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Adding a Library Profile to Caliper: Bringing the Library into the Campus Learning Analytics Conversation

Ken Varnum
Senior Program Manager
University of Michigan

Megan Oakleaf
Associate Professor
Syracuse University

Shane Nackerud
Interim Co-Director, Content Services
University of Minnesota

Campus learning analytics programs live on data provided by systems that often generate Caliper-compliant events and store them in campus data repositories. Libraries have heretofore been challenged to participate in these campus programs because library data did not fit neatly into the Caliper specification. The IMLS-funded Connecting Libraries and Learning Analytics for Student Success (CLLASS) grant enabled the development of three Caliper event profiles for typical student-library interactions. In this presentation, attendees will learn about the Caliper specification, the three library event types added to the profile, and how libraries can begin contributing their data to campus or consortial data analytics data repositories.

https://library.educause.edu/resources/2020/12/connecting-libraries-and-learning-analytics-for-student-success
https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-97-18-0209

*Aligning Past and Present: The Migration of the Voices of the Holocaust Project

Adam Strohm
Director, University Archives and Special Collections
Illinois Institute of Technology

The Voices of the Holocaust project provides a portal for the exploration of digitized, restored, transcribed, and translated interviews with Holocaust survivors conducted by Dr. David P. Boder in 1946. The site, last updated in 2009, relied on Adobe Flash technology for interview playback, and was in need of an update to meet contemporary user needs, and, eventually, with the retirement of Flash, to function at all. This project briefing will detail the migration of the Voices of the Holocaust site from a php framework utilizing interlinked xml files to a combination of Islandora/Drupal with interviews hosted on the Aviary platform. The briefing will include rationale for the technology chosen for the site, as well as discussion of efforts to modernize the site’s data, including data reconciliation with authority files via Open Refine, and the implementation of linked open data. I will also discuss the challenges faced when migrating an existing site’s content and commentary with a focus on modernization and interoperability while respecting and maintaining the scholarly efforts of the site’s original builders, writers, and advisors.

voices.iit.edu
https://iit.aviaryplatform.com/collections/231 (the interviews in the Aviary platform)

*All Aboard: Bringing the Community Forward to Fedora 6.0

David Wilcox
Program Leader
LYRASIS

Arran Griffith
Program Coordinator
LYRASIS

Fedora 6.0, the next major version of Fedora, is rapidly approaching full production release. The design and development of Fedora 6.0 has been guided by three principles: improve the digital preservation feature set, support migrations from all previous versions of the software, and improve performance and scale. Much of this work is also supported by an IMLS grant-funded project to pilot upgrades to Fedora 6.0 and create a toolkit for others in the community to use in their efforts to adopt and migrate to the latest version of the software. This presentation will provide an overview of Fedora 6.0 and discuss how the Fedora team is coordinating efforts between core software development and testing, migration pilots, and a robust communications strategy to bring the community forward to Fedora 6.0.

https://fedorarepository.org

*Bibliometric and Research Impact Services at the University of Waterloo

Laura Bredahl
Bibliometrics and Research Impact Librarian
University of Waterloo

Alison Hitchens
Associate University Librarian, Collections, Technology and Scholarly Communication
University of Waterloo

University libraries are partnering with campus administrators, departments, and groups on providing bibliometric and research impact services and metrics. Research impact data is being used as an assessment tool for measuring faculty and research group productivity; in promotion and tenure processes; in grant and funding applications; and in program and institution reviews and rankings. Libraries have the tools and expertise to assist in the gathering, organization, and visualization of research impact indicators and measures. The introduction of various bibliometric and database tools and APIs has provided libraries with the ability to responsibly extract a variety of research impact measures including publication, citation, co-authorship, H-Index, journal impact metrics, awards, and grant and patent activity. The University of Waterloo has growing expertise in the research impact assessment enabled by their campus-wide community of practice. Through this community of practice, professionals are sharing not only their approaches to working with data, but also tackling questions about which data sets they are using, what data might best support their common needs, what specific data and assessment techniques they use to explore discipline-specific impact, and how to access and manipulate data sets. This presentation will share some of the approaches these professionals are using, including the systems they are using for visualizing these metrics.

See also: Bibliometric and Research Impact Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

*Bibliometric and Research Impact Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

William Mischo
Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center; Berthold Family Professor in Information Access and Discovery
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Elisandro Cabada
Interim Head, Mathematics Library; Medical and Bioengineering Librarian; Assistant Professor, University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University libraries are partnering with campus administrators, departments, and groups on providing bibliometric and research impact services and metrics. Research impact data is being used as an assessment tool for measuring faculty and research group productivity; in promotion and tenure processes; in grant and funding applications; and in program and institution reviews and rankings. Libraries have the tools and expertise to assist in the gathering, organization, and visualization of research impact indicators and measures. The introduction of various bibliometric and database tools and APIs has provided libraries with the ability to responsibly extract a variety of research impact measures including publication, citation, co-authorship, H-Index, journal impact metrics, awards, and grant and patent activity. The University of Illinois Library has developed a system for generating dynamic and interactive visualizations and dashboards for displaying research impact data at the individual faculty, department, and research group level. This presentation will describe the elements of the Illinois research visualization system and look at the relationships between the various available research indicators, including providing correlation analyses.

See also: Bibliometric and Research Impact Services at the University of Waterloo

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