DLF Forum 2016: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2016 DLF Forum!

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11:00am CST

#m1a: UX/Usability

Presentation 1:
Snapshot - Prioritizing Users with Print Disabilities @ the HathiTrust Digital Library
Mass digitization of library collections has radically expanded the number of books available to users with print disabilities, who have historically found it difficult to get access. As part of its mission, HathiTrust has implemented and improved services for this user group, including enabling access to the entire corpus.
Presenter: Angelina Zaytsev

Presentation 2:
Snapshot - “So, what did you expect to happen when you clicked on that?” A report from the usability lab.
This presentation reports on results from usability testing undertaken to support Reed Digital Collections (RDC). Users tested the RDC interface as well as those of the Universal Viewer, Mirador, Google Books, HathiTrust, and others. Emphasis will be on user responses to the display, navigation, and search of book-like objects.
Presenter: Laura Buchholz

Presentation 3:
Snapshot - Improving User Experience in the Carolina Digital Repository
The Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) is the institutional repository for UNC-Chapel Hill. This talk will address the CDR development team's formal investigation into user experience in the CDR, the lessons learned from the investigation, and how the CDR has translated these lessons into actionable items for current and future development.
Presenter: Hannah Wang

Presentation 4:
Object-Oriented UX and Metadata for Digital Collections
This presentation will provide a walkthrough for developing digital collections and metadata with tools and techniques from the user experience design and content strategy fields. Investigating audiences, objects, and schemas leads to a more robust design strategy that improves access to various digital projects and contexts for users.
Presenters: Erik Radio, Cate Kompare

Session Chairs

Cynthia York

Project Manager, Johns Hopkins University Libraries, United States of America

Project ManagementDigital Humanities projects

Speakers

Laura Buchholz

Digital Projects Librarian, Reed College

Reed College, United States of America

Cate Kompare

Pixo

Erik Radio

University of Arizona

Hannah Wang

UNC Chapel Hill, United States of America

Angelina Zaytsev

User Services Librarian, HathiTrust, University of Michigan

HathiTrust Digital Library

Monday November 7, 2016 11:00am - 11:55am CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

11:00am CST

#m1b: Hydra+

Presentation 1:
Hydra-in-a-Box project update
This presentation offers the DLF community an update on all aspects of the Hydra-in-a-Box project, a collaborative effort between Stanford, DPLA and DuraSpace to extend the Hydra codebase and to develop the next-generation digital repository for cultural heritage collections.
Presenters: Hannah Frost, Michael Giarlo, Gretchen Gueguen

Presentation 2:
Moving the Digital Curation Needle @GVSU
Beginning in early 2016, Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Libraries began moving beyond outsourcing its digital curation to experiment with new open source digital collections technologies--namely Hydra and Omeka. This brief presentation will share the good, the bad, and the ugly of this emergent Library looking to up its game.
Presenters: Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker

Presentation 3:
Snapshot - Towards a unified repository solution at Washington University
Shannon Davis will present on Washington University's new Hydra repository, elaborating on the experience working with consultants to develop the application, working as a committee to gather requirements, implementing the newly developed system at the Libraries, and preparing data for ingest into Hydra.
Presenters: Shannon Davis

Presentation 4:
Snapshot - Moving on to a Greater Digital Destination: Implementing Digital Asset Management and Preservation Systems at University of Houston Libraries
The University of Houston (UH) Libraries recently selected Hydra and Archivematica for the long term stewardship of the Libraries’ digital collections. Presenters will provide an overview of the systems implementation process, tools that have been developed thus far, and discuss some of the challenges that the implementation team has faced.
Presenters: Anne Washington, Annie Wu

Session Chairs

Rachel Appel

Digital Projects and Services Librarian, Temple University

Speakers

Shannon Davis

Washington University, United States of America

Kyle Felker

Grand Valley State University Libraries, United States of America

Hannah Frost

Associate Director, Digital Library Services, Stanford University

Michael Giarlo

Stanford University Libraries

Gretchen Gueguen

Data Services Coordinator, DPLA

Matt Schultz

Metadata & Digital Curation Librarian, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley State University Libraries, United States of America

Anne Washington

Metadata Librarian, University of Houston Libraries

University of Houston, United States of America

Annie Wu

University of Houston, United States of America

UH BCDAMS pdf

Monday November 7, 2016 11:00am - 11:55am CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

11:00am CST

#m1c: Engagement

Presentation 1:
Digital Exhibit Services as Building Blocks for Interactive Public Scholarship
This presentation details how the UCSC Library has leveraged expertise in Omeka into support for a wider range of research projects. We highlight the need for the library to lead a conversation around the possibilities for non-linear, online, digital exhibit building and in creating meaningful and engaging public scholarship.
Presenters: Rachel Deblinger, Susan Perry

Presentation 2:
Beyond Discovery: Mapping, Murals, and Communities of Practice
Come learn about an online web mapping project that explores a new model of providing access to collections and materials. The emphasis is not only on finding relevant materials for your research, but also remixing the data and making your own maps.
Presenter: Andy Rutkowski

Presentation 3:
A Digital Celebration of the National Park Service Centennial
After six years of digitization, metadata, and web-development, the Open Parks Network repository is online to celebrate the National Park Service Centennial. We have campfire stories to share on lessons learned from a rocky trail, which will help other institutions steer clear of hidden obstacles and persevere through tough projects.
Presenters: Joshua Morgan, Rachel Wittmann

Session Chairs

Gabrielle Michalek

Carnegie Mellon University

Speakers

Rachel Deblinger

UC Santa Cruz, United States of America

Joshua Morgan

Digital Projects Manager, Clemson University Library

Clemson University, United States of America

Sue Perry

Head of Digital Initiatives, UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz, United States of America

Andy Rutkowski

Geospatial Resources Librarian, University of California Los Angeles

Visualization Librarian, University of Southern California (USC)

Rachel Whittmann

Clemson University, United States of America

Monday November 7, 2016 11:00am - 11:55am CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

1:30pm CST

#m3a: Collections+

Presentation 1
Facilitating harmonization of metadata, curation, and records management practices among university departments creating born-digital image
The IU Libraries are partnering with the business school and communications department to build a preservation workflow for large quantities of born-digital image assets. This presentation will detail recent work towards aligning practices while outlining the broader implications of institutions beginning to collect and preserve similar born-digital materials.
Presenters: Heidi Dowding, Nicholas Homenda

Presentation 2
Snapshot - Managing and Sharing Digital Collections with CWIS
The Collection Workflow Integration System (CWIS) is a free, open source software package designed to create, manage, and share digital resource collections. Participants will learn how this turnkey web-based software package can be easily installed and configured to meet the needs of their organization.
Presenters: Kendra Bouda, Corey Halpin

Presentation 3
Snapshot - The OpenSESMO Project: Making Non-Traditional Library Collections Discoverable in Search Engines with Social Media Metadata and Linked Data
Digital library work can and should impact our broader library services. With our OpenSESMO (Search Engine and Social Media Optimization) project, we show that applying digital library metadata practices - linked data and social media optimization - to non-traditional collections benefits library users as well as how search engines understand libraries.
Presenters: Doralyn Rossmann, Jason A. Clark

Presentation 4
Snapshot - An API Extension Architecture for Linked Data Repositories
The API Extension Architecture (API-X) project is a community-driven effort to build a general-purpose extensibility layer on top of Fedora 4, a digital object repository that implements the W3C Linked Data Platform (LDP) standard. API-X builds on LDP and Fedora to provide a framework for binding services to repository objects.
Presenter: Aaron Birkland

Session Chairs

Jeremy Myntti

Associate University Librarian, Metadata and IT, Brigham Young University

Speakers

Aaron Birkland

Johns Hopkins University

Kendra Bouda

Internet Scout Research Group, UW-Madison

Jason A. Clark

Montana State University

Heidi Dowding

Indiana University

Corey Halpin

Internet Scout Research Group, UW-Madison

Nicholas Homenda

Digital Initiatives Librarian, Indiana University Libraries

Indiana University Libraries

Doralyn Rossmann

Dean of the Library, Montana State University

Monday November 7, 2016 1:30pm - 2:25pm CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

1:30pm CST

#m3b: IIIF

Presentation 1
Digital Tools for Manuscript Study – Facilitating Knowledge Creation
This presentation will explore the work between a library technology unit and a scholarly unit at the University of Toronto, encompassing both standards-based modular tool development, in particular Open Annotation and IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standards, and the work to support knowledge creation activities through a UX-driven decision process.
Presenter: Rachel Di Cresce

