EZID makes it simple for researchers and others to obtain and manage long-term identifiers for their digital content. The service can create and resolve identifiers, and it also allows entry and maintenance of information about the identifier (metadata). This presentation was given as part of a webinar series.
Technology & Archives: Exchange Forum Programmer & Archivist CollaborationMatthew Critchlow
Technology and Archives: Exchange Forum - Programmer & Archivist Collaboration
Robin Chandler, UC Santa Cruz Library (Facilitator)
Kim Klausner, Industry Documents Digital Libraries, UC San Francisco
Sven Maier, Industry Documents Digital Libraries, UC San Francisco
Cristela Garcia-Spitz, UC San Diego Library
Matt Critchlow, UC San Diego Library
We live in the era when digital collections became the norm in all archives and libraries. They may contain digitized materials or be born-digital. Regardless of their nature archivists are charged with processing, preserving, and providing access to them. Many archives have been undergoing a shift from working with a stand-alone IT department or consultants to a new organizational structure. Increasingly, archival teams include programmers and developers who are now embedded in archives and libraries. Two teams from UCSF and UCSD, each consisting of an archivist and a programmer, will discuss their collaboration, how they found a “common language,” and share their experience of bridging different working cultures and styles. Successful collaboration between these two groups ensures better understanding of user needs and efficient service to the public. This forum will include presentations by four featured speakers, along with a facilitated discussion between the panel and the audience.
*Session handout available here: http://www.calarchivists.org/Resources/Documents/SCA2014session4_handout.pdf
Covers the development of the UC San Diego Library Digital Asset Management System -- from local dark archive to a repository with a public interface supporting material in multiple format types including traditional digital collections as well research data sets.
To facilitate data sharing from within the University of California system and beyond, the University of California Curation Center (UC3) is developing a new ingest and discovery layer for our data curation service, Dash. Dash uses the Merritt repository for preservation and a self-service overlay layer for submission and discovery of research datasets. The new overlay– dubbed Stash (STore And SHare)– will feature an enhanced user interface with a simple and intuitive deposit workflow, while still accommodating rich metadata. Stash will enable individual scholars to upload data through local file browse or drag-and-drop operation; describe data in terms of scientifically-meaning metadata, including methods, references, and geospatial information; identify datasets for persistent citation and retrieval; preserve and share data in an appropriate repository; and discover, retrieve, and reuse data through faceted search and browse. Stash can be implemented in conjunction with any standards-compliant repository that supports the SWORD protocol for deposit and the OAI-PMH protocol for metadata harvesting. Stash will feature native support for the DataCite or Dublin Core metadata schemas, but is designed to accommodate other schemas to support discipline-specific applications. By alleviating many of the barriers that have historically precluded wider adoption of open data principles, Stash empowers individual scholars to assert active curation control over their research outputs; encourages more widespread data preservation, publication, sharing, and reuse; and promotes open scholarly inquiry and advancement.
EZID makes it simple for researchers and others to obtain and manage long-term identifiers for their digital content. The service can create and resolve identifiers, and it also allows entry and maintenance of information about the identifier (metadata). This presentation was given as part of a webinar series.
Technology & Archives: Exchange Forum Programmer & Archivist CollaborationMatthew Critchlow
Technology and Archives: Exchange Forum - Programmer & Archivist Collaboration
Robin Chandler, UC Santa Cruz Library (Facilitator)
Kim Klausner, Industry Documents Digital Libraries, UC San Francisco
Sven Maier, Industry Documents Digital Libraries, UC San Francisco
Cristela Garcia-Spitz, UC San Diego Library
Matt Critchlow, UC San Diego Library
We live in the era when digital collections became the norm in all archives and libraries. They may contain digitized materials or be born-digital. Regardless of their nature archivists are charged with processing, preserving, and providing access to them. Many archives have been undergoing a shift from working with a stand-alone IT department or consultants to a new organizational structure. Increasingly, archival teams include programmers and developers who are now embedded in archives and libraries. Two teams from UCSF and UCSD, each consisting of an archivist and a programmer, will discuss their collaboration, how they found a “common language,” and share their experience of bridging different working cultures and styles. Successful collaboration between these two groups ensures better understanding of user needs and efficient service to the public. This forum will include presentations by four featured speakers, along with a facilitated discussion between the panel and the audience.
