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A Gentle Introduction to Text Analysis with Voyant Tools

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

These are the presentation slides for a workshop sponsored by the Digital Humanities Working Group at UCI. In this introductory workshop, participants learned the basics of text analysis by exploring Voyant Tools, an open-source reading and analysis environment for digital texts.

C-CAP Digital Collections & Digital Exhibitions Environmental Scan

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This paper is a preliminary environmental scan conducted by Sharon Mizota on behalf of UCI Libraries in 2023 as part of a research assessment designed to identify actionable strategies to support ethical and responsible representation of marginalized histories in digital collection aggregations and exhibitions.

The research assessment is itself part of Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives and Community History (C-CAP TEACH), a Mellon-funded initiative led by the UCI Libraries Department of Special Collections & Archives — Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center. C-CAP TEACH aims to cultivate commitment among higher education institutions to community-centered archives approaches, simultaneously solidifying the ability and responsibility of academic libraries to engage critically and contribute to social justice-focused scholarship, training, pedagogy, and partnerships in their communities.

Archives are People: Love, Hope, and Courage for Our Future

Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This is the edited text of a plenary that was delivered to the Society of California Archivists Annual General Meeting on May 20, 2022 in Palm Springs, California. Authenticity and reciprocity can help archivists revolutionize archival work. After all we’ve been through, what do archivists *represent* right now, and what do we want for our future?

Mini Buleku: A Recorded Sibe Dictionary

Mon, 3 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Mini Buleku is the print version of an online dictionary created for Sibe, a Tungusic language spoken in Northwestern Xinjiang, China. Sibe is noted to be a descendant and heir of what is known as the Manchu language of Manchuria in Northeast China. The present version of the dictionary was worked on from June to December 2021, and was created by Jacob Kodner—an undergraduate student at UC Irvine—and Meng Rong Lu—a native speaker of Sibe. Entries include data in Sibe, English, and Mandarin. Entries are coded with a number code and have audio files named according to the number; the audio files are Meng Rong Lu's pronunciations of the colloquial Sibe forms. The most updated, online version can be found at https://minibuleku.github.io/. This work serves the purpose of contributing to documentation and revitalization efforts of Sibe.

Data Services at the UC Irvine Libraries: 2018 Business Case Study

Fri, 8 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A 2018 business case study to provide recommendations and justification for the support of data services at the UC Irvine Libraries. Data curation is the management of data throughout its lifecycle, from creation, maintenance and then archived for future access and analysis. The main purpose of data curation is to ensure that data is reliably retrievable for future research purposes or reuse. At its most basic, what everyone (administrators, researchers, librarians, etc.) wants is for data to be findable, to be accessible, to be interoperable, and to be reusable.

How to Have a Conversation: Values, Ethics, and Visibility in Shared Collection Building

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Conference presentation for the 2021 Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) for a panel entitled "Making the Invisible Visible: The Operational Impacts of Collection Building." Session description:

In 2018, the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) convened a Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group (CBOIWG) and charged it with developing resources for helping repositories make better-informed collection development decisions. Informed collection development requires a strong understanding of available resources and institutional capacity for taking on the work necessary to acquire, describe, store, preserve, and make available collection material. In many repositories, however, those tasked with building collections are siloed from those responsible for ongoing stewardship and other collections-related work. This, coupled with a lack of accurate and practical information regarding resources and capacity, can make applying a holistic approach...

Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) Showcase

Fri, 3 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) fosters the use of digital content and transformative technology in scholarship and academic activities. We work with the campus community to publish, promote, and preserve the digital products of research in several areas:

Scholarly Communication - Comply with UC Open Access Policies. Extend the reach of publications. Manage your reputation. Track impact.

Data Curation - Write grant winning Data Management Plans. Deposit data into repositories for access and preservation. Increase reproducibility.

Digital Production - Build collections. Digitize/reformat materials for preservation. Computationally mine, visualize, and annotate content.

See more at https://www.lib.uci.edu/dss/what-we-do.

Archival Processing Manual (University of California, Irvine, Special Collections & Archives)

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Archival Processing Manual (University of California, Irvine, Special Collections & Archives)

Accessioning Manual for Archival and Manuscript Collections (University of California, Irvine, Special Collections & Archives)

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Accessioning Manual for Archival and Manuscript Collections (University of California, Irvine, Special Collections & Archives)

Archival Processing Reference Guide (University of California, Irvine, Special Collections & Archives)

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Archival Processing Reference Guide (University of California, Irvine, Special Collections & Archives)

Screen Sharing Tools & Google+ Hangouts On-Air

Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A Lunch2.0 presentation given for UC Irvine Libraries staff.

Got Data

Wed, 2 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Presentation given for Open Access Week 2017

Data Management 101

Wed, 2 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Presentation given during Love Data Week 2018.

Open Data & Reproducibility

Wed, 2 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Presentation given for Love Data Week 2018.

Using Canvas to Teach Literature Search Techniques in CINAHL & PubMed to Nursing Students

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

At the University of California, Irvine, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, students begin formal training in their junior year. One of the first courses, “Frameworks for Professional Nursing Practice,” focuses on “the scope and standards of professional nursing practice.” Students must complete a paper on a chosen clinical and ethical issue in the nursing profession. Successful completion of this project requires the ability to search the published nursing and medical literature and retrieve relevant information.

Since 2007, in cooperation with the course instructor, the Research Librarian for Nursing Science has prepared an assignment for students consisting of a literature search in PubMed and CINAHL for their topic. This assignment followed an in-class instruction session.

The goal is twofold: to help prepare students for the work needed to complete the main course assignment, and to familiarize them with the databases and literature search process. Submitted...

明代職官中英辭典 Chinese-English Dictionary of Ming Government Official Titles

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This bilingual dictionary is developed through a crowd-translation project that was funded by CEAL-Mellon. This is the first edition. The project team would encourage scholars to use it and to send us revision suggestions, if any. We will update the dictionary based upon your suggestions. Note that this version comes with a navigation menu. However, to be able to see and use the menu, one has to download the PDF file and open it up in Adobe.

The Born-Digital Manuscript as Cultural Form and Intellectual Record

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Archives and manuscript librarians use the term "born digital" to refer to personal papers that were created using a computer, received by the archives as computer files, and accessed by researchers electronically. Using Richard Rorty's word-processing files as illustration, this paper discusses the significance of these technological conditions of production and reception for how this type of manuscript may be handled by an archivist and presented to researchers seeking to learn about a scholar's intellectual work. The author works as an archivist at the University of California, Irvine Libraries, where she processed the Richard Rorty Papers for the Critical Theory Archive.