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Item A Case Study of NGO-Government Collaboration in Vietnam: Partnership Dynamics Explained through Contexts, Incentives, and Barriers(2012-10-19) Nguyen, Anh ThucCollaboration between international NGOs (INGOs) and governmental organizations (GOs) have contributed significantly to the goals of poverty alleviation and agricultural development in developing countries. Much of the literatures on NGO-GO partnerships have explored theoretically or empirically what motivate and hinder cross-sector collaboration. But not many have studied cross-sector collaboration from both analytical and descriptive perspectives. This study filled in this gap by drawing from previous studies a conceptual framework through which contexts, incentives, and barriers that influence INGO-GO partnerships were described and explained. The researcher adopted a qualitative case-study method with emergent design. Personal interviews were conducted with 20 key informants, including eight Vietnamese staff from one INGO and 12 government officials from six GOs who partnered with the INGO. All participating organizations were institutions serving agricultural and rural development in the south of Vietnam. The data were collected in 2010 and analyzed using the software package ATLAS.ti. The results showed four categories that interact to form a framework of a dynamic continuum of partnership development. The four categories included conditioning factors, incentives, barriers, and feedback loop. The categories held the following themes: 1) socio-political contexts and organizational natures for conditioning factors, 2) shared missions, resource mobilization, capacity building, and networking for incentives, 3) ideological conflicts, structural constraints, and operational hurdles for barriers, and 4) reflections and recommendations for feedback loop. The study contributed a theoretical- and empirical-based perspective on INGO-GO partnerships in post-reform countries. It provided a framework that comprehensively describes and explains partnership dynamics. The study also shared knowledge of the intricacies of INGO-GO partnerships in rural Vietnam. For institutions serving agricultural and rural development, the study could assist in strategic management to minimize constraints and maximize opportunities in collaborative environments.Item A Path to Open and Accountable Digital Preservation Collaboration(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-17) Mumma, CourtneyIn addition to hosting NDSA Innovation Award-winning Digital Preservation Services, TDL is part of an informal affinity group called the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (DPSC). We are a group of digital preservation organizations united in our commitment to preserve the cultural, intellectual, scientific and academic record for current and future generations. We came together because digital preservation is a cultural-heritage-wide challenge that is best accomplished together. We may be best known for having published the Declaration of Shared Values in late 2018, a document which provides standards to which our community can hold us accountable. The values that inform and direct our collective work are collaboration, affordability and sustainability, inclusiveness, technological diversity, portability/interoperability, openness and transparency, accountability, stewardship continuity, advocacy, and empowerment. Digital preservation requirements differ broadly across units and between institutions, and decisions are too often made for the short-term based predominantly on real or imposed resource scarcity. This understanding, alongside recent developments in the digital preservation ecosystem, inspired the DPSC to revise and expand the Values statement. We are witness to the growing ubiquity of commercial Digital Preservation vendors in community and professional spaces, which has precipitated the increased uptake of their technologies and investment from institutions. Digital preservation-focused professional associations, including TDL, witness the United States suffering from a dearth of digital preservation leadership and guidance. This presentation will discuss these values and efforts to curb trends that do not align with them.Item All Aboard: Bringing the Community Forward to Fedora 6.0(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Wilcox, David; Griffith, ArranItem Binational collaboration in recovery of endangered species: the Mexican wolf as a case study(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30) Bernal Stoopen, Jose FranciscoThe goal of this inductive study was to identify factors that facilitate and inhibit binational collaboration in the recovery of endangered species in the northern Mexico borderlands, focusing on the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi). A conceptual model was developed using qualitative techniques, providing the basis for design of a mail survey. The target population included participants with experience in recovery efforts for over a dozen species at risk in the region. Long interviews were recorded with 44 participants from Mexico and the United States. Thematic hierarchical analysis was used to develop a conceptual model of how interviewees talked about factors influencing binational collaboration. Issues were classified in five thematic clusters: project, organization, people, resources, culture/history. The survey was used to conduct a needs