This presentation was given by Doug Holland and Trish Rose-Sandler at the Missouri Libraries Association conference held in St Louis MO in Oct 2013. There is a significant online literature and image repository called the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Content from this repository has inspired a range of users to re-contextualize the BHL data in new, previously unimagined roles including: scientists creating visualizations of species names publishing; citizen scientists blogging about fascinating creatures; designers incorporating marine life into wedding invitations, artists creating collages of animal illustrations and nature photography ; and home decorators adding punch and wit to the walls of their kids bedrooms. Using the example of BHL and its open data principles, the presentation will discuss what open data is and how libraries can expand the impact and reach of their collections through open data methods.
This was a talk for the St Louis Chapter of Special Libraries Association about library-related projects going on in the Center for Biodiversity Informatics at Missouri Botanical Garden
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Science Executive Committee. Washington, DC. 12 January 2015
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the SmithsonianMartin Kalfatovic
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the Smithsonian. Martin R. Kalfatovic. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology Staff Meeting. Martin R. Kalfatovic. November 26, 2007. Washington, DC.
“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Internet Archive Leaders' Forum. October 19, 2009. San Francisco, CA.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow OverviewMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow Overview. Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne C. Pilsk. BHL Australian Node Meeting: Melbourne Museum. 2 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.
An Overview of Activities and Projects: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Overview of Activities and Projects: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Workshop Coleção de Obras Raras Essencial. 3-5 February 2010. São Paulo, Brazil.
This was a talk for the St Louis Chapter of Special Libraries Association about library-related projects going on in the Center for Biodiversity Informatics at Missouri Botanical Garden
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Science Executive Committee. Washington, DC. 12 January 2015
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the SmithsonianMartin Kalfatovic
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the Smithsonian. Martin R. Kalfatovic. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology Staff Meeting. Martin R. Kalfatovic. November 26, 2007. Washington, DC.
“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Internet Archive Leaders' Forum. October 19, 2009. San Francisco, CA.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow OverviewMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow Overview. Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne C. Pilsk. BHL Australian Node Meeting: Melbourne Museum. 2 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.
An Overview of Activities and Projects: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Overview of Activities and Projects: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Workshop Coleção de Obras Raras Essencial. 3-5 February 2010. São Paulo, Brazil.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History. Updated and ported to PowerPoint version
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stackMartin Kalfatovic
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stack
Biodiversity_Next | 23 October 2019 | Leiden
Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Program Director | Biodiversity Heritage Library. ORCID: 0000-0002-4563-4627. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37787
Empowering Global Research: User Stories from the Biodiversity Heritage Librarycostantinog
Presentation from the evening reception at the 2018 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. Presentation shared user stories highlighting how BHL is supporting research in global science, conservation, and museum work.
BHL Update for GBIF. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Advancing Informatics, Engagement and Content. North American Regional Node Meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 22 July 2014.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More!Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More! Martin R. Kalfatovic. TDWG 2016. Centro de Transferencia Tecnológica y Educación Continua (CTEC) San Carlos, Santa Clara, Costa Rica. 7 December 2016.
Unlocking knowledge in biodiversity legacy literature through automatic seman...William Ulate
BHL is home to most of the world’s biodiversity legacy literature. In order to allow its users to find information in a more focused and efficient manner, efforts towards the development of a semantically enabled search engine are currently underway. To this end, semantic metadata in the form of concept annotations has been automatically extracted over the BHL collection using text mining (TM) techniques. This was carried out in a series of stages: (1) producing a moderately sized BHL corpus in which concepts have been manually marked up and assigned semantic labels, e.g., taxon, location, anatomical entity, habitat; (2) training machine learning-based concept recognition models on the said corpus; (3) applying the trained models on BHL documents in order to automatically recognize and assign semantic labels to concepts; and (4) automatically linking together semantically related concepts using distributional similarity methods. BHL documents were then indexed according to the semantic annotations automatically generated by the above-described TM methodology. This facilitates the incorporation of the following system features into BHL’s search engine: (1) query expansion, which helps a user widen his search through automatic suggestion of synonyms; and (2) semantic facets, which the user can specify to narrow down search results in order to filter out documents pertaining to unwanted word senses.
Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature. Mining Biodiversity.William Ulate
Mining Biodiversity project introduction and advance report at the CBHL Annual Meeting, in the Cleveland Botanical Garden on May 26, 2016. Also feedback request for Semantic Search User Interface that employs Query Expansion using Term Inventory.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Expanding Access to Biodiversity Workshop. Atlanta History Center. Atlanta, GA. 24 January 2017.
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Bi...Martin Kalfatovic
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin Kalfatovic. The Catholic University of America, School of Library and Information Science. LSC 715. 6 June 2008. Washington, DC.
Research, policy and practice in widening participation: the evidence from A...johnroseadams1
The session will include a brief overview of the statistical trends in part-time admissions to HE, a presentation on the approaches used in Aimhigher to track learners and the impact of Aimhigher interventions on their progress and discussion of research methods and the uses of data for targeting.
Questions will be raised about the ways in which researchers and practitioners frame an oppositional discourse and could do things differently.
Discussion groups will include:
• Trend data in part-time applicants and entrants.
• Taking the evidence from Aimhigher - how could/does this translate into research?
• Making a difference in widening participation - the responsibilities of researchers and practitioners
This HE case study presentation was delivered by Amanda Osborne during the Widening Participation workshop of the May 2016 Learning Networks event held in Manchester.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History. Updated and ported to PowerPoint version
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stackMartin Kalfatovic
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stack
Biodiversity_Next | 23 October 2019 | Leiden
Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Program Director | Biodiversity Heritage Library. ORCID: 0000-0002-4563-4627. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37787
Empowering Global Research: User Stories from the Biodiversity Heritage Librarycostantinog
Presentation from the evening reception at the 2018 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. Presentation shared user stories highlighting how BHL is supporting research in global science, conservation, and museum work.
BHL Update for GBIF. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Advancing Informatics, Engagement and Content. North American Regional Node Meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 22 July 2014.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More!Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More! Martin R. Kalfatovic. TDWG 2016. Centro de Transferencia Tecnológica y Educación Continua (CTEC) San Carlos, Santa Clara, Costa Rica. 7 December 2016.
Unlocking knowledge in biodiversity legacy literature through automatic seman...William Ulate
BHL is home to most of the world’s biodiversity legacy literature. In order to allow its users to find information in a more focused and efficient manner, efforts towards the development of a semantically enabled search engine are currently underway. To this end, semantic metadata in the form of concept annotations has been automatically extracted over the BHL collection using text mining (TM) techniques. This was carried out in a series of stages: (1) producing a moderately sized BHL corpus in which concepts have been manually marked up and assigned semantic labels, e.g., taxon, location, anatomical entity, habitat; (2) training machine learning-based concept recognition models on the said corpus; (3) applying the trained models on BHL documents in order to automatically recognize and assign semantic labels to concepts; and (4) automatically linking together semantically related concepts using distributional similarity methods. BHL documents were then indexed according to the semantic annotations automatically generated by the above-described TM methodology. This facilitates the incorporation of the following system features into BHL’s search engine: (1) query expansion, which helps a user widen his search through automatic suggestion of synonyms; and (2) semantic facets, which the user can specify to narrow down search results in order to filter out documents pertaining to unwanted word senses.
Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature. Mining Biodiversity.William Ulate
Mining Biodiversity project introduction and advance report at the CBHL Annual Meeting, in the Cleveland Botanical Garden on May 26, 2016. Also feedback request for Semantic Search User Interface that employs Query Expansion using Term Inventory.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Expanding Access to Biodiversity Workshop. Atlanta History Center. Atlanta, GA. 24 January 2017.
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Bi...Martin Kalfatovic
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin Kalfatovic. The Catholic University of America, School of Library and Information Science. LSC 715. 6 June 2008. Washington, DC.
Research, policy and practice in widening participation: the evidence from A...johnroseadams1
The session will include a brief overview of the statistical trends in part-time admissions to HE, a presentation on the approaches used in Aimhigher to track learners and the impact of Aimhigher interventions on their progress and discussion of research methods and the uses of data for targeting.
Questions will be raised about the ways in which researchers and practitioners frame an oppositional discourse and could do things differently.
Discussion groups will include:
• Trend data in part-time applicants and entrants.
• Taking the evidence from Aimhigher - how could/does this translate into research?
• Making a difference in widening participation - the responsibilities of researchers and practitioners
This HE case study presentation was delivered by Amanda Osborne during the Widening Participation workshop of the May 2016 Learning Networks event held in Manchester.
