The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has received a $149,500 planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to research, build partnerships, and prototype technologies for a proposed Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME). The DLME would create an online inventory of cultural artifacts from the Middle East and North Africa with images and ownership details to help curb illegal trafficking and determine if offered artifacts were acquired illegally. Over the next eight months, CLIR will conduct research, outreach, and travel to the region to explore potential partners and feasibility of the DLME with a final report on whether creating the library is viable.
For libraries and museums, the best option to digitize is to seek the support of a reliable document scanning company that can ensure excellent output.
For libraries and museums, the best option to digitize is to seek the support of a reliable document scanning company that can ensure excellent output.
Post-Custodial Methods in Archival PracticeItza Carbajal
Presentation covered a general overview of Post-Custodialism as it is applied in the archival field. Presentation discussed initial framing of the Post-Custodial practices as well as local application of the concept in a Latin American context. Presenter also shared a few takeaways from the positive potential opportunities of applying Post-Custodial methods for archival projects.
This presentation was provided by Brian Mathews of Carnegie Mellon University, during the NISO event "Blurred Boundaries: Intellectual Property and Networked Sharing of Content," held on May 22, 2019.
Post Custodial Metadata Development & DecisionsItza Carbajal
This presentation was part of a panel for the 2019 Society of American Archivists conference titled "Cultivating a Post-Custodial Praxis: Insights from LLILAS Benson's Community of Colaboradores"
Panel Abstract
For more than a decade, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections has supported post-custodial partnerships with community and cultural heritage organizations to protect vulnerable historical records in Latin America. This panel highlights diverse experiences and roles of post-custodial archivists, traditional archivists, and scholars in collaboratively developing and implementing post-custodial projects. The panelists offer insights and lessons learned from their engagement with each other and these projects to underscore the collaborative value of the model.
Itza A. Carbajal: Metadata Development and Decisions
Dylan Joy: Collaborating on a Post Custodial Project as an Archivist in Special Collections
Edward Shore: Collaborating as a Scholar and Researcher for a Post-custodial Project
Theresa Polk: Moderator
2013 Cultural Heritage Creative Tools and Archives Workshop" (CHCTA), National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, 26-27 June 2013, Final Session-Panel summary slides by Erik Champion for 5 minute talk..(url"http://chta.wordpress.com)
GNOSS Semantic Web platform for building enterprise, government and educational projects.
GNOSS is a software platform, created by RIAM Intelearning LAB S.L., to build specialized online social networks with dynamic semantic publishing. GNOSS integrates knowledge management, informal learning and collaborative work in a (Linked Data). environment. Every GNOSS space incorporates semantic facet-based searches and semantic context creation which drastically improves user experience.
GNOSS runs on technologies and standards of the semantic web, which makes it possible to structure and link all kinds of content, among them and with other Open Data (Linked Data), and to reinforce and to amplify the knowledge management processes with facet-based searches and generation of documentary and personal contexts for specific information.
GNOSS provides people, groups and organizations with the necessary tools to create and develop their digital identity, connect their intelligences, create communities based on their interests and motivations, and activate thriving processes of collective creativity, brainpower, debate and thinking.
More info: gnoss@gnoss.com
Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts History Onlineannperham
Using the Digital Commonwealth to Enhance Teaching.
Presented at the MSLA conference on 3/10/14 by Kim Cochrane (Framingham University) and Debra DeJonker-Berry (Eastham Public Library).
E. Bryan Digital curation of digital cultural assets- Mutual interest of AL...Emerson Bryan
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth, Barbados, will host the CARIFESTA XIII Symposium entitled “The Caribbean, the Arts and the Cultural Industries: Negotiating Tradition, Aesthetics, Economics and Legacy.”
The Symposium was hosted at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, from 19-23 August 2017.
