Digital Forsyth (DF) was a collaborative effort among 4 institutions to create an online collection of digital photos pertaining to Forsyth County (NC) history. Digital Forsyth was a 3 year project that digitized over 12,000 photographs and made them freely available to the world using an innovative WordPress interface that invites user participation through comments. It includes lesson plans for teachers and themed essays.
This document discusses using podcasts and oral histories to promote local history and cultural heritage. It provides information on grants from the Kansas Humanities Council to support such projects. It outlines a podcast project done by a library to record local family stories and histories. It encourages others to pursue similar projects to preserve community stories and revive interest in local history organizations and museums.
This document outlines the curriculum of an educational program that takes a student-centered approach to teaching students about various cultures and customs, United States history and pop culture, holiday celebrations, and using technology like mobile devices and media tools for educational purposes. It also details project-based learning opportunities in subjects like cross-cultural communication, global issues, gender issues, and more. Students will participate in profession-oriented sessions, team building activities, and an adventure game to develop skills like critical thinking, self-awareness, and time management.
WILS: Expanding Possibilities Through CollaborationWiLS
WiLS is a nonprofit cooperative that provides services to libraries. It is changing its name, affiliation, board members, and business model. It offers cooperative purchasing of databases, management of database subscriptions, an experts network, and shared digital collections. Cooperative purchasing of databases allows members to streamline subscriptions and see pricing transparency. The shared digital collections for public libraries and potential collections for other groups are highlighted. Feedback from members is encouraged to help WiLS understand needs and how to help members grow.
Andrea Coffin (WiLS) and Rose Fortier (Marquette University) presentation at the Brown Deer Public Library to Milwaukee County librarians. March 24th, 2014.
In Concert Building Valuable Community PartnershipsWiLS
The document discusses building community partnerships through the library. It provides examples of how the College of Menominee Nation Library and the Luck Public Library & Historical Museum partnered with local organizations.
The CMN Library director discusses hosting community events to attract patrons after expanding into a new building. This helped form partnerships with local schools and organizations. The Luck Library director explains how sharing a building with the historical museum provides synergies and draws more community members. The Kenosha Library director outlines their successful partnerships for the NEA Big Read program, including distributing books and hosting various events with local groups.
This document provides guidance for students on conducting a community history project. It discusses why such projects are beneficial, including enhancing learning skills, involving students with their community, and building pride. The document then outlines the steps to take, including studying other examples, gathering information from primary sources, designing the project, collecting documentation through methods like interviews, and completing a final multimedia product to share what was learned. Groups are shown researching sources, examining archives, and recognizing partners who helped with the project.
Susan W. Hansen has over 20 years of experience working in libraries and education. She has held positions as an Information Services Librarian, Adult Programs Coordinator at the Broome County Public Library, and as an Information Librarian at the Vestal Public Library. She also has experience as an instructor for Broome-Tioga Board of Occupational and Cooperative Educational Services, where she taught adults and tutored students pursuing their GED.
Indigenous Digital Archive - IIIF at MoMA May 2016Anna Naruta-Moya
Slides for presentation at MoMA, IIIF 2016 event. Video of day's talks at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYPP1-8uH9c5smSD2wyVgsqKxD218khZq This was co-presentation with Mark Matienzo, who kindly presented my slides when our team was not able to attend.
This document discusses using podcasts and oral histories to promote local history and cultural heritage. It provides information on grants from the Kansas Humanities Council to support such projects. It outlines a podcast project done by a library to record local family stories and histories. It encourages others to pursue similar projects to preserve community stories and revive interest in local history organizations and museums.
This document outlines the curriculum of an educational program that takes a student-centered approach to teaching students about various cultures and customs, United States history and pop culture, holiday celebrations, and using technology like mobile devices and media tools for educational purposes. It also details project-based learning opportunities in subjects like cross-cultural communication, global issues, gender issues, and more. Students will participate in profession-oriented sessions, team building activities, and an adventure game to develop skills like critical thinking, self-awareness, and time management.
WILS: Expanding Possibilities Through CollaborationWiLS
WiLS is a nonprofit cooperative that provides services to libraries. It is changing its name, affiliation, board members, and business model. It offers cooperative purchasing of databases, management of database subscriptions, an experts network, and shared digital collections. Cooperative purchasing of databases allows members to streamline subscriptions and see pricing transparency. The shared digital collections for public libraries and potential collections for other groups are highlighted. Feedback from members is encouraged to help WiLS understand needs and how to help members grow.
Andrea Coffin (WiLS) and Rose Fortier (Marquette University) presentation at the Brown Deer Public Library to Milwaukee County librarians. March 24th, 2014.
In Concert Building Valuable Community PartnershipsWiLS
The document discusses building community partnerships through the library. It provides examples of how the College of Menominee Nation Library and the Luck Public Library & Historical Museum partnered with local organizations.
The CMN Library director discusses hosting community events to attract patrons after expanding into a new building. This helped form partnerships with local schools and organizations. The Luck Library director explains how sharing a building with the historical museum provides synergies and draws more community members. The Kenosha Library director outlines their successful partnerships for the NEA Big Read program, including distributing books and hosting various events with local groups.
This document provides guidance for students on conducting a community history project. It discusses why such projects are beneficial, including enhancing learning skills, involving students with their community, and building pride. The document then outlines the steps to take, including studying other examples, gathering information from primary sources, designing the project, collecting documentation through methods like interviews, and completing a final multimedia product to share what was learned. Groups are shown researching sources, examining archives, and recognizing partners who helped with the project.
