This talk was given by Trish Rose-Sandler, Leora Siegel, Katie Mika, Pamela McClanahan, Ariadne Rehbein, Marissa Kings, and Alicia Esquivel at the DPLAFest in Chicago on April 21 2017
Strategies for Success - delivering sustainable librariesCILIP
The document outlines four strategies for developing sustainable libraries:
1. Focus on the user by engaging them in service development and prioritizing their changing needs.
2. Design services to ensure they continue meeting user needs over time through convenient access, appropriate formats, and adapting based on feedback.
3. Design sustainable organizations by investing in staff, having a clear mission, and demonstrating impact.
4. Get necessary help through foresight on trends, building partnerships, and nurturing stakeholder support.
Digital Infrastructures that Embody Library Principles: The IMLS national dig...Trevor Owens
Digital library infrastructures must not simply work. They must also manifest the core principles of libraries and archives. Since 2014, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has engaged with stakeholders from diverse library communities to consider collaborative approaches to building digital library tools and services. The “national digital platform” for libraries, archives, and museums is the framework that resulted from these dialogs. One key feature of the national digital platform (NDP) is the anchoring of core library principles within the development of digital tools and services. This essay explores how NDP-funded projects enact library principles as part of the national framework.
From Transaction to Collaboration: Scholarly Communications Design at UConn L...Greg Colati
A joint presentation to the Coalition for Networked Information Spring membership meeting in April 2017. This discusses our research project to propose a new approach to the scholarly creation process and reward system, and understand how libraries fit into this new environment.
Slides from Richard Green, Chris Arwe (Hull University, Hydra Project) David Wilcox (Fedora) Anders Conrad Sparre (Royal Library of Denmark) Gregory Markus (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision/ EuropeanaTech) about European efforts towards building a better FLOSS Community, the benefits of contributing to Open Source projects and the successes of the Hydra Project and Fedora. Slides are from Open Repositories 2016 Conference held at Trinity College, Dublin.
Next Steps for IMLS's National Digital PlatformTrevor Owens
This keynote, at the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, provides and update on the National Digital Platform and 20 projects supported to enhance it. The national digital platform is a way of thinking about and approaching the digital capability and capacity of libraries across the US. In this sense, it is the combination of software applications, social and technical infrastructure, and staff expertise that provide library content and services to all users in the US. As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to digital content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. It is possible for each library in the country to leverage and benefit from the work of other libraries in shared digital services, systems, and infrastructure.
We need to bridge gaps between disparate pieces of the existing digital infrastructure, for increased efficiencies, cost savings, access, and services. To this end, IMLS is focusing on the national digital platform as an area of priority in the National Leadership Grants to Libraries program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program. We are eager to explore how this way of thinking and approaching infrastructure development can help states make the best use of the funds they receive through the Grants to States program. We’re also eager to work with other foundations and funders to maximize the impact of our federal investment
Warwick Library Symposium | John MacColl, St Andrews and RLUKResearchLibrariesUK
John MacColl argues that research libraries need to collaborate at an international scale to address pressing issues like open access. He outlines 50 years of research library cooperation through initiatives like shared metadata infrastructure and digitization projects. Experts advocate for more coordination and reliance on networks through strategies like conscious coordination. MacColl proposes establishing a Forum of International Research Library Organisations to provide leadership and leverage to guide collaborative solutions and shape policies at an international level to optimize research libraries globally.
Warwick Library Symposium | Cathrine Harboe-Ree and David GroenewegenResearchLibrariesUK
This document discusses Monash University Library's efforts to transform scholarship through new roles focused on knowledge management, transforming scholarly communication, and partnering. It outlines the Library's work developing research and work skill development frameworks in collaboration with faculties. It also discusses the Library's initiatives around information literacy, research data management through tools and infrastructure, and open access publishing through the Monash Research Repository. The Library aims to provide convenient research data management tools that empower researchers and enable data storage, sharing, and publishing.
Strategies for Success - delivering sustainable librariesCILIP
The document outlines four strategies for developing sustainable libraries:
1. Focus on the user by engaging them in service development and prioritizing their changing needs.
2. Design services to ensure they continue meeting user needs over time through convenient access, appropriate formats, and adapting based on feedback.
3. Design sustainable organizations by investing in staff, having a clear mission, and demonstrating impact.
4. Get necessary help through foresight on trends, building partnerships, and nurturing stakeholder support.
Digital Infrastructures that Embody Library Principles: The IMLS national dig...Trevor Owens
Digital library infrastructures must not simply work. They must also manifest the core principles of libraries and archives. Since 2014, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has engaged with stakeholders from diverse library communities to consider collaborative approaches to building digital library tools and services. The “national digital platform” for libraries, archives, and museums is the framework that resulted from these dialogs. One key feature of the national digital platform (NDP) is the anchoring of core library principles within the development of digital tools and services. This essay explores how NDP-funded projects enact library principles as part of the national framework.
