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Mark Anthoney Background: MA, Communication Studies (Media Studies emphasis) University of Iowa, 2007 BA with Honors, Communication Studies University of Iowa, 2004 BA, Cinema and Comparative Literature University of Iowa, 2004 Interests: Information and Globalization Washtub Bass Spring 2008 Projects: WiderNet eGranary Virtual Health Library Mentors: Cliff Missen (Director, WiderNet Project) Brent Palmer (Information Architect, WiderNet Project) Jon Winet (Head, Intermedia Program, School of Art and Art History) |
I will be researching ways to make database-driven sites like Wikipedia remain database driven as they are implemented into an eGranary. My first project involves the Virtual Health Library website. Sites on eGranaries are currently static html pages. These webpages are only searchable through keyword queries like those implemented in a simple Google search. Adopting dynamic, database-driven websites into the eGranary, as opposed to static html page scrapes, would make such things as a search-within-results and search history possible in the eGranary. There will be many things to consider in adopting database driven sites to the eGranary (how to implement updates into the eGranary, server configurations, language support, cataloging standards and crosswalks, etc). The eventual goal for this semester is to adopt a database-driven website (or however many as possible) into an eGranary, and to establish best practices for future dynamic adoption.
I am also working with Jon Winet on supplying content in the Second Life building I constructed last semester. My work this semester will consist of researching ways to implement an automatically updating media board in the building. This board will contain readings from the Virtual Writing University archives. Additionally, live events, such as a concert from members of the Maia Quartet, will be in our Second Life building.
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Shawn Averkamp Background: BA, Music Luther College, 1998 Professional Interests: Digital Libraries Digital Humanities Copyright/Free Culture Spring 2008 Project: Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century Mentor: Nicole Saylor (Head, Digital Library Services) |
I will be working on the migration of this UI legacy collection, which is currently delivered through the Library of Congress American Memory site. This project will involve migrating approximately 8,000 digitized publicity brochures, mostly compound, and their associated metadata to ContentDM. I'll also be setting up workflows for digitizing more of the physical collection.
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Chris Ehrman Background: BA, History University of Utah, 2006 Reference Librarian, Salt Lake City Public Library Multimedia Assistant, Marriott Library Special Collections, University of Utah Archiving, processing, and digitizing collections Interests: Cycling Hiking The digital world and everything else Spring 2008 Project: Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Mentor: |
For the Spring 2008 semester, I am working on digitizing and archiving video of speeches presented to the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council by speakers ranging from presidential candidates to writers in residence as part of the Writers' Workshop. The speeches are recorded and rebroadcast on the radio and television.
The collection consists of about 80 speeches recorded on DVD's, dating from 2004 to the present. There are older speeches recorded on SVHS tape. I hope to digitize and archive the speeches already in DVD format by the end of the semester.
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Elizabeth Galvez Background: BA, Interdepartmental Health Studies University of Iowa Professional Interests: Text Mining XML Librarianship in Second Life Digital Libraries Spring 2008 Project: Health Information Literacy Resources and Services Mentor: Padmini Srinivasan (Professor, School of Library and Information Science) |
Health Information for Non-Literate Populations is a new project which is being developed to research the value of marking up health information (using XML (or eXtensible Markup Language) so that it can easily be searched and reformatted for a variety of contexts. For example, one user may want only audio and graphics, another may want both multimedia and text. Furthermore, the content they need is going to vary depending on their relationship to the information. My first semester I worked on the same project and learned a great deal as I developed a prototype using XML, CSS, and XSLT and got involved with peripheral activities such as grant writing and writing for publication. I had a great deal of freedom to influence the progression of the project and, in so doing, I got a feel for what it means to start a new digital project. During the Spring semester, I will be focusing on extending the collection of marked up materials from a single text to also include peripheral materials.
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Amber Jansen Background: BA, Studio Art and English University of Iowa Career Goals: Special Collections or Children's Librarian--ideally a combination of the two (i.e. a librarian for the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre) Interests: Reading Bookbinding Travel Harry Potter Spring 2008 Projects: Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project(CLIP) Medieval manuscripts digitization Mentors: Shana Stuart (Director, Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project) Mark Anderson (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital Library Services) David Schoonover (Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections) |
I have two projects this semester: 1) maintaining the already established Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project and 2) digitizing Special Collection’s Medieval Manuscripts. CLIP has several directions I can take, but I am beginning by uploading the remaining digital photos (which were taken by previous SLIS students in their Multimedia class) to the collection as a way to familiarize myself with the ContentDM software--which will also be used for the Medieval Manuscript project. I am also reading “The Carnegie Libraries of Iowa” by John Witt and have begun to brainstorm ideas for the 2009 CLIP calendar.
