CNI News

Dear readers:

I know some of your institutions may be using Islandora and others may be looking into it. Posting this information on behalf of the Islandoracon organizers.

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

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Registration is underway for Islandoracon, taking place October 7  – 11 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The discounted Early Bird rate has been extended from July 1st to July 6th.

For more information about the event, or to register, please visit our website: https://islandora.ca/camps/islandoracon2019

This year will mark the third time that the Islandora community has come together for a full conference, and the first time we’re holding a conference after the release of Islandora 8. This week-long event consists of a day of in-depth “pre-conference” workshops, two days of regular main conference sessions, a day of multi-track 90-minute workshops, and a closing hackfest-style event where we can work together on projects to improve our shared open-source platform. The full schedule is available here: https://islandora.ca/camps/islandoracon2019/schedule

The theme of this year’s conference is “Collaborate. CHANGE. Connect.” “CHANGE” is capitalized because our community is collectively facing the need to manage major changes in the tools and platforms that make our own Islandora platform work. Connecting and collaborating with others in open-source is our best method to manage those changes, not just as hundreds of individual Islandora users, but as a community moving together. 

Islandora is a software framework designed to help institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage, and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework. Built on a base of Drupal, Fedora, and Solr, Islandora empowers users to work with any data type across a broad variety of knowledge domains.

Islandora and all of its components are completely open-source and free to use.

Thank you,

Islandoracon Planning Committee

Many of you will be interested in this project and you have the opportunity for input at the ALA Conference in Washington, DC.

—Joan Lippincott, CNI
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All – I am working on a Mellon Foundation funded grant to map digital scholarly communication infrastructure.  This is a follow on the 2.5% Commitment. As part of this work we are looking for academic library deans/directors and/or AULs to participate in a number of focus groups to get their perspectives on the current state of this infrastructure and their willingness to invest in it.  Information on the project can be found at https://scholarlycommons.net/map/ and information on the focus groups can be found at https://scholarlycommons.net/focus-groups/ 

 We are currently looking to fill out to focus groups at ALA.  They will be held on Monday, June 24th at 8:30 AM and at 4 PM.  To participate in the ALA groups sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080a49a9af2ca4f85-focus .

 If you cannot be at ALA, there are other options for participation at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenfYuecKolsWhC5hofPi5_RPWE-37t0DR40WAOlMRv_2Xtyg/viewform

I would ask that you consider participating.  And if you could forward this message to others who might be of interest.

To provide a bit more context, you may want to read the recently published interview

(https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/06/12/invest-open-infrastructure/)  with Dan Whaley about the Invest in Open Infrastructure (http://investinopen.org) effort that our efforts are aligned with.

Thanks.

 David

 

David W. Lewis

Dean Emeritus of the IUPUI University Library

dlewis@iupui.edu

Posting on behalf of our colleagues at the Visual Resources Association.
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Visual Resources Association (VRA) is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments. For more information on VRA: http://vraweb.org/.

Call for Proposals

The Visual Resources Association’s 2020 Annual Conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland from Tuesday, March 24^th through Friday, March 27^th, 2020 at the Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Baltimore.

Presenting at the VRA Conference provides you with the opportunity to see how your ideas, research, work, and passion connect to those of other dedicated professionals while building networks and friendships in an open, collaborative environment. 

Click here to access the conference proposal form.

The VRA Executive Board is soliciting proposals for papers, sessions, special interest/user groups, and workshops for the 2020 program until Friday, July 19^th. All proposals are welcome, and if you have other conference ideas or suggestions that do not fit the conference proposal form, please reach out to the Vice President for Conference Program, Sara Schumacher. Please note a call for Lightning Round presenters will go out in the fall/winter, so that we can better accommodate recent innovations and activities, as well as, students and emerging professionals.

• A paper is an individual idea submission, which will be reviewed for possible grouping into a session. Your ideas, whether they come to us alone or in a group, are equally valued in the Board’s proposal and selection process.
• A session is a maximum 60-minute moderated panel, usually consisting of no more than 3 presenters each, speaking for 15 to 18 minutes, followed by a brief facilitated question and answer period. If you feel your session topic requires more time, consider dividing it into two sessions, consisting of a Part I and a Part II.
• A special interest/user group is a 60-minute informal, community-driven, facilitated group discussion on topics related to a specific segment of the VRA membership.
• A workshop is a 2, 4, or 8-hour workshop to develop skills and experience in the field of visual resources with hands-on activities.

