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Sustainability of Digital Asset Programs and Services: Business Planning by Cultural Heritage Organizations

December 1, 2003

Nancy Allen
Dean & Director, Penrose Library
University of Denver

This project briefing will address strategies for the sustainability of the many digital asset management programs now being undertaken by cultural heritage institutions. It will cover business planning elements as they apply to the sustainability of digital asset programs and services and a status report on sustainability models being used by cultural heritage organizations today. The report is based on survey results supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2003 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Economic Models
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A Tale of Two Archives

December 1, 2003

Priscilla Caplan
Assistant Director for Digital Library Services
Florida Center for Library Automation

Jerry Persons
Information Architect
Stanford University

The Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) and Stanford University are both developing digital preservation repositories to serve their academic communities. While both archives rely primarily on normalization and forward migration as preservation strategies, in other respects they are as different as night and day. Two case studies will address policy, architecture, and preservation strategy, and talk about the realities of implementating a digital preservation archive.

Web Site:
http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/index.htm

Presentation:
A Tale of Two Archives: Notes from the Dark Side (PowerPoint)

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2003 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation
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The Transformative Assessment Program (TAP): Next Steps

December 1, 2003

Vicki Suter
NLII Project Coordinator
EDUCAUSE

Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

The EDUCAUSE NLII, CNI, and the Flashlight Program of the TLT Group have collaborated on the Transformative Assessment Project (TAP) over the past three years. Focusing on institution-wide assessment strategies that are based on institutional goals and implemented in an integrated way for all levels (the course, the program, and the institution), we have sponsored team-based workshops, conference presentations, and products such as a rubric and readiness instrument. This session will provide a brief overview of TAP and then open a discussion to gather information from attendees as to their interest in and need for assessment initiatives, activities, and products that focus on teaching, learning, transformation, and technology.

Web Page:
http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/transformative.asp

Presentation:
The Transformative Assessment Program (TAP): Next Steps (PowerPoint)

Filed Under: Assessment, CNI Fall 2003 Project Briefings
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The Ugly World of Viruses and Worms: The CIO Perspective

December 1, 2003

Gary Augustson
Vice Provost for Information Technology
Pennsylvania State University

Philip Long
Director, ITS and University CIO
Yale University

Ronald Johnson
Vice President, Computing and Communications and Vice Provost
University of Washington

Computer viruses and “worms” are posing increasing challenges to scholarship, teaching, and administrative activities on college and university campuses. This briefing will offer the perspectives of three information technology administrators who are developing new strategies for protecting faculty and students from these new threats.

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2003 Project Briefings
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The Video on Demand Project: A New Tool for Journalism Students and Faculty

December 1, 2003

Kim Sheehan
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon

Deborah Carver
University Librarian
University of Oregon

The migration from traditional paper-based analog technologies to the digital world has revolutionized journalism and journalism and communication education. Just as the practice of journalism and communication requires mastery of digital technology, teaching in the field requires the use of digital technology in every classroom and access to multimedia content. The digital age requires the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC) to create new ways to capture, store, access and distribute media content.

The Video on Demand project uses Virage technology to create a searchable database of digital assets throughout the SOJC. Such a database enables faculty to bring more content into the classroom and create opportunities for students to access the material online for research and learning purposes.

This briefing and demonstration will explain how a team of individuals from the SOJC, the library, and information technology worked together to propose, obtain funding for, and implement the project to create an easily accessible database. Specifically, we will discuss the development of a searchable indexing system designed with instructors’ own processes in mind.

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2003 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Teaching & Learning
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Why Research Libraries? Building Local Web-Based Collections: LOCKSS in Production

December 1, 2003

Vicky Reich
Director of LOCKSS Program
Stanford University

David Rosenthal
Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program
Sun Microsystems

For those who believe local collections are key to the future viability of research libraries, there is the LOCKSS initiative (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe). Established by Stanford University, the LOCKSS system allows libraries to create, manage, and maintain persistent caches of electronic journal content with minimal cost and effort. Libraries retain their role of acquiring, retaining, preserving, and building means of access to collections. First presented at CNI in 2001, the LOCKSS system will be in production in the first quarter of 2004. This briefing will discuss collection development efforts in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as business sustainability issues and progress.

http://lockss.stanford.edu

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2003 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation
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Shaping a Cyberinfrastructure to Support the Humanities

April 5, 2003

Shaping a Cyberinfrastructure to Support the Humanities

Mark Kornbluh, Matrix, Michigan State University
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
John Unsworth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Donald Waters, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Filed Under: Cyberinfrastructure, Digital Humanities
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