Presentation 2
Uncommon Objects of Delight: Recreating Count Leopoldo Cicognara’s Library
The Digital Cicognara Library is an international initiative to recreate an 1821 collection of 5000 early imprints that constitute the foundational literature of art and archaeology. The speakers will discuss the DCL’s academic goals and technical implementation, and how they will leverage Blacklight and the International Image Interoperability Framework technologies.
Presenters: Sandra Ludig Brooke, Jon Stroop

Presentation 3
Snapshot - IIIF We Can Do It… NYU Digital Library’s IIIF Implementation Story
By the time DLF Forum convenes in November, NYU’s Digital Library intends to implement IIIF for our image collections. Will we do it? If not, why not? Come hear our story. We hope our experience can help others who are working on their own implementation.
Presenters: Carol Kassel, Alberto Ortiz Flores

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Image Open Access: Implementing IIIF in CONTENTdm
This talk will discuss the process of implementing IIIF for CONTENTdm as well as the opportunities that doing so will offer to libraries, developers, and end-users.
Presenter: Carly Bogen

Session Chairs

Jason Ronallo

Head, Digital Library Initiatives, NCSU Libraries

NCSU Libraries

Speakers

Carly Bogen

Product Analyst, OCLC Digital Collection Services

OCLC

Sandra Ludig Brooke

Director, Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

Princeton University

Rachel Di Cresce

Project Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries

University of Toronto. Digital Project Librarian interested in Digital Humanities, IIIF, data management and medieval manuscripts. Currently working on Mellon funded project entitled Digital Tools for Manuscript Study.

Alberto Ortiz Flores

NYU Libraries

Carol Kassel

NYU Libraries

Jon Stroop

Princeton University

Monday November 7, 2016 1:30pm - 2:25pm CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

1:30pm CST

#m3c: Repo Collab

Presentation 1
Opportunities and Challenges In Implementing a Consortial Research Data Repository
Data repositories supported by library consortia may offer some economies of scale while supporting contextualized services. Representatives from the Texas Digital Library (TDL)’s Data Management Working Group and the Dataverse Implementation Working Group will discuss the opportunities and challenges they have encountered while designing and testing a research data repository.
Santi Thompson, Bruce Herbert, Kristi Park

Presentation 2
Addressing Open Access Publication Sharing and Data Management Requirements for Publicly Funded Research: A Collaborative Approach
This paper reports and comments on a collaboration between the Arizona State University Libraries and the NSF-supported Center for Nanotechnology in Society to preserve and increase accessibility of research assets at a moment when multiple stakeholders in the state are developing solutions for sharing federally funded research.
Presenters: Gretchen Gano

Presentation 3
Building Repositories Better Together: Columbia University Libraries and the MLA
Nicky Agate and Mark Newton discuss their collaboration on CORE, the MLA disciplinary repository built in consultation with Columbia University Libraries. CORE, they suggest, is a bellwether for the potential of learned societies and libraries to work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication that goes beyond institutional boundaries.
Presenters: Nicky Agate, Mark Newton

Session Chairs

Ann Hanlon

Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ann Hanlon is Head of Digital Collections and Initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also co-founded and leads the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM. Ann has an MA in History from the University of Maryland and her MSLIS from the University of Illinois. She has worked... Read More →

Speakers

Nicky Agate

Head of Digital Initiatives, MLA / Humanities Commons

Humanities Commons, The Idealis, HuMetricsHSS

Gretchen Gano

University of California Berkeley

Bruce Herbert

Texas A&M University

Mark Newton

Columbia University Libraries

Kristi Park

Executive Director, Texas Digital Library

Texas Digital Library, Texas

Santi Thompson

Associate Dean for Research and Student Engagement & Eva Digital Research Endowed Library Professor, University Libraries, University of Houston

Santi Thompson is the Associate Dean for Research and Student Engagement and the Eva Digital Research Endowed Library Professor at the University of Houston (UH) Libraries. Santi publishes on the assessment of digital repository metadata, software, and content reuse. He has previously... Read More →

Monday November 7, 2016 1:30pm - 2:25pm CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

2:35pm CST

#m4a: Planning/Collab

Presentation 1
Snapshot - More Than Just e-Journals: Engaging Researchers in the Development of UW Libraries’ New Digital Scholarship Program
The University of Washington Libraries are in the early stages of creating a Digital Scholarship program to support researchers across UW’s three campuses. Librarians carried out a series of needs assessment interviews with faculty and students, which revealed surprises and insights on both sides of the conversation.
Presenters:
Verletta Kern, Elizabeth Bedford

Presentation 2
Snapshot - Consortial Collaboration and the Reimagined Center
In a snapshot that should speak to groups who are fostering digital scholarship across divides -- spatial and otherwise -- these six minutes frame The Five Colleges of Ohio’s practical gains as an entry point for larger, guiding questions: Can consortial digital scholarship flourish when the “center” is an abstraction?
Presenter: Jacob Heil

Presentation 3
Snapshot: Cultural Frameworks in Teamwork Analysis
This presentation will discuss an ethnographic study conducted midway through a collaborative pilot using linked data at the University of California, Irvine. Focus is on teamwork, workload, situation awareness, and communication with an emphasis on how these concepts relate to technological projects.
Presenter: Kelly Spring

Presentation 4
Snapshot: Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and Digital Scholarship; or, Librarian on a Boat, Part II
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is expanding support for digital scholarship, building from collaboration with Caribbean holding and teaching institutions. This presentation will share research questions, process (IRB, informed consent, project charters, feminist ethical frame with all being collaborators, not subjects), and activities and results to date.
Presenter: Laurie Taylor

Session Chairs

Alex Gil

University of Pennsylvania

Columbia University Libraries

Speakers

Liz Bedford

Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian, University of Washington

University of Washington Libraries

Jacob Heil

Digital Scholarship Librarian, Dir. of CoRE, College of Wooster

Jacob Heil is the College of Wooster's Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE). Partnering with library colleagues, faculty, and students, he explores digital methods and modalities for teaching and research. He also collaborates... Read More →

Verletta Kern

University of Washington Libraries

Kelly Spring

Archivist for Special Collections & Archives, University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

Laurie Taylor

Senior Director for Library Technology & Digital Strategies, University of Florida

Monday November 7, 2016 2:35pm - 3:30pm CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

2:35pm CST

#m4b: A/V Preservation

Presentation 1
AV Description with AVPreserve and IU: Strategies and tools to describe audiovisual materials at scale for Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative
Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative is making hundreds of thousands of hours of moving images and audio files available, and consulting firm AVPreserve has identified tools and services and delivered strategies to address the scale of metadata description required for a rich discovery experience of this content.
Presenters: Amy Rudersdorf, Juliet L. Hardesty

Presentation 2
Use it or Lose it: Why Increasing Audio Access is a Digital Preservation Issue
If we do not use sound archives, cultural heritage institutions will stop preserving them. This presentation will discuss the findings from over 30 semi-structured interviews conducted through the HiPSTAS project with scholars, librarians, and archivists about using audio collections in literary studies, history, and Native American and indigenous studies.
Presenter: Tanya Clement

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Tales n' Tools of the AMIA/DLF Hack Day
A report on tools and partnerships arising from the AMIA/DLF Hack Day. Held since 2013 at the annual Association of Moving Image Archivists’ conference, this event has become a fruitful site of technical collaboration for audiovisual preservation practitioners.
Presenter: Steven Villereal

Presentation 4
Snapshot - RADD: Recover Analog and Digital Data
Envisioned as an audiovisual-digitization and digital-forensics teaching tool, RADD is quickly embedding itself into Wisconsin cultural-heritage work. Learn how it was built, how it is being used, and how you too can recover analog and digital data!
Presenter: Dorothea Salo

Session Chairs

Patricia Hswe

Program Officer, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Speakers

Tanya Clement

University of Texas

Julie Hardesty

Metadata Analyst, Indiana University

Indiana University

Amy Rudersdorf

Senior Consultant, AVPreserve

Data management, AV preservation, requirements development for technology procurement, data migration

Dorothea Salo

Distinguished Faculty Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School

Librarian and educator. Metadata, linked data, A/V digitization, digital preservation, scholarly communication and publishing, information security and privacy.

