151. Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions (1:35:21)

Date:
2014-03-25
Main contributors:
Gerd Gigerenzer
Summary:
In modern high-tech health care, patients appear to be the stumbling block: an uninformed, anxious, noncompliant folk with unhealthy lifestyles who demand treatments advertised by celebrities, insist on unnecessary but expensive imaging, and may eventually turn into plaintiffs. Patients’ lack of health literacy has received much attention. But what about their physicians? I show that the majority of doctors are innumerate, that is, they do not understand basic health statistics. An estimated 70%–80% of them do not understand what the results of screening tests mean. This engenders superfluous treatment, anxiety, and healthcare costs. As a consequence, the ideals of informed consent and shared decision-making remain a pipedream; both doctors and patients are habitually misled by biased information in health brochures and advertisements. I argue that the problem is not simply in the minds of doctors, but in the way health statistics are framed in journals and brochures. A quick and efficient cure is to teach efficient risk communication that fosters transparency as opposed to confusion. I report studies with doctors, medical students, and patients that show how transparent framing helps them understand health statistics in an hour or two. Raising taxes or rationing care is often seen as the only viable alternative to exploding health care costs. Yet there is a third option: by promoting health literacy, better care is possible for less money.

152. Simple Heuristics for a Complex World (1:43:32)

Date:
2014-03-27
Main contributors:
Gerd Gigerenzer
Summary:
Whom to marry? How to invest? Whom to trust? Complex problems require complex solutions – so we might think. And if the solution doesn’t work, we make it more complex. That recipe is perfect for a world of known risks, but not for an uncertain world, as the failure of the complex forecasting methods leading to the 2008 financial crisis illustrates. In order to reduce estimation error, good inferences under uncertainty counter-intuitively require ignoring part of the available information,. Less can be more. Yet although we face high degrees of uncertainty on a daily basis, most of economics and cognitive science deals exclusively with lotteries and similar situations in which all risks are perfectly known or can be easily estimated. In this talk, I invite you to explore the land of uncertainty, where mathematical probability is of limited value and people rely instead on simple heuristics, that is, on rules of thumb. We meet Homo heuristicus, who has been disparaged by many psychologists as irrational for ignoring information—unlike the more diligent Homo economicus. In an uncertain world, however, simple heuristics can be a smart tool and lead to even better decisions than with what are considered rational strategies. The study of heuristics has three goals. The first is descriptive: to analyze the heuristics in the “adaptive toolbox” of an individual or an institution. The second goal is normative: to identify the ecological rationality of a given heuristic, that is, the structures of environments in which it succeeds and fails. The third goal is engineering: to design intuitive heuristics such as fast-and-frugal trees that help physicians make better decisions.

156. Using R for Text Analysis (59:41)

Date:
2015-12-02
Main contributors:
Gniady, Tassie
Summary:
R is a statistical package used by many digital textual analysts to explore aspects of styelometry. Here at IU, we have an instance of the popular Rstudio running on Karst to facilitate work on large corpora. However, it is often helpful to begin work with a small test set (sometimes even a single text) and scale up. The CyberDH group has put together code packages and annotated RNotebooks that are available on GitHub to serve as a friendly introduction to how the process of scaling up might work. This talk will step through the basics of these exercises and the visualizations that result.

