This document summarizes a presentation by Joan K. Lippincott on e-research and digital scholarship. It discusses how new technologies enable combining dispersed resources in new ways and data mining large collections to gain new insights. Examples are provided of projects that analyzed combined datasets, such as a slave trade database. New forms of scholarship are emerging using 3D visualization, augmented reality, and student projects. Digital scholarship centers in libraries support these activities through specialized services, expertise, and creating communities of collaboration among students, faculty, and information professionals. Challenges include promoting these new areas and developing sustainable models.
ARCC National Perspective Panel: XSEDE (Towns)John Towns
John Towns is the PI and Project Director of XSEDE, which aims to accelerate scientific discovery through advanced digital services. XSEDE's goals include deepening and extending use of cyberinfrastructure resources, advancing these resources, and sustaining the ecosystem. A key challenge is campus bridging - integrating campus resources into the national ecosystem through champions and lowering barriers. Articulating value to stakeholders like NSF is also a challenge due to needing clear metrics of impact. Long-term sustainable funding beyond the initial 5-year project is another concern. With $1B, Towns would invest in campus cyberinfrastructure, a national data infrastructure, workforce development, and leadership development, as well as sustaining these efforts through an
The document discusses the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture and their work developing digital tools and platforms to facilitate new forms of multimedia scholarship. It notes that while humanities scholars now have access to rich media archives and publishing platforms, most electronic publications remain text-heavy. The Alliance aims to support emerging genres of multimodal scholarship by drawing on their experience publishing the journal Vectors and rethinking digital authoring tools to better enable subjective, annotated processes central to humanistic inquiry. They are working with various university presses and archive partners on these efforts.
Complicating the Question of Access (and Value) with University Press Publica...Micah Altman
Marguerite Avery, who is a Research Affiliate in the program, presented the talk below as part of Shaking It Up -- a one-day workshop on the changing state of the research ecosystem jointly sponsored by Digital Science, MIT, Harvard and Microsoft.Her talk focuses on current challenges around the accessibility of scholarly content and on a scan of innovative new models aimed to address them.
Digital Visitors and Residents: Project Feedbackjisc-elearning
Students and staff have been developing their own digital literacies for years and successfully integrating them into their social and professional activities. The Visitors and Residents project has been capturing these literacies by interviewing participants within four educational stages from secondary school to experienced scholars. Using the Visitors and Residents idea as a framework the project has been mapping what motivates individuals and groups to engage with the web for learning. We have been exploring the information-seeking and learning strategies that are evolving in both personal and professional contexts. In this presentation we will discuss these emerging ‘user owned’ literacies and how they might integrate with institutional approaches to developing digital literacies. We also will discuss the Visitors and Residents mapping process and how this could be utilised by projects as a tool for reflecting on existing and potential literacies and the development of services and systems.
David White, Co-manager , Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research
Athabasca university talk.
Main premise: Social media, network, networked participation, and networked practice are too important to ignore. Doctoral students should be exposed to and taught these concepts, regardless of degree area.
This document discusses intellectual property issues related to MOOCs. It provides an overview of the MOOC landscape, issues around ownership of online course content and intellectual property, basics of copyright law, examples of relevant bills and lawsuits, and guidelines for faculty developing MOOCs. Key points covered include the rapid growth of MOOCs, debates around who owns online course content and intellectual property, and how copyright law and institutional policies apply to MOOCs.
The document provides resources and essential readings for understanding perceptions and frameworks for information literacy, including the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. It lists the ACRL Framework website and discussion listserv, as well as books and articles on threshold concepts, metaliteracy, and understanding by design learning theories as they relate to information literacy.
This document summarizes a presentation by Joan K. Lippincott on e-research and digital scholarship. It discusses how new technologies enable combining dispersed resources in new ways and data mining large collections to gain new insights. Examples are provided of projects that analyzed combined datasets, such as a slave trade database. New forms of scholarship are emerging using 3D visualization, augmented reality, and student projects. Digital scholarship centers in libraries support these activities through specialized services, expertise, and creating communities of collaboration among students, faculty, and information professionals. Challenges include promoting these new areas and developing sustainable models.