Steven Villereal

University of Virginia Library

Monday November 7, 2016 2:35pm - 3:30pm CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

2:35pm CST

#m4c: Stewardship

Presentation 1
Fedora 4 Project Update
Fedora is a flexible, extensible repository platform for the management and dissemination of digital content. Fedora 4 has been adopted by many new and existing Fedora users. This project update will review new developments, including the API specification effort, community-led feature development, and the new training program.
Presenter: David Wilcox

Presentation 2
Digital Darwin: Preserving our assets … and their descendants
Presentation of recent and future projects which highlight a circular, reflexive, and spiraling digital asset lifecycle in which existing objects inspire derivative artifacts, which are then linked in parity to the original asset that inspired it – proposing a "feedback loop" stewardship style which records the asset's evolution and influence.
Presenter: James Bradley

Presentation 3
Down the Rabbit Hole: Data Normalization, Migrations and Access within a Digital Preservation Framework
This presentation addresses data wrangling efforts, the creation of workflows, and the challenges encountered while preparing resources for migration. A review of the de-duplication efforts, development of a collection assessment tool and its implementation, and techniques to transform, normalizes, and link metadata to the accompanying digital resources will be discussed.
Presenters: Daniel Noonan, Darnelle Melvin

Session Chairs

Adam Leader-Smith

Program Associate, Council on Library and Information Resources

CLIR+DLF

Speakers

James Bradley

Ball State University Libraries

Darnelle Melvin

Metadata Transformation Librarian, The Ohio State University

METADATA

Daniel Noonan

Digital Preservation Librarian, The Ohio State University

David Wilcox

Product Manager, DuraSpace

DuraSpace

Monday November 7, 2016 2:35pm - 3:30pm CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

4:00pm CST

#m5b: Spatial Data

Presentation 1
Implementing Collaborative Metadata Workflows for the Geospatial Data Discovery Project
The CIC Geospatial Data Discovery Project developed a web portal to serve as an access point for geospatial resources, including GIS data, imagery, and scanned historical maps. This presentation will review the project’s collaborative metadata workflow, including the metadata tools utilized for collecting, transforming, and editing geospatial metadata records.
Presenters: Karen Majewicz, Bria Parker

Presentation 2
Expanding the Neat Lines: Management of a Historical Society’s Map Collection
The focus of the session will be the building of the Wisconsin Historical Society’s (WHS) new online map collection and various digitization considerations that are specific to cartographic materials.
Presenters: Susan Krueger, Tegan Rice

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Viewing History from the Sky: Geo-rectification of an Aerial Photography Collection
Versions of aerial photographs over time provide a powerful view of a state’s geographic evolution. The University of South Carolina Libraries has digitized, geo-rectified and created a searchable website displaying its collection covering the 1930s-1980s thanks to a generous grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
Presenter: Kate Boyd

Session Chairs

Ann Hanlon

Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Speakers

Kate Boyd

Digital Initiatives Coordinator, University of South Carolina Libraries

University of South Carolina Libraries

Susan Krueger

Wisconsin Historical Society

Karen Majewicz

Geospatial Metadata Coordinator, University of Minnesota

Bria Parker

Head, Discovery and Metadata Services, University of Maryland Libraries

University of Maryland

Tegan Rice

Wisconsin Historical Society

Monday November 7, 2016 4:00pm - 4:55pm CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

4:00pm CST

m5a: Cultural Heritage+

Presentation 1
Snapshot - A Revolutionary Scanning Device for Rapid Capture of Cultural Heritage Materials
We present a working prototype of a revolutionary scanning system designed to significantly increase throughput on scanning of many types of cultural heritage materials, including unbound manuscripts, photographs and negatives.
Presenter: Scott Eldredge

Presentation 2
Snapshot - Open Online Newspaper Initiative (Open ONI): Software development and Interoperability for Digital Newspapers
Short update on the progress of the Open ONI (Online Newspaper Initiative) community-based software development project to improve hosting, access, and functionality for digital newspapers.
Presenter: Sheila Rabun

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Preservation and Curation of ETD Research Data and Complex Digital Objects
The IMLS-funded ETDplus team will share findings from surveys conducted with students from 12 universities in 2015 regarding their needs for ETD submission support for research datasets and complex digital objects (multimedia files, software, etc.). We'll also share information about new tools and guidance documents produced to meet these needs.
Presenters: Katherine Skinner, Sam Meister, Michael Boock

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Clarifying Copyright: Applying Rightsstatements.org to Legacy Digital Collections
This snapshot outlines the University of Miami Libraries’ project to evaluate the rights status of 52,000 digital items in the UM Digital Collections, which contained little rights-related information in their metadata. We undertook a systematic review of the collections and assigned rights categories based upon the recommended statements at Rightsstatements.org.
Presenters: Elliot Williams, Laura Capell

Session Chairs

John Russell

Digital Humanities Librarian, Penn State University

Speakers

Michael Boock

Oregon State University Libraries & Press

Laura Capell

Head of Digital Production, University of Miami

Laura is the Head of Digital Production at the University of Miami, where she manages digital projects for special collections materials.

Scott Eldredge

Brigham Young University

Sam Meister

Educopia Institute

Sheila Rabun

IIIF Community and Communications Officer, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium

Katherine Skinner

Educopia Institute

Elliot Williams

Digital Initiatives Metadata Librarian, University of Miami

Monday November 7, 2016 4:00pm - 4:55pm CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

4:00pm CST

m5c: Collaboration+

Presentation 1
Mission Possible: the Making of a Shared Digital Library
“Collaboration & Cooperation” is the mantra for the Three College Digital Library. Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges have joined forces to build a shared Digital Library. We'll share our start-up story and progress to date – focusing on project vision and planning, harmonizing metadata, business process, and creating governance.
Presenters: Elisa Lanzi, Sarah Goldstein, Abigail Baines

Presentation 2
It Takes a Village: Collaboratively Building a Cross-Disciplinary Digital Repository
Middlebury College is engaged in a collaborative effort between librarians, ITS, and faculty to define, plan, and implement a digital preservation and access system that answers the varied needs across multiple disciplines. We discuss the challenges, strategies, and insights encountered throughout this process, including our participation in DLF’s eResearch Network.
Presenters: Ryan Clement, Wendy Shook, Patrick Wallace

Presentation 3
Digital Preservation Partnerships: Extending Resources and Expanding Knowledge through Collaboration
For libraries with limited resources, digital preservation can seem like a daunting responsibility. Collaborative partnerships allow libraries to build collective knowledge and maximize combined resources. This session presents strategies for building and sustaining digital preservation collaborations, ultimately demonstrating that—by working together—libraries can develop robust digital preservation programs.
Presenters: Sara Mannheimer, Tammy Troup

Session Chairs

Doralyn Rossmann

Dean of the Library, Montana State University

Speakers

Abigail S. Baines

Hampshire College

Ryan Clement

Data Services Librarian, Middlebury College

Middlebury College

Sarah Goldstein

AD of Discovery & Access, Mount Holyoke College

Elisa Lanzi

Director of Digital Strategies and Services, Smith College

Smith College

Sara Mannheimer

Associate Professor - Data Librarian, Montana State University

As Associate Professor and Data Librarian at Montana State University, I help shape practices and theories for curation, publication, and preservation of data. My research examines the social, ethical, and technical issues that arise in a data-driven world.

Wendy Shook

Middlebury College

Tammy Troup

Montana Historical Society

Patrick Wallace

Digital Projects & Archives Librarian, Middlebury College

Middlebury College

Monday November 7, 2016 4:00pm - 4:55pm CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

8:30am CST

#t1a: Text Analysis+

Presentation 1
Snapshot - Lowering the Bar: Making Text and Data Mining Accessible
At University of Toronto Libraries, TDM requests have revealed gaps in our workflows and the frustration of researchers who are seeking access to licensed materials to perform TDM research. We’ll outline our first steps in making the process easier for librarians and researchers alike.
Presenters: Graeme Slaght, Leslie Barnes

Presentation 2
Universal / Customizable: Providing Flexible Text for Unmediated Experience
Text for computational research should be made available to all with as few restrictions as possible. MSU Libraries has built tools that provide users direct and customizable access to large volumes of text, allowing them to leap over several of the initial hurdles to engaging in computational research.
Presenter: Devin Higgins

Presentation 3
Snapshot - (Re)skilling the 21st Century Librarian: Empowering Librarians to Support Text Analysis Research
How do we prepare our librarian colleagues to actively participate in digital scholarship? We provide an update on a train-the-trainer initiative that is building digital scholarship competencies in the library community. We report lessons learned in year one of developing a curriculum to teach librarians skills for text analysis research.
Presenters: Harriett Green, Eleanor Dickson, Amanda Henley

Presentation 4
Snapshot: Humanities Collaborations and Research Practices: Investigating New Modes of Collaborative Humanities Scholarship
This paper will present findings from “Humanities Collaborations and Research Practices: Exploring Scholarship in the Global Midwest,” a project that examines the community of practice in the Humanities Without Walls Global Midwest initiative in order to understand humanities research at the level of practice, process, and collaboration.
Presenters: Harriett Green, Angela Courtney

Session Chairs

Helene Williams

Teaching Professor, University of Washington Information School

University of Washington

Speakers

Karl Blumenthal

Web Archivist, Internet Archive

I help the Internet Archive's service partners to build, access, analyze, and preserve web archive collections.

