7. Indexing repositories: pitfalls and best practices (1:06:15)

Date:
2015-06-10
Main contributors:
Acharya, Anurag
Summary:
Featured talk by Anurag Acharya, Distinguished Engineer, Google, at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana.

8. NSSE webinar for Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) member institutions (1:01:00)

Date:
2015-02-14
Main contributors:
Jillian Kinzie
Summary:
This webinar highlights how CIC member institutions can make the most of their updated NSSE results; considers ways to use campus results to accentuate institutional distinctiveness, explore retention, and feature accreditation self-studies; and explores member questions about NSSE reports and online tools for additional report creation.

9. Connecting Campus Units to NSSE Results (59:43)

Date:
2015-10-14
Main contributors:
Jillian Kinzie, James Cole
Summary:
Connecting more people to the data they need encourages greater action on results. Join NSSE staff, Jillian and Jim, in this interactive webinar to discuss strategies for connecting NSSE data and results to various units on campus. This webinar will introduce NSSE's new Campuswide Mapping resource and highlight practical approaches to engaging various campus audiences with existing and customized topical reports. We will share examples and exchange ideas for new ways to share NSSE results more widely on your campus. NSSE webinars are interactive, providing participants the opportunity to ask questions and offer suggestions via a text chat. We suggest a group viewing as a convenient way to participate with your colleagues and to facilitate cross-campus conversations about using NSSE results.

10. FSSE Overview: Basics, Administration, Reporting, and Resources (28:46)

Date:
2015-08-07
Main contributors:
Allison Brckalorenz, Bridget Yuhas
Summary:
This webinar provides past, current, and future Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) participating institutions information about the FSSE project, administration processes, data files and reporting, and online FSSE resources. Webinar participants will learn about what to expect from a FSSE administration and how FSSE can be used to add context to a NSSE administration.

11. Last minute prep for your NSSE 2015 administration (15:21)

Date:
2015-02-21
Main contributors:
Jennifer Brooks
Summary:
This succinct, 15-minute session details strategies for promoting NSSE and provides tips on encouraging faculty, administrators, and students to get involved in raising awareness of NSSE on campus. Specific promotions from past NSSE participants are highlighted, and useful resources from NSSE's website are shared.

12. Moving Beyond Statistical Significance: Using Effect Sizes in NSSE (48:11)

Date:
2015-06-23
Main contributors:
Louis Rocconi, Robert M. Gonyea
Summary:
What constitutes a meaningful difference in your NSSE results? With large samples it is common for very small differences to be statistically significant. That's why effect sizes, which provide a measure of "practical" significance, are so important. Based on a recent analysis of statistical comparisons of Engagement Indicators and High-Impact Practices, we have derived new recommendations for interpreting small, medium, and large effect sizes. In this webinar, we will explain our recommendations and invite participants to consider their use with their NSSE results.

13. New Senior Transitions Topical Module (28:18)

Date:
2015-10-29
Main contributors:
Angie L. Miller, Amber Dumford
Summary:
Do you have data from the new Senior Transitions Topical Module? Interested in administering these items in the future? NSSE Analysts Angie Miller and Amber Dumford offer some insights on this popular 2015 module during this pre-recorded webinar. They provide a background on the rationale and development of the module, an in-depth look at the content, and highlight some intriguing findings from the aggregate data. Several suggestions for looking at data on your own campus are included as well, to help you get the most from customizing your NSSE participation with this valuable Topical Module.

14. Using BCSSE and NSSE to Help Retention Efforts (55:34)

Date:
2015-04-30
Main contributors:
James Cole
Summary:
Retaining students is a key initiative for institutions. This webinar will highlight how to incorporate BCSSE and NSSE data to help inform your institution's retention efforts. In this webinar we will discuss research findings relating engagement and retention as well as explore ways in which NSSE and BCSSE data can be used to supplement retention efforts on your campus. We will also highlight examples of how other institutions have used their NSSE and BCSSE data in their retention plans. Finally, we will encourage participants to think of their own retention efforts and how they might use their NSSE or BCSSE to help improve their efforts. Attendees should make sure they have copies of both the BCSSE and NSSE surveys as this session will identify specific items from each. Copies of the surveys can be found at nsse.iub.edu. We ask that you submit any specific questions you have or barriers you have encountered when using BCSSE and/or NSSE data to help with retention efforts. Please list questions &/or topics that you would like to see addressed in the Webinar in the box below. Additional questions can be raised via the chat feature during the Webinar.

