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Discusses the importance of "person-centered" communication (with a person, not a disability). Talks about the correct terminology for describing persons with disabilities; misconceptions about individuals with disabilities; and basic procedures for communicating with persons with various types of impairments.
This fall, the IU Libraries is launching two exciting new services: IU DataCORE, for storage and access of IU research data, and Digital Collections, for managing and delivering digitized images, books, newspapers, sheet music, and archival collections . These IU-wide services were conceived as part of the Enterprise Scholarly Systems (ESS) initiative, a partnership between the IU Libraries, IUPUI University Library, and UITS. Both services are built using the Samvera Community’s open source Hyrax repository platform. They represent a new, modern way of managing and proving access to our unique digital collections using software collaboratively developed by several partner institutions including IU. This talk will provide an overview of both services, providing insight into their history, technologies, and plans for the future.
Which software tools and services are common when working with time-based media in humanities research? What are common frustrations? How do researchers access, annotate, and search across digital AV collections? While researcher use of physical and textual media has been a frequent subject of study, few investigations have been made on humanities researchers who do significant work with audiovisual materials. Through interviews, observations, and diaries of research activities, the Avalon User Needs Assessment study aimed to learn more about these researchers and their practices.
In this presentation, observations and results from the study will be discussed: information on how researchers access and reference materials, common media formats used, frequent pitfalls and challenges, and analysis of software they find essential to their day to day activities. Discussion will include common needs and desired features, and how software platforms such as Avalon Media System can be improved to meet the unique needs of research users.
Isaac Newton is an iconic figure in the history of science but he had a mysterious side that remained hidden and unknown until the 1930s---he wrote more than 125 manuscripts on alchemy, comprising over 2300 pages and a million words. Alchemy was equated with sorcery and charlatanism over many centuries, so the academic world was surprised to learn of Newton's consuming interest and tended to ignore it until very recently. Our project is creating a scholarly online edition of Newton's alchemical manuscripts. The goal is to provide accurate transcriptions of the originals in TEI/XML documents with Unicode encodings. Alchemists used large numbers of special symbols in their cryptic literature to stand for substances, principles, processes, and devices. Newton's use of those symbols presented us with many unexpected challenges. We'll discuss those challenges and describe our use of font editors and symbol generators and XSL to create and serve the symbols, our use of XTF to make them searchable, and our work with the Unicode Consortium to create a new block of code points devoted to these historical alchemical symbols.
Casey, Michael, Mobley, Robert, Figurelli, Daniel, Dunn, Jon
Summary:
Audio-Video Preservation Services (AVPS) is a new department in the Library Technologies division of IU Libraries, offering services to IU units that hold archival audio and/or video recordings. It is staffed by veterans of the now-completed Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative and offers expert preservation-quality digitization of a number of audio and video formats. In addition, AVPS is able to assist with audio and video collection management issues such as prioritization, selecting vendors, developing grant proposals, and quality control, among others. This presentation will explore AVPS origins, current objectives, and technical capabilities, with presentations by Mike Casey, Rob Mobley, Dan Figurelli, and Jon Dunn.
The Hydra Project is a large collaboration among many institutions sharing needs for open software digital repository solutions. Indiana University is a Hydra Partner, and as such, is both developing new Hydra "heads" and leveraging heads developed by other partners. In this presentation, we will describe the Hydra Project objectives, the primary components of the technology (Fedora, Solr, Blacklight), how the community collaborates, and the benefits of this collaboration. The Avalon Media System was our first Hydra-based project, but now we are also collaborating on a new institutional repository solution as well as a new "page turner" Hydra head for digitized paged media. The Hydra Partner community holds great promise for lower cost, tailorable digital repositories for libraries and archives.
The IUScholarWorks Journal Service is an open access publishing option for IU scholars who desire local control over their journals. Editors from four IUScholarWorks journals will discuss their experiences working with IUScholarWorks to host their publications focusing on:
Editorial workflow support
Software training
Design customization
Technical processes
Peer Review processes
Migrating backfile content
Publishing formats: pdf, xml, html, flash
Copyright consultation
The editors will comment on how the software programs (Open Journal Systems and DSpace) support their needs as publishers, and share their view on the open access business model. They will also provide feedback from their authors and readers.
Jennifer Laherty, Head of IUScholarWorks and Jim Halliday, Digital Library Programmer for IUScholarWorks will give a brief update of services and the software upgrade completed in late 2011.
IUScholarWorks is supported by the IU Libraries and the IU Digital Library Program, a collaborative effort of the IU Libraries and University Information Technology Services.