Angela Courtney

Indiana University at Bloomington

Harriett Green

Associate University Librarian, Washington University in St. Louis

I am the Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services at Washington University in St. Louis. Mastodon: @harrigreen@hcommons.social

Amanda Henley

Devin Higgins

Digital Library Programmer, Michigan State University Libraries

Michigan State University

Eleanor Dickson Koehl

University of Illinois; HTRC

HathiTrust Research Center, text analysis, #dlfteach, digital library pedagogy

Graeme Slaght

DLF Final HCRP Slides pdf

Tuesday November 8, 2016 8:30am - 9:25am CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

8:30am CST

#t1b: Email/Ethics

Presentation 1
The Politics of Email: The Missing Email Archives of Transparency Advocates
Sometimes acquisition is the hardest part of digital preservation. This case study examines the failure to acquire the email archives of a small nonprofit devoted to government transparency, what individuals fear about turning over their email, and how best to assuage those fears in order to preserve the historical record.
Presenter: Angela White

Presentation 2
Tweets: Ours for the Taking?
A look at student activism as it unfolds, via hashtags, on Twitter, and the right information professionals have (or do not have) to collect and preserve these tweets. When individuals share their stories on a public platform, have they given professionals implicit permission to take them? Should we ask first?
Presenter: Samantha Abrams

Presentation 3
Predictive Coding and Email Preservation
The University of Illinois is leading a project to help archivists preserve email messages by leveraging predictive coding tools developed for the legal community. Presentation will include background on our project, a high level review of predictive coding techniques and other technologies, and early results of our efforts.
Presenter: Joanne Kaczmarek

Session Chairs

Wayne Graham

Chief Information Officer, CLIR

CLIR-DLF

Speakers

Samantha Abrams

Web Resources Collection Librarian, Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation

Samantha Abrams is the Ivy Plus Libraries Web Resources Collection Librarian, stationed at Columbia University.

Joanne Kaczmarek

University of Illinois

Angela White

Director of Special Collections, IUPUI University Library

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tuesday November 8, 2016 8:30am - 9:25am CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

8:30am CST

#t1c: Open Science

Presentation 1
Open Science: how libraries can support modern research practice
The Open Science movement is a driving force behind scientific research becoming more transparent. This presentation will cover issues surrounding the reproducibility crisis, it’s manifestation in modern scientific practice, the potential of open science as a reproducibility tool, and methods of engaging with open science in an academic library setting.
Presenters: Ekatarina {Eka} Grguric, Bret Davidson

Presentation 2
Supporting the Modern Research Skillset: the Summer of Open Science
Modern trends in the way that research is conducted and disseminated have created a technical skills gap for experienced and novice researchers alike. This presentation will describe a program to address this skills gap by supporting the ongoing development of an open science skill set through community building and workshops.
Presenters: Ekatarina {Eka} Grguric, Lauren Di Monte, Alison Blaine

Presentation 3
The Impact of the Biodiversity Heritage Library on Scientific Research
This presentation details a study evaluating the scientific impact of the digital Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) through topic modeling and analysis of a series of interviews with scientific researchers featured in a BHL blog. Additionally, the session will facilitate a discussion regarding digital library impact, marketing, and assessment.
Presenter: Kelli Trei

Session Chairs

Yasmeen Shorish

Director of Scholarly Communication Strategies, James Madison University

Speakers

Alison Blaine

NCSU Libraries

Bret Davidson

NCSU Libraries

Ekatarina {Eka} Grguric

NCSU Libraries

Lauren Di Monte

NCSU Libraries

Kelli Trei

Biosciences Librarian, Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library

Kelli Trei manages the collection and performs instruction, research, and reference services for the Schools of Life Sciences: Integrative Biology and Molecular & Cellular Biology, and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Her research interests include investigating the... Read More →

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Tuesday November 8, 2016 8:30am - 9:25am CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

9:35am CST

#t2a: Audio+

Presentation 1
Treading into Alien Territory: Area 33-1/3 Digitized Vinyl Collection
The University of Nevada, Reno had a disorganized and uncataloged legacy collection of vinyl records. The project team selected unique and interesting materials for digitizing and streaming using CONTENTdm to provide access and metadata. Phase two of the program is underway to significantly improve the user streaming experience.
Presenters: Amy Hunsaker, Maggie Ressel

Presentation 2
Snapshot - A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews
Leveraging skills we developed in an earlier mapping project, the library at Vancouver Island University is using digitized audio recordings to map the spoken word in the form of conversations about coal mines from the years 1900 – 1945 in and around the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Presenter: Daniel Sifton

Presentation 3
Snapshot - How open source tools in use by libraries, archives and museums are evolving towards sustainable research infrastructures for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
At the University of Leuven several humanities projects started using CollectiveAccess and Omeka as part of their research infrastructure. These projects demonstrate that both open source tools can be successfully deployed in research projects and have the potential to grow further in the domain of Digital Humanities.
Presenter: Roxanne Wyns

Session Chairs

Kevin Butterfield

University of Richmond

Speakers

Amy Hunsaker

University of Nevada, Reno

Maggie Ressel

University of Nevada, Reno

Daniel Sifton

Systems Librarian, Vancouver Island University

Roxanne Wyns

LIBIS - KU Leuven, Belgium

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Tuesday November 8, 2016 9:35am - 10:30am CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

9:35am CST

#t2b: UX+

Presentation 1
From stacks to screen: prototyping the future of Wellcome's digital library
This presentation explores how the Wellcome Library’s mass digitization efforts refocused the organization on the overall UX of search and discovery for a hybrid physical/digital library. Based on user research, followed by agile prototyping, the project has led to re-thinking design, metadata and content strategy.
Presenter: Jenn Phillips-Bacher

Presentation 2
Coordinated Discovery across Different Types of Resources
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is building a coordinated discovery platform with a flexible result sets and objects player architecture to deliver an experience optimized for different types of resources. Coordinating searches across resource types modeled on Internet search engines provides an improved experience over bento and single search box approaches.
Presenters: Bruce Barton, Peter Gorman

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Ensuring User Needs Before DAM Repository Implementation
Oregon Health and Science University Library is implementing repository services for digital assets management communities of practice. This snapshot highlights a repository librarian's experience assessing and ensuring user experience needs before DAM system implementation.
Presenter: Kate Thornhill

Presentation 4
Snapshot - User Research Methods to Gauge Awareness and Perceived Value of Digital Library Content in a Decentralized Delivery Model
This presentation will detail qualitative and quantitative user research methods employed to establish baseline understanding of awareness and perceptions of current state digital collection interfaces at Emory University. Implications of this data for the design of a new repository environment will be discussed.
Presenter: Nik Dragovic

Session Chairs

Rachel Appel

Digital Projects and Services Librarian, Temple University

Speakers

Bruce Barton

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nik Dragovic

Digital Projects Librarian, Emory University

Peter Gorman

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jenn Phillips-Bacher

Product Manager, Wellcome Collection

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Tuesday November 8, 2016 9:35am - 10:30am CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

9:35am CST

#t2c: Arts&Hum

Presentation 1
Snapshot - Making art (and more!) with metadata
Metadata can be a rich source of raw material for building new experiences and opening material to unexpected modes of discovery, whether it is through enabling tools to inject a feeling of play and exploration into research, opening up the closed stacks to browsing, or making wall-art.
Presenter: Matthew Miguez

Presentation 2
Snapshot - Browsing Artists' Books with Linked Data Visualization
UC Irvine Libraries recently completed a NEH-funded pilot project to extend interoperability and discoverability of artists’ books via linked data and digital surrogates. This is a brief demonstration of the prototype visualization tool which allows researchers to traverse relationships within and between the works.
Presenter: Laura Smart

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Programming Poetry: Using Raspberry Pi and Repurposed Receipt Printers to Promote Contemporary Poetry (Daily) on Campus
The Vandal Poem of the Day project promotes contemporary poetry and digital innovation at the University of Idaho via a daily website and the deployment of PoemBots—Raspberry Pi powered mini poem printers that promote the physical reading of poetry and spread awareness of physical computing capacity at the library.
Presenters: Devin Becker, Evan Williamson

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Humanities Data, Literary Study, and Inclusion
This snapshot looks at two case studies of literary scholars, who have not considered themselves part of digital humanities, making and working with data. It considers ways librarians can facilitate this work, the affordances and challenges of it, and approaches for more inclusive digital scholarship practices.
Presenter: Katie Rawson

Session Chairs

Julie Hardesty

Metadata Analyst, Indiana University

Indiana University

Speakers

Devin Becker (he/him)

Associate Dean for Research and Instruction, University of Idaho Library

Devin Becker is the Associate Dean for Research and Instruction at the University of Idaho Library. He is the project director for CollectionBuilder, which is an IMLS-funded digital exhibit framework that was used to create the repositories for this project and serves as the infrastructure... Read More →

