27
2012 London Pratt/UCL class journal
2012 London
PrattUCL class journal
by Katie Blake from class notes with
images taken throughout the trip
ldquoJasonrdquo by UK artist Lucy Casson (2012) ndashsorry I covered up the other bird with my head
26 June 2012 First day involved am beverages over croissants and an overview of Syllabus UCL Professors Anthony Watkins and Andy Dawson were both lovely and besides the business of school stuff they introduced us to a seemingly English habit of charmingly insulting each other with- out appearing deliberate An orientation of the University College of London campus followed and despite Andyrsquos best efforts I obligingly lost my way everyday thereafter as I am directionally-challenged (my google maps app never worked while I was in the UK thanks Apple) What a lovely afternoon we had As per the program usual the UCL Folks and our dean Tula Giannini walked us over to the British Library for a short tour British Library- The planning of the underground stacks is fascinating and protective so I wonrsquot discuss what I learned here besides Irsquom sure we only got a very small portion of the information They also showed us a video clip of their mechanized approach to book sorting I wonder how similar it is to the one Irsquove seen at the Seattle Public Libraryrsquos main branch I was interested to learn how the BL puts a placeholder card in the space left behind for a requested book We contemplated employing that habit at a special collections library I worked at but the initiating costs were too prohibitive to put it into play Not surprisingly the BL Treasure Room is a permanent exhibit space containing works any bibliophile would fall in love with On display for example was Jane Austenrsquos writing desk and spectacles
27 June 2012 Prof Watkins introduced us to e-pubs and the Bloomsbury Conference Afternoon speaker was Brian Hole (Ubiquity Press) They started a journal but realized when they went into production it would cost 20k (pound)and they only had a 1k budget so they published it themselves Social contract of Science ndashpublish your work so others can advance upon it This goes back to the very first journal published in 1665 They want all to participate so they charge a low amount (aprox 100pound) Model has online journals appearing first with on-demand available because they offer a mix n match option for purchase they add DOIs to each chapter They are working on data silos (thru grant funding) Mr Hole said if their model is found to be unsustainable then they will revisit it To me this means Ubiquity wants to stay light on their feet -to change as needs change to support the long term Different generations of researchers feel different about sharing their work This is something I personally have found to be true I may be still considered early career despite my age but I canrsquot help but see experts with lsquoinstitutional knowledgersquo not wanting to publish because they shy away from mistake making worried their peer commun- ity will think less of them their reputations would suffer for those flaws On the other hand early career writers want to push and put everything out without establishing ties to their peers and without understanding the cumulative effect this early work may have later
Petrie Museum University College of
London campus
Scarifactor ndash you turn the crank and BAM All these blades pop out and pierce your skin for bloodletting
I love this information card
I wonder when it was written
28 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Scholarly outreach Impact and Outcome I took 15 pages of notes during this conference so I am going to try and narrow that down a bit and sort of bullet point things which stood out to me One Finch Report finding is that the move to online means very much open access but still working out which models are sustainable PDFs are still dominant format but increasingly semantic publishing (linkages with underlying data) Open Access journals are equal to about 10 of ALL articles pub Continuing issues surround repositories (patchy coverage cost frequency of deposits etc) Acceptance of crowd sourcing (citizen scientists)for aid in Scholarly research (exGalaxy Zoo sciencecheerleadercom) Publishers beginning to be aware of needs to support standardized guidelines evaluations templates metadata etc for work to get them found and to maintain author and publisher source information How do scholars and publishers establish facts and expertise when anybody can publish online Librarian as ground truth generator Crestimathea = study of useful things Future of reading Format vs Content Define research impact as having an effect on change or benefit to economyculturepublicpolicy or services etc beyond academia
29 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Continued Study on article writing for science shows that over time the of works written by single author has dropped and become ave of 5 per Mediapublic interest Work to build perceived relevance to larger audience thru- accessibility pretty pictures=popularize Ultimetrics Bibliometrics Altmetric Plum analyticsetc authors should be in charge of tracking works not for ex google Problems growth of research fracturing output increasing diversity of channels stepping on toes of the canonical articlejournal true analytics Why does one article get cited vs another Is the ease of hyperlinked citation vs writing out for example Sentiment analysis ndashnature of a sentence that makes it citable citation count vs real world impact difficulty in making datasets intelligible across disciplines Mindset publicly funded means data is a public resource tbd Sustainability power needs for current data storage will outstrip global electricity supply within the decade Can the infrastructure of the internet support datasets Digital curation means things need to get thrown out can librarians become liaisons for selection per research needs Idea of fluid articles vs fixed where the original work becomes the parent to child addendums or edits over a period of time A sort of genealogy of an idea andor authorresearcher How can a fully formed semantic web react and help to relate written works with one another
Tate Britain seeing Turner exhibit
Obviously this isnrsquot the way he painted this piece but I loved this work and took a close up of her
head so I could look at the details of the face the cracked painted
and the canvas itself Itrsquos quite beautiful
2 July 2012 Ruth Jones (of Ingram) discussed how they work via 5 models currently Physical content distribution physical inventory mgmt Digital asset mgmt and print services They do this for themselves but largely on behalf of other pub companies who donrsquot want to hold their holdings Print on demand (like Springer) allows the consumer to get the most up-to-date version at the time of printing The shift being from A location where books are supplied to where the reader wants to consume the work- a market and infrastructure evolution Problematic is idea of not being able to return bad books or buy used Alison Jones (of Palgrave Macmillian)their books vs journals Journals- semi-dynamic ppv or subscription Books-static or pdf(moving to e)subscription or loan Trade-static pdf amp epub (have DRM by platform for 3rd parties) Textbooks-pdf and some epub (some rental models but not sustainable) -Suggest librarians stay FLUID be architects of their own aggregators Moral rights (Europe)- Integrity paternity of written works afternoon visit with Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury) Their model is a for-profit on sliding scale They have image partnerships and pay for images so they can control the licensing for niche audiences and academic subject specialists libraries This project seemed very standoffish somehow I understand the sustainability is more assured with for-profit models but since they are already doing image partnerships (exmuseums) then they are undermining those other institutionsrsquo missions when they control the images I also wonder when they will finally step on the toes of a designer makeup artist etc with this since they are in essence saying the image is the art even tho the collection is about the clothes in them Opens the doors for lawsuits doesnrsquot it