Advocating Open Access: Before, during and after HEFCENick Sheppard
Since “self-archiving” of research outputs was first mooted in the mid-1990s, initiatives towards “green” Open Access (OA) across the sector have met with generally limited success and coverage in institutional and subject repositories is generally cited at around 20-30%. However, since the Finch report in 2012 combined with OA policies from RCUK, also in 2012, and HEFCE the following year, there is little doubt that a tipping point of awareness has been reached. This session will aim to contextualise the HEFCE policy in the broader history of Open Access and present a case study of a non-research intensive University and how the repository manager has sought to liaise with academic support services in order to facilitate knowledge exchange across the University. - See more at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/events/open-access-advocacy#sthash.9YqReHt0.dpuf
Openness and participation are core to the logic of the web. Mark Surman will explain how Mozilla has used these values to make the Internet better, and will explore ways that these ideas might be used to create a university that thinks like the web.
Slides from keynote at University of Toronto TechKnowFile 2009 conference.
Exploring widening access through partnerships Pete Cannell, Ronald MacIntyre...johnroseadams1
In this session we explore the issues that we have confronted, and some of the lessons we have learnt in Scotland, in tackling widening access work across a broad scope. Much of the impetus for this activity began through community based partnerships, however, it has now lead to major engagement with 21 of Scotland’s colleges and partnerships with several of the major unions which has opened doors into workplaces that were previously closed. We look at how it is possible to work at scale with networks of local partners and discuss how the activity aligns and interacts with important policy drivers for widening access in Scotland.
Setting the Scene - Opening Remarks at the Widening Participation to Postgrad...johnroseadams1
A presentation given to the Widening Participation to Postgraduate Education: Access after the White Paper (WP2PG) Conference, 16 February 2012.
Twitter #WP2PG
Susanne Benner, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, former BASF Plant Science speaker, gave a keynote speak at the Comm4Biotech conference at the Ecole Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg ESBS on the GM food & crop controversy. More information about the conference on http://www.comm4biotech.eu
Scanning Locally, Collaborating Globally: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Scanning Locally, Collaborating Globally: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 3rd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives. Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. 30 May 2013.
Catholic University of America College of Library and Information Sciences LSC 747 Special Collections lecture summer 2011 at the Smithsonian Institution
IMLS DCC Progress Update to the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA)Richard Urban
IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project Progress Update.
Presentation to Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA). October 2009. Incline Village, NV.
Full version of these slides is also available at the IMLS Digital Collections and Conent website at:
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/docs/cosla_FA2009_slides.pdf
Revealing and Contextualizing the treasures of the Biodiversity Heritage Libr...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk focused on two projects being carried out by the Missouri Botanical Garden related to the Biodiversity Heritage Library - Art of Life and Engelmann Correspondence. The Art of Life, funded by NEH, is a project to identify and describe the rich natural history illustrations hidden within the pages of BHL literature. The Engelmann Correspondence project, funded by IMLS, is a project to digitize and make available in BHL letters sent to 19th century botanist, George Engelmann by his colleagues in the US and Europe. Both projects are providing new content types to the BHL portal http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/, helping contextualize its published literature, and expanding BHL audiences.
The history of biodiversity through words and picturesTrish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given as part of a conference called Curious Images held at the British Library Dec 18 2014 which brought together researchers and artists to share ideas, techniques and methods they have applied to image collections
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australian Node Meeting: National Library of Australia. 4 June 2010. Canberra, Australia.
Browsing can be an interesting way to get a feel for a subject and for the scope of materials available in the Library. Research materials can be found in various locations within the Andruss Library:
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodi...Martin Kalfatovic
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Library of Congress. 1 June 2017.
Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partner...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given by Trish Rose-Sandler, Leora Siegel, Katie Mika, Pamela McClanahan, Ariadne Rehbein, Marissa Kings, and Alicia Esquivel at the DPLAFest in Chicago on April 21 2017
Expanding access to natural history images: the BHL and its global consortiumTrish Rose-Sandler
Talk given at the 2016 IFLA conference. Part of the workshop called "Worth a Thousand Words: A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access"
Crowdsourcing your cultural heritage collections: considerations when choosi...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given at the Visual Resources Association conference March 13 2015. The moderator was Trish Rose-Sandler and speakers included: Robert Guralnick, Guarav Vaidya, and Trish Rose-Sandler. Notes from the talk are visible when downloaded.
