This talk was provided by Nettie Lagace, Associate Director for Programs, NISO, during a 2018 pre-conference sponsored by the Center for East Asian Libraries held on March 19. The pre-conference was entitled Electronic Resources Metadata Best Practices (ERMB).
The document discusses CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development), a global initiative to make agricultural research information widely accessible. It outlines CIARD's vision of open sharing of public agricultural research. CIARD works to coordinate partners' efforts, promote common standards, and create a global network of information collections. The document provides details on CIARD's activities, including its task forces, checklist of best practices, advocacy efforts, and RING registry of information sources. It emphasizes that CIARD aims to enhance agricultural innovation and knowledge exchange.
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.
OpenAIRE-COAR conference 2014: Aligning Repository Networks - RED CLARA/LaRef...OpenAIRE
La Referencia is a federated network of institutional repositories in Latin America comprising 8 countries. It aims to provide open access to the region's scientific production through interoperable national repositories. Key goals include developing sustainable funding, integrating new partners, increasing visibility of scientific output, and maintaining standards for preservation and information retrieval. Challenges include further institutionalizing the network at regional and national levels and achieving technical parity among members. Global alignment is envisioned to create a seamless research infrastructure supporting collaboration across borders.
Strategies for Establishing Partnerships for Digital Preservationlljohnston
Strategies and success metrics for developing digital preservation partnerships. Presentation given at the 2013 Educating Stewards of the Public Information Infrastructure (ESOPI) Symposium.
This talk was provided by Nettie Lagace, Associate Director for Programs, NISO, during a 2018 pre-conference sponsored by the Center for East Asian Libraries held on March 19. The pre-conference was entitled Electronic Resources Metadata Best Practices (ERMB).
The document discusses CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development), a global initiative to make agricultural research information widely accessible. It outlines CIARD's vision of open sharing of public agricultural research. CIARD works to coordinate partners' efforts, promote common standards, and create a global network of information collections. The document provides details on CIARD's activities, including its task forces, checklist of best practices, advocacy efforts, and RING registry of information sources. It emphasizes that CIARD aims to enhance agricultural innovation and knowledge exchange.
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.
OpenAIRE-COAR conference 2014: Aligning Repository Networks - RED CLARA/LaRef...OpenAIRE
La Referencia is a federated network of institutional repositories in Latin America comprising 8 countries. It aims to provide open access to the region's scientific production through interoperable national repositories. Key goals include developing sustainable funding, integrating new partners, increasing visibility of scientific output, and maintaining standards for preservation and information retrieval. Challenges include further institutionalizing the network at regional and national levels and achieving technical parity among members. Global alignment is envisioned to create a seamless research infrastructure supporting collaboration across borders.
Strategies for Establishing Partnerships for Digital Preservationlljohnston
Strategies and success metrics for developing digital preservation partnerships. Presentation given at the 2013 Educating Stewards of the Public Information Infrastructure (ESOPI) Symposium.
MetaArchive Cooperative: Case Study in CollaborationEducopia
MetaArchive Cooperative:
Case Study in
Collaboration
Sam Meister
Educopia Institute
2º Seminário de Preservação Comum de
Património Digital
Lisbon, Portugal
June 21-22, 2016
The document discusses plans to create a more effective platform for sharing research knowledge globally through several key activities. It aims to connect organizations that facilitate knowledge sharing, build their capacity to aggregate research, and create an enabling environment for open sharing of content. The proposal includes scoping the current intermediary sector, developing a global network of these organizations, opening up systems and data through an API, supporting collaborative technology, and promoting standards and advocacy to encourage open access and sharing of research.
The NISO began exploring issues around vocabulary development and maintenance in 2013. In 2014, they proposed three projects around vocabulary use and reuse, documentation, and preservation. These projects examine policies, social considerations, and guidance needed to support stable vocabularies. The groups aim to limit "orphan vocabularies" and provide recommendations for responsible long-term governance, documentation, and adoption of at-risk vocabularies. Educational webinars were held in 2015, and a draft of best practice recommendations is planned for fall 2016 to support interoperability and understanding of vocabulary management issues.
The technology of library and information networks.ppt finalYvonnie Canol
The document discusses different types of library and information networks:
1. Search service networks that allow users to search databases but not modify records or output.
2. Customized service networks that allow users to search, modify records for local use, and obtain printed and machine-readable products for their data.
3. Service center networks that provide training, consulting, and planning rather than direct automated services.
It also discusses trends in networking, such as vendors expanding services to new areas and interfaces between stand-alone systems and subnetworks that will eventually connect to a national network. As technology improves, more activities will be supported at regional and local levels through a distributed national database.
Penhleak chan s1 land governance data toolsmrlgregion
This document discusses the Open Development Initiative's (ODI) efforts to create a land information ecosystem using Linked Open Data in the Mekong region. The ODI platform provides maps, data visualizations and analyses to inform the public and promote evidence-based discussions on development issues. The ODI is partnering with the Land Portal to translate land terminology, expose data in semantic web formats, develop a SPARQL endpoint, and publish land-related research briefings. Challenges include supporting open data adoption locally, quality control, and coordinating content across platforms. Opportunities include extending the use of Linked Open Data to other topics.