Metadata From the Source: Participatory Metadata Models in Post-Custodial Pro...Itza Carbajal
Presentation part of panel 6 focused on Re-thinking Metadata and Descriptive Practices
Abstract:
As the call from the United Nations for Human Rights-based approaches to data gains momentum across the world, the LLILAS Benson Digital Initiatives team at the University of Texas at Austin begins by asking “how can post-custodial models facilitate efforts at self determination?” In particular how can participatory metadata creation approaches used by LLILAS Benson in various post-custodial partnerships across Latin America improve archival description praxis. Speaker will deliberate on previous and current implementations of ethics driven participatory metadata creation practices used for post-custodial digitization projects in a cultural heritage institution. Insights aim to further establish collaborative information processes that will in turn bring about richer, culturally sensitive and human rights centered metadata for digital cultural heritage collections.
Post-Custodial Methods in Archival PracticeItza Carbajal
Presentation covered a general overview of Post-Custodialism as it is applied in the archival field. Presentation discussed initial framing of the Post-Custodial practices as well as local application of the concept in a Latin American context. Presenter also shared a few takeaways from the positive potential opportunities of applying Post-Custodial methods for archival projects.
This presentation was provided by Brian Mathews of Carnegie Mellon University, during the NISO event "Blurred Boundaries: Intellectual Property and Networked Sharing of Content," held on May 22, 2019.
Post Custodial Metadata Development & DecisionsItza Carbajal
This presentation was part of a panel for the 2019 Society of American Archivists conference titled "Cultivating a Post-Custodial Praxis: Insights from LLILAS Benson's Community of Colaboradores"
Panel Abstract
For more than a decade, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections has supported post-custodial partnerships with community and cultural heritage organizations to protect vulnerable historical records in Latin America. This panel highlights diverse experiences and roles of post-custodial archivists, traditional archivists, and scholars in collaboratively developing and implementing post-custodial projects. The panelists offer insights and lessons learned from their engagement with each other and these projects to underscore the collaborative value of the model.
Itza A. Carbajal: Metadata Development and Decisions
Dylan Joy: Collaborating on a Post Custodial Project as an Archivist in Special Collections
Edward Shore: Collaborating as a Scholar and Researcher for a Post-custodial Project
Theresa Polk: Moderator
2013 Cultural Heritage Creative Tools and Archives Workshop" (CHCTA), National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, 26-27 June 2013, Final Session-Panel summary slides by Erik Champion for 5 minute talk..(url"http://chta.wordpress.com)
GNOSS Semantic Web platform for building enterprise, government and educational projects.
GNOSS is a software platform, created by RIAM Intelearning LAB S.L., to build specialized online social networks with dynamic semantic publishing. GNOSS integrates knowledge management, informal learning and collaborative work in a (Linked Data). environment. Every GNOSS space incorporates semantic facet-based searches and semantic context creation which drastically improves user experience.
GNOSS runs on technologies and standards of the semantic web, which makes it possible to structure and link all kinds of content, among them and with other Open Data (Linked Data), and to reinforce and to amplify the knowledge management processes with facet-based searches and generation of documentary and personal contexts for specific information.
GNOSS provides people, groups and organizations with the necessary tools to create and develop their digital identity, connect their intelligences, create communities based on their interests and motivations, and activate thriving processes of collective creativity, brainpower, debate and thinking.
More info: gnoss@gnoss.com
Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts History Onlineannperham
Using the Digital Commonwealth to Enhance Teaching.
Presented at the MSLA conference on 3/10/14 by Kim Cochrane (Framingham University) and Debra DeJonker-Berry (Eastham Public Library).
E. Bryan Digital curation of digital cultural assets- Mutual interest of AL...Emerson Bryan
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth, Barbados, will host the CARIFESTA XIII Symposium entitled “The Caribbean, the Arts and the Cultural Industries: Negotiating Tradition, Aesthetics, Economics and Legacy.”
The Symposium was hosted at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, from 19-23 August 2017.