157. Subjectivity in Sentiment Analysis: Addressing Bias in Word Lists (50:51)

Date:
2017-10-11
Main contributors:
Gniady, Tassie, Kloster, David
Summary:
Since the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the first 100 days of an administration has been used as a measuring stick to estimate the ability of a new president to govern. This is still true today. The first 100 days of the Trump administration invoked strong sentiment both for and against his policies. However, was the sentiment generally positive or negative or neutral? Using different sentiment analysis algorithms and Trump’s favorite social media platform, Twitter, we scraped over 181,000 English language tweets between January 20th, 2017 and April 29th, 2017 to get an idea of Twitter user sentiment regarding the new Commander-in-Chief during his first 100 days. While our results reveal an interesting snapshot of the heightened emotions of the first 100 days of this presidency, they also raised some concerns regarding the bias inherent in the sentiment analysis process. More specifically, in the different dictionaries used to determine which words are “positive” and which words are “negative" issues of bias regarding race, gender, sexuality, and religion emerge. Therefore, it's important to "look underneath the hood," even when using a vetted dictionary, to examine the assumptions made, tweak the dictionary, and make transparent any assumptions left in the lexicon. We have parsed a further 16K tweets from the weekend of the Charlottesville protests to show what happens both before and after dictionary is tailored to an event focused on issues that are source of bias.

160. Welcome, Introduction, & Keynote Address (46:06)

Date:
2013-11-15
Main contributors:
Graney, Brian , Lucaites, John Louis, Lynch, Shola
Summary:
Regeneration in Digital Contexts: Early Black Film, organized by the Black Film Center/Archive, brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, moving image archivists, and technology specialists in digital humanities for a two-day conference and workshop held in Bloomington, Indiana November 15-16, 2013. The conference program, November 15, 2013, opened with a Welcome by Brian Graney, Archivist and Head of Public and Technology Services at the Black Film Center/Archive. The Introduction was provided by Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities, with responsibility for Undergraduate Education John Lucaites. Shola Lynch, curator of the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Archive at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, presented the Keynote Address "Film, Race & Archives — The Odyssey of a Film Maker & Curator".

161. Workshop Closing Session (53:40)

Date:
2013-11-16
Main contributors:
Graney, Brian, Mashon, Mike
Summary:
Brian Graney (Indiana University - Bloomington) moderated the Workshop Closing Session on November 16, 2013 during the Regeneration in Digital Contexts: Early Black Film Workshop.

162. Forming Foundations—Building Relationships in the Private Sector (53:02)

Date:
2018-10
Main contributors:
Gura, Catherine; Hurley, Maureen; McPeake, Cristin; Miller, Paula; Zulewski, Caitlin
Summary:
As government funding tightens, folklorists are turning to the private sector for funding. However, we come up against funders who do not understand folklore or the value of funding folklore projects. Participate in a discussion with grantors from business, corporate, private, and family foundations about how to create partnerships for successful fundraising. How do we engage and inform potential funders about the impact of supporting folklore projects that benefit a diverse and inclusive audience?

163. Reciprocal Impacts: MDPI, MCO, and MARC (37:34)

Date:
2018-02-07
Main contributors:
Hahn, Michelle
Summary:
"Metadata is a love note to the future" mused Jason Scott, archivist for the Internet Archive. Librarians and archivists cultivate metadata standards and practices to shape the future of resource description...so what does the metadata in our past say to us now? And what do our standards and decisions say to our descendants? IU’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI) and new Avalon-based Media Collections Online (MCO) have brought to light both issues and opportunities related to metadata creation and upkeep, impacting how we view our legacy data and how we create new data. The decisions and projects intended to improve and enrich this vast repository will be discussed, as well as suggestions for other institutions interested in taking on similar projects.

164. Becoming Strategic: The IU Libraries’ Social Media Comes of Age (57:13)

Date:
2017-11-01
Main contributors:
Haines, Anne
Summary:
Like many organizations, the IU Libraries embarked on social media as an emerging technology - an experiment. Now it’s become part of our strategic communication infrastructure. We’ll look at the history of the Libraries’ social media presence, explore what we know about our followers, and discuss how we’ve used elements of content strategy to make our social platforms more effective. We’ll focus on two Twitter accounts, @iulibraries and @hermanbwells, for a closer look at the tools we use and the decisions we make.

165. 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.

166. Introducing Digital Collections and DataCORE (51:27)

Date:
2020-12-09
Main contributors:
Halliday, Jim, Homenda, Nick
Summary:
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.

