora specific, the functionality and concepts are not. In our presentation, we will outline the functionalities we chose as integral to an archival interface and then outline the way we technically designed the solution pack. The focus will be on functions and development that are agnostic of the underlying system. In particular, we decided on a content model for archival collections, a web display interface for finding aids alongside digital images and page turning. The page images are zoomable inside the webpage using Open Sea Dragon.
The goal of our presentation is to offer a conceptual model for the display of archival collections on the web. We will present our findings on the interface's usability and plans for future refinements. We hope during a question and answer period to garner criticism and responses to our approach as well as discuss other models that might be appropriate for this material.
Session Leaders
Elizabeth McAulay, University of California, Los Angeles
Kristian Allen, University of California, Los Angeles
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Spotlight: A Self-Service Tool for Showcasing Digital Collections
Community Notes
Like many institutions, Stanford University Libraries (SUL) have a rich and diverse collection of content in its digital repository. While this repository content is accessible through an integrated discovery environment, librarians, curators, and collection donors often want to showcase individual collections, and faculty, students, and researchers want to work with these collections in a more focused, feature-rich environment that supports their scholarly goals. Purpose-built digital library websites can satisfy these goals, but the time and development resources required to create them limits how often an institution can commit to producing them.
In this session, we'll describe how SUL addressed this problem by developing a digital library product called Spotlight. Spotlight is a plug-in to Blacklight, an open source Ruby on Rails gem that provides a discovery interface for any Solr index. Combined with Blacklight, an institution can use Spotlight to establish a self-service environment in which librarians, curators, faculty, and others can easily create attractive, feature-rich websites that showcase digital library content of their choosing.
As we'll demonstrate in this session, curators build a Spotlight exhibit completely through web-based forms, using an intuitive workflow of selection and indexing, arrangement, curation, and presentation. Spotlight-based exhibits can include multiple types of media and provide curators with a wide range of "widgets" with which to build pages composed of both digital objects and curatorial content.
Because we believe it has potential value to many institutions, we intentionally designed and developed Spotlight in an open and transparent way. As the project evolves, we're especially interested in facilitating community contributions. We'll conclude this session by describing the steps we're taking to seek regular feedback from peers and stakeholders, generate interest among potential future development partners, and position Spotlight as an open source project that other institutions will adopt and help grow.
Session Leaders
Gary Geisler, Stanford University
Jessie Keck, Stanford University
Stuart Snydman, Stanford University
Libraries have been moving to embrace linked data for years now, slowly and fitfully it sometimes seems. Now the landscape is firming up as major players have begun committing to well-formed initiatives that move beyond experimentation to practice at scale. This panel presents a view of four diverse, larger-scale, linked data efforts where the “rubber is meeting the road.” Each of the panelists will briefly present an overview of their efforts. A moderated discussion will follow, giving the panelists and audience a chance to compare and contrast approaches, and the larger implications for libraries of this potentially disruptive innovation.
Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) is a Mellon-funded collaboration of Cornell, Harvard and Stanford libraries that is seeking to leverage the links among bibliographic data, person data (such as from faculty profiles & authority files), and usage data (curation, circulation, citation, etc.) to enhance the usage of scholarly resources.
OCLC is working with library, education and consumer web organizations to build an infrastructure that makes library data an integral part of the web, producing linked data views of creative works, people, organizations, places, concepts and events. Data from diverse sources is managed in a continually expanding library knowledge graph.
Zepheira are the technical architects of BIBFRAME, and pioneers in Linked Data technology across industries. Libhub is Zepheira's new initiative to make libraries the visible center of credible information where it is most often sought, supporting a leap from current, legacy formats and publishing the embedded resources as library Linked Data.
BIBFLOW is an IMLS-funded project of the UC Davis Library, partnering with Zepheira, to investigate the changes needed and improvements to library technical services workflows afforded by new Web-centric data models and formats such as RDA and BIBFRAME. The project is developing a roadmap and prototypes to accelerate this evolution.
Session Leaders
Jon Corson-Rikert, Cornell University
Carl Stahmer, University of California, Davis
Eric Miller, Zepheira
Roy Tennant, OCLC
In Fall 2012, as part of the Digital Humanities & Libraries THATCamp, discussions among library staff from several institutions ignited brainstorming sessions about training reference and subject librarians for more technically-oriented services offered in emerging and centrally located digital scholarship centers in our libraries. Discussions about professional development methods and approaches are still in the forefront. We propose a moderated panel discussion in which we will explore:
The members of this panel have been grappling with the above-questions, and serve as advocates for professional development in our respective libraries while pursuing distinct yet complementary training models:
Join our discussion as we explore sensible ways to build institutional capacity in digital scholarship and cross-disciplinary research practices.
Session Leaders
Michelle Dalmau, Indiana University
Catherine Minter, Indiana University
Liz Milewicz, Duke University
Laura Miller, University of Virginia
Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland (Moderator)
Bob Scott, Columbia University
Sarah Witte, Columbia University
Grab a box lunch before joining this session.
As monitoring and reporting on the wider societal impact of research rises higher in the agenda for many institutions, we take a look at the burgeoning altmetrics movement, and examine how it can be useful in gathering this evidence.
Unlike traditional measures of impact such as citation and download counts, which typically take a long time to accrue, altmetrics offer much more immediate insight into how the research is received and used.
By tracking online mentions and links to an article we are able to determine whether it is reported in the mainstream news, blogged about by an enthusiast, shared across social media, or goes on to be incorporated into future policy and patent proposals. We disambiguate between different versions of the same article to present collated, fully auditable data for each publication. Such information can be incredibly valuable for an institution in measuring the broader impact of its research.
In this session we will explore some of the ways in which institutions can integrate altmetrics into their existing platforms, and in doing so provide greater support and feedback for their researchers.
Session Leader
Sara Rouhi, Altmetric
Grab a box lunch before joining this session.
Have you started a new job at a small liberal arts college—and are suddenly responsible for establishing a digital repository? Do your needs and service demands exceed your staffing capability? Did you wish that you could have had more time to design a strategic plan before taking the plunge into providing digital program services? Or are you just curious as to what happens when a small archives or library is placed under these kinds of constraints?
In this three-part panel, speakers from small to mid-sized academic institutions will describe how they initiated digital initiatives within a short time frame with limited resources, what kinds of challenges were encountered, how they chose to address those challenges, and the outcome of that process. Following the presentation, the speakers will discuss common trends across the case studies, past mistakes, potential strategies and how their experiences affect future plans for their respective institutions. During the last section, attendees will be asked to design their own solutions to the scenarios presented by collaborating in speaker-guided groups.
Session Leaders
Eugenia Kim, Emerson College
Cinda May, Indiana State University
Sasha Griffin, Denison University
From March to October 2014, eight academic libraries in the United States and Canada participated in the CLIR/DLF E-Research Peer Networking & Mentoring Group (ERPNMG), a program that aimed at encouraging and building a self-reliant, mutually supportive community engaged in continuous learning about e-research support. The program consisted of a series of webinars, practical activities and virtual discussions that helped the participating institutions to evaluate, refine and further implement their research data services (RDS). In this panel the ERPNMG participants, including the library representatives and the facilitators who worked with them, will share their experiences and discuss the successes and challenges of implementing research data services while engaging in mutual learning as well as propose the next steps for the ERPNMG after the end of program. We will place our experiences in the conceptual context of communities of practice (CoP) and encourage the audience to discuss the needs and opportunities for emerging communities of practice around data.
By receiving questions, comments, and suggestions from the wider community at the DLF Forum, we hope to collectively reflect on the role of the libraries and ERPNMG in building CoPs in the RDS context and better understand overlaps, interactions and possibly tensions among various sub-communities.
