VALA2016 Proceedings

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The VALA2016 18th Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 9 – 11 February 2016.

The following papers were presented at VALA2016. See also the VALA2016 Program.

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VALA2016 Session 11 Brownlee

Collaborative development of a multi-disciplinary research infrastructure for vocabulary creation, management, publication, discovery, access and re-use

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Describing IT
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-11-brownlee

Rowan Brownlee, Adrian Burton, Jane Frazier and Richard Walker

Australian National Data Service, ACT

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The use of controlled vocabularies increases the value of data resources by improving discovery, interoperability, and re-usability. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS), in partnership with members of Australian research organisations, is developing a user-driven vocabulary service to support Australian research groups, universities, and research libraries to find and use published vocabularies, as well as to create, manage, and publish new vocabularies. This paper follows the evolution of the development of the service. It provides a technical overview of the systems involved as well as a proposed model for support, outreach and responding to community need.

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VALA2016 Session 12 Atkinson

Transforming Learning Resources: improving accessibility and engagement for students and teaching staff

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Reading Lists
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 13:45 – 14:15
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Loretta Atkinson and Natalie Hull

University of Queensland

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The University of Queensland Library maintains a centralised Learning Resources Service in support of teaching and learning within the University. This paper discusses the recent implementation of a learning resources application, Talis Aspire. The drivers for moving to a new application were to ensure student engagement with learning resources is enhanced, teaching staff are integrated with ownership of reading lists, and the potential for increased staff efficiency is supported by real performance data.

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VALA2016 Session 12 Fletcher

A global and institutional resource-list repository: a treasure trove for deriving new insights and providing innovative services

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: Reading Lists
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:20 – 14:50
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Tamar Sadeh

Ex Libris, Israel

Janet Fletcher

UNSW Australia, NSW

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Abstract

Used for teaching a course, a resource list represents a persistent yet dynamic corpus of materials focused on a particular topic. Today, creating, maintaining, and monitoring resource lists; providing materials for them; and accessing their contents usually require multiple, non-integrated workflows and prevent the lists from realising their potential. Resource-list solutions, such as the one described here (Ex Libris Leganto), facilitate list creation through cross-system workflows involving the library. With an easy-to-use interface and new types of services, such solutions are expected to increase academics’ and students’ engagement and maximise the lists’ contribution to teaching and learning.

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VALA2016 Plenary 4 Ford

Kevin Ford

There’s An Ambiguous Road Sign that Reads ‘bibframe’ and a Fork in the Road. Do You Take It?

VALA2016 PLENARY SESSION 4
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 16:20 – 17:30
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ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9066-2408

Kevin Ford

AVPreserve

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Abstract

The Bibframe ontology contains minimally 3 forks, independent projects begun with a copy of an existing project and no assumption that changes in the new fork can be merged with its root. What produced this fragmentation? Are differences reconcilable? If so, by what means? If not, what are the alternatives? Is Bibframe’s stricture to produce a single RDF model causing more problems than it solves? This talk will explore these questions, discussing how this fragmented reality emerged when the primary – if not singular – objective is to create a data model and format the library community could embrace with the same fidelity MARC has enjoyed for nearly 50 years.

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VALA2016 Plenary 5 Proctor

Nancy Proctor

The Museum as Start-up

VALA2016 PLENARY SESSION 5
Thursday 11 February 2016, 9:00 – 10:15
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Nancy Proctor

Baltimore Museum of Art

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Abstract

The museum business model is broken: overly dependent on the largess of a dying breed of philanthropists and unable to demonstrate impact and social value to younger, civic-minded audiences, museums risk sinking into irrelevance as well as bankruptcy. With unique constraints that would daunt the most bullish of investors, museums cannot be run like typical consumer-serving businesses. But in this discussion of the future and sustainability of the museum model, Nancy Proctor will ask how museums might reboot in the “era of the citizen” as “lean start-ups”: agile, iterative, and entrepreneurial in nature.