The Art of Life: merging the worlds of art and scienceTrish Rose-Sandler
This talk is about the Art of Life project and was part of session 149 - SCIENCE+ART=CREATIVITY: Libraries and the New Collaborative Thinking at the IFLA conference in Lyon France in August 2014. Authors are: Trish Rose-Sandler, Nancy Gwinn, Constance Rinaldo. Accompanying paper is at http://library.ifla.org/681/1/149-rose-sandler-en.pdf
Finding a goldmine of natural history illustrations within BHL texts: the Ar...Trish Rose-Sandler
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) has now achieved a critical mass of digitized historic texts – over 41 million pages and counting. The BHL portal can be searched by several access points including title, author, subject, and scientific name. But, what is largely hidden and entirely unsearchable are the millions of natural history illustrations found with the BHL books and journals. These visual resources which include drawings, paintings, photographs, maps and diagrams represent work by some of the finest botanical and zoological illustrators in the world, including the likes of John James Audubon, Georg Dionysus Ehret, and Pierre Redouté. Many of the illustrations are the first recorded descriptions of much of the world’s biota, providing the scientific foundation for contemporary taxonomic research and conservation assessments. Some of them are the only verifiable resource about an organism and their existence on Earth due to changes in global climate patterns and rapid loss of natural habitat for many species. Audiences for these illustrations also cross a variety of disciplines and include: biologists, artists, historians, illustrators, graphic designers, archivists, educators, students, and citizen scientists.
In 2012, the Missouri Botanical Garden was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a project called The Art of Life: Data Mining and Crowdsourcing the Identification and Description of Natural History Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This talk will discuss the Art of Life objectives and current status. It will go into detail about the algorithms and schema designed for finding which pages contain illustrations and describing the subsequent output. Finally the talk will discuss the project’s benefits for the scientific community such as improving access to a significant collection of public domain images related to biodiversity.
More than just a pretty picture: improving the discoverability of illustrati...Trish Rose-Sandler
This was a demo given by Trish Rose-Sandler and Kyle Jaebker at the Museums and the Web Conference on April 20th 2013 related to how BHL is improving access to its natural history illustrations via Flickr and via the Art of Life project. Authors for the poster and handouts include: Gilbert Borrego, Grace Costantino, Bianca Crowley, Kyle Jaebker, and Trish Rose-Sandler
Reach Out! Opportunities for the Visual Resource CenterTrish Rose-Sandler
The Art of Life Project and Biodiversity Heritage Library were featured in this session on Visual Resource Centers and how institutions are reaching new audiences for their content through collaboration and outreach
In spring of 2012 the National Endowment for the Humanities funded the Missouri Botanical Garden to embark on an ambitious project called The Art of Life. The project’s goals are to identify and describe natural history illustrations from the digitized books and journals in the online Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).
The BHL is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible legacy literature held in their collections. The BHL portal now provides access to more than 110,000 volumes and 40 million pages of texts. Contained within these texts, but not easily accessible due to a lack of descriptive metadata, are millions of visual resources (plates , figures, maps, and photographs), many of which were produced by the finest botanical and zoological illustrators in the world, including the likes of John James Audubon, Georg Dionysus Ehret, and Pierre Redouté. Scholars and educators who rely heavily on visual resources in their research and teaching (e.g. biologists, art historians, curators, historians of science) will, for the first time, be able to find and view a wealth of illustrations of plant and animal life from which to make connections between science, art, culture, and history.
Nearly one year into the project, this presentation will discuss our objectives, progress, tools and technologies being utilized, and explain how the final deliverables will benefit all libraries.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library and bibliographic citations: towards new u...Trish Rose-Sandler
The data model and user interface for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) portal at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ was originally designed to accommodate books and journals found in botanical garden libraries and natural history museums. As the size and reputation of the BHL grew, there were many publishers and individuals who wanted to contribute to the BHL but their content consisted of publication types at more granular levels, such as articles, book chapters, and dissertations. In order to ingest and serve these materials, in early 2011, BHL launched a separate portal called Citebank hosted at citebank.org. Currently, Citebank contains over 180,000 citations linked to content files, either hosted at citebank.org or hosted externally. While feedback on Citebank has been positive, users indicated a desire to combine both the services of the BHL portal and the services of the Citebank portal into a single interface in order to enable a unified search for all biodiversity literature. To respond to these needs, the BHL has begun expansion of its data model in the BHL portal to accommodate articles, book chapters, treatments and other segment-like material so that they can be searched alongside its traditional book and journal content. Parallel to this activity the NSF-funded Global Names Architecture (GNA) Project has enlisted Citebank to fulfill the role of a global biodiversity repository for bibliographic citations. In support of this, Citebank will provide a key functional component to the GNA - that of reconciliation services for citations. Once reconciled, citations can be linked either to scanned page images in the BHL, or to PDFs uploaded by users. If neither exists, citations can point to other digital representations online. Experience with Citebank has resulted in many lessons learned about working with diverse publication types; data formats; and contributors with varying levels of technical competencies. Those lessons were incorporated into a functional requirements document that is being used to inform development of the BHL data model. This talk will outline the functional requirements needed for a global citation repository for biodiversity and how those requirements will better serve the needs of the biodiversity community.
