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Centers for Digital Scholarship & Library Leadership: Two Case Studies

December 6, 2010

Joan Giesecke
Dean of Libraries
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Harriette Hemmasi
Joukowsky Family University Librarian
Brown University

The Brown University Library Center for Digital Scholarship and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities provide two examples of how libraries participate in and provide leadership to the campus helping faculty develop digital projects. The Brown University Center was formed in 2009 with the reorganization of campus units, while the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center, a joint initiative with the College of Arts and Sciences, is eight years old. This session will compare and contrast the approaches taken by these two signature centers. Mission, personnel, funding, space and projects will be highlighted. The relationship of the Centers to other colleges and units on campus, involvement of faculty in the center, and the role of the university librarian will be covered.

 

http://cdrh.unl.edu
http://library.brown.edu/cds/

Presentation (PowerPoint)

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Certification and Assessment of Digital
Repositories: The Auditor and Auditee Perspective

December 6, 2010

Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.
President
Center for Research Libraries

Eileen Fenton
Managing Director
Portico

Over the course of 2009, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) initiated in-depth assessments of two repositories of interest to the CRL community: Portico and HathiTrust. The purpose of these assessments was to promote understanding of and, where justified, confidence in, digital repositories. In 2010, CRL issued a report certifying Portico as a trustworthy digital repository.

In this briefing, CRL will discuss how certification fits within its efforts to enable its community to accelerate the shift to electronic-only resources in a careful and responsible manner; its approach to certification and assessment; and its ongoing work in this arena.

The Portico audit was a lengthy and productive experience. Details of the experience will be shared in this session to inform other organizations of the steps involved should they choose to pursue an audit and certification, and the ongoing requirements of the audit will be discussed.

 

http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/certification-and-assessment-digital-repositories
http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/certification-and-assessment-digital-repositories/portico

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Community Briefing: Next Generation Learning Challenges

December 6, 2010

Ira Fuchs
Executive Director, Next Generation Learning Challenges
EDUCAUSE

On October 11, 2010, EDUCAUSE, in collaboration with the League for Innovation in the Community College, the International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL), and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) announced up to $20 million in funding for campuses, consortia, organizations, and government agencies as part of the first wave of grants for Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). NGLC is a new effort to identify and scale technology-enabled approaches that dramatically improve college readiness and completion, particularly for low-income young adults. In this interactive session, attendees can learn more about NGLC, including future grant opportunities, and participate in an open dialogue with initiative staff.

 

http://nextgenlearning.org

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Copyright and Book Digitization Workflows: Breaking the 1923 Barrier

December 6, 2010

Anne Karle-Zenith
Copyright Review Project Librarian
University of Michigan

M. Claire Stewart
Head, Digital Collections
Northwestern University

David Lowe
Digital Programs Team Leader
University of Connecticut

Libraries involved in large scale digitization projects with partners such as Google and the Internet Archive have sallied forth with confidence as long as they have focused on making openly accessible those published materials with imprints up to and including 1922. However, the copyright waters of 1923 and beyond become much murkier, and the uncertain fate of the Google Book Settlement (GBS)—likely to be dry-docked in the courts for some time to come—has distracted libraries from much forward progress on broadening access to digitized book collections. In fact in practice, the GBS only begins where public domain ends, and opportunities to identify public domain titles and gather permissions from rights holders are available to libraries seeking to broaden access to their digitized materials. This session will include discussion of post-1922 book copyright evaluation workflows developed at the presenters’ institutions:

 

  • University of Michigan’s IMLS-funded project to identify public domain titles among books in the HathiTrust Digital Library
  • Northwestern University’s copyright checking workflow and preliminary work to gather author permissions for locally digitized books
  • University of Connecticut’s 1923-1977 decision tree.

 

The presenters hope to foster discussion about establishing community practices and procedures that libraries can follow to provide open online access to hundreds of thousands of post-1922 titles.

 

http://www.lib.umich.edu/imls-national-leadership-grant-crms
http://books.northwestern.edu/
http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/21/

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The Cuban Theater Digital Archive at the University of Miami

December 6, 2010

Kyle Rimkus
Librarian Assistant Professor
University of Miami

Lillian Manzor
Associate Professor of Modern Languages
University of Miami

The Cuban Theater Digital Archive (CTDA) is a unique digital collection of Cuban theater resources that was established by Associate Professor of Modern Languages Lillian Manzor and the University of Miami Libraries in 2004. The University of Miami received a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in early 2009 to determine the importance of the CTDA to the academic community of theater scholars and students and to outline a sustainability plan for the CTDA’s future. The planning grant determined that no other publicly available Web site in the world focuses on the documentation of Cuban theater in Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora to the depth and breadth of the CTDA. In addition, the grant helped confirm that cultural affairs officials in Cuba are willing and often eager to support and contribute robustly to the CTDA, and that the US and Cuban academic communities see considerable value in the CTDA as a teaching and learning platform, especially because it includes space for student contributions. In October 2010, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded the University of Miami to rebuild the technical and organizational infrastructure of the CTDA in order to establish the CTDA as the most significant freely available primary source on contemporary Cuban theater in the world. This presentation will provide an overview of the CTDA and an update on its progress.

