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...

People Documenting Online Lives This is Just to Say I have the in Your : Modernist Memes in an Era of Public Apology by Shawna Ross (Texas A&M) Humanities Commons - the paper is available there. Trigger warning - evocation of people who are known abusers, racists, harassers--not what they've done, but their apologies and what they sound like. William Carlos William "This is Just To Say" was meme-ed on Twitter, blew up in Nov 2017. Proliferation of mashups. Why did this one blow up? Why not his "So Much Depends" which is fewer characters? Why is the shortest story #babyshoes meme mashup with the plums is more popular than #babyshoes alone? Why the surge? Poem's accessibility. Lack of meter and rhyme scheme makes it easy to understand and replicate. Compulsive overeating subject is attractive. Desired consumables - happened between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Wheelbarrow is less seductive than plums. Also people can finally use line breaks in Twitt...

Ruthless Prioritization (Track D, Management Tips and Practices) Rebecca Jones Whats's in it for them (WIIFT)? WIIFM (What's in it for me)? See  Manifesto of Ruthless Prioritization Manifesto of Ruthless Prioritization: Prioritization "means falling in love with the organization's mission" and "Ruthless prioritization means having the discipline to solve the big, really hard problem rather than being seduced by all the small, easier problems." Mission: Libraries were created to help people to solve a problem, make a decision, or learn something new. Leaders are not supposed to encourage people. They are supposed to build encouraging environments for their people to work in. (paraphrase of Rebecca Jones) Return on investment: what value for customers i being created? How much time will this take? Estimate a return on investment in terms of your missions for each project. Constraints and dependencies. Whats needs to happen first to allow proje...

13th Annual  American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education ( AAHHE) National Conference, Irvine, CA President's remarks: Loui Olivas Gift of books on policy, and one of assessment Culturally Relevant Assessment Tools: Implications for Policy - Richard J. Tannenbaum (moderator) Higher ed enrollment reflects range of student diversity (race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual identity and orientation, language and culture. education and development of students ant be agnostic to this diversity. Assessment is an opportunity o g4t accurate and timely evidence of what student know and can do (selection use, formative, interim, summative). But also app to engaged and motivate students. Culturally relevant assessment provides students with accessible pathways. Differentiated instructional practices, we need differentiated assessment practices. Equitable (Fair) Assessment Goal is to maximize opportunity to for students to demonstrate their standing on constructs te...

First, I want to express how very grateful I am to be one of the two folks who received the Access Conference Diversity Scholarship . The conference doesn't announce our names--the cost of the scholarship does not include you outing yourself, and that struck me as incredibly kind and gracious. Since I outed my disability quite a bit ago, I don't mind saying it here. I never would have been able to afford to attend without the assistance, and the conference is one of the most useful I've attended in my 15 years in libraries. (You can find my session notes here for Day 1 morning , and early and late afternoon, and Day 2 morning , lightning talks, and  afternoon  sessions. I haven't gone back to clean them up yet, so forgive the messiness.) Context Since July 2014, I've served as the Information Literacy Coordinator at my library. This August, I've shifted into a new position as Digital and Data Services Librarian, an area I've harbored interest in (e...

Session 4: IIIF You Can Dream and Not Make Dreams Your Master - IIIF In The Real World - Peter Binkley IIIF (Triple-I Eff) - provides above the tiled image level, a whole presentation level - a book reader like Internet Archive, but manifest itself is a lovely structured package of info about a digitzed object that can be used for different purposes. Useful beyond the eyecandy of slides. See http://iiif.io - learn 90% of what you want to know here About 100 participating institutions in IIIF community like Internet Archive, Getty. Also a github/iiif repository and worth looking in there called awesome-iiif which is the community-maintained list of resources and demos and links, etc. Goals of IIIF - provide unprecedented level of uniform and rich access to image-based resources for scholars; define APIs that support interoperability between repositories; provides a world-class user experience in viewing, comparing, manipulating, and annotating images. Annotating - very exciting!...