Loading
 

Cloud Architectures and Cultural Memory

September 23, 2013

Clifford A. Lynch, Cloud Architectures and Cultural Memory. Presentation at the 4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW2013), September 4-6, 2013 (http://imcw2013.bilgiyonetimi.net/).
Watch the video.

Filed Under: Digital Curation, Talks and Interviews
Tagged With: , ,

JCDL 2013 Opening Keynote

July 23, 2013

Clifford A. Lynch, JCDL 2013 Opening Keynote. Presentation at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL): “Digital Libraries at the Crossroads,” July 22-26, 2013 (jcdl2013.org/).
Watch the video.

Filed Under: Digital Libraries, Talks and Interviews
Tagged With: , ,

LITA Top Tech Trends Panel, ALA 2013

July 3, 2013

ALA LITA Awards and Top Tech Trends 2013 Chicago (July 3, 2013): roundtable discussion about trends and advances in library technology by a panel of technology experts. Panelists: Char Booth, Aimee Fifarek, Sarah Houghton, Brewster Kahle, Clifford Lynch, Gary Price, Moderator: Lorcan Dempsey.
Watch the video.

Filed Under: Identity Management, Talks and Interviews
Tagged With: , ,

The Digital Preservation Network: A Report and Discussion on DPN’s Emerging Architecture, System Protocol & Service Model

March 18, 2013

Tom Cramer
Chief Technology Strategist
Stanford University

James Simon
System Architect
Stanford University

The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is a nationwide initiative to create a preservation backbone for digital information of interest to the academy. DPN comprises a handful of large-scale preservation repositories, which together form a heterogeneous network of secure, trustworthy digital archives, each operated under diverse geographical, organizational, financial, and technical regimes. Robust (bit) auditing and repair functions ensure the integrity and security of content over time. Intellectual property agreements among depositors, repositories and the university members of the Network ensure succession of rights to use content in the event of the dissolution of the original depositor or archive. Since late 2012, a technical team from the five initial nodes has been working on an initial implementation of the network. This presentation will present that group’s work, which includes basic design principles, functional requirements and system specifications; the Network’s high level architecture and protocols for content replication and auditing; and framing of detailed service and policy questions that will drive the Network’s overall design and operation. DPN members and digital preservation experts are especially encouraged to attend and participate in this interactive session.

http://www.dpn.org

Presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2013 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management
Tagged With: , ,

Discovery Turned Inside Out: Using schema.org and Google Site Search with Library Digital Collections

March 18, 2013

Will Sexton
Digital Collections Coordinator, Libraries
Duke University

Sean Aery
Digital Projects Developer, Libraries
Duke University

 

Duke University Libraries has begun embedding structured metadata within the source code of the Web pages that display the Libraries’ digital collections. This practice follows the recommendations of the schema.org initiative, an effort by commercial search engine developers to use structured data to enrich the user’s experience. The initiative has led, for example, to Google’s display of contact information for retail outlets in search results, or its enhanced options for filtering recipe searches. Duke’s objectives in adopting schema.org relate both to the ways that an exterior service like Google might represent the institution’s materials, and how the organization will offer services to researchers. Usage analysis suggests that systems outside of Duke’s library, largely consisting of the commercial search tools, drive traffic to University collections, and the institution wants to increase its own systems’ interoperability with them.

Duke is also piloting a local instance of Google, via its Site Search API, with the potential to enhance and replace the discovery services offered to users. Generally speaking, the library sees embedded structured data as a way to extend the impact of the time and resources spent on discovery tools for the content that we manage. This presentation will show how Duke Libraries is using schema.org, it will include a demonstration of a localized Google experience, and it will include discussion of how this new emphasis on structured data changes how Duke Libraries envisions the future of discovery.

 http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/

Presentation (Sexton)
Presentation (Avery)

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2013 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Metadata, Project Briefing Pages
Tagged With: , ,

IT@Cornell: Is It What We Imagined?

March 18, 2013

Dean B. Krafft
Director of Library IT
Cornell University

 

In the fall of 2010, Cornell University began implementing a “reimagined” model for delivering information technology (IT) services on campus, based on a set of recommendations developed with significant input from Bain & Co., a global consulting firm. Cornell is now three years into the process of creating a much more integrated and collaborative IT organization, and the university is starting to reap some major benefits from doing things very differently.

This talk will describe the significant changes that have taken place in IT service delivery, IT governance, and providing IT software solutions at Cornell, from the perspective of both the Cornell University Library and the campus as a whole. In some cases, Cornell adopted the recommendations of Bain and the original re-imagining process, and in other cases, it deliberately chose different approaches. The presentation will include an analysis of the organizational, cultural, and operational changes that have taken place in IT over the past three years, outlining both the successes and the remaining challenges. Finally, the talk will include a brief look at Cornell’s recently completed IT Strategic Plan, which seeks to “guide prudent reallocation of our IT investments from utilities to academic differentiators” while providing stable and efficient utility IT services. The IT@Cornell model of “intentional interdependence” within the university and seeking the best services and collaborations available from the outside world should be of significant interest to many educational institutions facing similar IT challenges.

http://www.cni.org/topics/user-services/reimagining-it-at-cornell-university/
http://www.cornell.edu/reimagining/it-review.cfm
http://www.it.cornell.edu/cio/index.cfm

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2013 Project Briefings, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages, User Services
Tagged With: , ,