ARCC National Perspective Panel: XSEDE (Towns)John Towns
John Towns is the PI and Project Director of XSEDE, which aims to accelerate scientific discovery through advanced digital services. XSEDE's goals include deepening and extending use of cyberinfrastructure resources, advancing these resources, and sustaining the ecosystem. A key challenge is campus bridging - integrating campus resources into the national ecosystem through champions and lowering barriers. Articulating value to stakeholders like NSF is also a challenge due to needing clear metrics of impact. Long-term sustainable funding beyond the initial 5-year project is another concern. With $1B, Towns would invest in campus cyberinfrastructure, a national data infrastructure, workforce development, and leadership development, as well as sustaining these efforts through an
The document discusses the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture and their work developing digital tools and platforms to facilitate new forms of multimedia scholarship. It notes that while humanities scholars now have access to rich media archives and publishing platforms, most electronic publications remain text-heavy. The Alliance aims to support emerging genres of multimodal scholarship by drawing on their experience publishing the journal Vectors and rethinking digital authoring tools to better enable subjective, annotated processes central to humanistic inquiry. They are working with various university presses and archive partners on these efforts.
Complicating the Question of Access (and Value) with University Press Publica...Micah Altman
Marguerite Avery, who is a Research Affiliate in the program, presented the talk below as part of Shaking It Up -- a one-day workshop on the changing state of the research ecosystem jointly sponsored by Digital Science, MIT, Harvard and Microsoft.Her talk focuses on current challenges around the accessibility of scholarly content and on a scan of innovative new models aimed to address them.
Digital Visitors and Residents: Project Feedbackjisc-elearning
Students and staff have been developing their own digital literacies for years and successfully integrating them into their social and professional activities. The Visitors and Residents project has been capturing these literacies by interviewing participants within four educational stages from secondary school to experienced scholars. Using the Visitors and Residents idea as a framework the project has been mapping what motivates individuals and groups to engage with the web for learning. We have been exploring the information-seeking and learning strategies that are evolving in both personal and professional contexts. In this presentation we will discuss these emerging ‘user owned’ literacies and how they might integrate with institutional approaches to developing digital literacies. We also will discuss the Visitors and Residents mapping process and how this could be utilised by projects as a tool for reflecting on existing and potential literacies and the development of services and systems.
David White, Co-manager , Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research
Athabasca university talk.
Main premise: Social media, network, networked participation, and networked practice are too important to ignore. Doctoral students should be exposed to and taught these concepts, regardless of degree area.
This document discusses intellectual property issues related to MOOCs. It provides an overview of the MOOC landscape, issues around ownership of online course content and intellectual property, basics of copyright law, examples of relevant bills and lawsuits, and guidelines for faculty developing MOOCs. Key points covered include the rapid growth of MOOCs, debates around who owns online course content and intellectual property, and how copyright law and institutional policies apply to MOOCs.
The document provides resources and essential readings for understanding perceptions and frameworks for information literacy, including the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. It lists the ACRL Framework website and discussion listserv, as well as books and articles on threshold concepts, metaliteracy, and understanding by design learning theories as they relate to information literacy.
This document discusses intellectual property issues related to MOOCs. It provides an overview of the MOOC landscape, including growth statistics and business models. It discusses ownership issues around who owns the content in MOOCs and different licensing models used. It covers basics of copyright law and examples of bills and lawsuits related to MOOC intellectual property. Finally, it provides guidelines and recommendations for faculty regarding intellectual property in MOOCs.
This document proposes a panel discussion at the 4th eResearch Australasia Conference to discuss challenges and opportunities around making sense of data in the arts and humanities. The panel will explore questions around the nature of data in these domains, current eResearch practices, and what infrastructures could help facilitate data use and uptake of technologies. The goal is to build on ideas from previous conference papers and encourage discussion on meaningful use of data in arts and humanities research through facilitated audience interaction. The panelists are researchers and professionals active in digital humanities and eResearch support.