From Transaction to Collaboration: Scholarly Communications Design at UConn L...Greg Colati
A joint presentation to the Coalition for Networked Information Spring membership meeting in April 2017. This discusses our research project to propose a new approach to the scholarly creation process and reward system, and understand how libraries fit into this new environment.
Slides from Richard Green, Chris Arwe (Hull University, Hydra Project) David Wilcox (Fedora) Anders Conrad Sparre (Royal Library of Denmark) Gregory Markus (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision/ EuropeanaTech) about European efforts towards building a better FLOSS Community, the benefits of contributing to Open Source projects and the successes of the Hydra Project and Fedora. Slides are from Open Repositories 2016 Conference held at Trinity College, Dublin.
Next Steps for IMLS's National Digital PlatformTrevor Owens
This keynote, at the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, provides and update on the National Digital Platform and 20 projects supported to enhance it. The national digital platform is a way of thinking about and approaching the digital capability and capacity of libraries across the US. In this sense, it is the combination of software applications, social and technical infrastructure, and staff expertise that provide library content and services to all users in the US. As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to digital content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. It is possible for each library in the country to leverage and benefit from the work of other libraries in shared digital services, systems, and infrastructure.
We need to bridge gaps between disparate pieces of the existing digital infrastructure, for increased efficiencies, cost savings, access, and services. To this end, IMLS is focusing on the national digital platform as an area of priority in the National Leadership Grants to Libraries program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program. We are eager to explore how this way of thinking and approaching infrastructure development can help states make the best use of the funds they receive through the Grants to States program. We’re also eager to work with other foundations and funders to maximize the impact of our federal investment
Warwick Library Symposium | John MacColl, St Andrews and RLUKResearchLibrariesUK
John MacColl argues that research libraries need to collaborate at an international scale to address pressing issues like open access. He outlines 50 years of research library cooperation through initiatives like shared metadata infrastructure and digitization projects. Experts advocate for more coordination and reliance on networks through strategies like conscious coordination. MacColl proposes establishing a Forum of International Research Library Organisations to provide leadership and leverage to guide collaborative solutions and shape policies at an international level to optimize research libraries globally.
Warwick Library Symposium | Cathrine Harboe-Ree and David GroenewegenResearchLibrariesUK
This document discusses Monash University Library's efforts to transform scholarship through new roles focused on knowledge management, transforming scholarly communication, and partnering. It outlines the Library's work developing research and work skill development frameworks in collaboration with faculties. It also discusses the Library's initiatives around information literacy, research data management through tools and infrastructure, and open access publishing through the Monash Research Repository. The Library aims to provide convenient research data management tools that empower researchers and enable data storage, sharing, and publishing.
The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) is a collaborative digital library that was formed in 2001. It aims to help more organizations digitize materials about the region's history and maintain a public portal called mwdl.org to provide access to these digital collections. The MWDL uses a three-tiered infrastructure model with partner institutions that own collections, hosting hubs that manage digitization and hosting, and the MWDL itself that aggregates metadata. It has over 164 partner institutions across 6 western states and provides services like training, hosting, and standards development to promote collaboration and access to digital collections in the region.
This document outlines James Neal's vision for the future of academic libraries and the skills and roles needed for 21st century success. It discusses how libraries must adopt new skills like publishing, entrepreneurship, and advocacy. Libraries need to measure impact and value through assessment. New technologies will change user needs around mobility, open content and more. Libraries must collaborate through partnerships and consortia. The future requires special collections, digital resources, user spaces, and support for teaching, learning and research.
An overview of how content from Wisconsin’s libraries, archives and museums is shared with the Digital Public Library of America through the Recollection Wisconsin Service Hub. Updates on Recollection Wisconsin and DPLA’s current initiatives in outreach, education and copyright. Presented for the 2018 conferences of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians and the Wisconsin Public Library Association.
Presented at the 2018 LRCN National Workshop on
Electronic Resource Management Systems in Libraries,
held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria
This document discusses HighWire's next generation collections and connecting publishers to individual researchers. It describes HighWire's new Stackly tool, which allows researchers to build custom collections across publications and share them. This helps publishers extend their reach beyond individual sites. The document outlines how Stackly captures the full content engagement cycle, including interactions and conversations around publications. It maintains that providing end-user tools that benefit both publishers and researchers is key to connecting to individuals in their workflow.
This presentation will discuss how the structured data, together with the semantically indexed/mined entities in semi-structured and unstructured data, are contributing to researches beyond libraries, especially in digital humanities. It aims to explore the opportunities and strategies to use, reuse, share, and effectively elaborate the smart data -- generated or to be generated -- in libraries.