Session Leaders
Mayu Ishida, University of Manitoba
Chris Kollen, University of Arizona
Sarah Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kathleen Fear, University of Rochester
Inna Kouper, Indiana University
Kendall Roark, University of Alberta
Liberal arts colleges (LACs) are not newcomers to the world of digital scholarship, and we benefit from several strengths: close working relationships among faculty, students, librarians, and technologists; a history of faculty-student collaboration; and fewer administrative layers than larger institutions. In this panel, we will explore models for engaging with digital scholarship in the LAC library context. The panelists come from a range of small undergraduate institutions that have taken different approaches to supporting digital scholarship. Among our panelists' schools, Digital Scholarship has grown out of special collections, technical services/systems, research & instruction services, and visual resources. But each of our libraries now focuses explicitly on digital scholarship as an area of engagement, staffing and programming. This panel discussion about the interests and challenges of supporting digital scholarship at LACs will provide fresh insight to the DLF community, which has more traditionally been focused on the perspective of large research libraries.
While our scale is different, we use many of the same tools and methods as larger research libraries. However, there are also some key differences. For example, digital scholarship at LACs, whether in the classroom or as part of faculty research, typically incorporates the undergraduate student learning experience in ways that R1 institutions may not. The panelists will discuss: approaches to collaborating on faculty research projects; ways that undergraduate students can engage as partners in digital scholarship work, within their coursework, as part of research assistant/internships, or as student workers; staffing for DS at our institutions; and questions of organizational and technical sustainability at both the project and staffing levels. Finally, we'll talk about ways that LACs are collaborating across institutions, including creating the "Manifesto on Digital Scholarship at Liberal Arts Colleges" and efforts to develop a common open source technological infrastructure.
Session Leaders
Kelcy Shepherd, Amherst College
Laurie Allen, Haverford College
Eric Luhrs, Lafayette College
Gina Siesing, Bryn Mawr College
Jennifer Vinopal, New York University
For developers who are new to Hydra and/or Ruby on Rails development, we'll set up a development environment, talk about development tools, and give you everything you'll need to dive into Hydra, in our introductory Developing with Hydra workshop.
Session Leader
Bess Sadler, Stanford University
Snapshots are 7-minute presentations meant to engage and energize the audience. Presenters are asked to give a dynamic overview of their topic in a quick timeframe, with up to 24 slides. Snapshot presentations are grouped together based on an over-arching theme or idea. There are four groups (A, B, C, and D) of snapshots at the 2014 DLF Forum.
Problems and Solutions for Ingest of Humanities Articles into Institutional Repositories
Nathan Hall, Virginia Tech University
A number of authors (Madsen & Oleen, 2013) and projects (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Filling_the_repository) have documented some different methods for finding and efficiently processing research articles for ingest into institutional repositories. These sometimes involve using subscription-based tools such as Web of Science or SCOPUS. In addition to being subscription-based, these have the limitation of having less coverage in humanities and social science publications. This session will explore new avenues for exposing article level metadata in humanities journals in order to find publications to improve under-represented subject areas in institutional repositories.
Curating Menus: Digesting Data for Critical Humanistic Inquiry
Katie Rawson, University of Pennsylvania
This snapshot assesses of the construction and presentation of a humanistic data set. It explores provenance and categorization through the Curating Menus project (http://www.curatingmenus.org/), which uses NYPL's What's On the Menu and the Frank E. Buttolph menu collection and papers. Data curation is necessarily an act of cultural construction, and this project provides a lens to concretely and critically engage the effects of this construction. This snapshot examines the physical and intellectual work of curating and indexing the data and proposes methods for presenting data sets that foreground the context of their construction.
User Engagement with Digital Archives: A Case Study of Emblematica Online
Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Myung-Ja Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mara Wade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tim Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This snapshot will present preliminary findings on a user study of Emblematica Online, a digital humanities project currently funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to build a multi-institutional archive of digitized Renaissance emblem books. From the interview data gathered for the user study, the research update will examine user needs for granular discovery and access in digital collections, and how Emblematica Online has developed unique strategies and metadata applications through collaboration with expert scholars in the curation of the digital archive.
Bridging the Gap in Digital Collections: Application of 360 Degree Photography in Enhancing End-User Interfaces
Kinza Masood, University of Utah
The Marriott Library has been struggling to provide its end users with an experience that is rich, fulfilling, and interactive. The library has recently established a workflow that connects a camera to a rotating turntable, placed in a tent resembling a translucent igloo, with controlled lighting. By capturing a series of images of an artifact, placed on the turntable, and stitching them together, the end product is an interactive JavaScript file that the user can turn around virtually, and look at from all sides. A comprehensive description of Marriott's technology and application of this workflow is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUfohvRyZfU&feature=youtu.be
Florida Islandora: Challenges and Rewards of Collaborative Development & Implementation
Katie McCormick, Florida State University
Jean Phillips, Florida State University
Lee Dotson, University of Central Florida
This panel will present some of the challenges and rewards of collaborative development and implementation of Islandora as a common digital platform for Florida's state universities and colleges. The panel will discuss lessons learned from the migration of content from previous systems and the launch of the new Islandora-based sites. The panelists will also discuss how work occurs in an environment of continuous development. The presentation will also touch on the continued development for a statewide collection landing page for collaborative shared digital collections which will replace the current Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) interface.
Piloting a Peer-to-Peer Process for Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository
Community Notes
In this presentation, representatives from UF and UNT will share on their work in collaboratively creating a pilot peer-to-peer process for TRAC to build towards becoming a Trusted Digital Repository, and how the process supports other concerns including needs for different types of collaborations and scales of collaboration for achieving TRAC goals, with peer-to-peer style collaboration for peer review of TRAC offering an important option for building capacity locally and as a community.
In 2014 the University of Florida (UF) and the University of North Texas (UNT) began a collaborative process to each complete a full self-audit using the Trusted Repository Audit Checklist (TRAC) for both institution's digital repositories. In addition to the self-audit, each institution agreed to participate in a peer review process evaluating and scoring each other's self-audit and supplied documentation.
The goals of the project are as follows:
Session Leaders
Laurie Taylor, University of Florida
Chelsea Dinsmore, University of Florida
Suchi Yellapantula, University of Florida
Mark Phillips, University of North Texas
This presentation will provide an update on Fedora 4, both in terms of community support and technical development. Attendees will learn about the new Fedora 4.0 feature set, as well as use cases and strategies for migrating from Fedora 3.x to Fedora 4.
Session Leader
Mike Durbin, University of Virginia
Two project updates:
Researcher Identifiers—What's in a Name (or URI)?
Community Notes
A number of approaches to providing authoritative researcher identifiers have emerged, but they tend to be limited by discipline, affiliation or publisher. The rise of bibliometrics and its extension, altmetrics—the attempt to measure the impact of a work including mentions in social media and news media—strengthens the need to uniquely identify researchers and correctly associate them with their scholarly output. Both institutions and researchers have a stake in ensuring their scholarly output is accurately represented across academia and the web. It is time for universities to transition from watchful waiting to engagement.
It is difficult to uniquely identify researchers when they have not authored monographs, but write primarily journal articles, and thus are not represented in national name authority files. An OCLC Research Task Group comprising specialists from the US, the UK, and the Netherlands (see http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/registering-researchers.html#taskgroup) developed eighteen use-case scenarios around different stake-holders, generated a list of functional requirements derived from these use case scenarios, and profiled 20 research networking systems. A researcher ID information flow diagram illustrates the complexity of the current ecosystem. The same information about a specific researcher may be represented in multiple databases, and only a subset interoperates with each other.