Susan W. Hansen has over 20 years of experience working in libraries and education. She has held positions as an Information Services Librarian, Adult Programs Coordinator at the Broome County Public Library, and as an Information Librarian at the Vestal Public Library. She also has experience as an instructor for Broome-Tioga Board of Occupational and Cooperative Educational Services, where she taught adults and tutored students pursuing their GED.
Indigenous Digital Archive - IIIF at MoMA May 2016Anna Naruta-Moya
Slides for presentation at MoMA, IIIF 2016 event. Video of day's talks at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYPP1-8uH9c5smSD2wyVgsqKxD218khZq This was co-presentation with Mark Matienzo, who kindly presented my slides when our team was not able to attend.
Holistic Virtual Campus Development SLCC 2010Anthony Fontana
The document discusses Bowling Green State University's strategies for developing and managing an educational virtual campus. It outlines their approaches to building relationships and collaboration through faculty learning communities, managing student project teams, and developing projects through consultation and research. Examples of projects highlighted include an Australian herpetology exhibit, campus centers, faculty/student workspaces, exhibitions of international art, and blended reality events for Earth Day that included dancing, fashion shows, and gaming.
Creating a Digital History Commons through crowdsourcing and participant digi...Mia
A conference poster and talk for the Herrenhausen Digital Humanities Conference in Hannover, December 2013. More at http://www.miaridge.com/herrenhausen
Communicating the Wonders of the Mekong to build support for conservationFISHBIO
Communication plays an important role in building understanding and support for science and conservation. One of the goals of the interdisciplinary Wonders of the Mekong project is to communicate the region’s diverse wonders, including its richness of wildlife and fishes, its unique hydrology, and its deep cultural connection to the people of the region. Through the use of images, video, and original stories, the project has used Facebook and other social media channels to reach an audience of Cambodians and other Southeast Asians. This effort has included the creation of the Mekong Conservation Heroes program, which uses online profiles of stories, photos, and video to shine a spotlight on inspiring individuals working to study, protect, and communicate the Mekong’s many wonders. Printed materials such as coloring books, playing cards, calendars and posters have been used to communicate environmental topics in rural, technology-limited schools and villages. Through the use of diverse communication approaches, we hope to foster a deep sense of appreciation and value of the Mekong River and the many services it provides, especially among those living in the Mekong Basin.
The Indigenous Digital Archive: Creating Effective Access to Mass Digitized A...Anna Naruta-Moya
Open government records important to the history of indigenous communities, families, and individuals are often inaccessible due to distance. The project creates an opensource toolkit layer for Omeka-S for creating access to and collaboration with mass digitized documents by leveraging IIIF and Open Annotation for keyword tagging and other annotation. Our use case begins 1870s-1930s
Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness through Global Partnershipsdmidness
The International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) facilitates collaborative project work between educators and over 1 million students aged 5-19 from more than 125 countries. iEARN demonstrates that online education can enhance teaching and learning. It empowers students through teacher-led projects like the Local History Project, where students research their community's history and share findings online. iEARN also offers professional development for educators through online courses to enhance teaching with digital tools.
Using Smart Technology to Increase Course Offerings in World LanguagesRebecca Davis
Low enrollment in world language courses can prevent a college from offering a breadth of languages and depth in any single language. To help overcome this challenge, five independent colleges in Texas are using high-definition videoconferences, thereby hoping to preserve the “high touch” element that is a hallmark of education in a liberal arts college. These institutions are working with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) to explore important research and implementation issues across academic, logistical, technological, financial, and curricular dimensions. CAOs from two of the participating campuses will describe their responses to these issues and how shared programming has surmounted many obstacles to maintaining strong world language departments.
liwalaawiiloxhbakaa (How We Lived): The Grant Bulltail Absáalooke (Crow Natio...Andrea Payant
USU was selected to host a unique collection of oral histories from Grant Bulltail, Crow Storyteller and 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellow, representing the stories and knowledge of the Crow Nation as passed down by his ancestors. The collection spans 20+ years of field work and collaboration across library departments and regional partners.
Presentation slides prepared by Birdie MacLennan to accompany a lightening talk given at Annual Awardee conference of the National Digital Newspaper Program at the Library of Congress on September 12, 2013.
The document provides information about the Master of Arts in Cultural Studies program at UWB university. The program focuses on cultural studies, an interdisciplinary field that examines culture through a reflective and interactive lens. The program spans two years and includes core courses, electives, community-based work, and a capstone project. Students create an online portfolio to showcase their learning, development, and how their work maps to the program requirements, which can also serve as a professional development tool. The document includes contact information for the cultural studies program.
A presentation on how museums, libraries and archives (memory organizations) deliver public history using Interactive Communications Technologies in a world of always connected Internet users.
WISE Workshop: Designing Online Courses for Diverse Communities of LearnersJill Hurst-Wahl
This is one of several presentations given at the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Workshop during the ALISE Annual Conference (Jan. 21, 2014).