15. Your NSSE Institutional Report 2015: Step-by-Step (59:37)

Date:
2015-08-25
Main contributors:
Robert M. Gonyea, Jillian Kinzie
Summary:
A step-by-step walkthrough of your NSSE Institutional Report 2015. We will review the redesigned reports and provide general strategies for utilizing and disseminating your results. NSSE webinars are live and interactive, providing participants the opportunity to ask questions via a text chat.

16. Horizontal vs vertical organizations of repositories (27:54)

Date:
2015-06-09
Main contributors:
Paglione, Laura
Summary:
Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P2A: Integrating with External Systems: the use case of ORCID.

18. The Hydra common data model (27:28)

Date:
2015-06-10
Main contributors:
Cowles, Esme, Sanderson, Robert, Stroop, Jon
Summary:
Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P4A: Managing Research (and Open) Data.

21. Revisiting self-deposit of scientific data (24x7) (10:35)

Date:
2015-06-10
Main contributors:
Hardy, Darren
Summary:
24x7 short presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P4A: Managing Research (and Open) Data.

22. Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker (07:50)

Date:
2015-08-18
Summary:
Folklorist Jon Kay made this short documentary for the exhibition, "Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker." The exhibit explored the work of Viki Graber a willow basketmaker from Goshen, Indiana. Viki learned willow basket weaving at the age of twelve from her father, who was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a 2009 National Heritage Fellow. Where once her family plied their talents to make utilitarian workbaskets, Viki makes baskets for collectors and to sell at art shows and galleries. While using the same tools and methods as her great-grandfather, Viki's keen sense of color and innovative designs have elevated her family's craft to a new aesthetic level. Sponsored by the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences as part of their Fall 2015 Themester @Work: The Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet, the exhibition and the video were on display at the museum from August 18 through December 20, 2015.

23. Mise-en-scène ... (05:59)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
The genesis of Mise-en-scène is the Stravinsky/Cocteau treatment of Oedipus Rex, first performed in 1927. I have been familiar with this composition from many encounters, including performances as a member of the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and later studying it along with Stravinsky's Persephone in David Diamond’s class in twentieth-century music at Juilliard. I was struck by Stravinsky’s intended mise-en-scène in which the soloists stand immobile in a niched frieze, a two-dimensional proscenium. I also loved his choice of Latin as a means of arresting the Oedipus story in stone –– a text as much ritual and object as narrative –– and his intentional use of so many stylistic references –– a Dada collage. In Mise-en-scène my personae ––Creon, Iocasta and Oedipus –– are set immobile in a triptych, a flat, painterly proscenium. I’ve written Latin texts as one might write lines for a libretto, but I do not intend that these texts be read as narrative. Instead, I’ve treated the texts as visual objects like the partial Latin inscriptions one sees on temple ruins. In Oracula, the text flows by so rapidly that it is all but unreadable. In Timeo and Ecce, the text is glimpsed in fragments –– one can discover shards of the Oedipus narrative, and if one knows the story, one can close the rest of the drama. The panels--three sketches--serve the same function. –Michael Lasater

25. Alcina (2:17:44)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
Summary:

26. Presidential Address: After the Revolution: Folklore, History, and the Future of Our Discipline (45:37)

Date:
2015-10-17
Main contributors:
Williams, Michael Ann, Turner, Kay
Summary:
More than four decades have passed since the advent of the new folkloristics. Assessments of this revolution tend to narrowly focus on performance theory and not on whether the broader promises of this era have been realized, especially in areas of cross-disciplinary research. This address will look specifically at how attitudes toward historical scholarship have changed within the discipline of folklore and how we have constructed our own disciplinary histories during this postrevolutionary phase. Finally, the address will look to the future and whether we are reconstructing our past in our current graduate training in the discipline.

