Guardienne of the Tomes

Integrating Digital Humanities Into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE: An Exploration of Requirements Joanne Paterson osf.io/pkvtu Today going to talk about SHARE, ways to use, integrating DH scholarship, emerging themes and initial thoughts. What is SHARE? Schema agnostic approach to aggregate diverse metadata. Community open source initiative. Scholars are doing various things, how can we bring all that together so we can see their body of work and things that are related? ARL initiative started in 2013. Aggregates metadata. Looks at research cycle and various outputs of research. To aggregate metadata, they put out a call to ask someone to help them build this, answered by Center for Open Science. (OSF - looks at research workflow, allows you to collaborate with others and share easily). OSF free and open project support, can work privately or publicly. SHARE - harvested datasets from wherever they're open, metadata about scholarly research - scholar's portal, figshare...

Data Migration to Open Journal System (OJS) Using R You Young Lee Worked with scholarly communication librarian to move from legacy system to OJS. Migration using R programming language. Wanted to migrate nursing journal Aporia. Internal system didn't support editor peer review, no user friendly interface to upload articles, typical workflow was to receive content and copy and paste metadata using templates and uploading to server. Since OJS is available, time to move on. Approximately 32 issues, didn't want to manually copy and paste. New issue will have updated location. Project goal: how to convert metadata in HTML into XML. Project tool and packages: Use Studio instead of R, provides console and editor, debugging tool and workspace management. Easy to manage datasets and scripts all in one place.  Rcrawler, data.table, dplyr, XML, stringr. Challenge 1: how download data from the website: crawler parses whole website and extracts all data with a single command line. HT...

Access 2018 Conference User Experience (UX) at McGill: Case Studies in Applied User Research Ekaterina Grguric User experience is primary role, also supports website and service design. Serves as consultant within library as well as with others doing user research in context of specific services, also trains on best research practices. UX as concept and methods are not new at McGill, because UX shares a toolkit with assessment, communications, etc. UX as operational and UX as project based. Notion of ongoing service improvement. Doesn't seek REB/IRB for most projects so can quickly set up usability. (REB doesn't inherently make something ethical, remember.) Toolbox model of UX - sum of many methods. Can ease, simplify, clarify, build consensus around an approach. Provide a check for assumptions we may or may not be aware of. Bringing UX doesn't have to be expensive. Not listed to before/after a project lifecycle, UX methodologies can be brought in at many stages. Trad...

Access Conference 2018 Opening Keynote Sheila Laroque My War Pony is a Prius: Truth and Reconciliation in Times of Technology Sacred rites in Catholicism; many Metis are raised Catholic. Focus on reconciliation (previously confession), a lot of thought and process, not just drive-through sin cleansing. Deeply reflect on what they have done and what they are going to do. Canadian government came to reconciliation through largest class action lawsuit in Canadian history - was not reconciliation freely started. In Catholicism, humans asking divine creator for forgiveness for our failings (which are inbuilt). In Canada, fried as two equal parties coming together again, but they've never been together, and have never been equal in power. Indigenous peoples are not a divine being inclined to forgive. if truth is required for reconciliation, truth is fundamental but may no the possible to get to. The TRC did not come out of nowhere, is a result of largest class action suit in Canadi...