This document summarizes a presentation about BioSharing, a resource within ELIXIR that monitors the development of standards, databases, and data policies. BioSharing aims to inform and educate users by providing a curated, searchable portal mapping the complex and evolving landscape of standards, databases, and data policies. It indicates the status of resources and tracks their evolution over time to help users make informed decisions.
The document is a continuing education activity report from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. It details a 1 hour non-credit continuing education program titled "Digital Habits of Public Library Members" that was attended online on October 7, 2015. The program discussed research from EBSCO on the digital habits of public library patrons and how those findings can help libraries support users' evolving needs.
Module 2B - Building GBIF Nodes III: strategically positioning your NodeAlberto González-Talaván
This document discusses strategically positioning GBIF Nodes. It emphasizes understanding the international and national relevance of GBIF, communicating the desired public image, and improving the Node's profile using media. Specifically, it discusses: (1) GBIF's role in relation to multilateral environmental agreements and science-policy bodies (2) how Nodes can support national priorities like legislation and policies (3) identifying target audiences and crafting consistent branding and messages through a Node's website, data portal, reports and other products (4) using various media like social media, newsletters, traditional media, and videos to engage audiences and drive traffic to the Node's website.
The document summarizes key aspects of the Vietnam Land Administration Project (VLAP) from 2008-2015. It provides background on the project, outlines major outputs such as 3.6 million land profiles prepared and 3 million land use right certificates distributed. It also discusses lessons learned, such as the importance of strong project management, building capacity, and managing approval processes to avoid delays and cost overruns. Next steps proposed include focusing on a sustainable land administration system with emphasis on access and service delivery.
"Standards landscape" NIF Big Data 2 Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative, Sep, 2013Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Overview of the landscape of standards in life sciences for the NIH BD2K
"Frameworks for Community-Based Standards Efforts" workshop
September 25, 2013 - September 26, 2013
Co-Chairs: Susanna Sansone, PhD and David Kennedy PhD.
The overall goal of this workshop is to learn what has worked and what has not worked in community-based standards efforts. Participants will have experience in leading specific community based standards initiatives. Prior to the workshop, participants will be asked to address in writing answers to specific questions regarding formulating, conducting, and maintaining such efforts. This information will be used to facilitate focused and actionable discussion at the workshop. Issuance of a Request for Information soliciting comment from the broader community on some of the key issues addressed in the workshop is currently envisioned.
Contact: BD2Kworkshops@mail.nih.gov
Agenda: Frameworks for Community-Based Standards Efforts (PDF 40.7KB)
Participant List: Roster of Invited Participants (PDF 32KB)
Forum (Join the discussion): http://frameworks.prophpbb.com
Watch Live: http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=13088 - See more at: http://bd2k.nih.gov/workshops.html#cbse
Moving pieces: Industry initiatives you don’t want to miss - BIC and the Gree...BookNet Canada
Join industry colleagues for an essential speed round of notable projects, initiatives, success stories, and experiments that originated over the past year. Catch up, stay informed, and learn what’s next.
Karina Urquhart discusses BIC and the Green Book Alliance.
Link to video presentation: https://youtu.be/ZeyvmAid4Pg
Presented March 31, 2021 by BookNet Canada with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Report on the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiativekramsey
The document summarizes the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative, which advocates rethinking how libraries conduct resource sharing in the digital age. It discusses the initiative's goals of improving user access and experience, outlines projects around policies, marketing, and technology interoperability, and encourages libraries to get involved through committees or endorsing the initiative's manifesto of principles.
Tags are keywords created by users to identify and retrieve digital resources. Folksonomies are composed of user-generated tags applied to content. Tags can be broad, applied by many users to the same content, or narrow, applied by individual users to their own content. Museum applications of tagging encourage personal interpretations, foster relationships between viewers and museums, and serve museums' altruistic goals. The Steve Museum project explored tagging's potential in museums by motivating, guiding, and rewarding user tagging. Tagging in libraries moves away from library-centered organization toward personal experiences and feelings. It reaffirms traditional subjects and facets while also producing new descriptors and representations. Tagging provides inexpensive organization and community through user-generated vocabular
Second Regional Stakeholder Workshop: opening presentationmrlgregion
This document outlines the agenda for the 2nd Regional Stakeholder Consultation Workshop of the Mekong Region Land Governance Project in Vientiane, Lao PDR on February 23-24, 2016. The workshop will bring together stakeholders from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam to discuss updates on the MRLG project, presentations on regional land governance activities, and participate in thematic group work and action planning to improve policy and practice around smallholder farmer tenure security in the Mekong region.
Info networks are collections of interconnected content-centric hubs where users connect around and exchange information. Content hubs are mash-ups of related information sources that allow users to discover, publish, and share content. Users affiliate with hubs based on common interests and consume information through both formal and informal connections between hubs. Central to info networks is meaningful content from a variety of sources, including experts, organizations, and other users, which helps define reputations within the networks.
