https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars
Project planning is key to the success of a grant writing and funding process. Micki Vandeloo, GPC will explain the importance of project planning to winning grants; advise participants on how to set up an effective project team and assign a team leader; and provide tools to help you plan your next project to maximize the chances of receiving a grant!
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars
Project planning is key to the success of a grant writing and funding process. Micki Vandeloo, GPC will explain the importance of project planning to winning grants; advise participants on how to set up an effective project team and assign a team leader; and provide tools to help you plan your next project to maximize the chances of receiving a grant!
Successful project managers must do more than manage; they
must also lead the project. And if you want to lead effectively, your focus should be on your stakeholders. Here's a few thoughts on leading a project.
Educators and Learners: this is 20-slide presentation of student artefacts created by one class of 19 adult ESL students after the completion of two leadership and project management research/presentation tasks (December 2019).
Project Management for Social Impact Training - Online
Topics:
Project Cycle Management
Logical Framework Approach
Project Management for Social Impact
Project Design
Project Setup
Project Planning Workshop: 7 Components of a Project PlanWilbs Lirag
This presentation was presented to teach Historymakers' Scholars on how to plan for their school and community projects. The basic components can also be applied to any project that you are about to undertake.
Getting Started in Project Management for Librarians - Metropolitan New York ...Lisa Chow
Whether you’re organizing an event, renovating or rearranging a space, creating a program, or implementing a grant, you’re managing a project. Project management can help you manage projects more effectively and efficiently. Learn tools and techniques for successfully planning, organizing, and administering projects. To best respond to the constantly changing library world we will be sharing principles and concepts from design thinking and agile project management.
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
Receive a basic overview of iterative and agile-like project management from a design thinking perspective
Gain knowledge to successfully manage a project cycle from start to finish through hands-on activities and exercises
Receive a project management toolkit
Learn about tools, strategies, and techniques to manage projects and teams better
Slides used in the "Digital Training Masterclass" facilitated by Jennifer Hamrick at the IWMW 2018 event.
See http://iwmw.org/iwmw2018/talks/digital-training-masterclass/
Managing stakeholder relationships: The key to successful product featuresAndy Mura
WATCH THE REPLAY OF THE WEBINAR HERE: https://www.userlane.com/webinars/managing-stakeholder-relationships-the-key-to-successful-product-features
As a product owner, not only are you required to know the ins and outs of your own product but you are also expected to strategically manage internal and external factors that can influence your product vision.
This is why flawless cross departmental collaboration among stakeholders is paramount to develop successful product features and to productively manage your tasks as a product manager.
Expert Product Manager Megan Bubley shows how you can:
Properly manage stakeholders and deliver winning features
Utilize organizational relationship management to support your product roadmap
Prioritize feature requests based on business objectives
Fine-tune critical communications across various departments
Align on metrics and develop realistic timelines
Managing Projects: Experiences from Two Non-Project Managers - Ian Ingles & K...Ryerson Student Affairs
Start From Within: #RyersonSA PD Conference 2016
Managing Projects: Experiences from Two Non-Project Managers
By Ian Ingles & Keitha Prospere
This past year, Ian Ingles and Keitha Prospere engaged in several projects across multiple areas of focus and of varying sizes. Both Ian and Keitha are relatively new to their individual roles within Ryerson SA and took on several key projects over the past year. As two “non” project managers, they will share their experiences, the challenges encountered and what was learned working on a variety of projects across different areas of focus in a post-secondary educational environment. Ian and Keitha will present the tips, suggestions and best practices they discovered through their own unique journeys in new roles within Ryerson SA.
Importance of Sustainability in Decision Making
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Presented by:
Dr Lauren Tuckerman
Content Description:
This session will use insights from recent research projects to understand how the SDGs can be used in strategic decision making to frame and align sustainability with organisational goals. We will go through two examples, before a short interactive session stimulates your thinking on how to best use the SDGs in your strategic thinking. We hope that you will come away from this session with some tools that might support you towards sustainable decision making in your organisation.
Successful project managers must do more than manage; they
must also lead the project. And if you want to lead effectively, your focus should be on your stakeholders. Here's a few thoughts on leading a project.
Educators and Learners: this is 20-slide presentation of student artefacts created by one class of 19 adult ESL students after the completion of two leadership and project management research/presentation tasks (December 2019).
Project Management for Social Impact Training - Online
Topics:
Project Cycle Management
Logical Framework Approach
Project Management for Social Impact
Project Design
Project Setup
Project Planning Workshop: 7 Components of a Project PlanWilbs Lirag
This presentation was presented to teach Historymakers' Scholars on how to plan for their school and community projects. The basic components can also be applied to any project that you are about to undertake.
