Visualizing Funding for Libraries
Interested in who's funding libraries? Visualizing Funding for Libraries, provided by Foundation Center, shows you funders, grant amounts, and the topics being funded. Search by geographic location, population served, or year given. If you are interested in creating lists of potential funders for your library, filling in gaps in your knowledge of grant seeking, or in simply exploring the library grant landscape then this free tool is for you.
Presenter: Sarah Rice, Librarian, Forefront
Metadata Cleanup in the Pacific Northwest
In 2016-2018, the Washington State Library piloted two rounds of grant funding for libraries seeking to bring digital collection metadata in line with regional and DPLA standards. We partnered with the Orbis Cascade Alliance to provide initial consultation, metadata analysis, and targeted trainings. Approximately 20,000 records were remediated over the course of two LSTA grant cycles.
Presenter: Evan Robb, Digital Repository Librarian, Washington State Library
Bridge2Hyku: Progress on a Migration Toolkit
The Bridge2Hyku Project, an IMLS National Leadership/Project Grant (LG-70-17-0217-17), is nearing the end of its second phase and has produced a multifaceted migration toolkit. We will provide information about our toolkit, including software (CDM Bridge, HyBridge) and our migration guide, and how it will help those considering moves from legacy systems to open source platforms compatible with the DPLA.
Presenter: Todd Crocken, Content Strategist, University of Houston Libraries
LINEAGE: An artificially intelligent visual discovery engine "
Visual archives are often incredibly well-annotated resources, but unless you know precisely what it is you are after they can be difficult to search and utilize. This talk will present LINEAGE, an artificially intelligent search engine that enables exploration of digitized visual archives in a human-like manner. LINEAGE bridges the gap between institutions and the curious public by creating a visual way to explore collections without presuming prior knowledge. It mimics the way humans look at objects, encouraging serendipitous connections across time periods, location of origin, creator and medium, allowing users to quickly and independently gain perspective.
Presenter: Noya Kohavi, Research Scholar, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Aggregating with Eliza and Barb: creating user personas for software development at PA Digital
In 2018, PA Digital, Pennsylvania’s service hub, received funding to completely redo their Blacklight/Fedora/Solr aggregation system. In this lightning talk, I will discuss how we developed personas that represented various stakeholders, both internal and external, to get the planning process started. With a little help from “Eliza” (the metadataist), “Danni” (the lone arranger at a small, contributing institution), and “Jo” (the developer), we wrote user stories that helped us think strategically about functional requirements and articulate our needs to the development team without getting lost in the weeds. It also added welcome levity to our regular stand-up meetings.
Presenter: Leanne Finnigan, Database Management Librarian, Temple University (PA Digital)
Introducing Pyrepox: A Repox Client for Python
Pyrepox is a lightweight Repox client written in Python that utilizes the Repox REST API. It is designed to make reading, writing, updating, and deleting data in a Repox instance as easy as possible with Python. Want to harvest a set programmatically? There is a method for that. Want to schedule a future harvest? There is a method for that too. In this lightning talk, I’ll introduce the package and talk about some of the ways we use it for work in the Digital Library of Tennessee.
Presenter: Mark Baggett, Head, Digital Initiatives, University of Tennessee
Process Assessment as a Cultural Shift
After ten years libraries are recovering from the devastating cuts resulting from the recession. This session is a look back to see forward and plan for continued and future success. Virginia Beach Public Library, Support Services, seized the opportunity to create a new culture and philosophy through collaborative process improvement. The careful examination of long standing practice resulted in some astonishing discoveries, including; redundancy, overlap, bottlenecked workflow, backlogs, ill-defined job descriptions, inefficient budgeting, and collections based on presumption rather than demand and data. VBPL turned it around through thoughtful examination, collaboration, and a cultural shift in practice and process.
Presenter: Clara Hudson, Support Services Administrator, Virginia Beach Public Library
The Illinois Digital Heritage Hub Type Metadata Project: Increasing User Access and Record Visibility
The Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH) helps contributors shape their metadata to the standards recommended and required by the DPLA. Type metadata, an important field for search, discovery, and user-interactivity within the DPLA had room for improvement. This lightning talk will present a not-overly-technical overview of the process for gathering and analyzing contributor’s type metadata, issues identified in the analysis of the metadata, and ways that contributors, the IDHH, and the DPLA work together to improved metadata quality.
Presenter: Joshua Lynch, Visiting Metadata Services Specialist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