Workshop description: "As LIS programs become more entrepreneurial, reaching more diverse groups of learners, LIS educators are challenged to design their courses for diverse communities. There are many possible dimensions of diversity—different learner work contexts with different value structures (e.g., library vs. business), different cultural contexts when courses have a global reach, differences in learner demographics (age, gender, ethnicity), and differences in technology use outside of class, including social media. How does online course design take into account this diversity? This panel of experienced online educators will provide examples of how they have worked to address diverse communities of learners in their course designs and encourage interaction with members of the audience."
Access, Skills and Development in Africa : Local Knowledge in Local LanguagesMcNulty Consulting
This document discusses the Ulwazi Programme, a case study of a South African initiative to improve access to information, skills, and development in rural communities. The key points are:
1) The Ulwazi Programme is a wiki-based initiative run by eThekwini Municipality libraries to collect and share local knowledge and histories in local languages.
2) It aims to preserve indigenous knowledge, build digital skills, develop a sustainable digital library of local content, and promote social inclusion.
3) The program model involves collaboration between communities, libraries, and open-source technology to collect and validate community knowledge and make it accessible online.
4) It has experienced significant growth in visits, content,
Big Foot: Crossing Generations, Crossing MountainsThomas_Fischer
This presentation describes the philosophy behind the European R&D project Big Foot - Crossing Mountains, Crossing Generations focusing on intergenerational learning for sustainable regional development. It also includes a summary description of the project activities and the achieved results so far. More information can be found at www.bigfoot-project.eu or www.facebook.com/BigFootProject.
This document provides an overview of digital archives, including what they are, the types of information they contain, and examples of digital archive sites. It discusses how digital archives preserve and provide access to archival records in digitized formats from a variety of sources. The document also lists some of the goals of teaching with digital archives, such as enabling participants to locate, access, evaluate and preserve information from pertinent resources in their subject areas. Finally, it provides several examples of specific digital archives and archive collections that can be used for research.
Disruptive Innovations in Learning Technologies Rebecca Davis
A variety of technology-enabled learning modes are changing the landscape of higher education. How might these changes impact the training and development profession? Rebecca Frost Davis, Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology at St. Edward’s University will review developments in technology-enabled learning that are disrupting the traditional model of higher education, including the massive open online course or MOOC, blended learning, big data, and open educational resources. Participants will then explore how these disruptions might affect their approach to workforce training and development.
IIIF Use Case - Archives: The Indigenous Digital ArchiveAnna Naruta-Moya
The document discusses the Indigenous Digital Archive, which aims to share images and records of global cultural heritage online in an accessible way. It notes some of the challenges with accessing paper records from different locations and jurisdictions. The archive allows users to access large amounts of records online, add tags to help with searchability, and make annotations that can be shared. This helps overcome issues of geography and allows collaborative work between multiple archives. Advisers to the project include representatives from New Mexico state agencies, universities, tribal libraries and a former boarding school student.
This presentation by Jeannette Hanna of Trajectory describes the power of community stories in mapping local cultures, building communities and connections to creating authentic place brands
Designing Course-Based, Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Projects Usi...Rebecca Davis
This document discusses several course-based, student-faculty collaborative research projects using digital tools. It summarizes a digital history project at Wheaton College where students in a history methods course transcribed and encoded archives under the guidance of an archivist, technologist and librarian. It outlines the collaborative research assignment where students progressed through stages of background reading, transcription, writing for an online history engine and a final paper. It also lists several publications and presentations about these collaborative digital humanities projects and provides a checklist for integrating such projects into courses.
Community Outreach at Your Library - Libraries Out of the Box - Joan VanSickl...Joan VanSickle Sloan
The document discusses strategies for community outreach at libraries. It recommends that libraries make a list of their resources and services, determine the target audiences, and develop a marketing plan to inform users. Libraries should participate with other community organizations through board membership and event attendance. Specific outreach strategies mentioned include informational speakers, special events, exhibits, partnerships, and media relations. The goal is to increase library usage and engage more community members. When libraries reach out to the community, the community will in turn become engaged with the library.
Lighting Talks: Innovations in Digital ProjectsWiLS
Delivered for WiLSWorld 2018 on July 24th in Madison, WI by Laura Damon-Moore, Community Engagement Librarian, Madison Public Library; Ann Hanlon, Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives and DH Lab, UW-Milwaukee; Erin F. H. Hughes, Mukurtu Hub Manager, WiLS; Greg Kocken, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, UW-Eau Claire; Emily Pfotenhauer, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Randi Ramsden, Program Coordinator, National Digital Newspaper Program, Wisconsin Historical Society; Tamara Ramski, Digitization Assistant, South Central Library System; and Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collections, WiLS
This fast-paced session highlights new tools and innovative approaches Wisconsin libraries are using to create, share and preserve digital collections. Projects include efforts to collect oral histories and music memorabilia from community members, partnerships with local artists to reimagine digitized special collections, text mining of historical newspapers, managing Indigenous digital collections in culturally responsive ways, centralized digitization training and support for public libraries, and building LIS students’ skills in digital stewardship through hands-on fieldwork at small libraries, archives and museums around the state.
Presented at the Capital Region regional meeting in Brodhead, Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Council for Local History, August 14, 2014.
Holistic Virtual Campus Development SLCC 2010Anthony Fontana
The document discusses Bowling Green State University's strategies for developing and managing an educational virtual campus. It outlines their approaches to building relationships and collaboration through faculty learning communities, managing student project teams, and developing projects through consultation and research. Examples of projects highlighted include an Australian herpetology exhibit, campus centers, faculty/student workspaces, exhibitions of international art, and blended reality events for Earth Day that included dancing, fashion shows, and gaming.
