This poster will discuss and display a new open source JavaScript library for presenting annotations of IIIF resources. The library embeds an annotation or annotation list’s image objects, notes, and tags into an HTML object. This rich display of annotations demonstrates the reuse value of annotations and provides the opportunity... more
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Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) have played an important role in academic libraries. Identifying driving forces of the DDA process and therefore being able to predict the purchasing triggers are beneficial to library collection management, budget planning, librarians’ reference, and the understanding of patrons’ behaviors. However, the literature to date has shown... more
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This poster shares the use of robot as a vehicle for guiding the community toward an effective understanding of coding principles and the future of robotics technology. Palo Alto City Library is experimenting with a humanoid programmable robot nicknamed Dewey. Dewey has been used in a 5-month coding program. It... more
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Galleries, Museums, Libraries and Archives (GLAM) have been digitizing textual documents, images, records and serving them online for many years. In many cases, even though the digitized content is openly available to the public, the web interfaces were designed for humans to consume the information. Treating “collections as data” is... more
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The ISLE project is an attempt to apply contemporary deployment and maintenance solutions to the large Islandora digital repository stack. After the initial round of vendor-driven prototyping, a volunteer community took over ISLE maintenance and kicked off a second round of development and documentation. This poster session explores how the... more
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While libraries once offered only physical spaces and collections, they now offer much more - people with knowledge/technical expertise, event programming, services, and technologies that support a variety of activities. However, discovery tools and search engines have limited understanding of the dynamic nature of libraries. How might libraries leverage modern... more
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Rockefeller Archive Center and Marist College have developed a web application to support the ongoing secure transfer of digital records from active organizations to archives. Named Aurora, the system is part of the Project Electron chain of tools that enables the archival management and preservation of born-digital records. Aurora ensures... more
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TRLN Discovery is a collaborative software development project which allows users to find materials from all Triangle Research Libraries Network member libraries within a single search environment. This poster will include a summary of the software developed for this project as well as the AWS technical infrastructure. It will include... more
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Many libraries currently support two institutional repository systems—one for publications, and one for research data—even when there are nearly a thousand data repositories in the United States. To do so, we either increase spending by purchasing data repository solutions from vendors, or replicate work by building, customizing, and managing individual... more
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries recently kicked off a project to migrate over 5,000 hand-encoded finding aids and other archival information from a variety of mostly homegrown systems to ArchivesSpace. To prepare the data for ingest, we focused recent efforts on mapping locations data for... more
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The ElasticSearch search engine, as it implies in its name, can have many different applications. Our poster will talk about the way that we (and you can) use ElasticSearch in library technology (application search and display, reports/analysis, logging), how we integrate it with other tools and applications, and future ways... more
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More so than ever, librarians are transitioning into digital project manager roles, as cultural heritage institutions of all sizes increasingly support and develop open-source solutions for library technology. In this poster presentation, I will share some tips and ideas for those who are in the process of (or interested in)... more
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This poster presentation explores how one academic library launched the library diversity webpage after conducting a 6-month needs assessment to promote the library’s interest and value for diversity and inclusion. Through collaboration and communication, the website represents the library’s commitment to these values and supports the university’s mission as well.... more
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For any organization with significant digital content, the ability to search across this content has become an operational necessity. Despite this, unified enterprise search and retrieval of digital content remains an elusive goal for many organizations. A further complication rests on the fact that, regardless of the specific content management... more
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In the past few years, the University of Ottawa Library has significantly increased its outreach activities by sponsoring or co-sponsoring events in library spaces where rooms are equipped with cutting-edge technologies. As there are competing demands for library spaces, we have to prioritize requests in order to maximize their usage... more
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