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
by Katie Blake from class notes with
images taken throughout the trip
ldquoJasonrdquo by UK artist Lucy Casson (2012) ndashsorry I covered up the other bird with my head
26 June 2012 First day involved am beverages over croissants and an overview of Syllabus UCL Professors Anthony Watkins and Andy Dawson were both lovely and besides the business of school stuff they introduced us to a seemingly English habit of charmingly insulting each other with- out appearing deliberate An orientation of the University College of London campus followed and despite Andyrsquos best efforts I obligingly lost my way everyday thereafter as I am directionally-challenged (my google maps app never worked while I was in the UK thanks Apple) What a lovely afternoon we had As per the program usual the UCL Folks and our dean Tula Giannini walked us over to the British Library for a short tour British Library- The planning of the underground stacks is fascinating and protective so I wonrsquot discuss what I learned here besides Irsquom sure we only got a very small portion of the information They also showed us a video clip of their mechanized approach to book sorting I wonder how similar it is to the one Irsquove seen at the Seattle Public Libraryrsquos main branch I was interested to learn how the BL puts a placeholder card in the space left behind for a requested book We contemplated employing that habit at a special collections library I worked at but the initiating costs were too prohibitive to put it into play Not surprisingly the BL Treasure Room is a permanent exhibit space containing works any bibliophile would fall in love with On display for example was Jane Austenrsquos writing desk and spectacles
27 June 2012 Prof Watkins introduced us to e-pubs and the Bloomsbury Conference Afternoon speaker was Brian Hole (Ubiquity Press) They started a journal but realized when they went into production it would cost 20k (pound)and they only had a 1k budget so they published it themselves Social contract of Science ndashpublish your work so others can advance upon it This goes back to the very first journal published in 1665 They want all to participate so they charge a low amount (aprox 100pound) Model has online journals appearing first with on-demand available because they offer a mix n match option for purchase they add DOIs to each chapter They are working on data silos (thru grant funding) Mr Hole said if their model is found to be unsustainable then they will revisit it To me this means Ubiquity wants to stay light on their feet -to change as needs change to support the long term Different generations of researchers feel different about sharing their work This is something I personally have found to be true I may be still considered early career despite my age but I canrsquot help but see experts with lsquoinstitutional knowledgersquo not wanting to publish because they shy away from mistake making worried their peer commun- ity will think less of them their reputations would suffer for those flaws On the other hand early career writers want to push and put everything out without establishing ties to their peers and without understanding the cumulative effect this early work may have later
Petrie Museum University College of
London campus
Scarifactor ndash you turn the crank and BAM All these blades pop out and pierce your skin for bloodletting
I love this information card
I wonder when it was written
28 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Scholarly outreach Impact and Outcome I took 15 pages of notes during this conference so I am going to try and narrow that down a bit and sort of bullet point things which stood out to me One Finch Report finding is that the move to online means very much open access but still working out which models are sustainable PDFs are still dominant format but increasingly semantic publishing (linkages with underlying data) Open Access journals are equal to about 10 of ALL articles pub Continuing issues surround repositories (patchy coverage cost frequency of deposits etc) Acceptance of crowd sourcing (citizen scientists)for aid in Scholarly research (exGalaxy Zoo sciencecheerleadercom) Publishers beginning to be aware of needs to support standardized guidelines evaluations templates metadata etc for work to get them found and to maintain author and publisher source information How do scholars and publishers establish facts and expertise when anybody can publish online Librarian as ground truth generator Crestimathea = study of useful things Future of reading Format vs Content Define research impact as having an effect on change or benefit to economyculturepublicpolicy or services etc beyond academia
29 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Continued Study on article writing for science shows that over time the of works written by single author has dropped and become ave of 5 per Mediapublic interest Work to build perceived relevance to larger audience thru- accessibility pretty pictures=popularize Ultimetrics Bibliometrics Altmetric Plum analyticsetc authors should be in charge of tracking works not for ex google Problems growth of research fracturing output increasing diversity of channels stepping on toes of the canonical articlejournal true analytics Why does one article get cited vs another Is the ease of hyperlinked citation vs writing out for example Sentiment analysis ndashnature of a sentence that makes it citable citation count vs real world impact difficulty in making datasets intelligible across disciplines Mindset publicly funded means data is a public resource tbd Sustainability power needs for current data storage will outstrip global electricity supply within the decade Can the infrastructure of the internet support datasets Digital curation means things need to get thrown out can librarians become liaisons for selection per research needs Idea of fluid articles vs fixed where the original work becomes the parent to child addendums or edits over a period of time A sort of genealogy of an idea andor authorresearcher How can a fully formed semantic web react and help to relate written works with one another
Tate Britain seeing Turner exhibit
Obviously this isnrsquot the way he painted this piece but I loved this work and took a close up of her
head so I could look at the details of the face the cracked painted
and the canvas itself Itrsquos quite beautiful