*Session handout available here: http://www.calarchivists.org/Resources/Documents/SCA2014session4_handout.pdf
Covers the development of the UC San Diego Library Digital Asset Management System -- from local dark archive to a repository with a public interface supporting material in multiple format types including traditional digital collections as well research data sets.
To facilitate data sharing from within the University of California system and beyond, the University of California Curation Center (UC3) is developing a new ingest and discovery layer for our data curation service, Dash. Dash uses the Merritt repository for preservation and a self-service overlay layer for submission and discovery of research datasets. The new overlay– dubbed Stash (STore And SHare)– will feature an enhanced user interface with a simple and intuitive deposit workflow, while still accommodating rich metadata. Stash will enable individual scholars to upload data through local file browse or drag-and-drop operation; describe data in terms of scientifically-meaning metadata, including methods, references, and geospatial information; identify datasets for persistent citation and retrieval; preserve and share data in an appropriate repository; and discover, retrieve, and reuse data through faceted search and browse. Stash can be implemented in conjunction with any standards-compliant repository that supports the SWORD protocol for deposit and the OAI-PMH protocol for metadata harvesting. Stash will feature native support for the DataCite or Dublin Core metadata schemas, but is designed to accommodate other schemas to support discipline-specific applications. By alleviating many of the barriers that have historically precluded wider adoption of open data principles, Stash empowers individual scholars to assert active curation control over their research outputs; encourages more widespread data preservation, publication, sharing, and reuse; and promotes open scholarly inquiry and advancement.
Handout for adventures in digital curationmegmeiman
This handout accompanies the presentation "Adventures in Digital Curation," which outlines some steps for those new to digital curation (i.e., preserving and providing access to digital collections). The presentation was for the Digital Conversion Interest Group, sponsored by ALCTS-PARS, and was given at the American Library Association Conference in Anaheim, California on June 23, 2012. All content in the handout and accompanying presentation are Creative Commons licensed (CC-BY-SA).
This presentation was provided by Lettie Conrad of Maverick Publishing Specialists, during the NISO Hot Topic Virtual Conference "The User Experience: Just Fix It." The event was held on January 26, 2022.
Scratchpads: the Virtual Research Environment for biodiversity dataVince Smith
Rycroft, S., Roberts, D., Smith, V., Heaton, A., Bouton, K., Livermore, L., Koureas, D., Baker, E. 2013. Scratchpads: the Virtual Research Environment for biodiversity data. TDWG, Biodiversity Information Standards. Grand Hotel Mediterraneo Florence, Italy, 27 Oct - 1 Nov., 2013.
Agri-Profiles: Agricultural tacit knowledge discovery toolCIARD Movement
Federico Sancho, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture, presented Agri-Profiles: Agricultural tacit knowledge discovery tool at RDA 5th Plenary Meeting, IG Agriculture Data Interoperability Session in San Diego (CA, US) on the 9th of March 2015
Digitization Basics for Archives and Special Collections – Part 2: Store and ...WiLS
Bradley Shipps, Continuing Education and Outreach Librarian, Outagamie Waupaca Library System
This is the second part of a two-part, full-day workshop introducing the core elements of creating digital collections of historic photographs, documents and other archival materials. Part 2 focuses on sharing your digitized materials with the world and steps you can take to ensure that they’ll remain usable and accessible into the future. We’ll define metadata and why it’s important, and consider approaches to creating descriptive metadata for discovery of historical resources. We’ll examine the issue of digital preservation, including practical steps you can take to preserve your digital content with limited resources. And we’ll think about digitization as a path to community engagement, including reaching out to your community for content and promoting your digital collections to your users.
Active Digital Preservation and Data/Metadata MigrationKaren Estlund
Presentation by Nick Ruest and Karen Estlund at spring 2017 Coalition for Networked Information meeting on digital preservation, Fedora, and import / export efforts.
Playing History: Lets Build An Open Collaborative Repository Of Historical GamesTrevor Owens
A flurry of interest has arisen around the potential of digital games, simulations and interactives to promote humanities learning. Foundations and universities have invested millions of dollars into developing these games, yet many are built, tested, and promptly shelved, played by only a handful of students during the pilot testing phase. There is no comprehensive directory to connect teachers with these resources. If high quality educational games are to reach teachers and their students, there is a clear need to build a collaborative directory for sharing information. PlayingHistory.org is on track to be exactly this sort of directory, but we can use your help ensure it's success. I will give a walk-through of the site wireframes and functionality, and participants can try out the 30 game sample set. This session will expose AAHC members to a variety of historical games and lay a foundation for members involvement in both using the site as a resource for their own classes and as historian game reviewers.