The Library Building as Research Platform

March 18, 2013

Kristin Antelman
Associate Director for the Digital Library
North Carolina State University

Maurice York
Head of Information Technology
North Carolina State University

This briefing will introduce the technology vision behind the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, a new, 200,000 square foot building that opened in January 2013 at North Carolina State University. The Hunt Library was designed to meet the challenge of re-envisioning library spaces as a platform for research. The library’s goal is to engage researchers across disciplines by deploying broadly applicable technologies such as large-scale visualization, high resolution and 3D imagery, and interactive computing. These core technologies are expressed in physical spaces such as Immersion Theater, Game Lab, Media Production Studios, Teaching & Visualization Lab, and Creativity Studio. Through an inherent ability to reconfigure, re-purpose, and interchange components and infrastructure, the building’s technology itself is designed to be an object of research, a sandbox for emerging technologies and a showcase for cutting edge applications. New segments of the faculty are engaging in deeper ways than ever before, including the launch of several research projects based around Hunt.

Realizing the vision required converging physical and virtual spaces. Unlike library spaces that support undergraduate study, research-focused physical spaces require complementary virtual spaces. Thus, infrastructure is a core enabler. The building’s data center design, IP and AV fiber networks, HPC and high-performance storage (integrated with campus infrastructure), are all designed to support extensible use of spaces and to minimize operational staff support. As the most technologically advanced building on campus, Hunt has quickly become the test bed for new technologies on campus. As the physical infrastructure settles into operation, new service areas are emerging. A core service offering will be “project cloud” space, which will enable students and researchers to easily “check out” computing power and transfer large projects in and out of the library’s environment. Technology staff have been retrained and redeployed to support the new capabilities, and an academic technologist added to consult with researchers and match their needs with the building’s capabilities. Since all library services must be scalable, technology staff effort is focused on identifying good pilot projects that can serve as prototypes to be converted into templates for future projects.

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/12/18/2553438/ncsus-hyper-modern-new-james-b.html

Presentation Slides (PDF)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2013 Project Briefings, Learning Spaces (includes Information/Learning Commons), Project Briefing Pages, Scholarly Communication, User Services
Tagged With: , ,

Not Another Cross-Search Tool: The Digital Commons Network

March 18, 2013

Jean-Gabriel Bankier
President & Chief Executive Officer
bepress

In November 2012, bepress launched the Digital Commons Network to bring together scholarship from hundreds of universities and colleges using the Digital Commons platform. The integration of individual repositories and the emphasis on the browsing experience makes this collection of institutional repositories unlike anything that has been attempted by the community. This session will include a presentation of the results that suggest the network is already having an impact. A tour of collections in the Digital Commons Network will be used to describe how a connected network is increasing the value of the institutional repository investment for all stakeholders. Finally, there may be a path for extending the Network to include institutions that are using open source platforms.

 http://network.bepress.com/

Presentation

 

 

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2013 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages, Repositories, Scholarly Communication
Tagged With: , ,

Publication and Research Roles for Libraries Using Spectral Imaging Data

March 18, 2013

Todd Grappone
Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology
University of California, Los Angeles

Stephen Davison
Head, UCLA Digital Library Program
University of California, Los Angeles

This presentation will discuss the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library’s role in the David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project and partnership with the Early Manuscript Electronic Library (EMEL) to support spectral imaging of palimpsests at the St. Catherine’s Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula. Spectral imaging projects require complex international collaboration between technicians, scholars and librarians to uncover erased or deteriorated texts. Once initial spectral imaging is complete, a combination of manual and automated processing, drawing on the knowledge of both technicians and scholars to inform a feedback loop of processing and reprocessing of images is necessary to build an archive of spectral images and metadata that will meet a variety of needs, including scholarly work (e.g. creating editions of texts, paleographic and codicological description), public access (e.g. generating images decipherable and viewable by students and the general public), and preservation. UCLA is working with partners from both the Livingstone and St. Catherine’s projects to define workflow and standards for the spectral data archives produced by these projects, including intellectual property rights, metadata standards and controlled vocabularies, and structuring spectral image data archives for both access and preservation. Future activities include the development of tools for the dynamic generation of derivative views from spectral images, and the extension of these techniques to other hidden or deteriorating texts.

http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu
http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/livingstone_archive/

Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2013 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Project Briefing Pages, Publishing
Tagged With: , ,

Taking Scholarly Note-taking to the Web

March 18, 2013
Michael Buckland

Michael Buckland
Professor Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley

Ryan Shaw
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Scholarly annotated editions of historically significant texts constitute an important foundation for learning and research in the humanities. Scholarly editing requires a sustained investment of highly specialized expertise, but long-term funding is difficult. Existing editorial procedures are still rooted in the pre-digital work practices and the space constraints of the printed codex. A collaboration of documentary editing projects has demonstrated how current Web technology can greatly aid scholarly editing projects and increase the return on investment by making their research notes promptly and fully available through Web publication; gaining efficiency through collaborative, shared access to working notes among related projects; and providing lateral interoperability with other scholarly infrastructure, specifically special collections curators’ notes. This presentation will include a report on these successes, as well as on current efforts to exploit linked data to improve descriptive control over research notes and to enable the creation of “structured” notes incorporating temporal, geospatial, or prosopographical information.

Presentation Slides

http://editorsnotes.org/
http://ecai.org/mellon2010/

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2013 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Scholarly Communication
Tagged With: , ,