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This document discusses primary source learning through digital libraries. It defines primary sources as firsthand evidence created by participants or witnesses that require critical examination. It describes cultural repositories like libraries, archives, and museums that house primary sources and face issues of stewardship, curation, preservation, and making sources accessible. Digital libraries aim to address challenges of access by creating online collections of digitized materials. The document provides a definition of digital libraries and briefly outlines their history from the 1980s to present. It highlights some favorite digital libraries including those from the British Library and Beinecke Library and others relevant to the course like those from the Library of Congress and University of Vermont.
The document summarizes three trends in digital preservation that could be of interest: 1) Digital heritage preservation across libraries, archives, and museums to preserve born-digital works, websites, and proprietary social media content; 2) Digital preservation metadata standards and developing metadata sets for long-term accessibility; 3) Preserving social media for research, genealogy, and as societies' documentary heritage given the massive user bases and risk of information decay, but challenges in developing preservation strategies for these platforms.
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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.
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.
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Presented to the Eberly College Visiting Alumni Committee, this presentation explains how the Vega academic publishing system enacts the principles of digital, multimodal, open access publishing.
This document discusses getting to digital publishing at West Virginia University through three parts. The first part discusses the history of Kairotic, an open-access journal. The second part discusses the Vega publishing platform and its features for authors, editors, and venues. The third part discusses the proposed Digital Publishing Institute (DPI) at WVU, including its research focus, outreach, pedagogy, and proposed digital hub within the university libraries.
The document summarizes Jayshree Mamtora's visits to Cornell University and Nanyang Technological University libraries in 2013. Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university with three campuses and over 20,000 students. Its library is the 11th largest academic library in the US, comprising over 7.5 million volumes. The Albert R. Mann Library focuses on life sciences, agriculture, and social sciences. Nanyang Technological University is a public university in Singapore with over 23,000 undergraduate and 10,000 postgraduate students. Its library system includes 8 libraries and over 900,000 volumes. Mamtora gained new ideas, skills, trends, collaborators, and friends from the visits.
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The emonocot Team project aims to create a comprehensive online resource for information on monocot plants. It is developing identification keys, taxonomic information on families and genera, and species data. Content is being contributed and integrated from various existing sources, including CATE-Araceae, Palmweb, and GrassBase. The project involves teams focused on content, information and communications technology, and outreach. Significant progress has been made in developing identification tools, compiling taxonomic data, building prototype web architecture, and engaging the scientific community. However, more work remains to fully achieve the goals of creating a global monocot identification and information system.
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Presentation at the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) 2014 conference. This presentation will provide an overview of digital asset management as it applies to moving image archives.
Presentation by Dr. Sarika Sawant, Asst. Professor,
SHPT School of Library Science,
At
National Seminar on
Empowering Academic Libraries in Knowledge Society
21st 22nd December, 2011
University of Mumbai
RDA Fourth Plenary Keynote - Prof. Christine L. Borgman, Professor Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA: "Data, Data, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink." Tuesday 23rd Sept 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/fourth-plenary/plenary4-programme.html
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This document summarizes Jennifer Brice's presentation on addressing challenges for digital preservation at Dartmouth College Library. It discusses how the library supports digital preservation to provide continuous access to digital materials despite rapid technological, resource, research, administrative, and disciplinary changes. Key points include embracing change as an opportunity, thoughtfully assessing infrastructure and collections, deepening collaborations, and addressing specific types of changes through various programs and resources.
The document discusses two methods for providing access to forensic disk images in a web service: 1) Emulation as a Service (bwFLA) which implements a QEMU emulator to access disk images and allows booting or mounting images in an emulated environment via a web interface. 2) BitCurator Access Webtools which uses digital forensics libraries to synthesize a view of file systems and data within disk images and provides a web interface for selectively accessing content. Both aim to simplify access while maintaining protections for disk image integrity and allowing redaction of sensitive content.
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The document discusses the role of academic libraries in supporting the research data lifecycle. It notes trends like increasing data regulation and a lack of data management training for researchers. Libraries are well-positioned to help address these challenges due to their expertise in areas like intellectual property, relationship building, and providing access to information. The document outlines how roles like the data research scientist and research data management librarian can help libraries engage with researchers throughout the entire data lifecycle from collection to long-term preservation.