Matthew Miguez

Florida State University

Katie Rawson

Emory University

Laura Smart

Head, Digital Scholarship Services, UCI

University of California, Irvine

Evan Williamson

University of Idaho Library

Tuesday November 8, 2016 9:35am - 10:30am CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

11:00am CST

#t3a: Space&Learning

Presentation 1
Digital Learning in Physical Spaces: One Library’s Strategic Renovations
The Claremont Colleges Library is renovating two complementary spaces to enable experimental, project-based learning enhanced by technology and services. This presentation shares pre-renovation assessments and results and how they affected implementation. It also discusses post-remodel use studies and development of a project template integrating assessment and communication into future renovations.
Presenter: Sarah Pickle, Micquel Little

Presentation 2
Snapshot - Digital Collections Units as Learning Labs
As Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship (DH/DS) become increasingly popular in many academic departments, digital collections units can serve as learning labs for students and professors. SMU’s Norwick Center for Digital Services has created educational opportunities for many audiences, including practicum, internships, digitization tours, lab demonstrations, and graduate seminars.
Presenter: Cindy Boeke

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Integrating the Library and Digital Humanities: A Digital Collections Librarian’s Education and Assessment
Awarded NEH funding in 2013 to digitize a 19th Century southern botanist’s manuscripts and plant specimens, the Digital Collections Librarian had her first real experience working with the Center for Digital Humanities. She will discuss lessons learned and whether it was an appropriate use of her department's time.
Presenter: Kate Boyd

Presentation 4
Snapshot - The Training Games: A Method for Digitization Skills Refreshment and Certification
The Training Games Program, piloted during spring of 2016, consisted of nine tests and scanning challenges participants had to complete to earn basic digitization certification. The program sought to verify and improve scanning manuals, educate, refresh, and certify the digitization skills of student technicians, and increase their scanning confidence.
Presenters: Marcia McIntosh, Shannon Willis

Session Chairs

Doralyn Rossmann

Dean of the Library, Montana State University

Speakers

Kate Boyd

Digital Initiatives Coordinator, University of South Carolina Libraries

University of South Carolina Libraries

Micquel Little

Director of User Services and Resource Sharing, Claremont Colleges Library

Micquel Little is the Director of User Services and Resource Sharing at the Claremont Colleges Library in Southern California. After earning her BA and MLIS degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, Micquel became involved in resource sharing and the IDS Project in 2010. She also... Read More →

Marcia McIntosh

Associate Librarian, University of North Texas

University of North Texas

Sarah Pickle

Associate Dean for Operations & Strategy, The Claremont Colleges Library

Shannon Willis

University of North Texas

Tuesday November 8, 2016 11:00am - 11:55am CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

11:00am CST

#t3b: 3D+

Presentation 1
Inclusion of 3D Artifacts into a Digital Library: Exploring Technologies and Best Practice Techniques
Advances in 3D technologies are providing libraries and museums the opportunity to capture 3D artifacts in digital formats. The Center for Digital Scholarship at IUPUI University Library is implementing workflows and determining best practices to incorporate 3D images into an already established digital library of community and cultural heritage collections.
Presenters: Jennifer Johnson, Anna Proctor

Presentation 2
More than 'Iron Man' and 'Pokemon Go': What is Augmented Reality and What Can It Do In Libraries?
In this presentation you will learn the difference between virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) and how augmented reality can help you present your existing digital content in new ways.
Presenter: Markus Wust

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Programs and Services for 3D Imaging
3D imaging has strong potential to change digital library, archives, and museum collections. The costs of technologies and infrastructure for 3D imaging are now affordable for broader use in these areas. This presentation discusses cost models for 3D imaging services and programs to help practitioners consider design and implementation.
Presenter: Nathan Hall

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Lead to Pixels: A Design Lab Partnership
I will discuss the ongoing "Lead to Pixels" project, a collaboration between the University of Michigan Library and Wolverine Press, that explores the usage of 3D printing for letterpress printing. In doing so, I will show how it exemplifies partnership over service-oriented approach to collaboration.
Presenter: Justin Schell, Rebecca Chung

Session Chairs

Wayne Graham

Chief Information Officer, CLIR

CLIR-DLF

Speakers

Nathan Hall

Director, Digital Libraries and Preservation, Virginia Tech

I am a professor at Virginia Tech, where I direct digital imaging and digital preservation services for the University Libraries. I am PI on the CLIR funded Entomo-3D project and the IMLS funded Community Development Model For Digital Community Archives project. I am interested in... Read More →

Jennifer Johnson

IUPUI University Library

Anna Proctor

Digitization Manager, IUPUI University Library

Digitization Manager, IUPUI University Library Center for Digital Scholarship

Justin Schell

University of Michigan Library - Shapiro Design Lab

Justin Schell is the Director of the Shapiro Design Lab, a peer learning and project design community at the University of Michigan Library. Passionate about all things community and citizen science, he has helped organize Data Rescue events across the country. He is also the founder... Read More →

Markus Wust

North Carolina State University Libraries

Tuesday November 8, 2016 11:00am - 11:55am CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

11:00am CST

#t3c: Identities+

Presentation 1
Lose the Zero, Get with the Hero: What Zero Ratings Mean for Digital Libraries
How might zero ratings affect digital libraries? This (15-25 minute) presentation provides an overview of:

zero ratings—what are they?
the history of net neutrality
global discussions about zero ratings

Presenters: Michelle Gibeault, Stephanie Pierce
Presentation 2
Things, Not Strings: Library Services to Enhance Academic Semantic Web Identity
The Internet has been redefining library work for decades. Now, the Semantic Web is further changing the scope of librarianship. Academic institutions suffer from incomplete Semantic Web identities. This presentation details development and implementation of new library services to improve reputation and representation of academic institutions on the Semantic Web.
Presenter: Justin Shanks

Presentation 3
Snapshot - SnapSNAC
This snapshot will present an update on the work of the cooperative members of the Social Networks and Archival Context initiative hosted by NARA.
Presenter: Kelly Spring

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Shareable Authorities : Research Questions and Directions in the National Strategy for Shareable Local Name Authorities
This talk will discuss questions and projected outcomes of the IMLS-funded National Strategy for Shareable Local Name Authorities, a forum of institutions engaged in the shareable authorities space; we will engage the audience in issues related to sharing local authorities and seek feedback on directions of the project.
Presenter: Jason Kovari

Session Chairs

Anne Washington

Metadata Librarian, University of Houston Libraries

University of Houston, United States of America

Speakers

Michelle Gibeault

University of Arkansas

Jason Kovari

Director, Cataloging & Metadata Services, Cornell University

Stephanie Pierce

Head, Physics Library, University of Arkansas Libraries

University of Arkansas

Justin D. Shanks

Montana State University Library

Montana State University

Kelly Spring

Archivist for Special Collections & Archives, University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

Tuesday November 8, 2016 11:00am - 11:55am CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

1:30pm CST

#t5a: Workflows+

Presentation 1
Practical Options for Incoming Digital Content
Born-digital materials pose new and complex problems for many special collections and archives. We will share the results of a survey on the selection of practical tools, productive workflows, and recommendations, and ask attendees to share and/or demonstrate practical workflows and tools, and to contribute to the ongoing development of best practices and guidelines.
Presenters: Jody DeRidder, Alissa Helms

Presentation 2
Designing User-Friendly Ingestion Workflows
Developing workflow-friendly bulk ingestion practices for digital repositories can be difficult. At Northeastern University we attempted to ease the pain of bulk ingestion by designing tools and methods that match our community's digital content workflows.
Presenter: Eli Zoller

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Library Workflow Exchange: Community Documentation of Best Practices
The Library Workflow Exchange (www.libraryworkflowexchange.org) is a database that gathers and shares workflows and documentation related to digitization, technical services, and cataloging. This snapshot will discuss the community benefits of sharing library workflows and seek feedback from the DLF community to improve the site.
Presenters: Liz Woolcott, Anna Neatrour

Presentation 4
Snapshot - “Does the Research Generate Data?” and Other Ambiguous
The University of Washington Libraries Research Data Services Unit undertook a cross-campus survey of DMPs in order to inform the development of its services. While we ultimately finished with excellent information, the project took significantly longer than we had initially budgeted. Here’s why, and what we’ll do differently next time.
Presenters: Elizabeth Bedford, Greta Pittenger

Speakers

Liz Bedford

Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian, University of Washington

University of Washington Libraries

Jody DeRidder

University of Alabama Libraries

Alissa Helms

University of Alabama Libraries

Anna Neatrour

Head of Digital Library Services, University of Utah

Interested in digital humanities, collaborative digitization, digital public history, collections as data, digital libraries, metadata, and more!

