VALA2016 Session 3 Casalini

Michele Casalini

Humanities and social sciences academic content in the digital transition time

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Publishing
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
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Michele Casalini

Casalini Libri, Italy

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The transition to the digital era has raised many questions and new challenges for scholarly publishing. This paper examines the extent to which HSS original-language publishing risks marginalisation by STM and considers strategies to ensure its survival. Drawing on analysis of the academic publishing market in Mediterranean Europe, the impact of the digital era on library collections and policies, and the author’s first-hand experience in supplying Romance-language research publications, this paper discusses the wider implications of the digital transition and growing need for awareness along the information chain – with the central role of libraries – that can contribute to forwarding cultural heritage for future generations.

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VALA2016 Session 13 Ruge

Courtney Ruge

Digital Dilemmas: a participatory investigation into developing a digital strategy for a community archive

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Digitisation Adventures
Thursday 11 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
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Courtney Ruge, Steve Wright, Joanne Evans

Monash University, Vic

Graham Willett

University of Melbourne, Vic

Gary Jaynes

Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Vic

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This paper reports on the progress of a collaborative project between Monash University and the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, which aims to provide public access to the Archives’ digital collections through the development an online exhibition and an exploration of the possibilities for building an online catalogue using open-source software. The paper explores the challenges involved in attempting to undertake effective consultation and collaboration between researchers and community archives in a community informatics project of this nature, the challenges for community archives in resourcing complex digital projects, and the issues associated with developing a digital strategy for a community archives from multiple stakeholder perspectives.

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VALA2016 Session 2 Johnson

Melanie Johnson

Taming the lurking beast: can mandatory e-reporting and the creation of course lists manage copyright in the digital space?

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Data Stuff
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
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Melanie Johnson, John Garraway and Eileen Tollan

University of Auckland, New Zealand

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New Zealand Universities have recently agreed to introduce mandatory e-reporting to replace the manual survey and ensure compliance with the terms of the licence agreed with Copyright Licensing New Zealand. In this paper I argue that digital technology provides the means to effectively manage copyright compliance in educational institutions and to counter its uncertainty. The paper considers the background that led to the decision to implement e-reporting and how that implementation is proceeding. It also considers the benefits to the parties, what the road blocks are and how these can be potentially overcome.

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VALA2016 Session 13 Kearney

Nicole Kearney

In the words of our field naturalists: an adventure in digitisation and transcription

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Digitisation Adventures
Thursday 11 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
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Nicole Kearney and Elycia Wallis

Museum Victoria

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Historic field diaries chronicle the expeditions undertaken over time to explore and discover the natural history of the world. They provide invaluable insights into past species distribution and abundance, as well as the trials and wonders experienced on historic expeditions. However, despite the wealth of information they contain, field diaries are a hugely underutilised resource. This paper will discuss why this is the case and how, with the help of crowd-sourced volunteers, the field diaries in Museum Victoria’s collection are being made more accessible. Cataloguing, digitisation and transcription procedures are detailed, together with how this content is being put online.

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VALA2016 Session 2 Chadwick

Ben Chadwick

When MARC consumed ScOT: a tale of linked educational metadata

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Data Stuff
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
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Ben Chadwick

Education Services Australia, Vic

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Australian school libraries have an expressed need to organise resources according to Australian Curriculum (AC) outcomes. Education Services Australia (ESA) has aligned digital resources to the AC since 2011, publishing it on platforms including Scootle. The Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) at ESA creates and distributes MARC records to 93% of Australian school libraries, but has not traditionally provided curriculum-alignment data. This paper describes a trial in which headings from a linked data subject vocabulary (the Schools Online Thesaurus) in MARC records are supplemented with URIs for the purpose of consuming AC alignment data. A widget is presented to demonstrate possible downstream applications.

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VALA2016 Session 11 Brownlee

Collaborative development of a multi-disciplinary research infrastructure for vocabulary creation, management, publication, discovery, access and re-use

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Describing IT
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:20 – 14:50
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Rowan Brownlee, Adrian Burton, Jane Frazier and Richard Walker

Australian National Data Service, ACT

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The use of controlled vocabularies increases the value of data resources by improving discovery, interoperability, and re-usability. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS), in partnership with members of Australian research organisations, is developing a user-driven vocabulary service to support Australian research groups, universities, and research libraries to find and use published vocabularies, as well as to create, manage, and publish new vocabularies. This paper follows the evolution of the development of the service. It provides a technical overview of the systems involved as well as a proposed model for support, outreach and responding to community need.

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VALA2016 Session 2 Weatherburn

Patrick Splawa-Neyman

Jaye Weatherburn

Data neophytes: first steps into the research data abyss

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Data Stuff
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-2-weatherburn

Patrick Splawa-Neyman

Monash University, Vic

Jaye Weatherburn

Swinburne University of Technology, Vic

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This paper explores the roles, functions, and possible definitions of data librarians based on two Australian National Data Service (ANDS) case study projects at Monash University and Swinburne University of Technology. The experiences, challenges, and achievements from these research data management projects are examined by discussing the various factors involved, such as liaison with researcher and organisation stakeholders, and the implementation of technological solutions.

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VALA2016 Session 12 Atkinson

Transforming Learning Resources: improving accessibility and engagement for students and teaching staff

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Reading Lists
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 13:45 – 14:15
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Loretta Atkinson and Natalie Hull

University of Queensland

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The University of Queensland Library maintains a centralised Learning Resources Service in support of teaching and learning within the University. This paper discusses the recent implementation of a learning resources application, Talis Aspire. The drivers for moving to a new application were to ensure student engagement with learning resources is enhanced, teaching staff are integrated with ownership of reading lists, and the potential for increased staff efficiency is supported by real performance data.

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VALA2016 Session 1 Lawrence

Amanda Lawrence

Digital curation of public policy resources: discovery, access and management for policy and practice

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Future Gazing
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-1-lawrence

Amanda Lawrence

Swinburne University of Technology, Vic

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Public policy and practice relies on a wide range of resources, including traditional scholarly publications, and those produced directly by organisations, such as reports, discussion papers, briefings, reviews and data sets produced by government, academic centres, non-government organisations (NGOs), think tanks and companies. While heavily used, the collection and curation of digital publications (grey literature) is dispersed, inefficient and inadequate. This paper presents recent research on use, production and collection of policy publications and discusses the approach of Policy Online, a digital library using a variety of tools including crowd-sourcing content, linked data approaches, Digital Object Identifiers and more.

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VALA2016 Session 12 Fletcher

A global and institutional resource-list repository: a treasure trove for deriving new insights and providing innovative services

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Reading Lists
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-12-fletcher

Tamar Sadeh

Ex Libris, Israel

Janet Fletcher

UNSW Australia, NSW

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Used for teaching a course, a resource list represents a persistent yet dynamic corpus of materials focused on a particular topic. Today, creating, maintaining, and monitoring resource lists; providing materials for them; and accessing their contents usually require multiple, non-integrated workflows and prevent the lists from realising their potential. Resource-list solutions, such as the one described here (Ex Libris Leganto), facilitate list creation through cross-system workflows involving the library. With an easy-to-use interface and new types of services, such solutions are expected to increase academics’ and students’ engagement and maximise the lists’ contribution to teaching and learning.

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