93. ESS Images: Collaboratively Improving Management of Digital Collections Using Hyrax (37:19)

Date:
2019-10-02
Main contributors:
Halliday, Jim, Homenda, Nick
Summary:
Since 2014, partners from Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Libraries have been collaboratively developing new Samvera (formerly Hydra) software to manage and deliver page turning digital objects. In 2018, conversations with Enterprise Scholarly Systems (ESS), a partnership between IUB Libraries, IUPUI Libraries, and University Information Technology Services (UITS), expanded our project's scope. This presentation will highlight our development efforts, now known as the ESS Images project or ESSI. In the past year, the ESSI team has developed numerous improvements to the Hyrax digital repository software, one of the Samvera community's most commonly-used open source platforms. These improvements include the ability to order, structure, and label pages within an item, replicating features available in the Pages Online service launched in 2017. Additionally, the project has implemented optical character recognition search in a community-accepted way, building upon components of the IMLS-funded Samvera Newspaper Works application. This presentation will also discuss in-development improvements for our existing image collections. The Hyrax repository by default assumes every item can be described by the same group of metadata fields and labels, but in actuality, collections of digital images often have wildly different metadata profiles from each other. Our recent work has aimed to incorporate a model for flexible metadata developed by the Samvera Machine-readable Metadata Modeling Specification (M3) Working Group within Hyrax. This work will help IU, IUPUI, and the Samvera community better adapt Hyrax to manage and deliver a wide variety of digital library collections in a standardized way.

94. Flying Into Khe Sanh (00:41)

Date:
2019
Main contributors:
Marv Pixton
Summary:
Air Force pilot Marv Pixton tells his story about flying into Khe Sanh.

95. Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body (51:20)

Date:
2020-09-01
Main contributors:
John Paul Ito
Summary:
The collection includes three kinds of material. There are original audio recordings of specific passages that demonstrate the ways of performing them discussed in Focal Impulse Theory. (There is also one brief excerpt from a commercial recording that is not widely available.) There are original video recordings; some have content similar to the audio recordings, and some demonstrate general ways of performing discussed in the text.

97. From Arctic fires to Colombian coffee (27:19)

Date:
2019-11-29
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
The In This Climate team is thankful for a lot this year. Since our first episode at the beginning of September, we've covered wildfires as they relate to the Arctic, air quality, and wine. We've explored birds and coffee and a little bit of the intersection. We've featured stories about communities standing up for their health and talked with experts about topics ranging from hurricane communications to environmentally sustainable beer brewing. In this episode, we walk back through it all. Enjoy the walk? Wish it were different? Please, let us know!

98. From Me to We: Searching for the Genetic Roots of Sociality (1:20:26)

Date:
2019-03-20
Main contributors:
Robinson, Gene
Summary:
Studies of genes and social behavior, aided by new genomic resources, are coming of age. Here, I highlight three of the insights that have emerged from these studies that shed light on the evolution and mechanisms governing social life: 1) Nature builds diverse social brains from common genetic blocks in insects and vertebrates, including those related to metabolism and transcriptional regulation; 2) Changes in the wiring of gene regulatory networks are involved in the evolution of insect societies; and 3) The social brain is addicted to altruism.