The IUScholarWorks team has successfully completed a major upgrade of the IUScholarWorks Repository software to the latest stable release, 1.8.2. Some of the new features gained in this upgrade include: a statistics module which keeps track of how many times items in the repository are accessed; more curation tools; a configurable workflow for the user interface; richer RSS feeds; easier selection of Creative Commons Licenses; automatic virus checking of items submitted; enhanced batch metadata editing tools; and a better embargo system. Jim will discuss the process of upgrading the existing repository, and discuss some of the challenges in adapting the new DSpace codebase to our specific needs.
Jen and Stacy will highlight new and existing services which include: data curation and management with connections to the UITS Scholarly Data Archive; an embargoes policy; and new theses collections from the Jacobs School of Music and the School of Education.
This session will focus on IUScholarWorks, the collaborative project between the IUB Libraries and Digital Library Program to provide a system-wide repository and open-access journal publishing infrastructure. Other related initiatives that will not be covered in this session include the Archives of Institutional Memory, IUPUI's IDeA, Open Journal System at IUPUI, and IUPUI's eArchives. The following projects will be highlighted: the Faculty Annual Report which will include a mechanism for faculty to indicate they wish to deposit their works into the institutional repository (IR); our plans for including digital dissertations into the IR based on the upgrade to DSpace version 1.5x; the addition of new IU journals to OJS (Open Journal System); and statistics gathering and reporting in both the IR and OJS systems throughout IUScholarWorks.
This talk will focus on new developments regarding statistics and altmetrics in the IUScholarWorks institutional repository. It will cover the technology and policies behind a recently added statistics module, which displays filtered data regarding views and downloads for all items in the repository. Additionally, we will discuss an experimental new feature, the integration of alternative metrics ("altmetrics"; which track social media mentions of scholarship) into the repository display.
Sarah Hare, Julie Marie Frye, Beth Lewis Samuelson
Summary:
The fifth chalk talk in the series, this video describes the benefits of publishing articles in journals. The video also explains how scholars assess journals and how the ownership of scholarly journals has shifted.
The Kuali OLE version 0.8 release will be the first implementable release of Kuali OLE. This session will give an update to the project overall, and specific details as to the functionality included in version 0.8 and what is planned for 1.0. The presentation will include how Kuali OLE is using technologies, specifically Kuali Finance, Kuali Rice, and Apache Jackrabbit document repository, to deliver a complete environment for managing library collections and resources.
This talk, based on Jackendoff's forthcoming book A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning, explores the experience of thought as inner speech, the Joycean stream of consciousness. The paradox is that thinking cannot be dependent on language, since (a) the same thought can be expressed in different languages, and (b) nonlinguistic organisms such as apes and babies do manage to think. He makes the case that thought itself is mostly unconscious, and that the conscious experience of inner speech is determined largely by the handles provided by the pronunciation linked to the thought.
In addition, Professor Jackendoff will show that it is impossible to achieve the ideal of rational thinking, in which every step of reasoning is explicit, because the logical connections among statements ultimately rest on an intuitive (i.e. unconscious) judgment of conviction. He suggests that, nevertheless, the handles on thought provided by language enhance thought in important ways, and that a better ideal involves sensitivity to an appropriate balance between linguistically expressed rational reasoning and intuitive judgment.
"In the United States as in other countries, many people genuinely concerned to right historical wrongs have woven together an ideology often called “the woke left.” I will argue that this ideology is not, in fact, genuinely leftist, as it challenges many of the crucial ideas that have traditionally been central to all leftwing movements. I will argue for a new understanding of ideas of solidarity, justice and progress that have their roots in the much-maligned Enlightenment, and discuss how those ideas might be applicable today."
In 2011, Adam Matthew Digital published London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld, a digital collection based on books and manuscripts held at the Lilly Library, the principal rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library of the IUB Libraries. Public Services Librarian Erika Dowell, who oversees digital initiatives at the Lilly Library, will talk about the library's experience working with a commercial partner from initial discussions with editors to the nuts and bolts of collaborating with a British publisher and a California based imaging company. Now that the project has been finished for almost a year, she will share lessons learned and important issues to consider when developing a commercial partnership.
How do you usefully combine digital repository, library catalog, and library web site data so researchers can discover and make use of the data in support of their research? This session discusses plans to combine IU Libraries' digital repository data with library catalog and IUB Libraries' web site data to create a Solr-indexed data source that preserves context and provides thorough, useful, and sharable access to the information, collections, and resources at the Indiana University Libraries.