28. Welcome to Open Repositories 2015: OR2015 opening session (33:52)

Date:
2015-06-09
Main contributors:
Dunn, Jon W., Minton Morris, Carol, Walters, Carolyn, Nixon, William, Field, Adam, Knowles, Claire
Summary:
Opening session at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana. Includes remarks by Jon Dunn (Organizing Committee Chair), Carol Minton Morris (Steering Committee Co-Chair), Carolyn Walters (Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries, Indiana University), William Nixon (Program Committee Co-Chair), Adam Field (Developer Challenge Co-Chair) and Claire Knowles (Developer Challenge Co-Chair).

29. Lecture - Mimi Zweig (October 09, 2015) (2:07:13)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Mimi Zweig
Summary:
Mimi Zweig, Professor of Music (Violin, Viola) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, delivers a lecture to students of the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.

31. Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior (1:34:51)

Date:
2015-10-16
Main contributors:
Blei, David
Summary:
Probabilistic topic models provide a suite of tools for analyzing large document collections. Topic modeling algorithms discover the latent themes that underlie the documents and identify how each document exhibits those themes. Topic modeling can be used to help explore, summarize, and form predictions about documents. Topic modeling ideas have been adapted to many domains, including images, music, networks, genomics, and neuroscience. Traditional topic modeling algorithms analyze a document collection and estimate its latent thematic structure. However, many collections contain an additional type of data: how people use the documents. For example, readers click on articles in a newspaper website, scientists place articles in their personal libraries, and lawmakers vote on a collection of bills. Behavior data is essential both for making predictions about users (such as for a recommendation system) and for understanding how a collection and its users are organized. In this talk, I will review the basics of topic modeling and describe our recent research on collaborative topic models, models that simultaneously analyze a collection of texts and its corresponding user behavior. We studied collaborative topic models on 80,000 scientists' libraries from Mendeley and 100,000 users' click data from the arXiv. Collaborative topic models enable interpretable recommendation systems, capturing scientists' preferences and pointing them to articles of interest. Further, these models can organize the articles according to the discovered patterns of readership. For example, we can identify articles that are important within a field and articles that transcend disciplinary boundaries. More broadly, topic modeling is a case study in the large field of applied probabilistic modeling. Finally, I will survey some recent advances in this field. I will show how modern probabilistic modeling gives data scientists a rich language for expressing statistical assumptions and scalable algorithms for uncovering hidden patterns in massive data.

32. 2015 Indiana State Fair Master: Mauri Williamson (09:29)

Date:
2015-08-22
Main contributors:
Mauri Williamson (Master), Jon Kay (Director), Shaun Williams (Production and Editing), Geoff Guernsey and Olivia Smiley (Music), Andrew Wei (Recorder of Music), Jessy Yancey and Mark Evans (Additional Footage),Traditional Arts Indiana
Summary:
Thanks to Mauri Williamson, the Pioneer Village has become one of the most popular and beloved activities of the Indiana State Fair. The Village celebrates Indiana’s agricultural heritage through displaying antique tractors and farm implements, as well as by hosting old-time craft and farm-life demonstrations. The roots of the Village date to 1961 when Mauri, then the Purdue Agricultural Alumni Association secretary, brought a collection of farming artifacts from the university to create an educational display at the Indiana State Fair. In 1968, the Village began to grow when the Fair built a barn dedicated to housing its unique collection. From fiddling and quilting to threshing and storytelling, today the Pioneer Village features dozens of musicians, artisans, and demonstrators who share their talents with fairgoers. More than just the founder of the Pioneer Village, for over 54 years Mauri Williamson has worked to make the Village a memorable experience for countless Hoosiers. The Indiana State Fair Master Award was established to recognize long-time fair participants, who share their knowledge and talents at the Fair. Indiana University's Traditional Arts Indiana and Indiana State Fair are Honored to name Mauri Williamson the 2015 Indiana State Fair Master.

