SSDN News October 2023

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Issue 38 | October 2023 Facebook Instagram Website YouTube SSDN News A newsletter of the Sunshine State Digital Network Welcome to the bi-monthly newsletter of the Sunshine State Digital Network (SSDN), the Florida Service Hub of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). As the Sunshine State's service hub, we provide partner metadata to the DPLA. The DPLA is a portal of over 40 million digital cultural heritage items from thousands of organizations around the country. In This Issue: Archival Terminology of the Month Hidden Gems Training Opportunities Metadata Minute Copyright Corner Teacher's Corner: Featured Primary Source Set DPLA News Getting Started as an SSDN Contributor Back to Top Archival Terminology of the Month Harvest v. ~  to gather metadata from multiple places or archives and store it in a central database The Sunshine State Digital Network harvests metadata from member collections and sends it to the Digital Public Library of America to enhance access to the materials. To learn more about how SSDN harvests metadata, see, The Metadata Lifecycle: From Your Repository to DPLA. Source: The UCF Research Guide to Metadata Harvesting. Back to Top Hidden Gems Highlights from our DPLA partners Osceola at Lake Monroe   Chief Osceola was a Seminole war chief who led a small group of warriors in the Seminole resistance to the government takeover of Seminole land in Florida.  This month’s hidden gem is a sketch of chief Osceola at Lake Monroe during the Armistice in May 1837. Later that year  the chief was captured and imprisoned in Saint Augustine. The sketch was drawn by John Rogers Vinton in 1845, and is now included in the Mark F. Boyd Collection in the University of Miami Library Special Collections.  Additional sketches, photos, lithographs, pamphlets, etc. which document the history of Seminoles in Florida are available for viewing on the SSDN portal. Explore this and other historic photos, maps, artifacts, oral histories and more from SSDN's contributors at Sunshine State Digital Network (dp.la). Back to Top Training Opportunities A roundup of digital library related training from Florida and beyond. An Introduction to Digital Humanities Project Management Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 2:00pm ET https://libcal.uflib.ufl.edu/calendar/workshops/digital-project-management Successfully managing a digital project requires effective planning. By understanding the fundamentals of project management, you will be better prepared to position a project for success. This interactive workshop will introduce you to project management basics that can help in planning your project by providing information on: Creating a project charter Identifying stakeholders Analyzing risks Developing schedules Communication methods Tools and resources available Pre-requisites: If possible, bring a project/idea for a project with you. Presenter Bio: Melissa Jerome is the Latin American & Caribbean Collection Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Florida. In this role, she provides leadership in planning, developing, and managing digital and post-colonial collections. Privacy: This workshop will not be recorded. Questions? Email Melissa Jerome, mmes...@ufl.edu 10 Ways AI Will Change Archives Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 9:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM CDT, and 12:00 PM EDT. https://content.fromthepage.com/oct-2023-webinar/  Are you an archivist wondering how AI will influence your work? This webinar will cover the following: The various methods in which AI will enhance the accessibility of your texts The utilization of AI in describing and suggesting items The increased demand for improved and more intricate search capabilities due to enhanced accessibility and detailed descriptions Novel ways to engage with archival collections, including conversational search bots and simplified analysis of historical datasets This is a repeat of a talk Ben and Sara did for the University of Maryland's Institute for Archival Futures. Signing up will send you an invitation with the details and a follow up with the recording. Webinar: Archives 101: Demystifying Archival and Manuscript Collections Thursday, November 09, 2023, 2-3:30pm ET https://fsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqcu2qrDMjEtSRhu68CeAXT4Ofyxq-lJQz Preparing archival materials for use is the second task people caring for special collections in a library should do. The first is accessioning the collection. But how does one process an archival collection? Is there a difference between processing papers, photographs, and born digital materials? In this 90-minute webinar, three Florida-based archivists will share the beginning steps in the procedures of preserving documents and photographs and then organizing materials with respect to their provenance and original order, to protect their context and to achieve physical or intellectual control over the materials. We encourage attendees to bring their questions about their own collections for the Q&A portion of the webinar. Analyzing Transcribed Archival Data from Virginia Untold Using ChatGPT Code Interpreter Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 12:00 PM EST, 11:00 AM CST, and 9:00 AM PST https://content.fromthepage.com/nov-2023-webinar/  Code Interpreter is a feature of ChatGPT that lets you load data files and analyze the data. In this webinar, we’re going to use data from the Library of Virginia’s Virginia Untold project and see how easy – or hard! – it is to analyze that data without a data science background. You’ll learn what the ChatGPT Code Interpreter is, how to load data into it, and the sorts of questions you can ask. Signing up will send you an invitation with the details and a follow up with the recording. Recorded Trainings Toward Principles of Anti-Oppressive Community