Archive for 2016
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Encouraging Use and Reuse of your Collections with RightsStatements.org: Interoperable Standardized Rights Statements for Cultural Heritage
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Data Modeling 101: What, How, and Why It's More than PCDM
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How to Attach Original Metadata to Every Photo, Meme and GIF on the Internet
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A Push-to-Talk Conference Call Foot Pedal
My current position at DPLA, especially since we are remote-first organization, requires me to be on lots of conference calls, both video and audio. While I’ve learned the value of staying muted while I’m not talking, there are a couple of things that make this challenging. First, I usually need the window for the call to have focus to unmute myself by the platform’s designated keystroke. Forget that working well if you need to bring something up in another window, or switch to another application. Secondly, while we have our own preferred platform internally (Google Hangouts), I have to use countless others, too; each of those platforms has its own separate keystroke to mute.
This all leads to a less than ideal situation, and naturally, I figured there must be a better way.
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How We Work: The DPLA Technology Team Core Values
One of the most important aspects of the work of the DPLA Technology Team is ensuring that we maintain a common frame of reference for all of our efforts. This is situated in multiple aspects - in terms of our shared technical knowledge, the overall DPLA strategic plan, and more. Overall, however, the guiding principles for our work are best understood through the core values that inform how we work together within our team, as well as with our colleagues at DPLA and across the network of our stakeholders and collaborators. These values are not only designed to be aspirational; instead, they also inform practical aspects of our day to day work, allowing us to work together effectively through their articulation of cultural norms and expectations. In addition, our values encourage us to be intentional about our work, even when faced with challenges from deadlines, staff capacity, and other external pressures.
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Introduction to the Digital Public Library of America API
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Open, Free, and Secure to All: DPLA Launches Full Support for HTTPS
DPLA is pleased to announce that the entirety of our website, including our portal, exhibitions, Primary Source Sets, and our API, are now accessible using HTTPS by default. DPLA takes user privacy seriously, and the infrastructural changes that we have made to support HTTPS allows us to extend this dedication further and become signatories of the Library Digital Privacy Pledge of 2015-2016, developed by our colleagues at the Library Freedom Project.
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Descriptive Metadata Alignment and Interoperability in IIIF
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DPLA and the International Image Interoperability Framework
DPLA, along with representatives of a number of institutions including Stanford University, the Yale Center for British Art, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and more, is presenting at Access to the World’s Images, a series of events related to the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) in New York City, hosted by the Museum of Modern Art and the New York Academy of Medicine. The events will showcase how institutions are leveraging IIIF to reduce total cost and time to deploy image delivery solutions, while simultaneously improving end user experience with a new host of rich and dynamic features, and promote collaboration within the IIIF community through facilitated conversations and working group meetings.
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IIIF: Archival Use Cases
Anna Naruta-Moya and I prepared presentations on using IIIF to provide access to archival material; my presentation focused on generalities, while her presentation focused on the Indigenous Digital Archive project.
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Everything You Wanted To Know about IIIF But Were Afraid to Ask
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Hydra in a Box: Building a Next-Generation Platform for Digital Collections
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Ever to Excel: Towards an Apologetics of the Spreadsheet
This is the written version of my presentation from Code4lib 2016 in Philadelphia, on March 8, 2016. My presentation was part of a panel with my friends Christina Harlow, Ted Lawless, and Matt Zumwalt, after which we had some discussion moderated by Matt Miller. My slides are available, as are the video of all talks from the panel.
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Ever to Excel: Towards an Apologetics of the Spreadsheet
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My Jekyll todo list
A running list of things I want to do or have done. A lot of this relates to adopting the IndieWeb ethos
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IndieWebCamp NYC 2016
I’m at IndieWebCamp NYC and I just added some microformats data to my site. Hurrah! Edit: And I’ve successfully sent a Webmention by hand from the command line. Time to add that to the Jekyll build process…