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8. Tool Design as Digital Humanities Research (38:57)

Date:
February 1, 2023
Main contributors:
Kalani Craig
Summary:
Many researchers in a wide variety of disciplines outside of computer science are developing software tools as part of their research agenda. The current academic-publishing climate often then requ...

15. Relational Data and Managing Research in Medieval Archives (46:39)

Date:
March 2, 2022
Main contributors:
Lunt, Kayla
Summary:
This presentation will introduce attendees to the use of a relational database, built using AirTable, that can provide a platform for managing projects that require analysis of a large number of pr...

20. Using DataCORE, Indiana University’s New Data Repository (50:48)

Date:
October 20, 2021
Main contributors:
Fridmanski, Ethan; Halliday, Jim; Keese, Brian
Summary:
Datasets that underlie research findings are increasingly in demand. Funding agencies and publishers require that research data be discoverable, accessible, and preserved for future use. Beyond thi...

21. IU Libraries Audio-Video Preservation Services (53:24)

Date:
October 13, 2021
Main contributors:
Casey, Michael; Mobley, Robert; Figurelli, Daniel
Summary:
Audio-Video Preservation Services (AVPS) is a new department in the Library Technologies division of IU Libraries, offering services to IU units that hold archival audio and/or video recordings. It...

30. Introducing Digital Collections and DataCORE (51:27)

Date:
December 9, 2020
Main contributors:
Halliday, Jim; Homenda, Nick
Summary:
This fall, the IU Libraries is launching two exciting new services: IU DataCORE, for storage and access of IU research data, and Digital Collections, for managing and delivering digitized images, b...

31. Archives Online Update (35:08)

Date:
December 2, 2020
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
Join to hear an update on the new Archives Online service from Indiana University. With support from the Indiana University Office of the Bicentennial and in close collaboration with the Archives O...

33. AMPPD Project Update (55:34)

Date:
October 7, 2020
Main contributors:
Dunn, Jon; Hardesty, Juliet L.; Whitaker, Maria
Summary:
Academic libraries and archives are dealing with increasing numbers of digital audio and video (AV) files, acquired through both digitization of analog collections and acquisition of born-digital A...

36. The Open Access Policy in Action: Automating Author’s Rights (49:11)

Date:
April 22, 2020
Main contributors:
Hoops, Jenny; McLaughlin, Margaret
Summary:
This February was the third year anniversary of the Open Access Policy, authored to ensure the accessibility and availability of university scholarship to the public for future generations. When th...

37. The Digitization of the IU Bicentennial Student Newspapers (43:18)

Date:
March 4, 2020
Main contributors:
Dalmau, Michelle; Watkins, Jennifer
Summary:
Students are at the heart of a university campus. How students respond to local, national, and international events provides insight into student life and their socio-historical contexts that defin...

38. SecureMyResearch: Security for Research Productivity (39:47)

Date:
February 19, 2020
Main contributors:
Shankar, Anurag; Welch, Von
Summary:
Securing research data, especially meeting new and stricter regulatory and other cybersecurity requirements, is becoming a challenge for both researchers and campus units at IU that support researc...

40. Making History in the Midwest: A Tale of Two History Harvests (43:58)

Date:
January 29, 2020
Main contributors:
Craig, Kalani; Moyd, Michelle
Summary:
This brown bag documents the early stages of a community-engagement project with digital foundations. Our “History Harvest” is an ongoing invitation to community members to help shape an archive ab...

42. Taking the Bicentennial Oral History Project Online (50:25)

Date:
November 6, 2019
Main contributors:
Cameron, Jon
Summary:
One of the signature projects for Indiana University’s Bicentennial, the Bicentennial Oral History Project has produced a rich and extensive collection of oral history recordings with faculty, staf...

