2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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After three years in the virtual space, the Texas Conferences on Digital Libraries will be held in-person, and we could not be more excited to welcome you back to Austin. Hi… How are you? As we reunite face-to-face, we’ll pause to reflect on all that has changed, especially ourselves and our workplaces, and forge a path forward together.
Our work centers on increasing equitable access to digital materials, valuing the individual, celebrating differences, eliminating barriers, and providing space everyone can fully participate in. Let’s share how we work at work, how we work together, and how we work through challenges old and new.
So, hi. How are you… really? We can’t wait to find out at TCDL.
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Item TCDL 2023 Proposal Information Session(Texas Digital Library, 2023-01-25) Kellum, Christina; DeForest, Lea; Winkler, Heidi; Henry, CynthiaItem TCDL 2023 Poster Presenters Orientation(Texas Digital Library, 2023-04-13) DeForest, Lea; Lopez, Diane; Lyon, ColleenItem Investigations Into Using Machine Learning Models to Automate the Sorting of Digitized Texas State Publications(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Rikka, PraneethOver the past ten years the UNT Libraries has been digitizing Texas State Publications it receives from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission as part of the Texas State Depository program. During this time, over 19,000 items have been digitized and made available in The Portal to Texas History’s Texas State Publications Collection (https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TXPUB/). Each year, batches of publications are sent to a digitization vendor, digitized, and sent back to UNT where each publication is sorted so that similar items are grouped together to assist in metadata creation. This sorting usually happens with sets of over 1,000 publications at a time. The manual sorting process is time consuming and requires expert knowledge of the subject matter. Recent advances in machine learning offer an automated approach to this manual sorting of documents. This poster presents a research project to build and test a classification model to assist librarians in the sorting of digitized Texas State Publications into groups. It discusses the labeled dataset that was created to test different machine learning approaches and presents the findings of text-based and image-based classification models. We hope that this poster encourages others in two specific ways, first to build datasets that highlight specific problems in the library and archives space that can be worked on by students interested in real world problems, and second, to think about processes that exist in their institution that might benefit from judicious use of machine learning to complement human decisions in making resources available for users.Item Mapping GIS Across Texas Libraries(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Jones, Sylvia; Carter, Kate; Been, JoshuaIn this poster, we will describe the work of the TDL GIS Interest Group’s Survey and Outreach Subcommittee in developing a dashboard that maps GIS support in academic libraries across the state. Our poster will describe the development of the original survey and dashboard and the updates we have incorporated into its second iteration. The GIS Across TX survey and dashboard have helped inform our understanding of GIS services provided by libraries, and can help connect librarians who have interests and/or responsibilities related to GIS. This poster aims to promote awareness of this resource, ensure representation of all libraries on the map, and encourage interested librarians to join the group and connect to the wider network of like-minded, maptastic colleagues!Item Open Journal Systems: A Look at Impact and Increased Visibility(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Van Diest, KristinOpen Journal Systems (OJS) is an open-source publishing software for the management of open access peer-reviewed academic journals, created and developed by the Public Knowledge Project. There are over 34,000 journals hosted in OJS around the world, including 75 journals hosted through the Texas Digital Library (TDL) OJS hosting service at member institutions. This presentation aims to show the relationship between TDL hosted OJS journals and their visibility to users. It will include current statistics on TDL hosted journals such as institutional information, scope of work, types of submissions, author location, and total submissions within the journal lifetime and recently (the past three years). This data will be compared to information about use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and broadness of indexing in order to show the impact of the journals relative to their institution and the other institutions included in TDL. The presentation will also include a comparison between available global OJS data and local TDL hosted OJS journals. We will conclude by discussing strategies and tools to increase the impact of journals hosted through TDL and OJS such as search engine optimization, expanded use of PIDs, and gaining an understanding of journal impact factors.Item GIS Birds-of-a-Feather(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) McNally Carter, Kate; Henry, CynthiaCurious about mapping and geographic information systems (GIS)? So are we! Hosted by the Texas Digital Library GIS Interest Group, this Birds of a Feather session is an opportunity to share and learn about geospatial software, data, maps, and the role of libraries in providing infrastructure, access, and support. This will be a great chance for attendees to engage in conversation regarding a number of different GIS related topics that are of relevance to the library community including development of geospatial research support services, sharing of geospatial data from library collections, and organization of GIS training opportunities.Item Lending Technology: An Unexpected