This presentation will summarize emerging adoption trends and focus on three identifiers—ISNI, ORCID and VIAF. Participants will be asked to comment on the recommendations targeted to librarians, researchers and university administrators and share their experiences with or plans for researcher identifiers at their institutions.
Session Leader
Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research
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SHARE: An Update on the SHared Access Research Ecosystem
Community Notes
An update on the latest developments with SHARE, a higher education and research community initiative to facilitate the preservation of, access to, and reuse of research outputs. Learn the status of the project’s first undertaking, the SHARE Notification Service, which aims to notify interested stakeholders when research release events occur. Currently in prototype development, the SHARE Notification Service is working with funding agencies, sponsored research offices, institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, publishers, data archives, and other interested parties to provide a timely, structured, and comprehensive communication channel. Presentation will describe how the SHARE Notification Service can be used by researchers to keep interested parties apprised of their scholarly output; by universities to facilitate the work of the sponsored research office, tenure and promotion committees, and to oversee open access polices; by funding agencies to track grant compliance; and by libraries to help populate their institutional repositories.
The presentation will also touch on SHARE’s larger vision of a coordinated repository infrastructure that will give campus-driven research outputs their widest exposure, and facilitate their broad reuse. In its fully realized state, SHARE will provide a registry of what is available within publicly accessible repositories and facilitate discovery of, and access to, content across these repositories. SHARE will expose this content so that the community can reuse, mine, and build services on top of the corpus. We look forward to detailing this vision and getting your critical input as we pursue this community-driven project.
Session Leader
Eric Celeste, SHARE
Researcher Expectations From Data Publication and Peer Review
John Kratz, California Digital Library
Data "publication" attempts to appropriate for data the prestige of publication in the scholarly literature. While the scholarly communication community substantially endorses the idea, it hasn't fully resolved what a data publication should look like or how data peer review should work. To contribute an important and neglected perspective on these issues, we surveyed ~250 researchers across the sciences and social sciences, asking what expectations "data publication" raises and what features would be useful to evaluate the trustworthiness and impact of a data publication and the contribution of its creator(s).
#Win or #Fail? Measuring Researcher Attitudes toward Open Data Using Sentiment Analysis of Twitter
Sara Mannheimer, Montana State University
In the past few years, open data policies have become more common. Much federally-funded research data must now be preserved and shared, and many academic journals now require that supporting data be made available. However, the open data trend has not met with universal approval from the research community. The debate surrounding PLOS's March 2014 open data policy was especially visible on Twitter, where the hashtag #PLOSfail was used by detractors. By conducting a sentiment analysis on a subset of Twitter, we measure researcher attitudes toward open data over time, identifying general trends in public opinion surrounding open data.
Faculty Attitudes Towards Data Sharing
Nathan Hall, Virginia Tech University
This snapshot explores faculty attitudes towards data sharing. Data was gathered through semi-structured interviews at two large public universities. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed with NVivo. Emerging themes were the main findings. Findings include the participants' attitudes and behaviors towards data sharing, along with the cultural norms, and organizational and economic incentives behind those attitudes and behaviors.
Learning Together: Two Case Studies of Internal Data Management Training
Elizabeth Rolando, Georgia Tech
Christopher Eaker, University of Tennessee Knoxville
As the Georgia Tech and University of Tennessee libraries expand data management and archiving services, internal training is critically important. At Georgia Tech, the Research Data Librarian collaborated with subject librarians to explore local disciplinary metadata and documentation practices for research data collections. At the University of Tennessee, the Data Curation Librarian held an interactive workshop to introduce subject specialist and instructional librarians to research data management best practices. This panel will discuss the two methods for "training the trainer"—lecture-style instruction vs. active, hands-on participation—highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches.
The CRADLE Project: Building a National Network of Data Curation Educators
Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The IMLS-funded Creating Research Assets and Data using Lifecycle Education (CRADLE) project is working to enhance data curation education for librarians, archivists, and researchers by developing massive open online courses (MOOC) that will provide instruction on data curation principles. This presentation will focus on the efforts aimed at library and archival information professionals and seek community input on developing assignments that require MOOC students to make contact with data producers and information professionals at their local universities, libraries, research centers, or data repositories. Hosting virtual summits that provide ongoing opportunities to share data management experiences and continue will be discussed.
Open source software has become increasingly popular in the library domain for many reasons: its low out-of-pocket cost, the availability of the source code, the ability to contribute to development of the software product, and the ability to participate in likeminded communities taking root around the open source software. This increase in interest has led to an increase in the ability of the projects to tap their user base for the contributions necessary to sustain the software, benefitting both the project and its community. Software managers have a stable business environment for maintaining the software and planning future development and users are more assured that the software will continue to evolve to meet their needs and that their investment is guarded.
There is no standard recipe for sustaining an open source software project and each successful project has taken a slightly different tack. In this proposed panel discussion, representatives from the following seven software projects will provide a seven minute overview of the sustainability measures their project has put in place: ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, BitCurator, CollectionSpace, DuraSpace, Hydra, and Islandora. Each representative will highlight the longevity of the project, the phases of development of sustainability for the project, advantages and disadvantages of the project's sustainability measures, and, finally, planned improvement to the sustainability measures. The last forty-minutes of the session will be reserved for questions from and discussion with session attendees.
Session Leaders
Sibyl Schaefer, Rockefeller Archives Center
Bradley Westbrook, ArchivesSpace
Mark Leggot, DiscoveryGarden/Islandora
Mike Giarlo, Penn State University
Cal Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Angela Spinazzè, CollectionSpace
Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace
Evelyn McClellan, Artefactual Systems
The presentation will demonstrate the workflow system which is being implemented to manage this massive press collection, which has yielded to date more than 400,000 pages. It will shed some light on the BA's Digital Assets Factory (DAF), which is the nucleus upon which the digitization process of CEDEJ collection has been built. Additionally, the presentation will discuss the tools implemented for ingesting data into the digitization process starting form indexing until the creation of batches that are ingested into the system. The outflow will also be discussed in terms of organizing and grouping multipart press clips, in addition to the reviewing, validation and correction of the output. Light will also be shed on the challenges encountered to associate the accessible online archive with a powerful search engine supporting multidimensional search while maintaining a user-friendly navigation experience.
Session Leaders
Bassem Elsayed, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Ahmed Samir, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
The project is co-led by IU's Vice President for Information Technology and Dean of University Libraries. IU is partnering with a commercial vendor, Memnon Archiving Services of Belgium, to set up a facility in Bloomington, Indiana to digitize these materials, in a workflow that will produce as much as 12 terabytes per day of digital data to be preserved beginning in summer 2014.
MDPI was planned out of recognition by IU leadership that large portions of IU's media holdings were becoming seriously endangered due to media degradation and/or format obsolescence. A 2008-2009 survey of holdings at IU Bloomington (http://www.indiana.edu/~medpres/documents/iub_media_preservation_survey_FINALwww.pdf) uncovered over 569,000 audiovisual items on 51 different physical formats held in collections of 80 different organizational units across the campus, with significant quantities of rare and unique items in danger of becoming inaccessible within 5-15 years due to degradation or obsolescence.
In this presentation, we will outline the goals and history of MDPI, describe the workflows that we are establishing to feed content into the digitization process and manage content coming out of the process, and discuss planned strategies for preservation storage, access, and metadata.
Session Leaders
Juliet Hardesty, Indiana University
Jon Dunn, Indiana University
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Building a Ten-Campus Digital Library Collection at the University of California
Community Notes
The University of California (UC) Libraries and the California Digital Library are nearing the conclusion of an ambitious project to build a shared system for creating, managing, and providing access to unique digital resources across ten campuses (see http://bit.ly/UCLDC).
