scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Author

Jordan A. Vannoy

Bio: Jordan A. Vannoy is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emblem & Controlled vocabulary. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 5 citations.

Papers
More filters
Proceedings ArticleDOI
10 Jun 2012
TL;DR: A digital library Web application designed to better support the ways emblem scholars search for and use digitized emblem books, focusing on metadata design, issues of resource granularity and identification, and the use of Linked Data Web services for Iconclass, a multilingual classification system for cultural heritage art and images is described.
Abstract: Early Modern emblems combined text and image. Though there were many variants, the archetypical emblem literary form (mid-sixteenth through mid-eighteenth centuries) consisted of an image (the pictura), a text inscription (the inscriptio), and a text epigram (the subscriptio), the last usually in verse. Digitized emblem literature poses interesting challenges as regards content and metadata granularity, the use of interdisciplinary controlled vocabularies, and the need to present digitized primary sources in a complex network of associated sources, derivatives, and contemporaneous context. In this paper, we describe a digital library Web application designed to better support the ways emblem scholars search for and use digitized emblem books, focusing on metadata design, issues of resource granularity and identification, and the use of Linked Data Web services for Iconclass, a multilingual classification system for cultural heritage art and images. Outcomes to date, achieved by emblem scholars and librarians working in collaboration, provide a case study for multi-faceted, interactive approaches to curating mixed text-image digital resources and the use of Linked Data vocabulary services. Lessons learned highlight the value of librarian-scholar collaboration and help to illustrate why digital libraries need to move beyond merely disseminating digitized book surrogates.

5 citations


Cited by
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: Using a test set of MARC21 records describing 30,000 retrospectively digitized books, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library explored options for adding links, transforming into non-library specific LOD-friendly semantics, and deploying as RDF to maximize the utility of these records.
Abstract: Today researchers search for books in various ways. Once discovered, a variety of Web technologies can be used to link to related resources and/or associate context with a book. This environment creates an opportunity for libraries. The linked open data (LOD) model of the Web offers a potential foundation for innovative user services and the wider dissemination of bibliographic metadata. However, best practices for transforming library catalog records into LOD are still evolving. The practical utility on the Semantic Web of library metadata transformed from MARC remains unclear. Using a test set of MARC21 records describing 30,000 retrospectively digitized books, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library explored options for adding links, transforming into non-library specific LOD-friendly semantics, and deploying as RDF to maximize the utility of these records. This paper highlights lessons learned during this process, discusses findings to date, and suggests possible avenues for furt...

34 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This paper examines the ways in which scholars engage with the special collections contained within Emblematica Online through analysis of interviews and proposes that the diverse and complex uses of digital special collections require libraries and archives to consider expanding the capabilities of their digital content and platforms.
Abstract: Researchers increasingly engage with the digital archives built by libraries, archives, and museums, but many institutions still seek to learn more about researchers' needs and practices with these digital collections. This paper presents a user assessment study for Emblematica Online , a research digital library that provides digitized versions of emblem books from leading rare book collections. This paper examines the ways in which scholars engage with the special collections contained within Emblematica Online through analysis of interviews. The authors propose that the diverse and complex uses of digital special collections require libraries and archives to consider expanding the capabilities of their digital content and platforms.

7 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: How cataloging and metadata services units have been exploiting information technologies and creating new scalable workflows to adapt to these changes, and what is required to establish and maintain these workflows are discussed.
Abstract: Purpose Academic and research libraries have been experiencing a lot of changes over the last two decades. The users have become technology savvy and want to discover and use library collections via web portals instead of coming to library gateways. To meet these rapidly changing users’ needs, academic and research libraries are busy identifying new service models and areas of improvement. Cataloging and metadata services units in academic and research libraries are no exception. As discovery of library collections largely depends on the quality and design of metadata, cataloging and metadata services units must identify new areas of work and establish new roles by building sustainable workflows that utilize available metadata technologies. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This paper discusses a list of challenges that academic libraries’ cataloging and metadata services units have encountered over the years, and ways to build sustainable workflows, including collaborations between units in and outside of the institution, and in the cloud; tools, technologies, metadata standards and semantic web technologies; and most importantly, exploration and research. The paper also includes examples and uses cases of both traditional metadata workflows and experimentation with linked open data that were built upon metadata technologies and will ultimately support emerging user needs. Findings To develop sustainable and scalable workflows that meet users’ changing needs, cataloging and metadata professionals need not only to work with new information technologies, but must also be equipped with soft skills and in-depth professional knowledge. Originality/value This paper discusses how cataloging and metadata services units have been exploiting information technologies and creating new scalable workflows to adapt to these changes, and what is required to establish and maintain these workflows.

4 citations

01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: How humanities scholars increasingly are integrating digital resources into multiple aspects of their scholarly and pedagogical practices is considered.
Abstract: Introduction Academic libraries have a long history of creating digital content, but there have been few investigations into the efficacy of digital collections for the user communities they were designed to assist. This paper presents the preliminary results of a user study for Emblematica Online, a digital humanities project currently supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities’ grant to expand and enrich a digital archive of Renaissance emblem books from rare book collections around the world. Based on a preliminary analysis of how humanities scholars use Emblematica Online in research and teaching, this paper considers how humanities scholars increasingly are integrating digital resources into multiple aspects of their scholarly and pedagogical practices.

2 citations

01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: Why the emerging need for granularity of access and description makes the cataloging and metadata process a highly collaborative work is discussed, and a way to design and create a metadata schema for describing granular levels of resources is suggested.
Abstract: Meeting: 80 — Inspired moments in cataloguing — Cataloguing Abstract: As libraries collect and provide more resources in digital formats, new units of granularity have emerged in access and description. Digital surrogates or born-digital resources make it possible for users to access resources at more granular levels, e.g., a book or journal title can be accessed at chapter level, article level, and page level in addition to the book or journal title as a whole. To provide granular levels of access, metadata should be created at granular levels as well. This paper discusses why the emerging need for granularity of access and description makes the cataloging and metadata process a highly collaborative work, and suggests a way to design and create a metadata schema for describing granular levels of resources.

2 citations