The document summarizes key points about supply and demand for special collections and digitization. It discusses the need to select collections for digitization to increase access, build sustainable long-term infrastructure for ongoing digitization programs, and encourage the development of format-specific digitization equipment. It also emphasizes the importance of learning from users, combining approaches, and sharing findings to support discovery and reuse of collections.
This document summarizes Harriett Green's presentation on humanities data curation and building the foundation for a humanities collaboratory. Green discusses how digital humanities projects generate data through tools, texts, and visualizations. She outlines challenges in curating this data long-term and initiatives like MONK and Project Bamboo that are working to support collaborative humanities research through shared curation of data and technologies. Green envisions collaboratories and centers like HathiTrust helping establish sustainable infrastructure for cutting-edge computational research using curated digital collections.
The document discusses open content and open educational resources (OERs). It notes potential benefits of open content like increasing efficiency, visibility, collaboration and impact of research. However, it also lists challenges like lack of skills, time and incentives as well as cultural norms of independence and competition. Examples are given of open data initiatives in cities like Manchester and open science projects. OERs are defined as educational resources that can be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed. The document concludes by listing several references and websites related to open content and OERs.
Young and Wired: How today's young tech elite will influence the libraries of...Edwin Mijnsbergen
Libraries are the living, breathing internet that existed long before the digital network that we know today. They are the connected nodes of information and community exchange that we have relied on to communicate, collaborate, share resources and preserve knowledge in our societies for centuries.
But there are concerns about the future of physical libraries, given that so many of us have easy access to virtual libraries of information on our computers at home. Recent Pew Internet Project research examines technology use by teenagers and suggests how the behavior and expectations of young internet users might shape the libraries of the future.
Libraries, research infrastructures and the digital humanities: are we ready ...Sally Chambers
This document discusses libraries and their potential role in supporting digital humanities research infrastructures. It describes how libraries could help manage data, serve as embedded librarians working directly with researchers, assist with digitization and curation efforts, and help with the discovery and dissemination of digital scholarship. The document emphasizes that libraries need to adopt a researcher-centric approach and form truly equitable collaborations in order to meaningfully contribute to digital humanities work.
This document outlines a 6-year project funded by the Mellon Foundation and housed at the University of Virginia to promote scholarly communication in a digital world. It discusses how scholarly communication is a cyclical process of research, analysis, presentation, preservation, and dissemination. The overall goal is to help scholars embrace digital scholarship through collaboration with scholarly societies, research libraries, and technology experts. Key components include summer meetings, communities of action, and advancing digital scholarship in various fields such as practical ethics, architectural history, and visual studies.
Introductory lecture, Visit of students at DANS-KNAW, as part of the programme “Dutch Designs: Innovation in Library, Museum and Information Services in the Netherlands.” University of Washington, Seattle (Directors Trent Hill, Rose Paquet), July 18, 2019
International Image Interoperability Framework panel at #CIDOC2017 conferenceEmmanuelle Delmas-Glass
CIDOC 2017 IIIF panel:
Introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework (iiif.io) through 3 use cases in a museum, a library, and a research center/archive by Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass, Yale Center for British Art
Andrea Scharnhorst (2016) Humanities and ICT. Introduction at the Workshop National Infrastructure, Social Science and Humanities, January 20, 2015, ePlan workshop at NLeSC, Amsterdam.
Using Europeana for learning & teaching: EMMA MOOC “Digital library in princ...Getaneh Alemu
EMMA Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an implementation of a broader paradigm shift in learning
A social constructivist approach to learning where students are proactively engaged in an open, democratic, inclusive and collaborative environment (Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky)
Shifts in pedagogy and learner interaction
Multilingual content and interaction and co-creation of content by participants
Philosophy of Race course lecture slides by Scott MacLeod for World University & School at UC Santa Cruz on February 18, 2014
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/02/peregrine-falcon-wuas-talk-at-uc-santa.html
http://scottmacleod.com
Parthenos Training: Infrastructures - The infrastructural turnParthenos
The document discusses the history of research infrastructures (RIs) and knowledge infrastructures. It notes that the idea of an RI was first conceived in the 3rd century BC with the founding of the Library of Alexandria. It also discusses how over the past 200 years, there has been an exponential increase in information gathering and the development of technologies to organize information. The document highlights 2006 as a turning point with the publication of the ESFRI Roadmap and a report calling for investment in digital RIs to support humanities research. Finally, it discusses challenges for digital libraries in maintaining large volumes of scholar-generated content, enabling new methodologies, and maintaining high upfront investment.