Journey(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Shapiro, Adrian; Garza, Ginger"In the fall of 2020, the TWU Libraries were awarded a Texas State Libraries and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to purchase laptops and hotspots for students in need of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students are now able to check these devices out for an entire semester. In this poster presentation, we outline the journey taken as we developed policies and procedures for our semester-long equipment lending program."Item Imaging Birds-of-a-Feather(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) McIntosh, Marcia; McKee, Margaret; Clark, Kristin; Jones, JerrellImaging Group BOAF, open to all TCDL attendeesItem Developers' Birds-of-a-Feather(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) DeForest, LeaInviting all software developers, technology specialists, system administrators, and interested IT folk to convene for discussion, networking, show-and-tell, Q&A.Item Poster Poco Loco(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16)Poco Loco (formerly Poster Minute Madness) is an energetic and fun session for all. Each poster presenter will be allotted up to three minutes to pitch their poster to the audience and at least 10 minutes for Q&A will be allotted at the end of the session.Item Multilingual User Interface Options for Open Source Library Technology(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Oduok, ImaLinguistic accessibility is often overlooked in overall discussions of software and website usage. As part of my residency, I looked at the linguistic accessibility of several TDL open source software platforms to assess what is currently available and what isn’t. Part of that assessment was identifying what options may exist to expand the selection of available translations. This session will break down the current language offering for TDL supported platforms, limitations, and potential solutions for the future.Item TCDL 2023 Conference Program(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) TCDL 2019 Conference ProgramConference program and proceedings index for TCDL 2023Item An Empirical Survey of the Analytic / Continental Divide(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Barta, WalterWhat is the difference, if any, between analytic philosophy and continental philosophy? Contemporary philosophers tend to identify themselves, and so contemporary philosophy is divided, roughly along these lines. Thus, two fields of discourse, the analytic and the continental, have emerged. But is this division substantive or rhetorical? Is it helpful or harmful? What are its effects inside and outside the discipline? Can these categories be concretely defined, or are they nebulous and provisional? Some metaphilosophers, like C. G. Prado, in A House Divided, have suggested that analytic philosophy and continental philosophy are distinguishable based on respective focuses, and that the divide falls along lines, such as these: problem solving versus political engagement, philosophical analysis versus synthesis (e.g. a genealogical orientation), bottom-up versus top-down approaches to disciplinary hierarchy. Others have suggested that the analytic/continental divide is erroneous, illusory, merely rhetorical, or simply nonexistent. Each of these constitutes a claim that is empirically testable against the fields of discourse of the two (sub)disciplines through a comparison of textual data: the presence of logically valent as opposed to politically valent words, manner of reference to historical figures, and distribution of textual citations. Inasmuch as these correspond to quantifiable metrics, each of the aforementioned questions may have a discrete and demonstrable empirical answer. The use of empirical and statistical surveys in philosophy is unusual, but its recent implementation by David Chalmers (as in his recent “What do Philosophers Believe?”) and other influential philosophers has proven its ability to develop important insights.Item Creating Subject Metadata for The Chronicles of Oklahoma in The Gateway to Oklahoma History(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Carroll, Hannah"The Oklahoma History Society partnered with University of the North Texas Libraries in 2020 to make The Chronicles of Oklahoma available in The Gateway to Oklahoma History digital library. The Chronicles of Oklahoma is a periodical that has been published for over a century, and it covers a variety of sensitive cultural and historical topics and perspectives. The focus of this poster is the creation of subject metadata for The Chronicles and the variety of methods used to collect and apply subject terms to a record. We confronted the challenge of creating accurate as well as accessible subject metadata while working with this collection. In order to provide a holistic view of the content and restrict our own bias, we included subject terms from a variety of sources in our metadata. We aimed to increase user recall and serve researchers whose various perspectives reflect differences in terminology. We created a controlled vocabulary of subject terms and added terms from familiar standards such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings list, terms from our own UNT Libraries Browse Subject system, terms from other higher education institution library websites, and terms from the articles themselves. We edited and updated our subject spreadsheet frequently, and we have made it accessible to The Oklahoma Historical Society. This poster will act as a visual guide to our process, which can serve as an example to other information professionals as a possible method for subject metadata creation."Item Hi! I’m a TDR User(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Chan-Park, Christina; Sare, Laura; Waugh, Laura; Weber, Millicent; Zhou, Xuan"Come meet Jaime, Chris, Lee, Ali, and Sami! They are typical users of the Texas Data Repository (TDR) based on responses from a 2022 user survey. The TDR uses the Dataverse platform for publishing and archiving datasets (and other data products) created