Getting Started in Project Management for Librarians - Metropolitan New York ...Lisa Chow
Whether you’re organizing an event, renovating or rearranging a space, creating a program, or implementing a grant, you’re managing a project. Project management can help you manage projects more effectively and efficiently. Learn tools and techniques for successfully planning, organizing, and administering projects. To best respond to the constantly changing library world we will be sharing principles and concepts from design thinking and agile project management.
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
Receive a basic overview of iterative and agile-like project management from a design thinking perspective
Gain knowledge to successfully manage a project cycle from start to finish through hands-on activities and exercises
Receive a project management toolkit
Learn about tools, strategies, and techniques to manage projects and teams better
Slides used in the "Digital Training Masterclass" facilitated by Jennifer Hamrick at the IWMW 2018 event.
See http://iwmw.org/iwmw2018/talks/digital-training-masterclass/
Managing stakeholder relationships: The key to successful product featuresAndy Mura
WATCH THE REPLAY OF THE WEBINAR HERE: https://www.userlane.com/webinars/managing-stakeholder-relationships-the-key-to-successful-product-features
As a product owner, not only are you required to know the ins and outs of your own product but you are also expected to strategically manage internal and external factors that can influence your product vision.
This is why flawless cross departmental collaboration among stakeholders is paramount to develop successful product features and to productively manage your tasks as a product manager.
Expert Product Manager Megan Bubley shows how you can:
Properly manage stakeholders and deliver winning features
Utilize organizational relationship management to support your product roadmap
Prioritize feature requests based on business objectives
Fine-tune critical communications across various departments
Align on metrics and develop realistic timelines
Managing Projects: Experiences from Two Non-Project Managers - Ian Ingles & K...Ryerson Student Affairs
Start From Within: #RyersonSA PD Conference 2016
Managing Projects: Experiences from Two Non-Project Managers
By Ian Ingles & Keitha Prospere
This past year, Ian Ingles and Keitha Prospere engaged in several projects across multiple areas of focus and of varying sizes. Both Ian and Keitha are relatively new to their individual roles within Ryerson SA and took on several key projects over the past year. As two “non” project managers, they will share their experiences, the challenges encountered and what was learned working on a variety of projects across different areas of focus in a post-secondary educational environment. Ian and Keitha will present the tips, suggestions and best practices they discovered through their own unique journeys in new roles within Ryerson SA.
Importance of Sustainability in Decision Making
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Presented by:
Dr Lauren Tuckerman
Content Description:
This session will use insights from recent research projects to understand how the SDGs can be used in strategic decision making to frame and align sustainability with organisational goals. We will go through two examples, before a short interactive session stimulates your thinking on how to best use the SDGs in your strategic thinking. We hope that you will come away from this session with some tools that might support you towards sustainable decision making in your organisation.
What Are the Road Mapping Essentials by former Capital One PMProduct School
Product road mapping is an art, one that requires a strong pulse on the state of the business, your customers and stakeholders. Road maps are meant to provide a clear path towards reaching the business objectives giving transparency and predictability to anyone involved on the team. But how often have you heard “Hey, we are agile, we don’t need a roadmap”; or the opposite “Hey, this feature was on the roadmap, but why haven’t you delivered?”.
In this session, Angela Govila, former Product Manager at Capital One, talked about how to handle both of these situations and everything in between, by diving deep into the basics of how to conduct road mapping sessions.
This presentation was provided by Kate McCready and Kirsten Clark of The University of Minnesota Libraries, during the NISO training series "Project Management for the Information Community: Session Eight, Applying Project Management to Academic Libraries" held on April 12, 2019.
Finding Your Superpower in Product Management by Disney Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Avoid the tyranny of a blank page (or a blinking cursor) - start with something (which is better than nothing) then edit, open for comments and learn
-Answering "What to build" is good but generating "Why we are doing this" is awesome
-Context is a product manager's superpower
This webinar will cover common approaches and pitfalls in the successful maintenance of legal aid technology initiatives. It will explore how project upgrades and enhancements fit into a long-term project plan and budget given the dynamic nature of tech tools available. This webinar will also highlight staffing and documentation practices to support knowledge transfer and continuity when there is staff turnover, or when a project begins with a consultant or volunteer and then needs to be sustained in-house. We will feature experienced and newer project managers who are involved in statewide websites, online forms projects, and other technology initiatives to share lessons learned and tips for the future.