2010-11 CIARD - Bridging Rural Digital Divide (Brasil) - EnglishCIARD
Presentation by Dr. Stephen Rudgard
Chief, Knowledge and Capacity for Development
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
III Conferência Internacional sobre Inclusão Digital e Social Brasilia, Brasil. 16-19 Novembre , 2010
Michael Jubb's presentation "Review of the work of the LIS Research Coalition and its support of LIS research in 2009/10, and plans for 2010/11" made at the Library and Information Science Research Coalition conference, British Library Conference Centre, London, 28 June 2010. (#lisrc10)
This document outlines James Neal's vision for the future of academic libraries and the skills and roles needed for 21st century success. It discusses how libraries must adopt new skills like publishing, entrepreneurship, and advocacy. Libraries need to measure impact and value through assessment. New technologies will change user needs around mobility, open content and more. Libraries must collaborate through partnerships and consortia. The future requires special collections, digital resources, user spaces, and support for teaching, learning and research.
From Local Collection to Global Community: Recollection Wisconsin and the Di...Recollection Wisconsin
Presented for the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium, Duluth, Minnesota, June 5, 2015. Part of the session "Hubs + DPLA = Better Together," presented with Molly Huber, Minnesota Digital Library Outreach Coordinator, Minitex.
An overview of how content from Wisconsin’s libraries, archives and museums is shared with the Digital Public Library of America through the Recollection Wisconsin Service Hub. Updates on Recollection Wisconsin and DPLA’s current initiatives in outreach, education and copyright. Presented for the 2018 conferences of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians and the Wisconsin Public Library Association.
MetaArchive Cooperative: Case Study in CollaborationEducopia
MetaArchive Cooperative:
Case Study in
Collaboration
Sam Meister
Educopia Institute
2º Seminário de Preservação Comum de
Património Digital
Lisbon, Portugal
June 21-22, 2016
The document discusses plans to create a more effective platform for sharing research knowledge globally through several key activities. It aims to connect organizations that facilitate knowledge sharing, build their capacity to aggregate research, and create an enabling environment for open sharing of content. The proposal includes scoping the current intermediary sector, developing a global network of these organizations, opening up systems and data through an API, supporting collaborative technology, and promoting standards and advocacy to encourage open access and sharing of research.
The NISO began exploring issues around vocabulary development and maintenance in 2013. In 2014, they proposed three projects around vocabulary use and reuse, documentation, and preservation. These projects examine policies, social considerations, and guidance needed to support stable vocabularies. The groups aim to limit "orphan vocabularies" and provide recommendations for responsible long-term governance, documentation, and adoption of at-risk vocabularies. Educational webinars were held in 2015, and a draft of best practice recommendations is planned for fall 2016 to support interoperability and understanding of vocabulary management issues.
The technology of library and information networks.ppt finalYvonnie Canol
The document discusses different types of library and information networks:
1. Search service networks that allow users to search databases but not modify records or output.
2. Customized service networks that allow users to search, modify records for local use, and obtain printed and machine-readable products for their data.
3. Service center networks that provide training, consulting, and planning rather than direct automated services.
It also discusses trends in networking, such as vendors expanding services to new areas and interfaces between stand-alone systems and subnetworks that will eventually connect to a national network. As technology improves, more activities will be supported at regional and local levels through a distributed national database.
Penhleak chan s1 land governance data toolsmrlgregion
This document discusses the Open Development Initiative's (ODI) efforts to create a land information ecosystem using Linked Open Data in the Mekong region. The ODI platform provides maps, data visualizations and analyses to inform the public and promote evidence-based discussions on development issues. The ODI is partnering with the Land Portal to translate land terminology, expose data in semantic web formats, develop a SPARQL endpoint, and publish land-related research briefings. Challenges include supporting open data adoption locally, quality control, and coordinating content across platforms. Opportunities include extending the use of Linked Open Data to other topics.
This document summarizes a presentation about BioSharing, a resource within ELIXIR that monitors the development of standards, databases, and data policies. BioSharing aims to inform and educate users by providing a curated, searchable portal mapping the complex and evolving landscape of standards, databases, and data policies. It indicates the status of resources and tracks their evolution over time to help users make informed decisions.
The document is a continuing education activity report from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. It details a 1 hour non-credit continuing education program titled "Digital Habits of Public Library Members" that was attended online on October 7, 2015. The program discussed research from EBSCO on the digital habits of public library patrons and how those findings can help libraries support users' evolving needs.
Module 2B - Building GBIF Nodes III: strategically positioning your NodeAlberto González-Talaván
This document discusses strategically positioning GBIF Nodes. It emphasizes understanding the international and national relevance of GBIF, communicating the desired public image, and improving the Node's profile using media. Specifically, it discusses: (1) GBIF's role in relation to multilateral environmental agreements and science-policy bodies (2) how Nodes can support national priorities like legislation and policies (3) identifying target audiences and crafting consistent branding and messages through a Node's website, data portal, reports and other products (4) using various media like social media, newsletters, traditional media, and videos to engage audiences and drive traffic to the Node's website.
The document summarizes key aspects of the Vietnam Land Administration Project (VLAP) from 2008-2015. It provides background on the project, outlines major outputs such as 3.6 million land profiles prepared and 3 million land use right certificates distributed. It also discusses lessons learned, such as the importance of strong project management, building capacity, and managing approval processes to avoid delays and cost overruns. Next steps proposed include focusing on a sustainable land administration system with emphasis on access and service delivery.