assessment, measuring respondents' attitudes about the relative priority of issues identified in the conceptual model. High priority needs were identified from each thematic cluster: (a) equitable participation in project design and implementation, (b) continuity of personnel, (c) coordination of federal, state and local efforts, (d) increased funding, managed with accountability, and (e) exchange visits to facilitate understanding of diverse perspectives. Responses to almost half the survey items indicated accord among the sample of respondents, providing a basis for shared common ground. The nature of discord was within the range of "manageable", with no clear polarization of attitudes measured. This exploratory data analysis suggested that the structure of the conceptual model developed from the Mexican wolf case study was generally a valid basis for future deductive analysis and reflection by practitioners. For 82% of 22 statements of need, priorities of participants in the Mexican wolf recovery efforts did not differ significantly from other respondents. Nationality (of respondents) significantly affected priority rankings for only 18% of the need statements. Significant effects of five demographic variables indicated that interactive effects should be examined in future multivariate analyses to determine how respondents' attitudes on issues related to priority rankings. Recommendations were provided for a more efficient and effective approach to collaborative problem-solving, engaging reflective practitioners from the private and public sectors in principled negotiation processes to better understand diverse perspectives.Item Centralized to Scattered: Designing Project Workflows for a Dynamic Staff(2014-04-04) Wills, Faedra; Schenk, Krystal; University of Texas at ArlingtonHow can staff collaborate on digital projects when they are dispersed throughout the library? This is the challenge the new Digital Creations department was faced with after a library wide reorganization in the summer of 2013. In 2011, the UT Arlington Libraries began mining faculty CVs for articles that we could add to our local institutional repository. After the re-organization the staff previously working on this project were now scattered between three departments. By leveraging the project management features of the newly adopted tool SharePoint, we are able to distribute the work of this project across staff, and departments. In this presentation we will demonstrate how we are using SharePoint’s workflows, custom lists, task lists and shared calendars to help keep staff informed, generate reports and manage projects. In particular, we will show how we use these features to help keep staff on task, and faculty informed of our progress.Item Collection Development for an Institutional Repository through Collaborations between Departments(2013-03-26) Randtke, Wilhelmina; Detweiler, Brian; St. Mary's UniversityPoster presentation: St. Mary’s University School of Law’s Sarita Kenedy East Law Library recently launched an institutional repository. The School of Law and law library had no preexisting digital collections. In order to quickly acquire appropriate content, the law library focused on locating born digital materials, such as School of Law publications, which had not previously been formally archived. The law library also attempted to identify digitization performed as part of routine library operations, and to assess digitized material for long term archiving. The law library was able to quickly and efficiently build an online collection for the repository by collecting preexisting born digital material, and assessing for inclusion material provided digitally to professors after conversion from legacy formats such as microfilm, and audiotape. This poster presents on how interdepartmental collaborations provided the framework to populate a digital collection in the absence of resources or equipment dedicated specifically to digitization.Item Creating a Roadmap for Digital Scholarship Services at the University of Houston Libraries(2016-05-26) Thompson, Santi; Been, Josh; Bennett, Miranda; Hilyer, Lee Andrew; Malizia, Michelle; University of HoustonOver the last decade, scholarship has predominantly originated and lived in the digital environment. Not surprisingly, scholars, researchers, and students are increasingly in need of skills related to data literacy and manipulation, data management, and data archiving and preservation. Libraries, traditionally well suited to assisting users with these issues in analog formats, are playing larger, more active roles in the digital environment as well – enhancing the research, teaching, and learning missions of many institutions of higher education. One approach academic libraries have used to respond to the growing digital needs among users is the development of digital scholarship services and centers. According to Lippincott, Hemmasi, and Lewis, these programs offer services focused on building and strengthening “relationships” with their users and by offering technological expertise in some core areas, including data visualization in the environmental sciences, data mining of texts in the humanities, and GIS representations in the social sciences.