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- A 3D Data Preservation Model in Cross-Disciplinary UseKinnaman, Alex (2020-11-12)This poster presents the results of a multi-case study on 3D datasets at Virginia Tech University Libraries and an invitation to participate in a survey on 3D and virtual reality preservation methods. These results will culminate in a proposed 3D/VR preservation workflow employed by VTUL on a current 3D digitization project.
- The 5 P's of DH: Project Management, Preservation, Policies, Procedures, and ProsopographiesKinnaman, 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.
- Applying CoreTrustSeal Criteria as a Tool for Repository Development: A Collaborative ApproachKinnaman, Alex; Tuttle, James (2021-11-04)The Virginia Tech University Libraries (VTUL) pursued a CoreTrustSeal Certification and utilized the Requirements as a development tool for our Digital Libraries Platform. This presentation will describe the process of using the guidance in each Requirement to create a body of documentation and policies, and policy-driven service and software development.
- Building a Culture of Reuse: An Analysis of Reusable Software and Policies for Institutional LibrariesKinnaman, Alex; Chen, Yinlin (The Digital Curation Centre, 2022-06-14)This paper will present findings from a multi-case study on the need for and valuable assets of reusable software and policies for digital library infrastructures. This paper supports the conference theme of reusability. Curating for reuse is a strategy that should not be limited to digital assets, and can extend to digital library software, policy, infrastructure, and implementation. Specifically, we seek to understand how data curators utilize reusable digital library software and policies and how we at Virginia Tech University Libraries can improve the reusability of our resources in order to promote openness, transparency, and reusability.
- Building Bridges Through MOUs: Partnering in Digital Scholarship SustainabilityGuimont, Corinne; Munshower, Alan; Waldren, Andrea; Kinnaman, Alex (2021-10-20)
- Building Trustworthy Digital Community Archives at Virginia TechHall, Nathan; Kinnaman, Alex (2022-06-08)This presentation will outline our grant-funded research into building trust with smaller organizations in southwest Virginia by collaborating with stakeholders on curating non-custodial digital archives. Small regional institutions and organizations possess rich cultural heritage collections but lack robust digital infrastructure. This barrier inhibits broader access and use by researchers and the wider public. Larger institutions are able to digitize and provide access to such collections, though too often it occurs through physical acquisition, resulting in smaller institutions losing their unique materials. This presentation will describe our methods for building trust and infrastructure internally at Virginia Tech University Libraries and with cultural heritage institutions in southwest Virginia.
- A Cloud-based Serverless Microservices Application for Digital PreservationChen, Yinlin; Kinnaman, Alex; Tuttle, James (2020-11-12)Virginia Tech University Libraries is developing a cloud-based, serverless, microservice application to support digital asset management, preservation, and access. This presentation will outline the balance of cost-effectiveness and creating a trustworthy platform while relying on the cloud.
- DH as Data: Establishing Greater Access through SustainabilityKinnaman, 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.
- DH Preservation Strategies in Action: A Case StudyKinnaman, 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.
- Expanding Digital Preservation Infrastructure: A Collaboration between MetaArchive and KeeperTechWang, Hannah; Kinnaman, Alex (2022-10-12)The MetaArchive Cooperative and Keeper Technology will present on their work to apply open-source technical infrastructure advancements from the commercial sector to MetaArchive’s community-based digital preservation infrastructure, in an effort to bolster flexibility and sustainability. This poster will cover the first requirements gathering and design phase of the project.
- Filling the Gap: Educating Community Partners on Good Preservation PracticesKinnaman, Alex (2023-11-16)As digital preservationists we can find it a challenge to communicate and advocate best practices to our own colleagues familiar with digital assets and their risk of obsolescence. What may be even more of a challenge is to communicate good or at least “better than nothing” practices to those in the community we support. Virginia Tech University Libraries recently completed an IMLS Community Catalyst grant to build a community-managed community archive governed by a formal community advisory board to determine what collections are most fitting for the southwest Virginia region and have autonomy over how their collections are represented. This archive is designed to serve as a second access point to their materials in addition to locally managed access points and Virginia Tech never takes ownership of the physical items. Now that this advisory board has formed, we move to an implementation phase to both ingest collections into the VTUL digital library, and begin providing the support and guidance for them to apply digital preservation strategies in their own workflows. This presentation will touch briefly on the context provided in this proposal and will focus on the second part of implementation - educating community partners on improving their local digital practices. I will present approaches for advising the community with minimal jargon that employ the resources available to them as optimally as possible to establish good preservation practices locally. This presentation aligns with the conference theme of Collaboration, particularly in how we best center the needs of the communities we serve.
