Browsing by Author "McDonald, Robert"

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Big Digital Machine
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2009-11-11) McDonald, Robert
Many of us on the IU campuses have been hearing talk about the concept of the Big Digital Machine (BDM) at IU. This concept has been developed over the past two years by our CIO and Vice-President for Information Technology Brad Wheeler. This DLP BrownBag session will look at how the BDM concept is being applied to the Empowering People Information Technology Strategic Plan currently being implemented by the the university. Topics covered will concern strategic system-wide infrastructure as well as joint initiatives between the Libraries and UITS which will be leverage points for the facilitation of the BDM concept and its application to the Indiana University System.
The Data Capsule for Non-Consumptive Research: Final Report
Plale, Beth; Prakash, Atul; McDonald, Robert
Digital texts with access and use protections form a unique and fast growing collection of materials. Growing equally quickly is the development of text and data mining algorithms that process large text-based collections for purposes of exploring the content computationally. There is a strong need for research to establish the foundations for secure computational and data technologies that can ensure a non-consumptive environment for use-protected texts such as the copyrighted works in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Developing a secure computation and data environment for non-consumptive research for the HathiTrust Research Center is funded through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In this research, researchers at HTRC and the University of Michigan are developing a “data capsule framework” that is founded on a principle of “trust but verify”. The project has resulted in a novel experimental framework that permits analytical investigation of a corpus but prohibits data from leaving the capsule. The HTRC Data Capsule is both a system architecture and set of policies that enable computational investigation over the protected content of the HT digital repository that is carried out and controlled directly by a researcher.
HathiTrust Research Center Data Capsule v1.0: An Overview of Functionality
(Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2014-09-10) Plale, Beth; Zeng, Jiaan; McDonald, Robert; Chen, Miao
The first mode of access by the community of digital humanities and informatics researchers and educators to the copyrighted content of the HathiTrust digital repository will be to extracted statistical and aggregated information about the copyrighted texts. But can the HathiTrust Research Center support scientific research that allows a researcher to carry out their own analysis and extract their own information? This question is the focus of a 3-year, $606,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Plale, Prakash 2011-2014), which has resulted in a novel experimental framework that permits analytical investigation of a corpus but prohibits data from leaving the capsule. The HTRC Data Capsule is both a system architecture and set of policies that enable computational investigation over the protected content of the HT digital repository that is carried out and controlled directly by a researcher. It leverages the foundational security principles of the Data Capsules of A. Prakash of University of Michigan, which allows privileged access to sensitive data while also restricting the channels through which that data can be released. Ongoing work extends the HTRC Data Capsule to give researchers more compute power at their fingertips. The new thrust, HT-DC Cloud, extends existing security guarantees and features to allow researchers to carry out compute-heavy tasks, like LDA topic modeling, on large-scale compute resources. HTRC Data Capsule works by giving a researcher their own virtual machine that runs within the HTRC domain. The researcher can configure the VM as they would their own desktop with their own tools. After they are done, the VM switches into a "secure" mode, where network and other data channels are restricted in exchange for access to the data being protected. Results are emailed to the user. In this talk we discuss the motivations for the HTRC Data Capsule, its successes and challenges. HTRC Data Capsule runs at Indiana University. See more at http://d2i.indiana.edu/non-consumptive-research
HathiTrust Research Center User Requirements Study White Paper
(IDEALS @ Illinois, 2018-03-09) Dickson, Eleanor; Green, Harriett; Nay, Leanne; Courtney, Angela; McDonald, Robert
This paper presents findings from an investigation into trends and practices in humanities and social sciences research that incorporates text data mining. As affiliates of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), the purpose of our study was to illuminate researcher needs and expectations for text data, tools, and training for text mining in order to better understand our current and potential user community. Results of our study have and will continue to inform development of HTRC tools and services for computational text analysis.
Kuali OLE Project Update
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2012-11-28) McDonald, Robert; Charbonneau, Gary; Charbonneau, Mechael
The Kuali OLE version 0.8 release will be the first implementable release of Kuali OLE. This session will give an update to the project overall, and specific details as to the functionality included in version 0.8 and what is planned for 1.0. The presentation will include how Kuali OLE is using technologies, specifically Kuali Finance, Kuali Rice, and Apache Jackrabbit document repository, to deliver a complete environment for managing library collections and resources.
A Lot of Data for a Little Code: Get Data into VIVO Faster with the Jena Framework
(2012) Cobine, Ryan; Cliff, David; McDonald, Robert; Dunn, Jon W.; Light, Robert
RPID: An Overview
(2018-02-02) Quick, Rob; Luo, Yu; Zhou, Quan; McDonald, Robert
This is the presentation used at the RPID User Advisory Group meeting. Including an overview of the RPID testbed and the use cases evaluated during the RPID project.
Text Analysis of Kurt Vonnegut with the HathiTrust & Voyant
(2018-02-09) Gniady, Tassie; McDonald, Robert
This session will explore text analysis with Voyant on the work of Kurt Vonnegut. We will be using a HathiTrust Research Center Data Capsule and non-consumptive computing to create visualizations of these in-copyright texts. This analysis dovetails with the work being done by IU researchers as a part of Salo University.
The Times They Are A-Changin': Preservation of and Access to the Digital Output of Researchers
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2011-03-09) Porter, Dot; Laherty, Jennifer; McDonald, Robert
IU has developed a number of strategies for dealing with the digital scholarly output of IU faculty. In this session, information managers will outline these strategies and discuss plans for the future. Laherty will discuss the IUScholarWorks program which aims to make the digital output of IU scholars available and to ensure that these resources are archived, preserved and organized for the future. In this presentation, Laherty will briefly demonstrate IUScholarWorks services and explain its benefits, including the strategies for preserving records. Porter will examine the various ways that the Digital Library Program supports the preservation of faculty scholarship in the broad sense and will examine in more detail a few specific faculty-led projects the DLP has supported in the past. In addition, she will review DLP's participation in initiatives throughout the Libraries and across campus that support preservation of digital work through shared file formats, best practices, and shared infrastructure and technologies. Finally, McDonald will review IU's plans for research data curation and management.