"Standards landscape" NIF Big Data 2 Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative, Sep, 2013Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Overview of the landscape of standards in life sciences for the NIH BD2K
"Frameworks for Community-Based Standards Efforts" workshop
September 25, 2013 - September 26, 2013
Co-Chairs: Susanna Sansone, PhD and David Kennedy PhD.
The overall goal of this workshop is to learn what has worked and what has not worked in community-based standards efforts. Participants will have experience in leading specific community based standards initiatives. Prior to the workshop, participants will be asked to address in writing answers to specific questions regarding formulating, conducting, and maintaining such efforts. This information will be used to facilitate focused and actionable discussion at the workshop. Issuance of a Request for Information soliciting comment from the broader community on some of the key issues addressed in the workshop is currently envisioned.
Contact: BD2Kworkshops@mail.nih.gov
Agenda: Frameworks for Community-Based Standards Efforts (PDF 40.7KB)
Participant List: Roster of Invited Participants (PDF 32KB)
Forum (Join the discussion): http://frameworks.prophpbb.com
Watch Live: http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=13088 - See more at: http://bd2k.nih.gov/workshops.html#cbse
Moving pieces: Industry initiatives you don’t want to miss - BIC and the Gree...BookNet Canada
Join industry colleagues for an essential speed round of notable projects, initiatives, success stories, and experiments that originated over the past year. Catch up, stay informed, and learn what’s next.
Karina Urquhart discusses BIC and the Green Book Alliance.
Link to video presentation: https://youtu.be/ZeyvmAid4Pg
Presented March 31, 2021 by BookNet Canada with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Report on the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiativekramsey
The document summarizes the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative, which advocates rethinking how libraries conduct resource sharing in the digital age. It discusses the initiative's goals of improving user access and experience, outlines projects around policies, marketing, and technology interoperability, and encourages libraries to get involved through committees or endorsing the initiative's manifesto of principles.
Tags are keywords created by users to identify and retrieve digital resources. Folksonomies are composed of user-generated tags applied to content. Tags can be broad, applied by many users to the same content, or narrow, applied by individual users to their own content. Museum applications of tagging encourage personal interpretations, foster relationships between viewers and museums, and serve museums' altruistic goals. The Steve Museum project explored tagging's potential in museums by motivating, guiding, and rewarding user tagging. Tagging in libraries moves away from library-centered organization toward personal experiences and feelings. It reaffirms traditional subjects and facets while also producing new descriptors and representations. Tagging provides inexpensive organization and community through user-generated vocabular
Second Regional Stakeholder Workshop: opening presentationmrlgregion
This document outlines the agenda for the 2nd Regional Stakeholder Consultation Workshop of the Mekong Region Land Governance Project in Vientiane, Lao PDR on February 23-24, 2016. The workshop will bring together stakeholders from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam to discuss updates on the MRLG project, presentations on regional land governance activities, and participate in thematic group work and action planning to improve policy and practice around smallholder farmer tenure security in the Mekong region.
Info networks are collections of interconnected content-centric hubs where users connect around and exchange information. Content hubs are mash-ups of related information sources that allow users to discover, publish, and share content. Users affiliate with hubs based on common interests and consume information through both formal and informal connections between hubs. Central to info networks is meaningful content from a variety of sources, including experts, organizations, and other users, which helps define reputations within the networks.
2010-11 CIARD - Bridging Rural Digital Divide (Brasil) - EnglishCIARD
Presentation by Dr. Stephen Rudgard
Chief, Knowledge and Capacity for Development
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
III Conferência Internacional sobre Inclusão Digital e Social Brasilia, Brasil. 16-19 Novembre , 2010
Michael Jubb's presentation "Review of the work of the LIS Research Coalition and its support of LIS research in 2009/10, and plans for 2010/11" made at the Library and Information Science Research Coalition conference, British Library Conference Centre, London, 28 June 2010. (#lisrc10)
This document outlines James Neal's vision for the future of academic libraries and the skills and roles needed for 21st century success. It discusses how libraries must adopt new skills like publishing, entrepreneurship, and advocacy. Libraries need to measure impact and value through assessment. New technologies will change user needs around mobility, open content and more. Libraries must collaborate through partnerships and consortia. The future requires special collections, digital resources, user spaces, and support for teaching, learning and research.
From Local Collection to Global Community: Recollection Wisconsin and the Di...Recollection Wisconsin
Presented for the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium, Duluth, Minnesota, June 5, 2015. Part of the session "Hubs + DPLA = Better Together," presented with Molly Huber, Minnesota Digital Library Outreach Coordinator, Minitex.
An overview of how content from Wisconsin’s libraries, archives and museums is shared with the Digital Public Library of America through the Recollection Wisconsin Service Hub. Updates on Recollection Wisconsin and DPLA’s current initiatives in outreach, education and copyright. Presented for the 2018 conferences of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians and the Wisconsin Public Library Association.
The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) aims to improve library discovery services by standardizing how content providers participate in those services. The ODI Standing Committee is working on revising recommended practices to address issues like ensuring content coverage is disclosed, fair linking between discovery and content, and providing meaningful usage statistics. The committee is also conducting surveys of libraries and content providers to understand barriers to participation and ensure all stakeholder needs are addressed. The goal is to make content more discoverable through these services while providing transparency around what is included.
