Guardienne of the Tomes

UC DLFx 2018 Demystifying Data Curation -  Vessela Ensberg (UCD),  Emily Lin (UCM),  Ho Jung Yoo (UCSD),  Amy Never (UCB) Purpose of data curation: FAIR data principles--Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. Qualities of data that make them valuable. Findable: DOI; Accessible: online, fixity-checked, backed-up---these are called Bit Curation (we depend on technology). Interoperability: file formats still active, can be open and read Reusability: metadata to put data in context for researchers to decide whether or not they can use it. This is curation for long term use. Curation for long term use: When: pre-ingest or post-ingest-- How: in depth (documentation happens down to each variable) or limited in scope. Tension between time, quality, and return on investment 4 models/case studies on how they approached curation in their experience, what skills are necessary, and what difficulty there is in providing those services. Case 1 Emily ...

Session 1: The UX of Online Help - Ruby Warren About 2015-16, web redesign. Back to basics - usability testing was already done, but it was a more fundamental issue. Did interviews about library's website with different user groups - UG, grad students, faculty, regional folks. What they go for, what they do, when it happens. Only when they have a problem that needs fixing and they cannot wait anymore (midnight, weekends, weekend midnights). Needed asynchronous help option. Internally called Help Hub - series of 55 videos and text tutorials arranged according to usergroup (U of Manitoba Libs) built in LibGuides. Usergroup appropriate language. After 8 months, do they use it? Everybody hates new things. Yes, they did. Spike in September, usage follows pattern of academic year. They're going to it, but does it work? 9 usability tests (high) - ensuring users can get to help area, navigating to tutorials should be intuitive, language makes sense; 35 interviews (12 currently comp...

Session 4: Excavating the 80s: Strategies for Restoring Digital Artifacts From the First Era of Personal Computing - John Durno "Avoiding technological quicksand" Rothenberg presentation review: hard copy, standards, computer museums, format migration, emulation. Ultimately he argued all but emulation would be of limited utility. David Bearman's "Reality and Chimeras in the Preservation of Electronic Records" in 1999 D-Lib. OAIS Functional Model. Rothenberg's emulation still at work - see Internet Archive, see code4lib paper (missed cite), Preserving and Emulating Digital Art Objects (Cornell white paper). Usually case-based choosing whatever works, not prescripted. Case Study 1: AtariWriter - no modern software that can read or convert. but if you can play games on an old platform, someone has probably written an emulator for it. Locate, install, configure an open source emulator. Tracking down old software not usually that difficult, though legality ...