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Knowledge Diffusion And Utilization Within A System Of Care Model: Success And Challenges, Betty Walton, Isaac Karikari, Christine Marie Bishop, Erin Tock Jul 2018

Knowledge Diffusion And Utilization Within A System Of Care Model: Success And Challenges, Betty Walton, Isaac Karikari, Christine Marie Bishop, Erin Tock

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•Transitioning from required collection & reporting of grant data to routinely using information for planning and quality improvement processes at direct service, program, and system levels •Explores necessary conditions for the successful use of information to plan and monitor progress •Highlights tips •Applying tips to your practice


Improving Access To Special Collections By Automating Descriptive Metadata Creation, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour, Betsey Welland, Jessica Breiman May 2016

Improving Access To Special Collections By Automating Descriptive Metadata Creation, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour, Betsey Welland, Jessica Breiman

Faculty Publications

Covering today

Background information about Special Collections and Digital Library Services

Overview of ways we are processing data:

  • Extracting data from finding aids for item level description in digital collections
  • Extracting and Analyzing Names/Subjects in EAD
  • EAD to MARC record transform through MARCEdit
  • Techniques for working with legacy data


Metadata Managed: How To Clean Data That Is Up To No Good., Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour May 2016

Metadata Managed: How To Clean Data That Is Up To No Good., Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour

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Metadata Problems

  • Size of collections –Close to 300 collections, over 2 million items.
  • Age of collections – started digitizing in 2000
  • Inconsistent training
  • Variety of collections means different conventions used for collections from:
  • Internal
  • external
  • Campus Partners


Big Data: Challenges And Opportunities For Digital Libraries, Richard Hacken Jul 2015

Big Data: Challenges And Opportunities For Digital Libraries, Richard Hacken

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Presented as a Keynote Address to the International Conference on Computing in Engineering and the Sciences in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 30, 2015.

This is an abstract of the speech:

Thanks to technological progress, thanks to the copious Internet, thanks to geometrically burgeoning social media and to quickly proliferating sensors, the flood of data available to us is surging larger and larger, faster and faster. Paradigms for management and analysis are at the core of data-driven businesses and institutions, fueling the velocity of scientific research and development. The phrase “Big Data” was itself coined by scientists as they manipulated exploding …


A Social History Of Technology In Libraries, Richard Hacken Mar 2013

A Social History Of Technology In Libraries, Richard Hacken

Faculty Publications

For the International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies in Tangier, Morocco, on March 22, 2013, I presented a social history of technology in libraries over the past 30 years. In addition I speculated what the future may bring socially and technologically, obviously from my perspective as a librarian.