What should you propose?

Past conference schedules can give you an idea of the range of topics presented in previous years or read through the list below of suggested topics compiled from the 2019 post-conference survey responses to find inspiration. Please, do not be afraid to deviate and propose something new or highlight an area of concern that you feel has not been adequately addressed previously, as you may find new collaborators and colleagues. Moderators may put out calls for presenters within a proposed topic before or after the submission of a proposal. The VRA Executive Board will be looking for articulate and concise submissions with lists of presenters, but submissions without presenter lists are encouraged as well.

Suggested topics:

• Coding (PHP, Python, SQL, etc.)
• Community Outreach
• Copyright/Intellectual Property
• Digital Asset Management, Digital Curation, Digital Preservation, etc.
• Digitization (Workflows, Digital Capture and Imaging Technologies)
• Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Cultural Competencies, Social Justice
• Project Management (Communication, Grant writing, Prioritization, Leadership, etc.)
• Linked Data
• Materials/Objects collections
• Metadata/Cataloging Ethics (Decolonizing vocabularies, Radical cataloging)
• Storytelling and Oral History
• Technologies (GIS and mapping, 3D imaging, etc.)
• Tools: Open Source, Evolution, Future Trends
• Workplace cultures and professional transitions (academic departments, libraries, cultural heritage institutions, archives, corporate, etc.)

Please contact the Vice President for Conference Program, Sara Schumacher at vpcp@vraweb.org with any questions or concerns.

Again, the proposal deadline is Friday, July 19^th, 2019.  Click here to access the conference proposal form.

I wanted to share this call for information for a survey from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) with the CNI community. This is the first time NDSA has reached out to the broader community in collecting this information, and their findings will be very helpful for all of us.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Greetings!

The 2019 NDSA Storage Survey Working Group is pleased to announce that the 2019 Storage Survey is live! This survey is designed to gather and share information on the extent and nature of digital preservation storage across a wide variety of institutions. We invite – and encourage – your participation.

This is the third iteration of the survey, the goal of which is not only to collect updated data for comparison with the 2011 and 2013 surveys, but to gather information on how new technologies and standards have impacted preservation storage. The information gathered through the previous two surveys has been an invaluable resource, helping those involved in digital preservation programs understand how preservation storage is changing and developing. As with the prior surveys, the aggregated results of the survey will be openly available.

The 2019 survey will provide an updated data set that continues to document the storage practices of NDSA members and how those methods have changed over time. Importantly, it is now expanding beyond the NDSA membership for a broader picture of storage needs and practices.

The survey will run from May 23 to June 7, 2019. If you are involved in digital preservation work at your institution, please consider completing the survey; or if you think there is someone at your institution who can, please share it with them. We welcome responses from all types of organizations engaging in storage of digital content; you do not need to be an NDSA member to respond. This survey will take no more than 20-30 minutes and will provide invaluable updated information on how practitioners are approaching digital storage infrastructure.

You may find the survey here:
https://northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eYe7GMtU4ZYv66h.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to Laura Alagna, chair of the 2019 NDSA Storage Survey Working Group with any questions you have about the survey.

Sincerely,
Members of the 2019 NDSA Storage Survey Working Group

Dear Members of the CNI Community:

Help EDUCAUSE determine the future directions for the Horizon Report; I know many of you find the report useful and can provide some informed feedback.

Thanks,
Joan Lippincott, CNI

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Greetings, colleague,

As you know, EDUCAUSE inherited the Horizon Report in early 2018 and has been producing the Report since then. While the Horizon Report is a wonderful tradition, we are also seeking, as in everything we do, to continuously learn and improve in our work. 

We’d like to ask you to share your thoughts about future directions for the Report by completing a very short, 5 question survey. It should take no more than 5 minutes to complete.

The survey is here:

https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5043652/Horizon-Report-Feedback-Survey

The deadline for completing the survey in June 18.  Please share this will your colleagues!

Many thanks in advance for providing your insights about the future of the Horizon Report!

