Date: 2014 / Collection: Wednesday Noon Digital Scholarship Series - Media Collections Online Search Results

Start Over Date 2014 Collection Wednesday Noon Digital Scholarship Series

1. An Introduction to Using Neatline for Digital Mapping Projects (56:50)

Date:: March 12, 2014
Main contributors:: Marshall, Brianna
Summary:: Neatline, a tool for the open-source Omeka framework that allows users to create digital exhibits with maps and timelines, was created to fit the needs of scholars, librarians, historians, and digi...

2. Archiving a social-ecological database: challenges, solutions and lessons learned (52:59)

Date:: February 12, 2014
Main contributors:: Plale, Beth; Kouper, Inna
Summary:: Social-ecological research studies complex human-natural environments and the uses and sharing of ecological resources. Elinor Ostrom, a Nobel prize laureate from IU, pioneered the idea that social...

3. Creating an Archival Online Film Exhibit with Omeka: "WWII Propaganda Films and IU" (57:48)

Date:: November 5, 2014
Main contributors:: Stoeltje, Rachael; Uhrich, Andy; Harman, Asia
Summary:: This brown bag session will present the Libraries' most recent online Omeka exhibition of World War II propaganda films which went live on June 6th, the 70th anniversary of D-Day. The IULMIA (India...

4. Globalization of the US: From Digital Research Project to Digital Library Services (49:09)

Date:: December 10, 2014
Main contributors:: Dalmau, Michelle; Dowell, Erika
Summary:: As part of an exhibition at the Lilly Library entitled The Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861 scheduled to open September 15, historian Konstantin Dierks and librarians Erika Dowell and ...

5. HathiTrust Research Center Data Capsule v1.0: An Overview of Functionality (42:14)

Date:: September 10, 2014
Main contributors:: Plale, Beth; Zeng, Jiaan; McDonald, Robert
Summary:: The first mode of access by the community of digital humanities and informatics researchers and educators to the copyrighted content of the HathiTrust digital repository will be to extracted statis...

6. HathiTrust Research Center: Challenges and Opportunities in Big Text Data (52:39)

Date:: March 5, 2014
Main contributors:: Chen, Miao; Plale, Beth
Summary:: HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is the public research arm of the HathiTrust digital library where millions of volumes, such as books, journals, and government documents, are digitized and preser...

7. IU's participation in the Hydra Project: Many Heads, one Repository Solution Framework (58:54)

Date:: February 19, 2014
Main contributors:: Dunn, Jon; Cowan, William; Notess, Mark
Summary:: The Hydra Project is a large collaboration among many institutions sharing needs for open software digital repository solutions. Indiana University is a Hydra Partner, and as such, is both developi...

8. Let it go: Exposing digital collections for accessible and useful data (50:25)

Date:: October 15, 2014
Main contributors:: Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:: How do you usefully combine digital repository, library catalog, and library web site data so researchers can discover and make use of the data in support of their research? This session discusses ...

9. Putting on Something More Revealing: Exposing Our Fedora Data (41:37)

Date:: April 2, 2014
Main contributors:: Hardesty, Julie; Shelby, Jacob
Summary:: IU's Fedora digital repository houses thousands of digitized items including pages of text, photographs, puzzles, three-dimensional artifacts, prints, audio, and moving pictures. These items are ma...

10. The Failure of Altmetrics (58:56)

Date:: November 12, 2014
Main contributors:: Sugimoto, Cassidy
Summary:: In this talk, Cassidy Sugimoto argues that altmetrics have failed to deliver on their promise. She discusses criticisms of altmetrics (including those dealing with validity and reliability issues),...