Greta Pittenger

Research, Archives & Data Strategy, NPR

At NPR, I deal with digital content and asset workflows for production and long-term archiving. I also work with journalists to help with deadline research, so I have the daily experience of being both a system maintainer and a user of maintained systems. I'm particularly interested... Read More →

Krystal Thomas

Digital Archivist, Florida State University Libraries, United States of America

Liz Woolcott

Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, Utah State University, Merril-Cazier Library

Liz Woolcott, liz.woolcott@usu.edu, Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services at Utah State University, manages the MARC and non-MARC metadata creation of the University Libraries and is the co-founder of the Library Workflow Exchange. She publishes and presents on workflow and assessment... Read More →

Eli Zoller

Northeastern University

Tuesday November 8, 2016 1:30pm - 2:25pm CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

1:30pm CST

#t5b: DH

Presentation 1
A Year in the Life of a Digital Humanities Librarian
Three Digital Humanities Librarians from the University of Iowa Libraries’ Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio discuss the emergence of the department from two separate units on campus, the workflows the Studio has established to support DH projects from conceptualization to preservation, and their roles within this infrastructure.
Presenters: Nikki JD White, Hannah Scates Kettler, Stephanie Blalock

Presentation 2
The Expansion and Development of Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Librarian Roles: A Look at the Data
This project is a qualitative and quantitative investigation of the role of digital humanities (DH) & digital scholarship (DS) librarians as they are described in job ads pulled from as far back as 2009.
Presenters: Paige Morgan, Helene Williams

Presentation 3
Avoiding techno-service-solutionism: Applying infrastructural perspectives and learning theory to digital humanities practice in the library
Many librarians express interest in digital humanities but perceive a gap in their technical expertise, thinking they need to learn to code or become familiar with tools. We argue digital humanities is based upon socially-constructed expertise and functions more through relationships than technical systems. We draw insights from learning theory and infrastructure studies.
Presenters: Matt Burton, Aaron Brenner

Session Chairs

Alex Gil

University of Pennsylvania

Columbia University Libraries

Speakers

Stephanie Blalock

The University of Iowa Libraries

Aaron Brenner

University of Pittsburgh

Matt Burton

University of Pittsburgh

Hannah Scates Kettler

The University of Iowa Libraries

Paige Morgan

Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Miami

University of Miami

Nikki JD White

The University of Iowa Libraries

Helene Williams

Teaching Professor, University of Washington Information School

University of Washington

Tuesday November 8, 2016 1:30pm - 2:25pm CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

1:30pm CST

#t5c: Labor+

Presentation 1
Decentralized Labor, Centralized Authority, Distributed Data: The Getty Vocabularies as Crowdsourcing
A critical examination of the history of, and contemporary practices in, crowdsourcing reveals that the Getty Vocabularies are (unofficially) a crowdsourcing project and, furthermore, present a model for other GLAM crowdsourcing projects that can ameliorate the potentially negative implications of the practice.
Presenters: Melissa Gill, Nathaniel Deines

Presentation 2
Catholic, Crowdfunded and Collaborative: A Unique Approach to Newspaper Digitization
Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA), aims to provide access to newspapers, in this case to all Catholic newspapers published in North America, both newspapers in the public domain and in copyright. But the CRRA takes a very different approach to implement its goal through crowdfunding and collaboration.
Presenters: Frederick Zarndt, Patricia Lawton, Jeff Moyer

Presentation 3
Snapshot - The Man in the Machine: Digital Labor Ethics for Academic Research
The online labor market Mechanical Turk presents new opportunities for research at scale. Yet librarians and researchers are also challenged to engage ethically with this globally dispersed workforce. This session explores digital labor ethics for academic research, and discusses librarians’ role in facilitating ethical inquiry into online labor services.
Presenters: Scott Young, Sara Mannheimer

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Everybody's a Comedian: A Discussion of Copyright Protection and Black Twitter
It has been argued that most tweets are inconsequential and not worthy of copyright protection because of their subject matter and brevity. In this presentation I will discuss two possible theories granting an exception for “Black Twitter” due to its relationship to both black comedy and hip hop.
Presenter: Tamara Townsend

Session Chairs

Jasmine Jones

Metadata and Technical Services Archivist, Smith College Special Collections

Smith College

Speakers

Nathaniel Deines

IT Project Manager, J. Paul Getty Trust

Melissa Gill

Metadata Specialist, Getty Research Institute

Pat Lawton

Digital Projects Librarian, Catholic Research Resources Alliance

Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA)

Jeff Moyer

Reveal Digital

Tamara Townsend

Reference & Instruction Librarian, Long Island University

Librarian & Archivist. Reference and Instruction Librarian at Long Island University Brooklyn.

Frederick Zarndt

Consultant, Global Connexions

Frederick Zarndt has worked with historic and contemporary newspaper, journal, magazine, book, and records digitisation since computer speeds, software, technology, storage, and costs first made it practical. Frederick has experience in every aspect of digitisation projects including... Read More →

Tuesday November 8, 2016 1:30pm - 2:25pm CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

2:35pm CST

#t6a: Cite/Pub

Presentation 1
Rubric to evaluate open access journals for publication
This presentation will demonstrate putting the values of librarianship into practice at your institution by addressing the publishing needs of faculty. It outlines difficulties encountered with evaluating open access journals for publication, library’s involvement in the evaluation process and results of piloting the rubric at LMU.
Presenter: Shilpa Rele

Presentation 2
Snapshot - Vega, an academic publishing platform
Vega is a new academic publishing platform in development, thanks to an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award. I will preview the authorial, editorial, and publishing features of Vega, which includes multimedia, print-like and data-set peer-review and publishing options. The system will be in beta-testing during early summer of 2017.
Presenter: Cheryl Ball

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Wikipedia as the Sum of All Citations: WikiCite 2016 and Beyond
Wikipedia and WikiData are becoming critical hubs for citation information with over 30 millions citations increasingly available as structured data. WikiCite 2016 brought together 70 thinkers and hackers to improve our infrastructure and plans for free, linked open bibliographic data. We'll report on the conference and future plans.
Presenter: Jake Orlowitz

Presentation 4
New Library Services: A Framework to Enhance Researcher Visibility
Active promotion of scholarship is an important stage of the publication cycle. This presentation explains how Montana State University Library developed a framework to facilitate creation of digital identifiers for MSU researchers and curate linkages between individuals and their research activities to ensure work is properly attributed and recognized.
Presenter: Justin Shanks

Session Chairs

Alex Gil

University of Pennsylvania

Columbia University Libraries

Speakers

Cheryl E. Ball

Executive Director, Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Talk to me about Kairos, the longest continuously running scholarly multimedia journal; the Council of Editors of Learned Journals; or what digital projects you are currently working on!

Jake Orlowitz

The Wikipedia Library - Wikimedia Foundation

Shilpa Rele

Digital Program Librarian, Loyola Marymount University

@ShilpaRele

Justin D. Shanks

Montana State University Library

Montana State University

Tuesday November 8, 2016 2:35pm - 3:30pm CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

2:35pm CST

#t6b: Research Data

Presentation 1
Developing Research-Engaged Librarians at the Interface of Data Science and Visualization
Librarians are building new skillsets to support collaboration with researchers at the interface of data science and visualization. Learn about the skills librarians are learning through the Data and Visualization Institute for Librarians to support faculty and students and lessons learned this training program.
Presenter: Hilary Davis

Presentation 2
Building a Village: Developing a Library-Wide Research Data Services Program
The University of Michigan Library is expanding its Research Data Services (RDS) program across the library through embedding data into job responsibilities and creating networks for collaboration and referral. Through RDS we seek to expand the role of libraries to include engagement with researchers as producers and consumers of information.
Presenter: Amy Neeser

Presentation 3
Exploiting Expertise: Domain-based Data Services Training for Librarians
This session reports on the curriculum development, outreach strategy, and outcomes of a domain-based research data management training effort at UC Berkeley library. Session participants will gain awareness of this model and leave with instructional plans that they can adapt to use in their own environment.
Presenters: Jamie Wittenberg, Anna Sackmann

Session Chairs

Catherine Phan

University of Wisconsin--Madison

Speakers

Chris Barr

Knight Foundation

Hilary Davis

Department Head, Collections & Research Strategy, North Carolina State University Libraries

Hilary Davis is Department Head, Collections & Research Strategy at the North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh, NC. Her primary role is to provide leadership and direction in the Libraries’ overall collection development strategies, and play a leading role in the Libraries... Read More →

Amy Neeser

Research Data Curation Librarian, University of Michigan

Amy Neeser

Anna Sackmann

Data Services Librarian, University of California, Berkeley Library

University of California, Berkeley

Jamie Wittenberg

Program Manager, Research Data Management Service, UC Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday November 8, 2016 2:35pm - 3:30pm CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