Open Data in a Big Data World: easy to say, but hard to do?LEARN Project
Presentation at 3rd LEARN workshop on Research Data Management, “Make research data management policies work”
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This document summarizes a presentation by Liz Lyon about open science challenges and opportunities in the data decade. It discusses issues around data sharing, attribution, and participation from individual researchers to large institutions. New technologies enable large-scale data sharing through cloud computing but also raise issues around privacy, standards, and crediting contributions. Institutions are developing strategies to support open science through new data management structures, cross-campus collaborations, and integrating data skills into education.
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The document discusses how libraries and scholarship are changing in a digital world of abundance rather than scarcity. It covers four key areas: ubiquitous computing, the social academic, research data, and free and open versus secret science. The author argues that libraries must adapt to this new environment by embracing new technologies, facilitating social and open sharing of knowledge, helping with research data management, and promoting open access over secret science.
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Presentation to introduce current landscape of data management and UC3 tools and services that support data sharing. For IASSIST in Toronto, 5 June 2014.
Visible Past is a web-based system that allows users to store, access, and contribute information that is connected to specific geographic locations and time periods. Information can be browsed by keyword, time, or location. The system includes 3D models of historical places annotated with multimedia information. It aims to create rich information environments for enhancing education and research by delivering location-aware knowledge to users based on where they are.
- Scientific names for species can change over time as taxonomy knowledge evolves
- An event-centric ontology model represents names and changes through time using different URIs for taxon concepts at different times
- Transition and snapshot models can then simplify the descriptions by linking concepts over time or just showing current names
- This approach allows integrated representation of taxonomy knowledge and its revisions in a computable way
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The article discusses the open educational resources (OER) movement, which aims to make educational content freely available online through open licensing. It explores how OER began in the 1990s and expanded rapidly with MIT's OpenCourseWare project in 2002. OER now includes a wide range of educational materials that are openly licensed for use and reuse. The article examines the promises of OER in leveling access to knowledge and transforming educational practices, but also notes challenges in establishing sustainable infrastructure and adapting existing systems to support open sharing of intellectual property.
Academic publishing and research grant writingCheryl Ball
In this talk, presented as part of the Fall for the Book Festival's Society of Technical Communication panel, Cheryl Ball outlines how the Vega academic publishing system being designed and built with a Mellon Foundation grant is addressing long-standing sustainability problem in online academic publishing.
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An e-Infrastructure is a distributed network of service nodes, residing on multiple sites and managed by one or more organizations. e-Infrastructures allow scientists residing at distant places to collaborate. They offer a multiplicity of facilities as-a-service, supporting data sharing and usage at different levels of abstraction, e.g. data transfer, data harmonization, data processing workflows etc. e-Infrastructures are gaining an important place in the field of biodiversity conservation. Their computational capabilities help scientists to reuse models, obtain results in shorter time and share these results with other colleagues. They are also used to access several and heterogeneous biodiversity catalogues.
In this course, the D4Science e-Infrastructure will be used to conduct experiments in the field of biodiversity conservation. D4Science hosts models and contributions by several international organizations involved in the biodiversity conservation field. The course will give students an overview of the models, the practices and the methods that large international organizations like FAO and UNESCO apply by means of D4Science. At the same time, the course will introduce students to the basic concepts under e-Infrastructures, Virtual Research Environments, data sharing and experiments reproducibility.
How to Architect Family of Complex Space Systems and Networks?KBB_2009
This document provides resources for architecting families of complex space systems and networks, including standards, books, papers, conferences, and the systems architecture approach. It outlines an approach using architecture description documents and papers to document integrated network architectures for NASA's space exploration missions. Key resources cited include the DoDAF framework, CCSDS reference architecture, books on systems architecting and space vehicle design, and papers on space communication and navigation network architectures.
The emonocot Team project aims to create a comprehensive online resource for information on monocot plants. It is developing identification keys, taxonomic information on families and genera, and species data. Content is being contributed and integrated from various existing sources, including CATE-Araceae, Palmweb, and GrassBase. The project involves teams focused on content, information and communications technology, and outreach. Significant progress has been made in developing identification tools, compiling taxonomic data, building prototype web architecture, and engaging the scientific community. However, more work remains to fully achieve the goals of creating a global monocot identification and information system.
Digital Preservation for Technophobes on a BudgetSue Barrett
Presentation at the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) 2014 conference. This presentation will provide an overview of digital asset management as it applies to moving image archives.