Slides for an invited presentation I gave to the the National Archives and Records Administration’s Online Public Access (OPA) Integrated Product Team in College Park, MD in 2013.
Digital Preservation's Role in the Future of the Digital HumanitiesTrevor Owens
Slides from an invited presentation I gave to the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool.
"Ensuring long term access to digital information sounds like a technical problem. It seems like digital preservation should be a computer science problem. Far from it. In this lecture Trevor Owens, a digital archivist at the Library of Congress argues that digital preservation is in fact a core problem and issue at the heart of the future of the digital humanities. Bringing together perspectives from the history of technology, new media studies, public history, and archival theory, he suggests the critical role that humanities scholars and practitioners should play in framing and shaping the collection, organization, description, and modes of access to the historically contingent digital material records of contemporary society."
Handout for adventures in digital curationmegmeiman
This handout accompanies the presentation "Adventures in Digital Curation," which outlines some steps for those new to digital curation (i.e., preserving and providing access to digital collections). The presentation was for the Digital Conversion Interest Group, sponsored by ALCTS-PARS, and was given at the American Library Association Conference in Anaheim, California on June 23, 2012. All content in the handout and accompanying presentation are Creative Commons licensed (CC-BY-SA).
This presentation was provided by Lettie Conrad of Maverick Publishing Specialists, during the NISO Hot Topic Virtual Conference "The User Experience: Just Fix It." The event was held on January 26, 2022.
Scratchpads: the Virtual Research Environment for biodiversity dataVince Smith
Rycroft, S., Roberts, D., Smith, V., Heaton, A., Bouton, K., Livermore, L., Koureas, D., Baker, E. 2013. Scratchpads: the Virtual Research Environment for biodiversity data. TDWG, Biodiversity Information Standards. Grand Hotel Mediterraneo Florence, Italy, 27 Oct - 1 Nov., 2013.
Agri-Profiles: Agricultural tacit knowledge discovery toolCIARD Movement
Federico Sancho, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture, presented Agri-Profiles: Agricultural tacit knowledge discovery tool at RDA 5th Plenary Meeting, IG Agriculture Data Interoperability Session in San Diego (CA, US) on the 9th of March 2015
Digitization Basics for Archives and Special Collections – Part 2: Store and ...WiLS
Bradley Shipps, Continuing Education and Outreach Librarian, Outagamie Waupaca Library System
This is the second part of a two-part, full-day workshop introducing the core elements of creating digital collections of historic photographs, documents and other archival materials. Part 2 focuses on sharing your digitized materials with the world and steps you can take to ensure that they’ll remain usable and accessible into the future. We’ll define metadata and why it’s important, and consider approaches to creating descriptive metadata for discovery of historical resources. We’ll examine the issue of digital preservation, including practical steps you can take to preserve your digital content with limited resources. And we’ll think about digitization as a path to community engagement, including reaching out to your community for content and promoting your digital collections to your users.
Active Digital Preservation and Data/Metadata MigrationKaren Estlund
Presentation by Nick Ruest and Karen Estlund at spring 2017 Coalition for Networked Information meeting on digital preservation, Fedora, and import / export efforts.
Playing History: Lets Build An Open Collaborative Repository Of Historical GamesTrevor Owens
A flurry of interest has arisen around the potential of digital games, simulations and interactives to promote humanities learning. Foundations and universities have invested millions of dollars into developing these games, yet many are built, tested, and promptly shelved, played by only a handful of students during the pilot testing phase. There is no comprehensive directory to connect teachers with these resources. If high quality educational games are to reach teachers and their students, there is a clear need to build a collaborative directory for sharing information. PlayingHistory.org is on track to be exactly this sort of directory, but we can use your help ensure it's success. I will give a walk-through of the site wireframes and functionality, and participants can try out the 30 game sample set. This session will expose AAHC members to a variety of historical games and lay a foundation for members involvement in both using the site as a resource for their own classes and as historian game reviewers.
Slides for an invited presentation I gave to the the National Archives and Records Administration’s Online Public Access (OPA) Integrated Product Team in College Park, MD in 2013.
Digital Preservation's Role in the Future of the Digital HumanitiesTrevor Owens
Slides from an invited presentation I gave to the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool.