This document discusses the importance of technology skills for incarcerated teens and best practices for libraries serving this population. It notes that incarcerated teens are behind peers in technology access and skills. Technology can motivate learning, improve grades, and boost self-esteem. The document recommends libraries partner with organizations, provide resources like computers and training, and advocate for funding to support programs. Best practices include activities like podcasting, gaming, and animation to engage teens. Serving at-risk youth generates goodwill and shows leadership by libraries in supporting all members of their community.
Exploring two decades of evaluating digital scholarship for tenure and promot...Cheryl Ball
In this presentation at the Brown University Library, Cheryl Ball outlines the history of digital scholarship in the humanities and traces the accompanying changed to tenure and promotion practices.
Critical Information Literacy in Computer Science/ CareerIlana Stonebraker
This document discusses critical information literacy in computer science and technology fields. It outlines some key areas of literature, including feminist theories of limited access for women in STEM fields and intersectional Black feminist critiques of technology. The document also discusses possibilities for integrating these perspectives into CSS curriculum, such as topics on women in STEM, algorithms and neutrality, and coding for social justice. Challenges mentioned include the skills-based CSS curriculum and limited engagement with social issues. Collaboration with career services is presented as an opportunity to incorporate critical perspectives into career preparation.
An archipelago of multimedia publishingCheryl Ball
This keynote presentation at the Digital Dissemination seminar at Skövde University in Sweden traces the development of the Vega Academic Publishing System from its roots in Cheryl Ball's work as the editor of the online journal, Kairos.
Networked Participatory Scholarship: Empirical perspectives on scholars use o...George Veletsianos
The document summarizes a study examining scholars' participation in online networks. It finds that such networks can be used for knowledge creation and dissemination through crowdsourcing and question-and-answer sessions, but they also present tensions regarding personal and professional boundaries, copyright issues, a lack of frameworks for evaluating digital scholarship, and institutional surveillance. Additionally, networks provide vulnerability and care as scholars share struggles and speak out, but networks can also fragment identities and participation. The study calls for developing resources to help scholars understand and navigate networked scholarship.
Efficient and effective searching in ARTstor requires understanding search techniques like wildcards, phrases, field searching and using terms that will return the most relevant results. It is important to expect variations in spelling, titles, attributions and collections, and to use multiple search strategies like starting broad and refining and using Google to find additional clues. Persistence and creativity are needed to locate images when information is limited or inconsistent. The best searches use specific, distinctive terms rather than subjective descriptions.
This document discusses intellectual property issues related to MOOCs. It provides an overview of the MOOC landscape, including growth statistics and business models. It discusses ownership issues around who owns the content in MOOCs and different licensing models used. It covers basics of copyright law and examples of bills and lawsuits related to MOOC intellectual property. Finally, it provides guidelines and recommendations for faculty regarding intellectual property in MOOCs.
This document proposes a panel discussion at the 4th eResearch Australasia Conference to discuss challenges and opportunities around making sense of data in the arts and humanities. The panel will explore questions around the nature of data in these domains, current eResearch practices, and what infrastructures could help facilitate data use and uptake of technologies. The goal is to build on ideas from previous conference papers and encourage discussion on meaningful use of data in arts and humanities research through facilitated audience interaction. The panelists are researchers and professionals active in digital humanities and eResearch support.
The document summarizes key points about supply and demand for special collections and digitization. It discusses the need to select collections for digitization to increase access, build sustainable long-term infrastructure for ongoing digitization programs, and encourage the development of format-specific digitization equipment. It also emphasizes the importance of learning from users, combining approaches, and sharing findings to support discovery and reuse of collections.