Legacy Content: Applying your new content strategy to old informationSalesforce Engineering
Talk given by Kate Bowerman and Lindsay Kara, Staff Technical Writers at Salesforce, at Confab Central in May 2016
You’ve got oodles of dated help content and a content strategy that’s hot off the press. Or, maybe you’ve just got oodles of dated help content that you know needs some attention. Where do you start? In this talk, two Salesforce tech writers will share their experiences overhauling legacy content.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Demonstrate the value of a legacy content project to stakeholders
- Apply a new content strategy to dated documents
- Measure the success after transitioning from old information to updated content
VRA 2023 Collections Management in Fashion and Media session. Presenter: Wen Nie Ng
The goal of the paper is to enhance the metadata standard of fashion collections by expanding the controlled vocabulary and metadata elements for Costume Core, a metadata schema designed specifically for fashion artifacts. Various techniques are employed to achieve this goal, including identifying new descriptors using word embedding similarity measurements and adding new descriptive terms for precise artifact descriptions to use when re-cataloging a university fashion collection in Costume Core. The paper also provides a sneak peek of the Model Output Confirmative Helper Application, which simplifies the vocabulary review process. Additionally, a survey was conducted to collect insights into how other fashion professionals use metadata when describing dress artifacts. The survey results reveal 1) commonly used metadata standards in the historic fashion domain; 2) sample metadata respondents use; and 3) partial potential metadata that can be appended to Costume Core, which is relevant to Virginia Tech's Oris Glisson Historic Costume and Textile Collection. The expanded Costume Core resulting from the project offers a more comprehensive way of describing fashion collection holdings/artifacts. It has the potential to be adopted by the fashion collections to produce metadata that is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
VRA 2023 Adventures in Critical Cataloging session. Presenters: Sara Schumacher and Millicent Fullmer
This paper will cover the results of a research study looking at visual resources professionals' perceptions of the visual canon at their institutions and their actions confronting biases in their visual collections. This research is innovative because the "visual canon" as a concept is often evoked but rarely defined, and there has not been research into perceptions and practices that span different types of cultural heritage institutions. The researchers seek to focus on the role of the visual resources professional as a potential change-maker in confronting bias and transforming the “visual canon.” In our presentation, we will discuss the analysis of our survey and interviews around three key research questions: What barriers do visual resources professionals perceive in remedying the biases in the visual canon? What authorities, past and present, do they identify in shaping the visual canon? How do they approach teaching users to identify and critically confront these issues? We will highlight trends as well as unique concerns and solutions from our research participants and engage our audience with how these issues impact their own collections, policies, and instruction.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: John J. Taormina
The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database project collects historic images of the medieval monuments of South Italy, from the so-called Kingdom of Sicily dating from c. 950 to c. 1430, during the Norman, Hohenstaufen, Angevin, and early Aragonese periods. The project was begun in 2011, as part of a 3-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under project investigators Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University, and William Tronzo, University of California, San Diego.
The site features over 8,000 historical images in a range of media, including drawings, paintings, engravings, photographs, and plans and elevations culled from museums, archives, and libraries in Europe and America, often from the Grand Tour, as well as from available publications. The value of the database lies in making accessible to scholars the visual documentation of changes to historical sites because the medieval monuments of South Italy have been damaged, changed, and restored on many occasions, with tombs and liturgical furnishings often destroyed, dismantled, or removed. In fact, many of the 600 monuments no longer exist, often bombed during World War II or destroyed in earthquakes, or obscured by modern buildings and urban sprawl.
VRA 2023 Archives Tools and Techniques session. Presenters: Maureen Burns and Lavinia Ciuffa
The Ernest Nash collection documents ancient Roman architecture in pre- and post-World War II Italy. What made Nash's work significant, beyond capturing the present state of the ancient Roman monuments at a volatile historical moment, was the primacy of the topographical photography and the systematic order he brought to this subject. The American Academy's Photographic Archive contributed Nash's images to an open access, interactive website called the "Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome." It reveals the city in stunning detail and uses geo-referencing to provide the viewer with a better understanding of the overall contextual and spatial logic. These Nash images and metadata are also IIIF compatible. As the Academy continues to digitize and describe the full collection of about 30,000 images, thanks to the generous support of the Kress Foundation, a new partnership has developed with Archivision and vrcHost. Current high quality digital photographs of the same ancient Roman monuments are being added to compare with the historical images documenting architectural changes--whether conserved, restored, altered, reconstructed, re-sited or destroyed. This presentation will provide a progress report about what it takes to move new digital photography into IIIF and the various tools available for close examination and presentation. Finding ways to provide ready access and juxtapose historic and contemporary photography online, builds upon the legacy of Nash's quality curation and scholarship to create 21st century, accessible, online educational resources of great interest and utility to scholars, students, and a wide audience of ancient Roman enthusiasts.
