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Knowledge Domain Navigation In Interdisciplinary Digital Landscapes, Arjun Sabharwal Nov 2016

Knowledge Domain Navigation In Interdisciplinary Digital Landscapes, Arjun Sabharwal

Arjun Sabharwal

Knowledge domain navigation is vital to research activities, and this paper addresses the epistemological and ontological dimensions of the knowledge domain navigation framework. The paper addresses knowledge creation through the metadata record, and how interdisciplinarity affects the metadata record. The discussion of the ontological dimension focuses on semantic navigation, interoperability, and the relationship of taxonomies to interdisciplinarity. A number of digital initiative projects illustrate the concept of knowledge domain navigation.

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Sound And The City: Multi-Layer Representation And Navigation Of Audio Scenarios, Luca A. Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro Phd Nov 2016

Sound And The City: Multi-Layer Representation And Navigation Of Audio Scenarios, Luca A. Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro Phd

Davide Andrea Mauro

IEEE 1599-2008 is an XML-based standard originally intended for the multi-layer representation of music information. Nevertheless, it is versatile enough to describe also information different from traditional scores written according to the Common Western Notation (CWN) rules. This paper will discuss the application of IEEE 1599-2008 to the audio description of paths and scenarios from the urban life or other landscapes. The standard we adopt allows the multilayer integration of textual, symbolical, structural, graphical, audio and video contents within a unique synchronized environment. Besides, for each kind of media, a number of digital objects is supported. As a consequence, thanks …

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How To Read 100 Million Publications: Vivo And Comprehensive Open Publication Databases, John Mark Ockerbloom Aug 2016

How To Read 100 Million Publications: Vivo And Comprehensive Open Publication Databases, John Mark Ockerbloom

John Mark Ockerbloom

A number of commercially developed
publication databases such as Web of
Science and Google Scholar aim to provide a
comprehensive view of the scholarly literature.
Such databases are quite large in scale, needing
to handle metadata on the order of about 100
million publications, and to grow by more
than 1 million new publication records every
year. There is ongoing interest in creating
more open comprehensive databases in the
community as well, for various purposes,
ranging from open access support to
preservation to various kinds of researcher
analysis. Is it worth creating and supporting
such open databases in the community, …

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How Not To Waste Catalogers' Time: Making The Most Of Subject Headings, John Mark Ockerbloom Mar 2016

How Not To Waste Catalogers' Time: Making The Most Of Subject Headings, John Mark Ockerbloom

John Mark Ockerbloom

The subject descriptions of well-cataloged library resources have rich semantics, but most online catalogs and discovery systems do not take full advantage of them, and the headings assigned by librarians do not always match the descriptions users expect. This session features ideas, demonstrations, and discussion on how we can improve the design and the data in our catalogs and discovery systems to improve discovery of relevant materials. It will focus on how to better take advantage of the kinds of data that catalogers already create. Topics to be discussed include:
-- How to take advantage of subject heading order in …

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Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James Feb 2016

Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James

Heather James

The Gothic Archive is the flagship digital humanities project for the Marquette University library. The project was birthed from a simple digital collection, and through the partnership of faculty and librarians, was transformed into something more. The core tenets of digital collection creation were adhered to in order to create a solid foundation upon which to build the Archive. The expertise of both groups and communication were key in the evolution of the collection, and in discovering and highlighting the relationships between the objects. This case study reviews the steps Marquette took in creating the collection and taking it to …

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Glis 649 W2016 Presentation On Metadata, Eun Park Dec 2015

Glis 649 W2016 Presentation On Metadata, Eun Park

Group 6 649

Class lecture/presentation on Metadata

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Hidden Stories, Inclusive Perspectives: Describing Photographs Of Jewish Refugees In Shanghai, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian Dec 2015

Hidden Stories, Inclusive Perspectives: Describing Photographs Of Jewish Refugees In Shanghai, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

When a collection of over 600 photographs and negatives was discovered in the backlog of Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Library’s Department of Archives and Special Collections, there were moments of surprise, intrigue, and fascination. While information about the collection is limited, the pictures have presumably been taken by Werner von Bolternstern, a photographer and avid postcard collector, who donated the collection (among many others) to LMU. The Werner von Bolternstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection offers rare visual records and remarkable documentation of life in Shanghai, China, from 1937 to 1949. Besides Shanghai urban landscapes, historical architecture, and street scenes, …

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