Shells, bones, tracks, and trails record a history of animal evolution more than 600 million years long. Earth, however, is some four and a half billion years old. What kinds of life characterized our planet's youth and middle age? Genealogical relationships among living organisms, inferred from molecular sequence comparisons, suggest that the deep history of life is microbial, and over the past three decades, paleontologists have discovered a rich record of microbial life in rocks that long predate the earliest animals. Geochemical research has established a complementary record of environmental change, with major transitions that parallel those found among fossils. The general pattern that emerges is one of long-term co-evolution between life and environments throughout our planetary history.
From Homer's Iliad to Milton's Paradise Lost to the Russian novel and contemporary global literature, major works, read from the angle of the practice of statecraft, offer insights on leadership, substance, and the structure of world affairs reaching beyond the methodologies of international security and policy studies. The meaning and prospects for "The Arab Spring" and the European Union may be more clearly discerned when viewed through this humanities-focused lens.
Madagascar has always been a place of change, as even a brief glimpse at its long history makes clear. A widely held view is that human activities alone have driven recent environmental changes, and the island is a poster child for human destructiveness: forest cover has declined sharply, and all the largest-bodied animal species have gone extinct within the past thousand years. Evidence bearing on the decline and disappearance of the island’s giant elephant birds raises many questions about this simple story of human-driven change. A more nuanced understanding of the past is a vital foundation for efforts to ensure the continued survival of the many unique plants and animals to which Madagascar is still home.
In recent years, the "maker movement" has gained serious traction in higher education. Makerspaces, fab labs, and hackerspaces are popping up in universities and libraries around the world, including Indiana University. In this talk, Leanne Nay, Scholarly Technologies Librarian, will share an overview of makerspaces and services available to the IU community. Join us to learn more about the challenges and opportunities of these initiatives, as well as the library's role in supporting a culture of creativity and making.
A bowl adze is a special and hard to find tool used to hew or chop bowls. Machinist and blacksmith Dave Voges began making these special adzes when his friend Keith Ruble asked him if he could help him design better tool. Based on Keith’s bowl-hewing knowledge and Dave’s skill, the two designed what many consider one of the best bowl adzes available. Bowl hewers across Indiana prize these special tools. When the elder blacksmith learned that Jon Kay from Indiana University was going to video him making his tools, he decided to have some fun and affix a plaque from his alma mater and IU rival university, Purdue, on his power hammer. Sadly, Dave passed away before this project could be completed. I had intended to interview him about the making process, but it was not to be. Kay dedicate this video to the memory of David Flesher Voges (1940-2017) of Terre Haute, Indiana.
This documentary was shot and edited by folklorist Jon Kay for the Chipstone Foundation, a research organization that supports the study of American decorative arts. The video features master furniture maker Randall O’Donnell and details the methods used to produce a replica of a Bible box in the Chipstone’s research collection that was originally made in the 1600s.
What does it mean to turn data into Linked Data? That is the question we are attempting to answer with this project. The IU Libraries released the metadata for the Cushman Photograph Collection under a CC-BY license as a CSV file and it is also available as an OAI-PMH harvestable feed in XML. But what would it take to make this metadata part of the Semantic Web and what does that mean for our digital collections moving forward? How might a collection like this available through the Semantic Web help researchers? This talk does not have all of the answers but we do have a story to share involving Cushman, OpenRefine, and RDF. Join us to learn what's happened and how the IU Libraries will use this learning experience to shape our digital collections into the future.
This brown bag documents the early stages of a community-engagement project with digital foundations. Our “History Harvest” is an ongoing invitation to community members to help shape an archive about identity and material culture at IUB. We’ll talk about the teaching, research, and ethical considerations that framed partnerships between IUB community members, two research centers, the libraries, and an undergraduate and graduate course and walk through some practical responses to those considerations that will shape the History Harvest as it moves forward.
This presentation showcases the explorations of the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries in using CSS media queries to offer mobile-ready access to online digital collections, from TEI-encoded e-texts like Indiana Authors and Their Books to online exhibits like War of 1812 in the Collections of the Lilly Library. Included are the process to decide which features to offer, the media query technique, and testing methods for various mobile devices.
For more than sixty years, since Nagasaki in 1945, no nuclear weapons have been exploded in anger, despite several wars in which one side possessed nuclear weapons. The taboo is an asset to be preserved. New nuclear weapon states should recognize that the weapons have proven useful for deterrence; any other use will almost certainly bring universal opprobrium. Certain responsibilities will accrue to any new nuclear-weapon states: security against accident, sabotage, or unauthorized use. The United States was slow to recognize the need for such security, as it was slow to recognize the crucial importance of designing weapons safe from attack. Perhaps China, a mature nuclear-weapon state, is in a strong position to provide guidance to any nations contemplating nuclear weapons.