This document summarizes Harriett Green's presentation on humanities data curation and building the foundation for a humanities collaboratory. Green discusses how digital humanities projects generate data through tools, texts, and visualizations. She outlines challenges in curating this data long-term and initiatives like MONK and Project Bamboo that are working to support collaborative humanities research through shared curation of data and technologies. Green envisions collaboratories and centers like HathiTrust helping establish sustainable infrastructure for cutting-edge computational research using curated digital collections.
The document discusses open content and open educational resources (OERs). It notes potential benefits of open content like increasing efficiency, visibility, collaboration and impact of research. However, it also lists challenges like lack of skills, time and incentives as well as cultural norms of independence and competition. Examples are given of open data initiatives in cities like Manchester and open science projects. OERs are defined as educational resources that can be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed. The document concludes by listing several references and websites related to open content and OERs.
Young and Wired: How today's young tech elite will influence the libraries of...Edwin Mijnsbergen
Libraries are the living, breathing internet that existed long before the digital network that we know today. They are the connected nodes of information and community exchange that we have relied on to communicate, collaborate, share resources and preserve knowledge in our societies for centuries.
But there are concerns about the future of physical libraries, given that so many of us have easy access to virtual libraries of information on our computers at home. Recent Pew Internet Project research examines technology use by teenagers and suggests how the behavior and expectations of young internet users might shape the libraries of the future.
Libraries, research infrastructures and the digital humanities: are we ready ...Sally Chambers
This document discusses libraries and their potential role in supporting digital humanities research infrastructures. It describes how libraries could help manage data, serve as embedded librarians working directly with researchers, assist with digitization and curation efforts, and help with the discovery and dissemination of digital scholarship. The document emphasizes that libraries need to adopt a researcher-centric approach and form truly equitable collaborations in order to meaningfully contribute to digital humanities work.
This document outlines a 6-year project funded by the Mellon Foundation and housed at the University of Virginia to promote scholarly communication in a digital world. It discusses how scholarly communication is a cyclical process of research, analysis, presentation, preservation, and dissemination. The overall goal is to help scholars embrace digital scholarship through collaboration with scholarly societies, research libraries, and technology experts. Key components include summer meetings, communities of action, and advancing digital scholarship in various fields such as practical ethics, architectural history, and visual studies.
Introductory lecture, Visit of students at DANS-KNAW, as part of the programme “Dutch Designs: Innovation in Library, Museum and Information Services in the Netherlands.” University of Washington, Seattle (Directors Trent Hill, Rose Paquet), July 18, 2019
International Image Interoperability Framework panel at #CIDOC2017 conferenceEmmanuelle Delmas-Glass
CIDOC 2017 IIIF panel:
Introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework (iiif.io) through 3 use cases in a museum, a library, and a research center/archive by Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass, Yale Center for British Art
Andrea Scharnhorst (2016) Humanities and ICT. Introduction at the Workshop National Infrastructure, Social Science and Humanities, January 20, 2015, ePlan workshop at NLeSC, Amsterdam.
Using Europeana for learning & teaching: EMMA MOOC “Digital library in princ...Getaneh Alemu
EMMA Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an implementation of a broader paradigm shift in learning
A social constructivist approach to learning where students are proactively engaged in an open, democratic, inclusive and collaborative environment (Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky)
Shifts in pedagogy and learner interaction
Multilingual content and interaction and co-creation of content by participants
Philosophy of Race course lecture slides by Scott MacLeod for World University & School at UC Santa Cruz on February 18, 2014
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/02/peregrine-falcon-wuas-talk-at-uc-santa.html
http://scottmacleod.com
Parthenos Training: Infrastructures - The infrastructural turnParthenos
The document discusses the history of research infrastructures (RIs) and knowledge infrastructures. It notes that the idea of an RI was first conceived in the 3rd century BC with the founding of the Library of Alexandria. It also discusses how over the past 200 years, there has been an exponential increase in information gathering and the development of technologies to organize information. The document highlights 2006 as a turning point with the publication of the ESFRI Roadmap and a report calling for investment in digital RIs to support humanities research. Finally, it discusses challenges for digital libraries in maintaining large volumes of scholar-generated content, enabling new methodologies, and maintaining high upfront investment.
