421. Oral History excerpt: The Spring House (00:41)

Date:
2019-12-07
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator)
Summary:
Dorothy Waters recalled that her brother told her that there used to be a house next to the Chase Street spring: "There was a house there, that he called the Spring House. Because it was right there at the spring." Dorothy shares an anecdote about the man who lived there, who used its cold waters as his refrigerator. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.

422. Oral History excerpt: "He would sell for $1 a bottle" (02:13)

Date:
2019-12-07
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
The Black Oak spring was located on the property of Dorothy Waters' childhood home in Black Oak. Waters says that her grandfather (who built the house in 1926) sold the water from the well to a man with a Bottling Company in Chicago in exchange for a new shed. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.

423. Oral History excerpt: "I just loved drinking from that spring" (01:30)

Date:
2019-12-07
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
Dorothy Waters grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township and her parents owned farm land near the Chase Street spring in Small Farms. Waters and her siblings pulled weeds in their fields at night and quenched their thirst by drinking from the well on Chase Street. "We would pull weeds, we'd run up and down that big sand hill. And then we walked down and we get a drink at that spring. ... I just loved drinking from that spring." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.

424. Oral History excerpt: "It was there for people to come and use" (01:08)

Date:
2019-12-07
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
Dorothy Waters' childhood home in the Black Oak neighborhood was located on the same property as the Black Oak spring, an artesian well that was open to the public. Waters says, "Anybody that wanted to come and get water from in front of the house was welcome to do that." She says that this reflects the generous nature of her community. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.

425. Oral History excerpt: "There used to be...a gravel road" (00:36)

Date:
2019-12-07
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
Dorothy and Robert Waters describe a gravel road on their family farm that connected the Black Oak spring to the Chase Street spring. The road made a relatively straight east-west line between the two springs, and was used to move farm machinery between fields. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.

426. Oral History with Dorothy and Robert Waters (Part 1) (1:02:00)

Date:
2019-12-07
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
Kay Westhues interviews Dorothy and Robert Waters at their home in Schererville, Indiana, on December 7, 2019. Dorothy Waters is a descendent of the Nimetz family, who settled in the Black Oak area in the 1800s and farmed the land surrounding the Chase Street Spring. Her family home on Calhoun Street was the site of another spring, called the Black Oak Spring, which was open to the public and bottled and sold in the early 1900s. The spring was capped sometime in the 1960s. Waters and her husband, Robert Waters grew up in the Black Oak area and discuss the springs, the neighborhood, and farming during that time. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home

427. Oral History with Dorothy and Robert Waters (Part 2) (11:20)

Date:
2019-12-07
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
Kay Westhues interviews Dorothy and Robert Waters at their home in Schererville, Indiana, on December 7, 2019. Dorothy Waters is a descendent of the Nimetz family, who settled in the Black Oak area in the 1800s and farmed the land surrounding the Chase Street Spring. Her family home on Calhoun Street was the site of another spring, called the Black Oak Spring, which was open to the public and bottled and sold in the early 1900s. The spring was capped sometime in the 1960s. Waters and her husband, Robert, grew up in the Black oak area, and discuss the springs, the neighborhood, and farming during that time. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home

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

Date:
2019-09-04
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 catalog,’ and to represent identity as historically constructed and described. Beginning with a brief outline of the troubled history between marginalized groups and LIS classifications, I examine some of the proposals suggested over the past half-decade by researchers—and their limitations. Instead of starting anew, or using ‘uninformed’ social tagging/folksonomies, I propose a ‘turn’ to the catalogs and controlled vocabularies of archives and special collections, which frequently reckon with unclassifiable material. Following through on that turn, I will discuss how linked data and linked data vocabularies are currently being used by several digital archives—along with some possible lessons for the LIS field as a whole. The radical and subversive use of linked data by queer digital archives offers a partial solution to the conundrum of minoritized and historical representation in the catalog. Finally, I will conclude by describing my own experiences and considerations in the construction of a new linked data vocabulary.

429. Life After Prison: Studying Freedom with Three Methods (1:25:04)

Date:
2019-03-29
Main contributors:
Western, Bruce
Summary:
Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University. He received his BA from the University of Queensland, Australia, and his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Western's research examines trends in American economic inequality and the growth of the US penal population. These topics are joined by an interest in the shifting landscape of American poverty over the last 40 years. He is the author of Punishment and Inequality in America (2007) and served as Vice-Chair of a consensus panel of the National Academy of Sciences on the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the United States. His new book is called Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison (2018). Western is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Radcliffe Fellow, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the National Academies of Science.

430. If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Evolution of MDPI's Post-digitization Processing (56:17)

Date:
2019-10-30
Main contributors:
Wheeler, Brian
Summary:
Indiana University announced the Media Digitization Preservation Initiative (MDPI) in October 2013 with the goal of digitally preserving and providing access to all significant audio, video, and film recordings on all IU campuses by the IU Bicentennial in 2020. Digitization began in mid-2015 and has now digitized more than 320,000 objects using more than 10 petabytes of storage. After digitization, every object in MDPI has to be verified to be stored correctly, checked for format conformance, processed into derivatives, and finally, distributed to a streaming video server. Conceptually, the process is straightforward, but like many things, the devil is in the details. The post-digitization processing has continually evolved since its inception in early 2015. Initially implemented to handle a couple of audio formats and processing a few terabytes of data per day, over the last few years it has been enhanced to handle peak transfers of more than 35 terabytes daily with more than 20 formats across audio, video, and film. This presentation details how some of the implementation decisions have held up over time, such as using a tape library as primary storage and using an object state machine for object tracking, as well as some of the growing pains encountered as the system was scaled up. In addition, there is a discussion covering some of the surprises that have been encountered along the way.