The uncertainties are great but so are the certainties. Venus and Mars show what too much, or too little, greenhouse gas can do to the possibility of life. Carbon dioxides ability to absorb infra-red radiation can be measured. But the analysis of how much warming, what changes in climate, what impact on agriculture, on health and comfort, how well different countries can adapt, is still in progress; too little is known to predict what concentration will be too much, so no global rationing scheme is likely. Certainly the worst climate impacts will be on the rural poor; economic development is an important defense. An ambitious program of research, development, and exploration for new economical energy sources and locations for carbon sequestration is urgently needed. The already-developed nations will have to provide financial and technological assistance to the less developed.
Circuses and other traveling shows were a staple of nineteenth-century American society, but just how American were they? This project uses digital mapping together with traditional archival research to investigate the geographic reach, business networks, and cultural significance of three iconic American shows: Cooper, Bailey, and Company’s Great International; the Barnum and Bailey Circus; and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Mapping their routes from the 1870s to the 1910s reveals how thoroughly they were embedded in global entertainment circuits—Cooper and Bailey travelled to Australia, New Zealand, India, and a handful of South American countries in the late 1870s; Buffalo Bill visited countries in Europe between 1887 and 1892 and again from 1902 to 1906; and Barnum and Bailey toured extensively in Europe from 1898 to 1902. Furthermore, in 1899, James Bailey officially relocated the headquarters of his circus to England, establishing the publically traded company Barnum and Bailey, Limited. By contrast, none of these shows travelled consistently to the west coast of the United States until 1907. Analysis of these entertainment geographies helps us rethink standard narratives of national integration in the U.S. in the second half of the nineteenth century and recasts institutions traditionally understood as quintessentially American in a transnational and global light.
The Herman B Wells Library at Indiana University has been digitizing its collection of Soviet Military Topographic maps from 1880 to the 1940s. These maps were created by the Soviet Military for internal intelligence purposes and classified as top secret. During World War II, some sheets were captured by German forces and were later captured by the U.S. Military. These maps bear stamps from Nazi Germany and are marked ‰ÛÃcaptured map.‰Û After the fall of the Soviet Union, many more maps made their way to libraries across the United States, including the library at Indiana University.
Previously, in order for a user to find these topographic maps, he or she must be able to read an old and unclear index map to determine the appropriate sheet. This is especially vexing in the case of Eastern Europe, where borders and place names changed frequently in the early 20th Century. Based on a framework created by Christopher Thiry at the Colorado School of Mines, I used GIS to create an online, interactive index for this map set. The index allows for searching, panning, and zooming in a familiar online map environment. Eventually, all of the digitized maps will be linked to the interactive index and included in a collaborative index project hosted on ArcGIS Online with the goal of facilitating user interaction and of preserving the maps in this digitized environment.
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser
Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Grammars of Struggle in Capitalist Crisis
Thursday, January 27, 2011
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Rawles Hall 100
In this lecture, Fraser will examine Polanyi's conception of the double movement. Seeking to expand his idea of a two-sided conflict between partisans of deregulated markets and proponents of social protection, she will incorporate a third pole of social movement, aimed at emancipation. The result will be a revised understanding of the grammar of social conflict that better reflects the social struggles of the twenty-first century.
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.
The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) is a federated
international community of scholars, project, institutions, and
organizations engaged in digital scholarship within the field of
medieval studies. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MESA
seeks both to provide a community for those engaged in digital
medieval studies and to meet emerging needs of this community,
including making recommendations on technological and scholarly
standards for electronic scholarship, the aggregation of data, and the
ability to discover and repurpose this data.
This presentation will focus on the discovery aspect of MESA, and how
it might serve the non-digital medievalist who may nevertheless be
interested in finding and using digital resources. Starting with a
history of medievalists and their interactions with digital technology
as told through three data sets (the International Congress on
Medieval Studies (first held in 1962), arts-humanities.net (a digital
project database in the UK, sponsored by JISC and the Arts &
Humanities Research Council), and two surveys, from 2002 and 2011, that looked specifically at medievalists' use of digital resources), I will draw out some potential issues that this history has for the current developers of digital resources for medievalists, and
investigate how MESA might serve to address these issues.
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. In particular, American scientists, dating back to Roger Revelle and Dave Keeling in the 1950s, pioneered research on anthropogenic climate change. Yet, today we lead the world in climate change denial. Nearly half of American citizens aren’t sure that climate change is caused by human activities, and a large part of leadership of the Republican Party refuses to accept that climate change is happening at all.