This document discusses the importance of technology skills for incarcerated teens and best practices for libraries serving this population. It notes that incarcerated teens are behind peers in technology access and skills. Technology can motivate learning, improve grades, and boost self-esteem. The document recommends libraries partner with organizations, provide resources like computers and training, and advocate for funding to support programs. Best practices include activities like podcasting, gaming, and animation to engage teens. Serving at-risk youth generates goodwill and shows leadership by libraries in supporting all members of their community.
Exploring two decades of evaluating digital scholarship for tenure and promot...Cheryl Ball
In this presentation at the Brown University Library, Cheryl Ball outlines the history of digital scholarship in the humanities and traces the accompanying changed to tenure and promotion practices.
Critical Information Literacy in Computer Science/ CareerIlana Stonebraker
This document discusses critical information literacy in computer science and technology fields. It outlines some key areas of literature, including feminist theories of limited access for women in STEM fields and intersectional Black feminist critiques of technology. The document also discusses possibilities for integrating these perspectives into CSS curriculum, such as topics on women in STEM, algorithms and neutrality, and coding for social justice. Challenges mentioned include the skills-based CSS curriculum and limited engagement with social issues. Collaboration with career services is presented as an opportunity to incorporate critical perspectives into career preparation.
An archipelago of multimedia publishingCheryl Ball
This keynote presentation at the Digital Dissemination seminar at Skövde University in Sweden traces the development of the Vega Academic Publishing System from its roots in Cheryl Ball's work as the editor of the online journal, Kairos.
Networked Participatory Scholarship: Empirical perspectives on scholars use o...George Veletsianos
The document summarizes a study examining scholars' participation in online networks. It finds that such networks can be used for knowledge creation and dissemination through crowdsourcing and question-and-answer sessions, but they also present tensions regarding personal and professional boundaries, copyright issues, a lack of frameworks for evaluating digital scholarship, and institutional surveillance. Additionally, networks provide vulnerability and care as scholars share struggles and speak out, but networks can also fragment identities and participation. The study calls for developing resources to help scholars understand and navigate networked scholarship.
Efficient and effective searching in ARTstor requires understanding search techniques like wildcards, phrases, field searching and using terms that will return the most relevant results. It is important to expect variations in spelling, titles, attributions and collections, and to use multiple search strategies like starting broad and refining and using Google to find additional clues. Persistence and creativity are needed to locate images when information is limited or inconsistent. The best searches use specific, distinctive terms rather than subjective descriptions.
Jennifer Friedman presentation at the "How do we shelve it? The place for Vendor-provided electronic titles in art and architecture collections" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Carolyn Caizzi and Barbara Rockenbach presentation for the "Collaborative Ventures, Collaborative Gains" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Carolyn Caizzi presentation for the "Images Unleashed: Expanding Beyond Traditional Disciplines" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Steven Kowalik, Hunter College / CUNY
New York City presentation from VRA 28 Atlanta.
"Transition to Learning Spaces: Redefining Our Space for the Digital World" for the "After the Transition: Planning for Collections Storage & Workspace Changes in the Digital Environment" session.
Karen Kessel presentation for "More Than Meets the Eye? Retrieving Art Images by Subject" session at VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd joint conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Judy Weedman presentation for "More Than Meets the Eye? Retrieving Art Images by Subject" session at VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd joint conference in Minneapolis, MN.
The panel discussion focused on identifying and sharing collections of distinction through digital initiatives. Jason Roy presented on making unique collections accessible online to impact the growing array of visual resources. The panelists then described their projects that showcase collections to both local and broader users: accessCeramics features contemporary ceramics; Reed Digital Collections features artists' books; and Local Color features art in University of Michigan campus buildings. The discussion addressed building user communities around shared collections and addressing copyright when displaying non-public domain works digitally.