Platform Thinking: Frameworks for a National Digital Platform State of MindTrevor Owens
Talk presented as a closing keynote to the Biodiversity Heritage Library's National Digital Stewardship Residency program meeting at the National Museum of Natural History. This talk reviews the National Digital Platform framework developed by US IMLS in collaboration with various library, archives and museum stakeholders and presents a series of additional conceptual frameworks on the role of software in society and psychology.
Networking Repositories, Optimizing Impact: Georgia Knowledge Repository MeetingKaren S Calhoun
Prepared as the keynote for the Georgia Knowledge Repository's annual meeting, this presentation discusses why repositories are important, the challenges they face, and solutions or opportunities for networking repositories and optimizing their impact for local, regional and global communities.
The IMLS National Digital Platform & Your Library: Tools You Can UseTrevor Owens
As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. To this end, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is making substantial investments in developing collaborative and sustainable technical and social digital infrastructure for libraries through the National Digital Platform initiative. In this talk, you will learn about a series of digital tools, services, training opportunities and resources IMLS is funding through the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The presentation will focus on ongoing projects and efforts that you and your library can get involved in and make direct use of. It will also provide insight into how you could develop competitive proposals for projects that could be funded through this national effort.
This document discusses environmental scanning and Library 2.0. It defines environmental scanning as communicating external information that may influence organizational decision making. Key components of an effective scan include top-level support, objectives, methodology, communication of results, and action planning. Characteristics of effective scanning teams include seeing beyond status quo and having a big picture view. Library 2.0 utilizes new technologies like blogs, wikis and tagging to create more interactive websites and connect users. It provides options for users and increases access to information.
Digitization Basics for Archives and Special Collections – Part 1: Select and...WiLS
Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS
This is the first part of a two-part, full-day workshop introducing the core elements of creating digital collections of historic photographs, documents and other archival materials. Part 1 focuses on selecting materials to digitize and the basics of reformatting. We’ll start with some recommendations for planning a successful project and consider how your digital collections can fit into the statewide and national landscape of digital content. We’ll discuss copyright concerns in order to help you answer the question “CAN I put this online?” And we’ll explore the vocabulary of digital images, including pixels, resolution and bit depth as well as tools and best practices for scanning photographs and documents.
Engaging Your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries Karen S Calhoun
Based on the book Exploring Digital Libraries, this ALA Techsource webinar examines cultural heritage collections in the context of the social web and online communities. Calhoun and Brenner explore the possibilities and provide examples of digital libraries' shift toward social platforms, along the way discussing how to increase discoverability and community engagement, for instance through crowdsourcing.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Karen Calhoun at NALIS Forum in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 24, 2010. The presentation discussed the changing nature of libraries and information seeking, and opportunities for increased cooperation and integration among libraries. Key points included the dominance of search engines for information finding, the potential to make library collections more visible and discoverable online, and opportunities to share and syndicate metadata across institutions to improve discovery of resources.
Cross-sector collaboration for digital museum and library projectsMia
I provide some examples of cross-sector collaboration from the UK, and include some examples of different models for international collaboration. Invited presentation for the Chinese Association of Museums, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2017
Calhoun and Brenner Workshop: Supporting Digital Scholarship ALATechSource
This document summarizes a presentation on supporting digital scholarship through digital libraries and online communities. It discusses the importance of community engagement for the viability and sustainability of digital libraries. Subject-based repositories have generally been more successful than institutional repositories due to stronger community orientation and participation. The document outlines the life cycle of online communities and factors for success. It also examines improving value propositions for stakeholders and understanding target audiences. Finally, it discusses how repositories may evolve into a global ecosystem and how digital libraries can incorporate more social web approaches to shift away from just collections toward community-centered services.
This document discusses resource sharing among libraries. It begins by explaining how the information revolution has led libraries to adopt new technologies and philosophies to disseminate information more cost effectively. It then describes how libraries have realized no single library can acquire all needed materials, making partnerships necessary. The document outlines three phases of development in resource sharing: individual cooperation, linking by technology, and consortia for e-resources. It provides definitions and goals of resource sharing, as well as key areas like interlibrary loans and shared cataloging. The document advocates for resource sharing through library networks and notes technological advances support greater cooperation. It concludes by listing assumptions and tips for effective resource sharing programs.
The document discusses creating a digital library using free and low-cost resources. It describes digital curation as the process of selecting, preserving, and archiving digital assets for current and future use. It provides examples of free resources that can be used to build a digital library, including statewide databases, listservs, social media, blogs, videos sites, and free digital books. It also discusses organizing the digital library through a library webpage, email, and free tools like Live Binders and Diigo.
Web-scale Discovery Services are becoming an integral part of libraries' information gathering arsenal. These services are able to use a single interface to seamlessly integrate results from a wide range of online sources, emulating the experience patrons have come to expect from Internet search engines. But despite their ability to streamline searching, discovery services provide a wide set of challenges for libraries who implement them. This virtual conference will touch on both the potential of discovery services as well as some of the issues involved.
