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Open Folklore presentation sponsored by AFS and the Indiana University Bloomington Library. AFS/ISFNR Joint Meeting, Miami, Florida, October 19-22, 2016
New Digital Tools and Resources for Folklore Scholarship
- Scan the QR code to see these slides at Open Folklore “New Digital Tools and Resources for Folklore Scholarship” Sponsored by AFS and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- New Digital Tools and Resources for Folklore Scholarship Sponsored by AFS and the Indiana University Bloomington Library AFS/ISFNR Joint Meeting, Miami, Florida, October 19-22, 2016 openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Who are we? • Julie Bobay, Executive Associate Dean, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, and co-leader, Open Folklore Project Team • Shannon K. Larson, PhD Candidate, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, and 2015-2016 AFS Graduate Assistant • Tim Lloyd, Executive Director, American Folklore Society, and co-leader, Open Folklore Project Team • Moira Marsh, Folklore Librarian, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- What are they, and why should you care? • Open Folklore (www.openfolklore.org) • HathiTrust Research Center (https://analytics.hathitrust.org/) and HathiTrust Digital Library (www.hathitrust.org/) • Folklore Collections Database (www.folklorecollections.org) • Indiana University Folklore Archives (www.indiana.edu/~folkarch/) • Indiana University Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI; www.mdpi.iu.edu) • Indiana University Media Collections Online (media.dlib.indiana.edu/) openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Open Folklore Tim Lloyd openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Open Folklore openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Open Folklore: Gray Literature Tim Lloyd openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- AFS Gray Literature Collection in the IU ScholarWorks Repository openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Alan Dundes, 2004 AFS Annual Meeting, “International Folkloristics in the 21st Century” openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Open Folklore: Web Archives Moira Marsh openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Why care about web archives? • Saving vanishing websites • Track an organization’s history though changes in its website • Fight link rot by citing permanent URLs openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- OF Web Archive Scope • Websites that capture the institutional history of folklore study: 1. Academic folklore programs • U of Oregon Folklore Program • GMU Folklore Studies 2. Folklore societies and organizations: • Institute for Cultural Partnerships • ISFNR • Compare to American Folklore Center’s Web Archive of digital folklore, now in the works: • Urban legends, e.g., creepy pasta • LOLspeak • DIY crafts openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Will Open Folklore archive our website? YES, if it: • Belongs to a folklore organization or academic program AND is: • Open access (freely available to the public) • Not a commercial or personal site • Not just a list of links CONTACT US from openfolklore.org to enquire openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Open Folklore: Books and Journals Moira Marsh openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Indiana University Libraries Folklore Collection 47,600 books 1,138 journals … and more 16,049 published before 1966 1,605 published since 2013 http://iucat.iu.edu/catalog?f%5Bitemcat1_facet%5D %5B%5D=IU+Bloomington+-+Folklore+Collection openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- HathiTrust Folklore Collection https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=992786597 75,530 titles
- Opening a Collection of Distinction 13,086, 17% 62,444, 83% full view limited (search only)
- Digitized, Public Domain Books in Hathi openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Digitized, Open Books in Hathi openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Born Digital Open Access Books openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Selection of Open Folklore Journals • Free & Open Access (born digital) • Digitized & opened with permission of rights holder openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Born Digital OA Journals openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Why should you care about liberating journals? • Public domain: 70 years + life of author • Need permission of rights holder to open works under copyright • Orphan works: • not public domain • Rights holder unknown or no longer exists • Contact OF to open journals that your organization published openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- HathiTrust Research Center Moira Marsh openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- HathiTrust Bookworm openfolklore.org | @openfolklore • Visually explore lexical trends in 4.6M public domain texts • Open to the public • Hours of fun! • https://bookworm.htrc.illinois.e du/