The document discusses metadata schemas and workflows for cataloging digital assets. It provides examples of metadata schemas including Dublin Core and Photoshop XMP schemas. It also describes different organizations' processes for collecting metadata from faculty and students and integrating it into databases using tools like Photoshop and custom metadata panels. Custom metadata schemas are suggested to better fit specific needs rather than repackaging existing schemas.
Stacy Brinkman and Diane Fellows presentation for the "Collaborative Ventures, Collaborative Gains" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
The field of learning analytics emerged in the early 2010s as researchers and practitioners sought to make use of the large amounts of digital trace data being produced by students in online and technology-enhanced learning environments. Early work in learning analytics focused on using basic LMS and student information system data to identify patterns between student behaviors and outcomes. However, critics argued this work was limited and did not address deeper learning challenges. By the mid-2010s, the field was establishing itself as a distinct "tribe" with its own conferences and journals, though it drew scholars from various disciplines and lacked a unified theoretical framework. Most recent reviews find the field is moving from predictive modeling toward a deeper understanding of the student experience but that evidence of impact on
Celebrating Open Access Week: Scholarly Communication Initiatives in Academic...StephDK
There are many ways that academic librarians are engaging with their communities around issues of open access and scholarly communication – collaborations with faculty, students and administration are key to understanding user perspectives and to building advocacy. This webcast will present examples of scholarly communication and open access initiatives at a variety of academic libraries across the country. Join us to learn how your colleagues are engaging with their communities around issues of author rights, open access, open educational resources, and more.
Learning outcomes:
+ Understand the variety of scholarly communication initiatives across a variety of institutional types and sizes
+ Hear about examples of collaboration and engagement with faculty and students
+ Learn about connections between scholarly communication, information literacy, collections and other services
Presenter: Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University.
Faculty center dh talk 2 s2016 pedagogical provocationsJennifer Dellner
This document discusses digital humanities (DH) pedagogy and contrasts it with traditional "ed tech" approaches. It argues that DH is local and contextual, involving specific configurations of tools, faculty, and students based on an institution's strengths and mission. DH emphasizes hands-on learning through making and production, using tools like programming, audio/video creation, and mapping in project-based ways. Examples provided include open-access textbook projects, rewriting Wikipedia, and digital mapping and narrative projects. The document advocates for DH approaches that encourage exploration, distraction, and making over purely delivering content.
Open Educational Resources: Contributions to the Efficacy of the Internetjeisner
The document defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely available or have an open license allowing free use. It examines examples of OER projects like MIT OpenCourseWare and Rice University's Connexions. The author envisions a future where OER through initiatives like mobile learning help equalize access to high-quality education worldwide.
Critical engagement of teachers in Second LIfe: Progress on the SaLamander Pr...Jonathon Richter
The document discusses the Salamander Project, which aims to create a searchable database of learning materials in Second Life. It identifies five types of learner engagement with these materials: demonstration, experiential, diagnostic, role play, and constructive. The project also seeks to build a community of educators through a wiki to organize, describe, and evaluate learning objects. Participants are encouraged to get involved by adding content and providing feedback to help shape the developing typology of resources.
This document summarizes a discussion on the impact of changing learning environments on museums and museum educators. It poses questions about the skills needed for museum educators to thrive, potential partnerships museums can develop to gain skills and share resources, and the future of museums and learning. It also provides contact information for several participants in the discussion.
"THROWING THE CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS:
Keeping Visual Resources Positions Viable through the Digital Transition" - opening remarks from Karen Kessel, Sonoma State University at VRA 27, San Diego.
Rebecca Grant - DH research data: identification and challenges (DH2016)dri_ireland
Presentation made by Rebecca Grant as part of the panel session “Digital data sharing: the opportunities and challenges of opening research” at the Digital Humanities conference, Krakow, 15 July 2016. This paper “DH research data: identification and challenges” provided an introduction to concepts of research data in the digital humanities, including accepted definitions of what constitutes research data in a DH context.
