2024 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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We’ve adapted, innovated, and survived, but now it’s time to reignite our curiosity! The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries welcomes you back to Austin to share your new endeavors and inspire each other with pioneering projects, services, and ideas. The TCDL Planning Committee invites you to consider how curiosity brings life and imagination to your work in libraries and archives. We can’t wait to see what you bring to TCDL.
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Item Video Tutorials as a Mode for Teaching Metadata and Its Ethical Complications(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Lim, TThis presentation explores a project in the Fall 2023 semester of creating a video series providing UT Austin researchers with an understanding of metadata, how they appear across materials, the situationally problematic nature of descriptive metadata, and their utility for purposeful academic information-seeking. This project is unique in that most library video tutorials focus on practical, step-by-step instruction for searching databases, whereas this series was more conceptual. Demonstrations of problematic descriptive metadata were accomplished by examining ‘Detail’ sections of entries in UT Austin’s OPAC. Problematic metadata was identified in two forms: as outdated or exclusive language, and as the absence of subject headings, abstracts and/or book descriptions. Examining this project also attends to the task and challenge of providing instruction in a digital-asynchronous format. Balancing conceptual informativity, practical relevance, and succinctness drove much of the decision-making behind how many videos would comprise the tutorial, how long they could be, the included metadata examples, and the explanation of how researchers could make metadata useful for themselves. Tutorials were created using UT Austin’s instance of Panopto, a video creation tool used by many universities because of its easy integration with learning management systems like Canvas. Recommendations for future iterations of this tutorial include: defining metadata more thoroughly, screencasting a navigation of the OPAC to provide more immersive demonstration, and considering how subject headings facilitate resource collocation to support information-seeking.Item Mapping the Online Library Ecosystem at St. Cloud State University(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Warga, EdwardThis map of the online library ecosystem at St. Cloud State University displays the systems, processes, collections, and people that interact to create and sustain our online library presence. This holistic visual guide could serve as a reference model for planning, assessing, and discussing the use of our online library. Please stop by and share your feedback!Item Harmonizing MARC Metadata: MarcEdit and Notepad++ for Efficient Local Subject Heading Standardization(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Speed, MichelleIn the dynamic landscape of library cataloging, the quest for precision and uniformity in metadata remains a pivotal challenge. This poster presentation unveils a transformative approach to subject heading normalization within MARC records, harnessing the combined utilities of MarcEdit and Notepad++. Specifically targeting practitioners in metadata and cataloging management, this poster presentation spotlights a novel, streamlined, easy to implement workflow designed to align local subject headings with established thesauri, enhancing collocation by efficiently updating or replacing outdated terms, and thereby facilitating improved discoverability. The presentation further explores the enhancement of distributed teamwork, where the standardization of local subject headings can lead to increased clarity and efficiency in collaborative environments. Emphasizing scalability, the demonstrated approach allows for the manipulation of metadata fields in bulk, ranging from hundreds to thousands, making it an essential skill set for information professionals aiming to maintain robust and accessible cataloging databases. Attendees will embark on an explorative journey, uncovering the intricacies of MARC data manipulation and the practicalities of regular expressions in Notepad++. The methodology detailed promises not only to ignite professional curiosity but also to empower metadata librarians with actionable strategies to enhance their cataloging efficiency. Through this illuminative display, the presentation aims to spark a dialogue on the broader implications of metadata harmonization for research and knowledge access, encapsulating both the theoretical framework and the hands-on expertise necessary to advance the field. Join us to kindle the flame of curiosity and contribute to the future of structured bibliographic data curation.Item Institutional Repositories for Beginners(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Johnson-Freeman, Whitney; Warrenfells, Ardis; Bussey, JenniferInstitutional repositories (IRs) are home to scholarly material created by faculty, staff, and students, but supporting an IR requires unique