http://scholar.library.miami.edu/archivoteatral/

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Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering

December 6, 2010

Alan Blatecky
Acting Direction, Office of Cyberinfrastructure
National Science Foundation

 

Every discipline of science and engineering is undergoing a revolution, transformed by the widespread use and deployment of cyberinfrastructure. Data volumes, computing power, software and network capacities are all on exponential growth paths, and research collaborations are expanding dramatically. All forms of cyberinfrastructure, along with multiple communities spanning international domains, must be brought together to address today’s and tomorrow’s complex grand challenge problems to advance science and engineering, to promote the development of a global workforce, and to address important societal needs. All of these developments are part of an innovative approach to scientific discovery in which advanced computational facilities (e.g., data systems, computing hardware, high speed networks) and instruments (e.g., telescopes, sensors, mobile and embedded devices, sequencers) are coupled to the development of quantifiable models, algorithms, software and other tools and services, as well as people and organizations to provide unique insights into multifaceted problems in science and engineering. This dramatic change in the culture and conduct of science requires a bold national scale strategy to develop an integrated, comprehensive, secure and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that supports and accelerates activities in computational and data-enabled science and engineering needed for 21st century research. This national strategy is being called Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21).

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Digital Forensics and Cultural Heritage

December 6, 2010

Matthew Kirschenbaum
Associate Professor
University of Maryland

Rachel Donahue
Doctoral Candidate
University of Maryland

This presentation will include a summary of findings from the report Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in November 2010, as well as from an associated symposium conducted at the University of Maryland in May 2010. This symposium and report, the first to bring together archivists and other cultural heritage specialists with professionals from the legal, law enforcement, and defense communities, is intended as an introduction to the growing convergence between forensic tools and procedures and the requirements of institutions acquiring and maintaining born-digital materials. Topics to be covered include theoretical models, forensics and archival workflows, examples of tools and technologies, data recovery, and the ethics of forensic analysis.

CLIR pub 149:
Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections

http://mith.info/forensics

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Digital Humanities at Small Liberal Arts College: Innovation and Intergration

December 6, 2010

Rebecca Frost Davis
Program Officer for the Humanities
National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE)

The digital humanities first flourished at doctoral research universities, but as the field has developed, its methodologies, topics of research, and disciplinary approaches have emerged more widely, even at small liberal arts colleges, whose primary mission is teaching undergraduates. For them, digital humanities helps scholars think how the digital revolution affects and changes the disciplines, and liberal arts education in general. They also help students develop and practice important liberal arts skills, such as critical thinking and effective communication within the changed information environment of the digital age. While early engagement in the digital humanities at these colleges often took the form of isolated grant-created faculty projects, more recently, several small liberal arts colleges, including Hamilton College, Occidental College, and Wheaton College, have taken steps to engage with the digital humanities at the institutional level. These institutions face significant challenges in sustaining large-scale, collaborative digital projects typical of the field.

This briefing will present findings of ongoing research into how digital humanities fits into the culture and structure of these small liberal arts colleges, and it will explore how they cope with limited staff, infrastructure, and funding. These cases demonstrate the value of engaging undergraduates for promoting digital humanities, popularizing digital methodologies, engaging the public in digital efforts, reenergizing traditional humanities disciplines, and training future digital humanists. They also offer models for inter-institutional collaboration that will be important in the development of major cyberinfrastructure projects for the humanities.

http://www.nitle.org/help/digital_humanities.php

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ELI Seeking Evidence of Impact

December 6, 2010

ELI Seeking Evidence of Impact

 

Malcolm Brown
Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)
EDUCAUSE

Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

In August, The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) launched the “Seeking Evidence of Impact” program to explore ways of gathering and analyzing evidence of the impact of our technology-based innovations and current practices. This program seeks to engage the teaching and learning community in a collective discussion and exploration of this topic. This session will include a report on the results of the community survey conducted at the October EDUCAUSE conference and current plans and directions. The session will provide attendees with an opportunity to share input on the program’s design.

http://www.educause.edu/ELI/SEI

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Everyday Electronic Materials in Policy and Practice

December 5, 2010

Everyday Electronic Materials in Policy and Practice

 

Katherine B. Kott
Manager of Strategic Digital Projects and Organizational Development
Stanford University

This project briefing will describe the policy, procedural, and technical infrastructure developed to process Everyday Electronic Materials (EEMs) for Stanford Libraries collections. EEMs are those digital materials that are distributed by posting on Web sites, or through email notification to scholars and bibliographers; those items that selectors come across in the course of doing their everyday work. The project has been a successful collaboration between Public Services, Technical Services, and Digital Library Systems and Services and has produced results that may be adopted and adapted for use by other libraries including:

  • Policies and procedures for collecting and processing EEMs
  • A clear framework for managing copyright issues associated with digital material distributed via the Web, and for applying access policies that are consistent with redistribution rights
  • Training events and material for selectors and technical services staff
  • A Web-based tool to support selector and staff processing of EEMs via a lightweight workflow
  • Integration with the current integrated library system (ILS) and traditional ILS-based processes
  • Integration with other components of Stanford’s digital library infrastructure, including its preservation repository, discovery systems and “digital stacks” delivery environment

http://lib.stanford.edu/eems

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