This talk explains how this strange state of affairs came to be. It tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists, with effective political connections, ran a series of campaigns to challenge well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly; some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is “not settled,” denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, sulfuric emissions to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. “Doubt is our product,” wrote one tobacco executive. These “experts” supplied it. This talk explains both how and why.
Is there, or was there once, life on Mars? Debate about martian life remains unresolved, but over the past decade, unprecedented observations have enabled us to address key astrobiological questions in new ways. This lecture will examine the observations of ancient sedimentary rocks made by the NASA rover, Opportunity, at Meridiani Planum. Opportunity has provided both physical and chemical evidence that liquid water once existed at the martian surface. At the same time, however, Opportunity's chemical data suggest that brines percolating through accumulating Meridiani sediments grew salty enough to inhibit most known life, even the hardiest microorganisms. Chemical observations further suggest that the sites investigated by Opportunity and its identical twin, Spirit, have not seen much water since their minerals were precipitated billions of years ago. Remote sensing of martian landforms independently suggests that Mars has been cold and dry for most of its planetary history, sharply constraining continuing debate about martian life.
As the environment and climate have increasing impact on the economic sustainability of
our country, scientists are being compelled through their own interest or through
directives from funding agencies to share the results of their research, which often
take the form of collections of data. Sharing collections, particularly at scale where
the volumes are large, introduces numerous challenges that we discuss in the context of
our research and additional challenges that we point out as unaddressed problems. We
discuss in particular provenance collection with a system independent collection tool,
Karma, the XMC Cat application schema friendly metadata catalog, and the integration of
data streams into a workflow composer, XBaya. We conclude with a discussion of the
goals of the Data to Insight Center within the Pervasive Technologies Institute of
which the Center for Data and Search Informatics and the Digital Library Program have a
role.
3D digitization, born-digital 3D objects, and Virtual Reality (VR) - the techniques to create these kinds of items and the access and scholarly research applications for these items within libraries and cultural heritage institutions are becoming more real (and less virtual) as costs come down and technical equipment becomes more friendly to use. IU already has 3D digital collections that are actively growing. We need a way to describe these items so they are discoverable and accessible for research use, even when that means extremely large files that can require specialized software to recreate or evaluate the models. We also need to be able to preserve 3D digital and VR objects. This talk will consider how we can accomplish these goals, the work currently occurring among libraries and cultural heritage institutions, and how best to apply metadata in the third dimension.
The Avalon Media System is an open source system for managing and providing access to large collections of digital audio and video. The project is led by the libraries of Indiana University Bloomington and Northwestern University and is funded in part by a two-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Avalon is in the process of migrating digital repositories from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 and incorporating metadata statements using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) instead of XML files accompanying the digital objects in the repository. Julie Hardesty at Indiana University and Jen Young at Northwestern University, the metadata portion of the Avalon project team, are working on a plan to migrate descriptive metadata from MODS XML to RDF. This talk will cover the planning process to date and how this step with Avalon informs a similar migration process of IU's digital library collections from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4.
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.
Indiana University Bloomington’s digital library collections are moving repository versions from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4. This move means switching from using XML files for descriptive, technical, and structural metadata to using RDF statements defining those same descriptive, technical, and structural metadata properties. This talk will cover the analysis work so far to understand our collection models in Fedora 3 and identify patterns we might use for this metadata migration. Additionally, migration work to Fedora 4 is occurring for systems that have been external to the Fedora repository and those results will also inform metadata migration planning from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4. Join us for a bird’s eye view of migration in action!
By preserving artifacts held by communities who are often hidden or erased from the dominant historical narrative and contextualizing these artifacts with oral histories, the History Harvest model, set forth by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in 2010 as a form of public humanities engagement, amplifies voices that would otherwise not be heard. A public history endeavor at Indiana University Bloomington offers a case study in which we reconsider History Harvest fundamentals, from technology needs to workflows, with human labor at the center, following minimal computing approaches. Our adaptations of the original model, eleven years after UNL’s launch of the History Harvest, are guided by the same principles of engagement, replication, and autonomy for the community members, students, and scholars alike, all of whom contribute to the telling of stories. In consultation with minimal computing “thought pieces” and related literature, we are working towards an approachable model, both in computer and human terms, for History Harvests. Our presentation will explore the human and technological aspects of minimal computing in the context of History Harvests, with a focus on how to scaffold limited resources like funding, lightweight technology and workflows, and properly support and acknowledge the limitless contributions of the cross-section of people involved in History Harvests.
We'll take a look at mobile design from the perspectives of a course taught at CHI2009 (http://www.chi2009.org/) and what is currently happening at IU. Mobile design ideas for the DLP and the Libraries will be discussed (ideas from the audience will also be most welcome) and tools for testing mobile devices will be reviewed.
