Digital libraries have a long history of supporting electronic text projects usually following the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. For those of us grappling with either legacy encoded texts, ongoing encoding projects or more likely a combination of both, we are always attempting to improve our e-text workflow in ways that cultivate, promote and support all levels of encoded texts from mass digitization initiatives to scholarly encoding. As part of this presentation, we will: review a range of encoding projects supported by the Digital Library Program; discuss the tension between “out of box” and “boutique” e-text projects; and explore strategies and frameworks that will help us define a streamlined e-text service model capable of supporting the myriad of textual markup use cases and levels of encoding that we commonly encounter in libraries. Three recent e-text projects will showcase new approaches we have taken to address these issues: Victorian Women Writers Project, The Brevier Legislative Reports, and Indiana Authors and Their Books. This is a work in progress, but we are in search for that balanced model in which we are able to accommodate production-level and research projects equally well, not at the expense of the other, and with an eye toward modular, reusable development and deployment of e-text projects. To that end, we are interested in ideas you may have, so please join us.

The Indiana University Libraries, in partnership with Northwestern University Library, recently received a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create an open source software system for academic libraries and archives to easily provide online access to video and audio collections . This project builds on IU’s success in developing the open source Variations digital music library system and on Northwestern’s long history of expertise in video digitization and delivery. The speakers will describe the project objectives and organization, explaining how the project ties in with such strategic IU initiatives as Empowering People, the IU Bloomington Media Preservation Initiative, and the Libraries' own strategic directions work. The expected product architecture will also be described, including how other open source community projects such as Fedora, Hydra, and Opencast Matterhorn are involved. Finally, some requirements for the system gleaned from user research will be described.

In December of 2011, the Digital Library Program launched Image Collections Online, a service to support the creation and online publication of image collections. Formerly known as the Photos Service, Image Collections Online provides support to collection managers in creating digital collections of images, and a website for displaying and searching those collections. Direction for the development of the services is provided by the Image Collections Online Working Group, which consists of collection managers, as well as staff from the IU Libraries Technical Services Department and the Digital Library Program.

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/images

Image Collections Online currently includes historical photographs from the IU Liberian Collections, images of cultural objects and images from the Lilly Library at IU Bloomington, and photos of items from the Sage Collection in the Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design. As the site grows we will be adding new collections from throughout the Indiana University community and integrating a number of existing IU online image collections into the site.

This brown bag will outline the workflow for creating new collections and will demonstrate both the cataloging interface (Photocat) and the public website. If you are interested in developing an image collection, please come and learn about this exciting service being offered by the IU Digital Library Program.

Abstract forthcoming.

The Victorian Women Writers Project began in 1995 at Indiana University under the editorial leadership of Perry Willett and was celebrated early on for exposing lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The VWWP’s original focus on poetry was meant to complement The English Poetry Full-Text Database, but soon Willett acknowledged the variety of genres in which women of that period were writing – novels, children’s books, political pamphlets, religious tracts. The collection expanded to include genres beyond poetry, and continued active development from 1995 until roughly 2000 at which point the corpus reached approximately two hundred texts. These nearly two hundred texts comprise only a small fraction of Victorian women’s writing. Encouraged by renewed interest among Indiana University’s English faculty and graduate students, the Indiana University Libraries and the English Department are exploring ways to reinvigorate the project, and in turn, cultivate a sensibility in digital humanities methodologies and theories.

Through our newly offered graduate English course (L501, Digital Humanities Practicum), an eager and curious group of students learned not only encoding skills but also began to develop the collaborative practices pervasive in the digital humanities. As part of our talk, we plan to explore whether cultivating “markup skills” are sufficient enough in establishing a digital humanities curriculum (Rockwell) and whether “majoring in English” today means the curriculum should include awareness of the possibilities that arise for new scholarship when technology is applied to literary studies (Lanham). Certainly Indiana University is not breaking new ground or alone in this endeavor, but the literature is scarce is terms of understanding successes of graduate level digital humanities curricula situated in an English or any other humanities department. As Diane Zorich reports in her recent review of digital humanities centers, “A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States,” archives such as the Willa Cather and Walt Whitman Archives are precisely leveraged for teaching and learning, and this reporting is promising for the Victorian Women Writers Project as a project reconceived to meet both teaching and research needs in a classroom setting (19).

As a result of the Digital Humanities Practicum, VWWP has catapulted from a standard, mid-level encoding to a scholarly encoding project. Our talk will briefly introduce the Victorian Women Writers Project, explore curriculum-building strategies; and propose ways in which faculty and students can reliably and perpetually contribute to the VWWP.

The IUScholarWorks Journal Service is an open access publishing option for IU scholars who desire local control over their journals. Editors from four IUScholarWorks journals will discuss their experiences working with IUScholarWorks to host their publications focusing on:

• Editorial workflow support
• Software training
• Design customization
• Technical processes
• Peer Review processes
• Migrating backfile content
• Publishing formats: pdf, xml, html, flash
• Copyright consultation

The editors will comment on how the software program, Open Journal Systems, support their needs as publishers, and share their view on the open access business model. They will also provide feedback from their authors and readers.

Jennifer Laherty, Head of IUScholarWorks and Jim Halliday, Digital Library Programmer for IUScholarWorks will give a brief update of services and the software upgrade completed in late 2011.

IUScholarWorks is supported by the IU Libraries and the IU Digital Library Program, a collaborative effort of the IU Libraries and University Information Technology Services.

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The HTRC will provision a secure computational and data environment for scholars to perform research using the HathiTrust Digital Library. The center will break new ground in the areas of text mining and non-consumptive research, allowing scholars to fully utilize content of the HathiTrust Library while preventing intellectual property misuse within the confines of current U.S. copyright law. An overview of the HathiTrust Research Center, the research potential of the center and the technical infrastructure will be discussed.

Indiana Authors and Their Books (Indiana Authors) is an LSTA-funded project based on the digitization and encoding of the 3-volume reference work Indiana Authors and Their Books, which initially intended to showcase approximately 150 monographs by selected authors from Indiana’s Golden Age of Literature (1880-1920). Since its original conception, the project grew in scope as a test-bed for "productionizing" e-text workflows in partnership with the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Technical Services department. Another 200 texts in the public domain, and, at the time not yet digitized as part of the Google Books initiative, were selected for electronic conversion. Although the encyclopedic 3-volume reference work is at the center of this project, the online Indiana Authors resource was launched in phases, with an initial focus on the encoded monographs. In late Spring 2012, the encyclopedia component will be fully integrated thereby completing the project. Please join us so we can share tales surrounding the journey and evolution of the Indiana Authors project. We will share tales of fright, from vendor atrocities performed to the encoded texts to the project’s graceful degradation; tales of intrigue concerning workflows; tales of experimentation and success by partnering with IU Technical Services; and finally, tales of joy, the unveiling of the Indiana Authors and Their Books web site.

As libraries face diminishing resources and increased pressure to provide innovative services, librarians are looking to partnerships that cross departmental and institutional boundaries to bring together the necessary expertise to complete unique, finite projects. Flexibility mixed with creativity on the part of administrators, supervisors and staff in these cooperative efforts is fundamental in making the most of new ideas and new approaches. The online exhibition and discovery portal created for the Lilly Library’s War of 1812 related collections are the result of such a collaborative effort, one that brought together expertise from the Lilly Library and outside specialists in metadata description and digitization. This presentation will discuss the results of this project and share relevant issues that will help others who are contemplating such partnerships.