What does success look like when it comes to library discoverability? Index based discovery systems have seen a dramatic rate of adoption since introduction to the research ecosystem in 2009, with more than 9,000 libraries relying on a discovery system to provide users with a comprehensive index to their offerings. Some issues bar the way to providing this comprehensive view, but many challenges have been overcome through collaboration between libraries, content providers and discovery partners. The NISO ODI initiative began to examine these issues in 2011, and released a best practice in June 2014.
Speakers will highlight examples of successful collaboration, note continued areas of challenge, and provide insight on how the Open Discovery Initiative Conformance Checklists can be used as a mechanism to evaluate content provider or discovery provider conformance with the best practice.
The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) is a collaborative digital library that was formed in 2001. It aims to help more organizations digitize materials about the region's history and maintain a public portal called mwdl.org to provide access to these digital collections. The MWDL uses a three-tiered infrastructure model with partner institutions that own collections, hosting hubs that manage digitization and hosting, and the MWDL itself that aggregates metadata. It has over 164 partner institutions across 6 western states and provides services like training, hosting, and standards development to promote collaboration and access to digital collections in the region.
This document outlines James Neal's vision for the future of academic libraries and the skills and roles needed for 21st century success. It discusses how libraries must adopt new skills like publishing, entrepreneurship, and advocacy. Libraries need to measure impact and value through assessment. New technologies will change user needs around mobility, open content and more. Libraries must collaborate through partnerships and consortia. The future requires special collections, digital resources, user spaces, and support for teaching, learning and research.
An overview of how content from Wisconsin’s libraries, archives and museums is shared with the Digital Public Library of America through the Recollection Wisconsin Service Hub. Updates on Recollection Wisconsin and DPLA’s current initiatives in outreach, education and copyright. Presented for the 2018 conferences of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians and the Wisconsin Public Library Association.
Presented at the 2018 LRCN National Workshop on
Electronic Resource Management Systems in Libraries,
held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria
This document discusses HighWire's next generation collections and connecting publishers to individual researchers. It describes HighWire's new Stackly tool, which allows researchers to build custom collections across publications and share them. This helps publishers extend their reach beyond individual sites. The document outlines how Stackly captures the full content engagement cycle, including interactions and conversations around publications. It maintains that providing end-user tools that benefit both publishers and researchers is key to connecting to individuals in their workflow.
This presentation will discuss how the structured data, together with the semantically indexed/mined entities in semi-structured and unstructured data, are contributing to researches beyond libraries, especially in digital humanities. It aims to explore the opportunities and strategies to use, reuse, share, and effectively elaborate the smart data -- generated or to be generated -- in libraries.
Platform Thinking: Frameworks for a National Digital Platform State of MindTrevor Owens
Talk presented as a closing keynote to the Biodiversity Heritage Library's National Digital Stewardship Residency program meeting at the National Museum of Natural History. This talk reviews the National Digital Platform framework developed by US IMLS in collaboration with various library, archives and museum stakeholders and presents a series of additional conceptual frameworks on the role of software in society and psychology.
Networking Repositories, Optimizing Impact: Georgia Knowledge Repository MeetingKaren S Calhoun
Prepared as the keynote for the Georgia Knowledge Repository's annual meeting, this presentation discusses why repositories are important, the challenges they face, and solutions or opportunities for networking repositories and optimizing their impact for local, regional and global communities.
The IMLS National Digital Platform & Your Library: Tools You Can UseTrevor Owens
As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. To this end, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is making substantial investments in developing collaborative and sustainable technical and social digital infrastructure for libraries through the National Digital Platform initiative. In this talk, you will learn about a series of digital tools, services, training opportunities and resources IMLS is funding through the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The presentation will focus on ongoing projects and efforts that you and your library can get involved in and make direct use of. It will also provide insight into how you could develop competitive proposals for projects that could be funded through this national effort.
This document discusses environmental scanning and Library 2.0. It defines environmental scanning as communicating external information that may influence organizational decision making. Key components of an effective scan include top-level support, objectives, methodology, communication of results, and action planning. Characteristics of effective scanning teams include seeing beyond status quo and having a big picture view. Library 2.0 utilizes new technologies like blogs, wikis and tagging to create more interactive websites and connect users. It provides options for users and increases access to information.
Digitization Basics for Archives and Special Collections – Part 1: Select and...WiLS
Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS
This is the first part of a two-part, full-day workshop introducing the core elements of creating digital collections of historic photographs, documents and other archival materials. Part 1 focuses on selecting materials to digitize and the basics of reformatting. We’ll start with some recommendations for planning a successful project and consider how your digital collections can fit into the statewide and national landscape of digital content. We’ll discuss copyright concerns in order to help you answer the question “CAN I put this online?” And we’ll explore the vocabulary of digital images, including pixels, resolution and bit depth as well as tools and best practices for scanning photographs and documents.