33. 2015 Hymn Camp (1:05:40)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Jessica Raposo, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Caryle Bailey
Summary:
2015 Victorian Song-Camp Singers (all children’s voices used with parental permission): Heather Metzger, age 8 Grace Stewart, age 9 Mary Jetmore, age 9 Kristen Urich, age 10 Eden Judd, age 10 Malory Bolser, age 10 Ben Schweitzer, age 10 Graham Milligan, age 11 Madeline Stults, age 12 Luke Schweitzer, age 12 Heidi Metzger, age 13 Grace Blakely, age 13 Natalie Milligan, age 13 Annetta Itnyre, age 13 Natalie Pegg, age 13 Alexa Turner, age 15 Solo: Annetta Itnyre, ages 8-11 Duets “Jesus bids of shine” & “Gentle Jesus, meek & mild”: Madelyn Brunton & Annetta Itnyre, age 8 Rest of Duets: Lydia Shively and Annetta Itnyre, ages 14 & 13 Unison & Parts: Children’s Hymn Choir, June 2015, *Jessica Raposo, director; Caryle Bailey, pianist

34. Mark and Al Hublar - Reaching My Dream Job (05:31)

Date:
2015-06-17
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"When Mark left high school there was no plan," recalls his father. Mark Hublar went to work at a sheltered workshop. Today he is a motivational speaker who is asked to address audiences around the U.S. In these video interview excerpts, Mark and his father Al Hublar have a conversation about Mark's employment history and his path towards his dream job. Mark graduated New Albany High School in 1983. After working for Rauch Industries, he was hired by a family business, McDonald's, and Walmart, with a stint as a family caregiver in between. At the age of 49, Mark returned to school, attending Jefferson Community & Technical College so that he could study public speaking. Mark and his father were interviewed in New Albany, Indiana on May 8, 2017.

37. Del Brinkman, MA'63, PhD'71 (02:09)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Brinkman, Del
Summary:
Del Brinkman has had a distinguished career in journalism and university teaching and administration. He began his career in 1954 on the staff of The Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gazette and retired in 2002 as dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also helped shape journalism education through work with an accrediting organization and with a national journalism foundation. Brinkman was born in Olpe, Kansas, and earned his bachelor’s degree in English and social science from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. After writing for the Emporia paper, Brinkman taught at Leavenworth (Kansas) High School and was on the journalism faculty at Kansas State University in Manhattan. He taught journalism at Indiana University and was a tenured faculty member at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Brinkman was on the faculty at University of Kansas for 23 years starting in 1970, served as dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism there for 11 years and was vice chancellor for academic affairs for seven years. He left KU in 1993 and served seven years as director of journalism programs for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida. In this role, Brinkman was responsible for managing an annual grant budget, screening grant requests, evaluating funded projects and developing new initiatives and projects. In 2001, Brinkman left this position and began his duties as the dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Throughout his career, he also was active in journalism education curriculum development and national accreditation policy-making. He was president of the accreditation committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. He served as president of the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award club in 1986. Brinkman was honored several times for his work. In 2003, he received the Dean’s Award from University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications. In 2012, Brinkman was inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame. Brinkman earned his master’s degree in journalism and political science from IU in 1963 and returned to Bloomington in 1971 for his doctorate in mass communications and political science. During his time at IU, he was a counselor for the High School Journalism Institute and has said in interviews that he enjoyed taking theater courses. He was awarded the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1971. Brinkman lives in Bloomington with his wife, Carolyn, and remains involved in IU Journalism activities. He is a member of Rotary International, the Ernie Pyle Society, Bloomington Press Club, IU Journalism Alumni Board and the IU Student Publications Board.