Malcolm

Malcolm Brown
Director of Learning Initiatives

EDUCAUSE
Uncommon Thinking for the Common Good
282 Century Place, Suite 5000, Louisville CO 80027
direct: 575.448.1313 

The last of the videos made at CNI’s April meeting have been added to our channels; with this announcement, all available videos from CNI’s Spring 2019 Membership Meeting are now available:

An Institutional Perspective to Rescue Scholarly Orphans
Martin Klein (Los Alamos National Laboratory) & Herbert Van de Sompel (Data Archiving and Networked Services)
Scholars increasingly are using various online portals outside of the traditional scholarly publishing system to conduct and to communicate about their research, yet no infrastructure exists to systematically and comprehensively archive the deposited artifacts. This talk discusses the desirability, feasibility, and architecture of institutional processes aimed at capturing these scholarly orphans.
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/337332089
YouTube: https://youtu.be/PiGLvLE1F2o

Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data
Kevin S. Hawkins (University of North Texas)
Reports on a study of the landscape of open-access scholarly monograph usage data and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem.
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/338922095
YouTube: https://youtu.be/u4j5D8R0Lwo

Variations in Public Scholarship Works: Examining The Impact of Three Related Scholarly Digital Projects on Present and Future Resources
Wayne Morse Jr. (Emory University)
Public scholarship through digital humanities can be accomplished in various ways, and different approaches have significant implications for extended care, usability, and sustainability. This video illustrates these challenges through discussion of three related but different projects at Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship.
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/339344238
YouTube: https://youtu.be/2GboAd5e92s

To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

New videos from CNI’s April meeting have been added to our channels:

Purposeful Space Design for Libraries
Joan Lippincott (CNI), Kelly Miller (University of Miami), Thomas Hickerson (University of Calgary)
Examines how new and renovated spaces can better reflect contemporary needs and contribute to the programmatic priorities of their institution, as well as permeable, or fluid, space design and examples of collaborative use for teaching, learning, and research in academic libraries.
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/338031582
YouTube: https://youtu.be/JiXsc_l4VIg

Introducing ROR: The Research Organization Registry
ROR is a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world. The ROR project addresses a gap in the scholarly community ecosystem: the lack of open, stakeholder-governed-infrastructure for research organization identifiers and associated metadata that can uniquely identify research outputs with the institutions where research is produced.
Maria Gould (California Digital Library – University of California Office of the President)
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/338305443
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZlUg8XwJNRc

To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

New videos from CNI’s April meeting have been added to our channels:

Design Thinking for Library Services: Library as Research Lab
Justin Schell, Meghan Sitar, Laurie Alexander (University of Michigan)
Discusses new approaches to service design, at the University of Michigan, built on intentional, inclusive, and transparent collaboration and experimentation, as well as a grant-funded initiative to work with School of Information students to provide authentic learning and research experiences.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/8rt-K6MjULc
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/337990677 

A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual OCR
Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University)
This talk outlines the primary findings and recommendations of a report that seeks to describe the current state of optical character recognition (OCR) for large-scale humanities collections.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Eo17AYRDnWk
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/337581199

To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

New videos from CNI’s April meeting have been added to our channels:

Collecting, Correlating, Stitching, Enriching: How Commercial Publishers are Creating Value by Profiling Users (David Lacy, Temple University; Cody Hanson, University of Minnesota)
A study of the user tracking mechanisms in place on publisher platforms shows that many publishers are engaged in efforts to profile and identify library users, even without the identifying information that could be provided by libraries through federated authentication.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/RrEKrJkQ2Jk
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/337360332 

Alternative RDM Service Models for Smaller Research Libraries (Andrew White, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
This presentation considers an alternative to the institutional repositories model established by many large research libraries, to enable smaller research institutions to support research data management (RDM). It also reviews the lessons learned about RDM from a collaborative effort between the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Elsevier’s Research Data Management Solutions Team using Elsevier’s Data Monitor software.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/UahYMLI-QlA
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/337551559

To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni).

CNI is pleased to be a cooperating organization for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) again this year.

Registration for JCDL 2019, including tutorials, workshops, and the main conference, is now open: https://2019.jcdl.org/registration/

Early Bird registration will be available through the end of this week, until May 25th.
-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI