Lightning talks

Each delegate must present a 5 minute lightning talk at the start of Day 1 as an ice-breaker to the Symposium.

This should be on an aspect or element of digital archives. Your lightening talk may relate to a topic proposal but this isn't compulsory.

We will then draw the names out of a hat at random and publish the running-order on the lightning talk timetable page on Thursday 12TH MAY

What's a Lightning Talk?

If you are looking for more information, please consult the following.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk 
• http://perl.plover.com/lt/lightning-talks.html

Lightning talks - topics

Please provide your name, institutional affiliation and title of your lightning talk by FRIDAY 6TH MAY

Erin O'Meara, University of North Carolina
I'll run through a brief demo of the Curator's Workbench, an open source ingest preparation tool we developed here at UNC. It stages material to a server (for us, on an iRODS staging grid), material can then be arranged and described. Text files containing metadata can be bulk crosswalked to digital objects via MODS editor. The GUI is geared towards non-technical users while a complex METS file is being built behind the scenes.

Tom Laudeman, University of Virginia (AIMS software developer)
I'll dash through the process of turning an ingest of files into a SIP via the Rubymatica web site. Being based on Archivematica, Rubymatica unpacks any archive files in the ingest, detox'es file names, checks for viruses, checksums all files, runs FITS for file identification, pulls in an empty DC file (for later use), creates a METS file with the directory structure and FITS XML, and then extracts DROID PRONOM PUIDs. Done. Log files and technical meta data are created and saved as part of the SIP directory tree on the server. Separate steps are available to loosely integrate a Tufts TAPER submission agreement, a donor survey, or to create a Bagit bag.

Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland) 
"Librarians as the Enemies of Bits": Using a title tendentiously drawn from Randolph G. Adam's famous 1937 attack on librarians as the enemies of books I will offer a couple of quick, cautionary examples of how and why the "materiality" of born-digital materials matters, and what sorts of things scholars of the future might be looking for in born-digital collections.

Courtney C. Mumma (City of Vancouver)
"Forming the SIPs": I'll offer a practical overview of what we're currently working on in Vancouver. Our biggest challenge this spring and summer will be turning the assorted Olympic records into SIPs ready for ingest. I'll address the variety of media and formats as well as our plans for taming them.

Mark Matienzo (Yale)
"Gumshoe: A Prototype Accessioning Assessment Tool": I'll run through a quick demonstration of Gumshoe, which is a web application written in Ruby and that uses Solr. Gumshoe indexes file- and filesystem-level metadata from a forensic disk image. I'll be describing it in the context of the accessioning workflow we're trying to flesh out at Yale.

Seth Shaw (Duke)
*Tentative. (I reserve the right to think of something better; comments & suggestions welcome.)* "IT Audit Fun": I will briefly talk about our Library's IT audit including the auditors initial reactions (hint: they weren't expecting Special Collections born-digital electronic records), their report, and our next steps.

Dave Thompson (Wellcome Library)
'Welcome to the dark side' - I'd like to spend my five mins explaining how we got to where we are at the Wellcome Library, the principles on which we work and how we build on existing professional knowledge to leverage the core principles of archival work in a digital context.  We've also worked hard to tie our digital work closely to the buisness drivers of our wider organisation and I'll talk a little about that.. 

Gretchen Gueguen (UVA)
"Presenting the whole fruit basket" -- I'll talk about the issues surrounding presentation of digital resources in the special collections/archives environment (aggregate description) vs. the library environment (item-level description). As an example, I'll look at the work we've been doing at East Carolina University, where we have experimented with providing digital resources both in a digital library and EAD environment, and mixing item-level objects (apples) and folder-level objects (oranges) in the same fruit basket. It's a delightful and fruity mess! :)

Simon Wilson (Hull)
"The Good, the bad and the Ugly: negotiating the deposit of born-digital archives" - I won't be re-enacting scenes from the movie but I will be looking at some of our experiences to date in dealing with depositors regarding born-digital archives and what we have learnt in the process.

Peter Chan (Stanford)

I would like to share 10 things I have been exploring in the past 16 months for the AIMS project: donor survey; high resolution site photos; 5.25 inch floppy capture station; computer media photo station; forensic / logical capture; forensic software for arrangement & description; email mining on Creeley's emails; network graph on Creeley's emails; virtual machine for InDesign files; virtual machine for Windows XP.

Gabriela Redwine (Texas, Ransom Center)

I'd like to use my recent struggles with a group of 5.25-inch Apple ][ Plus disks to frame a larger (and very brief) discussion about process and failure. What aspects of methodology and procedure do our skirmishes with different types of media call into question?

Alison Hinderliter (The Newberry Library)

"Can't we just print it out?" and other FAQs. With hesitation and resistance (aka fear and loathing) coming from my potential donors as well as my library colleagues, I'll share some good answers and analogies for justifying the curation of digital materials in the first place.  This will be my lengthened "elevator talk," with some visual accompaniments that I normally can't bring into the elevator with me.