38. Joseph Angotti, BS'61, MA'65 (02:24)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Angotti, Joseph
Summary:
Joseph Angotti’s career took him from student news director of Indiana University’s WFIU newscast to senior vice president for news at NBC and the chairmanship of the broadcast program at Northwestern University. Born a bakery manager’s son in Gary, Indiana, Angotti received his undergraduate degree in education from IU in 1961. He had taken a few journalism courses as an undergraduate, and he cultivated his interest in journalism further by earning his master’s degree in telecommunications at IU. In 1962, Angotti landed his first job in television at WHAS-TV in Louisville. From that point on, his rise in the industry was rapid. In 1966, he moved to WMAQ-TV, Chicago’s NBC-owned affiliate, where he was both producer and on-air reporter for its Gary bureau. In 1968, he became an NBC network producer, covering the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where he was tear-gassed during the street protests. In 1972, Angotti was promoted to a producer slot in New York City with NBC Nightly News. He soon became executive producer of the weekend newscast with anchor Tom Brokaw. Angotti was awarded a national Emmy in 1975 for co-producing a series about world hunger and was chief political producer for the network’s election coverage in 1976. Working with John Chancellor, anchor of the weeknight NBC Nightly News, Angotti was the newscast’s executive producer from 1977 to 1980. Angotti later was named the senior vice president for news at NBC, overseeing coverage of presidential conventions and debates, space shuttle launches and landings, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In June 1989, Angotti was in Bloomington for IU professor Richard Yoakam’s retirement party, but had to rush off to return to New York to oversee NBC’s coverage of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. He was an early protégé of Yoakam, who had developed and launched IU’s broadcast journalism program. In 1992, Angotti left NBC and formed his own company, which produced coverage of events such as the 25th Anniversary Gala of the Metropolitan Opera. He also wrote, filmed and edited a series of programs in Eastern Europe, From Marx to Markets, which were filmed, edited and broadcast in Eastern Europe. Next, Angotti took his knowledge to the classroom. From 1993 to1998, he was the chair of communication studies for the University of Miami’s School of Communication and was founding director of its Center for Advancement of Modern Media. In 1999, Angotti was named chair of the broadcast program at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and taught there for the following six years. He also founded the Northwestern News Network, which produced weekly newscasts for Chicago area TV stations. He continues to teach journalism at Monmouth College in Illinois. In 2006, he was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.

39. Tom Olin - ADA Legacy Bus Tour (18:24)

Date:
2015-06-19
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“The shot that was heard around the world for people with disabilities,” is how one of Tom Olin’s photographic images has been described. As part of the ADA at 25 Legacy Tour, the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, Indiana hosted an exhibit of Tom Olin’s work. On June 19, 2015, Tom gave a public talk in association with the exhibition. He was also present as the driver of the touring ADA Legacy bus. It made Indiana stops in Bloomington, Monticello, and Indianapolis during a national tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Tom has become widely known for the powerful advocacy of his photography focusing on the disability rights movement. In this videotaped talk, he discusses how he became involved in documenting the struggle for the rights of people with disabilities, and provides information about photographs in the exhibit. Some of the iconic photographs he discusses include images of the event now referred to as the Capitol Crawl. Depicting the landmark protest where people got out of their wheelchairs to ascend the steps of the U.S. Capitol building, it became “the shot that was heard around the world.” The action on March 12, 1990 was initiated by the activist organization ADAPT (Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit ). Tom identifies disability leaders at the protest and points out that his eight-year-old niece, Jennifer Keelan, is among those shown crawling up the steps. Tom explains that even though the “Crawl” took place just a few months before the ADA was passed into law, there were numerous attempts being made to weaken its provisions. “In Congress, you had the Senate and the House conferring on the bill that was to be. And they had all these different ways of how they thought the bill should look like.” Tom also describes photographs in the exhibit documenting other ADAPT actions in Memphis and at the federal building in Atlanta. It’s up to us, he says, to make sure the work of grassroots activists continues. “I see things happening. You know, I'm really impressed with a lot of young people.”

40. Suellen Jackson-Boner Interview (29:56)

Date:
2015-12-06
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"The initiative on livable communities is one that I was super excited about, because I think to me that's where the disability community should be." Suellen Jackson-Boner discusses the direction that the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities was taking when she retired in 2015. Interviewed in that year, Suellen had been the Council's executive director for 35 years. She recalls the early days of the agency, which is mandated by the 1975 Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, but was strictly an advisory body at that point. After effecting a funding transition that allowed the agency to become independent in its activities, community employment was an early focus. "At that time, supported employment was just beginning across this country" and the goal was "to show that this was very viable, that people with severe disabilities could actually work." The cooperation of four state agencies to create this initiative in the early 1980s was remarkable, Suellen points out. Early group homes, another Council emphasis, were an important vehicle for getting people out of institutions. The Council went on to serve as a catalyst for supported living and home ownership by people with disabilities. Suellen talks about how the Council has promoted leadership among people with disabilities, building their capacities to make change, through support of early self-advocacy groups and such programs as Partners in Policymaking. Prior to passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, "the staff was heavily involved in working toward organizing people" to effect its passage. Then it sponsored trainings to educate people, particularly people with disabilities, about what the legislation entails and how to use it as an advocate. Count Us IN was a 2002 Council project surveying the accessibility of polling places. Employing people with disabilities as surveyors, thousands of polling places were assessed on election day, with support and follow-up from the Secretary of State's office. The Council's annual statewide conference on disability "has grown year after year and brought in a lot of people from all over the state and sometimes even neighboring states," Suellen recounts.

