Notes: Lightning Talks, Round 3

Last modified by kaitlin on 2024-02-10, 23:53

This year, we're trying something new at Scholars Portal Day: shared session notes. An official note-taker will take notes throughout the session. If you have a spotdocs account, you can feel free to add your own notes to the page as well! If you don't have an account, contribute by leaving a comment below.

Picking a needle out of the haystack: where to start when you have 20,000 videos to caption - Nancy Waite, McMaster University
- Goal to make legacy video collection captioned by Jan 1, 2020
- Ensure catalogue record is up-to-date with captioning status
- 546 field with caption note
- Hoped to use closed-captioning as a search filter in the catalogue
- All video cases with captioning were labelled with yellow (closed captioning), blue (silent film), and red stickers (subtitles)
- Worked with the library's Video Booking Department
- Steps:
  - contact producer
  - upload to rev.com
  - receive files
  - burn in open captions with DVDFab
  - share files with instructors
- 37 titles captioned first year, 56 second year, only 2 so far this year
Starting the conversation: an initiative to highlight a wealth of resources by Indigenous authors - Kim Vallee, Lakehead University
- Northern Studies Resource Centre at Lakehead
- Increased demand for texts by indigenous author
- Used spine labels to identify indigenous authors
- Trudy Russo, library liason, did consultations with Aboriginal Support Services department
- Inspired by recommendations in CFLA Truth & Reconciliation Report - improving access to works by indigenous authors
- Lakehead has an indigenous content requirement for courses - see https://www.lakeheadu.ca/faculty-and-staff/departments/services/ai/icr
- Challenge that no comprehensive directory of indigenous author's, so one was created - see https://libguides.lakeheadu.ca/IndigenousAuthors/Language
- Strong Nations book seller (https://www.strongnations.com/) sold the spine labels, which include the four colours of the medicine wheel encircling a turtle (representing turtle island)
- Has helped librarians identify gaps in the collection
RDM in court: creating a repository for the Robinson Treaties Annuities Case - Tomasz Mrozewski, Laurentian University
- Open digital repository of books created by the Robinson Treaties case
- The case
  - Treaties signed in 1850, Robinson Huron and Robinson Superior
  - Plaintiffs hold that the crown have been remiss in their obligations and fiduciary duties stemming from these treaties
  - Being heard in 3 phases
- The project - open digital repository of...
  - 26 witness reports, reply reports, and affidavits
  - 11884 pages of transcripts (phase 1)
  - 224.8 GB of video (phase 1)
  - opening and closing statements, chronologies, exhibit lists, etc.
  - indices of ~2500 primary and secondary historical documents referenced, plus digital images (many images under copyright, though)
- Technical solution
  - Collection subject to a court order (currently being drafted); follows the Court's Decision on Broadcasting - http://canlii.ca/t/hpx5c
  - Use SP Dataverse and (probably) the OLRC to host the collection
  - Create documentation and pathfinders to navigate the collection and contextualize items in civil proceedings
  - Working with 2 advisory groups; one legal (reps from all parties), one Indigenous
- Being an 'accomplice'
  - Working closely with Office of the Associate VP, Academic & Indigenous Programs (AVPAI)
  - Working with Laurentian Native Education Council (LUNEC)
  - Ensuring work is done for the indigenous community, "in a good way"