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Joanna Lee Background: BA, English University of Rochester, 2003 Interests: Digital libraries Writing Spring 2008 Project: Encoded Archival Description Project Mentors: Jen Wolfe (Metadata Librarian, Digital Library Services) Sue Julich (Head, Enterprise Applications) |
This semester I will be working on a new project in Digital Library Services (DLS). I will work together with Jane to research how Encoded Archival Description (EAD), an XML language, is being used by other institutions to mark up archival finding aids and then convert about two dozen of the University’s finding aids from HTML. Our first assignment is to find 3-4 articles about EAD and write a summary to share with each other in our next meeting. We will also review the style and functionality of other institutions’ EAD sites and, finally, survey the UI finding aids to find out how many there are and how they are formatted differently in HTML.
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Jane Monson Background: BA, University of Iowa, 2001 Interests: Digital Libraries Archives and Preservation History Cooking Spring 2008 Project: Encoded Archival Description Project Mentors: Jen Wolfe (Metadata Librarian, Digital Library Services) |
This semester, Joanna Lee and I are going to be working together on the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) pilot collection. I will again be working in Digital Library Services, with Jen Wolfe and Sue Julich as project mentors. For any non-library types in the audience, EAD is an XML markup language that enables encoding of archival finding aids into records that are platform-independent, machine-readable, and fully searchable. In other words, it will allow users to search across various online indexes of archival collections, which are currently not standardized. This project will involve figuring out how to implement a new process that isn't yet in place. This will require researching how other institutions have used EAD and determining the best way to begin using it at the U of I Libraries. As I understand it, the end goal is to produce a prototype EAD collection on which to base future migration of HTML finding aids.
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Bryan Stusse Background: MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004 BFA, The University of Iowa, 2002 Interests: Digital Libraries Video Preservation Backpacking Spring 2008 Project: Forthcoming Mentor: |
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Jill Wehrheim Background: BS, Interdisciplinary Studies (English, history, mass communication emphases) Southeast Missouri State University, 2007 Interests: Digital Libraries Young Adult literature Piano Crafts Spring 2008 Projects: Dada Collection Mentor: Wendy Robertson (Electronic Resources Systems Librarian, Digital Library Services) |
This semester I am working on the Dada Collection in Digital Library Services. I recommend reading the history of the Dada Collection, but basically it’s an artistic movement of the 1910s and 1920s that began in Europe and has influenced a large amount of art since then. The Digital Dada Library Collection is already available, but it is not on CONTENTdm, the software used in DLS for creating digital collections. The idea of the project is to migrate the collection from where it currently exists to CONTENTdm. Another goal of the project is to add more materials and create a process for adding new materials to the digital collection. The International On-line Bibliography of Dada has been available for researchers for a few years as an online catalog. There are about 60,000 items in the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries, but only a very small portion of that is currently online. For the past two weeks I have been familiarizing myself with Dada history, the Dada Collection, and the files on the server as well as attending a few project-planning meetings. Before uploading the images to the new software, there are many things to consider, such as the quality of the images that were previously scanned; a consistent file and folder naming system; and a few issues with the metadata.
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Sarah Zdenek Background: BA, Communications and Performing Arts Carthage College M.A.T. Secondary Education, English/Speech/Theatre Drake University Spring 2008 Projects: WiderNet Project Daily Palette Collection Mentors: Cliff Missen (Director, WiderNet Project) Mark Anderson (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital Library Services) Jon Winet (Head, Intermedia Program, School of Art and Art History) |
This semester I am continuing to work at WiderNet (on a different project) and also working at DLS on the Daily Palette collection. At WiderNet, I have created a series of forms using FrontPage and now I will make adjustments to the database the program will automatically generate. I will need to keep in mind who will be using what data and how they will need to be able to manipulate it when cataloging.