The platform we are creating will have three major components: 1) a shared digital asset management system for librarians to centrally add and edit digital files and metadata, 2) a metadata harvest for digital resources hosted on external platforms, and 3) an integrated public interface so end-users can seamlessly search across these disparate resources. Together, these components will provide critical infrastructure for the UC Libraries to more efficiently, economically, and collaboratively manage and surface digital content. We will also be leveraging this platform to participate in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and we are investigating the possibility of extending it to facilitate participation in DPLA by additional libraries, archives, and museums throughout California.
This session will build on a "Community Idea Exchange" poster presentation from the 2013 Forum—at which point we had just begun the project—to describe in more depth the components of the platform and the technologies employed, as well as challenges to and changes in our approach since we embarked. One of the more interesting aspects of our technology stack is that we have opted to license and customize a vendor product for the digital asset management system with which the digital library community may not have much familiarity (Nuxeo, http://www.nuxeo.com/), and in this session we will discuss our experiences with it. We will also describe how our project and our platform will connect with other initiatives, most notably the DPLA, and may provide a piece of the technical infrastructure needed for institutions across California to share their respective digital resources.
Session Leaders
Sherri Berger, California Digital Library
Brian Tingle, California Digital Library
Join us for the opening reception and the Community Idea Exchange. Cocktails and light fare will be served. Your first drink is on DLF, then it's a cash bar.
The Community Idea Exchange is made up of Posters and a Lightning Round. Fast-paced and fun, the Lightning Round gives each presenter one minute to pitch their poster to the conference audience. There is also dedicated time in the program for attendees to visit with poster presenters.
The CIE will be part of the evening reception on Monday, October 27, 5:15-8:00 pm. The Lightning Round will start at 5:30. Like last year, attendees can vote for their favorite poster. The winning poster presenter gets a 2015 DLF Forum registration, and a voter is randomly selected to also win 2015 registration.
A-sides, B-sides, Chapters, and Special Features: Describing Content and Structure in Avalon Media System
Juliet Hardesty, Indiana University
Archival Alliance: Moving Legacy Finding Aids to ArchivesSpace as a Multi-Department Library Collaboration
Paromita Biswas, Western Carolina University
Elizabeth Skene, Western Carolina University
DataNet Federation Consortium: A Policy-driven Architecture for Preservation, Federation, and Discovery
Michael Conway, DICE Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hao Xu, DICE Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Developing Librarian Project
Sarah Witte, Columbia University
Robert Scott, Columbia Unviersity
Alex Gil, Columbia University
Meredith Levin, Columbia University
Expanding Conventional Collection Boundaries Through Visualization
Justin Schell, University of Minnesota
Amy Neeser, University of Minnesota
Steven Braun, University of Minnesota
Megan Lafferty, University of Minnesota
Experience Content - With CCS's New MagicBox
Hartmut Janczikowski, CCS
Improved Access through Preservation Grade Imaging
Carol Wilczewski, Digital Transitions
Framing a Repository Solution for Bio-Imaging Data
Kyle Bannerjee, Oregon Health & Science University
Robin Champieux, Oregona Health & Science University
From Field to Footnote: A Case Study in the Management of Archaeological Data
Stephen Davison, University of California, Los Angeles
Willeke Wendrich, University of California, Los Angeles
Hybrid Permissions Models to Integrate Free and For-Fee Content into Patron Workflows
Andrea Eastman-Mullins, Alexander Street Press
Improving the Efficiency and Quality of Digitization Practice: A Collaborative and Research-based Approach to Promoting Change
Drew Krewer, University of Houston
Annie Wu, University of Houston
The James Merrill Digital Archive: Channeling the Collaborative Spirit(s)
Shannon Davis, Washington University in St. Louis
Joel Minor, Washington University in St. Louis
Large-Scale Manuscript Digitization in a Medium-Sized Institution: Metadata Repurposing, Mapping, and Workflows
Dawn Schmitz, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Joseph Nicholson, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Rita Johnston, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Lowering the Barrier to Open Source Repositories: DSpaceDirect at Bennington College
Carissa Smith, DuraSpace
New Features in the ALTO XML Standard
Frederick Zarndt, Global Connexions
Luis Baquera, University of California, Riverside
Paper Seismograms Shake Up Research Data Workflows at Georgia Tech
Elizabeth Rolando, Georgia Tech
Katie Gentilello, Georgia Tech
Wendy Hagenmaier, Georgia Tech
Points of Access: Integrating Digital Scholarship Services Across the Research Life Cycle
Christopher Eaker, University of Tennessee
Ashley Maynor, University of Tennessee
Populating the Archipelago: Repository-Backed Research Applications with Islandora
Eric Luhrs, Lafayette College
James Griffin, Lafayette College
Thomas Goodnow, Lafayette College
Research Now: Cross Training for Digital Scholarship
Angela Courtney, Indiana University
Michelle Dalmau, Indiana University
Catherine Minter, Indiana University
The Road to Implementing Successful Research Data Services: Moving from Challenges to Benefits
Ixchel Faniel, OCLC Research
Lynn Connaway, OCLC Research
Supplementary Materials: Investigating Their Persistence and Exploring the Library's Role
Sarah Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Support Open Access Policies Through Publications Harvesting and Repository Integration
Kelcy Rosell, Symplectic
Take the Omeka Dashboard for a Test Drive
Susan Chesley Perry, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jess Waggoner, University of California, Santa Cruz
Techniques for Descriptive Metadata Enrichment of Digital Objects
Carrick Rogers, Stanford University
Gary Geisler, Stanford University
Trina Purcell, Revs Institute
Usability Metrics of Web-Based Mapping Applications
Tao Zhang, Purdue University
Nicole Kong, Purdue University
Ilana Stonebraker, Purdue University
Using BIBFRAME, Flask, and Fedora4 as a Catalog Pull Platform
Jeremy Nelson, Colorado College
Where's My Funding? Common Pitfalls for Researchers in Meeting the NIH Public Access Requirement
Gail Steinhart, Cornell University
Sarah Young, Cornell University
Where's My Syllabus?
Ann Caldwell, Brown University
Get your day started right with a run through Atlanta. Eleanor Dickson from Emory University will lead the group. Sign up here:
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Meet in the Georgia Tech Hotel lobby and head out at 6:20. Map coming soon.
Indiana University and Northwestern University, in collaboration with nine partner institutions, are completing the last year of a three-year IMLS-funded effort to build a fully open source solution for managing digital audio and video collections, known as the Avalon Media System. Now in its third full release, Avalon enables libraries and archives to easily curate, distribute and provide online access to their time-based media collections in support of teaching, learning and research. Avalon is based on the Hydra repository software development framework and employs several other open source technologies, including Opencast Matterhorn and Fedora.
Indiana, Northwestern, and several other Avalon community members are currently in the process of implementing Avalon for pilot or production use, both to replace existing time-based media access solutions and to support new use cases for media collections access for teaching, learning, and scholarship. The Avalon community is also exploring options for how the project transitions from a grant-supported project to a community-sustained activity, and Avalon in the process of taking on additional institutions as 'founding sponsors' to help support and guide Avalon's development and potential governance models.
This panel will bring together Avalon project leaders from Indiana and Northwestern, along with representatives from several other institutions involved in the Avalon community, to discuss Avalon's current capabilities, local implementation plans and experiences, future feature development, and options for sustainability.