Presentation by Dr. Sarika Sawant, Asst. Professor,
SHPT School of Library Science,
At
National Seminar on
Empowering Academic Libraries in Knowledge Society
21st 22nd December, 2011
University of Mumbai
RDA Fourth Plenary Keynote - Prof. Christine L. Borgman, Professor Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA: "Data, Data, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink." Tuesday 23rd Sept 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/fourth-plenary/plenary4-programme.html
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This document summarizes Jennifer Brice's presentation on addressing challenges for digital preservation at Dartmouth College Library. It discusses how the library supports digital preservation to provide continuous access to digital materials despite rapid technological, resource, research, administrative, and disciplinary changes. Key points include embracing change as an opportunity, thoughtfully assessing infrastructure and collections, deepening collaborations, and addressing specific types of changes through various programs and resources.
The document discusses two methods for providing access to forensic disk images in a web service: 1) Emulation as a Service (bwFLA) which implements a QEMU emulator to access disk images and allows booting or mounting images in an emulated environment via a web interface. 2) BitCurator Access Webtools which uses digital forensics libraries to synthesize a view of file systems and data within disk images and provides a web interface for selectively accessing content. Both aim to simplify access while maintaining protections for disk image integrity and allowing redaction of sensitive content.
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The document discusses the role of academic libraries in supporting the research data lifecycle. It notes trends like increasing data regulation and a lack of data management training for researchers. Libraries are well-positioned to help address these challenges due to their expertise in areas like intellectual property, relationship building, and providing access to information. The document outlines how roles like the data research scientist and research data management librarian can help libraries engage with researchers throughout the entire data lifecycle from collection to long-term preservation.
Open Data in a Big Data World: easy to say, but hard to do?LEARN Project
Presentation at 3rd LEARN workshop on Research Data Management, “Make research data management policies work”
Helsinki, 28 June 2016, by Sarah Callaghan, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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This document summarizes a presentation by Liz Lyon about open science challenges and opportunities in the data decade. It discusses issues around data sharing, attribution, and participation from individual researchers to large institutions. New technologies enable large-scale data sharing through cloud computing but also raise issues around privacy, standards, and crediting contributions. Institutions are developing strategies to support open science through new data management structures, cross-campus collaborations, and integrating data skills into education.
Scholarship in a connected world: New ways to know, new ways to showDerek Keats
The document discusses how libraries and scholarship are changing in a digital world of abundance rather than scarcity. It covers four key areas: ubiquitous computing, the social academic, research data, and free and open versus secret science. The author argues that libraries must adapt to this new environment by embracing new technologies, facilitating social and open sharing of knowledge, helping with research data management, and promoting open access over secret science.
Data management overview and UC3 tools for IASSIST 2014Carly Strasser
Presentation to introduce current landscape of data management and UC3 tools and services that support data sharing. For IASSIST in Toronto, 5 June 2014.
Visible Past is a web-based system that allows users to store, access, and contribute information that is connected to specific geographic locations and time periods. Information can be browsed by keyword, time, or location. The system includes 3D models of historical places annotated with multimedia information. It aims to create rich information environments for enhancing education and research by delivering location-aware knowledge to users based on where they are.
- Scientific names for species can change over time as taxonomy knowledge evolves
- An event-centric ontology model represents names and changes through time using different URIs for taxon concepts at different times
- Transition and snapshot models can then simplify the descriptions by linking concepts over time or just showing current names
- This approach allows integrated representation of taxonomy knowledge and its revisions in a computable way
The OptIPlanet Collaboratory Supporting Researchers WorldwideLarry Smarr
The document discusses the OptIPlanet Collaboratory, which supports researchers worldwide through integration of high definition video streams, large scale image display walls, and collaborative analysis of large scale images. It enables e-science collaborations without walls through uncompressed HD telepresence. OptIPortals using embedded iHDTV allow collaboration between multiple locations and are being adopted globally at various research institutions.
The article discusses the open educational resources (OER) movement, which aims to make educational content freely available online through open licensing. It explores how OER began in the 1990s and expanded rapidly with MIT's OpenCourseWare project in 2002. OER now includes a wide range of educational materials that are openly licensed for use and reuse. The article examines the promises of OER in leveling access to knowledge and transforming educational practices, but also notes challenges in establishing sustainable infrastructure and adapting existing systems to support open sharing of intellectual property.
Data sharing and data management – what are they all about?Belinda Weaver
This document discusses the importance of data sharing and management in research. It provides several reasons why data sharing is important, including that data is needed to understand research findings, large datasets require integration across disciplines, and publicly-funded research should benefit the public. However, researchers often face barriers to sharing data such as lack of incentives, time, concerns about losing control or confidentiality of their data. While data sharing is increasingly expected, researchers have flexibility in how and when they share based on funder policies, confidentiality, and use of repositories. The benefits of data sharing include enabling new research, collaboration, and preserving data.