Creating a Digital History Commons through crowdsourcing and participant digi...Mia
A conference poster and talk for the Herrenhausen Digital Humanities Conference in Hannover, December 2013. More at http://www.miaridge.com/herrenhausen
Communicating the Wonders of the Mekong to build support for conservationFISHBIO
Communication plays an important role in building understanding and support for science and conservation. One of the goals of the interdisciplinary Wonders of the Mekong project is to communicate the region’s diverse wonders, including its richness of wildlife and fishes, its unique hydrology, and its deep cultural connection to the people of the region. Through the use of images, video, and original stories, the project has used Facebook and other social media channels to reach an audience of Cambodians and other Southeast Asians. This effort has included the creation of the Mekong Conservation Heroes program, which uses online profiles of stories, photos, and video to shine a spotlight on inspiring individuals working to study, protect, and communicate the Mekong’s many wonders. Printed materials such as coloring books, playing cards, calendars and posters have been used to communicate environmental topics in rural, technology-limited schools and villages. Through the use of diverse communication approaches, we hope to foster a deep sense of appreciation and value of the Mekong River and the many services it provides, especially among those living in the Mekong Basin.
The Indigenous Digital Archive: Creating Effective Access to Mass Digitized A...Anna Naruta-Moya
Open government records important to the history of indigenous communities, families, and individuals are often inaccessible due to distance. The project creates an opensource toolkit layer for Omeka-S for creating access to and collaboration with mass digitized documents by leveraging IIIF and Open Annotation for keyword tagging and other annotation. Our use case begins 1870s-1930s
Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness through Global Partnershipsdmidness
The International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) facilitates collaborative project work between educators and over 1 million students aged 5-19 from more than 125 countries. iEARN demonstrates that online education can enhance teaching and learning. It empowers students through teacher-led projects like the Local History Project, where students research their community's history and share findings online. iEARN also offers professional development for educators through online courses to enhance teaching with digital tools.
Using Smart Technology to Increase Course Offerings in World LanguagesRebecca Davis
Low enrollment in world language courses can prevent a college from offering a breadth of languages and depth in any single language. To help overcome this challenge, five independent colleges in Texas are using high-definition videoconferences, thereby hoping to preserve the “high touch” element that is a hallmark of education in a liberal arts college. These institutions are working with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) to explore important research and implementation issues across academic, logistical, technological, financial, and curricular dimensions. CAOs from two of the participating campuses will describe their responses to these issues and how shared programming has surmounted many obstacles to maintaining strong world language departments.
liwalaawiiloxhbakaa (How We Lived): The Grant Bulltail Absáalooke (Crow Natio...Andrea Payant
USU was selected to host a unique collection of oral histories from Grant Bulltail, Crow Storyteller and 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellow, representing the stories and knowledge of the Crow Nation as passed down by his ancestors. The collection spans 20+ years of field work and collaboration across library departments and regional partners.
Presentation slides prepared by Birdie MacLennan to accompany a lightening talk given at Annual Awardee conference of the National Digital Newspaper Program at the Library of Congress on September 12, 2013.
The document provides information about the Master of Arts in Cultural Studies program at UWB university. The program focuses on cultural studies, an interdisciplinary field that examines culture through a reflective and interactive lens. The program spans two years and includes core courses, electives, community-based work, and a capstone project. Students create an online portfolio to showcase their learning, development, and how their work maps to the program requirements, which can also serve as a professional development tool. The document includes contact information for the cultural studies program.
A presentation on how museums, libraries and archives (memory organizations) deliver public history using Interactive Communications Technologies in a world of always connected Internet users.
WISE Workshop: Designing Online Courses for Diverse Communities of LearnersJill Hurst-Wahl
This is one of several presentations given at the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Workshop during the ALISE Annual Conference (Jan. 21, 2014).
Workshop description: "As LIS programs become more entrepreneurial, reaching more diverse groups of learners, LIS educators are challenged to design their courses for diverse communities. There are many possible dimensions of diversity—different learner work contexts with different value structures (e.g., library vs. business), different cultural contexts when courses have a global reach, differences in learner demographics (age, gender, ethnicity), and differences in technology use outside of class, including social media. How does online course design take into account this diversity? This panel of experienced online educators will provide examples of how they have worked to address diverse communities of learners in their course designs and encourage interaction with members of the audience."
Access, Skills and Development in Africa : Local Knowledge in Local LanguagesMcNulty Consulting
This document discusses the Ulwazi Programme, a case study of a South African initiative to improve access to information, skills, and development in rural communities. The key points are:
1) The Ulwazi Programme is a wiki-based initiative run by eThekwini Municipality libraries to collect and share local knowledge and histories in local languages.
2) It aims to preserve indigenous knowledge, build digital skills, develop a sustainable digital library of local content, and promote social inclusion.
3) The program model involves collaboration between communities, libraries, and open-source technology to collect and validate community knowledge and make it accessible online.
4) It has experienced significant growth in visits, content,
Big Foot: Crossing Generations, Crossing MountainsThomas_Fischer
This presentation describes the philosophy behind the European R&D project Big Foot - Crossing Mountains, Crossing Generations focusing on intergenerational learning for sustainable regional development. It also includes a summary description of the project activities and the achieved results so far. More information can be found at www.bigfoot-project.eu or www.facebook.com/BigFootProject.