Word embeddings have recently been applied to detect and explore changes in word meaning in historical corpora (Hamilton et al., 2016; Rodda et al., 2017; Hellrich, 2019). While word embeddings are useful in many Natural Language Processing tasks, there are a number of questions that need to be addressed concerning the stability, accuracy and applicability of these methods for historical data. Previous studies mostly made use of exceptionally large corpora such as Google books (Hamilton et al., 2016). However, there is scarce literature on the stability and replicability of these embeddings, especially on small corpora, which are common in historical work. It also remains unclear whether methods used to evaluate embeddings in contemporary data can be used for historical data sets.
In the work presented here, we focus on three methodological questions:
How replicable and stable are the results of different word embeddings models?
How do we determine the accuracy of different embedding models on our historical data?
Given the low resource situation, can we find (enough) meaningful words in the embeddings to draw conclusions about semantic change? Do our findings correspond to prior knowledge?
We experimented with a historical corpus of medieval and classical Spanish that is an order of magnitude smaller than those used in previous studies, and obtained word embeddings using three commonly used word embedding models: SGNS (Mikolov et al., 2013), GloVe (Pennington et al., 2014), and SVDPPMI (Levy et al., 2015). We compare the results of different models and the solutions we developed to address the challenges found.
In “Monsters of the Economic: Inequality, Fear, and Loathing in America”, Folbre examines the trend toward extreme income inequality within the U.S. and the global economy as a whole is clear. But the numbers don’t reveal the emotional consequences of this information. The threat of downward mobility and economic insecurity generates fear and loathing, increases vulnerability to political manipulation, and impedes our ability to work together to solve important economic problems—including, paradoxically, the problem of extreme inequality itself. This presentation flushes out some of the monsters lurking behind economic policy debates, many of which have been projected onto a vivid cultural screen portraying conflicts between vampire and zombie, robot and werewolf, superhuman and subhuman. Which should we ordinary mortals fear the most?
Brown, Bryan, Hardesty, Juliet, McDonald, Courtney Greene
Summary:
Libraries are interested in providing better, more comprehensive access to physical and digital collections, institutionally and collectively. Indiana University is improving its discovery tools with multiple projects in active development, using Blacklight as a primary interface for IUCAT (the online public catalog) and as an interface for a cross-collection search of digital objects from the library's digital repository. Blacklight, using Solr indexing for different types of collections, represents a potential means of enabling more seamless discovery across many data sources, including digital objects, catalog records and library website content. Courtney and Julie will discuss findings of a survey of academic and educational institutions engaged in similar Solr-based discovery/access projects and will also discuss combining large and distinct resource sets using Blacklight/Solr at IU, focusing on user experience and metadata/indexing perspectives.
In many human and environmental crises, individuals and their governments exhibit a morally troubling response to the risk of mass casualties that can be described by the phrase “the more who die, the less we care,” reflecting a flawed “arithmetic of compassion.” Paul Slovic will present research demonstrating three non-rational psychological mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon: psychic numbing, pseudoinefficacy, and the prominence effect. After documenting these obstacles to rational decision making, he will explore ways to counteract them -- a roadmap for future research and its application to crisis management.
The thought of Karl Polanyi can shed some much-needed critical light on the present crisis of neoliberalism. His 1944 book, The Great Transformation, traced a previous crisis of capitalism to efforts to commodify land, labor, and money. In Polanyi's view, it was the attempt to turn these three fundamental bases of human society into objects of exchange on self-regulating markets that triggered a crisis of multiple dimensions, not just economic and financial, but also ecological, social, and political. The effects were so destabilizing as to spark an ongoing counter-movement aimed at protecting society and nature from the ravages of the market. The end result was fascism and world war.
Although developed for an earlier era, Polanyi's diagnosis is relevant today. Our crisis, too, can be fruitfully analyzed as a great transformation, in which a new round of efforts to commodify land, labor, and money is sparking a new round of counter-movements for social protection. Yet despite its evident merits, such an approach fails to capture the full range of social injustices and social struggles in contemporary capitalism. Thus, Polanyi's framework needs to be reconstructed in a form that is adequate for critical theorizing in the twenty-first century.
In this lecture, Fraser will examine Polanyi's concept of fictitious commodification. After proposing a post-metaphysical reinterpretation of this concept, she will use it to analyze burgeoning markets in nature, reproductive labor, and finance as flashpoints of the current crisis of neoliberalism. The result will be a revised understanding of commodification that better grasps both the system dynamics and the normative deficits of contemporary capitalism.