"Ensuring long term access to digital information sounds like a technical problem. It seems like digital preservation should be a computer science problem. Far from it. In this lecture Trevor Owens, a digital archivist at the Library of Congress argues that digital preservation is in fact a core problem and issue at the heart of the future of the digital humanities. Bringing together perspectives from the history of technology, new media studies, public history, and archival theory, he suggests the critical role that humanities scholars and practitioners should play in framing and shaping the collection, organization, description, and modes of access to the historically contingent digital material records of contemporary society."
Archives work is messy -- in many cases archivists have to organize and make accessible large amounts of mixed data in a variety of formats, both physical and digital. Thankfully, there are a variety of technology tools available to help solve the messiness problem and make collections more accessible. In this session, audience members will learn about current and emerging archival technology tools, the pros and cons of the major tools, and resources for further education.
Technologie Proche: Imagining the Archival Systems of Tomorrow With the Tools...Artefactual Systems - AtoM
These slides accompanied a June 4th, 2016 presentation made by Dan Gillean of Artefactual Systems at the Association of Canadian Archivists' 2016 Conference in Montreal, QC, Canada.
This presentation aims to examine several existing or emerging computing paradigms, with specific examples, to imagine how they might inform next-generation archival systems to support digital preservation, description, and access. Topics covered include:
- Distributed Version Control and git
- P2P architectures and the BitTorrent protocol
- Linked Open Data and RDF
- Blockchain technology
The session is part of an attempt by the ACA to create interactive "working sessions" at its conferences. Accompanying notes can be found at: http://bit.ly/tech-Proche
Participants were also asked to use the Twitter hashtag of #techProche for online interaction during the session.
Open Archival Information Service (OAIS) workshop. Presented by Suzanne Butte, OCLC Library Services Consultant. Sponsored by ALA Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Roundtable (FAFLRT). Presented on June 15, 2002 at ALA Annual Conference.
Slide deck from presentation on Oct 8, 2015 at Johns Hopkins University. Topic is Digital Curation in Art Museums: Technology, People, Process. #jhudigcur
Slides from our tutorial on Linked Data generation in the energy domain, presented at the Sustainable Places 2014 conference on October 2nd in Nice, France
What are other universities doing to support RDM?Sarah Jones
Presentation given at an RDM workshop for support staff run with the ADMIRe project at Nottingham. The presentation covers what RDM support and services UK universities are developing.
Information technology and resources are an integral and indispensable part of the contemporary academic enterprise. In particular, technological advances have nurtured a new paradigm of data-intensive research. However, far too much of this activity still takes place in silos, to the detriment of open scholarly inquiry, integrity, and advancement. To counteract this tendency, the University of California Curation Center (UC3) has been developing and deploying a comprehensive suite of curation services that facilitate widespread data management, preservation, publication, sharing, and reuse. Through these services UC3 is engaging with new communities of use: in addition to its traditional stakeholders in cultural heritage memory organizations, e.g., libraries, museums, and archives, the UC3 service suite is now attracting significant adoption by research projects, laboratories, and individual faculty researchers. This webinar will present an introduction to five specific services – DMPTool, DataUp, EZID, Merritt, Web Archiving Service (WAS) – applicable to data curation throughout the scholarly lifecycle, two recent initiatives in collaboration with UC campuses, UC Berkeley Research Hub and UC San Francisco DataShare, and the ways in which they encourage and promote new communities of practice and greater transparency in scholarly research.
RDMkit, a Research Data Management Toolkit. Built by the Community for the ...Carole Goble
https://datascience.nih.gov/news/march-data-sharing-and-reuse-seminar 11 March 2022
Starting in 2023, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require institutes and researchers receiving funding to include a Data Management Plan (DMP) in their grant applications, including the making their data publicly available. Similar mandates are already in place in Europe, for example a DMP is mandatory in Horizon Europe projects involving data.
Policy is one thing - practice is quite another. How do we provide the necessary information, guidance and advice for our bioscientists, researchers, data stewards and project managers? There are numerous repositories and standards. Which is best? What are the challenges at each step of the data lifecycle? How should different types of data? What tools are available? Research Data Management advice is often too general to be useful and specific information is fragmented and hard to find.
ELIXIR, the pan-national European Research Infrastructure for Life Science data, aims to enable research projects to operate “FAIR data first”. ELIXIR supports researchers across their whole RDM lifecycle, navigating the complexity of a data ecosystem that bridges from local cyberinfrastructures to pan-national archives and across bio-domains.