44. Digital Herbaria in the 21st Century (56:56)

Date:
October 9, 2019
Main contributors:
Dunn, Jon; Halliday, Jim; Knox, Eric
Summary:
Cyberinfrastructure finally caught up with the vision for biodiversity ‘big data’ online. Species are populations, and our knowledge of species is documented by preserved specimens. The IU Herbariu...

46. An Introduction to the Born Digital Preservation Lab (50:45)

Date:
September 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Shallcross, Mike
Summary:
“Born digital” content refers to files that were originally created in a digital format, as opposed to “digitized” materials that have been converted from original analog and physical items. As the...

47. Queer as Data: Linked Data and Minoritized Digital Archives (37:50)

Date:
September 4, 2019
Main contributors:
Watson, Brian M.
Summary:
This presentation is the first step in an answer to Emily Drabinski’s 2013 challenge to library and information science (LIS) professionals to think about ways in which to ‘queer the library catalo...

48. Critical Thinking Online Toolkit (42:14)

Date:
April 3, 2019
Main contributors:
Meiman, Meg
Summary:
For some undergraduate students, it can be increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction in an online environment. On top of this, students can be so overwhelmed by the massive amount of...

49. Bias and Inclusivity in Metadata: Awareness and Approaches (59:05)

Date:
March 20, 2019
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
This presentation is a step toward understanding the problem of bias in metadata and how that impacts inclusivity in the research process. Original description provided for digital collection disco...

52. Redesigning the Dissertation for the Web: a Case Study (54:25)

Date:
February 13, 2019
Main contributors:
Borgo Ton, Mary
Summary:
Alternative forms of dissertations and theses are hot topics in higher education, but what is it really like to write one? Join Mary Borgo Ton, a Ph.D. candidate in British Literature, for a behind...

54. Collections as Data at Indiana University and Beyond (54:04)

Date:
January 16, 2019
Main contributors:
Dalmau, Michelle
Summary:
In response to federally-funded “Always Already Computational: Collections as Data” movement (https://collectionsasdata.github.io), the Indiana University Libraries are both exploring ways to provi...

60. Omeka Plugin for Kaltura Video (40:08)

Date:
September 5, 2018
Main contributors:
Cowan, William
Summary:
As webserve has done away with Digital Media and encourages folks to put video on Kaltura, I have developed a plugin that allows you to playback Kaltura video in Omeka. This plugin, which will also...

61. MDPI Film Processing: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (58:57)

Date:
April 18, 2018
Main contributors:
Wheeler, Brian
Summary:
The MDPI project posed a tremendous technical challenge: digitize and process around 280,000 audio and video assets by the University’s bicentennial. The first objects began processing in June 201...

65. Reciprocal Impacts: MDPI, MCO, and MARC (37:34)

Date:
February 7, 2018
Main contributors:
Hahn, Michelle
Summary:
"Metadata is a love note to the future" mused Jason Scott, archivist for the Internet Archive. Librarians and archivists cultivate metadata standards and practices to shape the future of resource d...

66. Integrating digital audio and print in Orson Welles on the Air (54:11)

Date:
January 24, 2018
Main contributors:
Cowan, William; Dowell, Erika; Cameron, Jon
Summary:
Indiana University's Lilly Library acquired a large collection of the papers of Orson Welles in the late 1970s, and with it nearly six hundred recordings of his iconic series First Person Singular,...

67. Beyond Images: Avalon and IIIF-AV (53:37)

Date:
November 29, 2017
Main contributors:
Colvard, Chris
Summary:
An exciting development for audio and video repositories is the emerging IIIF standard for time-based media. Join us to understand what IIIF is and why the Avalon project is collaborating with the ...

68. Open Access Publishing Innovations (1:00:52)

Date:
November 15, 2017
Main contributors:
Hare, Sarah; Higgins, Richard; Wittenberg, Jamie
Summary:
The landscape of open access publishing continues moving beyond scholarly journals. The IU Office of Scholarly Publishing (OSP)—a collaboration between the Scholarly Communication department at IU ...