2 July 2012 Ruth Jones (of Ingram) discussed how they work via 5 models currently Physical content distribution physical inventory mgmt Digital asset mgmt and print services They do this for themselves but largely on behalf of other pub companies who donrsquot want to hold their holdings Print on demand (like Springer) allows the consumer to get the most up-to-date version at the time of printing The shift being from A location where books are supplied to where the reader wants to consume the work- a market and infrastructure evolution Problematic is idea of not being able to return bad books or buy used Alison Jones (of Palgrave Macmillian)their books vs journals Journals- semi-dynamic ppv or subscription Books-static or pdf(moving to e)subscription or loan Trade-static pdf amp epub (have DRM by platform for 3rd parties) Textbooks-pdf and some epub (some rental models but not sustainable) -Suggest librarians stay FLUID be architects of their own aggregators Moral rights (Europe)- Integrity paternity of written works afternoon visit with Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury) Their model is a for-profit on sliding scale They have image partnerships and pay for images so they can control the licensing for niche audiences and academic subject specialists libraries This project seemed very standoffish somehow I understand the sustainability is more assured with for-profit models but since they are already doing image partnerships (exmuseums) then they are undermining those other institutionsrsquo missions when they control the images I also wonder when they will finally step on the toes of a designer makeup artist etc with this since they are in essence saying the image is the art even tho the collection is about the clothes in them Opens the doors for lawsuits doesnrsquot it
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
26 June 2012 First day involved am beverages over croissants and an overview of Syllabus UCL Professors Anthony Watkins and Andy Dawson were both lovely and besides the business of school stuff they introduced us to a seemingly English habit of charmingly insulting each other with- out appearing deliberate An orientation of the University College of London campus followed and despite Andyrsquos best efforts I obligingly lost my way everyday thereafter as I am directionally-challenged (my google maps app never worked while I was in the UK thanks Apple) What a lovely afternoon we had As per the program usual the UCL Folks and our dean Tula Giannini walked us over to the British Library for a short tour British Library- The planning of the underground stacks is fascinating and protective so I wonrsquot discuss what I learned here besides Irsquom sure we only got a very small portion of the information They also showed us a video clip of their mechanized approach to book sorting I wonder how similar it is to the one Irsquove seen at the Seattle Public Libraryrsquos main branch I was interested to learn how the BL puts a placeholder card in the space left behind for a requested book We contemplated employing that habit at a special collections library I worked at but the initiating costs were too prohibitive to put it into play Not surprisingly the BL Treasure Room is a permanent exhibit space containing works any bibliophile would fall in love with On display for example was Jane Austenrsquos writing desk and spectacles
27 June 2012 Prof Watkins introduced us to e-pubs and the Bloomsbury Conference Afternoon speaker was Brian Hole (Ubiquity Press) They started a journal but realized when they went into production it would cost 20k (pound)and they only had a 1k budget so they published it themselves Social contract of Science ndashpublish your work so others can advance upon it This goes back to the very first journal published in 1665 They want all to participate so they charge a low amount (aprox 100pound) Model has online journals appearing first with on-demand available because they offer a mix n match option for purchase they add DOIs to each chapter They are working on data silos (thru grant funding) Mr Hole said if their model is found to be unsustainable then they will revisit it To me this means Ubiquity wants to stay light on their feet -to change as needs change to support the long term Different generations of researchers feel different about sharing their work This is something I personally have found to be true I may be still considered early career despite my age but I canrsquot help but see experts with lsquoinstitutional knowledgersquo not wanting to publish because they shy away from mistake making worried their peer commun- ity will think less of them their reputations would suffer for those flaws On the other hand early career writers want to push and put everything out without establishing ties to their peers and without understanding the cumulative effect this early work may have later
Petrie Museum University College of
London campus
Scarifactor ndash you turn the crank and BAM All these blades pop out and pierce your skin for bloodletting
I love this information card
I wonder when it was written
28 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Scholarly outreach Impact and Outcome I took 15 pages of notes during this conference so I am going to try and narrow that down a bit and sort of bullet point things which stood out to me One Finch Report finding is that the move to online means very much open access but still working out which models are sustainable PDFs are still dominant format but increasingly semantic publishing (linkages with underlying data) Open Access journals are equal to about 10 of ALL articles pub Continuing issues surround repositories (patchy coverage cost frequency of deposits etc) Acceptance of crowd sourcing (citizen scientists)for aid in Scholarly research (exGalaxy Zoo sciencecheerleadercom) Publishers beginning to be aware of needs to support standardized guidelines evaluations templates metadata etc for work to get them found and to maintain author and publisher source information How do scholars and publishers establish facts and expertise when anybody can publish online Librarian as ground truth generator Crestimathea = study of useful things Future of reading Format vs Content Define research impact as having an effect on change or benefit to economyculturepublicpolicy or services etc beyond academia
29 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Continued Study on article writing for science shows that over time the of works written by single author has dropped and become ave of 5 per Mediapublic interest Work to build perceived relevance to larger audience thru- accessibility pretty pictures=popularize Ultimetrics Bibliometrics Altmetric Plum analyticsetc authors should be in charge of tracking works not for ex google Problems growth of research fracturing output increasing diversity of channels stepping on toes of the canonical articlejournal true analytics Why does one article get cited vs another Is the ease of hyperlinked citation vs writing out for example Sentiment analysis ndashnature of a sentence that makes it citable citation count vs real world impact difficulty in making datasets intelligible across disciplines Mindset publicly funded means data is a public resource tbd Sustainability power needs for current data storage will outstrip global electricity supply within the decade Can the infrastructure of the internet support datasets Digital curation means things need to get thrown out can librarians become liaisons for selection per research needs Idea of fluid articles vs fixed where the original work becomes the parent to child addendums or edits over a period of time A sort of genealogy of an idea andor authorresearcher How can a fully formed semantic web react and help to relate written works with one another
Tate Britain seeing Turner exhibit
Obviously this isnrsquot the way he painted this piece but I loved this work and took a close up of her
head so I could look at the details of the face the cracked painted
and the canvas itself Itrsquos quite beautiful