The ELIXIR RDMkit (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org (link is external)) is a toolkit built by the biosciences community, for the biosciences community to provide the RDM information they need. It is a framework for advice and best practice for RDM and acts as a hub of RDM information, with links to tool registries, training materials, standards, and databases, and to services that offer deeper knowledge for DMP planning and FAIR-ification practices.
Launched in March 2021, over 120 contributors have provided nearly 100 pages of content and links to more than 300 tools. Content covers the data lifecycle and specialized domains in biology, national considerations and examples of “tool assemblies” developed to support RDM. It has been accessed by over 123 countries, and the top of the access list is … the United States.
The RDMkit is already a recommended resource of the European Commission. The platform, editorial, and contributor methods helped build a specialized sister toolkit for infectious diseases as part of the recently launched BY-COVID project. The toolkit’s platform is the simplest we could manage - built on plain GitHub - and the whole development and contribution approach tailored to be as lightweight and sustainable as possible.
In this talk, Carole and Frederik will present the RDMkit; aims and context, content, community management, how folks can contribute, and our future plans and potential prospects for trans-Atlantic cooperation.
Data policy must be partnered with data practice. Our researchers need to be the best informed in order to meet these new data management and data sharing mandates.
The thorough integration of information technology and resources into scientific workflows has nurtured a new paradigm of data-intensive science. However, far too much research activity still takes place in silos, to the detriment of open scientific inquiry and advancement. Data-intensive science would be facilitated by more universal adoption of good data management practices ensuring the ongoing viability and usability of all legitimate research outputs, including data, and the encouragement of data publication and sharing for reuse. The centerpiece of such data sharing is the digital repository, acting as the foundation for external value-added services supporting and promoting effective data acquisition, publication, discovery, and dissemination. Since a general-purpose curation repository will not be able to offer the same level of specialized user experience provided by disciplinary tools and portals, a layered model built on a stable repository core is an appropriate division of labor, taking best advantage of the relative strengths of the concerned systems.
The Merritt repository, operated by the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library (CDL), functions as a curation core for several data sharing initiatives, including the eScholarship open access publishing platform, the DataONE network, and the Open Context archaeological portal. This presentation with highlight two recent examples of external integration for purposes of research data sharing: DataShare, an open portal for biomedical data at UC, San Francisco; and Research Hub, an Alfresco-based content management system at UC, Berkeley. They both significantly extend Merritt’s coverage of the full research data lifecycle and workflows, both upstream, with augmented capabilities for data description, packaging, and deposit; and downstream, with enhanced domain-specific discovery. These efforts showcase the catalyzing effect that coupled integration of curation repositories and well-known public disciplinary search environments can have on research data sharing and scientific advancement.
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Caring for Digital Collections in the AnthropoceneTrevor Owens
The craft of digital preservation and digital collections care is anchored in the past. It builds off the records, files, and works of those who came before us and those who designed and set up the systems that enable the creation, transmission, and rendering of their work. At the same time, the craft of digital preservation is also the work of a futurist. We must look to the past trends in the ebb and flow of the development of digital media and hedge our bets on how digital technologies of the future will play out. This talk explores key issues for exploring and imagining that future. We start with consideration of some key emerging technologies relevant to digital collections and then zoom out to consider the future of digital collections in the context of technologies of surveillance, precarity of both cultural heritage institutions and cultural heritage workers in the context of neoliberalism, and then explore the broad set of challenges facing the future of collections stemming from the increasing effects of anthropogenic climate change. Drawing on frameworks for maintenance, care, and repair this talk concludes with an opportunity to reflect on and consider how memory and information workers should approach the digital present and future of our institutions and professions.
Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation Lightning TalkTrevor Owens
I’m thrilled and honored to be a finalist for the Dutch Digital Heritage Network Award for Teaching and Communications for my book, The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation. This is particularly significant to me for two reasons. First, I started out on this book directly as a teaching and communications effort and second because the international digital preservation community that DPC supports and encourages has been so vital in helping me develop and refine the ideas in this book. For this talk, I’m going to give a little context of where the book came from, how it was developed, and the overwhelming response I’ve received for it all of which I think make it a good fit for this particular award.
