Grant possibilities for the Erie Canal Lab

1. Humanities NY offers a Public Scholars program. These are speakers that will come and give a 90 minute talk on a topic. An institution can apply for 2 a year. http://humanitiesny.org/our-work/programs/scholars-catalog/ 

SUNY Brockport eBook step-by-step directions

I am excited to work with you to get your book on to the SUNY Brockport eBooks platform. Let me take a minute to walk you through the process.

1.       If you’ve never browsed our platform, here is the URL: http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/sunybeb/

2.       Our first step is to ascertain that there aren’t any copyright issues. Pam O’Sullivan is the campus copyright officer. I gave her your flyer and printed out the CreateSpace agreement from Amazon.  The copyright page in your book (available from the Look Inside! Feature is a little confusing to me. The copyright is held by CreateSpace with All rights reserved by the authors. Then there is a statement saying “No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system…without written permission from the Publisher.” I’m not sure what this means, but Pam is going to look into it.

3.       Next, I would refer you to our Policy page, http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/sunybeb/FinalSUNYBrockporteBooks.pdf, which includes information that we ask you to include in a short proposal that you can email to me.

4.       Once we get the proposal and sample chapters, I’ll send it to the chair of the Advisory Board – who will ask 2 faculty to review it. It won’t be a peer review process, per se – no one will ask for any changes. They are only reviewing to make sure it meets the general criteria spelled out in the policy document.

5.       Once all the approvals (copyright and criteria) have come in, the remainder of the process (putting it on the platform) will happen fairly quickly.

I hope this thoroughly explains the process, but feel free to ask any questions you might have. Your next step would be to provide me with a proposal, including the sample chapters, and we will move on from there.

Useful blog posts

Software PetaPixel: re.photos is a Photo Sharing Service for Then-and-Now Photos. "re.photos is a new website decided to helping people create and share then-and-now photos. The site helps you automatically align before-and-after photos to show how things have changed over time. Known as 'rephotography,' this is the act of taking a photo of a scene that has already been photographed some time ago." https://petapixel.com/2017/11/27/re-photos-photo-sharing-service-now-photos/ Great potential for Digital Humanity projects

Six ways to make your ORCID iD work for you: http://orcid.org/blog/2017/08/10/six-ways-make-your-orcid-id-work-you?ref=email 

Next steps for Text and Data Mining - with links to symposium held at Cambridge on the topic: https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1505

The Strategic Investments of Content Providers - what the big four are up to (Elsevier, Springer, ProQuest and Ebsco): http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog/the-strategic-investments-of-content-providers/

Video editing tools: NeverEnding Search: Typito: Your post production buddy. "Post-production is what makes your media feel professional and done. But not everyone has access to, or the chops to use, a robust video editor like Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects. And not everyone wants to spend the arduous time it sometimes takes to make a video product feel professionally spiffy. Typito is a relatively new video editing tool designed to be your time-saving, affordable, post-production friend. It allows even rookie editors to create a little magic on top of the videos they shoot or collect."

Auto transcription of videos: The Distant Librarian (and thanks for the mention, Paul!): A quick showdown of three automatic transcription tools. "I didn't realize it was that long ago, but last December I started playing with an automatic transcription tool called AutoEdit2, and found it pretty decent. Yesterday and today, ResearchBuzz led me to two new options, so I thought I'd do a quick comparison." (Tried the Google Docs Voice Typing)
Another tool for transcription: https://artplusmarketing.com/heres-an-easier-way-to-edit-your-podcasts-e54d21bd13cd 

Great post about creating an interactive map in Google Sheets: 
https://geogeek.xyz/create-interactive-map-google-docs.html

The new Omeka:

ACRL TechConnect: Introducing Omeka S . "My library has used Omeka as part of our suite of platforms for creating digital collections and exhibits for many years now. It’s easy to administer and use, and many of our students, particularly in history or digital humanities, learn how to create exhibits with it in class or have experience with it from other institutions, which makes it a good solution for student projects. This creates challenges, however, since it’s been difficult to have multiple sites or distributed administration.... This problem goes away with Omeka S, which is the new and completely rebuilt Omeka."

subject repositories

Today, ChemRxiv™ Beta, the new chemistry preprint server for the global chemistry community, powered by Figshare, is open for submissions!

By harnessing Figshare’s new preprint capabilities, ChemRxiv will facilitate the rapid and open dissemination of important scientific findings. 