VRA 2023 Exploring 3D Technologies in the Classroom session. Presenter: Amy McKenna
Amy McKenna (Williams College) discusses her project that uses Photoshop and cardboard 3D glasses to recreate the 19th-century spectacle of a historic glass stereo collection.
VRA 2023 Keynote. Presenter: Melissa Gohlke
A historical record that focuses on white, heteronormative society and events obscures many facets of San Antonio history. Peel back the veneer of normalcy and one can find rich, diverse, and unexpected strands of the city’s past. From female impersonators of the early 1900s to queer life in derelict spaces during the 1960s and finally, gay and lesbian bar culture of the1970s and beyond, the hidden threads of San Antonio’s history reveal themselves. In this presentation, LGBTQ Historian Melissa Gohlke explores these hidden histories and stitches together an alternative interpretation of the city’s historical narrative by examining a wealth of primary sources found in archives and personal collections.
About the speaker:
Melissa Gohlke is an urban historian who specializes in San Antonio LGBTQ+ history. For over a decade, Gohlke has been researching queer history in San Antonio and South Texas and sharing her passion for this history through extensive outreach activities such as presentations, media interactions, exhibits, and written work. Gohlke is the Assistant Archivist for UTSA Libraries Special Collections.
About the VRA:
The Visual Resources Association is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: Mark Pompelia
Material Order is an academic consortium of material sample collections (including wood, metal, glass, ceramic, polymers, plastics, textiles, bio-materials, etc.—any material that might be used in or considered for art, architecture, and design disciplines) founded by the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design and now comprising several more institutions in the US. It provides a community-based approach to management and access to material collections utilizing and developing standards and best practices. Material Order created the Materials Profile that serves as a shared cataloging tool on the LYRASIS CollectionSpace platform and can be further developed as the different needs of consortium members are identified. Open Web searching across all collections occurs via a front-end discovery portal built with Wordpress at materialorder.org.
The Material Order project was born from the acknowledgment that resource sharing and collaborative catalogs are the most promising approach to exploration and implementation. It was always the intent, now actualized, for partner institutions with different mission and scope to compel the project to consider and accommodate criteria such as material health ecologies, fabrication possibilities, and overlap into adjacent fields such as engineering and archeology. Thus, Material Order represents not just items on a shelf but a knowledge-base of compositions, uses, forms, and properties. No longer in its infancy, Material Order provides a shared and adaptable framework for managing collections across the consortium and optimal facilitation of materials-based research and exploration for art, architecture, and design applications.
VRA 2023 New Frontiers in Visual Resources session. Presenters: Meghan Rubenstein and Kate Leonard
The Art Department at Colorado College is piloting a Personal Archiving program in select undergraduate studio courses that combines visual and digital literacy instruction with personal reflection and professional development. Meghan Rubenstein, Curator of Visual Resources, and Kate Leonard, Professor of Art, will discuss the drive behind this initiative to develop student competencies within a liberal arts setting. We will share our ongoing iterative process as well as select student activities and learning outcomes that may be adopted to various institutions.
VRA 2022 Teaching Visual Literacy session. Presenter: Molly Schoen
Our everyday lives are more saturated in images and videos than any other time in human history. This fact alone underscores the need to implement visual literacy skills in all stages of education, from pre-K to post-grad. Learning how to read images with critical, analytical eyes is crucial to understanding the world around us as we see it represented in the news, social media, advertisements, etc. New technologies have exasperated this already urgent need for visual literacy education. Synthetic media, deepfakes, APIs, bot farms, and other forms of artificial intelligence have many innovative uses, but bad actors also use them to fan the flames of disinformation. We have seen the grave consequences from this age of disinformation, from undermining elections to attempts to delegitimize science and doctors, undoubtedly raising the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. What do we need to know about these new forms of altered images made by artificial intelligence? How do we discern between real, human-made content versus fakes made by computers, which are becoming more and more difficult to discern? This paper aims to raise awareness of how new forms of visual media can manipulate and deceive the viewer. Audience participants will learn how to empower themselves and their peers into being more savvy consumers of visual materials by understanding the basics of AI and recognizing the characteristics of faked media.