- Show Trends, Raise New Questions openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) openfolklore.org | @openfolklore • Data mining of textual corpora • Over 14 million volumes • Both public domain AND in-copyright works • Over 1,000 registered users • Register for an account at https://analytics.hathitrust.org/
- HTRC Results Visualized openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Use Our Worksets, or Make Your Own openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Summer 2016 ACS Projects • Fighting Fever in the Caribbean: Medicine and Empire, 1650-1902 – University of Iowa • Inside the Creativity Boom – Brown University • The Chicago School: Wikification as the First Step in Text Mining in Architectural History – Illinois Institute of Technology • Signal and Noise and Pride and Prejudice: Toward an Information History of Romantic Fiction – Augsburg College
- HTRC Seeks New Research Partners • Contact htrc-help@hathitrust.org openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Folklore Collections Database Tim Lloyd openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Indiana University Folklore Archives Moira Marsh openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- IU Folklore Archives • Archives Online at Indiana University: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu /findingaids/welcome.do • Contact archives@indiana.edu to arrange access openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- IU Folklore Archives Searchable Finding Aid • Student papers, 1967–2000 • Go to Container List • Search for authors, subjects, key words • Contact archives@indiana.edu to arrange access • Small selections digitized on request openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Detailed, Searchable Metadata openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Unexpected Finds • 7 hits for “Jackie Kennedy” • Dated 1969 • Co-occurs with “Aristotle Onassis” and “joke” openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Oral History of IU Folklore Institute • Oral history interviews conducted 1986–87 • Faculty and former students of Folklore Institute, 1940s–1980s • Now open for researchers openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- More Folklore Archives • Beliefs collection, 1967–1970 (350 beliefs) • Legends, 1959–1980 (5 archival boxes) • Material culture papers, 1953–1984 (9 boxes) • Folklorists’ papers • Folklore Institute projects and department files • Folklore Forum, Trickster Press, etc. openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Indiana University Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative Julie Bobay and Shannon K. Larson openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI) • Presidential initiative to preserve, via digitization, more than 300,000 audio, video and film recordings by 2020 (IU’s bicentennial) • Archives of Traditional Music • William and Gayle Cook Music Library • Center for Documentary Research and Practice (formerly the Center for the Study of History and Memory) • Folklore Collection • Much more… openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Indiana University Folklore Institute Oral Histories (Center for Documentary Research and Practice) • Edward D. “Sandy” Ives (1925- 2009) on how Alan Dundes helped prepare him for his dissertation defense • Interview by Jeanne Harrah- Conforth on October 20, 1985 • Original format: Cassette tapes [audio not available] openfolklore.org | @openfolklore Photo: The Journal Courier (Jacksonville, IL)
- Folklore and Songs of Maine and Rhode Island (Archives of Traditional Music) openfolklore.org | @openfolklore • Renowned Maine storyteller Curt Morse tells a humorous tale about a rooster • Recorded by Richard Dorson (1916-1981) in Jonesport, Maine, on July 1, 1956 • Original format: Sound tape reels Photo: Indiana University Archives
- Verbal Art and Speech Play of Chican@ Children (Archives of Traditional Music) • Clip #1: Michelle, age six, narrates her encounter with a vampire • Clip #2: A group of boys, ages six to nine, tell some jokes • Recorded by John McDowell and his assistant, Leonice Santamaría, in 1974 in East Austin, Texas • Original format: Cassette tapes openfolklore.org | @openfolklore [audio not available]
- Archive of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories (Archives of Traditional Music) • Eugenia Vasilievna Miaskovskaia was born in Balta, Ukraine, in 1930 • She sings a Yiddish song about an “old couple” that she learned from her grandmother • Interviewed in 2008 by Dov-Ber Kerler and Moisei Lemster • Original format: MiniDV tapes openfolklore.org | @openfolklore [audio not available]
