"Dear Researcher, It's Been a Decade: Data Repository Preservation and Retention at a Milestone" Reid Boehm, Nicole Kong Purdue University, United States of America
Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) started preserving research data in 2012 with a ten year retention promise. After 10 years of technical growth and two federal mandates, we reached that limit. One of the first to face this milestone, we share policy review processes in light of extreme change.
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Launching D-CRAFT: the Digital Content Reuse Assessment Toolkit Santi Thompson(1), Ayla Stein Kenfield(2), Elizabeth Joan Kelly(3), Ali Shiri(4), Liz Woolcott(5), Joyce Chapman(6), Derrick Jefferson(7), Myrna E. Morales(8), Nicole Hennig(9), Ranti Junus(10) 1: University of Houston, United States of America; 2: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 3: Louis: The Louisiana Library Network, United States of America; 4: University of Alberta, Canada; 5: Utah State University, United States of America; 6: Duke University, United States of America; 7: American University, United States of America; 8: Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers, United States of America; 9: University of Arizona, United States of America; 10: Michigan State University, United States of America
This talk showcases the launch of the Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit. It highlights toolkit components and identifies ways that practitioners can employ it to understand the impact of the digital assets they steward.
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The Impact of Crowdsourced Transcriptions from the Library of Congress Abigail Shelton, Lauren Algee, Carlyn Osborn Library of Congress, United States of America
Crowdsourcing is a hot topic in digital libraries, but what impact does it actually make? This presentation will address impact of a crowdsourcing volunteer community: on research, institution, and volunteers themselves. Volunteers transcribed 630,000+ pages of Library of Congress collections in five years. What happens when these transcriptions are published?