41. Suellen Jackson-Boner - Early Initiatives of the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disab... (07:08)

Date:
2015-12-06
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"At that time, supported employment was just beginning across this country" and the goal was "to show that this was very viable, that people with severe disabilities could actually work." Suellen Jackson-Boner, the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities Executive Director for 35 years until she retired in 2015, discusses several projects the Council was involved in over the years. In addition to supported employment, the Council funded housing initiatives starting in the early 80’s. The Council staff organized people in Indiana too work towards the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Count Us IN was a project centered on the right to accessible polling places for people with disabilities. The Council was an early supporter of promoting leadership among people with disabilities. Suellen states, “There are a lot things the Council was at the very forefront in helping to fund or get started and to get organized, which is really, I think exciting.”

42. David Mank - History of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act) (04:15)

Date:
2015-03-19
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“The history of why there's the University Center for Excellence…is somewhat unique,” states David Mank. David was director of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community when he was interviewed in 2015. He shares the story about President Kennedy preparing his State of the Union address in 1962 and realizing there was a lack of information about the quality of life for people with disabilities. President Kennedy shared this information with his sister, Eunice Kennedy, and Bob Cooke, a pediatrician who specialized in developmental disabilities. From their discussion, an idea developed that every state should have a center that could provide data on the status of people with disabilities. This idea grew into the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act) of 1963. The legislation also defined the development of State Councils on Developmental Disabilities and Protection and Advocacy in every state.

43. David Mank Interview (1:13:00)

Date:
2015-03-19
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"I think it's extremely important that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities be a continued and increasingly strong voice in developmental disability issues of the day. And be in the rooms where decisions get made about funding, services, and issues for people with developmental disabilities." When David Mank was interviewed in 2015, he had been director of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University (IIDC) since 1996. David describes the history of University Centers for Excellence on Disabilities in the U.S. and, more extensively, the history of the IIDC. He focuses on the quarter-century directorship of his predecessor Dr. Henry Schroeder, and on the Institute's work in the areas of special education (with its movement towards integrated and inclusive practices), as well as the areas of supported employment, autism, early childhood, and aging. He talks about the Institute's relationship with its sister organizations (the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities and Indiana Disability Rights) in promoting self-advocacy and livable communities. David shares an anecdote about the occasion when vocal attendees at a 2008 national self-advocacy convention in Indianapolis led to the removal of the "R" word from the name of an Indiana commission. Recognized as an expert in the area of employment for people with disabilities, David discusses best practices in transition from high school to adulthood, promoting integrated employment, and the growing opportunities for post-secondary education of individuals with intellectual disabilities. As a former member of the "317 Commission," he recalls its origins during a time when an expose of abusive conditions at New Castle State Developmental Center was broadcast, and the good outcomes that developed out of the commission's report in 1998. David Mank retired as director of the IIDC in 2016.

44. Connie Ferrell - Did Supported Employment Stagnate? (05:18)

Date:
2015-04-28
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“I haven't really seen progression in supported employment since the 1990s,” recalls Connie Ferrell. She was hired as a field coordinator for the new Indiana Employment Initiative in 1992. In her 2015 interview, Connie explains why she feels supported employment plateaued in the state after the 1990s. One theory is the loss of block money to be creative in reaching individuals. It was also a time when Indiana moved from hourly billing to result-based funding. Connie sees stagnation in employment across the country. She feels disability service agencies have pulled away from people with the most intense support needs because they're afraid the agencies will lose money. Somebody once told her that when they saw what could be done, they stopped thinking about reasons why it couldn’t and found a million reasons why they had to. Connie states, “I think unless that happens, supported employment looks like a risky business.”

