Browsing by Author "Guimont, Corinne"

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    The 5 P's of DH: Project Management, Preservation, Policies, Procedures, and Prosopographies
    Kinnaman, Alex; Guimont, Corinne (2019-10-14)
    Creating sustainable, preservable Digital Humanities (DH) projects is a challenge that is often left until after project completion if considered at all. This presentation explores a case study that is implementing a strategy of project management, preservation planning, and documentation early in development as a framework for preserving DH projects.
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    Building Bridges Through MOUs: Partnering in Digital Scholarship Sustainability
    Guimont, Corinne; Munshower, Alan; Waldren, Andrea; Kinnaman, Alex (2021-10-20)
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    DH as Data: Establishing Greater Access through Sustainability
    Kinnaman, Alex; Guimont, Corinne (Springer, 2022-04)
    This paper presents methodology and findings from a multi-case study exploring the use of preservation and sustainability measures to increase access to digital humanities (DH) content. Specifically, we seek to develop a workflow to both prepare DH content at Virginia Tech for preservation while enhancing the accessibility of the project. This work is based on the idea of treating DH as traditional data and applying data curation and digital preservation methods to DH content. Our outcomes are an evaluation of the process and output using qualitative methods, publicly accessible and described project components on two Virginia Tech projects, and a scalable workflow that can be applied to additional work. By breaking down individual projects into their respective components of content, code, metadata, and documentation and examining each component individually for opportunities in access and preservation, we can begin migrating our digital scholarship to a sustainable, portable, and accessible existence.
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    DH Preservation Strategies in Action: A Case Study
    Kinnaman, Alex; Guimont, Corinne (2021-05-18)
    Digital humanities (DH) projects pose several digital preservation challenges due to their multimodal approaches and varying technology. Last year, Virginia Tech presented a potential strategy for preserving these projects through documentation and project component packaging. The proposed strategies included identifying various project components, developing preservation strategies for complex items, and consolidating or creating documentation to be packaged and submitted to the Digital Libraries Platform (DLP). In the past year, they have successfully completed a case study for one DH project, identifying the existing components and documentation and creating metadata and documentation where appropriate. They are now in the process of ingesting the project into the DLP, developing a policy surrounding preservation levels and workflows for DH projects, and beginning another case study. In this presentation, they hope to share the strategies we implemented in both of the case studies and their outcomes, as well as the policies they have since created.
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    Navigating Support for Digital Projects: A Suggested Workflow for Non-Traditional Publications
    Guimont, Corinne (2019-05-09)
    Presentation to the 2019 Library Publishing Forum.
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    Open Education Forum 2024: Connecting the Opens
    McNabb, Kayla B.; Lener, Edward F.; Griffin, Julie; Guimont, Corinne; Pullen, Brandie; Walz, Anita R.; Orth, Donald J.; Surprenant, Aimée (Virginia Tech, 2024-03-18)
    University Libraries’ faculty, Corinne Guimont, Anita Walz, and Brandi Pullen will provide brief overviews of open publishing, open educational resources, and open data to provide some general information on the topics. Finally, presenters will discuss how aspects of open have impacted their career development as well as how they have incorporated open practices into their research and scholarship, and the audience will be invited to participate in the robust conversation.
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    Potential Strategies for Preserving Complex DH Projects
    Kinnaman, Alex; Guimont, Corinne (2020-05-18)
    Digital Humanities (DH) projects are often complex and pose a challenge for digital preservation. Best practices and standard techniques for preserving combinations of databases, user interfaces, and documentation does not yet exist. At Virginia Tech University Libraries (VTUL), we have a group of faculty dedicated to developing and sustaining DH projects ranging from small online exhibits to large research projects. As support for these projects develops, a major component is to incorporate preservation planning early on in the process, including a preservation plan, sustainability plan, and general documentation. Another component is researching and testing technical requirements for packaging and maintaining DH project elements. The goal of this presentation is to outline our strategy of early planning and documentation to preserve DH projects effectively. We will discuss our current practices and highlight involvement with one or two projects and explore how this may be used as a model for future work.
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    Preserving DH Projects: Creating an Environment for Emulation
    Kinnaman, Alex; Guimont, Corinne (2020-11-10)
    Digital Humanities (DH) projects are complex with multiple moving components in need of preservation. Early preservation planning for each component is a strategy for long-term access. This presentation will break down various components of a DH project, preservation approaches for those components, packaging methods for future recreation/emulation.