Session Leaders
Jon Dunn, Indiana University
Julie Rudder, Northwestern University
Bess Sadler, Stanford University
Stephen Davis, Columbia University
Mike Durbin, University of Virginia
Digitized collections of cultural and scholarly heritage can be much more useful to researchers when not limited to materials more than 90 years old. Yet the challenges and risks of going beyond materials old enough to clearly be out of copyright can seem daunting, especially for larger collections.
This panel features a discussion of how projects like HathiTrust, DPLA, and Europeana face these challenges at scale to make a large number of more recent materials available to their audiences.
Topics discussed will include systems and analyses that enable public domain review of hundreds of thousands of volumes; using rights of libraries, preservation, accessiblity, and fair use to their full extent; documenting and communicating copyright determinations across diffuse collborations; promoting robust reuse rights for contributed content; and dealing with takedowns and legal disputes. The session aims to develop better understandings of the full range of materials and services we can provide under copyright law for digital collections, and promote discussions of how we can collaborate in bringing a wider range of cultural and scholarly materials and services to our users.
Session Leaders
John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania
Melissa Levine, University of Michigan
Jeremy York, HathiTrust
Mark Matienzo, Digital Public Library of America
When we introduced the four-tiered service model at DLF, November 2011, we predicted that a key function of our unit would be to prioritize which projects get what type of service (standard, customized, etc.). What we didn't anticipate was the extent to which we would become the nosey switchboard operators of our own organization, listening in on library departmental conversations about their service frustrations, and plugging them into complementary departments or initiatives to address these challenges systemically. These insights are helping us strategically rethink relationships, workflows, and protocols that undergird the organization's work. To date, the departments most frequently connecting via this developing "party line" are special collections, subject specialists, Data Services, Digital Studio, and Digital Library Technology Services.
We will present case studies to illustrate how scholars' project needs are revealing ways we can integrate diverse services across Libraries and IT, and how this vantage point provides a unique opportunity to address longstanding organizational issues.
We will engage the audience through discussion to learn how other institutions approach similar issues providing digital scholarship services. For example:
Session Leaders
Zach Coble, New York University
Monica McCormick, New York University
Jennifer Vinopal, New York University
Drawing on the perspectives of NEH ODH staff, recent grantees, and stakeholders such as the California Digital Library, this moderated panel discussion will examine how, three years later, this requirement has impacted the proposal writing process, what challenges and opportunities have arisen, and how funding agencies can better communicate expectations and respond to the needs of applicants in the future. Questions to be addressed include:
While it is our hope that the presentation will inform audience members' approaches to developing data management plans and the wider ecosystem around them, NEH staff will also draw on this conversation and on audience feedback to further develop data management guidelines and online resources for potential applicants.
Session Leaders
Perry Collins, National Endowment for the Humanities
Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland, College Park
Lauren Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephen Abrams, California Digital Library
This will be a walk-through of the technical elements of implementing Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment). Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) is a community source next-generation library management system developed through a partnership of research libraries with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Operating since July 2010, Kuali OLE is the one of the largest academic library software collaborations in the US.
If you've been wanting to try Kuali OLE and see if it is a good fit for your library but aren't sure how to get started, come join us for a technical discussion of how to get started using Kuali OLE to enable a next generation library management ecosystem for your library. In this presentation we will take a deep dive into the core components of the Kuali OLE architecture, including OLE's use of the Kuali Financial System and RICE middleware, for use with managing library acquisitions workflow.
Session Leaders
Jeffrey Fleming, Duke University
The DLF Project Managers Group presents a panel of speakers who are interested in cultivating a culture of project management. Meghan Musolff and Angelina Zaytsev will discuss how the University of Michigan is attempting to develop this culture by creating positions entirely devoted to project management, as well as the creation of an informal skill sharing program open to all Library staff. Attendees will walk away with a framework and the tools to implement similar programs at their own institutions. Delphine Khanna from Temple University will address the broader question of how to manage developers' schedules and how to communicate with administrators realistically about assigning staff resources. She will present the model being developed at Temple to tackle issues such as institution-wide project prioritization, how to handle shifting priorities, and how to maximize the developers' job satisfaction and throughput in a systematic manner. Ann Caldwell from Brown University will discuss how with the implementation of agile project methodology has made planning easier and created a more comfortable environment for staff to take ownership of their work. Cynthia York from Johns Hopkins University will discuss the role of communication channels in agile project management. She will discuss how the use of various tools enhance communication among distributed team members, and the result of efforts to identify overlap which had led to gaps in communication. This diverse panel is designed to provide a space to highlight trends and issues in the broad discipline of library technology project management. Please come ready to listen and contribute to a larger discussion.
Following the session the Project Managers Group is hosting a lunch to continue the conversation (in Conference E).
Session Leaders
Cristela Garcia-Spitz, University of California, San Diego
Carolyn Caizzi, Northwestern University
Ann Caldwell, Brown University
Angelina Zaytsev, University of Michigan
Cynthia York, Johns Hopkins University
Delphine Khanna, Temple University
Meghan Musolff, University of Michigan
As library publishing becomes increasingly synonymous with offering traditional journal publishing services, it’s critical that libraries also engage in experimental publishing initiatives. Recent experimental publishing projects, particularly in the digital humanities, have combined basic web technologies to create a new model for aggregating, curating, and disseminating scholarly content using a process that fosters community and resource-sharing. This panel examines the innovations in scholarly publishing offered by the PressForward WordPress plugin, which fosters communities of practices through a post-publication filtering model.
The panel will provide an overview of the PressForward plugin and then discuss how different groups, particularly library groups, are adapting this model in different contexts. For example, the PressForward Project initially created the plugin to highlight and distribute informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web. Similarly, dh+lib aims to give increased presence and voice to librarians interested in digital humanities, and uses the plugin to distribute a weekly curated selection of the most relevant and timely content. And the ALCTS/LITA Metadata Standards Committee is using the plugin to create a publication for its community of practice designed to go beyond a current awareness service to fostering skill building and deeper community engagement. In examining these projects, we will reveal how the audience can replicate this model for their own library-based and scholarly publishing projects.
What questions or comments do you have about this publication model?
We’d love to hear about your experimental publishing projects: What are they? How are they experimental? What have the results been so far?
Why have your digital publishing initiatives been successful (or not), and what would you like to do to improve them?
Session Leaders
Zach Coble, New York University
Sarah Potvin, Texas A&M University
Lisa Marie Rhody, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Jenn Riley, McGill University
Roxanne Shirazi, CUNY Graduate Center
Stephanie Westcott, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Damien Edwards provides a great introduction to DevOps practices in the broader technology world:
"DevOps is, in many ways, an umbrella concept that refers to anything that smooths out the interaction between development and operations. DevOps is a response to the growing awareness that there is a disconnect between what is traditionally considered development activity and what is traditionally considered operations activity. This disconnect often manifests itself as conflict and inefficiency." (http://dev2ops.org/2010/02/what-is-devops/)
When applied within the digital repository ecosystem, we should also include the needs and goals of repository managers, and engineers, which we argue closely resemble the goals of "DevOps" within traditional IT operations. Repository managers and engineers affect and are affected by the development and operational efforts in and around the repository, and also greatly benefit from the tools and processes that are emerging from the wider "DevOps" movement.
The working session facilitators will first provide a brief overview of DevOps tenets, benefits and barriers that affect the development and operation of repository systems, including: - scalability, monitoring, availability, reporting, and testing. This will be followed by a group discussion around tools currently in use by members of the group that satisfy specific aspects of DevOps and the benefits of and/or barriers/challenges to implementation.
Session Leaders
Erin Fahy, Stanford University
Bess Sadler, Stanford University
Openness, reuse, and reproducibility are goals that transcend any one community’s efforts to affect scholarly communication. However, despite our shared goals, much expertise and work aren’t known nor leveraged beyond local constituencies. As such, the DLF, FORCE11, and ARCS are partnering to organize a series of events focused on mapping this landscape to better understand what the scholarly commons involves and articulate a shared vision for the future of scholarly communication.