45. Metadata's Next Top Model: RDF and Its Impact on Digital Library Technology (53:34)

Date:
2015-02-18
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
Metadata standards at Indiana University are well-established for many of our digital library collections. These standards have been expressed, for the most part, using XML - it's easy to store, easy to read, easy to update, and easy to share. Newer forms of digital library technology, however, are expanding/enhancing the way that data is stored with and about digital objects, using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to construct relationships, descriptions, and digital objects that are more semantically connected to the web. This new way of standardizing metadata has presented many challenges: introducing a new model midway through projects, migrating content from older models to RDF models, and figuring out in general what it means to use an RDF model for digital library collections. This talk will discuss what has happened in the IU digital libraries with RDF to-date and the challenges and opportunities from this work.

46. OLE! Exploring Our Upcoming Community Source Library Management Solution (59:06)

Date:
2015-04-22
Main contributors:
Feddersen, Mark, Waldrip, Jain, Fitzwater, Matt
Summary:
Kuali Open Library Environment is the first Library Management System designed by and for academic and research libraries. Focused on the management and delivery intellectual information, it's being built by a community of higher education partners working together and supporting each other. In this discussion we'll review the LMS itself as well as a quick demonstration of the base application. Additionally we'll talk about where Kuali OLE is with its current release, where Kuali OLE is with current implementations, where Kuali OLE is going with future releases. Discussion will include the progress and lessons learned thus far using this application.

47. Digital History: From Design to Construction to Management to Maintenance (1:03:56)

Date:
2015-09-23
Main contributors:
Dierks, Konstantin
Summary:
I have been the principal investigator for an ongoing digital history project entitled ‰ÛÏGlobalization 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 ‰ÛÏhow 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.

48. Archives Online: Bringing the past to the present by way of the future (50:57)

Date:
2015-12-09
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet, Clarke, Erin
Summary:
Archives Online (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/findingaids) is a portal for accessing descriptions of Special Collections and Archives - ones chiefly containing materials other than books - from libraries, archives, and other units at Indiana University Bloomington and from other institutions around the state of Indiana. Collection descriptions (also called finding aids) in Archives Online at IU are encoded according to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) format. Since 2005 we have been publishing finding aids encoded in EAD2002 (http://www.loc.gov/ead/) using XML templates edited in the Oxygen XML Editor. IU currently hosts more than 1,000 finding aids online with over 35,000 digitized objects connected and viewable through these collection descriptions. This system has worked very well for us but there is an ever-increasing backlog of archival and special collections and potentially quicker ways to produce these encoded descriptions. Additionally, the Society of American Archivists officially adopted EAD3, the next version of the Encoded Archival Description metadata standard, as the new standard in July 2015. This new version of EAD provides new ways to encode archival description for increased sharing and access online. We'll discuss our investigations into quicker production of encoded collection descriptions as well as our plans for implementing EAD3 at Indiana University.

49. Bibliography's Place in Modern Humanities Research: A Case Study from The Chymistry of Isaac Newt... (50:44)

Date:
2015-04-15
Main contributors:
Beck Sayre, Meridith
Summary:
Over the course of the 20th century, scholars took up categories of knowledge constructed through classification work done in the library and archive, but methods of analytical bibliography were never well integrated into the academy. As scholars increasingly read and work with digitized texts, however, there is renewed and critical need for bibliographical skills in order to understand how texts have changed over time, especially vis-à-vis their material form. In addition to making a case for bibliography as an essential skill for the modern humanities scholar, I will describe my recent work on creating a TEI bibliography of Isaac Newton's alchemical sources. This project, part of "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton" seeks to reconstruct a comprehensive list of the hundreds of alchemical texts that Newton read and employed from over 5000 fragmentary citations in his manuscripts. Because Newton was a lifelong and extensive alchemical reader, reconstructing a bibliography based on his annotations provides an ideal test case for how alchemical texts were studied in the seventeenth century. As such, this bibliography will be a substantial contribution to modern scholarship on Isaac Newton and the history of science more generally, underscoring the argument that bibliography has an important place in modern humanities scholarship.

50. Ensuring Equal Access, Collaborating on Accessibility (47:28)

Date:
2015-09-30
Main contributors:
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.