Building the new open linked library: Theory and PracticeTrish Rose-Sandler
What tools and services are necessary to build an open linked library and how can we move existing digital library content into an open linked data model and use those tools to repurpose our own content?
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Breathing new life into old data - How opening your collection can spark imagination and inspire creative re-use
1. Breathing new life into old data:
How opening your collection can spark
imagination and inspire creative re-use
Doug Holland, Library Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
Trish Rose-Sandler, Data Project Coordinator, Missouri Botanical Garden
10/4/13 Missouri Library Association conference, St Louis MO
2. 10/4/13
Missouri Library Association conference, St
Louis MO
What is BHL?
• A consortium of natural history, botanical libraries
and research institutions
• An open access digital repository for historic
biodiversity literature
• An open data repository of taxonomic names and
bibliographic information
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Member Institutions
• Academy of Natural Sciences Library and
Archives
• American Museum of Natural History Library
• California Academy of Sciences Library
• Cornell University Library
• The Field Museum Library
• Harvard University Botany Libraries
• Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the
Museum of Comparative Zoology
• Library of Congress
• Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution Library
• Missouri Botanical Garden Library
• Natural History Museum, London, Library &
Archives
• The New York Botanical Garden
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library & Archives
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• United States Geological Survey Libraries
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What is Art of Life?
• Full title - The Art of Life: Data Mining and
Crowdsourcing the Identification and Description
of Natural History Illustrations from the
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
• Grant given to Missouri Botanical Garden in St
Louis
• Funded by National Endowment for the
Humanities
• Runs May 2012-April 2014
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What is open content?
1. Artists/Designers
2. Biologists/Taxonomists/
“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use,
reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”
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What are some content types ripe for opening up?
Bibliographic records
Vocabularies
Content files
• Literature published before 1923 (public domain)
• Primary source materials
• manuscripts
• photographs
• maps
• artifacts
• audio and video recordings
• oral histories
• postcards
• posters
• Local history – Genealogical collections
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Examples of open content – bibliographic recordst
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Examples of open content – bibliographic recordst
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Examples of open content – vocabularies
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Examples of open content – vocabularies
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Examples of open content – primary resources
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Examples of open content – primary resources
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Why is open content important to cultural heritage
institutions?
“it is now the mark—and social
responsibility—of world-class
institutions to develop and share
free cultural and educational
resources.”
Initiative to building a
global cultural commons
for everyone to use, access
and enjoy.
Getty holds “the conviction that
understanding art makes the
world a better place, and sharing
our digital resources is the natural
extension of that belief. “
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How to open your data
Bulk data
BHL provides metadata & content via
• Export files
• OAI-PMH
• APIs
• OpenURL
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Copyright and Licensing
Make public domain content available – make it clear its copyright
status=public domain.
For copyrighted content if you are the copyright holder, dedicate it to the
public domain or license content as openly as possible
CCO
CC-BY
CC-BY-SA
CC-BY-NC
PDDL
ODC-By
ODC-ODbL
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Artists/Graphic Designers
Artists/Graphic Designers
Nonprofit fund raising
Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare
Book Selections from the American
Museum of Natural History
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http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20612661_2118724
9,00.html
Citizen scientists/enthusiasts
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Henry Curtis-Williams
@All Rights Reserved
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67312941@N03/850422509
8/in/photostream/
Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers
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Artists/Graphic Designers
http://www.missmoss.co.za/2013/06/24/biodiversity-heritage-library/
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Artists/Graphic Designers
Artists/Graphic Designers
Public Art in Denver Light Rail Stations
Created by artist Nancy O’Neil
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Benefits to open content?
