VALA2020 Proceedings

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The 20th Biennial Conference and Exhibition, VALA2020, was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 11 – 13 February 2020.

The following papers were presented at VALA2020. See also the VALA2020 Program.  Peer-reviewed and lnvited Papers will be available to access individually for each session.

The full set of conference proceedings from VALA2020 is available as a single pdf download. This registered publication contains all 40 concurrent sessions and 7 vendor papers, and is a simple, one-click resource for academics, students and the wider VALA network. (Click on the image to the right to view and download.)

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VALA2020 Vendor 3 Heterick

The JSTOR-Portico text and data mining project: the expanding role of non-consumptive research in the humanities and social sciences

VALA2020 VENDOR SESSION 3
Thursday 13 February 2020, 10:50 – 11:20

Bruce Heterick
  • SVP, Open Collections & Infrastructure
  • ITHAKA
Amy Kirchhoff
  • Text and Data Mining Business Manager
  • JSTOR, Portico

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Abstract

Text mining is a rapidly growing field of scholarly research that has the potential to impact scholarly research of text based materials. It is a rapidly growing area of research within the scholarly community. JSTOR and Portico are developing a text mining platform and service that will have tools for the non-text miner, novices, intermediate text miners, and advanced text miners. The service will also have a robust education and community space.

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VALA2020 Vendor 3 Bartsch

Simplicity as the future of libraries: how new technologies will keep libraries at the heart of the researcher journey

VALA2020 VENDOR SESSION 3
Thursday 13 February 2020, 11:25 – 11:55

Kendall Bartsch
  • CEO and Co-Founder
  • Third Iron, LLC

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Abstract

Library system and publisher authentication requirements often act as barriers to research workflow. Researchers are increasingly going around these barriers by seeking content socially, from networked sites such as Twitter and ResearchGate to pirate sites like Sci-Hub. The ramifications of this move toward socially sourced content are considered, along with the emergence of new technologies that aim to streamline and simplify the research process, for users both within and outside the library.

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VALA2020 Vendor 3 Tyree

How to make software projects that actually work

VALA2020 VENDOR SESSION 3
Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:00 – 12:30

Kathryn Tyree
  • Project and Account Manager – Libraries
  • Catalyst IT Limited

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Software projects fail all the time. All. The. Time. We all work with software in some way. We are users, testers, system librarians, content managers, web masters, occasional coders, or possibly suddenly a project manager, running a software evaluation process, and making decisions. In smaller libraries you may be all of the above. This session digs into the many ways technology projects can and do go wrong, and what we can do (or influence other people to do) to make projects actually succeed.

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VALA2020 Session 14 Salisbury

A league of champions: building staff digital dexterity

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 14
Thursday 13 February 2020, 1:45 – 2:15

Fiona Salisbury
  • University Librarian
  • La Trobe University
Heather Jenks
  • Associate Director Library Services
  • Australian National University
Kat Cain
  • Manager, Digital Literacy Programs
  • Deakin University
Karen Miller
  • Coordinator, Learning Success
  • Curtin University
Ashley England
  • Team Leader, Arts & Social Sciences
  • University of Technology Sydney
Jaime Royals
  • Manager, Learning & Teaching Innovation
    The University of Adelaide
Jay Glaisyer
  • Senior Manager, Student & Community Outreach & Engagement
    La Trobe University
Hugh Rundle
  • Manager, Member Services
    CAVAL

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Abstract

As key contributors in the endeavour to build student digital capability, university library staff must be capable and confident in the digital environment. In addressing this need, the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Digital Dexterity program has taken a sector-wide approach to sustain a unique community of practice (CoP). Established as a partnership between CAUL and CAVAL, the CoP includes 52 institutionally nominated Digital Dexterity Champions. This paper outlines how the CAUL Digital Dexterity Capability team has fostered the CoP, encouraging collaboration and the exchange of knowledge, supporting collective learning and grounding digital dexterity in real world practice.

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VALA2020 Session 14 King

Library Carpentry – translating research infrastructure

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 14
Thursday 13 February 2020, 2:20 – 2:50

Sara King
  • eReseach Analyst
  • AARNet
Ingrid Mason
  • formerly Deployment Stategist
  • AARNet
Frankie Stevens
  • Research Engagement Strategist
  • AARNet

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Through collaboration with research support community partners, ustralia’s Academic Research Network provider (AARNet) is contributing to the ‘digital dexterity’ of the university library and wider research sector through creating an ‘infrastructure literacy’ training framework. AARNet aims for this framework to be adopted by the Library Carpentry community and implemented in the spirit of breaking down barriers and building capability in eResearch across all domains.