2:35pm CST

#t6c: Project Management

Presentation 1
Make the Investment!: Project management leads to success at institutions of any size
Regardless of your institution's size, common digital project management techniques can be implemented to make your digitization program successful. Project managers/librarians Amy Bocko and Bethany Davis will discuss their shared strategies and the varied challenges they have experienced working at institutions of different sizes.
Presenters: Amy Bocko, Bethany Davis

Presentation 2
Digitization Project Prioritization and Funding
Between 2013 and 2016, Robin Pike has employed several tactics to prioritize and fund mass digitization projects across diverse circulating and special collection areas at the University of Maryland Libraries. This presentation will discuss the techniques used and the logistics of coordinating a cross-divisional program.
Presenter: Robin Pike

Presentation 3
Snapshot - “The Nightmare of My Choice”: Selecting a Project Management Tool*
The Getty Research Institute’s Digital Art History program recently selected and deployed project management software to manage several large research-driven technology projects. This snapshot will discuss our approach to selecting and implementing a tool, including processes for assessment and selection, and lessons learned six months into system implementation.
Presenters: Melissa Gill, Nathaniel Deines

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Managing a Portfolio of Projects
Managing a number of digital projects involves collaboration among many stakeholders - digitization, metadata, as well as curators. Northwestern University Libraries developed a process to address these issues. This talk provides a walkthrough of the process highlighting lessons learned and insights regarding managing multiple projects.
Presenters: Jennifer Young, Dan Zellner

Session Chairs

Cynthia York

Project Manager, Johns Hopkins University Libraries, United States of America

Project ManagementDigital Humanities projects

Speakers

Jen Young (she/her)

Metadata Coordinator, Northwestern University Libraries

Amy Bocko

Digital Initiatives Librarian, Emerson College

Emerson College

Bethany Davis

University of Iowa

Nathaniel Deines

IT Project Manager, J. Paul Getty Trust

Melissa Gill

Metadata Specialist, Getty Research Institute

Robin C Pike

Manager, Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting, University of Maryland

Robin Pike is the Manager, Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting at the University of Maryland managing digitization operations across seven College Park Libraries. She has been Co-PI of an NEH National Digital Newspaper Program grant for three phases and other grants funded by... Read More →

Dan Zellner

Northwestern University Libraries

Tuesday November 8, 2016 2:35pm - 3:30pm CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

4:00pm CST

#t7a: Curation/Collab

Presentation 1
Snapshot - The Data Curation Network: A network of expertise model for curating research data for academic digital repositories
The Data Curation Network project will develop a shared staffing model to enable academic libraries to collectively, and more effectively, curate a wider variety of data types (e.g., discipline, file format, etc.) that expands beyond what any single institution might offer alone.
Presenter: Lisa Johnston

Presentation 2
Snapshot - Discovery Virginia: Building an Institutional Repository in the Public Humanities
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the state-wide humanities organization for Virginia is building an institutional repository for the thousands of items produced during its forty-year history. Items ranging from reel-to-reel tape to history podcasts will be included in the Islandora platform now under construction and to be presented here.
Presenter: Susan Perdue

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Linking Research Information Systems and Institutional Repositories: Processes and Prospects
Deploying a research information system like Converis may streamline the process of bringing new faculty publications into the institutional repository, but poses challenges in developing workflows, communicating with stakeholders and integrating systems. This snapshot will explore Fondren Library’s ongoing role in helping to implement Converis at Rice University.
Presenters: Lisa Spiro, Shannon Kipphut-Smith

Presentation 4
Snapshot - OCLC's Partnership to Provide a Sustainable Aggregation Solution for DPLA Service Hubs
This talk will provide an overview of how OCLC is working in partnership with libraries to provide a sustainable solution for DPLA Service Hubs that can allow them to achieve large scale aggregation with reduced resources.
Presenter: Carly Bogen

Session Chairs

Adam Leader-Smith

Program Associate, Council on Library and Information Resources

CLIR+DLF

Speakers

Carly Bogen

Product Analyst, OCLC Digital Collection Services

OCLC

Lisa Johnston

University of Minnesota

Shannon Kipphut-Smith

Scholarly Communications Liaison, Rice University

Rice University

Susan Perdue

Chief Information Officer, Virginia Humanities (VFH)

I am responsible for unifying information and the systems that store that information across the organization. I work with all programs and our advancement team to manage our work internally and with our external partners across the state. .

Lisa Spiro

AUL, Digital Scholarship & Organizational Development, Rice University

Tuesday November 8, 2016 4:00pm - 4:55pm CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

4:00pm CST

#t7b: Assessment

Presentation 1
Assessing Digital Library Users and Reuses through Reverse Image Lookup: A Case Study
The presenters will review how they used reverse image lookup technology to assess the users and reuses of images from the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Resources digital collection. The results of this study support the idea that personal users and reuses are legitimate factors when assessing digital libraries.
Presenters: Michele Reilly, Santi Thompson

Presentation 2
Improving the Reported Use and Impact of Your Institutional Repository (IR)
The value proposition of institutional repositories (IR) is built largely on the number of publication downloads they sustain. This session demonstrates that IR using page tagging analytics (e.g. Google Analytics, WebTrends) underreport as much as 60% of their publication downloads and offers recommendations for improving the accuracy of reporting.
Presenters: Patrick OBrien, Kenning Arlitsch

Presentation 3
Impacts that Matter: Assessment Beyond Clicks, Likes, and Downloads
The presentation will: 1. Provide an overview of ethnographic archives, their users and uses; 2. Evaluate relevant frameworks, methods, and published studies on impact assessment; and, finally, 3. Discuss implications of the five areas of impact (Knowledge, Discourse, Attitudes, Capacity and Policy) in assessing digital library research and practice.
Presenter: Ricardo Punzalan

Session Chairs

Krystal Thomas

Digital Archivist, Florida State University Libraries, United States of America

Speakers

Kenning Arlitsch

Montana State University

Patrick OBrien

Montana State University

Ricardo Punzalan

University of Maryland

Michele Reilly

Central Washington University

Santi Thompson

Associate Dean for Research and Student Engagement & Eva Digital Research Endowed Library Professor, University Libraries, University of Houston

Tuesday November 8, 2016 4:00pm - 4:55pm CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

8:30am CST

#w1b: Privacy+

Presentation 1
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Google Analytics and User Privacy
Patron privacy is sometimes the price we pay for free services. This trade-off is part of Google Analytics, the free web tracking tool. This session shares research into analytics implementations of DLF institutions, discusses relevant privacy issues, and offers recommendations for enhancing users’ web traffic privacy through configuration and education.
Presenters: Scott Young, Patrick OBrien

Presentation 2
Uprooting (Biological) Kinship in Genealogical Data: A case study in ontology development for justice work
Genealogy in the US relies on an archival record structured by race, class, gender, and legal status. This paper explores the theoretical and practical matters attendant to developing an ontology for genealogical data, and reflects on the limits and dangers of exposing personal data to more robust information processing technologies.
Presenter: Scout Calvert

Presentation 3
Open Licenses: The Dark Side
Open licenses are great! Many project funders increasingly encourage or require them. However, they create some new challenges, both for digitizing existing collections, and when partnering to create new digital content – particularly with indigenous or marginalized communities. We’ll explore these issues with examples from specific digital projects.
Presenters: Nancy Sims, Jason Roy

Session Chairs

Wayne Graham

Chief Information Officer, CLIR

CLIR-DLF

Speakers

Scout Calvert

Data Librarian, Michigan State University

Cows, ARTs, feminist epistemology, knowledge infrastructures.