skills that set them apart from other parts of a digital library. Our work often overlaps with departments across the library, like scholarly communication or research support, and it means that we are at home everywhere and nowhere. We are also facing unique challenges, like supporting Open Research mandates and fighting publisher over-influence on authors. This presentation will highlight the key skills of working in an IR, from the perspective of the UNT Scholarly Works at the University of North Texas, and we look forward to hearing from others on their experiences.Item Better Together: Case Studies from the Digital POWRR Peer Assessment Program(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Clark, Kristin; Benson, Rebecca; Fiegel, JaneFrom January 2022-June 2023, three cohorts of six people were selected to participate in the Digital POWRR Peer Assessment Program, an IMLS and NEH funded project. The program provided a structured opportunity to learn about digital preservation concepts and engage in assessment, goal setting, and implementation activities in a supportive environment. In this poster, two participants from Cohort 3 and one participant from Cohort 1 will share highlights of their experiences in the POWRR Peer Assessment Program including how they assessed their digital preservation practices, outputs of the program, challenges, and progress they have made in action plans and goal setting.Item Case Study, Jr.: How Digital Preservation System Designs Can Impact Workflows(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Banuelos, ChristopherHow might an institution work around the limitations of their digital preservation system? As an example, or mini-case study, I will explain how our organization, Rice University, modified our archival information packages to work with our preservation system's ingest process. In this case, we are using Archivematica to properly store our digital archival packages. The system can only ingest packages that are around 30 GB in size. However, we have several collections that are significantly larger. For example, the Houston Asian American Archive's digital collection is over 590 GB. How can we ingest this collection when there is a 30 GB threshold per package? Through much trial and error, we devised a workflow that allows us to split our package into multiple parts and use the preservation system to link the parts to back to each other. With this poster, Rice will happily share how we accomplished this task.Item AVAnnotate: Curating AV Digital Exhibits with IIIF and the Gloria Anzaldúa and Stella Adler Archives(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Clement, Tanya; Wintermeier, Trent; Turner, SamThis two-hour introductory workshop will teach participants how to use AVAnnotate (https://av-annotate.org/). First, participants will learn the AVAnnotate application, which starts with creating or using existing IIIF manifests, developing annotations, and building static web pages with GitHub Pages to present and share digital exhibits. Workshop leaders will teach through showcasing example AVAnnotate exhibits by showing the process used to create projects using recordings from the Gloria Anzaldúa collection at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and the Stella Adler film collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The Adler and Anzaldúa collections are significant case studies that demonstrate AVAnnotate approaches to developing interventions into practices around creating AV access at LAMs, which are often made less accessible because of cultural, privacy, or copyright concerns. Finally, participants will be invited to discuss protocols for accessing audiovisual artifacts at their respective institutions, and how applications such as AVAnnotate can facilitate engagement with AV collections. AVAnnotate is an application and a workflow, designed by Dr. Tanya Clement and Brumfield Labs, which allows users to build digital exhibits of annotated audiovisual artifacts. AVAnnotate is free to use and leverages open-source resources such as GitHub and IIIF, making it well suited for archivists and librarians promoting accessibility and discovery with audiovisual archival collections held at libraries, museums, archives (LAMs), and other cultural heritage institutions. The workshop seeks to add to the digital toolkit for LAM professionals and researchers and to spark conversation about the changing nature of LAM AV archival practices for access and discovery. BEFORE THE WORKSHOP: The presenters suggest you create a free GitHub account (https://github.com) and bring a laptop and headphones if available.Item Wikidata Workshop(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Cofield, Melanie; Pierce Meyer, Katie; Sharma, YogitaWikidata is a collaborative knowledge base built on the principles of open knowledge and linked data. This Wikidata workshop covers the basics of the data model and provides hands-on exercises for participants to contribute and query data. The session is intended for library and archives staff, as well as digital humanities scholars, with an interest in developing practical linked data skills. Workshop participants will be editing Wikidata entries related