- The Mardi Gras Traditions of Mermentau, Louisiana (Archives of Traditional Music) • Mardi Gras revelers performing the circle dance • Recorded in 2007 by John Laudun in Mermentau, Louisiana • Original format: MiniDV tapes openfolklore.org | @openfolklore [audio not available]
- Proceedings of the 1962 Summer Meeting of AFS (Archives of Traditional Music) • Ben Botkin finishes off the panel “The Prospects for Folklore Studies” with a presentation on “the popular” and “the folk” • Sol Tax provides concluding remarks for the panel [audio not available] openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- How can researchers get access? • Individual collection owners starting to manage their digital collections • They will make access determinations, file-by-file, based on legal, contractual and ethical rights considerations • IU’s “Media Collections Online” • Range of access levels from a single individual for a specified time to open access to the world openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
- Now You Know! • Open Folklore (www.openfolklore.org) • HathiTrust Research Center (https://analytics.hathitrust.org/) and HathiTrust Digital Library (www.hathitrust.org/) • Folklore Collections Database (www.folklorecollections.org) • Indiana University Folklore Archives (www.indiana.edu/~folkarch/) • Indiana University Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI; www.mdpi.iu.edu) • Indiana University Media Collections Online (media.dlib.indiana.edu/) openfolklore.org | @openfolklore
Editor's Notes
- PROBLEM – SOLUTION structure
- Nicki Saylor: We are harvesting almost 50 sites that document and serve as platforms for: * creating and sharing vernacular cultural forms such as reaction GIFs, image macros and memes; * establishing, shaping and disseminating tropes and themes in communication on the web; * vernacular language like Leet and Lolspeak, and icon-based communications like emoji; * DIY (do it yourself) movements such as crafting and making; * documentation, development, proliferation, distribution and discussion of digital “urban legends” and lore, such as creepy pasta; and the development and dissemination of vernacular creative forms such as fan fiction. This collection is not yet available on the Library’s website, but online access is in the works. See more about the Library’s Web Archiving program http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/
- We can’t archive the whole Internet, or even the folkloric Internet!
- 52,400 titles: 47,600 books 1,138 journals and more Collection grows constantly Compare digitized IU Folklore Collection in HahthiTrust Digital Library….capped in 20** http://iucat.iu.edu/catalog?f%5Bitemcat1_facet%5D%5B%5D=IU+Bloomington+-+Folklore+Collection
- In HathiTrust Digital Library Capped in **** Uses of HathiTrust Folklore Collection Search full text for word or phrase Identify earliest instance of a word or phrase Read open texts using HT page turner Download pdfs (if your school is a HathiTrust partner)
- Orphan works problem Solution: contact us to give permission to “liberate” your works in the HathiTrust folklore collection
- Creative Commons license or, copyright not renewed
- Published with Creative Commons license
- Integration of Bookworm with HTRC Portal Currently indexes 4.4 Million HT Volumes Will index 14.4 Million HT by Mid-Fall 2016
- The HTRC is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. Leveraging data storage and computational infrastructure at Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the HTRC will provision a secure computational and data environment for scholars to perform research using the HathiTrust Digital Library. --https://www.hathitrust.org/htrc
- Grants available Deadline December 2016 Contact Robert MacDonald
- https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/display/COM/HTRC+User+Getting+Started+FAQ
- Folklore Archives moved to IU Office of University Archives Shelved off-site Actively adding more student papers and papers of folklorists
- Archives Online at Indiana University: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/welcome.do Contact archives@indiana.edu to arrange access
- Search for Jackie Kennedy has 7 hits, all from 1969 and almost all in proximity with Aristotle Onassis--apparently topical jokes.
- http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?docId=ohrc070.xml&brand=general&startDoc=61 IU Folklore Institute, 1987 (oral histories of students/faculty of IU folklore program, 1940s – 1980s) Indiana University Folklore Institute Beliefs collection, 1967-1970 Indiana University Folklore Institute legends, 1959-1980, bulk 1969-1973 Indiana University Folklore Institute Material Culture papers, 1953-1984, bulk 1960-1981 Indiana University Folklore Students' Association records, 1972-2009, bulk 1978-1984 Folklore and Ethnomusicology Publications records, 1942-2004, (bulk 1968-2004) Indiana University Folklore Institute Hungarian-American Project records, 1915-1987, bulk 1982-1984.