The document outlines plans for a Public Library Information Offer (PLIO) in the UK that would position public libraries as providers of "Assisted Digital Services" to help citizens access government information and services online. The PLIO would involve developing library staff skills and national information resources, implementing a shared digital platform (Bookmark) for citizens to access resources, and evaluating pilots to identify an effective national model for public libraries to deliver assistance to those in need of digital support. The goal is to ensure all citizens can access public services online, with libraries playing a key role in bridging digital divides.
The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) aims to standardize the process by which content providers participate in library discovery services. Its goals are to increase transparency, help streamline agreements between content providers and discovery services, and define models for fair linking. The ODI Standing Committee, composed of libraries, publishers, and service providers, works to promote adoption of its recommended practices, which define data exchange formats and usage reporting. Participating is meant to increase content discoverability and usage while improving customer satisfaction for all stakeholders. Current priorities include increasing content provider participation and analyzing needed usage statistics.
Presentation at COAR-SPARC conference “Connecting research, bridging communities, opening scholarship. University of Porto, Portugal, April 15-16, 2015
https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/coar-sparc-conference-2015-connecting-research-results-bridging-communities-opening-scholarship/
Presentation at COAR-SPARC Conference “Connecting research, bridging communities, opening scholarship". University of Porto, Portugal, April 15-16, 2015
sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference
The document outlines the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a national digital library that aggregates content from various cultural heritage institutions. It describes the DPLA's board, code, metadata practices, content from over 450 institutions, tools and services, community involvement, and pilot with service and content hubs to harvest metadata and content. The DPLA aims to provide open access to digitized materials from across the United States through its portal and API.
The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) aims to standardize the process by which content providers participate in library discovery services. Its goals are to increase transparency around content coverage, streamline the technical process for exchanging content and usage data, and define models for fair linking between discovery services and publisher platforms. The ODI Standing Committee, composed of libraries, publishers, and service providers, works to promote adoption of its recommended practices and support ongoing discussion around discovery among stakeholders. Current initiatives include outreach, membership recruitment, analyzing needed usage statistics, and updating the recommended practice.
The document discusses the American Archive of Public Broadcasting's (AAPB) collaborations with various groups to preserve and provide access to historical public media content. It summarizes AAPB's collaborations with:
- The Library of Congress to coordinate preservation efforts and provide centralized web access.
- Content creators and donors to preserve their historical content, provide support and advice, and build a comprehensive collection.
- Advisory committees to help set priorities, promote AAPB, and provide support.
- Scholars through curating exhibits, supporting research, and improving metadata and access to the collection.
The document discusses the value of libraries engaging with the Research Data Alliance (RDA). It outlines several benefits libraries can gain from involvement such as interacting with data professionals, developing strategic partnerships, and gaining expertise. Libraries are encouraged to become organizational members of RDA, have staff join working groups, adopt RDA recommendations, and send representatives to plenaries. RDA works to address challenges around research data reproducibility, preservation, best practices, and more through global collaboration. Libraries are positioned to augment RDA's network as bridges between data activities and open sharing.
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.
This document summarizes the workflows used by the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) for preserving and providing access to historical public media content. It describes the multi-step processes for appraising, acquiring, ingesting, describing, digitizing where needed, and making accessible collections from public media organizations. Key aspects of the workflows involve coordinating with content donors, normalizing metadata, digitizing physical media, performing quality control checks, storing master and access files, and reviewing content for inclusion in the online reading room. The workflows involve collaboration between AAPB teams at WGBH and the Library of Congress.
Web-scale Discovery Services are becoming an integral part of libraries' information gathering arsenal. These services are able to use a single interface to seamlessly integrate results from a wide range of online sources, emulating the experience patrons have come to expect from Internet search engines. But despite their ability to streamline searching, discovery services provide a wide set of challenges for libraries who implement them. This virtual conference will touch on both the potential of discovery services as well as some of the issues involved.
You Can’t Browse The Stacks In A Digital Library: Indexed Discovery, Fair Linking & NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative. A presentation by Todd Carpenter at the 2014 Charleston Library Conference #CHS14 on November 6, 2014.
Invited presentation at UNESCO First Regional Latin American and Caribbean Consultation on Open Access to Scientific Information and Research
Kingston, Jamaica, 5-8 March 2013
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/first_regional_latin_american_and_caribbean_consultation_on_open_access_to_scientific_information_and_research/
What does success look like when it comes to library discoverability? Index based discovery systems have seen a dramatic rate of adoption since introduction to the research ecosystem in 2009, with more than 9,000 libraries relying on a discovery system to provide users with a comprehensive index to their offerings. Some issues bar the way to providing this comprehensive view, but many challenges have been overcome through collaboration between libraries, content providers and discovery partners. The NISO ODI initiative began to examine these issues in 2011, and released a best practice in June 2014.
Speakers will highlight examples of successful collaboration, note continued areas of challenge, and provide insight on how the Open Discovery Initiative Conformance Checklists can be used as a mechanism to evaluate content provider or discovery provider conformance with the best practice.
Similar to DPLA + WI: Building a DPLA Service Hub in Wisconsin (WAAL Conference) (20)
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/
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.
