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Digital Initiatives at Lewis & Clark: cool projects in the liberal arts Mark Dahl Interim Director Jeremy McWilliams Digital Services Coordinator Watzek Library Lewis & Clark College Portland, OR

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Overview of digital initiatives at Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College, including a closer look at two projects: The Spiders of Lewis & Clark, and the New York City Graffiti & Street Art Project

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Digital Initiatives at Lewis & Clark: cool projects in the liberal arts

Mark DahlInterim Director

Jeremy McWilliamsDigital Services Coordinator

Watzek LibraryLewis & Clark College

Portland, OR

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outline

Mark's stuff• what we're doing• philosophy behind it

Jeremy's stuff• graffiti project

o backgroundo how it works

• spider projecto backgroundo how it works

Links to projects on Twitter (#code4libnw)

• Future directions (Mark)

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What are digital initiatives?

support for digital collections and digital scholarship

distinction:

• transactional approach• project approach

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Thematic projects

• "live" scholarly project• teaching, research or both• students, faculty, staff• external funding, internal recognition• passion

digital shift

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Digital Scholarship/Digital Humanities

• hot area (THATCamps, NYT piece etc.)• different culture than library digitization

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Bringing faculty into the fold• digital orientation?• spectrum of interest

levels1.defined• abstract• observer

• grants• interdisciplinary

incentives

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Supporting projects

Activities:• project management• grant writing• web development• metadata management• data gathering• teaching

Sourcing external vs. internal• external: elastic, flexible• internal: stable, institutional context, personal networks,

existing infrastructure

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Great for lots of people contributing

API

Machine Tags

                                  

  namespace:field=value

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Spiders of Lewis & Clark

image by Thomas Shahan

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Greta Binford 

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Project Goals:

Showcase images by spider body part

Add map component (where were spiders collected?)

Browse by phylogenetic tree**

** WTF??

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eol.org

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166

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Flickr API query: give me all images with the machine tag: lcbio100:id=166

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Flickr API query: give me geotagged images w/machine tag lcbio100:id=166...plot 'em on a Google Map

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Flickr API query: give me images w/machine tags lcbio100:id=166 AND lcbio100:format=sequence

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EOL API query:Give me up to 5 images and up to 5 external links for the ID 166

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NYC Graffiti & Street ArtProject

image by Hannah Berry

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image by Hannah Berry

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Give me a list of [children] in [parent] that has images meeting my criteria.

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Give me a list of neighborhoods in Portland that have images tagged with 'beer'.

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Jefferson Street | Downtown | Inner Southeast | Pearl | East Portland | Eliot | The Bucket | NW Portland | NE Portland | Albina | Bridlemile | Chinatown | Reed | Hawthorne | Buckman | Hollywood | Nob Hill | Alberta Arts District | Central Eastside | Mississippi | Sunnyside | SW Portland | Old Town | Beaumont | Chutes | Goose Hollow | St. Johns Junction | Alameda | Southwest Hills | Kerns | Sullivan's Gulch | Multnomah | Belmont | Richmond | Northwest District | Haig | Mount Tabor | Lower Burnside | Ladds Circle | Center | King | Northeast | Hayhurst | Concordia | Peninsula Slough | SE Portland | St. Johns | Willamette Heights | Piedmont | Laurelhurst | Humboldt | Boise | Sellwood | Southeast Portland | Hosford-Abernathy | Southwest | Golf Junction | Westmoreland | Sellwood-Moreland | Woodlawn | Broadway District | Grant Park-Hollywood | Foster-Powell | Champ | Kenton | Lents | Maplewood | Eastmoreland | Carson Heights | Bellrose | Bridgeton | Montavilla | Portland Heights | Darlington | Ashcreek | Lloyd District | Rose City | Sylvan | Russellville | Springville | South Burlingame

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Give me all the images tagged with 'beer' in the Jefferson Street neighborhood.

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Evolution of Design

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Evolution of Design

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Future Directions

• student-centered projects• partnerships• platforms• external sourcing

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thanks

Mark Dahl [email protected]

Jeremy [email protected]