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Do you know what the term ‰ÛÃAccessibility‰Û means? Do you want to learn how people with disabilities access digital content? Come learn about some of the most common hurdles and barriers that people with disabilities face when accessing digital content. The Assistive Technology and Accessibility Centers (ATAC) Staff will discuss accessibility best practices, standards, and give a short live demonstration of assistive technology. No prior experience with accessibility is necessary and we welcome all questions about accessibility, disabilities, and assistive technology.
I have been the principal investigator for an ongoing digital history project entitled ‰ÛÃGlobalization of the United States, 1789-1861.‰Û As a trained historian I have had a steep learning curve in turning my historical vision into digital reality. This learning curve has involved many more steps and levels than I ever imagined. Indeed, now that the foundational website for this project is nearing stability, the maintenance phase is immediately presenting new technical challenges.
This presentation is meant to walk through this learning curve from the perspective of a faculty scholar initiating and then overseeing a long-term digital history project. I shall start, necessarily, with the historical vision, digital ignorance, and management naivete I initially brought to the project. I shall then scrutinize each subsequent phase of the project: what had to be learned, what help was needed, what resources had to be marshaled, et cetera. We might ask ‰ÛÃhow was everything actually done each step of the way?‰Û but the important unavoidable fact is that I can only answer this question from a limited perspective.
I thus can represent one portion of a digital history project: the faculty scholar with heavy research and teaching responsibilities who contributes their mite to a collaboration where all participants have heavy responsibilities of their own. For my part, I had to learn how to translate historical research into a digital format; I had to learn arcane technical vocabularies; and I had to learn how to manage a network of necessarily part-time work.
Congressman Blumenauer describes how the Go 19 movement grew from a groundswell of public opinion in Washington State, discusses in-state activism and the political climate of the time.
Lecture delivered by Ellen Einterz, MD, MPH (Director of Kolfata District Hospital in Cameroon and Medical Coordinator of the Ebola Treatment Unit in Buchanan, Liberia) on October 12, 2015. This talk covers the disease in a non-technical way by providing a short history of Ebola, the various reasons why the epidemic got out of control, how it went away, why the United States got involved, and the setup of the U.S. Ebola Treatment Center in Liberia. Based on her personal experience, Dr. Einterz also comments on the hidden cost of the epidemic, what we did right and what we got wrong, and how we might do better next time.
‰ÛÜLibrary publishers often straddle the line between journal publisher and journal host, which presents challenges for ensuring that journals meet certain standards for quality and transparency. At Indiana University, we conducted a self-evaluation to determine whether our library-published open access journals were following best practices for scholarly journals. This presentation will discuss the methods and criteria used, and how we developed new tools and approaches to educating journal editors based on our findings.
Humbert, Joe, Colvard, Chris, Lee, Leah, Keese, Brian
Summary:
When the Libraries User Experience and Digital Media Services Group reached out to the Assistive Technology and Accessibility Centers (ATAC) for an accessibility evaluation, they did not realize this first consultation would morph into a long term collaboration. Come learn about the ATAC's accessibility consultation services, the libraries digital media development, and how our two groups collaborated to improve the user experience for people with disabilities who use the libraries digital services. The digital media developers will discuss their experience with and the process of implementing accessibility into an open source and widely adopted media content platform.
Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P1A: Linked Open Data (LOD). Note that high quality video files for this talk were not obtainable, so some video quality problems may be noticed.
Folk songs have been at the heart of the study of folklore since its beginnings, and the scholarship on song is one of the finest achievements of the field. But in recent years interest in songs, especially songs in English, has waned among scholars in both folklore and ethnomusicology. Despite some continuing important and innovative work, and public fascination with the subject, song no longer seems central to folklore studies. I will argue that song is a cultural universal, indeed a cultural imperative, and exists as a system similar to kinship systems, language, and economic relations. This will be a plea to resume interest in songs, and will suggest some means by which folklore studies might again assume responsibility for understanding the role of song in human history. (Sponsored by the AFS Fellows.)