Engagement It can be challenging to know where to start when it comes to community engagement in archives and digital libraries. Join us for a 2-hour webinar to introduce attendees to ethical community engagement frameworks. Learn how to develop and navigate relationships with your community that are reciprocal and transformational in our practice as information and cultural memory professionals. The session will include facilitated breakout rooms where participants will discuss envisioning and incorporating ethical engagement in your contexts. https://youtu.be/7X_SqlO2Gb4 View SSDN's full catalog of recorded training sessions on our YouTube channel. Back to Top Metadata Minute Creating a Local Field Dictionary When FSU Libraries started our preparations for working with the John G. Riley House and Museum on a IMLS-funded digitization grant, we asked Museum staff for a set of controlled vocabulary or search terms they wanted used with the digital objects. The list they provided included names of people and places, formats of materials, and topical headings. We mapped their local terms where possible to Library of Congress (LOC) authorized headings. We wanted to use authorized headings as much as possible to make the project's metadata standardized. However, there remained a lot of local headings that had no LOC equivalent. We wanted to be sure interns on the project were consistent in the use of local headings throughout the length of the project, especially as we anticipated turnover among our interns over the three years of this project. Our "field dictionary" has kept the metadata consistent over the three year grant. We store the file in Google Drive so it's easily accessible to the entire project team at all times and provide a tab in the workbook for interns to ask questions and recommend new headings as they work through different collections. It’s been a simple solution to make sure all interns are on the same page when it comes to subject headings in their metadata. Back to Top Copyright Corner The U.S. Copyright office has been exploring copyright concerns raised by AI since early 2023 with public listening sessions and webinars examining the impact of this technology on copyright law. These sessions covered AI, international copyright and AI, literary works, sound recordings, and visual arts. Past event recordings are available here: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ The Copyright Office recently extended their period of comment until October 30th, 2023, and replies to these comments will be due November 29th. You can use this link to leave your comments about AI and copyright: https://www.copyright.gov/policy/artificial-intelligence/ Back to Top Teachers’ Corner Featured Primary Source Set of the Month  Space Race Cold War (1945-1991) politics was not restricted only to the earthly quest for dominance but to that ‘final frontier’: space. On October 4, 1957, the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik-1, the world's first artificial satellite. This momentous event pushed the former U.S.S.R.’s rival superpower, the United States, into a so-called Space Race with the first landing of a 1969-manned Apollo 11 mission under astronaut Neil Armstrong.   In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated October 4 to 10 World Space Week to commemorate that 1957-Sputnik-1 launch and the October 10 signing, a decade later, of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.   This year’s theme—“Space and Entrepreneurship”—recognizes the growing significance of space as a commercial frontier for entrepreneurs seeking limitless opportunities for adventure and discoveries.   In observance of World Space Week and as part of highlighting the achievements both former superpowers have made—competitively and cooperatively—in space exploration and research, this column highlights the DPLA Source Set, Space Race.  The collection of 15 items focuses on the Space Race during the mid-1950s and 1960s and examines the impact of the Space Race today. The selected documents, clips, and images raise questions about who “won” the race and shed light on the paradox of the Space Race—a period of tremendous scientific advancement that also yielded destructive technology and weapons. The collection is accompanied by additional resources and a teaching guide.    A 1998 diagram of the International Space Station and the countries involved. Following the Cold War, several national space programs, including NASA and a Russian agency, joined efforts to have a permanently inhabited research facility in space. This image displays each country’s contribution to the International Space Station.  Back to Top From John Bracken on the departure of Shanee' Willis: Shaneé Willis, our director of community engagement, is leaving DPLA. Those of you who work with her know how core she’s been to our work over the last four years. Beyond her role helping to convene and lead the DPLA network, she’s been a resource for many across the field and an important colleague for all of us. I have no doubt that she will continue to contribute much to the field in the future, but we will miss her here. Her last day will be Friday, October 06, 2023.  DPLA partners with the University of Chicago Library to expand The Banned Book Club   Expanding access through content licensing   Culture Heritage and Structured Data: How DPLA became the biggest institution to contribute to Structured Data on Commons   DPLA kicks off Strategic Visioning Process Back to Top Have digital library questions? Want to stay updated? Join our listserv or subscribe to our newsletter. Getting Started as an SSDN Content Contributor Are you interested in sharing your organization's digital collections with the Digital Public Library of America? We have a document that will walk you through the steps and requirements for becoming an SSDN partner. 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