[1] In October 2015, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries’ administration charged a group to develop recommendations for how the Libraries should move forward in the growing area of digital scholarship. Since then, the Digital Scholarship Services Team (DSST) has been hard at work researching and developing a roadmap for potential future services. In this presentation, DSST members address the methodology used to formulate the roadmap, highlight findings from their work, and share lessons learned from this collaborative, cross-departmental process. They start by describing the tasks performed to generate future plans around digital scholarship, including the development of a working definition of digital scholarship, the assessment of current needs associated with digital scholarship activities, the benchmarking of service models at other institutions, and the scanning of existing services currently offered in the libraries and on campus. Next, DSST members discuss key results, prioritized around popular services in the field of digital scholarship, including data visualization, digital humanities, and data repository services. Finally, the group reflects on the collaborative aspects of their work, including their close ties to the UH Libraries’ Strategic Planning Team. While only just started, DSST members believe that their work (and the roadmap they developed) contributes to the growing digital scholarship efforts among institutions in Texas. They believe this presentation will facilitate audience conversation, particularly on the challenges of starting and sustaining digital scholarship activities. [1] Joan K. Lippincott, Harriette Hemmasi, and Vivian Marie Lewis, “Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers,” Educause Review (June 16, 2014): http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/trends-digital-scholarship-centers.Item Digital Collaboration: Effective Partnerships & Repository Management(Texas Digital Library, 2012-05-25) Tarver, Hannah; Moore, Jeremy; University of North TexasThe UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit regularly collaborates with other departments, campus entities, and external institutions. We currently have over two hundred partners of various kinds contributing to the more than 260,000 digital objects in our system. Our presentation will discuss procedures and techniques that can help to streamline collaborative projects, and outline some of the concerns that institutions may want to keep in mind when starting similar projects. We will focus on providing suggestions to help others have more successful collaborative digital projects including: considerations at the initial point of contact, managing the practical aspects of the process to make digitization run smoothly, and the benefits of collaborative projects for participants and the users that access their digital items.Item Expanding the realm of the possible through collaboration(Texas Digital Library, 2018-08-10) Park, KristiEquitable access to information and a commitment to the public good are core values of librarianship. But in an era of resource scarcity for public institutions, how are libraries succeeding in maintaining these essential commitments? Drawing on more than a decade of experience in collaborative library work, this talk will explore and celebrate the power of collective community-based efforts to transform libraries in the digital age. Successful community collaborations -- including the Texas Digital Library’s consortial research data repository and the implementation of multi-institutional networks for preservation of digital collections -- continue to expand the realm of the possible beyond individual institutional efforts and amplify those efforts to make invaluable digital collections more accessible, usable, and secure.Item Flying Farmers Films: Collaborating across Departments to Showcase a Time Capsule(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Prud'homme, Patrice-Andre; Peters, DavidItem Fostering success in reading: a survey of teaching methods and collaboration practices of high performing elementary schools in Texas(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16) Evans Jr., Richard AustinThis study examined reading programs in 68 Texas elementary schools that were identified as successful by their scores on TAAS assessment results in the 1999-2000 school year. These schools?? student populations had a high proportion of culturally diverse and low-SES students. The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine if and how teaching methods and collaboration (intervention/support teams) were used by effective schools to foster reading success in all students; (2) to identify cohesive patterns (clusters) or models in schools?? use of collaboration and teaching methods; (3) to examine these clusters of similar schools and see if the patterns differed based on the school/community demography (urban, suburban, or rural). The study was conducted in 68 schools in 33 school districts that represented various demographic settings from 12 different Education Service Centers across Texas. From these original 332 variables, 26 variables were selected that were of medium frequency and strongly correlated with high TAAS scores over a 4- year period. These 26 variables were used to examine the 68 high-performing Texas elementary schools for clusters. K-means analysis and HCA were both applied to the 26 response variables, using them as complementary techniques to arrive at a five cluster solution. Results from correlations of individual characteristics and from identifying school clusters suggested that school community type could possibly be moderately predictive of student