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On Teaching XQuery to Digital Humanists
(Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference, 2014)
XQuery provides an excellent means for teaching programming to digital humanists because it works seamlessly with their existing XML data, has an elegant and simple core with a well-structured standard library, and
can ...
Darwin Core as a Vocabulary for Expressing Biodiversity Data as RDF
(IOS Press, 2018-07)
Darwin Core is a glossary of terms intended to facilitate the sharing of biodiversity occurrence data and related information, such as specimen metadata, checklists, determination histories, and taxonomy. It is widely used ...
LOEX 2013 Conference Report: Nashville, TN
(LOEX Quarterly, 2013)
TDWG Vocabulary Maintenance Specification
(Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), 2017-04-25)
This document describes the processes used to modify TDWG vocabularies and their associated documents.
A New Partner in the Process: The Role of a Librarian on a Faculty Research Team
(2016)
Academic librarians have tremendous opportunity to demonstrate their worth to the institutions they serve. One successful approach is for faculty and librarians to collaborate on a research project; however the frequency ...
There is Nothing New Under the Sun?: “New Librarianship” and the Theological Library
(Theological Librarianship, 2015-01-16)
The entirety of R. David Lankes’s model of “New Librarianship” rests on his expression of its mission: “The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities.” The ...
Data Management: Streamlining Your Research and Publication Pipeline
(Edge for Scholars, 2017-09-09)
In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a
memorandum stating that United States’ taxpayers deserved to have access to all publicly
funded research, including the underlying data. ...
There's an App for That: Collaborative Publishing with Overleaf
(Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2018)
How can our users streamline the writing, editing and publishing of their scientific documents? Traditional tools such as Microsoft Word Online or Google Docs have been used for some time now in multidisciplinary collaborative ...
Embedding the Framework: Using Embedded Librarian Techniques to Facilitate Music Information Literacy
(A-R Editions, Inc., 2018)
Embedded librarianship moves librarians beyond the traditional confines of library spaces
and into user spaces. Initial forays into embedded librarianship focused on moving librarians
into their users’ physical spaces ...
Cleaning out the Roach Motel: Transforming the Neglected IR into a Five-Star Scholarship Resort
(2018-06-05)
In 2008, Dorothea Salo published the memorable article, Innkeeper at the Roach Motel, in which she writes that libraries have consistently understaffed and undervalued repositories, hoping faculty will deposit their work ...