Coupling Australia’s Researchers to the Global Innovation EconomyLarry Smarr
The document summarizes a lecture given by Dr. Larry Smarr on coupling Australian researchers to the global innovation economy through high-performance networking. It discusses projects that have established dedicated 1Gbps and 10Gbps connections between Australian universities and research centers in the US. These connections allow data-intensive collaboration on issues like climate change. The document outlines steps to develop optical networks between campuses and globally through partnerships like AARNet, and argues that Australian researchers need dedicated high-bandwidth connections to fully participate in the global research community.
Data out, data in: the ALA and the Field Guide apps to Australian Fauna ProjectElycia Wallis
This talk was given in June 2013 at the Atlas of Living Australia Science Symposium, at CSIRO Discovery Centre in Canberra.
The talk discussed a project being run by Museum Victoria to work with museum partners around Australia to develop field guide apps to animals found all around Australia.
The text of the talk can be found at the end of the slides.
2. Women in Ghana
Dr. Gracia Clark
Ethnographic Research
Data medium are varied
Photo courtesy of
www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/facul
ty/clark.html
3. Ethnographic Data
First Stage:
Still images, notebooks,
writings, recordings, videos
Second Stage:
Black and White Images;
video files, audio files
Third Stage:
Working version of the
video files
Photo courtesy of www.wateraid.org/uk/
4. Goals for the Collection
Fold it into other collections.
MATRIX/University of
Michigan
Make it available to other
researchers.
Maintain anonymity of
informants.
Sensitive data cannot be
made public (yet).
Photo courtesy of akwaaba08.blogspot.com/2009/03/to-market-to-market.html
5. Curation
Secure Storage
Such as IU MDSS
Allow expansion to include future digital objects.
Data can be migrated to other sources as they are
ready to be integrated into other collections.
Or as they are ready to be made public.
6. Acknowledgements
Dr. Clark
Stacy Kowalczyk
Online host sites that provided
images included here
Editor's Notes
Summary of collection:Dr. Clark--Six Years in the FieldEthnographic Research—participant observation type. Participant observation data is collected by writing down everything! The anthropologist finds useful tools such as audio recordings and video recordings. Many photos are taken to illustrate the never-ending notebooks of text.The ways in which people interact with one another are all part of culture…the ways people are related to one another, speak with, engage in business transitions with, and even the things they dream are all part of that thing we call culture. The ethnographer tries to capture as much as they can in their little notebooks.This collection isn’t just a collection of facts and numbers which need to keep provenience to have their meaning. Much of it is raw, qualitative data, and cannot be cataloged easily, and cannot therefore be dumped into an online database.
When I asked Dr. Clark, “Where is your data currently stored?”. She tilted her head slightly and replied, “Under that desk!”Her data is currently in several stages. She has data collected in notebooks, published in journals, images in the form of still photographs and slides, audio recordings and video recordings. Not all of her data has been digitized—she is still in the process of digitization.First stage: Analog DataSecond Stage: Digitized version of the Analog filesThird Stage: derivative files
The University of Michigan is hosting a website dedicated to African Studies. Dr. Clark’s collection of videos of historical narratives are now included in that collection.2. Dr. Clark has some data which have the same core content, though in different forms. She has audio recordings of oral histories. These are in the native languages. Each audio file has a pair of documents to accompany it: a transcription of the dialog, and an English translation of that dialog. She particularly hopes that linguists will make use of this data. “In ways she can’t even imagine”.3.Anonymity of informants: Vital to the experience of field research are the insights of the trusted informant. The ethnographer makes a special relationship with someone. The researcher promises to keep the informant’s personal information secret in exchange for local secrets. One example: from “African Women: a study of the Ibo of Nigeria”—a woman is wise to have lovers in distant villages. The lovers give her gifts (which she uses to care for her kids). If something happens to her husband, she still has someone to take care of her.
Since she plans to fold her collection into other collections, she needs storage of her digital files. She is already converting to standardized, archive quality digital objects. She is also working on metadata (MIX and MODS—Black and White photos, as well as using a cataloging tool for adding metadata to videos).Storage must be backed up, so she doesn’t have to worry about data loss. It should allow for expanding of the digital data collection, since it is not all ready for archiving yet. It should allow her to move things out to other collections as she gets them ready.MDSS = Massive Data Storage Service