Engaging Your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries Karen S Calhoun
Based on the book Exploring Digital Libraries, this ALA Techsource webinar examines cultural heritage collections in the context of the social web and online communities. Calhoun and Brenner explore the possibilities and provide examples of digital libraries' shift toward social platforms, along the way discussing how to increase discoverability and community engagement, for instance through crowdsourcing.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Karen Calhoun at NALIS Forum in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 24, 2010. The presentation discussed the changing nature of libraries and information seeking, and opportunities for increased cooperation and integration among libraries. Key points included the dominance of search engines for information finding, the potential to make library collections more visible and discoverable online, and opportunities to share and syndicate metadata across institutions to improve discovery of resources.
Cross-sector collaboration for digital museum and library projectsMia
I provide some examples of cross-sector collaboration from the UK, and include some examples of different models for international collaboration. Invited presentation for the Chinese Association of Museums, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2017
Calhoun and Brenner Workshop: Supporting Digital Scholarship ALATechSource
This document summarizes a presentation on supporting digital scholarship through digital libraries and online communities. It discusses the importance of community engagement for the viability and sustainability of digital libraries. Subject-based repositories have generally been more successful than institutional repositories due to stronger community orientation and participation. The document outlines the life cycle of online communities and factors for success. It also examines improving value propositions for stakeholders and understanding target audiences. Finally, it discusses how repositories may evolve into a global ecosystem and how digital libraries can incorporate more social web approaches to shift away from just collections toward community-centered services.
This document discusses resource sharing among libraries. It begins by explaining how the information revolution has led libraries to adopt new technologies and philosophies to disseminate information more cost effectively. It then describes how libraries have realized no single library can acquire all needed materials, making partnerships necessary. The document outlines three phases of development in resource sharing: individual cooperation, linking by technology, and consortia for e-resources. It provides definitions and goals of resource sharing, as well as key areas like interlibrary loans and shared cataloging. The document advocates for resource sharing through library networks and notes technological advances support greater cooperation. It concludes by listing assumptions and tips for effective resource sharing programs.
The document discusses creating a digital library using free and low-cost resources. It describes digital curation as the process of selecting, preserving, and archiving digital assets for current and future use. It provides examples of free resources that can be used to build a digital library, including statewide databases, listservs, social media, blogs, videos sites, and free digital books. It also discusses organizing the digital library through a library webpage, email, and free tools like Live Binders and Diigo.
Web-scale Discovery Services are becoming an integral part of libraries' information gathering arsenal. These services are able to use a single interface to seamlessly integrate results from a wide range of online sources, emulating the experience patrons have come to expect from Internet search engines. But despite their ability to streamline searching, discovery services provide a wide set of challenges for libraries who implement them. This virtual conference will touch on both the potential of discovery services as well as some of the issues involved.
What does success look like when it comes to library discoverability? Index based discovery systems have seen a dramatic rate of adoption since introduction to the research ecosystem in 2009, with more than 9,000 libraries relying on a discovery system to provide users with a comprehensive index to their offerings. Some issues bar the way to providing this comprehensive view, but many challenges have been overcome through collaboration between libraries, content providers and discovery partners. The NISO ODI initiative began to examine these issues in 2011, and released a best practice in June 2014.
Speakers will highlight examples of successful collaboration, note continued areas of challenge, and provide insight on how the Open Discovery Initiative Conformance Checklists can be used as a mechanism to evaluate content provider or discovery provider conformance with the best practice.
Towards OpenURL Quality Metrics: Initial Findingsalc28
Presentation on creating a method for benchmarking metadata consistency in OpenURL links. See also: <http: />. Delivered at the July 2009 American Library Association conference in Chicago.
Vince smith-delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age-notextVince Smith
Smith, V.S. 2013. Delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age. Hellenic Botanical Society, Thessaloniki, Greece, 3-6 Oct. 2013. [Delivered via video link through Google Hangouts]
User-centered assessment: Leveraging what you know and filling in the gaps. Lynn Connaway
Reuter, K., & Connaway, L. S. (2018). User-centered assessment: Leveraging what you know and filling in the gaps. Part 1 in 3-part webinar series, Evaluating and sharing your library's impact, presented by OCLC Research WebJunction, April 24, 2018.
Delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information ageVince Smith
Vince Smith presented on delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age at a conference in Greece. He discussed 1) challenges integrating biodiversity data due to diverse data sources, 2) example tools like Scratchpads and Biodiversity Data Journal that help manage data, and 3) big challenges around social issues of openness, mobilizing existing data from collections and literature, and modeling the biosphere from large linked datasets. The talk outlined next steps toward an integrated strategy for biodiversity data under the EU's Horizon 2020 program.
