DLF Fall Forum Notes
What is the going on in the future of DLF? (new members on p.6 of Rachel's presentation, p. 11 describes DLF's role compared to other conferences)
...
All of these projects also share an important tactical approach. They mitigate the concern of loss of individuality--loss of ‘brand’ in the common parlance--by keeping the level of tradition, history and idiosyncrasy of the institutions involved intact and building their interdependent alliances and collaborations within and among the services and programs that underpin research and teaching
...
Session #4 "Archiving" Digital Lives
Data Accessioner
library.duke.edu/uarchives/about/tools/data-accessioner.html
guiding principles - honor the unity of the collections, the needs of the donor for privacy, needs of the researcher, and the concern of the content with the digital context
JAVA based data recovery - GUI, mirror directory service, changes the last modified date to the original
First triage is to get the data off the hardware, forensic disk image - raw bit for bit, and make a logical copy
Change creation dates so copying is not good since it changes the context and relationships also the permissions change
Logical - capture deleted files
FRED- Forensic Recovery Embedded Device
Let the donor use the software
...
Hydra
p. 7/38 - Tailored applications and workflows for different content types, contexts and user interactions, A common repository infrastructure, Easily skinned UI, One body many heads
Technical Framework -Components
•Fedora provides a durable repository layer to support object management and persistence
•Solr, provides fast access to indexed information
•Blacklight, a Ruby on Rails pluginthat sits atop solrand provides faceted search & tailored views on objects
2010Technical Framework -Components
•Hydra Plugin, a Ruby on Rails library that provides create, update and delete actions against Fedora objects
•Services, providing discrete, reusable Lego bricks of functions (e.g., indexing, checksumming, MD transforms, etc.)
•Hydrangea, a web application that bundles all the RoRcomponents, user interaction and hooks to services into a single, adaptable package
•ActiveFedora, a Ruby gem for modeling, creating and managing Fedora objects
•Opinionated Metadata, tools for mapping domain specific vocabularies in application code to XML structures
•Solrizer, provides generic utilities for mapping content into a solrindex
•JavaScript Libraries, for Hydra-specific, rich user interactions with repository content
The Hydra project wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/The+Hydra+Project
VIRGO - UVA Manuscripts and images
Standford ETDs:https://lib.stanford.edu/sulair-news/electronic-theses-and-dissertations-available-searchworks-and-socrates-and-google-books
Stanford EEMS: http://lib.stanford.edu/everyday-electronic-materials-eems/about-eems
Code: http://github.com/projecthydra/hydrangea
...
Poster of interest -
...
Reading Session #4: Digital Content and Infrastructure Needs of Research Faculty
Led by Jennifer Schaffner, Susan Kroll, Mackenzie Smith
Links: A Slice of Research Life available at http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2010/2010-15.pdfhttp://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2010/2010-15.pdf.
Scholarly Information Practices from the Online Environment available at http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kr8s78vhttp://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kr8s78v.
...
"pre-print is a more authentic representation of their work" - Kroll's study found that this is the feeling of faculty
...
Staffing and Workflow Solutions:
http://www.clir.org/dlf/forums/fall2010/15DLF-UIowa.pdf
...
Sustainability and Revenue Models
for Online Academic Resources
An Ithaka Report
May 2008
http://www.clir.org/dlf/forums/fall2010/sca_ithaka.pdf
...
Twitter summary:http://wiffiti.com/screens/41933summarized: http://summarizr.labs.eduserv.org.uk/?hashtag=dlf2010
...
Themes of DLF wrap-up:
Digital Library Federation
- To focus on the technological aspects of developing, sustaining, and federating digital libraries:
- Promote standards, protocols, and best practices
- Evaluate and promulgate digital library projects and programs
- Support digital architectures that most effectively allow for interoperable and extensible digital resources and tools
- Facilitate relevant formal and informal education opportunities
Ideas covered -
Ideas Expressed
• Key Performance Indicators‐ develop a community of practice around assessment. #kpi
• Economic Case Studies #econcase
• Develop models for determining value, ROI, return on mission #valueassessment
• Small forum for digital archivists, working w/ electronic records in manuscript repositories, technologically neutral
solutions (esp microservices) #digarchforum
• Hot issues group, identify hot issues and share policies/plans/practices (one first one: data management plans) #dlfhot
• Microservices as way to migrate project‐>program (hackathon or similar) #mshack
• Facilitate cross domain collaboration (however) #collab
• Action Learning Groups for project managers, #dlfalg
• Talk about failures and brainstorm, #failstorm
• Developers talk and managers really listen #dlfdevtalk
• Emerging DL leaders #dlfprofdev
• Training session/workshop on software testing, good development practices, #devcraft
• Methods for counting DL objects in ARL etc environment #dlfstat
• 1/mo conf call with rotating convenor. 5 people talk for 10 mins on what they’re doing, #confcall
• Exhibit systems, how to disseminate content #accesssystems
• (make dlf.org resolve) lots better web site for DLF, #dlfweb
• tools dashboard, open source and homegrown to see what other inst’s are using #tools
• find way to allow more people to go to more sessions at the forum – don’t overlap so much. Record sessions for later
viewing. Collaborative scheduling/voting. #DLFPPC
• Supporting research methods for specific research communities (dig humanities, science data) #dlfdh, #dlfscience
• Exploring barriers to collaboration (strategic, organizational, technical) – how to convince administrators #collab
• How to deal with artificial grant cycles – allow to innovate within that structure #grantsuccess
...
Project Managers Meeting
Agile Project Management:
...