72. Archiving IU Social Media with Archive-It (44:48)

Date:
September 6, 2017
Main contributors:
Wittenberg, Molly; Davis, Tyler
Summary:
The Indiana University Archives has been capturing the web content created by IU Bloomington offices for over a decade. We began by running trial crawls in late 2005, and in 2006 fully committed to...

73. Data Integrity Challenges and Workflow-Based Solutions (39:35)

Date:
August 30, 2017
Main contributors:
Welch, Von; Heiland, Randy
Summary:
Our information technology (IT) infrastructure is not perfect and data can be corrupted by means both malicious and random. This talk covers some of the issues with IT infrastructure that lets data...

76. Makers' Mark: A Survey of Makerspace Initiatives at IU (52:13)

Date:
April 19, 2017
Main contributors:
Nay, Leanne
Summary:
In recent years, the "maker movement" has gained serious traction in higher education. Makerspaces, fab labs, and hackerspaces are popping up in universities and libraries around the world, includi...

77. Metadata re-write: Moving Avalon metadata from XML to RDF (43:55)

Date:
April 12, 2017
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
The Avalon Media System is an open source system for managing and providing access to large collections of digital audio and video. The project is led by the libraries of Indiana University Bloomin...

78. Saying goodbye to Variations (55:22)

Date:
March 29, 2017
Main contributors:
Ponella, Philip; Whitaker, Maria
Summary:
Until recently, the Variations Digital Music Library provided online access to approximately 30,000 selected recordings and scores from the Indiana University Cook Music Library. First implemented ...

79. Encoding Song in the Troubadour Melodies Database (57:53)

Date:
March 22, 2017
Main contributors:
Chapman, Katie
Summary:
The Troubadour Melodies Database is a Drupal-platform site that includes basic information about and transcriptions of the extant troubadour melodies as they are found in the 13th-14th century manu...

81. Indiana Limestone Photograph Collection: Building a Nation (40:56)

Date:
February 8, 2017
Main contributors:
Dalmau, Michelle; Weber, Licia
Summary:
A previously unknown collection of over 25,000 black and white architectural photographs were discovered in a dilapidated house owned by the Indiana Limestone Company in Bedford, Indiana. These ima...

83. Up and Running with the HathiTrust Research Center (41:45)

Date:
November 30, 2016
Main contributors:
Cline, Nicholae; Nay, Leanne
Summary:
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) provides research support for the growing corpus of over fourteen million volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) through a suite of tools for text an...

84. Avalon's Role in the Digital Collections Ecosystem (43:33)

Date:
November 2, 2016
Main contributors:
Cameron, Jon
Summary:
As the need to manage and provide access to collections of digital content grows, the ecosystem of software solutions designed to meet these needs has greatly expanded. Into this pool of software c...

87. An Inside Look At Managing MDPI Digitization (58:31)

Date:
September 21, 2016
Main contributors:
Casey, Michael; Dapuzzo, Andrew
Summary:
Audiovisual archivists agree that media holdings must be transferred to the digital domain as soon as possible in order to survive. Because this work requires significant resources, it must be cond...

93. Decoding Digital Preservation (46:25)

Date:
January 27, 2016
Main contributors:
Dowding, Heidi
Summary:
Digital preservation is one of those phrases that means a lot to a few people and a little to a lot of people. It is often confused with digitization (preservation by digital), digital curation (of...

96. Using R for Text Analysis (59:41)

Date:
December 2, 2015
Main contributors:
Gniady, Tassie
Summary:
R is a statistical package used by many digital textual analysts to explore aspects of styelometry. Here at IU, we have an instance of the popular Rstudio running on Karst to facilitate work on lar...

99. "Contentless" Digital Collections (59:07)

Date:
October 14, 2015
Main contributors:
Cowan, William; Floyd, Randall; Pierce, Daniel
Summary:
Generally, when we think of a digital collection or repository, we think of digital images, ebooks, audio and video files. But some important digital collections, such a bibliographies, don't have ...