This document provides an overview of digital archives, including what they are, the types of information they contain, and examples of digital archive sites. It discusses how digital archives preserve and provide access to archival records in digitized formats from a variety of sources. The document also lists some of the goals of teaching with digital archives, such as enabling participants to locate, access, evaluate and preserve information from pertinent resources in their subject areas. Finally, it provides several examples of specific digital archives and archive collections that can be used for research.
Disruptive Innovations in Learning Technologies Rebecca Davis
A variety of technology-enabled learning modes are changing the landscape of higher education. How might these changes impact the training and development profession? Rebecca Frost Davis, Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology at St. Edward’s University will review developments in technology-enabled learning that are disrupting the traditional model of higher education, including the massive open online course or MOOC, blended learning, big data, and open educational resources. Participants will then explore how these disruptions might affect their approach to workforce training and development.
IIIF Use Case - Archives: The Indigenous Digital ArchiveAnna Naruta-Moya
The document discusses the Indigenous Digital Archive, which aims to share images and records of global cultural heritage online in an accessible way. It notes some of the challenges with accessing paper records from different locations and jurisdictions. The archive allows users to access large amounts of records online, add tags to help with searchability, and make annotations that can be shared. This helps overcome issues of geography and allows collaborative work between multiple archives. Advisers to the project include representatives from New Mexico state agencies, universities, tribal libraries and a former boarding school student.
This presentation by Jeannette Hanna of Trajectory describes the power of community stories in mapping local cultures, building communities and connections to creating authentic place brands
Designing Course-Based, Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Projects Usi...Rebecca Davis
This document discusses several course-based, student-faculty collaborative research projects using digital tools. It summarizes a digital history project at Wheaton College where students in a history methods course transcribed and encoded archives under the guidance of an archivist, technologist and librarian. It outlines the collaborative research assignment where students progressed through stages of background reading, transcription, writing for an online history engine and a final paper. It also lists several publications and presentations about these collaborative digital humanities projects and provides a checklist for integrating such projects into courses.
Community Outreach at Your Library - Libraries Out of the Box - Joan VanSickl...Joan VanSickle Sloan
The document discusses strategies for community outreach at libraries. It recommends that libraries make a list of their resources and services, determine the target audiences, and develop a marketing plan to inform users. Libraries should participate with other community organizations through board membership and event attendance. Specific outreach strategies mentioned include informational speakers, special events, exhibits, partnerships, and media relations. The goal is to increase library usage and engage more community members. When libraries reach out to the community, the community will in turn become engaged with the library.
Lighting Talks: Innovations in Digital ProjectsWiLS
Delivered for WiLSWorld 2018 on July 24th in Madison, WI by Laura Damon-Moore, Community Engagement Librarian, Madison Public Library; Ann Hanlon, Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives and DH Lab, UW-Milwaukee; Erin F. H. Hughes, Mukurtu Hub Manager, WiLS; Greg Kocken, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, UW-Eau Claire; Emily Pfotenhauer, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Randi Ramsden, Program Coordinator, National Digital Newspaper Program, Wisconsin Historical Society; Tamara Ramski, Digitization Assistant, South Central Library System; and Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collections, WiLS
This fast-paced session highlights new tools and innovative approaches Wisconsin libraries are using to create, share and preserve digital collections. Projects include efforts to collect oral histories and music memorabilia from community members, partnerships with local artists to reimagine digitized special collections, text mining of historical newspapers, managing Indigenous digital collections in culturally responsive ways, centralized digitization training and support for public libraries, and building LIS students’ skills in digital stewardship through hands-on fieldwork at small libraries, archives and museums around the state.
Presented at the Capital Region regional meeting in Brodhead, Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Council for Local History, August 14, 2014.
Digital Forsyth is a collaborative digital library between Winston Salem State University, Forsyth County Public Library, Wake Forest University, and Old Salem Museums and Gardens, funded by an LSTA grant. It contains over 15,000 digitized images and facilitates access to cultural and historical materials from Forsyth County through digitization. Its mission is to increase knowledge of the past and inform future generations by making collections accessible online. It aims to become the definitive online repository of cultural heritage resources in Forsyth County and provide openly licensed digital content to the community.
Exploring Cultural History Online -- Winding Rivers Library System Kickoff EventRecollection Wisconsin
Slides from the Winding Rivers Library system's Exploring Cultural History Online kickoff event, La Crosse, Wisconsin, June 19, 2014. The WRLS ECHO project is an LSTA-funded initiative to digitize photographs and postcards held by member libraries and local historical societies in the region. Presented by Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
Digital Forsyth is a collaborative digital library project between several cultural institutions in Forsyth County, North Carolina that has digitized over 15,000 images. Funded by an LSTA grant through NCEcho, the project's mission is to facilitate access to historical photograph collections through digitization in order to increase knowledge of the past and inform future generations. The project aims to become the definitive online repository of cultural heritage resources in Forsyth County. It provides educational and community services and works with local organizations to preserve and digitize historic resources through outreach programs and digitization centers.
Wisconsin Heritage Online (WHO) is a digital portal that aggregates metadata and digital content from local history collections across Wisconsin. It provides shared standards for digitization, metadata, and digital preservation. WHO works with various partners, including historical societies, museums, libraries, and the Wisconsin Historical Society, to digitize local history collections and make them accessible online. It also provides training and support to help smaller organizations overcome challenges to digitization. A new WHO website is being developed to provide a more engaging experience for exploring Wisconsin's local history and cultural heritage collections.