Testing Our Assumptions: The Centrality of Design Thinking and Scholarship fo...Trevor Owens
Research libraries are vital infrastructure enabling the development and dissemination of knowledge. They are simultaneously essential to the function of institutions of learning and themselves institutions that must grow and learn. In this context, librarianship must involve dynamic and empirically driven applied research and testing to improve our knowledge ecosystem. This talk explores how developments in human centered design, systems thinking for social change, frameworks for collaborative applied research, and service design can inform a general approach to the role of librarians in research institutions. Collectively, these areas of work support a vision of librarians at research institutions as both enablers of knowledge production and producers of essential new knowledge and scholarship.
Slides for the Libraries Research and Innovative Practice Forum at the University of Maryland.
We Have Interesting Problems: Some Applied Grand Challenges from Digital Libr...Trevor Owens
Libraries, Archives and Museums now have massive digital
holdings. There is tremendous potential for library and
information science, computer science and computer engineering
researchers to partner with cultural heritage institutions and
make our digital cultural record more useful and usable. In
particular, there is a significant need to bridge basic research in
areas such as computer vision, crowdsourcing, natural language
processing, multilingual OCR, and machine learning to make this
work directly usable in the practices of cultural heritage
institutions. In this talk, I discuss a series of exemplar projects,
largely funded through the Institute of Museum and Library
Services National Digital Platform initiative, that illustrate some
key principles for building applied research partnerships with
cultural heritage institutions. Building on Ben Schniderman’s
The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough
Collaborations, I focus specifically on why the public purpose
and missions of cultural heritage institutions are particularly
valuable in establishing new kinds of collaborations that can
simultaneously advance basic research and the ability for people
of the world to engage with their cultural record.
Start Today: Digital Stewardship Communities & CollaborationsTrevor Owens
The increasingly digital records of our communities and our organizations require all of us to become digital stewardship and digital preservation practitioners. The challenge seems daunting but the good news is we don’t have to do it alone. A distributed network of practitioners and learners across the country are increasingly finding ways to learn together and share and pool their resources to tackle these challenges and provide enduring access to our digital heritage. Owens’ talk will provide examples of how archivists are rising to the challenge and practical guidance for both digital preservation beginners and experts.
Scientists’ Hard Drives, Databases, and Blogs: Preservation Intent and Source...Trevor Owens
Carl Sagan’s WordPerfect files, simulations emailed to Edward Lorenz, a database application from the National Library of Medicine, a collection of science blogs, a database of interstellar distances; each of these digital artifacts have been acquired by archives and special collections. Born digital primary sources are no longer a future concern for archivists, librarians, curators and historians. As historians of science turn their attention to the late 20th and early 21st century, they will need to work from these born-digital primary sources. We have already accumulated a significant born digital past and it’s time for work with born digital primary sources to become mainstream. This presentation will give a quick tour of individual born digital artifacts toward two goals. First, I argue for the need for archivists, curators and librarians to reflexively develop approaches to establishing preservation intent for digital content grounded in a dialog with the nature of a given set of digital objects and it’s future research use. Second, for historians, I suggest how trends in computational analysis of information in the digital humanities should be combined with approaches from digital forensics and new media studies to establish historiographic practices for born-digital source criticism. I conclude by suggesting the kinds of technical skills archivists, librarians, curators and historians working with these materials are going to need to develop. Just as historians working with premodern documents require language and paleography skills, historians working with digital artefacts will increasingly need to understand the inscription processes of hard drives, the provenance created by web crawlers, and how to read relational databases of varying vintages.
Platform Thinking: Frameworks for a National Digital Platform State of MindTrevor Owens
Talk presented as a closing keynote to the Biodiversity Heritage Library's National Digital Stewardship Residency program meeting at the National Museum of Natural History. This talk reviews the National Digital Platform framework developed by US IMLS in collaboration with various library, archives and museum stakeholders and presents a series of additional conceptual frameworks on the role of software in society and psychology.
Digital Infrastructures that Embody Library Principles: The IMLS national dig...Trevor Owens
Digital library infrastructures must not simply work. They must also manifest the core principles of libraries and archives. Since 2014, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has engaged with stakeholders from diverse library communities to consider collaborative approaches to building digital library tools and services. The “national digital platform” for libraries, archives, and museums is the framework that resulted from these dialogs. One key feature of the national digital platform (NDP) is the anchoring of core library principles within the development of digital tools and services. This essay explores how NDP-funded projects enact library principles as part of the national framework.