The first session will take place at the 2014 DLF Forum. Attendees will initiate the map by identifying and organizing our community’s goals, experts, projects, tools, experiments, and partners. We’ll also discuss what’s missing. The results will be shared openly and in real-time, inviting immediate comment and contributions.
FORCE11 and ARCS will host similar workshops at their conferences in January and April 2015. The Commons Working Group will continuously curate and integrate the maps and documents. The knowledge and networks the maps reveal will inspire collaboration and ground the specific work, technologies, and concerns of diverse scholars, practitioners, service providers, and organizations within a shared and living framework.
Session Leader
Robin Champieux, Oregon Health & Science University
Designing community and user engagement with digital collections and supporting technologies in outreach and collection enhancement programs, as well as courses, can yield strong educational partnerships and high levels of community participation. Presenters from four institutions will describe distinct projects with strong community/student/user engagement with digital collections.
Session Leaders
Sarah Shreeves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Moderator)
Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christine D'Arpa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joseph Hurley, Georgia State University
Kathryn Michaelis, Georgia State University
Jen Wolfe, University of Iowa
Matthew Butler, University of Iowa
Jennifer Weintraub, University of California, Los Angeles
Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon Farb, University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Klein, University of California, Los Angeles
Is it Mount McKinley or is it Denali?
Or is it 63.0695, -151.0074?
Maybe it is http://viaf.org/viaf/241195889?
In 1866, was it in Russia or in the United States?
Just how do you record geospatial data in your digital library?
The Utah Academic Library Consortium Digitization Committee and the Mountain West Digital Library have developed the Geospatial Discovery Task Force to examine that very question. The 39 member team comprised of contributors from around the country have spent the last year investigating a variety of geospatial controlled vocabularies, comparing their current practices, and evaluating geospatial tools and interfaces.
Considerations that informed the collaborative work of the task force included:
This working session will provide an opportunity for feedback on proposed geospatial recommendations and open a discussion on the next steps and best practices for recording geospatial information in the digital library community. Participants will have an opportunity to test out the newly developed geospatial metadata decision tree with scenarios from their own digital collections, and refine this tool for use in their libraries and institutions.
Session Leaders
Liz Woolcott, Utah State University
Anna Neatrour, Mountain West Digital Library
Rachel Wittmann, Clemson University
Sandra McIntyre, Mountain West Digital Library
Kristen Jensen, Utah Department of Heritage and Arts
Dustin Olson, Utah State University
Greta Bahnemann, University of Minnesota
This workshop will introduce core concepts needed for developing a Hydra based repository application, including generating a Ruby on Rails app with the Hydra plugin software, data modeling, indexing content into solr, and customizing Blacklight search results. We'll discuss what Hydra solutions exist already or are in development, how to participate in the Hydra open source community, best practices like test driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment, and how to continue growing your ruby and Hydra skill set.
Participants should bring a laptop already installed with the necessary pre-requisites, as documented on the Dive into Hydra curriculum (https://github.com/projecthydra/hydra/wiki/Dive-into-Hydra). If you need help getting your development environment set up, please consider first attending the Hydra Installfest session, which will prepare participants with the environment needed to engage productively with this workshop. In order to make the best use of our time, we will not be setting up development environments during this workshop.
We will work through Dive into Hydra (https://github.com/projecthydra/hydra/wiki/Dive-into-Hydra) together, then move onto more advanced data modeling exercises. Participants are encouraged to bring their institution's local use cases to the workshop to fuel data modeling conversations.
Session Leader
Bess Sadler, Stanford University
Fixing GIS Data Discovery, Presenting GeoBlacklight
Jack Reed, Stanford University
Organizations spend time and money on creation and acquisition of geospatial data, yet it sits on hard drives, dvds, and shelves without a straightforward way for others to discover it. Discovery tools that do exist have usability issues that alienate users and prevent wide adoption. This has long been a problem not only for academic institutions but also other organizations who use and store geospatial data. We will present GeoBlacklight, a collaboratively designed and developed open source software for discovery of geospatial data. We will present current progress on GeoBlacklight, insights gained from our design process, and future developments.
Let It Go: Exposing Digital Collections for Accessible and Useful Data
Juliet Hardesty, Indiana University
How can you open data from a digital repository and make it discoverable, accessible, and combinable based on the researcher's needs? And how do you usefully combine digital repository, library catalog, and library web site data so researchers can collect, re-purpose, and re-mix the data in support of their research? This snapshot discusses both work completed to expose repository data and plans to combine that data with library catalog and web site data to create a Solr-indexed data source that preserves context and provides thorough, useful, and sharable access to the information, collections, and resources at the Indiana University Libraries.
Suma: Utilizing Emerging Browser Technology to Develop an Open-Source Space and Service Analytics System
Bret Davidson, North Carolina State University
Jason Casden, North Carolina State University
Web designers have long benefited from sophisticated usage analysis tools, however there are few tools to enable the same data-informed design and planning of physical spaces and services. Suma supports integrating observational data into these processes by streamlining existing data collection, providing rich data analysis and visualization capabilities for non-technical users, and promoting observational data analysis. Suma has encouraged the utilization of usage data in large and small planning processes for our libraries as well as over 40 pilot institutions. This talk will discuss how Suma informs space and service planning through the use of the latest web technologies.
RDFa Markup, Schema.org, and DBpedia Topics: A Closer Look at the Holy Trinity of Structured Data and their Impact on the Findability of Digital Collections
Jason Clark, Montana State University
In this snapshot session, we'll look at how structured data practices (e.g., RDFa markup applying Schema.org vocabularies and linking to DBpedia Topics) might enhance findability for digital collections. This research snapshot will build on the search engine optimization work at Montana State University (MSU) Library and consider a control digital collection that has not been optimized versus a digital collection that has been built with semantic topics & machine-actionable markup. Our community has an understanding of how to implement structured data; this session will look more closely at the question of why we should (or shouldn't) do it.
Make it Rain: Integrating Cloud Services and Local Development
William Ying, ARTstor
Shared Shelf, a cloud-based image/video cataloging and asset management service (a subscription service of Artstor), interoperates with various other components in library and pedagogical environment and is developing as a platform around which local programmers can build or implement other needed elements. This integration of Shared Shelf with local development efforts has allowed optimal balance of local and remote services. Shared Shelf exposes the metadata and digital assets through standard-compliant APIs; work with Harvard and Cornell has enabled dynamic harvesting between Shared Shelf cataloging utilities and institutional image and video repositories.
The UC San Diego Library utilizes Confluence and JIRA for project management, issue tracking, sharing and organizing information, as well as fostering collaboration. We use a distributed, team approach to build digital collections. Furthermore, a set of standing committees reviews and approves project proposals, assigns resources, supports project managers and guides the development of our technical infrastructure. Confluence, a wiki based knowledge management tool, is used to coordinate activities between various programs in our Library, such as digital library development, research data curation, special collections and archives, metadata services, and information technology. JIRA is used for issue tracking. Increased integration within the two tools has allowed for better ways to document decisions, customize workflows and report out on progress. We will share internal processes, including the management of required fixes, desired enhancements and new features in the development of our DAMS, digital assessment management system, and digital collections website.
This working session will consist of two parts. First, we will provide an overview on how the tools are used, and support the project and committee structure surrounding digital library work. This will be geared towards a broader audience on using collaborative software. In the second part, we will have an in-depth demo to walk through specific features in Confluence/JIRA. Finally, we will invite participants to engage in discussion, ask questions, and share best practices. Participants will be able to assess their project tracking approach, and brainstorm how the tools and tactics in use at UC San Diego may be applicable to their work.