Presented by Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collection & Recollection Wisconsin for DPLAFest 2019 on Wednesday, April 17 in Chicago, IL.
Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC), a two-year, IMLS grant-funded program managed by WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin, a DPLA Service Hub for Wisconsin cultural heritage organizations. Launched in December 2017, CCDC aims to 1) provide digital stewardship practicum experience for information school graduate students; 2) to help small or under-resourced institutions in Wisconsin develop and sustain a digital preservation program; and 3) to build community around digital preservation work within Wisconsin and beyond.
Keynote presentation by Emily Pfotenhauer, WiLS, for a digital preservation symposium coordinated by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), November 2018. https://dat.nedcc.org/
This document summarizes a presentation given by Jamie Kohler and Stephen Marvin on promoting small museum content through digital social networking media. The presentation introduced Kohler from West Chester University's Special Collections and Archives and Marvin from the Sanderson Museum. It provided highlights about the Sanderson Museum collection and West Chester University's Special Collections. The presentation discussed potential partnerships between small museums and university collections, including sharing content online through sites like Facebook, blogs, and YouTube. It addressed issues like copyright and evaluating the effectiveness of partnerships. The goal was to explore how social networking technologies could help small museums and libraries reach wider audiences.
Digital Forsyth: An NCECHO Collaborative Multi-year Digitization ProjectSusan Smith
Through digitization, Digital Forsyth facilitates access to cultural, historical and scientific heritage photograph collections from Forsyth County institutions. It began as a 2004 brainstorming meeting between three Forsyth County libraries to improve services and increase interlibrary collaboration. After receiving planning and implementation grants, the collaboration digitized photographs while establishing best practices for governance, production workflows, and communication between partners. The website went public in 2007 and hopes to expand access and add educational components in future years.
The Oregon Explorer is a natural resources digital library that accesses and integrates data and content from state and federal agencies, local governments, university scientists and citizens to support informed decisions and actions. Presentation to the Greater Western Library Alliance (April, 2009).
To (too?) Public: library Marketing and Public Relations in Public Libraries Today. Presentation by Audrey Sutton, Manager Information and Culture, North Ayrshire Council, Scotland
Wisconsin and the Digital Public Library of AmericaWiLS
Ryan Claringbole, Public Library Technology Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Ann Hanlon, Head of Digital Collections and Initiatives, UW-Milwaukee
Paul Hedges, Emerging Technologies Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society
Moderator: Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS
The Digital Public Library of America is a national digital library of cultural heritage content from across the U.S., fed into the library by Hubs throughout the nation. Representatives from organizations across Wisconsin are currently creating such a Hub in the state. This panel will share information about DPLA and Wisconsin's next steps for participation.
Curating Community Digital Collections: Collaborating to Build Digital CapacityRecollection Wisconsin
The Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) initiative, sponsored by Recollection Wisconsin and supported by an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant, offers graduate students in the iSchool at UW-Madison and the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at UW-Milwaukee hands-on experience in digital stewardship and digital preservation through summer fieldwork placements at small libraries, archives and museums across Wisconsin.
In this panel, participating students and site supervisors shared their experiences and lessons learned from the Summer 2018 CCDC cohort. Presented at the Wisconsin Library Association annual meeting in La Crosse, October 2018.
Community Outreach for the Public History CenterKelli Ordonia
This powerpoint was created for THATCampFL 2013. The forum was designed to investigate potential tools for consolidating communication and strengthening community outreach for UCF's Public History Center. By analyzing the multiple stakeholders and immediate objectives involved, as well as previous research, participants could discuss the issues of pluralistic communications and how to effectively streamline efforts for further community outreach.
Digital Forsyth: A Partnership/Budgeting in a Collaborative GrantSusan Smith
a presentation made at the conference "From Theory to Practice: Accessing and Preserving Electronic Records and Digital Materials." The conference was in Raleigh, NC and was sponsored by the North Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources State Archives.
Digital Forsyth is a collaboration between cultural heritage institutions in Forsyth County, North Carolina to provide open access to over 15,000 digitized historical photographs. The collaboration includes Winston Salem State University, Forsyth County Public Library, and Wake Forest University. Digital Forsyth's mission is to increase public access to and knowledge of the county's cultural and scientific heritage through digitization. The vision is for Digital Forsyth to become the definitive online repository of cultural resources from Forsyth County institutions.
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1. Digital Forsyth
Through a Social Entrepreneurial Lens
Forsyth County Public Library
C. G. O’Kelly Library, Winston Salem State University
Old Salem Museum and Gardens
Z. Smith Reynolds Library/Coy C. Carpenter Library,
Wake Forest University
Susan Sharpless Smith
Digitizing our Cultural History
LLAMA Webinar
September 19, 2012
2. Project’s Genesis
• A 2004 brainstorming meeting among 3 Forsyth
County Libraries
– A desire to identify collaborative projects to
• Improve services to the community
• Increase opportunities for ongoing interlibrary interaction
– Outcome: Everyone had historic photo collections and
they were high demand items by our users
3. Project Framework
• Funded through LSTA Grants
(NCEcho)
– 2005 Planning Grant
– 2006-2009 Multiyear Collaborative Grant
• Planning Grant formed framework
that was used for the digitization grant
4. Project Mission
Through digitization, Digital Forsyth, a collaboration of
cultural heritage institutions in Forsyth County, North
Carolina, facilitates access to cultural, historical and scientific
heritage photograph collections, thereby increasing interest
in and knowledge of the past and informing future
generations.