2 July 2012 Ruth Jones (of Ingram) discussed how they work via 5 models currently Physical content distribution physical inventory mgmt Digital asset mgmt and print services They do this for themselves but largely on behalf of other pub companies who donrsquot want to hold their holdings Print on demand (like Springer) allows the consumer to get the most up-to-date version at the time of printing The shift being from A location where books are supplied to where the reader wants to consume the work- a market and infrastructure evolution Problematic is idea of not being able to return bad books or buy used Alison Jones (of Palgrave Macmillian)their books vs journals Journals- semi-dynamic ppv or subscription Books-static or pdf(moving to e)subscription or loan Trade-static pdf amp epub (have DRM by platform for 3rd parties) Textbooks-pdf and some epub (some rental models but not sustainable) -Suggest librarians stay FLUID be architects of their own aggregators Moral rights (Europe)- Integrity paternity of written works afternoon visit with Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury) Their model is a for-profit on sliding scale They have image partnerships and pay for images so they can control the licensing for niche audiences and academic subject specialists libraries This project seemed very standoffish somehow I understand the sustainability is more assured with for-profit models but since they are already doing image partnerships (exmuseums) then they are undermining those other institutionsrsquo missions when they control the images I also wonder when they will finally step on the toes of a designer makeup artist etc with this since they are in essence saying the image is the art even tho the collection is about the clothes in them Opens the doors for lawsuits doesnrsquot it
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
27 June 2012 Prof Watkins introduced us to e-pubs and the Bloomsbury Conference Afternoon speaker was Brian Hole (Ubiquity Press) They started a journal but realized when they went into production it would cost 20k (pound)and they only had a 1k budget so they published it themselves Social contract of Science ndashpublish your work so others can advance upon it This goes back to the very first journal published in 1665 They want all to participate so they charge a low amount (aprox 100pound) Model has online journals appearing first with on-demand available because they offer a mix n match option for purchase they add DOIs to each chapter They are working on data silos (thru grant funding) Mr Hole said if their model is found to be unsustainable then they will revisit it To me this means Ubiquity wants to stay light on their feet -to change as needs change to support the long term Different generations of researchers feel different about sharing their work This is something I personally have found to be true I may be still considered early career despite my age but I canrsquot help but see experts with lsquoinstitutional knowledgersquo not wanting to publish because they shy away from mistake making worried their peer commun- ity will think less of them their reputations would suffer for those flaws On the other hand early career writers want to push and put everything out without establishing ties to their peers and without understanding the cumulative effect this early work may have later
Petrie Museum University College of
London campus
Scarifactor ndash you turn the crank and BAM All these blades pop out and pierce your skin for bloodletting
I love this information card
I wonder when it was written
28 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Scholarly outreach Impact and Outcome I took 15 pages of notes during this conference so I am going to try and narrow that down a bit and sort of bullet point things which stood out to me One Finch Report finding is that the move to online means very much open access but still working out which models are sustainable PDFs are still dominant format but increasingly semantic publishing (linkages with underlying data) Open Access journals are equal to about 10 of ALL articles pub Continuing issues surround repositories (patchy coverage cost frequency of deposits etc) Acceptance of crowd sourcing (citizen scientists)for aid in Scholarly research (exGalaxy Zoo sciencecheerleadercom) Publishers beginning to be aware of needs to support standardized guidelines evaluations templates metadata etc for work to get them found and to maintain author and publisher source information How do scholars and publishers establish facts and expertise when anybody can publish online Librarian as ground truth generator Crestimathea = study of useful things Future of reading Format vs Content Define research impact as having an effect on change or benefit to economyculturepublicpolicy or services etc beyond academia
29 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Continued Study on article writing for science shows that over time the of works written by single author has dropped and become ave of 5 per Mediapublic interest Work to build perceived relevance to larger audience thru- accessibility pretty pictures=popularize Ultimetrics Bibliometrics Altmetric Plum analyticsetc authors should be in charge of tracking works not for ex google Problems growth of research fracturing output increasing diversity of channels stepping on toes of the canonical articlejournal true analytics Why does one article get cited vs another Is the ease of hyperlinked citation vs writing out for example Sentiment analysis ndashnature of a sentence that makes it citable citation count vs real world impact difficulty in making datasets intelligible across disciplines Mindset publicly funded means data is a public resource tbd Sustainability power needs for current data storage will outstrip global electricity supply within the decade Can the infrastructure of the internet support datasets Digital curation means things need to get thrown out can librarians become liaisons for selection per research needs Idea of fluid articles vs fixed where the original work becomes the parent to child addendums or edits over a period of time A sort of genealogy of an idea andor authorresearcher How can a fully formed semantic web react and help to relate written works with one another
Tate Britain seeing Turner exhibit
Obviously this isnrsquot the way he painted this piece but I loved this work and took a close up of her
head so I could look at the details of the face the cracked painted
and the canvas itself Itrsquos quite beautiful
2 July 2012 Ruth Jones (of Ingram) discussed how they work via 5 models currently Physical content distribution physical inventory mgmt Digital asset mgmt and print services They do this for themselves but largely on behalf of other pub companies who donrsquot want to hold their holdings Print on demand (like Springer) allows the consumer to get the most up-to-date version at the time of printing The shift being from A location where books are supplied to where the reader wants to consume the work- a market and infrastructure evolution Problematic is idea of not being able to return bad books or buy used Alison Jones (of Palgrave Macmillian)their books vs journals Journals- semi-dynamic ppv or subscription Books-static or pdf(moving to e)subscription or loan Trade-static pdf amp epub (have DRM by platform for 3rd parties) Textbooks-pdf and some epub (some rental models but not sustainable) -Suggest librarians stay FLUID be architects of their own aggregators Moral rights (Europe)- Integrity paternity of written works afternoon visit with Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury) Their model is a for-profit on sliding scale They have image partnerships and pay for images so they can control the licensing for niche audiences and academic subject specialists libraries This project seemed very standoffish somehow I understand the sustainability is more assured with for-profit models but since they are already doing image partnerships (exmuseums) then they are undermining those other institutionsrsquo missions when they control the images I also wonder when they will finally step on the toes of a designer makeup artist etc with this since they are in essence saying the image is the art even tho the collection is about the clothes in them Opens the doors for lawsuits doesnrsquot it