by faculty, staff, and students at Texas higher education institutions and is hosted by the Texas Digital Library. There are currently nine participating member institutions. Jaime is a typical downloader. Chris is a typical TDR user who has created a Dataverse collection and uploaded a dataset. Lee is a faculty TDR user, Ali is a non-faculty researcher, and Sami is a graduate researcher. Find out how each of these users learned about the TDR, why they use it, and how they use it. They think it’s important to share data and want you to know that it is easy to use the TDR."Item TCDL 2023 Opening Plenary & Keynote(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Park, Kristi; Bruxvoort, Diane; Leung, Sofia; Kellum, ChristinaThe Opening Plenary session includes a welcome from TDL’s Governing Board, the TDL Awards Ceremony, and the Keynote Address.Item Exploring the Chase Building Archive(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-16) Thompson, JeremyThe John S. and Drucie R. Chase Building Archive is the product of a collaboration between the Black Diaspora Archive (BDA) and the Center for Community Engagement (CCE). The Chase Building Archive tells the story of when the Black Community in Austin was herded into East Austin and the community that grew during this time. The collection consists of nine oral histories from community members that grew up during this period and can attest to the history of Black East Austin. The oral histories and curated vignettes held in this collection bear witness to the schools, businesses, churches, and other institutions that the community established during this time. One building that was established during this time, and serves as a focal point of the collection, is the Chase Building. The building at 1191 Navasota Street was designed by John. S. Chase, the first African American to graduate from UT’s School of Architecture and become a licensed architect in the state of Texas, to serve as the headquarters for the Colored Teachers State Association of Texas. The building would have a tenure as the House of Elegance before being renovated and now serves as the base for CCE. Documenting the history of this building and those who lived in Black East Austin helps us understand how the Black spaces that we benefit from come to be and what is lost with their diminishing presence.Item We’re Gonna Make It: Lessons from Coordinating a Campus Collaboration(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-17) Toms, Christy; Kim, Hyeeyoung; Edwards, BrennaSecuring digital materials for the future requires a village. To be precise, a village with ongoing resources, funding, and technical expertise to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of technology. Recognizing this dilemma, the Digital Preservation Group at the University of Texas at Austin reformed in 2021. The goal was to provide a space for practitioners across the Forty Acres to share their challenges in developing and sustaining digital preservation solutions. From fall 2022 to spring 2023, the group developed a shared digital preservation standard for on-campus repositories. This presentation will use our group as a case study to reflect on the art of coordinating a campus-wide collaboration. It will delve into various methods the co-facilitators used to structure a meaningful discussion over six months and maintain purposeful engagement during each meeting. Attendees will also learn about the challenges and successes of bringing together repositories different in sizes and specialties to the same virtual meeting room.Item Learning by Doing: Interdepartmental collaborations to support experiential student learning(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-17) Clark, Kristin; Headrick, Elizabeth; Bender, AshleyIn this presentation, we argue that libraries can and should be central to the work of experiential learning pedagogies across the academy, regardless of discipline. Unfortunately, such collaborations do not require extensive faculty buy-in, which can be difficult to generate. Furthermore, the collaboration across departments can lead to obstacles in the development, execution, and completion of projects that center library resources. Drawing on our work collaborating across numerous experiential learning, digital humanities, and public humanities projects, we will explore (1) the benefits of incorporating libraries into the development and execution of experiential learning projects; (2) an analysis of obstacles that can arise; and (3) best practices for developing collaborative practices. Although our models are housed in humanities disciplines, we suggest that work such as ours can extend to the many disciplines within an institution, increasing interdisciplinary work among libraries and academic departments.Item ePADD: Email Archiving for Beginners(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-17) Banuelos, ChrisAs electronic communication becomes more and more ubiquitous, what steps are organizations taking to archive and provide access to emails? Here at Rice University, the University Archives have been mandated to preserve all of the email correspondences from our newly outgoing university president. Since we've not done this before, we've started experimenting with a software called ePADD. This open-source software allows digital archivists and librarians to process email collections, preview the content for personal information that may need redaction, provide metadata, map the metadata to a local finding aid, and act as a point of contact for patrons requesting access to the content. After testing the software, we are almost ready to start archiving the collection. I'd like to take this opportunity to share with the community what I've learned from our ePADD tests. Additionally, since I've yet to formally begin the project, I'd like to ask the community to share with me any and all experiences thay have had with email archiving. My hope is that this session will be informational not only for the attendees but for the presenter as well.
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