2015 Texas Conference of Digital Libraries

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Accessing the Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection
(2015-04-27) Garza, Jose Javier; MD Anderson Cancer Center
The Historical Resources Center of the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center has been collecting oral history interviews since 2000. With over sixty participants and several hundred hours of interview footage, the archives is using the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) and CONTENTdm (CDM) to facilitate access to the interview collection. Since 2009, the archives began experimenting with various platforms to ensure access to both audio and text version of the oral history interviews while protecting the privacy of MD Anderson faculty, staff, and patients. The entire oral history collection is described using an internal coding scheme to allow cross-referencing among key topics in the interviews. After consideration, the archives believes that combination of OHMS as the delivery platform and CDM as the searching tool will create a searchable ecosystem that provides access to the interviews will preserving internal metadata structure of the interviews.
Using Islandora for Open-Source Powered Digital Collections
(2015-04-27) Keswick, Tommy; The Cherry Hill Company
Islandora brings together the Fedora Repository Project, the Drupal content management system, and the Apache Solr search platform to enable librarians and other content managers to easily ingest and create collections with all types of digital assets. This presentation will demonstrate the features of Islandora that make it a compelling choice for building online digital collections. We will also highlight the potential for customizations through the open source architecture, including using Drupal for the administrative interface and Solr for search and indexing.
“The sight of your letter pricks my heart through”: Digitizing the Brownings’ Correspondence at the Harry Ransom Center
(2015-04-27) Floyd, Susan; Harry Ransom Center; University of Texas at Austin
This presentation will hit upon several of the conference’s broad areas of concern, highlighting unexpected finds within these important collection materials, institutional partnerships, and “showing off a digital project.” It will include slides describing our digitization process, including identifying relevant collection items, developing a project workflow with Baylor, metadata and scanning trouble-shooting, and a consideration of intellectual and archival issues encountered during the project.
Emerging Trends and Evolving Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications
(2015-04-27) Alemneh, Daniel; Helge, Kris; Priyanto, Ida Fajar; Tmava, Ahmet Meti; University of North Texas; Tarrant County College
The manner in which scholarly research is conducted is changing rapidly. As researchers continue to produce and share a wide variety of research outputs and scholarly contributions, in new ways, understanding of the factors influencing adoption, how they are being used, their implications for research practices and policy remains limited. This presentation will provide an overview of emerging trends in scholarly communication and the roles of diverse stakeholders ranging from individual researchers, scholars, and library and information professionals to institutions, publishers and professional societies. In light of the increasingly global Open Access movement and the evolving landscape of Scholarly Communication, the panelist will share their preliminary findings of their doctoral researches and further speculate the implication of open educational resources on copyrights, access, and preservation at global level.
Introducing the Expanding Dataverse
(2015-04-27) Castro, Eleni; Quigley, Elizabeth; Harvard University
The Dataverse Project started in 2006 at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science as an open source software application to share, cite and archive data. From its beginnings, Dataverse (then referred as the ‘Dataverse Network’) has provided a robust infrastructure for data stewards to host and archive data, while offering researchers an easy way to share and get credit for their data. Since then, there are now ten Dataverse repositories that share metadata with each other hosted in institutions around the world, which together serve more than 55,000 datasets with 750,000 data files (dataverse.org). These Dataverse repositories are using the Dataverse software in a variety of ways, from supporting existing large data archives to building institutional or public repositories. One of these Dataverse repositories is the Harvard Dataverse, that alone hosts more than 800 dataverses (containers of datasets) owned and managed by either researchers, research groups, organizations, departments or journals. The Harvard Dataverse has so far served more than a million downloads of its datasets, allowing researchers around the world to reuse the data, discover new findings, and extend or verify previous work. While the Dataverse project started from the social sciences for the social sciences, it has now expanded to benefit a wide range of disciplines and scientific domains (astronomy, life sciences, etc) leveraging our progress in the social science domain to define and enhance data publishing across all research communities. In particular, as part of the new Dataverse release (v4.0), we have evaluated the features needed in data publishing so data can be properly shared, found, accessed and reused. This presentation will provide some background information on the Dataverse's history and showcase the new features we have developed in version 4.0 for researchers.
