Poster Sessions
Assessing open source and subscription data sources for research information management and evaluation
Academic libraries are increasingly called upon to capture and use publication metadata to demonstrate the productivity and impact of the institution’s researchers. But not all data sources are created equal. This poster will describe a case study involving a research impact assessment using four metadata sources, including two open source... more
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Frist Lobby
Developing an ORCID to Esploro Integration Application at the University of Miami
The University of Miami Libraries implemented Ex Libris Esploro as our Institutional Repository in 2021, and as part of this implementation the University of Miami (UM) started an initiative to integrate ORCID iDs for researchers across the institution. Because not everyone at UM is a researcher in Esploro, we needed... more
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Frist Lobby
Doing it for the Photogrammetry: 3D modeling in the classroom
This poster will provide an overview of a photogrammetry assignment developed as part of an Introduction to Digital Humanities class. This session was a partnership between Special Collections and Digital Initiatives librarians and allowed students to experiment with 3D modeling artifacts housed in special collections. Students used their phones and... more
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Frist Lobby
Duplicates in the repository: remediation and reconciliation in three systems, including DataCite
Academic Commons provides long-term open access to digital scholarships produced by Columbia University affiliates. Content may be added by authors through a self-deposit form, by library staff through the cataloging backend (Hyacinth), and via SWORD deposit from entities such as library-hosted OJS, journal publishers, and others. As one might expect,... more
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Frist Lobby
Foster, Connect, Support: A 2-year reflection as Senior Program Officer for the Open Library Foundation
The Open Library Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks to enable and support collaboration among library workers, technologists, and service providers in order to share expertise and resources for the creation of innovative software and resources that support libraries. This poster will reflect on my two-year term as the... more
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Frist Lobby
Improving Readability and Tracking of LC Classification Number Updates with Python
Every month, the Library of Congress releases changes and additions to LC classification numbers published to classweb.org/approved/. Most recently, the Library of Congress has begun releasing changed classification patterns for outdated and/or harmful racial and ethnic group terms. NCSU Libraries has an interest in tracking and implementing these changes locally.... more
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Frist Lobby
OCFL-Index: an API for accessing OCFL repositories
OCFL-index is a project to define and implement a lightweight http/gRPC-based API for indexing and accessing the contents of OCFL-based repositories. It can serve content from OCFL storage roots on the local file system or in the cloud. The index is implemented as a sqlite3 database, however additional database... more
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Frist Lobby
Organizing Algorithms
The application of machine learning algorithms in libraries and information organizations is a topic of growing importance to the information science community. The inverse, though, is much less discussed. This poster explores current applications of best practices in information organization to algorithm environments. As the number of low-technical users of... more
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Frist Lobby
Painting A Bigger Picture: Creating Adaptable Application Profiles based in Sinopia
LD4P’s Sinopia Linked Data Environment has become a valuable resource for creating RDA/RDF encoded metadata, but just as sinopias were precursors to fully-fledged frescoes, the Sinopia Environment is only an introduction to what is possible for linked data in library science. The University of Washington Library’s Linked Data team has been... more
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Frist Lobby
Slower, but Worth It: Navigating a Systems Migration via RFCs
This poster will outline takeaways and lessons learned from using a Request for Comments (RFC) process for collaboratively managing a large digital collections migration project. RFCs are a transparent, participatory approach to change management that is frequently used in open source software projects to encourage dialogue among community stakeholders with... more
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Frist Lobby
Thinking outside the box: Distributed architecture to meet new challenges for openly published research data
Princeton University Library is performing software and data migration along with rapid technological development with the goal of making sustainable, robust software to support our digital repository service and to address the emerging needs of research data today and in the future. Traditionally, options for this type of work include... more
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Frist Lobby
Transfer Library Data to Linked Art
LUX (“light” from the Yale University’s Latin motto) is a multi-year project to find and connect the Yale’s Cultural Heritage Collections across Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and Yale University Library. LUX aggregates metadata from the catalogs of Yale’s four... more
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Frist Lobby
Utilizing R and Python for Institutional Repository Daily Jobs
In recent years, the programming languages R and Python have become very popular among data scientists. However, R and Python are not just for data scientists or programmers, they can also help librarians to perform many tasks more efficiently and possibly achieve goals that were almost impossible before. R and... more
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Frist Lobby
Weill Cornell Institutional Data Repository for Research (WIDRR)
A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) data management and sharing policy requires funded investigators to share appropriate research data according to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), and is effective in January 2023. In response, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) Wood Library has developed a new tool named WIDRR –... more
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Frist Lobby