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Karen Estlund, keynote speaker
Karen Estlund, associate dean for Technology and Digital Strategies for Penn State Libraries.
Day 1. 4:00-5:00pm, Auditorium.
Digital Library Services have evolved over the last decade to interact more with networked and web environments, as well as to center user experience and context for collections. At the same time, in the United States particularly, as well as much of the world, trust of traditional institutions of information has been challenged. We have entered a new age of skepticism.
This presentation will review innovative and emerging practices in digital libraries in the context of this skepticism. Implications on the relationship with notions of linked data, bias in description, block-chain, and universal design will be discussed. The role of community, membership organizations, and partnerships may both support and challenge our structural information systems, in terms of collections, metadata, systems, and standards for interoperability. In this, digital library services have the power to address the gap in trust and to foster dialogue.
Estlund is the associate dean for Technology and Digital Strategies for Penn State Libraries where she provides leadership and advocacy for information technology, digital initiatives, cataloging and metadata services, publishing and curation services. Prior to Penn State, Karen served as the head of the Digital Scholarship Center at the University of Oregon, where she supported the publication of digital editions the Oregon Petrarch Open Book project, Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai, and We Are the Face of Oaxaca integrated with library digital collections and implemented linked open data with Oregon Digital. She also served as interim head of Digital Technologies and technology instruction librarian at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, where she also taught Web design as an adjunct professor in the Communication Department.
Karen received her MLIS in 2005 from the University of Washington. Karen has served as the program director for National Digital Newspaper Programs in Utah and Oregon. She contributed to the Portland Common Data Model (PCDM) and serves on the coordinating committee for IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework), Fedora leaders, the Rightsstatements.org technical committee, and is a former member of Samvera (Hydra) Steering.
Day 1. 10:00am-12:30pm, Auditorium.
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is an industry standard that is unleashing the ability for digital collections to be shared for research in innovative ways. Your OCLC CONTENTdm site includes IIIF Image and Presentation APIs so you can take advantage of new viewers and visualizations of your unique content or build one yourself! Come to this workshop to learn about IIIF and the impact it can have for your digital collections, and learn about the new customization framework for CONTENTdm, then take a deep dive trying out IIIF in real time!
The first hour will be an overview by Jeff Mixter, software engineer in OCLC Research, and Shane Huddleston, CONTENTdm product manager. They will discuss the IIIF specifications, how they are used now, and how they will evolve in the future. For the second 90 minutes, OCLC CONTENTdm lead developer Dave Collins will demonstrate adding a timeline exhibit to a CONTENTdm site. You may bring your laptop and work along with him, experimenting with a (hidden) custom page on your own CONTENTdm site. (Shane will host additional “office” hour the following afternoon, should you wish to learn more.)
Format: 60 minute lecture , 90 minute hands-on workshop
Who will benefit from this workshop?
The IIIF customization workshop will begin at 10am EDT on Wednesday, August 1st and will be divided into two sections. The first hour will be a general overview of the IIIF APIs and how they are used. This first hour will involve no hands-on coding or CONTENTdm customization, but we will reference some API syntax and usage.
The second part is a 90-minute demonstration of creating a timeline UI (see https://timeline.knightlab.com/) using IIIF API calls. This section will involve hands-on coding using HTML and JavaScript. Due to the high number of workshop registrants we will not be able to assign you a test site to stage your customizations, but the demo has been designed as a "custom page" in CONTENTdm. This means you have the option to use your current CONTENTdm instance in real time and your changes will not visibly affect your production CONTENTdm website interface. (Note that if you already have JavaScript customizations on your production responsive CONTENTdm website, there could be conflicts between your code and the timeline code.)
It is not critical to understand all of the inner workings of the JavaScript code to be able to configure the timeline on your site. All of the code will be made available as a package that you can download and reuse on your site after the workshop.
If you do plan to follow along with the hands-on coding, make sure you have all of the following:
If you have any questions about the workshop or any of the details above, please contact Shane Huddleston at huddless@oclc.org.