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VALA2016 Session 13 Ross

Kerry Ross

Susan Jones

UOW History Archives Portal: collaboration between the University of Wollongong Library and the History Program to deliver innovative access to digital archives

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Digitisation Adventures
Thursday 11 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
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Kerry Ross, Glenn Mitchell, Fiona Macdonald and Susan Jones

University of Wollongong, NSW

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Abstract

There are clear indications that online access to digital archival material is transforming historical scholarship. To date, the role of libraries and archives is primarily in the production and dissemination of this resource. Closer collaboration between historians and the creators and administrators of digital archives is an emerging area of interest for those seeking to contribute to future developments in methodologies around the use of digital archives in teaching and research. The case study in this paper reports on a work-in-progress collaboration to enhance the discovery of digital archival materials in teaching and research at the University of Wollongong.

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VALA2016 Session 13 Kearney

Nicole Kearney

In the words of our field naturalists: an adventure in digitisation and transcription

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Digitisation Adventures
Thursday 11 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
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Nicole Kearney and Elycia Wallis

Museum Victoria

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Abstract

Historic field diaries chronicle the expeditions undertaken over time to explore and discover the natural history of the world. They provide invaluable insights into past species distribution and abundance, as well as the trials and wonders experienced on historic expeditions. However, despite the wealth of information they contain, field diaries are a hugely underutilised resource. This paper will discuss why this is the case and how, with the help of crowd-sourced volunteers, the field diaries in Museum Victoria’s collection are being made more accessible. Cataloguing, digitisation and transcription procedures are detailed, together with how this content is being put online.

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VALA2016 Session 13 Ruge

Courtney Ruge

Digital Dilemmas: a participatory investigation into developing a digital strategy for a community archive

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Digitisation Adventures
Thursday 11 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-13-ruge

Courtney Ruge, Steve Wright, Joanne Evans

Monash University, Vic

Graham Willett

University of Melbourne, Vic

Gary Jaynes

Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Vic

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This paper reports on the progress of a collaborative project between Monash University and the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, which aims to provide public access to the Archives’ digital collections through the development an online exhibition and an exploration of the possibilities for building an online catalogue using open-source software. The paper explores the challenges involved in attempting to undertake effective consultation and collaboration between researchers and community archives in a community informatics project of this nature, the challenges for community archives in resourcing complex digital projects, and the issues associated with developing a digital strategy for a community archives from multiple stakeholder perspectives.

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VALA2016 Session 14 Manuell

Romney Adams

Romany Manuell

You say you want a revolution: librarians as educational designers

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: IT Outside the Box
Thursday 11 February 2016, 10:50 – 11:20
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Romany Manuell and Romney Adams

Monash University, Vic

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Abstract

Academic librarians’ educative role has evolved due to changing technological and pedagogical trends, and involvement in educational design can be seen as the latest iteration of this evolution. This paper presents the findings of a single-workplace study exploring the ways in which Monash University librarians have engaged in elements of educational design: the creation of eLearning objects, design of curriculum and assessment, and collaboration with pedagogical experts. In order to situate the survey amongst changing trends, the role of the educational designer and academic librarian in the educative space is investigated through academic literature. Engagement with educational design is then discussed through presentation of survey findings.

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VALA2016 Session 14 Newton

Michelle Riggs

Kristy Newton

Everybody’s talking but who’s listening? Hearing the user’s voice above the noise, with content strategy and design thinking

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Design
Thursday 11 February 2016, 11:25 – 11:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-14-newton

Kristy Newton and Michelle Riggs

University of Wollongong Library, NSW

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Abstract

Targeted, consistent content encourages library users to engage with our services and resources. As the user experience, particularly offshore, is largely defined by interactions with our virtual services, it is more important than ever to listen to the user and craft content that forms part of an ongoing conversation. This paper shares the University of Wollongong Library’s experience of developing a content strategy and using personas with design thinking to firmly place user experience at the heart of content and service delivery.

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