DLF Forum 2019

Presentations
Session Chair: LeEtta Schmidt (University of South Florida)
Session Chair: Sheila Rabun (LYRASIS)
 
Using our Power for Good: Shedding Light on Local History
Zoe Nissen
University of Southern California, United States of America
 
A report of the work in progress on the USC Digital Library’s L.A. as Subject Community Histories Digitization Project, which aims to make publicly accessible materials held by six community archives that represent less well-known narratives in Southern California history.
 
 
The Linked Data Team: How the University of South Florida is building capacity for linked open data
Jason Boczar, Bonita Pollock
University of South Florida, United States of America
 
Creating linked data is the next step for the University of South Florida. A small linked data team was created to explore the feasibility of linked data in the library, how the technology works, and workflows to accomplish the work. This presentation will talk about the team.
 
 
Diversity Challenges in the Dance Heritage Video Archive
Javier Garibay
University of Southern California, United States of America
 
The presenter will give a general outline on the progress that has been made in the development of the Dance Heritage Video Archive at USC. The presenter will address the challenges faced and the goals planned in order to diversify the collections.
 
 
NLP for genre analysis: Expanding the canon of environmental literature
Erin Wolfe
University of Kansas Libraries, United States of America
 
Reporting on experiences using computational text analysis techniques and tools to examine the ways that African American authors outside of the traditional environmental literary canon reflect alternate ways of relating to the earth and using this information uncover additional, previously unrecognized, writings on the topic.
 
 
Open Parks Network: Partnering for Expanded Access
Josh Morgan(1), Jamie Rogers(2)
1: Clemson University, United States of America; 2: Florida International University, United States of America
 
The OPN has been a digitization and hosting program between the NPS and Clemson University since 2010. Our next goal is to unite NPS collections from other institutions to create a vast network of National Parks material under one cloud. Florida International University will be our first partner institution.