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The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship: What Works in Digital Preservation, and What is Needed

Micah Altman
Director of Research, Libraries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Trevor Owens
Digital Archivist
Library of Congress

Michelle Gallinger
Principal
Gallinger Consulting

 

There is more content being created than ever, and businesses, research institutions, policymakers and funders are increasingly recognizing that legacy digital content contributes to positive job creation and international competitive advantage. At the same time, digital stewardship processes are reaching a critical mass of maturity and uptake, and more work is being done to steward digital content than ever before. The 2015 edition of the National Agenda makes sense of the changing landscape, summarizes successes in the field, and articulates the priority actions that will have the most impact on community and practice. The 2015 National Agenda is the result of many months of individual effort and dedicated institutional support from across the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) community and it integrates the perspective of leading government, academic, nonprofit and private-sector organizations with digital stewardship responsibilities.

 

http://ndsa.org/nationalagenda


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Analytics and Privacy: A Proposed Framework for Negotiating Service and Value Boundaries

Lisa Hinchliffe
Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Andrew Asher
Assessment Librarian/Adjunct Faculty in Anthropology
Indiana University

 

Throughout their everyday interactions with university systems, individuals create, intentionally or unintentionally, numerous streams of digital data. Universities and libraries are increasingly moving to aggregate and utilize these data streams as they seek to provide the best services and resources possible for their users. These analytics offer the promise of improving educational and service quality by revealing patterns, trends, and behaviors that are not readily apparent through observation or self-perception. However, new analytics also challenge long-held principles with regard to privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, and other values. This issue-oriented briefing examines the role of libraries as producers and consumers of educational analytics, and proposes a framework of principles and best practices for the stewardship of these data throughout their lifecycle. After a short presentation of the proposed framework, the remainder of the session will be given to structured discussion to elicit feedback and critique and to discuss how institutions might fruitfully engage with local policy and practice development. Session participants will have the opportunity to contribute to an ongoing dialogue about user privacy, service quality, and ethical data collection, stewardship, and decision-making while considering the complexity of values expressed in the American Library Association Code of Ethics and other professional ethical frameworks. Through these discussions, this session aims to provide participants with tools to initiate discussions in their own organizations in order to develop policies and procedures related to data gathering and analysis that is informed by professional values as well as institutional priorities and requirements.

 

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Archives and Digital Humanities

Charlotte Nunes
Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Scholarship
Southwestern University

Mary W. Elings
Head of Digital Collections, The Bancroft Library
University of California at Berkeley

Jen Wolfe
Digital Scholarship Librarian, Digital Research & Publishing
University of Iowa

Tom Keegan
Head, Digital Research & Publishing
University of Iowa

Archives-Based Digital Humanities Projects: Transformative Potential at Institutions Large and Small (Nunes, Ellings)
This session will focus on efforts to create opportunities for students to learn about digital archives by building, analyzing, and enhancing access to them. Featuring speakers from two very different higher educational contexts (the University of California at Berkeley, a large state university, and Southwestern University, a small liberal arts college in Georgetown, Texas) the presentation will consider how small-scale, archives-oriented digital humanities projects at both institutions have transformative potential for higher education. Emerging scholarship such as Mia Ridge’s Crowd-Sourcing Our Cultural Heritage (2014) offers best practices as well as important insights into the challenges and rewards of projects that connect the public with ongoing archival digitization projects. Yet large-scale public crowd-sourcing projects are often resource intensive, even for a large research institution like Berkeley. There exists no systematic consideration of how smaller-scale, targeted projects can engage faculty and students in the work of archives using digital methods. How can digital archiving practices be substantively incorporated into pedagogies and curricula targeting university students? How might digital archiving processes, including digitization, transcription, and metadata creation, be incorporated in higher education curricula, so as to create meaningful learning opportunities for students? These questions will be addressed through discussion of archives-based digital humanities projects that rely on cross-campus interdisciplinary collaboration. For example, UC Berkeley’s recent #HackFSM hackathon brought together small teams of students to re-envision access to the Free Speech Movement Digital Archives. Southwestern’s Latina History Project involves student participants in digital archiving processes for a collection of photographs and oral histories provided by Latina social justice activists from across Central Texas. Drawing on case studies from multiple projects in process at their respective institutions, the speakers will demonstrate how targeted archives-based digital humanities projects can enhance research and pedagogy at both a large research institution and a small liberal arts college.

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Archives Alive!: Adding Scalability to Digital Humanities Scholarship, Undergraduate Engagement, and Librarian/Faculty Collaboration (Wolfe, Keegan)
This presentation will include the results of a collaboration between library staff and IDEAL (Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning) faculty that extends a manuscript transcription crowd-sourcing project, DIY History, into the undergraduate classroom. Archives Alive!, a month-long curriculum module for freshmen Rhetoric students, uses DIY History to teach research, writing, and presentation skills through a series of digitally-engaged tasks. Students not only work with primary source materials, but become part of the collaborative effort to build and enhance them. Piloted last year with two courses, the project has grown to nearly 20 classes totaling 400 students. Scalable, interdisciplinary, and open access, the assignment can be re-used and adapted for instructors at any institution interested in experimenting with digital humanities pedagogy grounded in library collections of primary sources.

http://hackfsm.lib.berkeley.edu/
http://research-it.berkeley.edu/publications/hackfsm-bootstrapping-library-hackathon-eight-short-weeks
Archives Alive!: http://ideal.uiowa.edu/projects/archives-alive
DIY History: http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/

 

The Benefits of Collaboration: Optimizing Content Coverage in Library Discovery Systems

Amira Aaron
Associate Dean, Scholarly Resources, Libraries
Northeastern University

Bruce Heterick
Vice President, JSTOR | PORTICO
ITHAKA

Christine Stohn
Product Manager
Ex Libris Group

 

The recommendations of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and the recently launched collaboration between ProQuest and Ex Libris highlight the challenges and opportunities arising from the dual roles that some stakeholders in the library domain play, in which they act as both information providers and technology vendors. In this session, we will discuss the benefits of collaboration for all stakeholders, despite the conflicts of interest that can stem from the duality of roles, and the impact of increased findability of content through discovery interfaces. The speakers represent various stakeholders in the scholarly publishing arena.

 

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A Decade In: Assessing the Impacts and Futures of Internet Identity

Ken Klingenstein
Identity and Trust Person
Internet2

The rise of Internet identity began in earnest ten years ago, as academic, government and corporate and social deployments started and began to influence each other. Government initiatives have come and gone and come anew. Research and education deployments worldwide have pushed the envelope but are now challenged to interfederate. Social providers evolve business models that leverage the user as product.

There are impressive successes now in many instances and key integrations have been achieved. The extent of usage has grown dramatically. At the same time, there are obvious stress points, where the conflict of economic motives compound issues of privacy, where the international differences in cultures and legal systems create a swamp of issues, and helping the institution and the user manage the complexity of privacy. This session will provide both an update and an assessment of Internet identity and discuss how the stress points may be addressed, or not.

 

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