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
Petrie Museum University College of
London campus
Scarifactor ndash you turn the crank and BAM All these blades pop out and pierce your skin for bloodletting
I love this information card
I wonder when it was written
28 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Scholarly outreach Impact and Outcome I took 15 pages of notes during this conference so I am going to try and narrow that down a bit and sort of bullet point things which stood out to me One Finch Report finding is that the move to online means very much open access but still working out which models are sustainable PDFs are still dominant format but increasingly semantic publishing (linkages with underlying data) Open Access journals are equal to about 10 of ALL articles pub Continuing issues surround repositories (patchy coverage cost frequency of deposits etc) Acceptance of crowd sourcing (citizen scientists)for aid in Scholarly research (exGalaxy Zoo sciencecheerleadercom) Publishers beginning to be aware of needs to support standardized guidelines evaluations templates metadata etc for work to get them found and to maintain author and publisher source information How do scholars and publishers establish facts and expertise when anybody can publish online Librarian as ground truth generator Crestimathea = study of useful things Future of reading Format vs Content Define research impact as having an effect on change or benefit to economyculturepublicpolicy or services etc beyond academia
29 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Continued Study on article writing for science shows that over time the of works written by single author has dropped and become ave of 5 per Mediapublic interest Work to build perceived relevance to larger audience thru- accessibility pretty pictures=popularize Ultimetrics Bibliometrics Altmetric Plum analyticsetc authors should be in charge of tracking works not for ex google Problems growth of research fracturing output increasing diversity of channels stepping on toes of the canonical articlejournal true analytics Why does one article get cited vs another Is the ease of hyperlinked citation vs writing out for example Sentiment analysis ndashnature of a sentence that makes it citable citation count vs real world impact difficulty in making datasets intelligible across disciplines Mindset publicly funded means data is a public resource tbd Sustainability power needs for current data storage will outstrip global electricity supply within the decade Can the infrastructure of the internet support datasets Digital curation means things need to get thrown out can librarians become liaisons for selection per research needs Idea of fluid articles vs fixed where the original work becomes the parent to child addendums or edits over a period of time A sort of genealogy of an idea andor authorresearcher How can a fully formed semantic web react and help to relate written works with one another
Tate Britain seeing Turner exhibit
Obviously this isnrsquot the way he painted this piece but I loved this work and took a close up of her
head so I could look at the details of the face the cracked painted
and the canvas itself Itrsquos quite beautiful
2 July 2012 Ruth Jones (of Ingram) discussed how they work via 5 models currently Physical content distribution physical inventory mgmt Digital asset mgmt and print services They do this for themselves but largely on behalf of other pub companies who donrsquot want to hold their holdings Print on demand (like Springer) allows the consumer to get the most up-to-date version at the time of printing The shift being from A location where books are supplied to where the reader wants to consume the work- a market and infrastructure evolution Problematic is idea of not being able to return bad books or buy used Alison Jones (of Palgrave Macmillian)their books vs journals Journals- semi-dynamic ppv or subscription Books-static or pdf(moving to e)subscription or loan Trade-static pdf amp epub (have DRM by platform for 3rd parties) Textbooks-pdf and some epub (some rental models but not sustainable) -Suggest librarians stay FLUID be architects of their own aggregators Moral rights (Europe)- Integrity paternity of written works afternoon visit with Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury) Their model is a for-profit on sliding scale They have image partnerships and pay for images so they can control the licensing for niche audiences and academic subject specialists libraries This project seemed very standoffish somehow I understand the sustainability is more assured with for-profit models but since they are already doing image partnerships (exmuseums) then they are undermining those other institutionsrsquo missions when they control the images I also wonder when they will finally step on the toes of a designer makeup artist etc with this since they are in essence saying the image is the art even tho the collection is about the clothes in them Opens the doors for lawsuits doesnrsquot it
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
28 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Scholarly outreach Impact and Outcome I took 15 pages of notes during this conference so I am going to try and narrow that down a bit and sort of bullet point things which stood out to me One Finch Report finding is that the move to online means very much open access but still working out which models are sustainable PDFs are still dominant format but increasingly semantic publishing (linkages with underlying data) Open Access journals are equal to about 10 of ALL articles pub Continuing issues surround repositories (patchy coverage cost frequency of deposits etc) Acceptance of crowd sourcing (citizen scientists)for aid in Scholarly research (exGalaxy Zoo sciencecheerleadercom) Publishers beginning to be aware of needs to support standardized guidelines evaluations templates metadata etc for work to get them found and to maintain author and publisher source information How do scholars and publishers establish facts and expertise when anybody can publish online Librarian as ground truth generator Crestimathea = study of useful things Future of reading Format vs Content Define research impact as having an effect on change or benefit to economyculturepublicpolicy or services etc beyond academia
29 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Continued Study on article writing for science shows that over time the of works written by single author has dropped and become ave of 5 per Mediapublic interest Work to build perceived relevance to larger audience thru- accessibility pretty pictures=popularize Ultimetrics Bibliometrics Altmetric Plum analyticsetc authors should be in charge of tracking works not for ex google Problems growth of research fracturing output increasing diversity of channels stepping on toes of the canonical articlejournal true analytics Why does one article get cited vs another Is the ease of hyperlinked citation vs writing out for example Sentiment analysis ndashnature of a sentence that makes it citable citation count vs real world impact difficulty in making datasets intelligible across disciplines Mindset publicly funded means data is a public resource tbd Sustainability power needs for current data storage will outstrip global electricity supply within the decade Can the infrastructure of the internet support datasets Digital curation means things need to get thrown out can librarians become liaisons for selection per research needs Idea of fluid articles vs fixed where the original work becomes the parent to child addendums or edits over a period of time A sort of genealogy of an idea andor authorresearcher How can a fully formed semantic web react and help to relate written works with one another
Tate Britain seeing Turner exhibit
Obviously this isnrsquot the way he painted this piece but I loved this work and took a close up of her
head so I could look at the details of the face the cracked painted
and the canvas itself Itrsquos quite beautiful
2 July 2012 Ruth Jones (of Ingram) discussed how they work via 5 models currently Physical content distribution physical inventory mgmt Digital asset mgmt and print services They do this for themselves but largely on behalf of other pub companies who donrsquot want to hold their holdings Print on demand (like Springer) allows the consumer to get the most up-to-date version at the time of printing The shift being from A location where books are supplied to where the reader wants to consume the work- a market and infrastructure evolution Problematic is idea of not being able to return bad books or buy used Alison Jones (of Palgrave Macmillian)their books vs journals Journals- semi-dynamic ppv or subscription Books-static or pdf(moving to e)subscription or loan Trade-static pdf amp epub (have DRM by platform for 3rd parties) Textbooks-pdf and some epub (some rental models but not sustainable) -Suggest librarians stay FLUID be architects of their own aggregators Moral rights (Europe)- Integrity paternity of written works afternoon visit with Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury) Their model is a for-profit on sliding scale They have image partnerships and pay for images so they can control the licensing for niche audiences and academic subject specialists libraries This project seemed very standoffish somehow I understand the sustainability is more assured with for-profit models but since they are already doing image partnerships (exmuseums) then they are undermining those other institutionsrsquo missions when they control the images I also wonder when they will finally step on the toes of a designer makeup artist etc with this since they are in essence saying the image is the art even tho the collection is about the clothes in them Opens the doors for lawsuits doesnrsquot it
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
29 June 2012 Bloomsbury Conference -6th Continued Study on article writing for science shows that over time the of works written by single author has dropped and become ave of 5 per Mediapublic interest Work to build perceived relevance to larger audience thru- accessibility pretty pictures=popularize Ultimetrics Bibliometrics Altmetric Plum analyticsetc authors should be in charge of tracking works not for ex google Problems growth of research fracturing output increasing diversity of channels stepping on toes of the canonical articlejournal true analytics Why does one article get cited vs another Is the ease of hyperlinked citation vs writing out for example Sentiment analysis ndashnature of a sentence that makes it citable citation count vs real world impact difficulty in making datasets intelligible across disciplines Mindset publicly funded means data is a public resource tbd Sustainability power needs for current data storage will outstrip global electricity supply within the decade Can the infrastructure of the internet support datasets Digital curation means things need to get thrown out can librarians become liaisons for selection per research needs Idea of fluid articles vs fixed where the original work becomes the parent to child addendums or edits over a period of time A sort of genealogy of an idea andor authorresearcher How can a fully formed semantic web react and help to relate written works with one another
Tate Britain seeing Turner exhibit
Obviously this isnrsquot the way he painted this piece but I loved this work and took a close up of her
head so I could look at the details of the face the cracked painted
and the canvas itself Itrsquos quite beautiful
2 July 2012 Ruth Jones (of Ingram) discussed how they work via 5 models currently Physical content distribution physical inventory mgmt Digital asset mgmt and print services They do this for themselves but largely on behalf of other pub companies who donrsquot want to hold their holdings Print on demand (like Springer) allows the consumer to get the most up-to-date version at the time of printing The shift being from A location where books are supplied to where the reader wants to consume the work- a market and infrastructure evolution Problematic is idea of not being able to return bad books or buy used Alison Jones (of Palgrave Macmillian)their books vs journals Journals- semi-dynamic ppv or subscription Books-static or pdf(moving to e)subscription or loan Trade-static pdf amp epub (have DRM by platform for 3rd parties) Textbooks-pdf and some epub (some rental models but not sustainable) -Suggest librarians stay FLUID be architects of their own aggregators Moral rights (Europe)- Integrity paternity of written works afternoon visit with Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury) Their model is a for-profit on sliding scale They have image partnerships and pay for images so they can control the licensing for niche audiences and academic subject specialists libraries This project seemed very standoffish somehow I understand the sustainability is more assured with for-profit models but since they are already doing image partnerships (exmuseums) then they are undermining those other institutionsrsquo missions when they control the images I also wonder when they will finally step on the toes of a designer makeup artist etc with this since they are in essence saying the image is the art even tho the collection is about the clothes in them Opens the doors for lawsuits doesnrsquot it
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
Tate Britain seeing Turner exhibit
Obviously this isnrsquot the way he painted this piece but I loved this work and took a close up of her
head so I could look at the details of the face the cracked painted
and the canvas itself Itrsquos quite beautiful
