Digital Commons | Toolkits and Tutorials | bepress In order to help subscribers get started with Digital Commons and take full advantage of its features, bepress Outreach has compiled this series of toolkits and short tutorials. In the toolkits, you will find a collection of research, reference materials, and other information on each topic to give you the tools you need to be successful. The tutorials are designed to share outreach strategies based upon community best practices. Follow index Toolkits Toolkits Getting Started Toolkit, bepress Journals Toolkit, bepress ETDs & Student Work Toolkit, bepress Law Review Toolkit, bepress Copyright Toolkit, bepress Faculty Collections Toolkit, bepress SelectedWorks Toolkit, bepress Marketing Toolkit, bepress Tutorials Tutorials Dissemination and Discovery: Open Access Publishing for Graduate Work Through Digital Commons, Courtney Smith Generating Top-Level Buy-In for Your Institutional Repository, Courtney Smith Capturing Unique Collections in Digital Commons: A Service to Campus and Community, Ann Taylor
Digital Curation: Alternatives to Storify As I wrote in one of the early ProfHacker blog posts, it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan. This truth was brought home to me this semester in my teaching. About a month ago, students in my course on “Writing in Digital Environments” began experimenting with Storify, a social media curation tool we’ve covered before here at ProfHacker. As part of their work for the course, the students have been using Twitter since the semester began. Unfortunately, on the day the Storify assignment was due, some students (and apparently many Storify users) lost their work due to a mistake made by Storify with their database. In order to fulfill the task of analyzing and presenting their Twitter activity, students would need to use an alternative to Storify. In the end, most of my students decided to go back to Storify and hope that the mistake that knocked their work offline won’t be repeated. How about you? [Creative Commons-licensed flickr photo by Gwyneth Anne Bronwynne Jones] Return to Top
File Format Comparison Projects: Still Image and Audio-Visual Working Groups - Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative The FADGI Still Image and Audio-Visual Working Groups are exploring file formats for still images and video. Two explorations are focused on reformatting, e.g., digitizing documents, books, maps, and photographs as still images, and digitizing videotapes (mostly analog, sometimes digital) as file-based video. These two comparisons employ similar, matrix-based tools to make comparisons relevant to preservation planning. The matrixes compare a limited number of formats in terms of roughly forty factors, grouped under the following general headings: Sustainability FactorsCost FactorsSystem Implementation Factors (Full Lifecycle)Settings and Capabilities (Quality and Functionality Factors) Raster Still Images for Digitization: A Comparison of File Formats Digital File Formats for Videotape Reformatting Meanwhile, a third exploration examines born digital video. Creating and Archiving Born Digital Video Back to Top
curator's ǝpoɔ Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach Abstract The field of digital preservation is being defined by a set of standards developed top-down, starting with an abstract reference model (OAIS) and gradually adding more specific detail. Systems claiming conformance to these standards are entering production use. Work is underway to certify that systems conform to requirements derived from OAIS. We complement these requirements derived top-down by presenting an alternate, bottom-up view of the field. 1. The field of digital preservation systems has been defined by the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) standard ISO 14721:2003 [21], which provides a high-level reference model. Work is under way to elaborate the OAIS reference model with sufficient detail to allow systems to be certified by an ISO 9000-like process [52], and to allow systems to inter-operate on the basis of common specifications for ingesting and disseminating information [74, 22 ]. 2 Goal 3 Threats Media Failure. 4 Strategies 4.1 Replication 4.2 Migration
How Educators Use Pinterest for Curation Digital Tools Jody Strauch By A. Adam Glenn The phenomenal growth of Pinterest has sparked interest among millions of users. It’s also spread to journalism educators, who are increasingly experimenting with it in the classroom. The social network launched two years ago, but in recent months has drawn red-hot excitement for its unique visual, topic-based curation approach. Now journalism school faculty are increasingly in on the act. One early adopter was University of Southern California’s Andrew Lih, who last October, long before he and many others knew the site would become a blockbuster, introduced it to online students in an entrepreneurial class to gather what he called a “mood board” for a project on public art. Aggregating images to share with students is an increasingly common classroom use for the tool. Jody Strauch at Northwest Missouri State University has used Pinterest to show good design work to her media design classes. Pinterest is not without its drawbacks.
World Digital Library Home Content Curation versus Content Aggregation: A Velvet Mr. T Painting Two posts brought to my attention the discussion starting to take root about the worlds of content aggregation versus content curation. A post on the Poynter blog back in early October points to the work of journalists engaging in curation via Twitter as a way of “filtering the signal from the noise.” The phrase used was “curation is the new aggregation.” A more recent post on the Simple-talk.com blog by Roger Hart delves more into the world of content curation in a broader sense, stating that it is a bit of a flavor-of-the-month. My experience with curation is more specific. Daily, and sometimes twice daily, it is my job to draw from a set pool of content, radio programs’ arts and entertainment segments, and publish them into a CMS with text and audio. Over the past few years, publishing content in this manner makes me a curator of sorts. Curation goes one step beyond aggregation by adding an active, ongoing editorial component. Curation and aggregation are similar in but a few ways. So.
Creating Flexible E-Learning Through the Use of Learning Objects (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT Good Ideas Creating Flexible E-Learning Through the Use of Learning Objects The University System of Georgia deconstructs existing online courses to create separate files of reusable content By Marie Lasseter and Michael Rogers For five years, Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT), a unit within the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG), has worked with faculty and staff to develop the eCore, an electronically delivered core curriculum for the University System of Georgia. The ALT unit is also charged with assisting faculty and staff in using technology successfully, creating meaningful learning experiences, and expanding access to educational opportunities and resources. While faculty response to SCOUT was encouraging, feedback indicated that what they really needed was a quick way to find specific pieces of learning content so that courses could be custom designed. Transition to Learning Objects A Repository for Version Control Lessons Learned Endnotes 1. 2. 3.
40 Social Media Curation Sites and Tools Last month I shared 40+ networks that you could consider depending on your niche or interests. As part of my commitment to this community, I shared that I will expand on this list throughout 2012. So here is the first addition to that build! The topic- Curation! I thought I would focus on curation because a) I have a favorite site and b) there has been a lot of “press” on Pinterest as a curation tool and as a result I thought the timing was right. However before I list the sites let’s talk curation. What is social media curation? Today, with the exponential growth of social networks and blogs, it can be overwhelming searching for information on the internet. Recently, I had posed the question : What is a social media curator” on Linkedin . Why curate? Curation provides another offering for your on-line audience. Curation sites The number of curation sites and tools have grown dramatically. Now it is time to share that list. (Updated Oct2012: A few linked are no longer live. Cheers, Shirley