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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.
- Academic Libraries: How do we put it all together, become agile, and adapt?Walters, Tyler (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-07)
- Albatross: Rolling on a sea of dataBailey, Annette; Gilmore, Tracy; O'Brien, Leslie; Wright de Hernandez, Anthony (2016-11-03)Big deals and journal package incentives are an increasing reality for academic libraries, yet the solutions for evaluating these package scenarios in a timely, cost-effective manner are few. The proliferation of these offers requires the examination of numerous and complex questions. There is a need to know the utilization and strength of a package, the inflation costs for various titles and packages, and the ability to identify cost trends. A team of librarians at Virginia Tech created a solution for addressing these concerns and for managing their journal data by designing and developing an in-house database. Albatross, named in reference to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a database created to gather journal usage data and cost data in a central environment where the data can then be queried to use in return-on-investment analysis and journal package assessments.
- Analyzing WARC on serverless computingChen, Yinlin (2021-06-15)
- 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.
- Architecting a Cloud-native Data Analysis Application for ETDsChen, Yinlin; Fox, Edward A. (2018)In this paper, we present a Cloud-native data analysis application and its architecture. This application was developed for librarians to explore useful information from the ETDs preserved in the Virginia Tech digital repository - VTechWorks. We realized the Cloud-native concepts by architecting a serverless architecture with microservices and managed services as backend, and deployed the entire application on Amazon Web Services (AWS). We detail our architecture strategies, decisions we made, and the best practices we followed. Furthermore, we share the lessons learned and cloud benefits we have gained. We believe that our proposed approach could be adopted by other ETD systems, e.g., NDLTD, and could be of benefit to the broader community.
- THE ART OF PROBLEM DISCOVERY: Adaptive Thinking for Innovation and GrowthMathews, Brian (Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2013-04-02)What challenges do students face in the classroom? What issues do faculty encounter when applying for grants? How does the Writing Center plan to help students abroad? What keeps senior administrators up at night? We invest a lot of time and effort discussing library issues, but how well do we know the issues of our constituents? What are the problems, priorities, and possibilities of the people we serve? Higher education is poised to undergo a historic evolution with the introduction of new pedagogies, publishing models, and user preferences. Libraries will not only be asked to adapt, but to help lead monumental changes. This paper presents an innovation strategy designed around growth. By adopting a discovery-oriented problem-seeking outlook and a holistic view of our institutions, librarians can develop an entrepreneurial mindset stretching beyond traditionally predefined boundaries. By advancing the objectives of others, we not only help our organizations succeed, but simultaneously reframe the role, value, and perception of libraries throughout the process.
- Assessment: How electronic assessment can help you!Nardine, Jennifer T.; Meier, Carolyn (2009-10-28)
- Automatic Metadata Extraction Incorporating Visual Features from Scanned Electronic Theses and DissertationsChoudhury, Muntabir; Jayanetti, Himarsha R.; Wu, Jian; Ingram, William A.; Fox, Edward (IEEE, 2021-09-27)Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) contain domain knowledge that can be used for many digital library tasks, such as analyzing citation networks and predicting research trends. Automatic metadata extraction is important to build scalable digital library search engines. Most existing methods are designed for born-digital documents such as GROBID, CERMINE, and ParsCit, so they often fail to extract metadata from scanned documents such as for ETDs. Traditional sequence tagging methods mainly rely on text-based features. In this paper, we propose a conditional random field (CRF) model that combines text-based and visual features. To verify the robustness of our model, we extended an existing corpus and created a new ground truth corpus consisting of 500 ETD cover pages with human validated metadata. Our experiments show that CRF with visual features outperformed both a heuristic baseline and a CRF model with only text-based features. The proposed model achieved 81.3%-96% F1 measure on seven metadata fields. The data and source code are publicly available on Google Drive1 and a GitHub repository2.
- Becoming a Good Neighbor: Befriending Instructional Designers and Campus Distance Learning FolksWalz, Anita R.; Metko, Stefanie (2016-04-21)On our campus, a bridge connects the main library and the university group which operates the campus learning management system (LMS), trains faculty to use educational technologies, and collaborates directly with faculty who are exploring teaching online. Two librarians were tasked with developing a positive working relationship with the units in this group. This poster explores a handful of stories exhibiting the merits, lessons learned, and types of contributions librarians willing to collaborate directly with non-library educational technology departments might encounter. Including: building trust as an iterative process, learning from and together, connecting colleagues "across the bridge," new topics for instruction, influencing policy, addressing copyright and LMS, making the library visible via LMS, developing open educational resources, policy and politics, and so on.