The ability to understand and analyze massive amounts of information cuts across disciplinary lines but is particularly salient in the disciplines of both history and data science. This talk will leverage activity theory to explore an activity system that supports students and researchers working with complex information by integrating a collaborative open-source network-analysis software tool called Net.Create. I’ll explore the ways in which Net.Create transforms the limitation of large class sizes in history classrooms into a resource for students’ collaborative knowledge building, how Net.Create provides a platform for students to draw on details in a historical text to collaboratively construct a larger network, and how collaborative data entry supports the historiographic practices of citation and revision for both students of history and professional historical researchers alike.
The Sheet Music Consortium (SMC) was founded in 2001 as a partnership between major universities and cultural heritage institutions, including Indiana University and University of California, Los Angeles, with significant sheet music collections. The initial aim of the Consortium was to demonstrate the application of the OAI-PMH protocol to a specialized set of digital collections, and, more specifically, to build a sheet music service that would provide unified access to those collections. In 2007, in an effort to revitalize the project, the SMC was awarded an IMLS Planning Grant which helped the lead project members, IU and UCLA, identify ways to increase participation by data providers from small and large institutions with little or lots of technical expertise. The planning grant also helped us identify ways in which to improve the end-user interface for the SMC Portal. In 2009, UCLA and IU were awarded a two-year IMLS National Leadership Grant, which has allowed us to actualize the improvements identified as part of the planning grant. Now that we are well into year 2 of the grant, this brown bag presentation will focus on the various improvements we have made from both the data provider and end-user service perspectives in hopes that we have established a stronger foundation upon which we can continue to share resources, and, in turn, foster and grow the larger sheet music community.
Discusses the importance of understanding nonverbal communication in therapeutic recreation. Describes types of nonverbal communication: visual cues, vocal cues, spatial cues, and temporal cues. Includes vignettes to illustrate each type of communication. The vignettes provide an opportunity for class discussion and are followed by panelists' summaries of nonverbal communication they saw in the vignette. Includes an initial list of objectives and a closing summary.
The two academic disciplines linguistics and literary studies are often part of one common study program, but they differ in many respects: Their object of study, the methods they use, the type of knowledge they aim to generate, and also the presentation of their work in academic writing. I explore these differences by examining a corpus of German PhD theses from the two disciplines.
The focus of this talk will be twofold: First, I will discuss how we can identify differences between corpora in a data-driven way, i. e. with only few theoretical assumptions. While many data-driven approaches rely on surface-based frequencies of words and sequences of words, I argue for the additional use of syntactic annotations for this purpose. Second, I will present and contextualize the differences between academic texts in linguistics and literary studies that can be detected in this way. I conclude by reflecting more generally on how the results of a data-driven analysis can be integrated into existing theories.
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.
This project was funded by an NEH Office of Digital Humanities Startup Grant and is managed by Indiana University Libraries. This grant funded the creation of two Video plugins for Omeka. One allows the importing of Annotator's Workbench (a digital video segmentation and annotation tool developed as part of the Eviada Project) annotations and segmentations into Omeka as Items. In addition, another plugin was developed to present these video segments in Omeka and Omeka exhibits. Both plugins will be reviewed as well as a short background on Omeka.
Omeka is a free and open source collections-based, Web publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators and cultural enthusiasts. This talk will provide an overview of Omeka's features followed by a demonstration of a local pilot project using Omeka to showcase digitized content from the collections of the Lilly Library.
As webserve has done away with Digital Media and encourages folks to put video on Kaltura, I have developed a plugin that allows you to playback Kaltura video in Omeka. This plugin, which will also allow the playback of video from Youtube as well, will allow those who need to use video in Omeka to use Kaltura to store their videos and playback in an Omeka site. I will demo the setup and use of this plugin in Omeka.
Bruce Jackson speaks about The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons. A Record Album Interpretation, a production by the The Wooster Group, New York’s most celebrated experimental theater company. The B-Side is based on the classic LP, Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, based on Jackson’s 1964 field recordings. Peter Marks of the Washington Post called the production “ravishing,” and “a richly resonant auditory experience,” concluding that “the experience is history in melody, an a cappella song cycle that reveals how men sentenced to hard labor endured, forging bonds through music.” New York Times theater reviewer Ben Brantley named it one of the 10 best plays of the year. Jackson talks about the process of transforming his LP into theater with The Wooster Group, illustrating his presentation with photographs and audio and video clips.
Hare, Sarah, Higgins, Richard, Wittenberg, Jamie, Regoli, Michael
Summary:
The landscape of open access publishing continues moving beyond scholarly journals. The IU Office of Scholarly Publishing (OSP)—a collaboration between the Scholarly Communication department at IU Libraries and Indiana University Press—leverages new tools and digital technologies to facilitate the open dissemination of data, 3D objects, and eTexts. Several of these innovations are supported by our new workflow for XML-first publishing, making publishing in HTML and EPUB formats also possible.