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    A Tale of Two [Open] Textbooks
    Walz, Anita R.; Guimont, Corinne (2018-10-02)
    Successful creation and adaptation of open textbooks relies on mastery of multiple parallel processes: analysis of market gaps and needs, author communication and negotiation, copyright/open licensing practices, funding and procurement, peer review processes, peer review and field-testing of texts, tools/technology for all stages of production and publication, project management, evaluation, and marketing. This presentation compares and contrasts the decisions made throughout these parallel processes and how they were implemented before, during, and after the adaptation, creation, and revision of two open textbooks at our institution: Fundamentals of Business (2016) and Electromagnetics Vol 1 (Beta) (January 2018), and their subsequent revisions into the Pressbooks version and other formats of Fundamentals of Business, 2nd edition (2018) and final version of Electromagnetics Vol 1 (July 2018). We describe the processes, decisions, and values that were considered in production, as well as the challenges, happy surprises, and lessons learned from these collaborative library projects. Projects were funded by the Open Education Faculty Initiative Grants at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and produced in collaboration with VT Publishing.
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    Toward Best Practices for OER Quality: A Conversation about OER Quality and Emerging Best Practice Solutions
    Walz, Anita R.; Guimont, Corinne (2019-05-10)
    Quality, currency, and lack of supplementary learning materials rank highly as barriers to open educational resource (OER) adoption. This session encouraged participants to consider issues, solutions, and emerging best practices in OER production in the context of shared (but sometimes conflicting) contributions from open source and traditional publishing philosophies. Emerging best practices for assuring OER (original and adapted) quality and communicating quality measures are discussed as a way to more accurately present OER to potential adopters. This interactive conversation drew on our past and current experiences of producing and stewarding open textbooks and other OER. Participants were invited to reflect and respond to a series of informational prompts on issues and emerging best practices in creating, supporting, and adapting OER. Informational prompts for discussion included contributions and conflicts between traditional publishing and open source philosophies; impacts of adaptability on production, version control, public access, and OER stewardship; emerging best practices in OER production; and publication practices which improve the experience and understanding of potential OER adopters. We shared insights from our own practices and listened eagerly to participant contributions.
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    World Digital Preservation Day 2019 Lightning Talks
    Kinnaman, Alex; Menzies, Luke; Tuttle, James; Saverot, Maureen; Petters, Jonathan L.; Young, Philip; Guimont, Corinne (2019-11-07)
    In celebration of World Digital Preservation Day, seven Virginia Tech University Library personnel from four different Library departments will present five-minute lightning talks covering various practical and unique topics on digital preservation. Speakers and topics include: Alex Kinnaman, Digital Preservation Coordinator: Web Archiving Luke Menzies, Digital Preservation Technologist: Setting up Personal Archive Storage Jim Tuttle, Associate Director of Digital Libraries: Risk, Threats, and Mitigations Maureen Saverot, 3D Technical Artist: 3D Photogrammetry Jon Petters, Data Management Consultant and Curation Services Coordinator: Data Management Planning Philip Young, Institutional Repository Manager: Perma.cc Corinne Guimont, Digital Scholarship Coordinator: Documentation All of these digital preservation topics are activities and services provided by Virginia Tech University Libraries. World Digital Preservation Day is an international event hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition as a means of bringing together the digital preservation community and enhancing awareness of digital preservation best practices. More information can be found here: https://www.dpconline.org/events/world-digital-preservation-day. See the Digital Preservation LibGuide page on World Digital Preservation Day (https://guides.lib.vt.edu/digipres/wdpd) to see some of the other events the University Libraries are hosting for this Day.
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    World Digital Preservation Day 2020 Lightning Talks
    Menzies, Luke; Coleman, R. Shane; Dietz, Kira A.; Guimont, Corinne; Saverot, Maureen; Ng, Wen Nie; Ogle, J. Todd; Tuttle, James; Kinnaman, Alex (2020-11-05)
    World Digital Preservation Day is an annual celebration of digital preservation hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition. This is a series of short lightning talks by Virginia Tech University Libraries personnel on various digital preservation topics and Library projects. For more info, please visit the WDPD LibGuide: https://guides.lib.vt.edu/digipres/wdpd Presenters: Shane Coleman, Data Curator: "Teaching Students the Value of Historical Maps" Kira Dietz, Assistant Director, Special Collections and University Archives: "The History of Women at Virginia Tech: A Digital Tale of Access (and Preservation!)" Corinne Guimont, Digital Scholarship Coordinator: "Redlining Virginia Preservation Project" Alex Kinnaman, Digital Preservation Coordinator: "CoreTrustSeal Repository Certification" Luke Menzies, Digital Preservation Technologist: "Digital Preservation & Social Justice" Wen Ng, Digital Collections Librarian: "Southwest Virginia Digital Archive" Todd Ogle, Executive Director, ARIES: "Immersive Archaeology" Maureen Saverot, 3D Imaging Specialist: "Photogrammetry & 3D Insects" James Tuttle, Associate Director, Digital Libraries: "Digital Libraries Platform Preservation Strategy