167. IUScholarWorks, Statistics, and Altmetrics (53:01)

Date:
2013-10-23
Main contributors:
Halliday, Jim, Konkiel, Stacy
Summary:
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.

168. IUScholarWorks Repository: DSpace Software Upgrade and Services Update (56:25)

Date:
2012-10-17
Main contributors:
Halliday, Jim, Konkiel, Stacy, Laherty, Jennifer
Summary:
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.

169. Dissertations in IUScholarWorks (48:24)

Date:
2010-02-01
Main contributors:
Halliday, Jim, Michaels, Sherri
Summary:
IUScholarWorks is a set of services whose stated goal is to make the work of IU scholars freely available. One of our recent efforts towards this goal has been to ingest all IUB student dissertations into the repository and make them freely available. Our talk will focus on the recent efforts of the IUScholarWorks team to do this. There were several challenges that the team faced in making this possible. These included issues of copyright, locating authors to gain permission, the challenge of converting the metadata into an appropriate format, and creating a ingestion workflow that would be as automated as possible. We will discuss the creation of an automated drop box processor that allows the dissertations to be ingested automatically, and a new embargo feature, which allows dissertations to be hidden until permission to display them is granted. We will conclude with a discussion of what is left to be done on this project, and ways in which the service can be improved in the future.

170. Bells, Whistles, and Alarms: HCI Lessons Using AJAX for a Page-turning Web Application (41:54)

Date:
2011-04-06
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Julie
Summary:
This case study describes creating a version of METS Navigator, a page-turning web application for multi- part digital objects, using an AJAX library with user interface (UI) components. This design created problems for customized user interactions and accessibility problems for users, including those using assistive technologies and mobile devices. A review of the literature considers AJAX, accessibility, and universal usability and possible steps to take moving forward to correct these problems in METS Navigator.

171. Making Mobile Meaningful: Digital Collections for Mobile Viewers (59:40)

Date:
2013-02-27
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Julie
Summary:
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.

172. What You See Isn't always What everYone Gets: Web Accessibility at IU (54:06)

Date:
2009-03-11
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Julie, Londergan, Margaret
Summary:
The IU Web Accessibility Committee, a sub-committee of the IU Web Standards Committee, has been working towards a web accessibility policy at IU as well as a set of guidelines and resources for web developers at IU to support the creation of a fully accessible web presence at Indiana University. Come join us for an update on the committee's work.

173. Mobile Interaction Design: From CHI to IU (51:58)

Date:
2009-09-30
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Julie, Schmiechen, Sarah
Summary:
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.

174. Putting on Something More Revealing: Exposing Our Fedora Data (41:37)

Date:
2014-04-02
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Julie, Shelby, Jacob
Summary:
IU's Fedora digital repository houses thousands of digitized items including pages of text, photographs, puzzles, three-dimensional artifacts, prints, audio, and moving pictures. These items are made accessible either through silo-ed collection sites or as a certain type of digital object (like images or finding aids). But there is a larger corpus of the entire repository that should be shared for greater understanding, discoverability, and use. Exposing the metadata we have in our repository allows others to make use of it, offering different perspectives on our items and collections and combining our collections with other similar collections around the world. Join us for the latest on our work to reveal our digital collections as data feeds.

175. [Untitled]: How to lose your metadata and keep your search results (56:00)

Date:
2016-03-30
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
It is an interesting time in the libraries for metadata. We have a lot of things described and described well, but is it feasible to keep all of that description in a useful way moving forward? And how do we offer up a ton of items all at once for online access? Whether it's cataloging records or other descriptive metadata, we seem to now be in transition in the libraries. New systems require that we move metadata into new formats. New massive digital collections require description at a scale previously not encountered. We know the metadata we're going to have after these moves and massive description efforts take place will not be complete or perfect and will probably not be the exact metadata we had before. We have to strategize about what information is going to be the most important for search and discovery and aim to have that information available as accurately as possible, regardless of the transition or the scale. Join us for a look at the systems and approaches we are taking to manage these messy metadata scenarios. We'll discuss the Libraries' move from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 and the metadata transition happening there, the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative's influx of items requiring mass description and the ramifications and methods being employed, and the future of cataloging records as all libraries look to transition to systems using BIBFRAME. The strategies we employ this time around will inform future metadata moves and mass description efforts.

