Presentation materials & handouts for many of the Fall 2011 CNI Membership Meeting breakout sessions are now available from the project briefing (presentation) pages at http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2011/project-briefings/.
Presenters who have not done so already are asked to send their materials to sharon@cni.org.
Videos from selected sessions will be available beginning in early January.
| Martin Halbert Dean of Libraries University of North Texas | Martha Anderson Director of NDIIPP Program Management Library of Congress
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| Trevor Owens Community Lead Library of Congress | Priscilla Caplan Assistant Director for Digital Library Services University of Florida |
| Kris Carpenter Director, Web Group Internet Archive | Rachel Frick Director, Digital Library Federation Program Council on Library and Information Resource |
Community Briefing on the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP) Conference (Halbert)
The Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP) conference was held in the capital of Estonia in May 2011 as a forum for national digital preservation programs to meet and exchange information with each other for the purpose of building strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of collective digital memory. While there have been other events that support and encourage information exchange across national boundaries, no effort has previously attempted to accomplish the aims of this conference, namely to set a strategic direction for international collaboration across a wide range of topics related to digital preservation. The ANADP Conference provided a participatory forum for information exchange and focused work, and led to a monograph encapsulating the recommendations from the conference that is now in process of being edited.
This briefing will present highlights of the conference and its outcomes. Examples of the organizations which participated in the conference include: the US Library of Congress, the Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK, the Open Planets Foundation, the Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science, the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation, the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, the Digital Curation Centre in the UK, the National Library of Estonia, the National Library of the Czech Republic, the National Library of Sweden, and the Coalition for Networked Information.
http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADP
New Dynamics Create New Ideas: The First Year of Action by the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (Anderson, et al)
The digital preservation landscape continues to be complex and challenging. Ninety-five National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) member organizations representing all segments of a potentially powerful global digital preservation community have convened to address long-term care for digital information. NDSA members are passionate about the idea that preservation of our digital heritage can only be achieved as a community spanning institutions, organizations, government, private industry and national boundaries.
Current innovative initiatives include a neighborhood watch for repository audits; a survey of the US Web domain; an inside view of digital content storage from repository managers; a Wikipedia of digital preservation standards; and new tools for outreach. This panel of five lightning talks will highlight the work of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance in 2011 accomplished through five working groups: content, infrastructure, standards, innovation and outreach. There will be discussion of collaborative digital preservation experiences and creative approaches to community stewardship. The NDSA is an initiative of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress and extends its digital preservation partnerships.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov
Handout (MS Word)
Irene Eleta
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Maryland
Raul Guerra
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Maryland
Museums and libraries have growing collections of digital images of their art works. Traditionally to enable access, experts create authoritative metadata for these images. About five years ago, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded steve.museum project explored the use of social tagging by non-experts to create image labels. At about the same time, the Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, explored ways to extract terms from text on those images. The results of steve.museum along with CLiMB enabled researchers at the University of Maryland, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Susan Chun, consultant, to consider how to combine these valuable sources for access.
This session will include a presentation of the results of this IMLS-funded research, the Text, Tags and Trust (T3) Project. The presentation will focus on two fundamental issues in using user-created metadata. The computational linguistic processing, morphological and semantic analysis techniques used to process and analyze the large steve.museum tagset will be discussed first. Tags and terms will be compared to show how each covers different types of issues and vocabularies. While tagging tends to be by the non-expert, terms from text may be more authoritative, but the volume of irrelevant phrases impacts overall usefulness. The computational techniques used in this project enabled the examination of tags and phrases of importance for browsing, and discriminate useful multi-word phrases with high descriptive value.
Results of a comparison of social tagging patterns in two languages will also be presented, and exploitable strengths for providing multilingual support in digital libraries and museums will be explored. Additional text metadata could be leveraged for effective image browsing, e.g. by reducing noise, filtering of results, suggesting terms, recommending images, and clustering of these images for browsing.
Project contributors include Judith Klavans, Jen Golbeck, Susan Chun, Rob Stein, Ed Bachta, Irene Eleta, Raul Guerra, and Rebecca LaPlante.
http://umiacs.umd.edu/research/t3/
Handout (PDF)
Joyce L. Ogburn
ACRL President
Dean of the J. Willard Marriott Library
Association of College and Research Libraries
University of Utah
Mary Ellen K. Davis
ACRL Executive Director
Association of College and Research Libraries
Kara J. Malenfant
ACRL Scholarly Communications and Government Relations Specialist
Association of College and Research Libraries
Librarians are increasingly called upon to document and articulate the value of academic and research libraries and their contribution to institutional mission and goals. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) responds to these demands and positions academic librarians as contributors to campus efforts in several ways. This session will include discussion about recent developments with ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries Initiative, a multiyear project designed to aid academic librarians in demonstrating library value. As one of its recommendations, the ACRL publication “The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report,” released in fall 2010, called on the association to create a professional development program to build the profession’s capacity to document, demonstrate, and communicate library value in advancing the mission and goals of their colleges and universities.
In late fall 2011, ACRL joined with three partners (the Association for Institutional Research, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Council of Independent Colleges) to convene two national summits. In the first, a wide range of participants from the higher education sector discussed the data campus administrators would like libraries to provide and what collaborative assistance is available through institutional research offices. In the second, librarian participants addressed strategies to prepare the library community to document and communicate the library’s value.
These summits are the basis of the project “Building Capacity for Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries,” made possible by a National Leadership Collaborative Planning Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This project briefing will report on the advice given by those attending the summits: college and university chief academic officers, senior institutional researchers, representatives from accreditation commissions and higher education organizations, and academic librarians from a broad spectrum of institutions.
http://www.acrl.ala.org/value/
Handout (PDF)
G. Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center
Johns Hopkins University
Barbara Pralle
Head, Entrepreneurial Library Program
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Data Management services group was launched in July 2011 to provide data management planning support to JHU principal investigators preparing National Science Foundation proposals, and to make available data management and archiving services using systems developed by the Data Conservancy. This presentation will describe the unique aspects of the Data Conservancy System as a data archive. The process that was used to establish the service model, including the financial model, will also be discussed, as well as well as factors that continue to shape service development.