VRA 2022 Individual Papers Session. Presenter: Malia Van Heukelem
This case study of a large artist archive at a medium sized academic research library will connect the success of the artist serving as his own archivist and the collection's broad research appeal locally, nationally and internationally. Like many artists, there is so much more than his own work represented. There is correspondence, fine art prints, ephemera of other artists and writers hidden in the collection. The foundation of organization is in place; now the focus is on creating online access points through finding aids and image collections. The presentation will explore the use of ArchivesSpace, Omeka, and other software to increase access. It will also demonstrate how a solo archivist can leverage interns, student assistants, and volunteers for collections management projects that benefit both the institutional priorities and desired learning outcomes. This talk will delve into the challenges of 20th century visual resource collections such as copyright and engagement with donors. Featuring a local artist has brought other art and architecture collections to the library, without clear boundaries which has led to questions of sustainability, who and what is collected. There is definitely a need to balance the historical record and yet, there are already more archival collections accessioned than can be responsibly managed by one person. The primary collection does include works by women and artists of color, yet much descriptive work remains to forefront the diversity contained within. As an archivist and librarian at a public university, there are many competing demands for collections management, support of researchers, and instruction plus the added interest for exhibition loans and the desire for other artists and architects to be represented. This artist archive is both interesting and complex.
VRA 2022 Critical Cataloging Conversations in Teaching, Research, and Practice session. Presenters: Megan Macken, Louise Siddons
Prior to the fall of 2020, the historic record of art exhibitions held at Oklahoma State University (OSU) was available only in incomplete, unprocessed archival materials. Students in Louise Siddons’ fall 2020 History of American Art course conducted research in the digitized student newspaper archive to begin documenting OSU art exhibitions since 1960. The resulting database was shared with the public with the intention of building on the project in future courses. Throughout the project both students and faculty engaged in critical cataloging.
Using the exhibition dataset they had created, students completed two analytical assignments: a traditional art history essay in which they considered one exhibition closely, and a critical reflection prompting them to consider their new understanding of the university’s history based on the aggregation of exhibitions. As gaps and surprises in representation appeared, students developed a more nuanced picture of institutional culture in the latter half of the 20th century.
After the course concluded, art history and library faculty standardized the student-generated data in preparation for sharing on other platforms such as Wikidata. Some artists who have exhibited at OSU also have interviews in the OSU oral history collections, and intersections between these projects and the questions raised by surfacing this metadata were explored. In the process issues emerged around artists’ preferred ways of identifying themselves as well as the difficulties of achieving a balance between increased representation of artists on the margins and respect for the privacy of living artists.
VRA 2022 session. Organizer/Moderator: Allan T. Kohl. Speakers: Virginia (Macie) Hall, Christina Updike, Marcia Focht, Rebecca Moss, Steven Kowalik, Jenni Rodda
During the past year, the “Great Resignation” (aka. The “Big Quit”) has roiled the world of employment nationwide in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had already caused job losses among our membership. While many institutions and individuals now hope for a “return to normal,” others anticipate that the past two years mark a watershed necessitating further transformational changes in the years ahead. These larger employment trends have come on top of quantum shifts in the visual resources field itself, as traditional tasks give way to new responsibilities, and siloed image collections are replaced by interdisciplinary projects.
For several years, our annual conferences have featured the perspectives of newer professionals in “Stories from the Start.” Looking at the opposite ends of their career arcs, this session brings together the perspectives and experiences of two pre-pandemic retirees, two of our members who made their decisions to retire during the past year, and two currently active professionals whose retirements are pending in the near future. When and why did they make their decisions to retire? What was/is the actual process? Concerns? What comes next after we leave our offices for the last time?
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenters: Melissa Becher and Samuel Sadow
In 2019, the art history program at American University gave its masters students a new option for the capstone project that is the culmination of the degree: create a digital project on an art historical topic using Omeka S or Wordpress. Initially, only a single student chose to complete a digital capstone over a traditional thesis, but within two years there was near parity between the two options, meaning seven digital capstones for the 2021 cohort. To support these projects, a close partnership quickly developed between the University’s library, the visual resources center, and the archives. This session covers how three campus units coordinate that support for these innovative digital humanities projects, including administration of the platforms, instruction, technical support, preservation, and access to the final projects. The session will also showcase examples of student work to demonstrate the variety and creativity of projects that can be accomplished using these platforms, as well as their contributions to the field of art history. The outcome of this initiative is clear: the best of digital humanities, weaving design and technology with rigorous art historical research, and finished projects that have already resulted in successful job applications in the field.
VRA 2022 Material Objects and Special Collections session. Presenters: Allan T. Kohl and Jackie Spafford
Materials-based collections represent a challenging new mode of information management in terms of subject specialization, physical description and accommodation, and institutional mission. Building upon the successful introductory meeting of this Group in Los Angeles at the 2019 Conference, the goal of this SIG is to provide a forum for open discussion of Material and Object Collections and their relationship to various library/visual resources tasks. The Material and Object Collections SIG provides an opportunity for individuals working with a variety of materials and objects collections – including those that support art and art history courses, those that support architecture and design courses, and those in cultural heritage organizations – to share ideas, issues, and potential solutions in regard to tasks similar to common library/visual resources activities (including cataloging, documentation, staffing, outreach), as well as more specialized concerns relating to the management of physical objects (security, storage and retrieval, the design of user spaces, etc.).
By continuing to offer an opportunity for participants to share brief introductions and profiles of their collections, we hope to encourage networking and exchange information about sources for specialized items; to display sample items and share surplus samples with other collections; and to provide examples of successful solutions to typical problems. Our long-range goal is to maintain an ongoing support group that can be of particular benefit to those professionals who are in the beginning stages of building or organizing physical collections.
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Moderator: Otto Luna
Exploration of visualization tools in the Digital Humanities/Digital Art History realm. Presenter: Catherine Adams
Assessing the use of Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS) by Art Historians and Archaeologists. Presenter: Kayla Olson
Supporting Art History Students’ Digital Projects at American University. Presenters: Samuel Sadow and Melissa Becher
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenter: Kayla Olson
This paper discusses a study (completed in the spring of 2021) which explores how common the use of Qualitative Data Analysis software (QDAS) is among two kinds of object-based researchers: art historians and archaeologists. Surveys were disseminated in a snowball fashion and contained open and closed questions. The questions sought to give participants a platform to describe if, why, and how they use programs like Atlas.ti, NVivo, Dedoose, and MAXQDA throughout their research process. While not QDAS, the image management application Tropy was also included. The author hopes that the anonymized responses will prompt discussion among professionals in academic librarianship and visual resources management about the possible impact of these digital tools on researchers in these disciplines. The question remains on whether researchers in art and material culture disciplines would benefit more from QDAS if participants were aware of: 1) Their existence and 2) Their ability to help organize artifact data and to assist in performing image-based analysis.
VRA 2022 Critical Cataloging Conversations in Teaching, Research, and Practice session. Presenter: Ann M. Graf, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, Simmons University
In the field of information science, we strive to provide access to information through the most efficient means possible. This is often done through the use of controlled vocabularies for description of subjects, and, in the case of art objects, for the identification of styles, processes, materials, and types. My research has examined the sufficiency of controlled vocabularies such as the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) for description of graffiti art processes and products. This research is evolving as the AAT is responding to warrant for a broader set of terms to represent outsider art communities such as the graffiti art community. The methods used to study terminological warrant by examining the language of the graffiti art community are helpful to give voice to artists who work outside the traditional art institution, allowing the way that they talk about their work and how they describe it to become part of the common discourse. It is hoped that this research will inspire others who design and supplement controlled vocabularies for use in the arts to give priority in descriptive practice to those who have been historically underrepresented or made invisible by default use of terminology that does not speak to their experiences.
VRA 2022 Session. Presenter: Douglas Peterson
In 2021, the National Archives of Estonia engaged Digital Transitions’ Service division, Pixel Acuity, to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to analyze part of its historic record. The objective was to use this tool to enhance their collection with descriptive metadata that identified persons of interest in a collection of over 8,000 photographic glass plate negatives, a task that would ordinarily take years of human labor. In this presentation, we discuss our approach to accurately detecting and identifying human subjects in transmissive media, our initial findings using commercially available AI models, and the subsequent refinements made to our workflow to generate the most accurate metadata. In addition to working with commercially available AI models, we developed strategies for validation of AI-generated results without additional human supervision, and explored the benefits of building bespoke, heritage-specific AI models. By combining all of these tools, we developed a highly customized solution that greatly expedited accurate metadata generation with minimal human oversight, operated efficiently on large collections, and supported discovery of novel content within the archive.
VRA 2022 Community Building Session. Presenter: Dacia Metes
Queens Memory is an ongoing community archiving program that engages with our local communities in our two-fold mission to (1) push local history collections out to the public through programming and online resources, and (2) pull new materials into our collections from the diverse communities of Queens, NYC. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to close our buildings, cease all in-person work and programming and shift our work to the virtual world. Our team quickly modified our processing workflow and asset tracking with the high volume of crowd-sourced donations coming through new online submission forms, set up in a rapid response to capture the stories coming from the pandemic’s first epicenter in the U.S. In my proposed conference session, I will discuss how we planned and managed the shift to fully online collection development. I will talk about our virtual outreach efforts to engage with the community and get them to contribute their materials, and how we developed the online tools and processes that allowed us to collect photographs, oral history interviews and other audio/visual materials, while also capturing the necessary metadata and consent forms. New internal communications channels, roles for volunteers, and triage processing for publication resulted from these efforts and are now essential parts of the team’s practices.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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4. Who we are:
Jesse Henderson
Production Manager, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Meghan Musolff
Program Manager for Library IT Services, Training, & Assessment
University of Michigan
Kate Thornhill
Repository Community Librarian/Assistant Professor Curatorial Services
Oregon Health & Science University
5. Our schedule:
1. You! Intro to PM & Project Planning
a. Exercise #1
2. Team! Task Planning & Management
a. Exercise #2
3. Them! Stakeholders
a. Exercise #3
6. Learning Objectives:
● Understand basic PM principles and
terminology
● Understand the importance of project planning
● Understand the importance of the division of
tasks and roles involved in projects
● Understand how to engage with stakeholders
11. What is project management?
● Bringing calm to the chaos
● Stewardship of project & resources
● Risk assessment
● Focus on communication &
documentation
12. What is project management?
● Project management is
people management.
13. Benefits of project management
● Increase chances of project success
● Clarity & control
● Improve relationships
● Build personal reputation
14. PM Models
● There are a lots of PM models
● Come from different worlds:
○ software development
○ manufacturing
● Basic principles can help with planning projects
(and services and spaces and life--everything
really).
16. Agile
● User-focused design
● User → MVP → User → version 2.0
● Iterative process
● Lots of buzzwords:
○ scrum master, standups, burndowns,
user stories, sprints
17. Want to know more?
● PMI certification
● Methodology certification
● Lots of webinars/tutorials
● Resource list
18. Project planning basics
What?
● What are we trying to do?
● What problem are we trying to solve?
● What is in scope? What is out of scope?
● What will we have at the end?
19. Project planning basics
Who?
● Who is involved? At what stages? At
what authority level?
● Who cares? Who SHOULD care?
● What is your communication strategy?
20. Project planning basics
When?
● What is the timeline? Is there a firm
deadline?
● What activities are dependent on each
other?
23. Project charters
● A project charter is your project management
best friend.
● It allows you to:
○ Make a plan.
○ Have a conversation.
○ Document decisions.
24. Exercise
Each group has been given a scenario.
Based on your scenario, complete the project
charter template you’ve been provided.
You have 15 minutes. Go!
25. Team!
Task Planning & Management
which leads to
Workflows & Documentation
in action!
26. Questions to ask
● What are the primary characteristics of your project?
● What needs to be done and by whom?
● What activities are dependent on each other?
● How & Where do you track work?
● How do you communicate updates?
● What are the potential fail points?
○ Availability
○ Timing
27. What should happen
● Outline the steps - list of tasks
● Outline the team players
○ Expertise
○ Availability
● Consider what might be most important to document
● Consider what tools to use to communicate and document
what is necessary
28. Tasks & Roles
● Where have we seen this before? The kitchen!
● Brigade System (Yes, chef!)
○ Invented to streamline the roles of the kitchen
○ Standardized way to communicate when working
○ Solid lines of where one role/set of tasks stops and
another starts
http://luckypeach.com/the-kitchen-brigade-eric-ripert-auguste-escoffier/
29. Tasks & Roles
● Give it a try: Overcooked! Video game
○ 4 team members
○ Need for division of tasks
○ Clear handoffs
○ Clear communication
■ Let’s see what it looks like without planning
■ https://youtu.be/BKhcFQm9iss?t=18m17s
30.
31. Prep &
Chop
Cook &
Place
Assemble
& Deliver
Dishes &
Buns
Call out order Get & Chop Handoff
Get meat Cook meat Place meat
Get veggies Place veggies Deliver burger
Place plates Place Buns Get plates Wash plates
Tasks & Roles = Workflow
● Let’s see it working well…
○ https://youtu.be/wNE-juAGYsI?t=2m
32.
33. Tasks & Roles = Workflow
● Start with a sketch
● Be as detailed as necessary - for what works for your team
● Many ways to do this:
○ Great recent presentation: DLF Forum 2016 “Finding the Balance: a
Discussion of 6 Digital Library Workflows”. https://osf.io/view/dlf2016/
34. Courtesy of UC San Diego (Cristela Garcia-Spitz), Duke (Molly Bragg), MIT (Kari Smith), Emory (Emily Porter).
35. In real life: UWDCC
● UW Digital Collections Center
○ Constant ongoing projects in consistent models
○ Overlapping timelines
○ Distinct units which make up the team
○ Centralized documentation
○ Standardized communication during handoffs
○ Standardized production meetings
37. Multiple copies
on HD array
TIFF image
“original scan”
TIFF image
“master file”
JPEG and/or
JPEG2000
images
Plain text files
Metadata
completed
Material
Scanned
Images
cropped &
quality
control
performed
Web
derivatives
created
Optical
character
recognition
(OCR) text
generated
(EFacs only)
Web
derivatives &
OCR text
uploaded to
test
environment
Quality
control
completed
by Metadata
Files queued
for archiving
to hard drive
array
Corrections as needed
UWDCC Basic Reformatting Workflow
Plain text files
JPEG and/or
JPEG2000
images
Handoff logged - date &
by whom.
Email generated: “[Batch]
is ready for reformatting”
Handoff logged - date &
by whom.
Email generated: “[Batch]
is ready for QC”
Reformatting Unit Task
Metadata Unit Task
Artefact Created
Handoff /
Communication Point
38. Documentation (proj. management related)
● Cost estimates
● Project notes/description
● Production notes
● Tasks logs
● Handoff dates
● Production stats
● Tools used
○ FileMaker Pro
○ Google Sites
○ Google Sheets
○ Email
○ Network storage (central
project folder)
39. University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center Project Management Database in FileMaker Pro - Project Phase layout
40. University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center Project Management Database in FileMaker Pro - Project Phase layout - phase stage detail
41. University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center Project Management Database in FileMaker Pro - Project Phases in process summary report
42. University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center Production Team Google site - used for more immediate and ephemeral notes
43. Exercise!
Based on your scenario, write down all the tasks
you will need to do. One task per sticky note.
Begin to arrange them in order, with assigned
roles and handoffs. Also consider project artefacts
and documentation
You have 15 minutes. Go!
45. Who are stakeholders?!
● Individuals who either care about or have a vested interest
○ Actively or passively involved
○ Something to either gain or lose from results
○ Can be major determinants of how a project unfolds
into success or failure
46. How do they relate to Project
Management?
● Project charter
● Project planning and tasks
● Project satisfaction and failure
● Relationship building and buy-in
● Communications
47. What is driving stakeholders to want
your project?
Project Worth = Value
Project Effect = Impact
Project Participation = Engagement
How do you find these out?
Talk to stakeholders
48. Identify stakeholders?
Primary stakeholders: directly
affected
Secondary stakeholders: indirectly
affected
Key stakeholders: belong to either or
neither of the first two groups, but
important within or to an
organization, agency, or institution
engaged in efforts
Find out via
Communication
Email
Phone Call
In-person
Meetings
Informal Gatherings
49. Question stakeholders about project value
and impact and how to engage/interact
1. What financial or emotional interest do they have in the outcome of your work? Is it positive or
negative?
2. What motivates them most of all?
3. What information do they want from you?
4. How do they want to receive information from you? What is the best way of communicating
your message to them?
5. If they are not likely to be positive, what will win them around to support your project?
6. How will you manage stakeholder opposition?
7. Who else might be influenced by their opinions? Do these people become stakeholders in
their own right?
50. Stakeholder analysis
● Synthesizes your efforts for identification
● Allows you to strategize and prioritize needs
● Supports how the project moves forward
● Helps organize stakeholders based on value, engagement,
and impact and influence/importance to project
52. Manage expectations
● Scope drift can be a problem - Push back when you need to
do it
● Communicate based on what is important to stakeholder
Stick to the project scope
● Make no assumptions about expectations- Get context and
more information!
● Sometimes you need to change course, other times you
don’t
53. Stakeholder Engagement
● Project communication
guides stakeholders through
the project process
● Strategize communication
○ How much is enough?
○ How involved should
they be?
● Stakeholder Roadmaps:
project milestones,
deliverables, project end
Ask how frequently
they want updates
about the project or
how they want to be
involved
54. Measuring success - Evaluation &
Assessment
● Define success based on stakeholder priorities/goals
● Evaluation criteria - qualitative/quantitative means,
conversations, polls, surveys, etc., that support project’s
outcome and what is deemed important
● Use evaluation to inform your assessment!
● Usually a report at the end of your project
55. Exercise!
Based on your scenario, fill in the decision matrix with your
best judgements. Discuss your decisions about influence,
impact, engagement, and determining success.
You have 15 minutes. Go!
57. How did it go?
Congratulations! You’ve completed your
project. What does the end of your
project look like? What are the follow-up
steps? How will you assess how you did?
58. Questions to ask
● How did it go?
● Was the project a success?
○ What made it successful?
○ How do you repeat that success?
● Was it a failure?
○ Why did it fail?
○ What were the breakdowns?
○ What can you learn?
59. What should happen
● Celebrate!
● Have a conversation.
● Document.
● Incorporate.
60. Thank you!
Jesse Henderson (jesse.henderson@wisc.edu)
Production Manager, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Meghan Musolff (musolffm@umich.edu)
Program Manager for Library IT Services, Training, & Assessment
University of Michigan
Kate Thornhill (thornhik@ohsu.edu)
Repository Community Librarian/Assistant Professor Curatorial Services
Oregon Health & Science University