Metadata From the Source: Participatory Metadata Models in Post-Custodial Pro...Itza Carbajal
Presentation part of panel 6 focused on Re-thinking Metadata and Descriptive Practices
Abstract:
As the call from the United Nations for Human Rights-based approaches to data gains momentum across the world, the LLILAS Benson Digital Initiatives team at the University of Texas at Austin begins by asking “how can post-custodial models facilitate efforts at self determination?” In particular how can participatory metadata creation approaches used by LLILAS Benson in various post-custodial partnerships across Latin America improve archival description praxis. Speaker will deliberate on previous and current implementations of ethics driven participatory metadata creation practices used for post-custodial digitization projects in a cultural heritage institution. Insights aim to further establish collaborative information processes that will in turn bring about richer, culturally sensitive and human rights centered metadata for digital cultural heritage collections.
This is a presentation about the Digital Public Library of America, originally created in May 2014. It shows the greater access to various materials than can be had if one participates.
Global Networked Digital Environment: How Libraries Shape the Future.UBC Library
Global Networked Digital Environment: How Libraries Shape the Future.
Presented by Ingrid Parent, President-elect of IFLA, at the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance Conference in Shanghai, October 21, 2010.
The DPLA and NY Heritage for Tech Camp 2014Larry Naukam
This is an introduction to the Digital Public Library of America and to New York Heritage. It was put together for showing these web sites to school media librarians and others, an helping them to use it more effectively. It may also be used to find items for use in the Common Core curriculum.
Presentation slides from the opening of the K-12 Library Managers Congress at EduTech 2014. Covers eg, emerging technologies, digital literacy, global citizenship, engaging programs, hybid collections, digital curation etc
Curriculum connections: the school library in full flightEduwebinar
Presentation at EduTECH 2014 on behalf of the Australian School Library Association for the K-12 Library Managers Congress.
- Emerging technologies and creative learning spaces
- Digital literacy and global citizenship
- Pedagogical frameworks and models of learning
- Engaging programs and capacity building
- Hybrid collections and digital curation
- Centres of communication, collaboration and creativity
Tribal libraries and archives panel session - NWILL, September 2021Manisha Khetarpal
Slides for the panel presentation and includes indigenous information literacy OER, little free libraries, oral history collection, National Council for Truth & Reconciliation Archives, and microlearning program. Presented at NWILL conference on September 2, 2021.
The IFLA Trend Report identifies five top level trends which will play a key role in shaping our future information ecosystem:
TREND 1 New Technologies will Both Expand and Limit Who has Access to Information.
TREND 2 Online Education will Democratise and Disrupt Global Learning.
TREND 3 The Boundaries of Privacy and Data Protection will be Redefined.
TREND 4 Hyper-Connected Societies will Listen to and Empower New Voices and Groups.
TREND 5 The Global Information Economy will be Transformed by New Technologies.
Making an Impact: How Digitised Resources Change LivesSimon Tanner
This paper will draw upon the research done by the author from a wide number of sources and will provide a compelling account of the advantages of digitised content.
The paper will cover using case studies and exemplars from across the sectors information on:
Where the value and impact can be found in digitised resources,
What modes of value and impact are achievable, and
Who are the beneficiaries gaining from the impact and value?
Special attention is worth paying to the proposal of 5 modes of value for digitised resources. The basic value modes suggested here may act as a guide for future digitisation impact assessment. If these value models to society as a whole are satisfied then many other benefits identified in this paper will also accrue.
This document therefore provides strong information to support:
Fundraising and revenue development plans,
Audience development,
Designing evaluation and impact assessment,
Project planning, and
Planning activities to augment digitised resources.
The aim is to provide key information and strong exemplars for the following primary stakeholders:
Memory institutions and cultural heritage organisations such as libraries, museums and archives.
Holders and custodians of special collections.
Managers, project managers and fundraisers who are seeking to justify further investment in digitised resources.
Academics looking to establish digital projects and digital scholarship collaborations with collection owners.
Making an Impact: How Digitised Resources Change Lives
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NEWS RELEASE
CLIR Receives Planning Grant for Digital Library of the Middle East
Washington, DC, July 19, 2016—The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded CLIR
$149,500 to support exploratory research, community building, and technical prototyping
for the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME).