performance on the TAAS/TAKS over time.Item The Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Preservation(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-23) Shapiro, AdrianDigital preservation is important, but how do I get started? This poster will provide a roadmap for how Texas Woman’s University built, and is continuing to build, a cross-departmental digital preservation program with the help of TDL’s Digital Preservation Service. It will provide tips and resources for beginners looking to build a digital preservation program at their institution.Item The house that Jill built : a review of feminist approaches to teaching argument in the composition classroom(2009-08) Ludlow, Marcee Monroe; Roberts-Miller, Patricia, 1959-; Ferreira-Buckley, LindaCongruent with the second wave of feminism and continuing into the 1990s, a group of feminist compositionists felt that argument should not have a major, if any, place in the feminist classroom and began to redefine, revision, and reposition argument. With a rhetorician’s bias, this report looks at one articulation of why they turned away from argument—Sally Miller Gearhart’s claim that “any intent to persuade is an act of violence”—, what they turned to, some critique surrounding their approaches and theories, and how a broader understanding of rhetoric and the role of agonism in rhetoric and education can add depth to the feminist approach.Item Hypertextual Ultrastructures: Movement and Containment in Texts and Hypertexts(2010-01-14) Coste, Rosemarie L.The surface-level experience of hypertextuality as formless and unbounded, blurring boundaries among texts and between readers and writers, is created by a deep structure which is not normally presented to readers and which, like the ultrastructure of living cells, defines and controls texts' nature and functions. Most readers, restricted to surface-level interaction with texts, have little access to the deep structure of any hypertext. In this dissertation, I argue that digital hypertexts differ essentially from paper texts in that hypertexts are constructed in multiple layers, with surface-level appearance and behavior controlled by sub-surface ultrastructure, and that these multiple layers of structure enable and necessitate new methods of textual study designed for digital texts. Using participant-observation from within my own practice as a webmaster, I closely examine the sub-surface structural layers that create several kinds of Web-based digital hypertexts: blogs, forums, static Web pages, and dynamic Web pages. With these hypertexts as the primary models, along with their enabling software and additional digital texts-wikis, news aggregators, word processing documents, digital photographs, electronic mail, electronic forms-available to me as a reader/author rather than a webmaster, I demonstrate methods of investigating and describing the development of digital texts. These methods, like methods already established within textual studies to trace the development of printed texts, can answer questions about accidental and intentional textual change, the roles of collaborators, and the ways texts are shaped by production processes and mediating technologies. As a step toward a formalist criticism of hypertext, I propose concrete ways of categorizing, describing, and comparing hypertexts and their components. I also demonstrate techniques for visualizing the structures, histories, and interrelationships of hypertexts and explore methods of using self-descriptive surface elements in paper-like texts as partial substitutes for the sub-surface self-description available in software-like texts. By identifying digitization as a gateway to cooperation between human and artificial intelligences rather than an end in itself, I suggest natural areas of expansion for the humanities computing collaboration as well as new methodologies by which originally-printed texts can be studied in their digital forms alongside originally-digital texts.Item Interactive graphical timelines as collaborative scenario management tools(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10) Riddle, Austin ChristopherTraining emergency response decision makers using live, virtual and/or constructive simulations can be highly complex since certain situations can generate stimulusresponse cycles that depend significantly on unpredictable human judgments. In particular, effective training scenarios require a combination of content contributed via pre-authored scripts and content generated dynamically during the training exercise. Large-scale exercises require multiple domain experts contributing oversight and content to the scenario as it proceeds. Such real-time adaptation requires situational and group awareness based on an understanding of pre-scripted materials and the adaptations of others. This thesis describes the evolution and evaluation of a collaborative graphical timeline system, called the Scenario Timeline System (STS), which facilitates asynchronous and synchronous collaborative timeline management, and its application in large-scale, computer-supported emergency response training exercises.Item Modeling carrier collaboration in freight networks(2009-08) Voruganti, Avinash; Waller, S. TravisThis work presents two mechanisms for modeling alliance formation between leader carriers in a freight network for more efficient utilization of their resources: partial collaboration and complete collaboration. The performance of these