OCLC Research Update at ALA Chicago. June 26, 2017.OCLC
Rachel Frick, OCLC Executive Director of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, reviews some of the broad agenda items and recent publications related to the work of OCLC Research. Rachel is then joined for two presentations on specific research topics. First, Sharon Streams (OCLC Director of WebJunction) and Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence) present on “Public Libraries and Wikipedia.” Next, Kenning Arlitsch (Dean, Montana State University Library) and Jeff Mixter (OCLC Senior Software Engineer) share their findings on “Accurate Institutional Repository Download Measurement using RAMP, the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal.”
Getting Started with Institutional Repositories and Open AccessAbby Clobridge
This document provides an overview and agenda for a conference on institutional repositories and open access. It discusses the history and purpose of institutional repositories and open access, including key definitions, events, and documents. It outlines the typical content in repositories and different repository systems. It also addresses stakeholders, challenges, and guiding principles for developing repository programs.
This document discusses the opportunities that cloud-based services provide for libraries. It notes that cloud services allow libraries to do more than just technical infrastructure by providing distributed services, collections, and expertise. Libraries can leverage one another's local expertise and amplify local excellence through network opportunities. The document advocates for collaboration between institutions at regional, national, and global scales to build macrosolutions through shared resources and federating interests. However, it acknowledges that high levels of trust and risk tolerance are required for collaboration at macro scales where institutions become dependent on one another.
Opening Keynote: From where we are to where we want to be: The future of resource discovery from a UK perspective
Neil Grindley, Head of Resource Discovery, Jisc
Leslie Johnston: Library Big Data Repository Services, Open Repositories 2012lljohnston
Big Data challenges in developing repositories include:
- Collections like web archives and historic newspapers contain billions of files and grow quickly, requiring constant processing and large-scale infrastructure.
- Researchers want to analyze entire collections using algorithms and computational methods rather than accessing individual items.
- Repository services need to support self-serve access, full-text search of entire collections, and APIs to enable computational research methods.
- Ingesting and providing access to collections measured in petabytes and containing highly diverse content and metadata requires normalization and standardization.
Choosing What to Hold and What to Fold: Database Quality Decisions in Tough ...tfons
Presentation delivered on May 27, 2009 at the NELINET conference "Considering the Catalog and Its Data: Serving the Needs of Users and Staff" [Presented by T. Fons on behalf of Karen Calhoun]
Library 2.013: Greasing Squeaky Wheels: A User-Centered Approach to Collectio...Bianca Crowley
This document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library's (BHL) user-centered approach to collection management, technical development, and resource allocation. It provides an overview of BHL, including its participating institutions, global users, and core principles of being open access, open data, and delivering content where users work. It also outlines BHL's primary user types and distributed workforce. Mechanisms for user input include an issue tracking system and moderator role to involve users in collection and technical development.
Scratchpads are virtual research environments that allow taxonomic and biodiversity data to be collected, curated, analyzed, published, and shared in a digital, open, and linked manner. They provide a seamless workflow for data by hosting websites for communities to enter and structure data using standardized modules. This facilitates dissemination of research through open access publishing of datasets, descriptions, keys, and more without reformatting. Major projects like e-Monocot demonstrate Scratchpads' ability to aggregate data from various sources into an integrated portal.
Community Generated Databases for NY State History Conference 2013Larry Naukam
This document discusses community generated databases (CGDBs) which utilize volunteers outside of traditional organizations to create searchable historical records and collections. It provides examples of the Church Records Preservation Committee, New York Heritage, and Viewshare projects. CGDBs make collections more accessible and useful by indexing, transcription, and digitization done by community volunteers. Standards and training are important to ensure quality. CGDBs can unlock underutilized collections and engage new audiences through volunteer contributions.
Report on the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiativekramsey
The document summarizes the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative, which advocates rethinking how libraries conduct resource sharing in the digital age. It discusses the initiative's goals of improving user access and experience, outlines projects around policies, marketing, and technology interoperability, and encourages libraries to get involved through committees or endorsing the initiative's manifesto of principles.
From Access to Use: the quality of human-archives interactions as a research ...Pierluigi Feliciati
Visiting Dodson Professor Colloquium - Vancouver, University of British Columbia - iSchool of Library, Archival and Information Studies - 14 March 2019 12:00 pm - Chilcotin Room (256), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Semelhante a Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partnership with NDSR Learners (20)
Expanding access to natural history images: the BHL and its global consortiumTrish Rose-Sandler
Talk given at the 2016 IFLA conference. Part of the workshop called "Worth a Thousand Words: A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access"
The history of biodiversity through words and picturesTrish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given as part of a conference called Curious Images held at the British Library Dec 18 2014 which brought together researchers and artists to share ideas, techniques and methods they have applied to image collections
Crowdsourcing your cultural heritage collections: considerations when choosi...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given at the Visual Resources Association conference March 13 2015. The moderator was Trish Rose-Sandler and speakers included: Robert Guralnick, Guarav Vaidya, and Trish Rose-Sandler. Notes from the talk are visible when downloaded.