Project Vision
Users will turn to Digital Forsyth as the definitive online
repository of cultural heritage resources held by
Forsyth County institutions.
5. Project Processes
• Decentralized production
• Centralized grant administration
• Cross institution collaborative workgroups
• Major process goal: Rich user experience
– Infrastructure vs. public interface
– Creating rich data
– Leveraging educational value
16. Contact Information
Susan Sharpless Smith
Associate Dean
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
smithss@wfu.edu
Editor's Notes
Today I will be talking about a grant funded collaborative multi-year digitization project: Digital Forsyth. The primary goal of this project was to develop a comprehensive online digital collection of photographs pertaining to the history of Forsyth County, North Carolina- ranging from the 19th to 21st centuries. The participating institutions are all located in Winston-Salem, NC and all hold significant complementary pictorial collections that document over 100 years of history in the county. Through this project, 4 institutions (and 5 libraries) wanted to assimilate a shared presentation of Forsyth County history that would exhibit local, regional and statewide value to North Carolina citizens, students, scholars and lifelong learners. The four institutions are listed on this slide:Forsyth County Public LibraryCG O’Kelly Library @ Winston-Salem State University (an HBCU)Wake Forest University: 2 libraries participated: Z. Smith Reynolds (which is the largest and serves the undergraduate and graduate schools and professional students within the Wake Forest Schools of Business and Accountancy, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Wake Forest Divinity School.Coy C. Carpenter Library serves the WFU School of MedicineThe last partner (that joined in the final year of the grant) was Old Salem Museum and Gardens features a living history museum that interprets the restored Moravian community. Over the course of the grant period (2006-2009), the institutions digitized, described and provided free online access to over 12,800 historic images.I’d like to begin by giving a very brief history of the project and its collaborative aspects, and then spend time discussing how we tackled designing a product that engaged our audience and included them in the process. I’ll wrap up by briefly describing another project that resulted from discoveries we made about community needs that bubbled up over the course of the project.
We made a conscious decision to combine a centralized and decentralized approach. Because our Library had experience in digitization and grant administration, the grant was administered by us and the technical portion of the project was led by us. We established working groups that had representation from each institution and each institution led at least one group (at least in the beginning!): Steering Committee (directors/deans)Project management teamInfrastructure, developed the technical framework that enabled the individual collections to act as an integrate whole: handled technical specifications for delivery of the objects and metadata, developed preservation solutions, etc.Collections, the collections team created selection criteria for choosing photographs, did the selection and initial descriptions, developed subject facets, ensured copyright complianceUser services: user services team conducted surveys and focus groups that would inform the creation of the public interface.Year 3, separate committees were formed for marketing and to develop the educational components for the project.Actual production took place at each individual location. Within each individual institution, the Digital Forsyth participants met regularly and established a workflow that suited their respective physical locations. Following initial central training, each location managed retraining, quality control and hiring/supervision of their scanning and metadata technicians.Today, I particularly want to highlight the work done that impacted the user experience. I want to tell you about three of the processes that were integral in building our user environment: the back-end and public technology, creating rich data, and leveraging educational value
From the beginning, we knew that we would need to create a custom public interface if we wanted to have a product that allowed users to interact with the site. Keep in mind that this was occurring back in 2008.This meant careful planning to design and execute the technology that would deliver a rich experience while providing the framework to protect and preserve the data. Let’s talk about the infrastructure we put in place first.In 2005, ZSR Library already had a digital asset management system in place (Curator by Endeavor, both of which are now defunct). But even though this system was obsolete before the end of the project, it did a great job managing the data and ensuring its portability. It allowed for a variety of metadata standards including Qualified Dublin Core, it included support for a variety of media types, supported OAI harvesting and was XML based. However, as is true with many of these systems, the default public interface design was not highly customizable and was unable to be programed to reflect the experience we wanted for our users. Early-on in the project, the decision was made to look to WordPress as the solution for the public interface. More about that soon!By the time Curator was discontinued, we were already live and using WordPress. So we just needed to pick a replacement that would serve as the backend management system. DSpace was chosen as the new “backend system” not least because we could migrate the data into it without compromising it to any extent.Any of you who are familiar with DSpace are aware that there is a public interface, but know it is clunky to use. This slide shows a screen shot of one of our DF images and the accompanying metadata. We never intended for this to be the way users would use Digital Forsyth, but because our Library uses the system for our other digital collections and institutional repository, the DF data co-exists in the larger system. However, the sole purpose of DSpace for the Digital Forsyth project was for cataloging and archival storage of the digital objects and metadata.
As I mentioned on the last slide, a customized version of WordPress has served as the project’s public interface since it was first introduced in late summer 2007. This screenshot shows the same image as I displayed on the previous slide using the Dpace interface. To use WordPress our technical team adapted custom fields min WordPress to qualified Dublin core. Data underwent a mass export from DSpace and then was pulled into WordPress through its import function. We were able to map the categories because WordPress has a hierarchical category structure.The interface was developed through working with user focus groups. Over the course of the grant, there were 2 major interface updates.