Creating Data Literate Students

I recently watched the 4T Data Literacy Conference on July 20-21, 2017 - sponsored by a grant from IMLS and put on by the University of Michigan School of Information. The videos, ranging from Data Refuge to several on Privacy concerns in the online world, are archived here: http://datalit.sites.uofmhosting.net/conference/schedule/. Examples of other topics include infographics, citizen science, big data and statistics. There is also an accompanying book that is currently being distributed through their website and will be available for full download later this fall.

I feel this is an area that most of us don't feel comfortable with, and so would be a great growth opportunity and a possible topic for student workshops.

Selected Works/Experts Gallery

From the correspondence files with bepress:

there are ways to create embedded that are limited by some facet or other. For example, this is a Research Collaborative that has been limited by what we call “organization”:
http://cdigs.uwindsor.ca/drupal/dhrc-members

highlight new faculty using the Expert Gallery Suite. Cedarville does this using an image gallery that links to their SelectedWorks profiles:
http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/new_faculty_2016-2017_gallery/ If you click an image or a “Learn more” link in the content carousel, this takes you to a SelectedWorks profile.

DCGLUG 2017 at Cleveland State University

Wow - what a great user group meeting. I was pleasantly surprised to find out how lovely Cleveland can be. The user group itself had many valuable presentations, and here are some of the links:

DCGLUG website: http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/dcglug/ 
UPenn presentation on Faculty Assisted Submission (LibGuide): http://guides.library.upenn.edu/scholarlycommons/assisted_submission

UPenn Google Drive with materials on submission spreadsheets, student workflows, student training, etc, : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5PBGPEYJd0xLWNyZ1M5cWJPRFU

Purdue talked about their partnership for Conferences: http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/dcglug/2017/all/4/

Wayne State discussed joining CrossRef and assigning DOIs, including workflow and best practices. It really helped me to understand the assigning process of DOIs, which includes adding them to all the references within the article. You either have to find the existing DOI for the reference, or submit the information to have one created. Joshua (Neds-Fox) talked about his process for finding these, how it evolved and shared an API that helps automate the process. His presentation, once uploaded, will be here: http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/dcglug/2017/all/3/.

Western Michigan did a lightning talk about how she approached graduate students and what they need to know.: http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/dcglug/2017/all/5/

Michigan Tech talked about marketing their IR, with useful ideas: http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/dcglug/2017/all/6/. Annelise also mentioned she helped their Business School with accreditation. Here is their IR link: http://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/. They also have a monthly blog post here: http://blogs.mtu.edu/library/category/library-newsblog/ which features nice infographics each month.

PCOM librarian, Jackie Werner, talked about Wernerioning to a Scholarly Communication Librarian from a subject librarian position, and how they were both similar and different. http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/dcglug/2017/all/7/.

GVSU, perennial presenters at DCGLUGs, discussed two collaboration projects between the Digital Collections area and Digital Commons. The first was about AS3 storage and backup use cases, and the second compared using the DC platform rather than some other repository options, with a chart that compared them. I will be interested in having my memory refreshed when the presentation is put up here: http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/dcglug/2017/all/8/.

EIU talked about using Lightbox and Adobe to create/combine images to show both sides at once. http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/dcglug/2017/all/9/

Another session talked about the goal of the SHARE initiative, a partnership between the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Center for Open Science (COS), is to build a “free, open, data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.” To date, more than 150 repositories and publishers have made metadata available to SHARE for harvesting, and the aggregated data set is available for searching. Many metadata providers are institutional repositories using the bepress Digital Commons platform whose metadata is harvested through the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol for repository interoperability.

As part of the 2016-2017 SHARE Curation Associates program, a group within the cohort began a unique project in July 2016 to review their institutional metadata and the specific elements that are being harvested by SHARE. The project arose out of the overall goal to enhance their own metadata within SHARE. And within this cohort of associates, a number of associates are at institutions utilizing the Digital Commons platform. At ACRL 2017, we presented a poster on our findings at that time. http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/dcglug/2017/all/10/ 

Finally, I noticed how CSU uses Event Communities in many interesting ways, including as an informational webpage for an event. This is somewhat similar to what we do for the Diversity Conference, and perhaps what we should be doing for the Writers Forum. See examples:  http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/mslibrary/  and http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/conferences_list.html