176. Archives Online Update (35:08)

Date:
2020-12-02
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
Join to hear an update on the new Archives Online service from Indiana University. With support from the Indiana University Office of the Bicentennial and in close collaboration with the Archives Online Working Group, made up of representatives across the IU campuses, Indiana University Libraries is working to decrease barriers for description and digitization of archival and special collections for all IU campuses and increase access to these same collections for our students and scholars. This talk will focus on Indiana University’s implementation of ArcLight, an open source Blacklight-based application for indexing and accessing EAD-encoded finding aids, initiated by Stanford University Libraries and collaboratively developed with IU and several other universities.

177. Bias and Inclusivity in Metadata: Awareness and Approaches (59:05)

Date:
2019-03-20
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
This presentation is a step toward understanding the problem of bias in metadata and how that impacts inclusivity in the research process. Original description provided for digital collection discovery and access as well as controlled vocabularies commonly used for subject headings (such as Library of Congress Subject Headings) have inherent biases which present challenges for researchers discovering and engaging with these collections, particularly researchers from underrepresented or historically marginalized populations. We’ll review work in this area to date and discuss possible approaches for where to go next to improve description and the academic research experience.

178. Inclusive vocabularies: Understanding the currents for better navigation aids (49:27)

Date:
2019-12-04
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
Using inclusive vocabularies, defined here as those vocabularies representative of and created by historically marginalized communities, is helpful for providing options when creating original description. Is it possible to also supply these vocabularies for use as a navigation aid into a system that only makes use of commonly used controlled vocabularies that are not as inclusive or representative, such as Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)? This talk will explore progress in learning about the scope of available controlled vocabularies and classification schemes from marginalized communities and a proof-of-concept project to engage such a vocabulary as an information retrieval aid for search and discovery against a system using only LCSH for subjects (a typical library catalog).

179. Let it go: Exposing digital collections for accessible and useful data (50:25)

Date:
2014-10-15
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
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.

180. Making connections: Turning the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection into a Linked Open Data set (44:40)

Date:
2016-09-28
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
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.

181. Metadata in the Third Dimension: Describing 3D digital objects for access and preservation (55:28)

Date:
2018-04-11
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
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.

182. Metadata re-write: Moving Avalon metadata from XML to RDF (43:55)

Date:
2017-04-12
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
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.

183. Metadata's Next Top Model: RDF and Its Impact on Digital Library Technology (53:34)

Date:
2015-02-18
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
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.

184. Migration Paths: Charting a route for IU’s digital library collections (57:01)

Date:
2017-10-04
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
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!

185. The Way We Work: Library Work Patterns in a Shared Office Space During a Pandemic (45:11)

Date:
2022-02-16
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet L., Homenda, Nick
Summary:
As the pandemic continues, so has life and work. We know things are different than before, but in which ways? In-person versus remote work is one area of life and work where we have been experiencing changes in the Libraries. Most IU Libraries staff worked remotely from late March 2020 through May/June 2021. Since summer 2021 library staff are increasingly working in the office, but the rapidly changing nature of the pandemic may alter this further. The reasons for working in-person versus working remotely are not necessarily clear in messaging from administrative areas of the university and the interpretation of that messaging varies by unit or department. In one office area of Herman B Wells Library, we sent out weekly surveys through the Fall 2021 semester to ask how work was happening and see if we could track any patterns or see any clear changes in how we do our work now. Join us for this topical conversation impacting libraries and other academic units across campuses throughout the country.

