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2015-06-01
Shiri, Ali, Stobbs, Robyn, Farnel, Sharon, Cockney, Cathy, Rathi, Dinesh, Campbell, Sandy
This project seeks to: 1. Investigate and identify the information needs and information seeking behaviour of community members in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. 2. Identify and select cultural heritage information. 3. Create a culturally appropriate metadata framework for resource...
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Automating Metadata Creation: Enhanced Discovery and Description of Maternal Child Health Data
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Roark, Kendall, Farnel, Sharon, Harrigan, Amanda, Vashishtha, Saurabh
This poster for the NADDI 2016 conference shows the processes we implemented to pre-populate parts of our DDI-compatible metadata schema with publicly and locally available information. We have developed in-house scripts to export and import the metadata from resources such as NCBI,...
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2016-03-10
Vashishtha, Saurabh , Harrigan, Amanda, Farnel, Sharon, Roark, Kendall
This presentation was an update to library staff on the progress that has been made on the CLIR-funded "Bridging the Research Data Divide." It outlines the initial processes taken to describe maternal, infant, and child health research data and engage researchers.
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Using Local and Traditional Knowledge to Define a Digital Library for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
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Rathi, Dinesh, Piltingsrud, Anastasia, Farnel, Sharon, Maloney, Elaine, Shiri, Ali, Cockney, Cathy, Stobbs, Robyn, Campbell, Sandy
This poster was presented at the University of the Arctic Scientific Congress held in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 16 - 19, 2016. The poster describes the developments in the Digital Library North project, a collaboration between the University of Alberta School of Library and Information...
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2016-02-15
Rathi, Dinesh, Maloney, Elaine, Farnel, Sharon, Campbell, Sandy, Stobbs, Robyn, Shiri, Ali, Cockney, Cathy
Digital Library North (DLN) is an ongoing project with the overarching goal of creating a digital library infrastructure for the north. In Canada’s North access to information has been limited by the geographic dispersion of the population, lack of high-speed communications infrastructure, and...
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2016-07-01
Farnel, Sharon, Campbell, Sandy, Stobbs, Robyn, Rathi, Dinesh, Maloney, Elaine, Shiri, Ali, Piltingsrud, Anastasia, Cockney, Cathy
The Digital Library North is being developed jointly by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre and the University of Alberta. The goal is to create a digital library that will meet the needs of the Inuvialuit people. The Inuivialuit people recognize three dialects of the Inuvialuktun language:...
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2016-04-07
Farnel, Sharon, Vashishtha, Saurabh , Novak Gustainis, Emily, LaFountain, Amber, Harrigan, Amanda, Roark, Kendall
This presentation for NADDI 2016 gives an overview of the processing work that has gone into research data description for the two types of collections being described in the "Bridging the Research Data Divide" project: special collections and contemporary research collections.
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2017-05-18
This flag of the Hamlet of Aklavik was displayed in a public building. It is yellow with black bars on either side of a circle which surrounds a triangular shield on which there is a door mouse below an open book. The words "Never Say Die" appear in an arc below the shield. The words Hamlet...
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2017-12-01
This lightning strike presentation discusses the idea of considering community contributed and approved metadata to be instances of digital storytelling as it empowers them to use digital means to tell their own stories in the way they wish them to be told. The presentation was given at the...