Session Leaders
Cristela Garcia-Spitz, University of California, San Diego
Roger Smith, University of California, San Diego
Matt Critchlow, University of California, San Diego
A User-Centered Approach to Designing Digital Library Applications
Community NotesThe Open Folklore portal http://openfolklore.org provides a search of open access Folklore repositories and journals. The portal also serves as a primary outlet for the group’s educational and advocacy mission. Last year, as part of an upgrade to the website portal software, the Open Folklore team took the opportunity to make improvements to the portal’s user experience.
Some of the methods used to improve user experience were: moving beyond a text based approach to a more graphics-based approach; breaking down larger ideas into smaller parts; changing the tone from academic to semi-academic; and emphasizing important concepts to accommodate different levels of engagement.
The presentation reports on lessons learned from the process and results of user testing and surveys of members of the American Folklore Society.
Session Leader
Garett Montanez, Indiana University
Breakfast buffet is included Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday in the Conference Dining Room, just off the hotel lobby on the first floor. Simply show your name badge to be seated. Breakfast starts at 6:30 am. Gratuity is included.
If you want to grab a quick bite before heading to a session, continental breakfast is available in the Prefunction area outside our meeting rooms on the second floor, from 7:00-9:00 am.
Digital Projects and Undergraduate Education
Mark Dahl, Lewis & Clark College
At liberal arts colleges, digital projects led by faculty and facilitated by the library are an opportunity for students to engage in scholarly inquiry. In this snapshot session, I will give an overview of digital projects at liberal arts colleges including collections developed around faculty teaching and research interests, student-created collections and exhibits, and digital field scholarship. Drawing from cases at several colleges, I will discuss the role that the library can play in facilitating these types of projects.
Digital Archives Pilot Project: Fostering Interdepartmental Collaboration
Nicole Finzer, Northwestern University
This talk will give an overview of the Digital Archives Pilot Project and how the collaborative efforts were managed using scrum methodology at Northwestern University Library. The result of this agile work was a final report that stated the mandate and scope of the Digital Archives Pilot Project (DAPP), and how it can help to articulate the policy, criteria, and strategies for collection development, and to define technical and staffing for policy makers.
Recipes for Engagement: A Cookbook for Interactive Spaces
Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University
Mike Nutt, North Carolina State University
Libraries have begun to embrace interactive digital spaces as platforms for new kinds of services. With the opening of the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, the NCSU Libraries has created several of these spaces with various affordances. One of our goals for these spaces is to foster a high level of engagement with the university community. We will speak about two ways we are thinking about engagement and show examples of them in practice. First, we have developed engaging, interactive, participatory applications. Second, we are engaging our community in the creation of new kinds of scholarly communication for public display.
Interactive Visualization: Video Walls for Collaborative Research and Discovery
Krista Graham, Georgia State University
Khyle Hannan, Georgia State University
Joseph Hurley, Georgia State University
Bryan Sinclair, Georgia State University
This snapshot will discuss large-scale video walls in libraries designed for collaboration that can change users' perspective and reframe and amplify digital content in shared physical spaces. Georgia State University Library's newly-opened CURVE: Collaborative University Research & Visualization Environment features a 24-by-4.5-foot, high-resolution CURVE interactWall that expands student and faculty access to digital resources, data visualization, and more.
The HBCU Library Alliance was established in 2002 by library deans and directors of White House-designated Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and is the only membership organization to exclusively serve HBCU libraries. For more than ten years, this organization has successfully provided an array of resources designed to support HBCU libraries and their constituents. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the HBCU Library Alliance has strengthened member institutions through programs including leadership development, photographic preservation and digital services.
This presentation will describe the vibrant history and accomplishments of HBCU Library Alliance programs with an emphasis on the Alliance’s Digital Initiative.
Session LeadersAND
Redesigning Electronic Record Processing and Preservation at NARA
Community Notes
The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is in the process of refactoring its infrastructure for the processing and preservation of electronic records.
In gathering requirements to enhance the tool suite at NARA, a number of needs were identified. The key need was for a flexible processing environment with an expandable set of software tools to verify and process a significant volume and varieties of electronic records. Existing systems lacked support for non-Federal digital materials (e.g., digital surrogate masters, Legislative, Donated, Supreme Court, etc.) or classified digital materials. And given highly successful partnerships with other types of organizations, there are growing storage for digital surrogates and a need for a more efficient workflows to provide public access.
This new infrastructure is described as the Optimized Ingest Framework (OIF). This framework includes a new model for managing the receipt and processing of digital materials for preservation and access; a modular approach to systems managing digital materials; a departure from the model of a single, monolithic system; the refactoring and evolution of existing systems; the establishment of an environment to provide necessary processing flexibility and tools for a wide variety of digital materials; and a more automated and robust solution for digital preservation with reduced complexity.
This refactoring comprises three modular systems: a Digital Processing Environment (DPE) that encompasses a suite of tools for processing including validation, characterization and transformation of files; a Business Object Management system to create and manage workflows for transfer and ingest; and an enhanced Digital Object Repository for the management and preservation of records and surrogates.
This project is just getting underway at NARA with its first iteration DPE prototype currently scheduled for early 2015.
Session Leader
Leslie Johnston, National Archives and Records Administration
Two project updates:
Running Up That Hill: The Academic Preservation Trust: A Community Based Approach to Digital Preservation
Community Notes
The Academic Preservation Trust (APT), a consortium of 17 institutions, was formed two and a half years ago when a small group of academic library deans agreed to take a community approach in building and managing a repository that would provide long-term preservation of the scholarly record. The repository also aims to aggregate content, to provide for disaster recovery, to leverage economies of scale, and to explore access and other services. From its beginning, APTrust has been a layered collaboration of deans, technology experts, content/preservation specialists, and a small APTrust staff located at the University of Virginia.
The growth of the consortium has been bumpy at times, with differences of opinion regarding technology decisions and, inside the University of Virginia, in building awareness that an entrepreneurial program requires quick responses from the infrastructure. APTrust remains repository and format agnostic by using the Baglt specification for content submission. Metadata is managed by Fedora with pointers to content preserved in Amazon S3 and Glacier with administrative functions built using Hydra and Blacklight. The repository is scheduled to go live in July and will become a DPN node. A panel of APTrust partners and UVA staff will describe the interplay in decision making among deans, technologists, and content experts and will discuss the evolving nature of an effort that is approaching full production, including questions of governance, business modeling, certification goals and the consortium's evolving approach to the complex issues related to digital preservation.
Session Leaders
Bradley Daigle, University of Virginia
Scott Turnbull, APTrust
Laura Capell, University of Miami
Stephen Davis, Columbia University
Elisabeth Long, University of Chicago
Nathan Tallman, University of Cincinnati
We will share our processes and encourage discussion with participants concerning digital preservation of complex media.
Project Background:
In February 2013, the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, part of Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, received a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop PAFDAO: preservation and access frameworks for complex digital media art objects: http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/cornell_universitypreservation_and_access_framework_for_digital_art_objects.pdf.
PAFDAO's test collection includes more than 300 interactive born-digital artworks created for CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and web distribution, many of which date back to the early 1990s. Though vitally important to understanding the development of media art and aesthetics over the past two decades, these materials are at serious risk of degradation and are unreadable without obsolete computers and software.
Our goal is to create a scalable preservation workflow to ensure the best feasible access to these materials for decades to come, and also contribute to the development of coherent best practices in the area of preserving complex media collections.