186. Browse and Learn: Using Linked Data Connections for Bias Mitigation and Research (55:09)

Date:
2021-02-17
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet L., Nolan, Allison
Summary:
When systemically marginalized communities provide their own controlled vocabularies of terms, can those be used effectively for browsing and researching in information systems that do not use those same vocabularies? Join us as we share ongoing work to use connections between the Homosaurus, an LGBTQ+ Linked Data vocabulary and the Library of Congress Subject Headings to enhance discovery of relevant resources in a library catalog. We will explore how this can aid education about terminology and possibly help to mitigate biases on the part of researchers and the library catalog. We will share the proof-of-concept web application, the work completed so far, and discuss further planned work and possible future contributions.

187. Archives Online: Bringing the past to the present by way of the future (50:57)

Date:
2015-12-09
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet, Clarke, Erin
Summary:
Archives Online (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/findingaids) is a portal for accessing descriptions of Special Collections and Archives - ones chiefly containing materials other than books - from libraries, archives, and other units at Indiana University Bloomington and from other institutions around the state of Indiana. Collection descriptions (also called finding aids) in Archives Online at IU are encoded according to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) format. Since 2005 we have been publishing finding aids encoded in EAD2002 (http://www.loc.gov/ead/) using XML templates edited in the Oxygen XML Editor. IU currently hosts more than 1,000 finding aids online with over 35,000 digitized objects connected and viewable through these collection descriptions. This system has worked very well for us but there is an ever-increasing backlog of archival and special collections and potentially quicker ways to produce these encoded descriptions. Additionally, the Society of American Archivists officially adopted EAD3, the next version of the Encoded Archival Description metadata standard, as the new standard in July 2015. This new version of EAD provides new ways to encode archival description for increased sharing and access online. We'll discuss our investigations into quicker production of encoded collection descriptions as well as our plans for implementing EAD3 at Indiana University.

188. Bridging the Generation Gap: Changes to IU Archives Description and Discovery (40:05)

Date:
2020-02-12
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet, Crandell, Adam
Summary:
Indiana University Libraries are home to rich and unique collections, ranging from the Calumet Regional Archives at Northwest, to the University Archives at Bloomington, to the William L. Simon Sheet Music Collection at Southeast. To date, the description and discovery of these materials have been facilitated by disparate systems, formats, and practices. This fractured ecosystem has challenged the exploration of materials meaningful to Hoosiers and those in the national and international communities. Library Technologies and Digital Collections Services have partnered with archivists across IU in a project called Next Generation Archives Online. In celebration of IU’s 200th anniversary and with funding from the Office of the Bicentennial, this project is laying the groundwork for a unified description and discovery infrastructure and coordinated processes governing contributions to that infrastructure. This new ecosystem includes ArchivesSpace for creating collection description and ArcLight for end user search and discovery. This talk will share progress to date in implementing and moving from the current generation’s disparate technologies and practices to the unified approach of the next generation.

189. CBRC Digital Repository: storing and viewing 3D objects, for science! (44:19)

Date:
2015-10-07
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet, Halliday, Jim
Summary:
The Center for Biological Research Collections (CBRC) at Indiana University (http://www.indiana.edu/~cbrc/) is a consortium of research collections including botany, zooarchaeology, and paleontology collections. This group is digitizing biological specimens to make them available online for teaching and research. Some of these specimens will be digitized as 2-dimensional photographic images while others, particularly bone specimens, are being digitized in 3D to allow for manipulation and visualization in a standard web browser. The Libraries are teaming up with CBRC to help store these collections in a variety of file formats, along with accompanying metadata. The CBRC uses a pre-existing metadata management system called Specify (http://specifysoftware.org/) and we are working to bring the metadata in that system together with repository software we use (Hydra/Fedora) to ensure these digitized items can be archived and managed for the long-term, as well as made discoverable and accessible online. Join us to learn about this work, see some 3D content in action, and have some fun with science!