Patrick OBrien

Montana State University

Jason Roy

Director, Cataloging, Metadata, & Digitization Services, University of Minnesota Libraries

Nancy Sims

University of Minnesota

Scott Young

Montana State University

Wednesday November 9, 2016 8:30am - 9:25am CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

8:30am CST

#w1c: Dig Schol Support

Presentation 1
Defining Digital Scholarship in the Academic Library
Representatives from the University of Guelph's Digital Scholarship Working Group present the preliminary findings from a recent survey of digital tools and projects on campus. The discussion will focus on defining elements of digital scholarship and working towards a sustainable model for improving the library's support for this growing area.
Presenters: Kim Martin, Amanda Etches

Presentation 2
Fighting the Good Fight: Challenges and Rewards of Building Support for Digital Scholarship Services at a Regional Comprehensive University
This presentation will highlight challenges and lessons learned from building support to building infrastructure for Appalachian State University Libraries’ Digital Scholarship and Initiatives program. I will: outline our program’s evolution; discuss building relationships with campus partners; and compare the challenges of building these programs in regional and research universities.
Presenter: Pamela Mitchem

Presentation 3
Visualizing Digital Scholarship Activities at Indiana University and Beyond
Data collected from Digital Project Planning and Digitization Planning consultation sessions provides insight into digital scholarship projects and initiatives across the Indiana University Bloomington campus. This data is compared to a 2014 Ithaka study surveying faculty at four institutions, illuminating broader trends in digital scholarship.
Presenters: Michelle Dalmau, Nicholas Homenda

Session Chairs

Julie Hardesty

Metadata Analyst, Indiana University

Indiana University

Speakers

Michelle Dalmau

Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities / Head of Digital Collections Services, Indiana University

Michelle Dalmau is an Associate Librarian and Head of Digital Collections Services (DCS) at the Indiana University Libraries and Co-Director for the Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities (IDAH), a research center of the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University... Read More →

Amanda Etches

University of Guelph, Canada

Nicholas Homenda

Digital Initiatives Librarian, Indiana University Libraries

Indiana University Libraries

Kimberley Martin

University of Guelph, Canada

Pamela Mitchem

Appalachian State University

Wednesday November 9, 2016 8:30am - 9:25am CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations

8:30am CST

3w1a: Teaching+

Presentation 1
Snapshot - Tracing Contours of Collaborative Digital Pedagogy
This snapshot will report on new, ongoing research about librarian-faculty partnerships to develop and practice digital scholarship pedagogy. We will share preliminary findings from qualitative interviews with librarians and faculty, as well as seek feedback and ideas from the audience.
Presenters: Alix Keener, Chelcie Juliet Rowell

Presentation 2
Snapshot: Deep Dive Into Digital Content: Minnesota Reflections Primary Source Sets
Join us as we demonstrate a new digital resource for historical research, Minnesota Reflections Primary Source Sets. We will showcase and discuss how and why we created the Primary Source Sets and their related Teaching Guides supplying educators and researchers with discussion questions and classroom activities to inspire critical inquiry.
Presenters: Greta Bahnemann, Jennifer Hootman

Presentation 3
Building History: Using Omeka and Neatline to Explore Campus History
Building History is an interactive campus history project developed at the Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This presentation will cover the development, design, and evolution of the project, and discuss how a single campus mapping project can be part of university-wide campus history, recruitment, and outreach endeavors.
Presenter: Adam Strohm

Session Chairs

Helene Williams

Teaching Professor, University of Washington Information School

University of Washington

Speakers

Greta Bahnemann

Metadata Coordinator, Minitex

Greta Bahnemann is the Metadata Librarian for the Minnesota Digital Library, a position she has held since 2010. At the Minnesota Digital Library, Greta is responsible for implementing current metadata standards and best practices, spearheading the MDL Primary Source Set program... Read More →

Jennifer Hootman

Digital Arts, Sciences, & Humanities (DASH) Program Associate, University of Minnesota Libraries

Minitex

Alix Keener

Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Michigan

University of Michigan

Chelcie Juliet Rowell

Digital Scholarship Librarian & History Liaison, Boston College

Adam Strohm

Illinois Institute of Technology

Wednesday November 9, 2016 8:30am - 9:25am CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

9:35am CST

#w2a: Discovery&Dev

Presentation 1
Snapshot - Digital Librarians on the Software Developer Continuum
As digital librarians, we fall somewhere on the continuum between "software developer" and "software user." How does viewing ourselves as co-creators rather than consumers of software affect our perceptions of our abilities and responsibilities when working with software, and what are the implications for participation in open-source software communities?
Presenter: Robin Dean

Presentation 2
Snapshot - Building with Jekyll: Simple and Sustainable Web Infrastructure
Static website generators, such as Jekyll, have exploded as a viable alternative to traditional CMS, offering speed and security at a fraction of the server overhead. Jekyll provides a robust and efficient framework for developing an easy to maintain, yet flexible and unique front end for our digital collections.
Presenters: Evan Williamson, Devin Becker

Presentation 3
Linked data, geographical search, and faceting: Extending Blacklight and VIVO to supporting curation and discovery of climate change science content
The New York Climate Change Science Clearinghouse (NYCCSC) project aims to provide a central portal for policy makers to access data and information relevant to climate change adaptation and mitigation in New York State. This project utilizes semantic technologies for linking climate change concepts and content.
Presenter: Huda Khan

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Using WorldCat as a digital library discovery layer
McGill University Library started digitizing their collections almost 20 years ago and has experimented with how to get them online. The most recent strategy has been to build a digital library by depositing material into three distinct repositories and using OCLC’s WorldCat Local as our discovery layer.
Presenters: Sarah Severson

Session Chairs

Rachel Appel

Digital Projects and Services Librarian, Temple University

Speakers

Devin Becker (he/him)

Associate Dean for Research and Instruction, University of Idaho Library

Robin Dean

Michigan State University

Huda Khan

Software developer, Stanford University

Software developer at Stanford University. Previously at Cornell University.

Evan Williamson

University of Idaho Library

Wednesday November 9, 2016 9:35am - 10:30am CST
Grand West

DLF Forum Presentations

9:35am CST

#w2b: Archiving+

Presentation 1
WARC Workflows: A pilot project for the local preservation of institutional web archives
The Archive-It web archiving service is widely used by libraries and cultural institutions to capture web-based content. But Archive-It is not a preservation repository, and encourages distributed local preservation. In this presentation, we will share our WARC workflows and discuss the results of a collaborative local preservation pilot project.
Presenters: Lauren Work, Jamie Little, Laura Capell

Presentation 2
Quality and Quantity: A Discussion of Performing Quality Assurance on Archived Web Pages
This presentation will give an overview of NYARC’s web archiving program. We will share our experiences performing quality assurance (QA) on archived web pages as well as critically engage with the audience to breakdown barriers to entry for people new to the practice.
Presenters: Megan DeArmond, Audrey Lorberfeld

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Web Archiving Metadata Best Practices to Meet User Needs
Archived websites are not easily discoverable via search engines or other discovery tools, and lack of shared metadata practices is a root cause. To address this, OCLC Research has launched a Web Archiving Metadata Working Group that is evaluating existing approaches and will develop best practices to meet user needs.
Presenter: Jackie Dooley

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Hip Hop Narrators, Embeddable Metadata, and Nanopublications: New Ways of Thinking about Metadata and Annotated Publications for Web Discovery, Indexing, and Archiving
What are the ties that bind metadata with the object it describes? This snapshot considers how embedded metadata standards like JSON-LD, RDFa, or Web Manifest files can cast and frame metadata within a Hip Hop MC/voiceover/narrator metaphor wherein new possibilities for discovery, archiving, and publication formats emerge.
Presenter: Jason A. Clark

Session Chairs

Laurie Allen

Director for Digital Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

Speakers

Laura Capell

Head of Digital Production, University of Miami

Laura is the Head of Digital Production at the University of Miami, where she manages digital projects for special collections materials.

Jason A. Clark

Montana State University

Megan DeArmond

New York Art Resources Consortium

Jackie Dooley

OCLC Research, Retired from OCLC Research

Jackie Dooley retired in 2018 from her position as Program Officer in OCLC Research. She is an SAA Fellow and a past president of the Society.

Jamie Little

University of Miami

Audrey Lorberfeld

New York Art Resources Consortium

Lauren Work

University of Virginia

Wednesday November 9, 2016 9:35am - 10:30am CST
Grand Center

DLF Forum Presentations

9:35am CST

#w2c: Scale+

Presentation 1
Mammoth-Scale Bibliographic Metadata Management: Issues and Opportunities
Using the HathiTrust Metadata Management System as a case study, this session will address issues confronted when managing bibliographic metadata at scale, aggregating metadata from diverse sources and considering options for updating metadata through both manual and batch remediation and enhancement.
Presenter: Kathryn Stine

Presentation 2
Making metadata linked: designing cataloging to repository work flow
UCI Libraries were charged with creating a generalizable work flow for enhancing and transforming traditional MARC metadata as part of its NEH-funded Artists' Books project. This presentation describes the process and lessons learned building an extensible process others may readily adapt.
Presenter: Laura Smart

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Initiatives on Object Quality in the HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is committed to object quality and recognizes the obstacles to the end-user caused by poor quality. We are focused on quality initiatives: improving a workflow for member libraries to fix problem pages; developing user-friendly instructions for this workflow; discussing the storage and display of information about quality.
Presenters: Kat Hagedorn, Angelina Zaytsev

Presentation 4
Snapshot - Digital news metadata: News publisher and library perspectives
News publishers have well-developed metadata schemas (mostly) ignored by libraries. Why? This talk describes news publishers metadata and how it's used with particular focus on schema.org. How libraries might use news publisher metadata is explored.
Presenter: Frederick Zarndt

Session Chairs

Adam Leader-Smith

Program Associate, Council on Library and Information Resources

CLIR+DLF

Speakers

Wednesday November 9, 2016 9:35am - 10:30am CST
Grand East

DLF Forum Presentations