2023 Digital Repositories Meeting (online)
- David Walker
- Carmen Mitchell
Jun 7-8, 2023
Each day of the meeting will have its own Zoom meeting link. If you need to leave for any reason, just use the same link to get back in.
Day 1 Schedule
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10:00 AM 10 min | Welcome and housekeeping!
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10:10 AM 30 min | Journal of Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
| CSUDH Vice-Provost Ken O'Donnell and I will discuss Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, a journal for which Ken assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief in Summer 2022. Specifically, we will touch on considerations for migrating an established journal to a new institution, his expectations going into this experience and the ways they have been confirmed or challenged, recruiting support for journal production, strategies for incorporating new modalities, and the role the library/I have played in this process. ELTHE is a good example of how it is possible to establish an infrastructure and develop an innovative journal with limited funding. |
10:40 AM 30 min | Experiencing the Black Power Movement in Los Angeles Through Oral History Interviews
| The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge is creating a collective memory of digital visual content that will be accessible for generations to come. The Black Power oral history interviews at the Bradley Center provide a look into the lives of members of organizations such as the Black Panther Party, US, Che Lumumba Club, the Black Student Alliance and the Community Alert Patrol. These interviews give the participants of the Black Power Movement in Los Angeles, California during the 1960s and 1970s, the opportunity to share their uncensored experiences of being members of a Movement that the head of the FBI classified to be the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States. As expressed by the interviewees, events both in their own neighborhoods and as far away as Mississippi provided the spark for their involvement in Black Power organizations in Los Angeles. They were young and committed to fighting against all forms of oppression and police brutality in particular. These interviews provide a haunting reality of how little has changed for African Americans over the course of decades. The reasons that ignited the Black Power Movement in the 1960s continue to trigger Movements such as Black Lives Matter. Researchers in this field of study will be better informed by the Black Power oral history interviews at the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center. |
11:15 AM 15 min | Lightning talk: Leveraging digital exhibits to encourage wayfinding through the digital repository.
| This presentation will address how to leverage digital exhibits to engage library users with both primary and secondary-source local digital collections from CSU Stanislaus's Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). Three digital collection platforms and one software application will be discussed, including ArchivesSpace, the Online Archive of California (OAC), JSTOR Community Collections, and Adobe Express. The presentation will culminate in one online exhibit showing how links from these different platforms can be used to engage users to explore and use the CSU Stanislaus digital collections. It will be demonstrated that such online exhibits can improve information literacy skills while also highlighting unique local digital collections. |
Lightning talk: Digital Exhibits with Minimal Infrastructure: Using Wax to Build Digital Projects
| This presentation will share two new digital exhibits created using the open source Wax framework. One, Betita Martínez: A Memorial Exhibit, launched in Fall 2022, and the other, The Unionist United, is scheduled to launch in Spring 2023. Using Wax, these exhibits could be built as static websites, relying only on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The sites are currently hosted on GitHub pages, and are easily transportable to other servers. This presentation will briefly discuss some of the opportunities and challenges encountered while implementing Wax. 
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11:30AM
| Lunch break! | You can either close out of Zoom or just turn your camera and mic off for the lunch break. |
12:55 PM 5 min | Welcome back!
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1:00 PM 30 min | Ask Anything: AKA, the human search engine
| We’re bringing the Code4Lib session to our CSU Digital Repositories meeting! Do you have a question that you’d like to ask the CSU brain trust? Do you have a problem that you need help with? Bring your questions, quibbles, and queries to the Ask Anything session! Carmen Mitchell will facilitate this session. You may send along questions in advance, or just bring them to the session. 
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1:30 PM 60 min | ScholarWorks & Digital Archives update
| Overview of recent and upcoming work on ScholarWorks, the new CSU Digital Archives, and related projects.
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2:30 PM | Wrap-up! |
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Day 2 Schedule
Time | Item | Description |
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10:00 AM 5 min | Welcome and housekeeping!
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10:05 AM 30 min | Terminology of the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II
| “Words can lie or clarify: Terminology of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans” is a publication by Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga, who was a Japanese American activist, a former incarceree during World War II, and one of the advisory board members for the CSU Japanese American Digitization (CSUJAD) Project. She had opposed the use of the euphemistic words that distort and wrongly portray the Japanese Americans’ experiences during the war. The CSUJAD Project has addressed this issue since 2014 at the very beginning of the project. This presentation will provide the background information, overviewing the two-day symposium that was hosted by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, CSU Dominguez Hills in June 2014 where the project’s members gathered, illustrating the offensive and problematic terms that have been of concern among the Japanese American community, and describing the challenges and approaches that the project has faced and taken. It will also cover the Library of Congress Subject Headings that had been established for the event of the mass removal and the revisions that have been made recently. |
10:35 AM 30 min | Jumping the DAM fence from CONTENTdm to Quartex: gambling on a new digital repository
| In early 2023, SFSU migrated its digital content for Special Collections out of CONTENTdm into a new digital asset management platform, Quartex. A late 2022 migration sprint to get files and metadata transferred from CONTENTdm to Quartex was just the final phase of a long planning and migration process. After first being introduced to the platform in 2019, the Bay Area Television Archive, which is part of SFSU Special Collections, started working with Adam Matthew (now AM Digital) to upload their considerable digital content with the intent of creating audio transcripts to improve accessibility. Big picture planning and implementation fell into place in 2022 and SFSU has exciting plans to highlight some core areas of its holdings, like the 1968 San Francisco State Student Strike, on this new platform. This panel will provide an overview of our migration from the initial stages through the final loading and plans for the future. 
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11:05 AM 30 min | Lightning talk: Chico Metadata Style guide for ScholarWorks
| We would like to share our process of creating a metadata style guide for CSU, Chico submissions to ScholarWorks. We will explain our motivations and guiding principles, share what we learned along the way, provide a brief walkthrough of the guide, and discuss the advantages of using a “living document.” We hope this presentation will illustrate the helpfulness of a style guide in creating metadata for institutional repositories. 
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Lightning talk: “You can do what?” The Excel Tricks you Didn’t Know no one Knew
| Feel like you know the bare minimum in Excel? You probably know more than you think and have figured out a good trick for that one annoying task. For instance, you can auto size column width, copy drag data, and auto highlight duplicate information in Excel . . . If you know the right buttons. Come prepared to show off a few Excel tips and tricks you use that you thought everyone knew (chances are it will be new to some of us). From Jill: Formatting Numbers and Dates as Plain Text | |
Brainstorming: Community Building in the CSU
| Each of us brings different skills and expertise to the CSU. But how best to share our knowledge and build collaboration across this large state? We have done so much work over the last decade (plus!), but could be doing more to bridge the knowledge gap? Are our communication structures working? Are there ways to expand and grow while also building collegial connections? I’m hopeful that this lightning talk can be a collaborative brainstorming effort, so please bring an open heart and some ideas. Share your ideas in the Brainstorming document. | |
11:40 AM
| Wrap up! |
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