190. Open Access Publishing Innovations (1:00:52)

Date:
2017-11-15
Main contributors:
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.

191. Creating a Fellowship Program Pilot: Helping Instructors Transform their Course Materials (57:26)

Date:
2021-11-10
Main contributors:
Hare, Sarah, Hunt, Alexus
Summary:
As course reserves became unavailable and students were unable to share textbooks, the COVID-19 pandemic made the need for accessible, digital course materials more important than ever. IU Bloomington and IUPUI Libraries partnered to create a Course Material Fellowship Program (CMFP) in 2020. The goals of the Course Material Fellowship Program are to help all students afford college regardless of their economic status, to facilitate and inspire the development of alternatives to high-cost textbooks, and to centralize support for instructors working with affordable course material solutions. In order to compensate them for their time and ensure success, fellows are provided with a stipend, the expertise of librarians and instructional technologists, and the opportunity to learn alongside their peers. The pilot year of the Course Material Transformation Fellowship Program is estimated to impact over 5,000 students and save them over $185,000 across the two campuses. Fellows from the initial cohort utilized a variety of solutions, including existing Open Educational Resources, library resources, and their own content, to build new and more effective course materials which will be used throughout the 2021-2022 academic year. This session will provide an overview of the CMFP pilot, discuss the obstacles inherent creating and implementing the pilot program virtually, and showcase one or two example projects from the 2020 pilot cohort. Additional CMFP details can be found on the IU Libraries website. A previous brown bag on OER may also serve as useful background.

192. An Introduction to Open Educational Resources and Tips for Finding, Adopting, and Creating OER at IU (59:57)

Date:
2019-03-06
Main contributors:
Hare, Sarah, Tavernier, Willa
Summary:
This interactive workshop will consider how Open Educational Resources (OER) can alleviate the high cost Indiana University Bloomington undergraduate students pay for course materials (an estimated $1,034 each academic year). Data suggests that students will forgo purchasing expensive course materials, even when they know it will impact their success in the classroom. This session will introduce OER and discuss its benefits, critically think about challenges to OER adoption, and formulate strategies to support IU instructors in finding high-quality OER, adapting them to fit students’ needs, and creating (even in collaboration with students) customized course materials. Please bring a laptop or similar device.

193. Illustrating the History of Smallpox Vaccination: An Instructive Example for Creating an Online E... (50:36)

Date:
2021-09-29
Main contributors:
Harper, Jackson, Minix, Amy, Homenda, Nicholas
Summary:
In this session, Jackson Harper (Library Science Graduate Student & Sciences Library Graduate Assistant), Amy Minix (Neuro-Health Sciences Librarian), and Nick Homenda (Digital Initiatives Librarian) will share their experiences working with the online exhibit platform, Omeka S. This talk will cover how the History of Smallpox Vaccination online exhibit was planned and implemented, which include the project management process, curating content, highlighting library and Open Access resources, transferring information into Omeka, and creating visual representations using ArcGIS maps. Participants will learn about this process, which will hopefully inspire folks to create their own Omeka S online exhibitions.

195. The Phillips Barry Lecture: Afro-Mestizo Imaginaries in “Música Tropical”: Gender Differences in ... (1:13:49)

Date:
2015-10-16
Main contributors:
Herrera-Sobek, Maria, Winick, Stephen D.
Summary:
Some songs pertaining to the “música tropical” genre, or music exhibiting tropical rhythms from both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, feature Afro-mestizo protagonists in their lyrics. My study explores the imaginaries constructing the subjectivities of Afro-mestizo men and women and posits that these gender constructions are different between the two sexes. Men tend to be depicted more harshly than women. Both, however, are depicted in a stereotypical and racist manner. My study incorporates feminist and critical race theories as well as postcolonial theories in the analy- sis and hermeneutics of the representation of Afro-mestizos in the lyrics of these songs.