The IMLS National Digital Platform & Your Library: Tools You Can UseTrevor Owens
As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. To this end, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is making substantial investments in developing collaborative and sustainable technical and social digital infrastructure for libraries through the National Digital Platform initiative. In this talk, you will learn about a series of digital tools, services, training opportunities and resources IMLS is funding through the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The presentation will focus on ongoing projects and efforts that you and your library can get involved in and make direct use of. It will also provide insight into how you could develop competitive proposals for projects that could be funded through this national effort.
Next Steps for IMLS's National Digital PlatformTrevor Owens
This keynote, at the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, provides and update on the National Digital Platform and 20 projects supported to enhance it. The national digital platform is a way of thinking about and approaching the digital capability and capacity of libraries across the US. In this sense, it is the combination of software applications, social and technical infrastructure, and staff expertise that provide library content and services to all users in the US. As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to digital content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. It is possible for each library in the country to leverage and benefit from the work of other libraries in shared digital services, systems, and infrastructure.
We need to bridge gaps between disparate pieces of the existing digital infrastructure, for increased efficiencies, cost savings, access, and services. To this end, IMLS is focusing on the national digital platform as an area of priority in the National Leadership Grants to Libraries program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program. We are eager to explore how this way of thinking and approaching infrastructure development can help states make the best use of the funds they receive through the Grants to States program. We’re also eager to work with other foundations and funders to maximize the impact of our federal investment
People, Communities and Platforms: Digital Cultural Heritage and the WebTrevor Owens
Libraries, archives and museums are sites of community memory. The first public computerized bulletin board system was called community memory. Trevor’s talk will explore the connections between the development of the web as a global knowledge base, the open source software movement, and digital strategy for libraries, archives and museums. This keynote talk will synthesize research on the history of online community software with practical experience working on open source digital library projects. This exploration underscores the essential role cultural heritage institutions need to play in this era of the web and some important distinctions between how the concept of community is deployed in discussions of the web.
Macroscopes and Distant Reading: Implications for Infrastructures to Support ...Trevor Owens
A talk exploring the implications for digital library infrastructures in the face of developments in how humanities scholars are engaging in computational research of library collections.
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.
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.
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1. Digital Projects in Special
Collections
SUSAN MCELRATH
UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
MARCH 7, 2012
2. Digital Collections, Exhibits, and Repositories
What is the difference?
Repository
multiple collections or institutions
Collection
one collection or theme
Exhibit
one theme – a selection of items
9. Digitization Project Planning
What work needs to be done;
How it will be done (according to which standards,
specifications, best practices);
Who should do the work (and where);
How long the work will take;
How much it will cost, both to "resource" the
infrastructure and to do the content conversion
http://www.ncecho.org/dig/guide_1planning.shtml
http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/II/
10. Components of Digitization Projects
Planning and Project Management
Selection
File Formats – master & access derivatives
Conservation Treatment
Reformatting
Metadata Design & Creation
Quality Control
Web Platform
Open source vs. proprietary systems
Preservation
11. Selection Criteria
Should they be digitized?
Research Value
May they be digitized?
Copyright status
Can they be digitized?
Condition
Format
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/6Reformatting/06Prese
rvationAndSelection.php
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september09/ooghe/09ooghe.html
12. Digitization Standards
Technical Standards
Federal Agency Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI)
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/
NARA
California Digital Library (CDL)
http://www.cdlib.org/services/dsc/tools/docs/cdl_gdi_v2.pdf
University of Colorado
https://www.cu.edu/digitallibrary/cudldigitizationbp.pdf
14. Web Platform Options
Open Source Software
OMEKA
Greenstone
DSpace
Fedora
Proprietary Software
Contentdm (OCLC)
Luna Insight
Digitool
15. Web Harvesting involves:
Identifying and collecting web resources
Providing search capability for archived web
collections
Managing and preserving web resources
16. Web Harvesting
The most common web archiving technique uses web
crawlers to automate the process of collecting web
pages. Web crawlers typically view web pages in the
same manner that users with a browser see the Web,
and therefore provide a comparatively simple
method of remotely harvesting web content.
17. Web Crawling Problems
Robots exclusion protocol may deny crawlers access
to portions of a website.
Large portions of a web site may be hidden in the
deep Web.
Crawler traps may cause a crawler to download an
infinite number of pages, so crawlers are usually
configured to limit the number of dynamic pages
they crawl.
Calendars often cause problems for crawlers.
18. Web Harvesting Resources
International Internet Preservation Consortium
http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving
Archive-It (Service)
www.archive-it.org