2 July 2012 Ruth Jones (of Ingram) discussed how they work via 5 models currently Physical content distribution physical inventory mgmt Digital asset mgmt and print services They do this for themselves but largely on behalf of other pub companies who donrsquot want to hold their holdings Print on demand (like Springer) allows the consumer to get the most up-to-date version at the time of printing The shift being from A location where books are supplied to where the reader wants to consume the work- a market and infrastructure evolution Problematic is idea of not being able to return bad books or buy used Alison Jones (of Palgrave Macmillian)their books vs journals Journals- semi-dynamic ppv or subscription Books-static or pdf(moving to e)subscription or loan Trade-static pdf amp epub (have DRM by platform for 3rd parties) Textbooks-pdf and some epub (some rental models but not sustainable) -Suggest librarians stay FLUID be architects of their own aggregators Moral rights (Europe)- Integrity paternity of written works afternoon visit with Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury) Their model is a for-profit on sliding scale They have image partnerships and pay for images so they can control the licensing for niche audiences and academic subject specialists libraries This project seemed very standoffish somehow I understand the sustainability is more assured with for-profit models but since they are already doing image partnerships (exmuseums) then they are undermining those other institutionsrsquo missions when they control the images I also wonder when they will finally step on the toes of a designer makeup artist etc with this since they are in essence saying the image is the art even tho the collection is about the clothes in them Opens the doors for lawsuits doesnrsquot it
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
2 July 2012 Ruth Jones (of Ingram) discussed how they work via 5 models currently Physical content distribution physical inventory mgmt Digital asset mgmt and print services They do this for themselves but largely on behalf of other pub companies who donrsquot want to hold their holdings Print on demand (like Springer) allows the consumer to get the most up-to-date version at the time of printing The shift being from A location where books are supplied to where the reader wants to consume the work- a market and infrastructure evolution Problematic is idea of not being able to return bad books or buy used Alison Jones (of Palgrave Macmillian)their books vs journals Journals- semi-dynamic ppv or subscription Books-static or pdf(moving to e)subscription or loan Trade-static pdf amp epub (have DRM by platform for 3rd parties) Textbooks-pdf and some epub (some rental models but not sustainable) -Suggest librarians stay FLUID be architects of their own aggregators Moral rights (Europe)- Integrity paternity of written works afternoon visit with Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury) Their model is a for-profit on sliding scale They have image partnerships and pay for images so they can control the licensing for niche audiences and academic subject specialists libraries This project seemed very standoffish somehow I understand the sustainability is more assured with for-profit models but since they are already doing image partnerships (exmuseums) then they are undermining those other institutionsrsquo missions when they control the images I also wonder when they will finally step on the toes of a designer makeup artist etc with this since they are in essence saying the image is the art even tho the collection is about the clothes in them Opens the doors for lawsuits doesnrsquot it
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
Naomi falls- the photo is with Berg
2 July 2012 Went to see the Victoria
amp Albert Museum Ballgown
exhibit after class
If I had to guess the problem is those
stupid shoes
Trying to visit Bloomsbury Publishers We went to the wrong
address first
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
3 July 2012 Oxford First stop was the Oxford University Press I liked their mission statement which is to further excellence in research scholarship and education by publishing Press as ambassador Listen to customers Experiment Keep it simple Persevere The projects they have undertaken are amazing ones such as the Oxford Dictionary Online and the Oxford English Dictionary We were told that more than 70 Lexicographers work on the dictionary In keeping with their mission they devised a plan where if they could get 90 of all UK libraries to take a core package of their products it would allow them to provide open access to a much larger audience They are conducting case studies to see how long term projects are effected by the digital age something I think will have very interesting results over time and might give some insight to digital Andor perhaps popular culture It would be really fantastic if a similar study could be done on museum images over time as visual culture has already had a major shift when the invention of photography changed the reproducibility of physical art works After OUP we had lunch at Turf Tavern and then walked toward Oxford We passed by the Eagle and Child where supposedly so many famous Literati have written a sort of long-standing hot spot for stories
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
Clive Hurst discussed his exhibit Dickens and His World which was currently showing in
this building at the Bodleian
3 July 2012 Oxford
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
3 July 2012 Oxford-continued After lunch it was onto the Bodleian Library We had a very brief tour of the inside shortened due to renovations But the oft photo- graphed Divinity College hall is incredibly beautiful The hall was a long time place for the studentsrsquo oral exams which were like debates The library started with 300 works donated by Henry Vrsquos brother In 1488 the library opened for the first time then a second time in 1602 The Radcliffe Camera is a round reading room added in 1860 The original part of the Bodleian the reading room we toured is open for certain levels of scholarship and housed those first 300 works Several shelves of those early books still sit in their original positions though they are not and were not faced spines out but have their original numbers handwritten on the fore-edges The Bodleian curator of rare books Clive Hurst hosted us for a short while to introduce his exhibit Dickens amp His World He being a Dickens scholar was quite excited about the project and its timing to celebrate his 200th birthday After our class dispersed Anthony took a few of us to New College for a bit of a tour where we delighted in the 14thc buildings plus a dining hall straight out of the movies Then we walked through their gardens and to the Oxford City Wall I also went into the covered market the Ashmolean and lastly to Blackwellrsquos bookstore before heading home
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
This is part of what is now called the Oxford City Wall dated to sometime in the 13th century
even though it wasnrsquot a lsquocityrsquo until about 1542
Eagle and Child Turf Tavern Radcliffe Camera New College Gate Oxford Covered Market
Divinity College Chapel
Ashmolean Museum 3 July 2012 Oxford
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
4 July 2012 Graham Bell talked about trade books and brought up web-scale discovery systems like Primo Ebsco and OCLC Open access journals originally got their bad reputations because they werenrsquot peer reviewed In the last couple of years open access (and therefore grey literature) has become more acceptable however these open access journals are being pressured to be more rigorously re- ferred This made me think perhaps there will be a sort of aggregate place where one could register their blog IF they met the criteria to be considered grey literature of their own making Interoperability for ebooks is currently a standards joke as there are lsquostandardsrsquo for nooks and kindles itrsquos just that they donrsquot work on each otherrsquos operating systems The sort of lsquofood pyramidrsquo of publishing a document apex to base is Content Structure (paragraphs highlighting etc) Appearance and metadata With the basemetadata being what sells it When you copy lsquon paste a pdf you are only retaining content not structure amp appearance which is fine for lsquonowrsquo research but bad for Archiving andor preservation of that same document Sage Publishing hosted us in the afternoon They said they were interested in learning about and creating tools an individual can use to Add metadata to ndashattach to products of their own making This would drive Those documents up in searches but what about badly done metadata What About what will become historic internet documents Will they in essence Become obsolete because they have less fully formed metadata I wonder too how searching can and will change so that one can conduct visual-only searching online that is to say beyond Googlersquos image Option Imagine a cross between that Photosynth and facial recognition To create a semiotic image search Please somebody make this soon