- Green Goes with Anything: Decreasing Environmental Impact of Digital Libraries at Virginia TechKinnaman, Alex; Munshower, Alan (2022-09-13)This paper examines existing digital library practices at Virginia Tech University Libraries, and explores changes in documentation and practice that will foster a more environmentally sustainable collections platform.
- IMLS Community Catalyst Grant Community Forum TranscriptsHall, Nathan (2022-12-01)In support of the IMLS Grant "Community Development Model for Digital Community Archives" awarded to Virginia Tech in 2019, Virginia Tech university Libraries hosted four forum sessions for community organizations located in the greater Southwest Virginia to discuss a model for developing an equitable, community-developed archive. This was facilitated by the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia. The sessions were conducted remotely on Zoom and recorded. The four sessions included discussion on what the Southwest Virginia Digital Archive is and how it may serve the wider community; functional requirements community members may have in order to effectively display their content; the Memorandum of Agreement that would officially document the collaboration; and the development of a community advisory board to ensure ongoing support. This dataset includes four TXT files of transcriptions from each of the four sessions. The transcriptions have been cleaned and anonymized to protect the community participants. Participants agreed to have anonymized transcripts made public. Members of the Virginia Tech faculty and the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation staff are named to provide context. Additional grant information may be found at https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-15-19-0137-19.
- Levels of Representation and Data Infrastructures in Entomo-3D: An applied research approach to addressing metadata curation issues to support preservation and access of 3D dataNg, Wen Nie; Kinnaman, Alex; Hall, Nathan (ACM, 2022-11-02)This paper employs an action-based research approach to address the question of how to create a sustainable workflow to support long term access, interoperability, and reuse of 3D data. This is applied research, stemming from the Entomo-3D collaboration between Virginia Tech University Libraries and the Virginia Tech Department of Entomology to digitize a university insect pollinator collection. The paper will describe infrastructure to support data management and transformation, as well as new challenges that have emerged from this effort.
- Lighting Rounds & Expo: OER, Pedagogy, and ToolsKinnaman, Alex; Becksford, Lisa; Dean, Kirsten; Napier, Mike; Forte, Joseph A.; Mease, Sarah; Walz, Anita R. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2020-03-03)Join us to learn about OER affordances, tools, support and applications! This session will include brief lightning talks to provide an overview of these open education topics as well as hands-on time for attendees to ask questions about some current and recent open education projects at Virginia Tech, the pedagogical implications of open educational resources, and support that is available for instructors and learners who would like to share or create open educational resources. Topics include: open publishing, Creative Commons licensing, open source virtual reality, Omeka, the Open Textbook Library, and more.
- Make IT Work: Collaborating with IT to Create Sustainable Preservation SystemsKinnaman, Alex; Menzies, Luke; Peltzman, Shira; Leverance, Mary; Colon-Marrero, Elena (2018-10-18)Preservation systems rely on the tools and technology provided by the expertise of available IT personnel. This panel includes representatives from Virginia Tech, UCLA, University of Arkansas, and the Computer History Museum to discuss collaborating with IT on preservation needs and the balance of libraries and IT in developing preservation systems.
- Making IT Work Part II: Integrating with IT to Develop a Sustainable Preservation SystemKinnaman, Alex; Menzies, Luke; Tuttle, James (2019-10-17)Preservation personnel and IT join forces in this presentation discussing strategies for the integration of workflows, resources, and a redistribution of job responsibilities to create a robust, sustainable preservation system at Virginia Tech University Libraries.
- Middle-Where? Preservation as Negotiation for Workflow IntegrationKinnaman, Alex; Menzies, Luke (Virginia Tech, 2018-09-26)At Virginia Tech University Libraries (VTUL), our unit, Digital Imaging and Preservation Services (DI&PS), is a newly formed team whose goal is to establish a fully integrated digital curation system that encompasses data creation and digitization, long-term preservation and storage, and stable, robust access. Any new preservation work must be built on the remnants of what has gone before, both in terms of hardware and software, and in terms of institutional structures, procedures, and people. Development of a new digital curation systems is also constricted by available funding and expertise. Our case study addresses the challenges, pitfalls, and successes of our team's efforts to produce such a system, in terms of concrete, practical workflows. In order to accomplish our goals we are working together with units from all across the library in order to enable these technologies to work together in addition to their respective library department faculty working together.
- Perfecting Preservation Policy: Designing interdepartmental agreement through policy developmentKinnaman, Alex (2021-06-15)Digital preservation policy development is a collaborative challenge that affects an entire organization and its content management. Determining the best methods and content for policies and supporting documentation can be a challenge. This presentation will outline policy development needs and a brief review of Virginia Tech’s journey through preservation policy development.
- Potential Strategies for Preserving Complex DH ProjectsKinnaman, 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.