Category Archives: Wednesday Spark

Dublin Core Webinar – Wed 8th – How to make dynamic Data citable

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This Wednesday, ASIS&T is presenting another DCMI webinar about a concern for many of us trying to keep up with data sets that change over time.

dcmilogoDCMI Webinar:  Approaches to Making Dynamic Data Citable:

Recommendations of the RDA Working Group

Do you ever work with data sets that you modify or add to during your project?  How about trying to track down the original data set for your research?   (No?  Well, it is just cool to come out of your 415 class and start joining the Dublin Core community)

This webinar might be the one for you!

  • Discuss ways to support automated handling
  • Data sets being corrected or modified over time
  • Review some solutions from the working group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) on Data Citation

 Wed April 8th

Tech Lab Classroom (P-213)

Webinar from 10:00-11:00am 

After the webinar, we will provide a link here for future viewing if you can not make it.

Wednesday Spark: Indianapolis Museum of Art

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One of my favorite examples from yesterday’s tutorial is the Dashboard from the Indianapolis Museum of Art.? What a fantastic way to demonstrate value to insiders and outsiders alike.

dash

I’m unclear on their methods for generating the Dashboard – the page source seems to suggest that values are hard-coded into each widget (and presumably updated by hand).

Does anyone know more about the technical details of this project or others like it?

Wednesday Spark: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The BHL lovefest continues during Open Access Week with this cool little tool:

Since the public launch of BHL in Feb 2008, the BHL Technical development team has received repeated requests for an interface that would allow users to download a PDF for an individual article within one of the digitized books in BHL.

Watch a video of the PDF creator in action.

Perhaps you can think of a digital collection where PDF creation would be useful?

Wednesday Spark: Franklin Park Public Library

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The Franklin Park Public Library in Illinois was featured in Library Journal last year for its use of Google Maps.

I particularly like the local history map, but check out the library’s other maps also.

This simple tool helped the library provide users with a visual tour of local history, highlight images from their special collection, and inspire users to interact with the library website via comments.