Online resources for researching historic properties and interiorsRecollection Wisconsin
This document summarizes several online resources for researching historic properties and interiors in Wisconsin. It describes the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database which contains information on over 1,100 decorative art objects from Wisconsin museums. Each record includes photos, descriptions, provenance, biographies of makers, and resources for further research. It also discusses Recollection Wisconsin, a digital collection of over 225,000 resources from Wisconsin libraries and archives, and the Digital Public Library of America which will include Wisconsin collections starting in 2016. Both resources provide access to documents like city directories, manufacturer's catalogs, and photographs useful for historic research.
Recollection Wisconsin provides free access to over 218,000 historical resources from across the state. It is a collaboration between libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies. Users can find photographs, documents, maps and more. The presentation encourages using these primary sources to teach visual literacy and history standards. Teachers are given tips on analyzing photographs and finding lesson plans. Future plans include sharing Wisconsin's collections more broadly through the Digital Public Library of America.
This document summarizes a presentation about the Recollection Wisconsin digitization project. It discusses why libraries and museums digitize materials, an overview of the Recollection Wisconsin program and its goals of making more Wisconsin historical materials available online. It covers topics like selecting materials for digitization, copyright issues to consider, and ways to promote and support use of digital collections once completed. The presentation aims to provide guidance to participating institutions on best practices for contributing to the statewide Recollection Wisconsin online collection.
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.
Webinar presented for WiLS by Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, June 24, 2014. Based on information from the Demystifying Born Digital reports from OCLC Research and the Digital Preservation Education and Outreach (DPOE) curriculum developed by the Library of Congress.
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.
Slides from the "Planning a Successful Digital Project" start-to-finish session presented at the Wisconsin Library Association annual conference, Green Bay, October 25, 2013. Presenters: Sarah Grimm, Electronic Records Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society and Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
Workshop presented at the Wisconsin Conference for Local History and Historic Preservation, Wisconsin Rapids, October 11, 2013. Presenters: Sarah Grimm, Electronic Records Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society and Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
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Presented by Sarah Grimm (Wisconsin Historical Society) and Emily Pfotenhauer (WiLS) for the WiLSWorld conference, Madison, Wisconsin, July 24, 2013. Content based on Modules 1 & 2 of the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Baseline Digital Preservation Curriculum developed by the Library of Congress.
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This document discusses building a shared digital collection through collaboration. It describes defining parameters for the collection, locating materials from various partners, digitally imaging objects, adding metadata, and maintaining relationships. Key steps include being flexible about parameters, using fieldwork and crowdsourcing to find items, balancing image quality with quantity, and making metadata searchable and shareable. Structured data allows new ways of presenting information through maps, timelines, and other visualizations. The traditional broadcast model of museums is shifting to participation as people now share and curate online. Successful digital collections form many connections between people rather than just broadcasting from the museum outward.
Presented at the Marathon County Historical Society, Wausau, Wisconsin, May 14, 2012. Part of the Wisconsin Historical Society's spring workshop series.
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DPLA + WI: Building a DPLA Service Hub in Wisconsin (WAAL Conference)
1. DPLA + WI
BUILDING A DPLA SERVICE HUB IN WISCONSIN
Emily Pfotenhauer
Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS
Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians
April 22, 2015
2. SERVICE HUB
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Representing their community (state, region, etc.) as the point of
contact for DPLA and obtaining community buy-in on significant
issues affecting their partners.
2. Aggregating their partners’ metadata into a single standard and
sharing it with DPLA through one harvestable data source.
3. Actively addressing metadata concerns (including copyright and
licensing labeling) and working with partners on timely remediation.
4. Providing outreach to their partners, developing local
practitioners’ capacity on topics such as open data, data quality and
standards, copyright and licensing, and other relevant subjects.
5. Maintaining technologies that allow for standardized metadata to
be shared with the DPLA on a regular, consistent basis.
6. Engaging with the broader community of data creators, providers,
and users, locally and nationally.
3. SERVICE HUB
BENEFITS AND IMPACT
1. Broaden the impact and reach of Wisconsin’s
libraries and cultural heritage institutions.
2. Enable more Wisconsin libraries and cultural
heritage institutions to share and preserve their
digital collections.
3. Inspire innovative uses of Wisconsin’s digital
content.
4. Ensure that Wisconsin is well-represented on the
national map of digital content.
4. SERVICE HUB
FOUNDATIONS
• Wisconsin’s long history of digitizing and sharing
cultural heritage resources.
• Ten years of statewide collaboration through
Wisconsin Heritage Online/Recollection Wisconsin.
• Two years of conversations among stakeholders.
5.
6. PHASE I
APRIL 2015-FEBRUARY 2016
Phase I Goals:
• Establish metadata aggregation infrastructure
• Establish workflows for metadata ingest,
remediation and sharing
• Establish initial partnerships and governance
structure
• Establish communication and outreach plans
7. PHASE II
FEBRUARY 2016-DECEMBER 2017
Phase II Goals:
Based on community needs and available resources.
Priorities:
• Evaluate and formalize Phase I governance structure
• Identify and add new Content Partners
• Investigate collaborative strategies for digital preservation
• Develop training or other opportunities to help more institutions
digitize content and share metadata
8. PHASE I
CONTENT
Approximately 400,000 metadata records representing
content from more than 140 libraries, archives, historical
societies and museums across the state.