The Digital Dilemma: Examining the Practicality of Digital Forensics in Cultural Institutions
(2015-04-27) Kelley, Angelique; University of Texas at San Antonio
In today’s world, technology has become a vital component of our day-to-day lives; impacting everything from the pictures we take to the ways we communicate to the methods we use to safeguard important pieces of data. It should therefore come as no surprise that many cultural institutions, including galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, have been forced to adapt not only their collection policies but also their preservation methods to accommodate the ever-changing technologies and formats making their way into permanent collections. One technique that has been gaining popularity in recent years is digital forensics, a criminal science approach with a surprising correlation to the needs of cultural institutions with digital content. While digital forensics and cultural institutions share a common need for legal document authentication and controlled archival storage, the question remains: how practical are these techniques for collecting institutions outside of government archives? Is digital forensics to become accepted archival management practice, or are cultural institutions likely to continue their current practices for handling digital materials while still searching for a better solution? These questions will be explored through an analysis and comparison of BitCurator and Archivematica, common digital forensics software packages currently in use within many cultural institutions. This presentation will review personal experiences with these programs gained through a Fall 2014 internship with the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries, Special Collections. This internship was undertaken as part of the internship and research writing requirements of the Certificate in Digital Curation program offered at the Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, assessments of current literature on the topic will be evaluated in order to give a big picture image of how digital forensics might be utilized, so that cultural institution personnel can better assess the practicality of digital forensics within any given collection.
ArchivesDirect Pilot - Road-testing Archivematica hosting in DuraCloud
(2015-04-27) Mumma, Courtney; Rushing, Amy; Barrera-Gomez, Julianna; Artefactual Systems; University of Texas at San Antonio
UTSA Library was one of 9 pilot partners who tested Archivematica hosted in DuraCloud over several months in the Fall/Winter of 2014/2015. The purpose of the testing was to launch the first open-source, OAIS digital preservation service in March 2015. Pilot testers communicated via discussion lists and a group wiki, sharing their use cases and workflows. Artefactual and DuraSpace, the developers behind Archivematica and DuraCloud, respectively, offered training, workflow consulting, system support and enhancements, and scalability strategies. This panel will discuss the pilot from the administrative, processing and developer perspectives, with a focus on the UTSA experience and the changes that had to be made to the software to allow for large-scale processing and hosting.
Archivematica: More human than robot
(2015-04-27) Mumma, Courtney; Artefactual Systems
This talk will discuss workflows and preservation planning in Archivematica. Its focus will be on ways that Artefactual develops the system to allow for automation of as much as possible without overlooking tasks and decisions which require essential professional human intervention.
Voices from Small Places
(2015-04-27) Snowden, Kelley; Beisel, Perky; Reynolds, Linda; Stephen F. Austin State University
When the economic power of a small rural community declines, there’s still value in the social history that defines a place. Researchers at Stephen F. Austin State University help communities preserve and pass on what’s most important about the places they’ve called home. Voices from Small Places focuses on documenting and preserving the history of small places (population under 100) found throughout East Texas. It uses a unique combination of methods to create a multidimensional history including photovoice, oral history interviews, a site survey, and the development of a digital collection. Using these methods the history of these small communities is documented and made available to the public. In addition to providing information for research, by documenting the history of these small places and placing them back into the larger historical narrative, East Texas is better understood as a region.
Using Omeka and Neatline to Build an Interactive Campus Map
(2015-04-27) King, Max; Strohm, Adam; Illinois Institute of Technology
The Illinois Institute of Technology campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and contains a building, Mies van der Rohe's S.R. Crown Hall, that was named a National Historic Landmark in 2001. Our goal was to showcase the campus, its architecture, and the university’s history via a dynamic digital resource. This talk covers the conception, development, and design of the campus map site that was built using Omeka, along with the Neatline, Waypoints and Simile Timeline plugins, to allow users to explore the campus and see how it has changed over the institution’s 125 year history. We’ll discuss the entire arc of the project, including selecting software, identifying hardware needs, setting project goals, determining our audience, and working with university stakeholders. We’ll delve into our decision-making process regarding content selection and presentation, including the juggling act of designing for mobile mapping functionality without sacrificing desktop design. We’ll also discuss the challenge of building a site that can be developed iteratively, with an eye towards future enhancement and sustainability. Creating a digital resource of this nature is challenge enough in and of itself, but doing so as a two-person team of relative newcomers, at a university library without dedicated programmers on staff, ups the ante considerably. Attendees will leave this presentation not just with an understanding of our project, but with suggestions on how to approach challenging digital projects at their own institution.
