441. Panel One: The State of Research and Platforms for Access (1:25:34)

Date:
2013-11-15
Main contributors:
Waller, Gregory A. (Gregory Albert), 1950-, Caddoo, Cara, Bernstein, Matthew, White, Dana F.
Summary:
Panel One: The State of Research and Platforms for Access engaged panelists in a discussion of historical and current approaches to research in early black-audience film and the modes of research access to film and related documentation, bringing scholarship into conversation with past, current, and evolving technologies for access and presentation. Panel One: The State of Research and Platforms for Access was moderated by Professor Gregory Waller (Indiana University - Bloomington). Three speakers, Cara Caddoo (Indiana University - Bloomington), Matthew Bernstein (Emory University), and Dana White (Emory University), presented during Panel One and participated in a concluding Question and Answer Session.

442. Workshop Session Two: John A. Walsh (26:13)

Date:
2013-11-16
Main contributors:
Walsh, John A.
Summary:
John A. Walsh (Indiana University - Bloomington) presented "Film, paratexts, and the digital document" on November 16, 2013 during the Regeneration in Digital Contexts: Early Black Film Workshop.

443. Creative Planning and Manipulating of the Free Digital Library System Omeka.net (51:30)

Date:
2013-01-16
Main contributors:
Warshaw, Robin Lisa
Summary:
Omeka.net is a free digital library system with a rigid structure, but through perseverance and discipline the limitations may become possibilities. Since not everyone can afford to host a digital collection on their server, the cost effective solution is Omeka.net. By focusing on creative planning and manipulation, the strict boundaries can be made into a more interactive experience for the user. The restrictions inherent in Omeka.net can lead to creative responses, and I will share some of my creative responses from ravenquill.omeka.net that can be implemented into any omeka.net site.

444. 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.

446. Data Integrity Challenges and Workflow-Based Solutions (39:35)

Date:
2017-08-30
Main contributors:
Welch, Von, Heiland, Randy
Summary:
Our information technology (IT) infrastructure is not perfect and data can be corrupted by means both malicious and random. This talk covers some of the issues with IT infrastructure that lets data corruption creep in and NSF-funded work by the authors to augment a popular workflow management system (Pegasus) to provide increased scientific data assurances.

449. Wendell Berry reads from his work (1:17:12)

Date:
2010-11-11
Main contributors:
Wendell Berry
Summary:
Over the past half-century, no one has written more probingly or more influentially about the relations between culture and agriculture than Wendell Berry. His essays, short stories, novels, and poems have ranged eloquently over such subjects as marriage, community, work, farming, and the encompassing order we call nature. Mr. Berry will read selections from this powerful body of work.

450. Wendell Berry reads from his work (1:25:01)

Date:
2010-11-09
Main contributors:
Wendell Berry
Summary:
Over the past half-century, no one has written more probingly or more influentially about the relations between culture and agriculture than Wendell Berry. His essays, short stories, novels, and poems have ranged eloquently over such subjects as marriage, community, work, farming, and the encompassing order we call nature. Mr. Berry will read selections from this powerful body of work.

451. African American Intellectuals in Europe in the Interwar Period (1:06:02)

Date:
2009-01-20
Main contributors:
Werner Sollors
Summary:
In the period that witnessed the rise of communism and its transformation into Stalinism, the emergence of fascism, and two momentous "interwar wars," numerous African American intellectuals met their counterparts in Europe. Encounters include: Counte Cullen and Claire Goll (Paris), Claude McKay, Alain Locke, and George Grosz (Paris, Berlin, Moscow), McKay, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Leon Trotsky (Soviet Union), Horace Cayton and Nancy Cunard (Paris and Hamburg),Alain Locke and the "Black Watch on the Rhine" (French-occupied Rhineland), Langston Hughes, James Yates, and the Spanish Civil War,and W.E.B. Du Bois in Nazi Germany. Common human misunderstandings create a comedy of intellectuals against the climate of political violence in interwar Europe.

453. 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.

454. MDPI Film Processing: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (58:57)

Date:
2018-04-18
Main contributors:
Wheeler, Brian
Summary:
The MDPI project posed a tremendous technical challenge: digitize and process around 280,000 audio and video assets by the University’s bicentennial. The first objects began processing in June 2015 and by the summer of 2016, the major problems had been worked out and the processing was proceeding smoothly. Then the discussions of film processing began. In theory, processing film is the same as audio and video. On paper, it seems easier: even though the time allotted is less than A/V, there are only 25,000 reels to process. In reality, however, it is a very different beast. An hour of film scanned at 2K resolution is 20x larger than an hour of video. When a film is scanned at 4K, it is 80x larger than video. Additionally, the film preservation master consists of not just a few files, like we see in audio or video, but thousands of files: a picture for every frame. Like all preservation masters, these files must be validated. This session will address the challenges and solutions that were needed for the back end processing to be able to process film efficiently.

455. Transcodes and Transfers: Exploring the MDPI Back-end Processing (56:15)

Date:
2016-04-06
Main contributors:
Wheeler, Brian
Summary:
The process of converting the digitized MDPI media into something that can be used for web delivery is conceptually simple: transcode each one into derivatives and transfer them to the delivery system. However, like most things, the devil is in the details. Data corruption, tape latency, and managing large amounts of data are just a few of the problems which must be overcome. This session will follow the steps that MDPI digital objects take during processing and explore the solutions used to create a system which must reliably process hundreds of hours of audio and video content daily.

457. Digital Collection Exploring Experiences Of Blacks Gaining Economic Independence | Good Morning SKN (22:09)

Date:
2022-04-27
Main contributors:
Willa Tavernier
Summary:
On Good Morning's SKNs Connections, Jamie and Kortensia connect with Willa Liburd Tavernier. Willa hails from our twin-island Federation. She is currently a Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian at Indiana University. Recently, Willa spearheaded the launch of an open-source digital resource collection called “Land, Wealth, Liberation,” She speaks more about it and her experiences with racism in this powerful and insightful interview.

459. The Galilean imperative: A physicist's search for understanding 1- What have we learned, and how ... (1:33:26)

Date:
2013-10-28
Main contributors:
William Bialek
Summary:
To a remarkable extent, our understanding of the natural world is built from a small set of very deep ideas. I’ll try to give some sense for the nature of these ideas, for their power and scope. I will also try to explain what we mean by “understanding” in several different contexts, and why these successes give us (measured) confidence that more complex problems may yet yield to our search for understanding. Finally, I’ll say a few words about the cultural gaps that separate scientists who have mastery of these theoretical ideas from other scientists, from the generally educated public, and from the polity as a whole. It is not too much to claim that our future quality of life will depend, crucially, on our ability to bridge these gaps by teaching.

460. The Galilean imperative: A physicist's search for understanding 2 - Toward the physics of life it... (1:52:01)

Date:
2013-10-30
Main contributors:
William Bialek
Summary:
Experiments have uncovered many of the mechanisms at work in the machinery of life, but there still is no theoretical framework that ties these discoveries together. A hint about how to construct such a theory comes from the fact that many biological systems operate very near the limits of what the laws of physics allow: from bacteria navigating toward a source of food to the optics of an insect’s eye, from decision-making by cells in a developing embryo to aspects of human perception, important aspects of life’s mechanisms are nearly as good they can be, in a sense that physics makes precise. This proximity to perfection provides us with the ingredients for a theoretical physics of life, and I will explore this idea, hopefully providing an appreciation for some of life’s most striking and surprising phenomena.