Naturally, we were interested in creating rich data to maximize access to the photos in the combined collections. Creating the process for this was the biggest challenge in the entire project. The cross-institutional Collections Team was charged with creating a workable process for applying metadata consistently across the libraries. Initially, this was not a huge challenge in regard to the basic metadata creation (shown on the right of this slide). We used qualified Dublin Core and the team formed a consensus on which fields to use and how best to populate those fields.The challenge came in the creation and application of subject categories that were formed to create browsable facets (shown on the left side of the screen). It wasn’t too difficult to decide on the 12 top level categories. The interesting (and sometime frustrating) part came in forming the second level categories. There are so many possibilities for creating access points into a photograph that deciding how to describe it can become a complex puzzle. Photos provide information that can’t be found in any other medium. Users aren’t necessarily looking strictly for the overt image subject. They might be researching architectural styles, fashion, social issues or even color. It was easy to get carried away creating categories (not to mention getting bogged down in minutia) and even more challenging to communicate new ones across institutions. We finally limited to two levels with the third level being the specific item. In the final year of the grant, we hired a person whose sole goal was to normalize the categories across the 5 libraries’ records.I also want to point out (while I’m on this screen), our use of a word cloud to help users find what they are looking for. Unlike a traditional word cloud, where the largest words indicate the most used words, ours was flipped. The largest words indicate higher specificity of the word. So you’ll see that Forsyth County (which was used on most records) has over 11,000 uses, while “Adam Spach Rock House” only has 4, so the user can easily locate images related to the one being displayed.
Another of the primary goals of the project from the beginning was to create a site that would be used by people for educational purposes. Although it might have been enough to simply market the site so that users would know it was available, we felt that we wanted to add value by incorporating contextual materials that could enrich the use of the site. We knew that the k-12 curriculum includes units on state and local history. To that end, in the final year of the grant, we worked with LearnNC to hold a teacher workshop to create lesson plans. NCLearn is a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education program. It provides lesson plans, professional development, and innovative web resources to support teachers, build community, and improve K-12 education in North Carolina.We recruited potential participants through the Forsyth County school system. 60 applications were submitted and 28 participants were selected. We provided pre-workshop training videos and then a full-day workshop was held and 26 lesson plans were created and made available on the DF site.
Now, I’d like to “show” you some of the interface features that we incorporated to get users involved with the site and its content:Telling StoriesCommunity photo sharingUser Commenting
As I mentioned, we were interested in including contextual material that would add value to our users.In addition to the educational lesson plan component, we wanted to include essays that would intertwine themes among the different collections and bring greater comprehensive understanding the county’s history. We hired several professional writers to research and write about themes that had been developed by the collections team.By the end of the grant, 32 of these had been published on the site. LearnNC points to these from their site.
Because the grant limited the inclusion of photos to those already part of the libraries’ collections, when users began contacting us about how to include their images, we had to think creatively about this. We turned to Flickr and set up a Digital Forsyth group where people who used Flickr could tag their images with our group. Our site has a community page where the 20 most recently submitted Flickr photos are embedded. Periodically, I go out to Flickr and search for new images that would enhance the group’s collection and invite the photographer to submit it. Currently the group has 64 members and over 1260 photos.
We wanted users to interact with the content of the site. If any of you work with photo collections, you know that often they are lacking basic information about where and what they are picturing, as well as who is in them. One of the reasons we selected WordPress was because it already had commenting functionality built in. Our hopes were that users would want to make comments AND that they would assist us by identifying additional information in the images. We’ve had 550 user comments submitted since we started. Users recognize relatives and friends, correct us on the location of buildings and tell their stories that the images bring to mind.Examples“I used to love looking at the WTOB tower at Christmas. I could see it from my grandmother’s back porch on Maplewood Ave. I was told the reason it was taken down was that ice would form on the tower and would fall on the cars parked below. Somehow that reason was just not enough for a little girl who loved the pretty lights. So happy to stumble upon this picture!”In response to a photo of a building burning: “I was born on that day and my Dad was watching the fire instead of being at the hospital while I was born!”“The plane that Truman flew in was a DC 6. My father worked for Douglas Aircraft. He helped remove the upholstery that was in the plane after Truman left office. He took home the scraps of material my mother made them into a hook rug.”The comments continue to come in on a regular basis and provide us with a qualitative viewpoint of the ongoing impact of this project. On our end, each “owning” library responds to the comments that come from the image in their particular collection.
Thanks to Google Analytics, we are able to gather more than qualitative impressions of impact. We have captured usage data via Google analytics since August 2008, about one year after the site went live to the public. This screenshot shows North Carolina use since 2008.Worldwide, we have had over 171,000 unique visits ad 46,700 of those are return visits. In North Carolina there have been 101,597 and Winston-Salem accounts for 26% of total visits.How do they get here?65% come in as the result of a search16% come from a referral from other websitesfacebook and the partner institutions’ websites), there are 1370 referring sites17% are from direct trafficTotal visits: 217,700, unique: 171,200Page visits: 7.41New visits: 78%Return visits: 46,700Unique Pageviews: 1,218,530North Carolina: 101,987, 46% of total pages; page visits: 11.35; visit duration 5:51.Winston-Salem: 46,870, 21.6% of total; page visits: 13.17 (site average 7.4); visit duration 6.48 (site avg. 3.47);
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