The Art of Life: merging the worlds of art and scienceTrish Rose-Sandler
This document summarizes the Art of Life project, which aims to enhance access to natural history illustrations in the Biodiversity Heritage Library by automatically identifying and describing them. The BHL is a digital library containing over 44 million pages from its partner institutions. The Art of Life project is developing algorithms to identify illustrations on pages and build descriptive metadata by testing techniques like analyzing picture blocks, contrast, color, and compression. A Macaw interface allows classifying pages identified by algorithms and crowdsourcing on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons can add descriptions. Over 1.5 million pages have been processed so far, identifying 300,000 pages with images. The goals are to serve scientists, artists, historians and teachers by enriching content in BHL
This was a talk for the St Louis Chapter of Special Libraries Association about library-related projects going on in the Center for Biodiversity Informatics at Missouri Botanical Garden
Finding a goldmine of natural history illustrations within BHL texts: the Ar...Trish Rose-Sandler
1) The Art of Life project aims to make natural history illustrations from biodiversity texts more accessible by automatically identifying them, developing metadata standards, and enabling community tagging on platforms like Flickr.
2) Algorithms were developed to identify illustrations in biodiversity texts and are being applied to the entire Biodiversity Heritage Library collection. An illustration metadata schema is being finalized.
3) The project benefits the scientific community by providing access to previously hidden illustrations, linking them to biodiversity databases, and making them freely available for reuse under public domain.
Breathing new life into old data - How opening your collection can spark imag...Trish Rose-Sandler
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Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partnership with NDSR Learners
1. Foundations to Actions:
Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partnership
with NDSR Learners
April 21 2017 | DPLAFest Chicago IL
2. BHL NDSR grant
• Funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
• Dates: June 2016-May 2018
• Overall Goal: Plan and develop a next generation digital
library using the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as a test-
bed.
Objectives
❖ Connect Museums, Libraries, Archives & Scientific Data
❖ Collaborate to develop a community of leaders
❖ Innovate for Functionality
3. BHL NDSR grant
BHL Institutions/Mentors/Residents
• Ernst Mayr Library, MCZ, Harvard (lead)
• Connie Rinaldo & Joe deVeer; Katie Mika
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• Carolyn Sheffield; Pamela McClanahan
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Trish Rose-Sandler & Doug Holland; Ariadne Rehbein
• Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County
• Richard Hulser; Marissa Kings
• Chicago Botanic Garden
• Leora Siegel; Alicia Esquivel
4. NDSR Overview
National Digital Stewardship Residency
Mission:
build a dedicated community of professionals who will advance our
nation’s capabilities in managing, preserving, and making accessible
the digital record of human achievement
Began 2013 - pilot project between Library of Congress and IMLS
NDSR grants focused in certain regions and subject areas:
-DC, NY, Boston
-AV preservation, Biodiversity, Art
Cohort Model - preliminary immersion course, ongoing mentorship, frequent
educational opportunities
5. What is BHL?
Mission: BHL improves research methodology
by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly
available to the world as part of a global biodiversity
community.
Consortium of partners from natural history and botanical
libraries from across the globe
Began as collaboration between US and UK now spread to
Europe, China, Australia, Egypt, Brazil, Africa, Singapore
6. BHL NDSR Timeline
Jun –Dec 2016 Mentor planning
Jan-Feb 2017 Resident Onboarding
Mar-Aug 2017 Resident Off and running
Sep-Dec 2017 Resident Regroup , Reflect,
Revise
Jan-May 2018 Mentor Wrapup
7. Onboarding Residents
Jan-Feb 2017
• BHL Bootcamp Jan 31-Feb 2nd
Washington DC
• Establishing communication strategies
among mentors and residents –regular
meetings, sharing information
• Introducing residents to their local
institutions
8. Off and Running
March – August 2017
• Residents flesh out their project plans
• Participate in BHL team meetings
(Collections, Technical, Cataloging, All staff)
• Present at conferences (DPLAFest, NDSR
conference, DLF, Internet Librarian)
• Research
• Interviews
• Surveys
9. Regroup, Reflect, Revise
September – December 2017
September 12th 2017 - In person meeting for residents
and mentors
Final Deliverables: best practice documents
• Transcriptions
• Image search
• Collection analysis
• Use case/user priorities
• Improved connections to museums, archives & data providers
10. Wrapup
Mentor’s Deliverables:
1) A series of public reports on each of the 5 focus areas for use
by the digital library and biodiversity informatics community.
2) Report on transferability to other digital library or biodiversity
data services (GBIF, EOL, DPLA, Museums) of each discrete
project.
