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    Today & tomorrow: A brief history (& future) of library systems in the 2020’s
    (2019-09-12) Koivisto, Joseph
    From their inception in the 1970s to today, the library system market has gone from one marked by variety to one of narrowed options. From today’s perspective, library system history serves as a conceptual foundational and an instructive guide. This paper will provide a brief history of library systems, noting the recent history of market consolidation. I will also discuss the state of the library system market and the implications of current offerings. Lastly, I will consider the possible benefits and risks of open source initiatives, presenting a brief overview of the theoretical and labor implications of open source approaches.
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    Library systems: SaaS or Open Source?
    (2019-10-02) Koivisto, Joseph
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    What if you could save the data?: Endangered Data Week & how libraries can protect public data
    (2019-05-02) Koivisto, Joseph
    Endangered data and information is not a new problem, but the sheer volume of data in the era of digitally-generated and -mediated data has accelerated the problem. Technology churn, political turnover, lack of preservation resources, and simple neglect have put huge amounts of federal, state and local data at risk for disappearing entirely Mr Joseph Koivisto will provide an overview of the Endangered Data Week initiative and show us what libraries can do to facilitate the preservation of public data for future generations of students, scientists, and researchers.
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    Endangered Data Week: How University Libraries Can Get Involved
    (2018-07-26) Koivisto, Joseph
    Endangered Data Week is a national initiative started to raise awareness of threats to public research data from institutes such as NASA, NOAA, and more. But how can you get your campus involved? In this session, you’ll learn about Endangered Data Week topics and brainstorm ideas for how you can participate in 2019.
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    Peer to peer: Using a discussion group to introduce staff and faculty to emerging technologies
    (2018-05-03) Koivisto, Joseph; Durden, David
    Awareness of new and emerging technologies is vital to the continuing education of library staff and faculty in settings ranging from public libraries to national research libraries. However, the complex nature of new technologies and limitations of prior tech literacy can prove to be a stumbling block for even highly motivated library workers. While the challenges of investigating new technologies may seem insurmountable, the implementation of group-oriented knowledge sharing methodologies can greatly reduce barriers to learning while also creating a constructivist setting in which library workers can learn together. At the University of Maryland Libraries, a staff- and faculty-led discussion group has taken on this challenge by administering monthly sessions where staff, faculty, and students are welcome to join conversations about new and emerging trends in technologies and libraries. By hosting staff specialists and volunteer speakers, sessions present difficult technology topics in a comfortable, open format. Furthermore, tool demonstrations allow attendees to discovery new applications and platforms that may have meaningful impacts on their day-to-day work. This poster presents a brief history of the Emerging Technologies Discussion Group, highlighting the variety of topics presented over the seven years of its existence. Additionally, this poster presents the benefits of such a low-stress, low-barrier group format. Lastly, the poster provides useful tips for those interested in starting a similar group, including topics such as important administrative considerations and suggested formats for discussion- and tool-oriented events.
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    MDSOAR: Collaborative, centralized infrastructure for open access scholarship in Maryland
    (Maryland Library Association, 2017-05-11) Koivisto, Joseph; Klose Hrubes, Annamarie; Breneman, Kyle
    Our poster will inform attendees about the Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (MD-SOAR), a shared digital repository platform for participating colleges and universities in Maryland. MD-SOAR, newly emerged from its pilot phase, is now accepting new institutions. Any college or university in Maryland can join MD-SOAR and enjoy the benefits of having access to a fully-fledged institutional repository, as well as maintenance and development, at a fraction of the normal cost. MD-SOAR currently is funded entirely by the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Library Consortium (usmai.org) but also includes other collaborating partner institutions. MD-SOAR is jointly governed by all participating libraries, who have agreed to share policies and practices that are necessary and appropriate for the shared platform. After evaluating various vendors and platforms, the MD-SOAR governance group selected DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/) as their platform with University of Maryland, College Park’s Digital Systems and Stewardship Division (DSS), as their vendor. DSS already had experience managing a successful DSpace repository, DRUM (Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, http://drum.lib.umd.edu/). The MD-SOAR governance group and DSS collaborate on specific customizations, e.g. submission forms and metadata, for MD-SOAR. Customizations and other application updates are tested on an instance of MD-SOAR on a development server before they are installed in MD-SOAR. In addition to providing a general overview of the governance group’s process for the establishment and ongoing support of the MD-SOAR platform, this poster will illustrate the metadata framework developed to support a wide variety of file types across a distributed consortial user base. Furthermore, the poster will cover ongoing development efforts that will support continued platform usability and sustainability. Lastly, this poster will illustrate MD-SOAR’s partnership in research initiatives at external institutions, underscoring the platform’s importance not only as an innovative repository approach but also as a testing ground for experimental analytics methodologies. The presenters will serve as MD-SOAR representatives and will have information on hand for institutions that may be interested in joining the MD-SOAR community.
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    A Tale of Two Repositories: How Data Sources Affect Data Narratives
    (2017-10-12) Durden, David; Koivisto, Joseph
    Institutional, archival, and cultural heritage collections often rely upon quantitative measures to defend their continued existence and value. For digital repositories, interpreting and collecting user interaction data is a complex process that involves using third-party tools (such as Google Analytics) and local indices to collect and report use statistics. Data from one source, however, does not often corroborate data from another. These discrepancies are presented graphically to demonstrate the often unreliable relationships between sources and narratives.
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    Crowdsourcing as a Means of Authority Assessment and Enhancement for Cultural Heritage Description
    (2017-10-27) Koivisto, Joseph
    As the rise of crowdsourcing represents a shift away from the conventional hallmarks of knowledge work – individual researchers asserting critical and interpretive authority over artifacts, corpora, and data sets – a question looms over one of the most jealously guarded domains of information description and classification: what is possible when crowdsourcing – a decentralized, constructivist research methodology – is brought to bear on cultural heritage authority records such as subject headings, controlled vocabularies, and thesauri? As an ancillary project of the larger Project Andvari initiative, an NEH-funded project to establish an aggregation portal for art and archives of the early medieval pre-Christian northern European periphery, the project team developed a crowdsourcing approach to both assess the value of and identify additional concepts for a linked open data iconographic thesaurus to be implemented for the future web-based platform. Through active collaboration with the British Museum, a crowdsourcing application was developed using the open-sourced PYBOSSA application as part of the larger MicroPasts initiative.
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    Seeking out initiatives and partnerships for digital instruction and engagement as a systems librarian
    (2017-10-25) Koivisto, Joseph
    Despite having a wide array of technical and critical skills, systems librarians may find they have few outlets for outreach and engagement. Finding partnerships and initiatives that include systems librarian voices can create richer discussions and foster innovative collaboration within and without the university library.