Hitting the Road towards a Greater Digital Destination: Evaluating and Testing DAMS at the University of Houston Libraries
(2015-04-27) Thompson, Santi; Wu, Annie; Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Prilop, Valerie; Vacek, Rachel; University of Houston
Since 2009, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries has digitized tens of thousands of rare and unique items and made them available for research through its UH Digital Library (UHDL) based on CONTENTdm. Six years later, the need for a digital asset management system (DAMS) that can facilitate large scale digitization, provide innovative features for users, and offer more efficient workflows for librarians and staff has emerged. To address these needs, UH Libraries formed the DAMS Task Force in the summer of 2014. The group’s goal was to identify a system that can support the growing expectations of the UHDL. This presentation will focus on the two core activities, needs assessment and DAMS evaluation, that the task force completed. The key portions of the needs assessment include: the process of literature review on DAMS evaluation and migration; research on tools utilized by peer institutions; and library stakeholder interviews. The presentation will then cover how task force members compiled the results of the assessment to establish DAMS evaluation criteria. The evaluation process consisted of an environmental scan of possible DAMS to test, the creation of criteria to narrow the list of DAMS down for in-depth testing, and the comprehensive testing of the DSpace and Fedora systems. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the task force’s results as well as the lessons learned from the research and evaluation process. It will also reflect on the important role that collaboration, project management, and strategic planning played in this team-based approach to DAMS selection.
Using Viewshare to feature the Breitenbach Mexican Mask Collection
(2015-04-27) Williamson, James; Sam Houston State University
In the spring of 2013, Newton Gresham Library at Sam Houston State University sought ways to highlight its large collection of modern and traditional Mexican masks. Representations of each mask had been uploaded to the OCLC hosted instance of ContentDM. While the display was satisfactory, the staff at Newton Gresham Library were looking for something extra. Recommended by a colleague, Newton Gresham Library used the Library of Congress based product Viewshare to highlight its Mexican mask collection. In this presentation we will discuss our use of Viewshare. We will highlight how we used some of the Viewshare features to exploit our metadata. We will discuss the workflow that we used and helpful resources that we found along the way. We will conclude the presentation by discussing some of the issues that we faced during the process.
Collaboration in Education: Creating a Searchable Database for Dissertations
(2015-04-27) Brown, Sarah Engledow; Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi is a member of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate. This is a consortium of colleges who offer the Ed.D. degree. As part of the CPED, the College of Education asked me to help create a database of dissertations for this project using our Institutional Repository. In this presentation, I describe the process of putting this project together, including challenges and victories, from the beginning of the project to its publication
Beyond the Early Modern OCR Project
(2015-04-27) Christy, Matthew; Grumbach, Elizabeth; Mandell, Laura; Texas A&M University
The Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP) is a Mellon Foundation grant funded project, nearing completion at the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) at Texas A&M University. eMOP’s goal is to improve optical character recognition (OCR) output for early modern printed English-language texts by utilizing and creating open-source tools and workflows. In addition to establishing an impressive OCR workflow infrastructure, eMOP has produced several open-source post-processing tools to evaluate and improve the text output of Google’s Tesseract OCR engine. Work on eMOP is nearing completion this summer, and the team is now looking beyond eMOP towards sharing its accrued knowledge and tools. As a Mellon Foundation grant funded project, eMOP is tasked with sharing the results of its work whenever possible. This is in line with the IDHMC’s stated goals of aiding Humanities scholars with conducting digital research and/or creating digital outcomes of their research. As such, we are pursuing a variety of methods to disseminate the various products of our work. We are creating open-source code repositories for all software created by, and for, eMOP. We are creating an open-source repository of all eMOP typeface training created for the Tesseract OCR engine. We are creating a publicly available database of early modern printers, publishers and booksellers based on the imprint metadata of the entire Eighteenth-Century Collection Online (ECCO) and Early English Books Online (EEBO) proprietary collections. We are making the recently released Phase I