to people in the Handbook of Texas (HoT), specifically its projects related to expanding the representation of individuals from Texas history. While linked data knowledge is not a requirement, the workshop contents assume some familiarity with structured data and library/archival descriptive practices. The learning outcomes of the workshop include: - Understanding the basic structure of items, properties and statements on Wikidata - Understanding best practices and ethical considerations for creating and editing Wikidata items - Understanding value of queries and visualization tools to glean insights from Wikidata - Hands-on experience editing Wikidata items and adding references - Hands-on experience using SPARQL queries and visualization toolsItem Imaging Interest Group Meeting(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) McIntosh, Marcia; Clark, Kristin; McKee, Margaret; Kellum, ChristinaStarted in 2019, the Texas Digital Library Imaging Group is open to all non-commercial parties who would like to learn, contribute, or discuss regional digital imaging and digitization best practices. Click here to visit the Imaging Group wiki: https://texasdigitallibrary.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TIG/overview The meeting is open to all TCDL attendees.Item Centering Humans in AI-enabled Manuscript Transcription(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Brumfield, BenHow can artificial intelligence be used to support humans instead of replacing them? This presentation demonstrates how we integrated Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) into the FromThePage crowdsourcing platform while keeping humans central to the transcription process. We asked ourselves how can we introduce enough friction into our user interface that volunteers have to think rather than blindly trusting machine generated data, while still using AI to speed up their work and increase their pleasure? Our focus lay on enhancing user experience rather than on character error rates or model training. We will discuss design considerations, implementation specifics, and the initial outcomes of user testing conducted by the State Library of New South Wales and their Digital Volunteer working group.Item Coding logically: Using unplugged and digital tools to teach K-12 programming in academic libraries(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Shea, MichelleAt Texas A&M University- Central Texas, the university library has run free and ongoing coding logic camps for K-12 learners. In its first year, this camp was presented on a digital learning platform with the use of embedded videos, printable activities, coding word problems, and task-based scenarios for the Python language, as run in Trinket and Visual Studio Code. Participants were encouraged to post comments using discussion boards or utilize a virtual meeting room, open during specific weekday hours, to share questions with a student worker tutor. For subsequent years, we have hosted in-person sessions that incorporated simple robots, iPad programs, and Raspberry Pi devices with peripherals to help students build fundamental coding logic skills. In a four-day format, learners are introduced to algorithms, variables, strings, lists, conditional statements, loops, and functions through lesson scaffolding, which is built upon relatable examples and practical application of concepts. Students are seated next to partners to promote peer-based learning, but they are also provided support from the primary instructor during both unplugged and plugged activities. Each child leaves camp with a notebook of definitions, sample code, examples from working in pairs, and a desire to explore more text-based coding. We have piloted this program with smaller groups, but the concept is scalable, based on the number of devices available for hands-on engagement and the amount of instructors or support staff present to balance student-to-teacher ratios.Item TDR Steering Committee Meeting(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Mumma, Courtney; Sare, LauraThe TDR Steering Committee’s annual meeting is an opportunity for its members to meet in person to determine strategic goals for the coming year and review user and member activity in the repository. This meeting is for TDR SC members and their institutional colleagues, though guests may be admitted on an ad hoc basis if approved by the committee. Only TDR SC members will vote. The meeting is closed to the public.Item Transforming Library Identity: Challenges and Boundaries of Supporting New Services Birds-of-a-Feather(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Guzman, Allyssa; Chapman Tripp, HannahAcademic libraries have consistently confronted a perceived need to change and ‘stay relevant’ in a fast-paced and rapidly transforming academic world. Over the past 15 years, we have seen service models change drastically from staffing a traditional reference point to only offering one-on-one consultation with researchers. Today library research support services are engaged in a plethora of lifecycle support models including grants support, data management and curation, and digital humanities, that are expanding the scope of traditional