• Fulfills public mission of libraries
• Promotes your collection to new audiences
• Stimulates creative reuse
• Increases discoverability
• Enables Data enrichment
• Less taxing on staff resources
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Further information about open content and
libraries
• Open Bibliographic Data Guide http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/
• OpenGLAM http://openglam.org/
• LODLAM http://lodlam.net/
Editor's Notes
A consortium of natural history, botanical libraries and research institutions who have cooperated to digitize the books and journals in their collectionsIt is an open access digital repository for historic biodiversity literature. Most of our literature is in the public domain (published before 1923)It is an open data repository of taxonomic names and bibliographic information. Not only are the pages of books digitized but we run then through OCR software so that the species names can be identified. This allows taxonomists to identify the first publication of a name and track its changes over time.Notice the terms “open access” and “open data” which drive the BHL mission. I will talk more about what these terms mean in a minute.
We serve our content both at the Internet Archive and at a specialized portal at biodiversitylibrary.org We have over 117 thousand titles and 41 million pages of digitized text
Art of Life is a related project to BHL. Within BHL texts there are over a million natural history illustrations that are not discoverable due to a lack of metadata. The Art of Life project which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities is an effort to address this problem by identifying which pages have images and crowdsourcing their description. I’m mentioning this project because it is the image content in BHL that has the widest appeal across disciplines and to a wide range of audiences.
Definition from the Open Knowledge Foundation“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.” –Keep in mind There are varying interpretations of “open” when it comes to data and content and this definition is the most liberal version - no restrictions on reuse. I also wanted to briefly mention “linked data” because the two concepts are often used together as in “linked open data” You may have heard the term LOD-LAM – Linked open data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Linked data is a method for providing your data and content on the web with persistent URIs instead of just text strings so that computers can automatically relate and link it to other data on the Web. But for this talk we’ll focus only on the open data
In Aug 2012 OCLC began recommending the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY) for member institutions that would like to release their library catalog data on the Web. In explaining their rationale for the decision they said:"Many libraries are now examining ways that they can make their bibliographic records available, for free, on the Internet, so that they can be reused and more fully integrated into the broader Web environment," said Jim Michalko, Vice President, OCLC Research Library Partnership, who has overseen OCLC's license policy discussions. …the ODC-BY license provides a good way to share records that's consistent with the cooperative nature of OCLC cataloging."
Europeana, which is a portal that aggregrates content from Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums, puts its metadata under a Creative Commons Open license in Sep 2011
Many of the Library of Congress authorities and vocabularies are available as bulk download or individual URIs. All the data is considered public domain.Here’s a case where we have to redefine what we mean by “open” Open as long as the government is open ;)
I did visit Library of Congress later in the day and found it was back up!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division has provided access to thousands of its images online In its rights statement it says “As a publicly supported institution the Library generally does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot give or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material in its collections. “
In May of 2012 The Walters Art Museum donated 19,000 images of artworks to Wikimedia Commons. The Walters’ collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art and Old Master and 19th-century paintings.
Many institutions have held public domain content hostage for years thinking that since they digitized the resource they owned the copyright for the digital representation and therefore should charge money for access to it. Many cultural institutions are now rethinking that logic The NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Museum Edition identifies six emerging technology topics, as well as key trends and critical challenges, it identified augmented reality and open content as technologies that will be adopted into the mainstream within 2-3 yrs. IT stated that “it is now the mark—and social responsibility—of world-class institutions to develop and share free cultural and educational resources.” OpenGLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum) is an initiative coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation that is committed to building a global cultural commons for everyone to use, access and enjoy. OpenGLAM helps cultural institutions to open up their content and data through hands-on workshops, documentation and guidance and it supports a network of open culture evangelists through its Working Group. The Getty recently launched their Open Content Program which provide freely available digital images to which they hold copyright or are in public domain. In explaining the reason for the program they stated that the Getty was “founded on the conviction that understanding art makes the world a better place, and sharing our digital resources is the natural extension of that belief. This move is also an educational imperative. Artists, students, teachers, writers, and countless others rely on artwork images to learn, tell stories, exchange ideas, and feed their own creativity” - http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-content-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/Many institutions have started opening data in small steps such as just their bibliographic records (you don’t need to open all your digitized data at once)
One click downloadsMake it easy for users to download your metadata or content file with the click of a button. BHL allows users to download an entire book or journal volume, select individual pages for a custom PDF, or download the bibliographic info as MODS, Bibtex, or Endnote
Provide ways for users to take content in bulk and use if for data mining. You also may want contribute the catalog records so they can be aggregated into other portals (such as Serials Solutions’ Summon Service )BHL provides its bulk data via: Exports, OAI-PMH, APIs, OpenURL
Push content to other portalsInstead of expecting users to find you at your institutional website you can push that content into environments where users already are. THis is a way to provide data to new audiences who you wouldn’t reach otherwise (BHL has shared thousands of its images with Flickr and Wikimedia Commons).
