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

Date:
2017-11-29
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 IIIF-AV community. We will also discuss how we see the future of these two important open source projects and their contribution to a rich media viewing experience.

23. Paged Media Project: Developing a Hydra-based page turning application and turning a Plum into a ... (51:52)

Date:
2017-02-01
Main contributors:
Cowan, William, Homenda, Nicholas
Summary:
The IU Libraries have a long history of delivering access to digital musical scores beginning with the Variations project in 1997. In 2014, the IU and IUPUI Libraries began work on a collaborative project to develop a new page turning application built upon the Hydra/Fedora open source software. In 2017, a new musical scores service is being launched to replace the retired Variations software. The IU Libraries adapted the Plum software, developed by the Princeton University Libraries, into Pumpkin, a Hydra Head to support digitization workflows for various paged media projects. In Bloomington, our first project will be Musical Scores. In Indianapolis, their first project will be newspapers. This software features tools to assist with importing digitized page images, ordering and numbering pages, adding bibliographic metadata, setting access controls, and making the digital object viewable within a customizable module called the Universal Viewer. The Universal Viewer is a front end for an International Image Interoperability Framework or IIIF or more commonly called ‰ÛÏtriple I F‰Û. This presentation will detail the software's functionality, the history of the development process, and the migration of Variations musical scores into this new system.

24. Choosing Digital Methods: Updating Your Pedagogy and Research for the 21st Century (46:28)

Date:
2017-08-23
Main contributors:
Craig, Kalani, Dalmau, Michelle
Summary:
The 2016 election cycle showed us how digital methods like image manipulation, social network analysis and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us. This presentation will take these digital methods and demonstrate how applications to the arts & humanities can help us craft new research questions and answer those questions. We will discuss how to (or not to) apply mapping, data mining, network analysis, data visualization, 3D rendering, computationally aided vision and other digital methods to a variety of disciplines. We’ll also provide a clear list of IU resources that can support these efforts. Finally, we’ll engage in a practical white-board-based activity that doesn’t require digital tools to demonstrate how analog methods can enhance understanding of some of these digital-methods applications in a variety of environments (including the classroom). This presentation kicks off a series of workshops offered by the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities called Choosing a Digital Method.

25. Craiutu, Aurelian and the Faces of Moderation (30:19)

Date:
2017-02-08
Main contributors:
Craiutu, Aurelian, Shanahan, James
Summary:
Aurelian Craiutu is a champion of moderation in an era of extreme politics. The political scientist argues that moderation is a virtue for all seasons, but that it's urgently needed in times of polarization. In episode 44, Craiutu discusses his new book, "Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes," which pushes back against the idea that moderation is a weak virtue or a philosophy for people who lack conviction.

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

Date:
2017-02-08
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 images of residences, churches, universities, museums, businesses, and public and municipal buildings, many of which were designed by prominent architects, document the use of Indiana limestone throughout the United States from the late 1800s to mid-1900s. Remarkably holistic in scope, these photographs and their accompanying metadata can be studied across major disciplines such as American history, architectural history, history of technology, urban studies, history of photography, historic preservation, labor history, and the history of geology. The Indiana Geological Survey in partnership with the Indiana University Libraries has been cataloging, digitizing, archiving, and publishing online a growing subset of the photographs through the Libraries' Image Collection Online portal. Thanks to a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Indiana State Library, we will be able to process an additional 4,500 photographs, and add approximately 3,000 images to the existing online collection, Building a Nation: Indiana Limestone Photograph Collection. Join us as we unravel the story behind the collection's discovery and our plans for ongoing curation and digitization.

28. IU Ballet & The Nutcracker: A Holiday Tradition (23:28)

Date:
2017-11-29
Main contributors:
Dalton, Georgia, Wroth, Sarah, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
In episode 72, Janae Cummings speaks to Sarah Wroth, associate chair of the ballet department at the Jacobs School of Music, and Georgia Dalton, graduating junior and the Sugar Plum Fairy in IU’s upcoming production of The Nutcracker. Tickets are still available for the performance, which runs from November 30 to December 3 at the Musical Arts Center on the IU Bloomington campus.

30. Harold de Bock, PhD'74 (03:31)

Date:
2017
Main contributors:
de Bock, Harold
Summary:
Harold de Bock’s developments in audience and customer loyalty research influenced multiple industries, media platforms and world regions — from media to customer contact, from broadcast to print, from the United States to Europe. De Bock came to the United States from The Netherlands in 1971 to earn his Ph.D. in mass communications from Indiana University. During the 1972 presidential campaign, for his dissertation, he conducted one of the first field experiments that showed the impact of election poll results on electoral turnout and voter preference. Upon returning to The Netherlands in 1974 after graduation, de Bock started work as an audience researcher at The Netherlands Broadcasting System. He later became its research director, responsible for all qualitative and quantitative radio and television research for the country’s many public broadcasters. He initiated the transition from paper diaries to people meters for television audience measurement. In 1985, de Bock joined the Dutch commercial market research firm Inter/View as its director of media research and consultancy. He directed readership, circulation and advertising research for individual newspapers and magazines, as well as the country’s annual joint-industry print media research survey. For Time magazine, de Bock developed the pan-European Media and Marketing Survey targeting Europe’s top 15 percent affluent audiences for international print and broadcast media. Thirty years, later, the survey is still the global standard. Later in his career, de Bock specialized in customer loyalty research. He made Inter/View a major partner in the Indianapolis-based Walker Information Worldwide research network, on behalf of which he conducted large-scale, international customer loyalty research projects for multinational corporations around the world. De Bock took his expertise to Hepworth Consultancy in 1997, working as research and consultancy director and establishing a research unit on customer loyalty and employee motivation. He pioneered techniques we now refer to as “data mining” and “big data” analysis. The new unit was so successful that in 2000 it was acquired by MarketResponse, one of the largest market research companies in The Netherlands. MarketResponse made de Bock its research and consultancy director. His unit became the company’s largest and most profitable research entity. De Bock was a leader in an industry-wide effort to improve communication quality of customer contact centers as key to customer loyalty in The Netherlands. He was a founder of the annual National Contact Center Benchmark Survey, which developed into the country’s Top 30 Contact Center program that exists today. He was the first and longest-serving chairman of the jury for the country’s National Contact Center Awards competition, known as the “Oscars” of customer contact. Upon retirement, he received the highest personal performance award at this ceremony. He also developed the Dutch quality standards for customer contact center certification. For the last 10 years, de Bock has made trips to the U.S. to take long-distance “anthropological” solo rides across the country on his semi-antique Yamaha motorcycle. He also edits and writes for the Dutch Motorcycle Riders Action Group’s full-color magazine. He has covered more than 20,000 miles through more than 25 states, following the original itineraries of America’s first historical continental highways, including Route 66, the Dixie Highway, the Lincoln Highway, the Yellowstone Trail and the Great River Road. He blogs about his environmental observations and personal encounters while on the road.