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Approaches to Digital Scholarship workshops (http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/mpage/mla_2016_abs_3_2BC) were held on March 5, 2016 at MLA 2016.
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Web Archiving Link
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A. Kijas
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3/13/2016
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Kent Underwood (New York University) provided an overview of web archiving as a resource for music librarians. He then provided an inside look at the some of the principal tools of the trade, including the Wayback Machine (the Internet Archive’s digital repository), Archive-It (the Internet Archive’s web archiving application, which librarians can use to curate their own collections of websites), and citation archiving applications such as WebCite and SavePageNow (which anyone can use to save web references and avoid the dreaded “link rot.”)
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Text Mining for Music Research Link
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3/12/2016
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Janelle Varin (The New School) Supporting the often-contested notion that empirical methodologies are applicable and relevant to arts-related research, this workshop explored the question: What can you actually glean from computer-generated lists of the most frequent words in a corpus? Analyzing word frequency of authors, genres, periods, texts, or groups of texts can reveal how concepts and their expression evolve over time, and the degree to which gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, and age of authors may be reflected in the language of their texts. (YouTube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S46agi2hMMI).
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Approaches to Visualizing Data with Spatial and Te Link
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A. Kijas
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3/24/2016
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Francesca Giannetti (Rutgers U) provided an overview of some common free and/or open source tools, potentially including ViewShare, Timeline.js, CartoDB and Palladio. Participants were introduced to common data formats and types, and how to structure their data in preparation for using a geocoding service and various visualization tools. The workshop provided a hands on experience with analysis techniques like geocoding, data queries and table joins.
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RDA in Many Metadata Formats (RIMMF) and Linked Da Link
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A. Kijas
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4/1/2016
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Kathy Glennan's (University of Maryland) workshop covered RIMMF (RDA in Many Metadata Formats) to create entity records associated with Leonard Bernstein. The records represent works, expressions, manifestations, persons, corporate bodies, etc. that are associated with Bernstein, such as his compositions, performances, lectures, collaborators, and even works about him. The end result is an “r-ball” of linked data, similar to the output of the ALA-sponsored Jane-athons (see http://rballs.info/topics/p/jane/janeathon.html for more details). A handout is also available: http://rballs.info/topics/p/lenny/lennyathon/LennyathonHandout.docx.
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Digital Curation with Omeka Link
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4/1/2016
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Anna Kijas (Boston College) provided an overview of the open-source content management system, Omeka, used by libraries, archives, museums, and scholars to display content and scholarship in a flexible and interactive setting. Discussed how to create and describe items (i.e. photos, text, maps) using the Dublin Core metadata standards, organize items within collections, publish content for the public, as well as pull in metadata from existing collections using a metadata harvester (OAI-PMH). For more information about Omeka, visit http://omeka.net or http://omeka.org. Data set and workshop materials are available on GitHub: https://github.com/annakijas1/Digital-Curation-with-Omeka-Materials.
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Notes from sessions at THATCamp MLA, March 1, 2015: .
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