All Hands on Deck - Getting Visitors Involved in the Work of the Museum (AAM ...sloverlinett
It’s the age of participatory engagement, and the crowd is making vital contributions in areas where only experts used to tread. How can museums harness their visitors’ collective skills and intelligence, not just to make exhibits and programs more engaging but also to help carry out the museum’s scientific, historical, aesthetic, or environmental work? In this panel, we looked at how three science-themed institutions are approaching this new frontier and what the future holds in three state-of-the-art facilities now on the drawing boards: a new learning space at the National Museum of Natural History; a redesigned visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida; and the new Nature Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. In the q&a, we debated the whys and hows of bringing citizen science inside the museum and inviting visitors to lend their hands, eyes, and minds to the cause.
Shaping our Future: Digitization Partnerships Across Libraries, Archives and ...UBC Library
The document discusses trends in digital information and digitization, including convergence through collaboration between libraries, archives and museums. It provides examples of collaborative digitization projects and how they help inspire new kinds of research. Open source and open access models are also discussed as important trends. Professional competencies must evolve as the roles of librarians, archivists and curators converge in the digital realm. Global organizations have a role to play in encouraging partnerships and training.
Can collection management improve information literacy? Lessons on how we...sawarren
This document summarizes a presentation about teaching students about scholarly communication and the business aspects of librarianship. The presentation covers why it is important for students to understand the economics of information and scholarly publishing. It describes teaching scenarios used to discuss how scholarly information is a business, including the roles of various players and costs associated with journals. Assessment of student learning found that students were surprised by the high costs of journals and databases and developed a greater appreciation for libraries and the resources they provide.
The proliferation of communication technologies is profoundly changing the nature of academic practice. In this presentation I describe the impact of blogging and social networking tools on the practice and dissemination of academic research across disciplinary boundaries. I suggest that the traditional notion of the university is giving way to communities of scholars who are not tied to particular institutions, and less dependent on traditional forms of dissemination and publication. The resulting ‘democratisation’ of academia is portrayed in terms of a tension between democracy and expert knowledge mediated by technology.
One prominent contemporary challenge for technologists is to understand the ongoing impact of technological change on academic communities. At The Open University, the Digital Scholarship research team is mapping the use of Twitter in order to better understand user engagement with these technologies. I will present headline findings from this research and discuss the implications for scholarly practice at the OU.
Digital Humanities for Undergraduates, AAC&U 2012Rebecca Davis
Digital Humanities for Undergraduates
The digital humanities offer one avenue for exploring the future of liberal education by pursuing essential learning goals and high impact practices in a digital context. This panel of faculty, staff and students from the Tri-College Consortium (Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges), Furman University, Hamilton College, and Wheaton College will share how students have used digital methodologies to engage in authentic, applied research and prepare to be citizens in a networked world.
Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities, NITLE
Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History, Wheaton College
Angel David Nieves, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Hamilton College
Janet Simons, Associate Director of Instructional Technology, Hamilton College
Christopher Blackwell, Professor of Classics, Furman University
Laura McGrane, Associate Professor of English, Haverford College
Jennifer Rajchel, Digital Humanities Intern, Library, Bryn Mawr College
This session is presented by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE)
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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
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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.
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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.
This document summarizes an art history course titled "Pattern & Representation: Critical Cataloging for a New Perspective on Campus History" taught at Oklahoma State University. The course examines major developments in American art across different media from European contact through the mid-20th century. As part of the course, students are divided into groups to create digital exhibitions cataloging artworks from university newspaper archives between certain years. Students must include contextual information and link their entries to related articles. Their entries and a reflective essay are graded individually based on their work plan. The course introduces the concept of "critical cataloging" to bring social justice perspectives to archival and metadata work.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
10. Mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and associated fields and contribute to the work of the arts and educational community.
12. To assemble image collections from across many time periods and cultures that will, in the aggregate, have sufficient depth, breadth, and coherence to support a wide range of educational and scholarly activities;
13. To create an organized, central, and reliable digital resource that supports noncommercial use of images for research, teaching and learning; and
14. To work with the arts and educational communities to develop collective solutions to the complex challenges that are an inescapable part of working in a changing digital environment.Page 3
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