hand-transcriptions of EEBO by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP), available for full-text searching via the Advanced Research Consortium’s (ARC’s) 18thConnect website. We are making the first-ever-produced OCR transcriptions of the entire EEBO catalog available via 18thConnect’s online crowd-sourced transcript correction tool, TypeWright. TypeWright will provide free access to the EEBO transcriptions, and a text or XML version of that corrected transcription for anyone who corrects an entire document. In addition, the eMOP team is committed to continuously improving the accuracy and robustness of our workflow. We are currently in discussion with, or actively engaged in, partnerships with teams at Notre Dame, Penn State, and the University of Texas to apply eMOP’s workflow to different collections. These partnerships will provide us with the ability to improve eMOP by: Adding more OCR engines to our workflow in addition to Tesseract, currently being used; Expanding our collected dictionaries beyond the current early modern English used with eMOP; Expanding our database of google-3grams beyond the early modern period to aid in post-processing OCR correction of documents outside of the early modern period; Expanding our printers & publishers database to include data from outside of the ECCO and EEBO collections. We are proud of the work we have done with eMOP and are eager to continue to find ways to build upon what we have accomplished. We feel that much of our work would be of interest to libraries and librarians. We look forward to sharing the outcomes of eMOP and our vision for future work with the participants at TCDL this April.
Held Captive by Copyright: Two Case Studies for Open Access
(2015-04-27) Gushee, Elizabeth; Rushing, Amy; Harry Ransom Center; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin
The Harry Ransom Center is among the nation’s finest research libraries; its extensive holdings of manuscript, text, and visual materials provide a unique record of the creative processes of thousands of writers and artists. In 2014, with the goal of promoting the use of its collections, the Center’s Digital Initiatives Working Group (DIAG) was tasked with developing an open access policy for its corpus of materials believed to be in the public domain. As part of their work, DIWG surveyed open access strategies across peer institutions, struggled to determine where to place the Center on the open access continuum, debated the effects of open access on the Center’s human and financial resources, and, ultimately, found the process of identifying archival materials as “public domain” far more slippery than originally expected. In the fall of 2014, UTSA Libraries Special Collections held a department retreat to define strategic priorities for the year, and to discuss one of the thorniest issues facing repositories today: the permission to publish. Following a lawsuit against the University of Arkansas Special Collections and the subsequent urging of intellectual property guru Peter Hirtle that “it is time for repositories to get out of the "permission to publish" game and leave permissions to the copyright owner,” UTSA Special Collections decided to do just that. What we thought would remove barriers to our collections, however, has caused unanticipated issues regarding privacy, copyright, orphan works, and maintaining good donor relations. Learn how two libraries within The University of Texas system has grappled with issues of open access, copyright, and restrictions related to the use of their materials.
Austin Music Documentation Initiative Portal
(2015-04-27) Atkins, Grace; Rainey, Hannah; Selvidge, Jeremy; University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas is famous for a thriving music scene. The contemporary scene is apparent to all who travel and move to Austin, yet the rich history and development of the music scene is hidden in various private and public collections. The Austin Music Documentation Initiative (AMDI) intends to increase access and awareness of the music history of Austin by providing a portal through which organizations and individuals can contribute metadata and thumbnails of Austin music history related materials. Under the guidance of the digital archivist at the Perry-Castaneda Library, students from the Spring 2015 section of Digital Libraries at the UT iSchool will create a proof of concept cataloging app for the AMDI. The proof of concept app will be used in support of grant applications. The end goal for this project will include a metadata schema, as well as a form and workflow for uploading metadata to a central directory.
Using the DuraCloud REST Interface
(2015-04-27) Bolton, Michael; Texas A&M University
DuraSpace has developed a robust REST interface for managing data in a DuraCloud instance and TDL has implemented that interface in the TDL instances. Developing scripts and programs that use this interface, customers can develop comprehensive reporting and data management applications. This presentation will introduce the audience to the the REST interface and provide several examples of how it can be used to manage data in the TDL cloud.