Along with the horrific loss of life and human suffering in the region, the cultural heri-
tage of many nations in the Middle East and North Africa is presently under severe threat
from a combination of destruction, looting, illegal black market trafficking, and terrorism.
Digital technology, specifically those technologies associated with the architecture, man-
agement, and sustainability of large-scale digital libraries, can help remediate this crisis.
The DLME would create a digitally based, internationally shared inventory of cultural
artifacts that includes detailed descriptions and images, and confirms objects’ ownership
and legal status. This information would help determine whether an item of cultural or
historical significance offered for sale or being transferred was acquired illegally. Images
and brief descriptions from the DLME could be made publicly available to encourage
greater understanding of the region’s cultural legacy and respect for the importance of the
cultural commonwealth, while helping to safeguard a fundamentally important expres-
sion of our humanity.
“The proposal has attracted the engagement and attention of a very fine array of schol-
ars, IT specialists, diplomats, and administrators, which augurs well for its longer-term
prospects,” said CLIR President Charles Henry. “The opportunity to collaborate with and
learn from our colleagues in the region is compelling. They will establish the priorities of
activity and guide these efforts.”
Henry will serve with Peter Herdrich, co-founder of The Antiquities Coalition, CLIR’s
primary organizational partner, as principal investigator. Media and digital arts producer
Neil Sieling will serve as lead research analyst, and Elizabeth Waraksa, program director
for research and strategic initiatives at the Association of Research Libraries, will serve as
consultant to the project.
“Our focus is on finding practical solutions in the effort to fight the scourge of looting, the
illicit trade, and terrorist financing.” Herdrich said. “We all believe there’s tremendous po-
2. tential for the DLME to develop an implementable program that will significantly protect
our shared cultural heritage. And that’s what we’ll be assessing.”
Over the next eight months, the team will conduct a series of focused research projects;
lead meetings, webinars, and other methods of education and outreach; identify and
convene an advisory council; and travel to the Middle East and North Africa to explore
potential partners and projects that may fall within the purview of the DLME. Information
and insight gathered through these means will frame a final report that will either corrob-
orate the efficacy and cost effectiveness of creating a DLME, or articulate why the concept
is not currently feasible.
Throughout the project, the team will have opportunities to draw on the energy and
expertise of CLIR’s Digital Library Federation community. “We can bring the considerable
technical expertise of the international digital library community to bear on this crisis,”
said DLF Director Bethany Nowviskie, “but we must also apply our increasingly mature
social and ethical consciousness to work in partnership.”
If feasible, development of the DLME would likely proceed in stages that include convert-
ing free standing analog/paper-based existing inventories to searchable, digital databases;
new digitization of objects in the Middle East and North Africa, and the creation of linked
metadata for them; and the aggregation of existing digital assets relevant to the regional
legacy held in U.S. and European institutions.
More information about the project is available at https://www.clir.org/initiatives-part-
nerships/DLME.
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is an independent, nonprofit
organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environ-
ments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher
learning. CLIR promotes forward-looking collaborative solutions that transcend disci-
plinary, institutional, professional, and geographic boundaries in support of the public
good. Learn more at https://www.clir.org.
The Digital Library Federation, founded in 1995, is a robust and diverse community of
practice, advancing research, learning, and the public good through digital library tech-
nologies. DLF connects its parent organization, CLIR, to an active practitioner network,
consisting of 151 member institutions, including colleges, universities, public libraries,
museums, labs, agencies, and consortia. DLF is the institutional home to the National Dig-
ital Stewardship Alliance, which works to establish, maintain, and advance the capacity
to preserve our nation’s digital resources for the benefit of present and future generations.
Learn more at https://www.diglib.org.
The Antiquities Coalition is leading the global fight against cultural racketeering: the illicit
trade in antiquities by organized criminals and terrorist organizations. This plunder for profit
funds crime and conflict around the world—erasing our past and threatening our future. The
Coalition’s innovative and practical solutions tackle crimes against heritage head on, empow-
ering communities and countries in crisis. Learn more at www.theantiquitiescoalition.org.