Session Leaders
Jason Kovari, Cornell University
Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University
Michelle A. Paolillo, Cornell University
The so-called "data turn" in the humanities suggests new research possibilities for digital collections. This panel will feature three presentations on projects that support text and image analysis in digital collections. First, TOME is a tool that draws on topic modeling to support the interactive exploration and visualization of text-based archives. Second, DocSouth Data is an enhancement to UNC’s North American Slave Narratives Collection website designed to facilitate "distant reading" techniques. The third presentation shifts from text-based analysis to analysis of texts as images, offering an overview of the work of the Image Analysis for Discovery Team, which seeks to leverage the information potential of visual cues in the millions of digital images we create for digital libraries. The three short presentations will leave time for broader discussion with the audience.
Session Leaders
Stewart Varner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lauren Klein, Georgia Tech
Elizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Leen-Kiat Soh, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Assessment is a necessity: in the face of diminishing resources and tremendous demand for online access to research materials, most of us are pressed to justify our need for funding, and seek to maximize our resources to best serve user needs and provide a strong return on investment. There are multiple facets to assessment: evaluating interfaces, content, benefits, and impact, comparing online services to user needs, and measuring costs. Building off of two sessions at last year's conference, this session will address several of these facets in an effort to identify next steps toward developing best practices and guidelines. An important emerging area for evaluating impact of digital libraries is the use of altmetrics; Lagace will report on NISO's current community effort to evaluate and standardize various forms of alternative impact measurements. Chapman will discuss a developing framework to assist institutions in developing viable cost estimates for proposed digitization projects. DeRidder will report on a qualitative study of faculty researchers utilizing a broad array of online primary source interfaces that identified gaps in services and unmet needs, and Yoo will present a case study evaluating the usability of the UCSD Digital Collections through user interactions with the website. Following these presentations, we will engage the audience in small group discussions about what steps should follow in efforts to develop best practices and guidelines for digital library assessment in key areas, and how best to proceed.
The DLF Assessment Working Group will host an assessment-themed lunch (in Conference B) after this session to continue the conversation.
Session Leaders
Jody DeRidder, University of Alabama
Joyce Chapman, Duke University
Nettie Lagace, National Information Standards Organization
Ho Jung Yoo, University of California, San Diego
Makerspaces are popping up all over, and it seems that the maker movement, as some call it, is still early in its growth phase. Many libraries—public and academic—dabble in this area; while some makerspaces are modest corners with a few Arduinos, others go further and offer sophisticated spaces and technology. Even the White House is getting in on making, sponsoring its first ever Maker Faire in June 2014. Whether one accepts the rhetoric that making represents the beginning of manufacturing's return to North America or not, making/makerspaces clearly touch a nerve in many people who have an innate wish to move beyond being consumers of technology and media.
The speakers will approach the topic of making from the vantage point of both those who are seeking support for initiatives as well as those in administrative positions who are asked to support them. There are myriad issues to consider when considering such support, some of which are not typical of library programs and services, e.g.- hazardous material and life safety concerns. Others are perhaps better known issues, but have their own making-specific dynamics. For example, cost recovery for materials is challenging, as is addressing some of the inherent gender and race issues that tend to arise in technology environments.
Beyond offering spaces, the panel will present perspectives on integrating making and maker concepts into the undergraduate curriculum. These courses tend to prove popular, but scale issues arise along the way, as do many other issues that require our attention. This will be a visually rich panel, with many images from makerspaces illustrating the panelists remarks, and will also have some technology on hand for those who have yet to encounter exotic beasts such as Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, littleBits, and Makey Makeys in the wild.
Sponsored by Taiga
Session Leaders
Dale Askey, McMaster University
Jason Griffey, Evenly Distributed
Michael Holt, Valdosta State
Tara Radniecki, University of Nevada, Reno
This lunch session will focus on exploring and understanding the place of the librarian in Library 3.0. While there is growing research into the "point oh" library models (see for example, Kwanya et al. 2012), the place of the librarian in these models is sparse and for the most part limited to lists of competencies and skills desired or required for work in Library 2.0 and 3.0. (see for example, Huvila, et al. 2012 and Vanwynsberghe, et al. 2014). While valuable, the existing accounts focusing on tools fail to understand the place of the librarian in libraries in relationship to the Library 3.0 philosophy. Through this discussion we can begin to understand both the traditional librarian and the untraditional librarian within Library 3.0. Discussion leaders, with a variety of librarian roles, will help lead this session. It will start with a brief overview of the Library 1.0 through 3.0 philosophies and then the groups will break out to discuss the place (or places) of the librarian in Library 3.0. Specific outcomes, such as describing 5 different roles librarians have in library 3.0 and/or 5 ways to support non-traditional librarian roles in the library may be developed based on consensus within the group.
References: Tom Kwanya, Tom; Christine Stilwell; Peter G. Underwood. Intelligent libraries and apomediators: Distinguishing between Library 3.0 and Library 2.0. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science September 2013 vol. 45 no. 3 187-197. Vanwynsberghe, Hadewijch; Ruben Vanderlinde; Annabel Georges; Pieter Verdegem. The librarian 2.0: Identifying a typology of librarians' social media literacy. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science January 28, 2014 Isto Huvila, Isto; Kim Holmberg; Maria Kronqvist-Berg; Outi Nivakoski; Gunilla Widén. What is Librarian 2.0 – New competencies or interactive relations? A library professional viewpoint, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science September 2013 vol. 45 no. 3
Session Leaders
Hannah Rasmussen, Harvard Business School
Melissa Shaffer, Harvard Business School
The Ally Skills Workshop teaches simple, everyday ways to support women in their workplaces and communities. Participants learn techniques that work at the office, at conferences, and online. The skills taught are relevant everywhere, including those particularly relevant to open technology and culture communities. At the end of the workshop, participants will feel more confident in speaking up to support women, be more aware of the challenges facing women in their workplaces and communities, and have closer relationships with the other participants.
Brief description slightly modified from full description available at adainitiative.org.
DetailsTraining by Valerie Aurora, Ada Initiative's Founder
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
3:00-5:00pm
Conference B, Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center
Registration: $30
Limited to 30 participants.
The Ally Skills Workshop is a program of the Ada Initiative, supporting women in open technology and culture.
Instructor: Andromeda Yelton
This workshop is for those that have some prior experience of Python, but need an extra boost to apply those skills to their work. Examples for the workshop will be tailored around participants’ use cases that surface in the first conference call; follow-up calls will focus on debugging their work and helping them find personally relevant next steps. Participation in all conference calls and the in-person workshop is required.
OverviewCurriculum materials for the workshop portion will be freely available online after the event.
As with all our events, DLF seeks to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment. Please take a moment to review our Code of Conduct.
Cost$150
$100 for CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellows
$75 for students
Register by October 5. Students use promotion code PythonStudent14 to save $75. CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellows use promotion code CLIRDLFpfpPW to save $50.
Taiga Forum is pleased to announce that DeEtta Jones (@DeEttaMJones), author, speaker, strategy consultant and former ARL director of organizational learning, is leading the Taiga Forum 10/DLF workshop. Come and learn with a group of AUL/AD peers what it takes to nurture and sustain engaged staff within libraries. Join us as we discover methods and strategies that broaden thinking, reduce negativity, heighten learning, and increase cooperation between individuals.
This full-day workshop will focus on strategies for helping disengaged employees become more engaged in the workplace. Finally, we will talk about what can be done with the actively disengaged, who can disproportionately and negatively impact organization. The event will be followed by the ever-popular Taiga Social. Open to all.
DetailsJones Room, Main Library
Emory University
540 Asbury Cir, Atlanta, GA 30322
Registration: $90