librarian roles and requiring staff to develop new expertise and technical skills. One of the questions that we have been grappling with in undertaking this new work is - how do we undertake this new work and adapt to the needs of our users without straying too far from our identity as a library? How do we avoid overextending ourselves in the drive to fill campus needs? Are there some needs that go too far? In this session, we hope to bring together practitioners to discuss this push and pull between supporting the research ecosystem and staying rooted in what it means to be a library. This discussion will focus on librarian identity and responsibility, constituent expectations, and limited bandwidth.Item Cultivating Community Collections at Texas Tech University Libraries Digital Scholarship Lab: A look at the processes, workflows, management, and progress of these projects(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) McEniry, Matthew; Scott, MeganIn 2021, the Texas Tech University (TTU) Libraries Digital Scholarship Lab was tasked with finding community collections to digitize and make available. The Lab identified three community partners (Museum of TTU Paleontology, Museum of TTU Clothing & Textiles, and National Wind Institute) and have since worked/are working with three others (TTU Agricultural Education, TTU Human Sciences, and First Baptist Church of Lubbock). This presentation will look at the cultivation of these communal relationships, how we prepared for these projects, our management of resources, how we created workflows to suit them, and how much progress we've made. The most important aspects of working with external partners will be highlighted. Some of the more curious conflicts and interesting situations will also be laid out. Finally, a glimpse into plans of how the Lab wants to improve our discoverability and increase our offerings for future partners will round out the session.Item Poster Poco Loco(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Clark, Kristin; Benson, Rebecca; Fiegel, Jane; Speed, Michelle; Lim, T; Banuelos, Christopher; Warga, Edward; Boeke, Cindy; Johnson-Freeman, Whitney; Warrenfells, Ardis; Bussey, JenniferPoco Loco 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 Reignite Your Documentation: A High-Intensity Interval Writing Workshop(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Edwards, Brenna; Kim, HyeeyoungDid your New Year’s resolution include 'Document all my workflow and tools'? Still on your to-do list? If you need motivation and guidance, join us in this High Intensity Interval Writing workshop to make a difference right here, right now. We will help you develop a strategy to create documentation that you need but never have the time to develop. Through the UT Digital Preservation group, the speakers of this workshop led six local Docuthons—a blend of Documentation and Hackathon— between September 2023 to March 2024. Drawing on the speakers' experience in organizing those events, this workshop is structured so attendees kick off their documentation draft and receive initial feedback. For each stage of the workshop, the speakers will blend practical advice from experienced technical writers with the Pomodoro Technique. This approach will allow attendees the opportunity to gain knowledge and apply what they have learned. After brainstorming, drafting, editing, and feedback sessions, attendees will leave with drafted documentation and resources to help them publish the documentation. Attendees are encouraged to arrive with a documentation topic in mind or existing documentation to work on, whether as simple as making a sandwich or as complex as preserving born-digital materials.Item TCDL 2024 Opening Plenary & Keynote(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Hswe, Patricia; Mosbo Ballestro, Julie; Park, Kristi; Mumma, Courtney; Lyon, Colleen; Lopez, DianeThe Opening Plenary session includes a welcome from TDL’s Governing Board, the TDL Awards Ceremony, and the Keynote Address. Keynote Address: “Reigniting to Reimagine: Memory Work, Stewardship, and Social Justice” by Dr. Patricia Hswe, Program Director at the Mellon Foundation.Item TCDl 2024 Conference Program(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) TCDl 2024 Conference ProgramConference program and proceedings index for TCDL 2024Item Exploring the Benefits of Collaborative Digitization Programs(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-22) Benilous, BryanBryan Benilous, Chief Consultant of Paperboy Digital Consulting, will discuss the benefits of collaborative digitization programs. He will highlight a pilot program to build a community designed to foster peer support and benefit from economies of scale. The program aims to make the digitization process more equitable and better support the digitization of content from minority and marginalized communities. The program will support all aspects of the digitization process, including support for grant funding.Item Keynote Reflection(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-22) Lopez, DianeFacilitated discussion reflecting on “Reigniting to Reimagine: Memory Work, Stewardship, and Social Justice,” the Keynote Address by Dr. Patricia Hswe.