alliance formation mechanisms is compared against the no collaboration case for various network topologies and demand levels. In the partial collaboration case, each leader carrier first maximizes his individual profits and leases out the residual capacity to other carriers. In the complete collaboration case all leader carriers join together to maximize the profit of the alliance. The profits are then distributed among the alliance members using the Shapley value principle. Numerical tests reveal that the topology of the network and the demand levels play an important role in determining the profits from each collaboration mechanism. It was also inferred that each of these factors also play a major role in determining the best collaboration strategy.Item Outreach & Collaboration: Strategies for Digital Repositories(2012-05-25) Waugh, Laura; University of North TexasThe University of North Texas (UNT) launched the UNT Scholarly Works repository in October 2010. Since that time, UNT Scholarly Works has continued to grow as a tool for promoting access to the research, scholarship, and creative activities from the university's community. This digital repository was built into an existing infrastructure and its increasing growth has relied heavily on successful faculty outreach and collaboration within the UNT community. This presentation traces the development of our digital repository and discusses strategies for reaching faculty, developing relationships within an organization and beyond, and collaboration to support digital repositories and promote open access.Item The Power of Collaboration: Creative Opportunities with Faculty(2014-04-07) Wills, Faedra; Downing, Jeff; University of Texas at ArlingtonWith the growth of digital humanities, e-science and other web-based initiatives, there are many new and exciting opportunities for librarians to collaborate with faculty and the community. For the past couple of years, UT-Arlington (UTA) library staff have worked with faculty on the occasional digital project, but those tended to be small in scale with limited long-term benefits. In the summer of 2013, the library went through a reorganization. One of the outcomes of this reorganization was the establishment of a Digital Creations department. As a result, staff now have the time and the tools to collaborate with faculty on larger and more complex digital initiatives. This presentation will look at two recent staff/faculty collaborative projects here at UTA: the creation of an university alumni military veterans website and the publication of an international educational journal on the OJS platform. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the projects and discuss how these projects originated; our success stories and lessons learned to be applied to future projects.Item Re-Engineering a Website Into a Digital Humanities Project - We Think!(2014-04-21) Johnson, Lynn; Holmes, Ramona; University of Texas at ArlingtonWhat happens when you have a website that needs a facelift and you want to evolve the contents into a digital humanities project? What makes it different? This poster session explores a process we are attempting at the University of Texas @ Arlington Libraries. Taking an amazing collection of US-Mexico War materials in our Special Collections, harnessing high collaboration with our Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, and re-imagining a website has been a six month process that tapped into an academic partnership and internal re-organization. We invite you to examine our painful process that used a project with no documentation, a small web presence, and completely new personal in a brand new unit. Learn from our unpleasant experience so you never have to go through this yourself!Item Session 3E | This Is Fine: Pressing On With Planned Changes Amid Ongoing Unplanned Ones!(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-25) Dodd, Samantha; Negraru, AdaTexas Archival Resources Online (TARO) is a consortium of over 70 archives, museums, and cultural heritage centers throughout Texas that provides a mutually-supported website for member repositories to upload archival finding aids. For over two decades, TARO has served as a free and open resource visited by hundreds of thousands of researchers per year. However, its twenty-year-old website was long overdue for holistic redesign and enhancement. Funded by a NEH Planning Grant (2015-2016) and a subsequent NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Grant (2019-present), the project started in the Spring of 2020 with a complete overhaul of the website from the administrative aspects of accounts, security and file uploads, to the public interface and search functionalities. Upon overcoming challenges such as the global pandemic and a week long winter storm, TARO’s Steering Committee and numerous volunteers, alongside its institutional home, the University of Texas Libraries, launched the Beta administrative site in May 2021, followed by the public facing Beta website in July 2021. After months of planning, development, testing, and continued enhancements, the final website debuted in October 2021. This presentation is a follow-up to last year’s reports, and will document the final stages of project development and implementation, collection of stakeholder feedback, usability testing, retiring the legacy website, and project wrap up thoughts. Also included will be ongoing and potential future challenges for the TARO Consortium.