- Blazing a Trail for Literacy Exploration Through Design ThinkingFeerrar, Julia; Nino, Miguel (Miko) (2019-05-10)As learners navigate increasingly complex information wilds and explore new forms of creation, libraries are discussing and supporting a variety of literacies, including data, invention, health, information, media, visual, and digital literacies. How can librarians chart a path through varying definitions and priorities for these literacies in relation to existing instruction programs? This interactive workshop gave participants opportunities to explore new or unfamiliar literacies. Using design thinking strategies, participants reflected on the current landscape of one literacy at their institution and created a prototype output to help them start conversations with collaborators and stakeholders.
- 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 a full-stack Serverless Web application with React and AWSChen, Yinlin (2021-06-10)Serverless computing allows you to build Web applications without managing or maintaining servers. Using AWS, we can build and deploy responsive applications in the cloud with built-in high availability and flexible scaling capabilities. In this workshop, we will learn how to build a full-stack serverless Web application using React and several AWS services, including AWS Amplify, Lambda, AppSync, DynamoDB, etc. We’ll start the workshop with a quick overview of serverless computing and AWS, followed by creating a React application, integrating with AWS managed services and deploying this application in AWS. Workshop Agenda: Introduction to AWS, Serverless, AWS Amplify, and React Section 1: Create your first React application and setup AWS Amplify Section 2: Setup access controls for your application Section 3: Introduction to GraphQL and AWS AppSync Section 4: Perform data mutations for your application Section 5: Introduction to multiple development environments; Wrap-up and discussion.
- Building A Large Collection of Multi-domain Electronic Theses and DissertationsUddin, Sami; Banerjee, Bipasha; Wu, Jian; Ingram, William A.; Fox, Edward A. (IEEE, 2021-12-15)In this work, we report our progress on building a collection containing over 450k Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), including full-text and metadata. Our goal is to close the gap of accessibility between long text and short text documents, and to create a new research opportunity for the scholarly community. For that, we developed an ETD Ingestion Framework (EIF) that automatically harvests metadata and PDFs of ETDs from university libraries. We faced multiple challenges and learned many lessons during the process, that led to proposed solutions to overcome/mitigate the limitations of the current data. We also described the data that we have collected. We hope our methods will be useful for building similar collections from university libraries and that the data can be used for research and education.
- Building Bridges Through MOUs: Partnering in Digital Scholarship SustainabilityGuimont, Corinne; Munshower, Alan; Waldren, Andrea; Kinnaman, Alex (2021-10-20)
- Building Capacity for Library 3D and VR: Expert Perspectives on Strategic Directions for LibrariesHall, Nathan; Wittenberg, Jamie (Coalition for Networked Information, 2018-12-07)
- 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.
- The Case For Alternative Web Archival Formats To Expedite The Data-To-Insight CycleWang, Xinyue; Xie, Zhiwu (ACM, 2020-08)The WARC file format is widely used by web archives to preserve collected web content for future use. With the rapid growth of web archives and the increasing interest to reuse these archives as big data sources for statistical and analytical research, the speed to turn these data into insights becomes critical. In this paper we show that the WARC format carries significant performance penalties for batch processing workload. We trace the root cause of these penalties to its data structure, encoding, and addressing method. We then run controlled experiments to illustrate how severe these problems can be. Indeed, performance gain of one to two orders of magnitude can be achieved simply by reformatting WARC files into Parquet or Avro formats. While these results do not necessarily constitute an endorsement for Avro or Parquet, the time has come for the web archiving community to consider replacing WARC with more efficient web archival formats.
- Catching Up to Corporate: A Shift towards Academic Data GovernanceClark, Jennifer L.; Hurley, Lori; Ogier, Andrea (2014-07-07)The recent rise in concern over the implications of big data analysis extends to issues endemic to the research process. Academic researchers, whether using large or small datasets, have always faced challenges in data processing, but the rapidly increasing volume of data has forced the issue of the quality of data management into the limelight. Inconsistent and unreproducible workflows in data transformations and data processing can affect analysis and hinder scientific progress on the big and small scale. Big data has brought these issues to the forefront, but the implications on the credibility of knowledge-based science have a more widespread reach.
- Class Book Projects with PressbooksBrowder, Robert (2019-02-21)A lightning talk about planning and structuring class book projects using the Pressbooks platform.