As well as with the Encyclopedia of Life
IIts important that you clearly state for your users the copyright status of your content and if whether that gives them permission to re-use the content and how. Public domain content should be clearly labeled as such and indicate that no permission is needed to re-useCopyrighted content can be dedicated to the public domain via CCO or PDDLOr license under any number of Creative Commons license and Open Data Commons licenses
BHL has a Mix of public and copyrighted materials - About 83% of our collection is public domain because we digitize historic literature before 1923 For the other 17% we have gotten permission from the rights holders to provide access but reuse can only be for education purposes.Here is our copyright page that helps user understand the different copyright statuses: public domain, unknown, and in copyright and what that allows them to do.Copyright caveat- BHL found out a Publishing company was selling in copyright digitized works from BHL materials on Amazon.com. Upon investigation we discovered This was our fault - due to incorrect copyright info in our metadata. We corrected the metadata on our end and contacted the seller.
Here’s an article from This Old House where someone has taken illustrations from Botanicus.org (precursor to BHL) and matted them between glass for their kitchen.
This group likes to talk and share things about the natural world. They get excited by our text and images but particularly the images. They often include our images in their blog posts, pin them to their Pinterest boards, feature them in their Tumblr sites, Some are crafters/home decorators who have used the illustrations to decorate their home in creative ways.
Here’s an article from This Old House where someone has taken illustrations from Botanicus.org (precursor to BHL) and matted them between glass for their kitchen.
Here is an article by journalist Hannah Walter reporting on the TedxDeExtinction conference and the idea of whether to ressurect extinct species from DNA. In the article she uses 3 images from BHL of the now extinct Ectopistes migratorius or better known as the passenger pigeon
This is a blog called “Miss Moss” by a graphic designer in South Africa who likes to highlight the intersections of fashion, art, design, and photography. In this post she did a great plug for BHL content where she posted several illustrations from the BHL texts and then combined BHL illustrations with street fashion
Its even more fun to read the comments to her images. Even the BHL Program Director participated in the comments. It’s a great way to connect with users of your content and let them know you’re pleased with their creative re-use – after all this is the purpose of “open content” in the first place.
Here is a collage artist by the name of Dawn Arsenaux who goes by the name of “Ms. Neaux Neaux” who has used BHL illustrations in quite of few of her dadist style collages. If you notice at the bottom of the image she acknowledges the original source the image as being from the BHL but she got them via another blog on tumblr so you can see how social media becomes this web of sharing that promotes your collection way beyond what your organization could do on its own. People often find out about us through these serendipitous pathways. One thing to note about “open content” that you put online. Not everyone who reuses your content will acknowledge the original source. We’ve come across this regularly with BHL content and initially our reaction was to get angry because we felt they were not sharing in the same spirit that we had shared it with.
Fits in with public mission of libraries – our mission is to “disseminate knowledge, play a role in our communities, enable innovation, and enhance the Web of knowledge” (from http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Open-Bibliographic-Data-The-Use-Cases.pdf)Increases discoverability and promotes your collection to new audiences – by pushing your metadata and content to other locations on the Web we can meet the needs of users in their environments instead of expecting them to come find us. e.g. most humanities scholars would not have considered to BHL’s text collection for finding natural history illustrations, BHL has copies of all of its bib records and content files available at the Internet ArchiveStimulates creative reuse – when content can be easily mined and repurposed, collections can be reinterpreted in new ways, e.g. BHL wants users to create new knowledge from our data- not just access the dataEnables Data enrichment – if you allow users to tag your content can add to accessibility of contente.g. BHL users tag our content in Flickr, BHL users can create article PDFs in the BHL portal in which we ask the users to add both the article title and author names. This information is then available for other users to search on Less taxing on staff resources – staff don’t have to package up content and send it off, users can grab data themselves e.g National Geographic publications that have used BHL images