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center
• 182,000 records
• UW-Milwaukee
• 110,000 records
• Wisconsin Historical Society
• 15,000 records
• All Recollection Wisconsin content not included in above
• 94,000 records
12. PHASE I
METADATA AGGREGATION
Responsibility of Content Partners:
• Grant permission to share metadata with DPLA
through a Creative Commons Zero
declaration/public domain dedication
13. PHASE I
GOVERNANCE
• Governing Board
• One representative from each Governing Partner
• Policy and budget
• Steering Committee
• Librarians, archivists, curators and other practitioners
across the state
• Outreach, education, future directions
• Metadata Work Group
• Metadata librarians and other experts
• Recommendations for metadata compliance, updated
guidelines
14. PHASE I/PHASE II
FUNDING
• Nicholas Family Foundation grant
• 2015-2017
• LSTA grant (in development)
• 2016
• Harvesting and hosting fees from Content Partners
• In-kind contributions from Governing Partners
15. PHASE I
TIMELINE
April-June 2015
Governing Board, Steering Committee and Metadata Work Group
established.
June 2015
Service Hub application submitted to DPLA.
June-August 2015
CC0/public domain metadata dedication confirmed with Content
Partners.
August-September 2015
Data Exchange Agreement and Ingest Information Form completed.
Development of metadata aggregator begins.
September-November 2015
Iterative ingest and metadata review with DPLA staff.
January-February 2016
Data is publicly available through DPLA.
16. Q&A SESSIONS
WAAL Conference, Manitowoc
April 22
WAPL Conference, Wisconsin Rapids
May 8
Lake Superior Libraries Symposium, Duluth
June 5 (with Minnesota Digital Library)
WiLS Peer Council, Madison
June 8
I’m here to share information about the collaborative work that’s going on here in Wisconsin to create a DPLA Service Hub -- something that will benefit not only every library and culture heritage institution in our state, but will also benefit citizens, students, researchers and educators across the state and across the country. I’ll keep this relatively short because one of the things we really want to do today is to give you all the opportunity to ask questions and share your input about the Hub development process.
So Amy described DPLA’s Service Hub network model. DPLA has laid out six roles that every Service Hub is expected to fill.
A hub functions as the on-ramp for local institutions to participate in DPLA by acting as a central point of contact – essentially the liaison between DPLA and a state or region’s cultural heritage organizations.
A hub performs the technical and administrative work necessary to bring together metadata describing digital content from disparate collections and provide that data to DPLA in a single stream.
A hub works closely with its Content Partners to identify metadata concerns and ensure that data meets the requirements for inclusion in DPLA.
A hub works to build a community of practice within its state or region through education and training around best practices for copyright, shareable metadata and other digital collections issues.
A hub maintains a stable endpoint to continue to share aggregated metadata with DPLA and to regularly ingest metadata for new digital collections.
And finally, a hub connects Content Partners of all sizes and types to a national network that is actively and collaboratively shaping the landscape of open access to our nation’s digital cultural heritage.
Bringing Wisconsin into the DPLA as a Service Hub will broaden the impact and reach of Wisconsin’s libraries and cultural heritage institutions. The Minnesota Digital Library reported a 55% increase in visits to their digital collections since joining DPLA; the Mountain West Digital Library saw traffic increase by more than 100%.
Participating in DPLA will enable more Wisconsin libraries and cultural heritage institutions to bring their collections online through coordinated statewide professional development opportunities.
Inclusion in DPLA will inspire innovative uses of Wisconsin’s digital collections. As Amy mentioned, DPLA works to enhance metadata from contributors through geotagging and other tools. This enhanced metadata is made available through an open API, which developers and researchers can use to create innovative environments for learning and discovery.
A Service Hub in Wisconsin will also ensure that our state is well represented on the national map of digital content as DPLA continues its rapid growth.
A Digital Public Library of America Service Hub in Wisconsin will build on almost two decades of ongoing work by Wisconsin’s cultural heritage institutions to digitize and provide access to unique and valuable research resources online.
Wisconsin’s Service Hub will expand on the existing Recollection Wisconsin statewide collaborative initiative, formerly known as Wisconsin Heritage Online. Since 2005, WHO and Recollection Wisconsin have provided guidelines and standards for creating and sharing digital content. Recollection Wisconsin currently coordinates the aggregation of approximately 219,000 metadata records representing content from more than 140 libraries, archives, historical societies and museums across the state.
When DPLA made its public debut about two years ago, Recollection Wisconsin’s sponsoring partners began to discuss pathways to bring Wisconsin on board with this groundbreaking initiative. Those around the table for these discussions included the Milwaukee Public Library, UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, WiLS, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Historical Society. These partners held conversations with staff at DPLA and staff at other Hubs, especially the Minnesota Digital Library, and went through numerous versions of a plan for establishing a Service Hub.
Each of these partners had already made an ongoing commitment of specific resources in support of the Recollection Wisconsin collaborative. These in-kind contributions are providing the foundation for creating a Service Hub in the state.
Milwaukee Public Library hosts content for small institutions.
UW-Madison maintains a metadata aggregator.