3) An overall review of the BHL NDSR distributed program with
an analysis of the shared resident case.
11. Mentorship Planning
• Conference calls every two weeks
• Online training in project management
• Hiring process for residents
Job descriptions, advertising,
Select top candidates, conduct interviews
Chose candidates, make offers
• Prepared resident workspaces
12. Mentoring in Action
• Hard skill acquisition for next
generation of BHL
• Soft skills, informal learning process
• Mentors as advisors, counselors, and
supervisors
• Mentoring at the Chicago Botanic
Garden
13. Mentor – Resident
Future Opportunities
• Networking
• Reference for employment
• Colleague
• Professional development
15. What is in BHL? What is not in BHL?
Analyze:
• full text
• Use metadata tables
• MARC records
• Previous estimates of
amount of biodiversity
literature
• Statistical analysis using
capture-recapture
Content Analysis
16. Text Mining Analysis
Evaluate BHL full text to create
visualizations that represent the collection:
• temporally
• geographically
• taxonomically
• topically
17. Capture-recapture N= total population
ng = first capture
nm= second capture
n0= recaptured
=
Statistical Analysis
n0
nm
ng
N
18. Taxon Name Finders
How do name finding algorithms work?
What types of bias does this introduce to
my data?
How can these processes be adapted to
transcription workflow?
23. OCR and Manuscript Items
Source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40222533
24. Transcriptions
Source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40222531
Verso:
Chimney Swallow [margin]May
7, 1865[/margin] Saw upwards
of 100 during
the day
Golden Robin
[margin]May 7. 1865[/margin]
Saw two and heard one
of them the other was
flying. Seen on the 8th,
in our own lot.
Cooper's Hawk
[margin]May 7, 1865[/margin]
Saw one flying.
[delete]Red-eyed[/delete]
Warbling Vireo
[margin]May 8, 1865[/margin]
Heard them in our yard
27. Transcriptions Are Imperfect
Source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40222531
● Unclear text and
misspellings
● Additions and
abbreviations
● Common names
32. Building on the Art of Life project
Art of Life goals
(2012-2015)
Treasures Unlocked
deliverables (2017)
• Identify and describe
BHL illustrations
• Expose illustrations to
new audiences
• Search/browse
functionality in BHL portal
– User studies
– Image discovery best
practices based upon af
other digital library
repositories
33. Who are our users?
• Taxonomist users
– Development priority survey in 2010
– Limited use for historic illustrations in
taxonomic research process
• “Non-core” artists, historians, citizen
scientists, educators, bibliophiles audiences
– 2 dozen BHL blog user stories out of 90
(beyond testimonials and comments)
35. Taking a step back
Golden Rules of systems analysis and design
• Problems often stated in terms of solutions
• Optimization rather than incrementalism
• Take a goal-centered rather than technology-
centered or chronological approach
36. Looking forward
How can a digital library grow after
crowdsourcing initiatives that exposed its
collections to new audiences?
• Deeper dive into motivations of crowdsourcing
audiences, scientists, and BHL member
institution representatives and staff
• Opportunities offered by outside platforms, new
standards, and communities around them
38. User Needs Project Description
• Define recommendations and
requirements for expanding BHL digital
library functionality
• Work with members of the larger
biodiversity community to collect
requirements for new services and
features for the BHL platform
39. Defining User Groups
1) Consortium Users: A contributor to BHL including
Members, Affiliates, Partners, staff, and volunteers
1) System Users: Organizations or individuals who interact
with BHL for the purpose of enriching another system via
APIs (Application Programming Interface) or manually
1) Individual Users: Anyone visiting the BHL website to
search for information to answer their research needs such
as, scientists, collection managers, librarians, etc.
43. Feedback Methods
Initial Information Gathering:
● Learning about BHL
● Informal interviews with System Users
Survey:
● Customized survey to three user groups
Analyze:
● Review survey results and deliver requirements and
recommendations
● Consider additional user feedback methods such as formal
interviews and focus groups
44. Collaboration with Best Practices Project
• Survey Data
• Digital Library Best Practice Research
• Recommendations
46. Best Practices Project Overview
Digital Library Best Practices:
• How can large scale digital libraries be
evaluated?
• How can Version 2 of the BHL website
incorporate innovative digital libraries
tools and services?
47. Best Practices Project Overview
“Evaluating digital libraries is a
bit like judging how successful
is a marriage.”
Gary Marchionini, “Evaluating Digital Libraries: A
Longitudinal and Multifaceted View,” Library
Trends 49, no. 2 (2000).
48. Methodology
• Literature Review
– especially DLF’s Assessment Interest
Group and different Working Groups -
Wikis, white papers, fact sheets, and other
resources
– Definition of digital library
• Case Studies
– Evaluating 6 large-scale digital libraries