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180 Terabytes of Visual History: Incorporating Survivors of the Shoah Archives into the Curriculum

Charles Henry
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Rice University

Andrea Martin
Director, Enterprise Systems and Applications
Rice University

Diane Butler
Manager, Enterprise Systems and Applications
Rice University

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded a collaborative project with the Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, Rice University, Yale University, and the University of Southern California, to integrate video testimonies of Holocaust survivors into the undergraduate curriculum. This briefing explores the technical and logistical challenges of the project to date, as well as the enhancements the technology has brought to the curriculum, and new course assignments and methods of research evidenced by the students.

Web Link:
http://www.vhf.org/vhfmain-2.htm

Presentation:
180 Terabytes of Visual History (PPT)

Another Step on the Bridge: Sharing Resource Lists Among Content Repositories and E-Learning Systems

Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich
Metadata Coordinator
Stanford University

Mladen Maljkovic
Product Manager
WebCT

The IMS Resource List Interoperability Specification details how structured metadata can be exchanged between content repositories that store and expose content that scholars wish to use for the purposes of creating a specific kind of digital learning object – a Resource List – and those systems that gather and organize such lists for educational or training purposes, such as course or learning management systems. Because course or learning related Resource Lists may be created and maintained in different systems, such as library e-reserve modules managed within an integrated library system or course management systems, each having their own metadata, processing and managing requirements, it has been very difficult to exchange and consolidate the Resource Lists between systems. The RLI specification begins to address these integration issues by enabling the easy exchange of structured metadata between e-learning tools and various related applications including Library Online Public Access Catalogs, reserves modules or other third party tools. The public draft of the RLI specification will be released within the month of April for public comment and prototype implementations. This briefing will provide details about the specification and plans for implementations.

http://www.imsglobal.org/workinprogress.cfm

Australian Research Information Infrastructure Projects: The Perspective of the National Library of Australia

Warwick Cathro
Assistant Director-General, Innovation
National Library of Australia

In Australia, the federal government has funded four projects aimed at assisting universities in establishing a robust environment for managing their research information. The development of “institutional repositories” is seen as a key strategy for achieving this goal. The funded projects will (a) test and evaluate particular software solutions for institutional research repositories, (b) develop a national discovery service for the content of the research repositories, (c) develop a national service to assist institutions with the curation and sustainability of these collections, and (d) develop a national infrastructure for authentication and authorization services which manage access to the collections.

The National Library of Australia is a partner in three of the funded projects, and this project briefing will describe the projects from the Library’s perspective. The Library will assist the projects by contributing its expertise and recent experience with the development of its own digital services architecture, including its experience with digital collection management systems, digital preservation, persistent identifiers, and the operation of national resource discovery services. The Library will also contribute its expertise in standards relating to authentication and authorization, and in particular, its experience with standards for descriptions of access policies. These projects provide an opportunity for Australia to take a highly collaborative, national approach to the development both of institutional repositories and of the support services that are needed for their effective deployment.

Web Links:
http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/McGauran/2003/10/mcg002221003.asp
http://www.dest.gov.au/highered/research/sys_research.htm
http://www.arrow.edu.au/
http://sts.anu.edu.au/drs/repositories/
http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2003/cathro1.html

Handout:
The National Library’s Role in the Australian Research Information Infrastructure Projects

Presentation:
Australian Research Information Infrastructure Projects (PPT)

Capturing Caribbean Life and Culture: New Digital Resources at the University of Miami Library

Jeff Barry
Director of Digital Library Programs and Technology
University of Miami

The University of Miami’s Richter Library is actively involved in faculty collaborations to develop digital resources for the study of Caribbean literature. The Caribbean Writers Video Archive, consisting of more than 400 streaming videos, is an effort to capture discourse about Caribbean literature through digital media. In this archive one can view and listen to notable Caribbean writers reading their works and discussing their craft.

“Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal” is a new, open access, peer-reviewed, electronic journal that publishes creative writing and articles about all aspects of Caribbean life and culture. This briefing will examine the challenges in creating these digital resources and outline future developments to integrate these resources into even more engaging learning experiences for understanding Caribbean literature through digital media.

Web Links:
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/anthurium/index.html
http://www.as.miami.edu/english/cls/CWSIMainPage.htm

Presentation:
Capturing Caribbean Life and Culture (PPT)

Copyright Management for Scholarship

Rodney Petersen
Policy Analyst
EDUCAUSE

Julia Blixrud
Director of Information Services
Association of Research Libraries/SPARC

John Vaughn
Executive Vice President
Association of American Universities

An international group of stakeholders – including authors, publishers, librarians, and universities – have been meeting and working over the past four years with the objective “to achieve maximum access to scholarship without compromising quality or academic freedom and without denying aspects of costs and rewards involved.” New technologies have forced universities to rethink their strategic role in scholarly publications. Electronic publishing makes it possible to alter and strengthen their position in the process of creating and disseminating academic scholarship. How can faculty achieve maximum access to scholarly information? How can universities raise awareness and educate academic authors and administrators? How do we manage the allocation of rights among the key stakeholders: authors, publishers, universities, and the public?

This briefing will discuss the Zwolle Principles, published in 2002 under the title, “Balancing Stakeholder Interests in Scholarship Friendly Copyright Practices.” The Zwolle group has also collected and reviewed agreements between authors and publishers, institutional copyright ownership policies, and is creating a “copyright toolkit” that will help inform publication agreements and university policies.

Web Link:
http://www.surf.nl/copyright

Handout:
Principles: Balancing Stakeholder Interests in Scholarship-Friendly Copyright Practices

Presentation:
Copyright Management for Scholarship (PPT)

Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Spring 2004 Membership Meeting
April 15-16, 2004
Alexandria, VA

SRW and Metasearch

Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
Jenny Walker, ExLibris (USA) Inc.
Rob Sanderson, University of Liverpool
Last updated:  Thursday, August 13th, 2015

 

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