In this talk, representatives from the OSP will share an overview of open access publishing trends generally and OSP work specifically. Join us to learn more about how these innovations are shaping open access publishing at Indiana University by making it more accessible, versatile, and interoperable.
Melanie Chambliss, Eileen Fradenburg Joy, Quito Swan, Ethan Michelson, Alexa Colella, Gary Dunham, Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde, Willa Tavernier, DeLoice Holliday
Summary:
"The Scholarly Communications Department welcomes you to join us in-person or virtually on Friday, October 28 for a full-day Open Access symposium and reception hosted at Wells Library. We will highlight IU authors’ experiences with publishing open access, showcase various models of funding open access publications, and frankly discuss challenges and limitations. We will also take the opportunity to discuss the implications of the recent “Nelson Memo,” which has wide-reaching implications for all research and publications supported by federal grant agencies."
Open Folklore, launched in October 2010 by the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, is a new scholarly resource that will make a greater number and variety of useful resources, both published and unpublished, available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with which folklore scholars partner. In this session, speakers will describe the partnership, the technologies used to support the site, and the accomplishments and goals of the project. They will describe the site, the search functionality that brings together relevant folklore materials into a searchable collection via OAI records, and the larger aims of the partnership, such as advising researchers about good choices for scholarship in Folklore and educating about and advocating for open access models.
The Ordinary Extraordinary Junco is a documentary film project designed to engage, entertain, and inspire student and adult audiences of all backgrounds. The feature-length film (88 min.) is comprised of eight shorter video modules (3 to 20 min.), or “chapters,” that highlight past and present biological research on one of the most common and abundant –yet amazing and diverse–groups of songbirds in North America, the Juncos.
"Liberal democracies constrain power by imposing legal constraints on the exercise of power. Among developed democracies, the United States has one of the most extensive sets of checks and balances. When combined with the country's current polarization, this institutional setup often leads to what I have termed "vetocracy," in which there are so many veto points that even the simplest forms of collective action become impossible.
The U.S. and other liberal democracies will face major challenges in the coming years in making difficult and costly decisions to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. Is there a way of reducing vetocracy without undermining basic principles of liberal democracy? We do not want to imitate China, which stands at the opposite end of the spectrum as a consolidated authoritarian state with virtually no checks on the power of the Communist Party. These lectures will look at institutional measures that democracies might adopt to improve decision-making and implementation."
"Liberal democracies constrain power by imposing legal constraints on the exercise of power. Among developed democracies, the United States has one of the most extensive sets of checks and balances. When combined with the country's current polarization, this institutional setup often leads to what I have termed "vetocracy," in which there are so many veto points that even the simplest forms of collective action become impossible.
The US and other liberal democracies will face major challenges in the coming years in making difficult and costly decisions to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. Is there a way of reducing vetocracy without undermining basic principles of liberal democracy? We do not want to imitate China, which stands at the opposite end of the spectrum as a consolidated authoritarian state with virtually no checks on the power of the Communist Party. These lectures will look at institutional measures that democracies might adopt to improve decision-making and implementation."
Over the years, Indiana University Digital Library Program has created dozens of digital collections for research and preservation. Traditionally, each collection will have its own website for public access. However, as new collections are being added to the repository on a regular basis and as the content becomes more diversified, there is a growing demand for a discovery interface that allows access to all the digital collections maintained by the Digital Library Program.
The IU Digital Collections Search has been developed to meet this demand, and serves as the 'one-stop' user interface to all publicly available digitized items. Its index includes more than 65,000 items such as photo, sheetmusic, speech, letter, and papers from the following sources:
IU Archives
Lilly Library
Indiana State Library
Indiana State Museum
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Magazine of History
Archives of Traditional Music
Working Men's Institute
Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest
Our presentation will focus on the DLP's work to develop this cross collection discovery interface for digitized items stored in the Fedora repository. William Cowan will discuss the motivation, main features, and future plans of the project. Hui Zhang will talk about the practice on building a Solr index for MODS records and a faceted search interface with Blacklight. The talk will also include a demo of the newly developed search interface.
Durbin and Porter will present on the DLP's work to ramp up the workflow for developing documentary photograph collections, from determining metadata needed for collections through making the digital collections publicly available. Durbin will present the technical aspects of the software development and data modeling. Porter will discuss social aspects and provide a comprehensive overview of the new and improved process.
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 ‰ÛÃtriple I F‰ÛÂ.
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.
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.