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VALA2020 Session 14 Tindall

Digital Skills for the future: learning from the eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 14
Thursday 13 February 2020, 2:55 – 3:25

Alexis Tindall
  • Senior Research Data Specialist
  • Australia Research Data Commons
Matthias Liffers
  • Research Software Skills Specialist
  • Australian Research Data Commons

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In July 2019, the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) co-presented an eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit with the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) and Universities Australia, focussed on the development of the digitally skilled workforce essential for research in the 21st century. Stakeholders came together around an interest in developing an Australian research workforce composed of both digitally skilled researchers and research support professionals, to maximise research impact. In this presentation, the ARDC Skilled Workforce team shares some of the key outcomes of the event.

 

 

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VALA2020 Session 15 Barnett

Discovery strategy for digital content at Auckland Libraries

This session is sponsored by Bibliotheca

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 15
Thursday 13 February 2020, 1:45 – 2:15

Timothy Barnett

  • Auckland Libraries

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Auckland Libraries is the largest public library system in Australia and New Zealand, with 55 branches and four regional research centres. The challenge was to merge all the regional archival collections into one unified collection, with a single collection management system, then combine this with all in-house research databases to create a single search across all of the Auckland Libraries heritage and research resources. The result: Kura Heritage Collections Online. This paper is a progress report on how Auckland Libraries has been working towards achieving the goal of putting the Auckland Libraries heritage and research collections “in every pocket” by 2023.

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VALA2020 Session 15 Thomas

Pathways for linked data integrations with the FOLIO library services platform

This session is sponsored by Bibliotheca

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 15
Thursday 13 February 2020, 2:20 – 2:50

Christie Thomas
  • Head, Data Management Services
  • University of Chicago Library

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The University of Chicago Library is currently engaged in a number of small- and large-scale linked data projects. At the same time, the Library is an active member of the FOLIO community, contributing to the development of the open source software and planning for implementation. This paper will introduce the FOLIO project, explore how participation in linked data activities informed FOLIO development, and examine potential pathways to linked data adoption in libraries with FOLIO.

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VALA2020 Session 15 Jefford

A Cadillac, a collection and a community

This session is sponsored by Bibliotheca

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 15
Thursday 13 February 2020, 2:55 – 3:25

Adam Jefford
  • Lead, Exhibitions
  • State Library of Queensland
Chenoa Pettrup
  • Program Officer, Strategic Engagement
  • State Library of Queensland

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The Frank and Eunice Corley House Photographs collection comprises over 60,000 unsold house photographs that were donated to State Library in 1995. Enhancing the usability and user experience of this collection was a project that spanned 23 years. State Library collaborated with the local community early to develop a grassroots approach to identifying basic location data. Later, it worked with artists, researchers and the general public to foster new understandings of the collection. This paper will highlight how digital tools and analogue processes were integral to facilitating these diverse interpretations.

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VALA2020 Session 16 Tyrell

Professional Literacy Suite – leveraging technology to scaffold digital literacy across a business degree

VALA2020 CONCURRENT SESSION 16
Thursday 13 February 2020, 1:45 – 2:15

Simone Tyrell
  • Librarian, Faculty of Business and Law Digital Literacy Programs
  • Deakin University
Leanne Ngo
  • Director, Teaching and Learning Innovations, Faculty of Business and Law
  • Deakin University
Michael Volkov
  • Associate Professor, Department of Marketing
  • Macquarie University
Micaela Spiers
  • Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Law
  • Deakin University
Kerrie Bridson
  • Associate Dean (Quality, Standards & Accreditation), Faculty of Business and Law
  • Deakin University

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The Professional Literacy Suite is a set of three embedded digital literacy modules developed to translate the University’s Graduate Learning Outcome of Digital Literacy and support employability. Created as a key Faculty of Business and Law initiative in collaboration with the Library, they are the first of their kind created at a course-wide level at Deakin University. The modules are interactive and media-rich, visually engaging, centred on strong learning design and scenario-based learning. Leveraging off the unique interactive and adaptive technologies of Tumult Hype and Smart Sparrow, their design enables the use of personalised learning, inbuilt analytics and large-scale implementation.

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