DuraCloud™ and Flexible Digital Preservation at the Texas Digital Librar
(2015-04-27) Steans, Ryan; Krumholz, Gad; Hanken-Kurtz, Debra; Texas Digital Library
The Texas Digital Library is now offering preservation service via DuraCloud™, an open source technology developed by DuraSpace. In 2014, the membership of the TDL formed a Working Group to explore the software and define best practices, given the diverse approaches to the issue of preservation. In January 2015 we first announced the service and made the service available in Spring of 2015. In this presentation, the Texas Digital Library will describe how our implementation of the DuraCloud™ software provides multiple upload options for preservationists through a selection of interfaces and tools intended to serve a variety of audiences, from librarians at their desktop to server administrators working at the command line. We will describe how DuraCloud™@TDL fits in to varying environments as a primary or third party preservation solution, and we will also define the array of options for durable, reliable storage infrastructure for preservationists in the care of the unique collections of their institutions. Looking forward, TDL will discuss the issues regarding preservation management and challenges we are addressing with users such as format management and metadata management within DuraCloud™@TDL. TDL will present planned next steps for additional services such as integration of DuraCloud™@TDL with DSpace, using DuraCloud™ as a platform for utilization of the Digital Preservation Network, and the potential for using DuraCloud™ to serve content to the public. We will be joined by representatives of DuraSpace who will present information about the ongoing development of DuraCloud™as well as future plans for DuraCloud features/functionality and integrations. In addition, TDL and DuraSpace will discuss how TDL community activities tie to the broader trends of DuraCloud customer use and the joint efforts between the two organizations to create resources and best practices around preserving content in a cloud environment. Lastly, ways in which TDL and others can assist development as part of the DuraCloud user-base and the overall DuraSpace community will be highlighted.
All In For the Bears: The History and Impact of the Baylor University Libraries Athletics Archive
(2015-04-27) Stuhr, Darryl; Ames, Eric
When members of the Digital Projects Group in Baylor’s Electronic Library first sat down with legendary football head coach Grant Teaff, they couldn't have predicted the scope and impact the resulting Baylor University Libraries Athletics Archive (BULAA) would have on preserving university history, raising funds and promoting morale with alumni. Darryl Stuhr – Assistant Director for Digital Projects – and Eric Ames – Curator of Digital Collections - will address the history of the project, its workflow and mechanics, and its impact on donors, Bears supporters and historians around the world. Attendees will gain insight on how to manage a multi-source digital collection, tips on selecting outsource service providers and soliciting support from nontraditional givers.
REVEAL: Read and View English and American Literature
(2015-04-28) Law, Kristin; University of Texas at Austin; Harry Ransom Center
While the Harry Ransom Center holds a vast collection of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, and works of art, our digital collections website displays only a fraction of these treasures. This past year we launched a one-year initiative designed to expand access to our archival collections by dramatically increasing the number of items available for online viewing. The REVEAL project (REad and View English and American Literature) entails digitizing entire manuscript collections, reusing descriptive metadata from finding aids, and delivering this content online through CONTENTdm. When the project is completed in the spring of 2015, we expect to have created over 20,000 images from 25 literary manuscript collections, which will nearly double the number of images available to our online researchers. The collections were drawn from our extensive British and American literature holdings, and include work from authors such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Joseph Conrad, Zane Grey, Violet Hunt, Washington Irving, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Oscar Wilde. Materials range from loose manuscripts to correspondence, bound volumes, photographs, scrapbooks, galley proofs, and even a few unusual items. In the past, our digital collections were often created by carefully selecting items and manually producing descriptive metadata. The REVEAL project instead developed a workflow for large-scale digitization of complete collections, building upon previous cataloging work. In this presentation we will discuss our process for re-formatting finding aids into metadata and we will describe our workflows for mass digitization and processing of image files. By sharing the outcomes of challenges we encountered and lessons learned along the way, we hope to provide ideas for other institutions who may be considering undertaking similar initiatives.

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