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
A sample entry page for a Sage journal
HAPPY 4th OF JULY
Millennium Bridge looking towards
St Paulrsquos Cathedral
Anthony has this habit of fussing his buttons
when hersquos contemplating what
hersquos going to say
After class I went to the Tate Modern There was a Damien Hirst exhibit up which this body is part of
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
5 July 2012 Cambridge On this traveling day we first stopped at ProQuest Matt Kibel said their mission is to provide indispensable research solutions that connect people and information One of their major projects continues to be Early English Books but they are expanding that with books from other European countries They will be able to cover the costs to digitize with both public and private partners They are conscious of their online tools and work at training librarians in their use as well as working at interfaces to lsquo-help users feel comfortable clicking onto an unknown database-rsquoThey try to resolve the challenge of sifting thru information and look at how research behavior changes (ex probing moving from niche topic to nonrelated to answering questions) The folks at ProQuest gave us a bit of a tour inside before the presentations They also gave us goodie bags which I thought was very kind We had lunch at the Granta which is a riverside pub and quite stunning as a backdrop with the colorful flowers and punting boats After lunch we walked under Anthonyrsquos guidance thru the area He lives nearby and I think Pembroke was his Alma mater Again just as if it were meticulously crafted everything was gorgeous complete with cows grazing -Kingrsquos College in the background
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
5 July 2012 Kingrsquos College Cambridge
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
5 July 2012 Cambridge -continued Our walk brought us to the Kingrsquos College Chapel We had no tour specifically of this Gothic building Alongside on the interior of the Chapel there is a bit of an exhibit and I think I read that it was built in the early 16thc The ceiling is described as the worldrsquos largest fan vault and makes you dizzy itrsquos so high up With those fans and ceiling height I would be curious to hear their famous choir give a performance At Pembroke College we went into a Victorian building which serves As their undergraduate collection library We went on a tour of it with their head librarian Pat Aske a particularly kind lady with a giggle that was infectious and completely sweet She described the collection as being appropriate for the first year or so As a student would continue to becoming a specialist in another subject there were other specialty libraries on campus whose collections would better suit their research needs We went up to the Yamada Reading room Anthony said it used to be a place called The Reader where the Footlights used to meet I had to look that up as Irsquod never heard of them It was an amateur theatrical club founded in 1883 by Cambridge students Down in their Special collections Pat showed us a printed book which featured green-tinted pages The card next to it attributed it to William Caxton which was cool as he was an important printer in the history of the book He also I believe is credited with achieving a standardization of the English language that is the spelling probably to help with dialects amongst other things Given a choice I would in a heartbeat go to school in Cambridge
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
Pat Aske Head
Librarian
Pembroke College view from undergraduate library
Green tinted pages from a William Caxton
binding
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
6 July 2012 Last day of class Bittersweet last day of class We discussed our trip to Cambridge as well as the class and the subject of e-publishing in general We are cautioned as we move forward to look at e-publishing not just from a librarianrsquos perspective but also from a researcherrsquos and even better if we could also see it from the publisherrsquos point of view Joyce Ray discussed her field of digital curation The idea of how to consider the management of digital assets over their lifetime We have to connect with users online we have to be persistent give reliable information for data reuse and to advance research maximize our and the usersrsquo investment not to mention that of the researchersrsquo What is the workflow Data use and reuse Archives and Publishers Content-Context-Access ndashpieces of a trustworthy repositoryrsquos archival principles Disciplinary differences affect curation practices She talked about search engine optimization with keywords amp phrases And to be aware always of metadata which would serve a semantic web Class ended early so I went walkabout and did a bit of shopping We all met up at the Spaghetti House for a sendoff dinner Andy sang us ldquoThe Bold Librarianrdquo and besides the delicious food I played musical chairs and found most of us to be in love with Cambridge and very hopeful that Dean Giannini will be able to get her Pratt Phd program off the ground for Library Science Afterwards most of us went to sing Karaoke ndashgood times
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
7 July 2012 My last day in London I slept in It was fantastic Goals for the day 1 Get to Book Art bookshop 2 Go to artist Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio The Book Art bookshop is the sole place in London to get artists books so I was really looking forward to this store According to their Hours they would be open till midafternoon so I would have plenty Of time to look As I walked up they said oh wersquore closing wersquore going to an exhibit hellipso no artists books for me a true bummer I caught a bus to Vincentrsquos studio Hersquos an abstract painter whom I had just met in NYC earlier this summer at Bushwick Open Studios Thankfully this turned out to more than make up for the failed bookstore visit Vincent has had this particular studio for more than a decade he said Between the visitors checking out all of the open studios he and I talked Art all afternoon Vincent had pulled out a series of heart shaped collages that were ldquooldrdquo according to him just for me since he knows how much I adore them Vincent gifted me one which I promptly hung on my wall So I guess instead of leaving my heart in London I took one home with me 8 July 2012 I sat in Trafalgar Square for a couple of hours and then headed to Heathrow for the ride back to the States A fantastic trip and class
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
Heart collage
Vincent Hawkinsrsquo studio
7 July 2012
8 July 2012 leaving the
UK