UW-Milwaukee will provide digitization services and consulting for Milwaukee-area cultural heritage institutions.
DPI administers LSTA funding including the Digitization of Library Historical Resources funding category.
Wisconsin Historical Society provides support for technology development and community outreach.
WiLS hosts Recollection Wisconsin program staff, provides project management, and acts as fiscal agent for the collaborative.
The work to scale up from the existing Recollection Wisconsin program to a DPLA service hub will be rolled out in phases. Phase I is relatively short and closely follows the timeline DPLA has established for adding new Service Hubs. Basically, Phase I puts procedures in place in order to share our first batch of metadata with DPLA.
Goals for Phase I are:
Build out the tools for aggregating data and sharing it with DPLA in a single stream (this work is being contributed by UW-Madison)
Creating procedures for evaluating and adding metadata from Content Partners (this is the purview of a Phase I metadata workgroup, which is made up of metadata staff at Wisconsin Historical Society, WiLS, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Madison and Marquette University)
Formalizing partner relationships and creating a governance structure (which I’ll talk about more in a moment)
Create a plan for information sharing and building community awareness and support across the state (this will be the purview of a Steering Committee which is now being established)
Phase II is slated to begin after the first batch of metadata has been provided to DPLA in early 2016. Phase II will evaluate and build on the lessons learned in Phase I. Priorities will be set based on the needs and interests of the Wisconsin cultural heritage community. The scope of Phase II will depend on available funding. Some of the priorities and interests we’re already hearing from the community are an increased focus on digital preservation issues as well as education and training around the creation of new digital content.
Phase I will provide approximately 400,000 metadata records to DPLA. That number represents content held by more than 140 libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and other institutions throughout Wisconsin. It encompasses a broad array of original materials including photographs, maps, manuscripts, books, films, oral histories, music, artwork and artifacts.
In expanding into a DPLA Service Hub, Recollection Wisconsin’s scope of content will necessarily expand as well. The data currently harvested for Recollection Wisconsin represents content describing state and local history and culture.
In Phase 1, the amount of harvested data will nearly double, and will expand beyond content about state and local history to a much broader scope of subject matter.
This expanded scope will encompass many significant research collections that are held by Wisconsin institutions but are not about Wisconsin. Just a few examples are the archives of the 1964 Freedom Summer Project documenting Civil Rights activism in Mississippi, held by the Wisconsin Historical Society; the vast holdings of the American Geographical Society Library at UW-Milwaukee; and the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, digitized by UWDCC in partnership with the Chipstone Foundation.
Technology for aggregating metadata will be developed and maintained by UW-Madison using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). UW-Madison will harvest data from Content Partners through OAI, then use OAI to feed that data to DPLA in a single stream. Search results made available through DPLA will always link users directly back to the original digital source material.
A Content Partner is any library, archives, historical society, museum or other institution that provides public access to digitized content and makes metadata describing that content available for OAI harvesting. In order to participate in DPLA through the Service Hub, Content Partners will need to dedicate their metadata to the public domain through a Creative Commons CC0 license. This summer, we will be getting in touch with all existing Content Providers to formalize this public domain dedication. If Recollection Wisconsin harvests your data directly or you have a collection that’s hosted by Milwaukee Public Library, you’ll be hearing from me directly about that public domain dedication for your metadata; if you have content in UWCD you’ll be hearing from the staff at UWDC.
As Amy mentioned, the CC0 declaration is essential. Opening up data in this way is what enables the work that DPLA does to enhance data and make it available through their API.
In Phase I, we’ve begun to establish a collaborative governance structure to oversee the development of our Hub.
This structure currently includes three entities:
A Governing Board made up of one representative appointed by each Governing Partner. These are the institutions making the in-kind contributions I mentioned previously. This Board will direct the initial implementation of the Hub, specifically policy and budget decisions.
A Steering Committee made up of librarians, archivists, curators, educators and other experienced practitioners will develop procedures for adding partners and will explore potential future services. The Steering Committee will also serve an advocacy and community building role.
A Metadata Work Group will evaluate metadata, make recommendations for metadata compliance, and update existing metadata guidelines.
The Steering Committee and Metadata Work Group are still being formed; if you’re interested in lending your expertise to either of these groups, please come chat with me! We’re especially looking for more representation from the far north parts of the state.
Current funding for the hub comes from multiple sources, including a grant from the Nicholas Family Foundation, an LSTA grant which is currently in development, fees contributed by Content Partners for hosting content and harvesting data, and the in-kind commitments I mentioned earlier.
We are actively pursuing additional funding for Phase II and beyond. Potential funding sources we’re looking into include federal grants, gifts from private foundations or other donors, cost recovery services and additional in-kind contributions.
Here’s our timeline for Phase I:
The creation of the board, steering committee and metadata work group are currently underway, and as I said, if you’re interested in participating in any of those, please reach out to me.
In June we will go through DPLA’s application process in order to formalize our partnership and make our Service Hub status official.
This summer we’ll be contacting Partners to secure the Creative Commons Zero determination.
Late this summer and early fall we’ll begin the metadata ingest process with DPLA staff.
In early 2016, that first batch of approximately 400,000 metadata records will be shared with the world through DPLA.