 We'll go ahead and get started. Welcome to the final session of day one at CNI. I'm Paige. I'm our communications coordinator. If I haven't met any of you, I would love to meet you tonight at the reception or tomorrow. Please come find me. So now we are going to conclude with our five minute lightning round sessions. I just ask that you please hold your applause or try to hold your applause between each session. Also, please hold your questions for tomorrow or tonight up on floor four for our reception, which immediately follows this. Also, this session will be recorded, much like everything else here today, and will be posted online in the coming weeks following this meeting. And immediately following the five minute lightning round sessions, my colleague Diane is going to come up, give a brief overview about our breakfast discussion tables, which will also take place on the fourth floor tomorrow. And then we're going to have a few of those facilitators also introduce their breakfast topics. So there'll be a few more speakers following the five that we have up here. So without further ado, I will pass it over to Peter, and we'll go ahead and get started. Thank you. Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming. I had to dash offstage to get my reading glasses. So I'm reading off of notes written primarily by Nettie Lagasse of NISO. And I'm filling in for Mike Furlow, who unfortunately couldn't be with us this C&I. So thank you for tolerating my read-along primary motive of presentation here. So this lightning talk will briefly describe elements of the NISO draft recommended practice on control digital lending, which is available for public comment through April 21. Mark the date on your calendars, please. I'm a member of the working group. We hope you'll take a look at that document and provide your reactions to it. This project began at NISO in early 22, after many groups had already started discussions, experimentations, and implementations on CDL based on white papers by Michelle Wu, Kyle Courtney, Dave Hansen, and others. The intent of this work at NISO, partially supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is to articulate gaps in system interconnectivity and to recommend how these needed connections might be made. If CDL is more broadly supported technically, it would be possible for more libraries to adopt it, whether or not they are large, well-funded academic institutions. If there is a better understanding of how elements of CDL can't connect, vendors or libraries themselves could create products or services to fill the gaps. After the comment period closes next month, the working group will review and respond to the submissions and potentially make changes to the recommended practice before it is approved and published by NISO. We hope to release it in its final form in early June. Cross your fingers. And hope. So I expect that many of us are familiar with and well acquainted with the outlines of control digital lending, which has been in use in libraries for some years now. CDL, by definition, includes support for own-to-lone ratios and content protection. This NISO project did not address legal aspects of CDL, which are out of scope for the project. And the document encourages libraries to evaluate any implementation at a local level, consulting with your own legal counsel. There were a few publishers who participated in the early discussions of the working group and various of the committees. But as the talk moved to details of lending protocols and other library systems, often at a fairly low technical level, they dropped out for reasons of expertise and time. But we hope to have publishers responding to this document and have circulated announcements to publishing channels as well. CDL, sorry, allergies here in California. CDL is part of a family of digital lending capabilities, including digitally-owned materials, licensed e-book materials, converted print to digital, free-to-read, and open educational resources. It's related to these other types, which are not examined specifically in the draft document, which focuses on CDL only. We do recognize that all of these mechanisms for lending need to interoperate harmoniously within the library's management systems, policies, and processes in order to provide a unified front-end interface and experience to the end user, who, of course, won't really care what type of digital product it is. The working group sorted types of controlled digital lending into four architectural models. Model one, standalone, and model two, which is a local integration with content or catalog systems, represent the types that work within a single institution. Model three, consortial, shared infrastructure, and model four, distributed or fully decentralized, represent how CDL can be managed across two or more libraries. Of course, complexity escalates the further along this path you give. The draft recommended practice describes each of these in much more detail and in a comparative fashion. It also includes technical considerations for each. For example, how inventory must be connected and what metadata needs to be shared. The RP also includes general challenges that focus on data formats in interoperability. For example, we describe scanning standards, file formats, and the metadata for discovery, as well as authentication and authorization and the complexities of access controls across institutions. Most of these discussions took place with a particular focus on providing a seamless user experience. Next steps outside the scope of this work, but hopefully to be taken up by NISO and others, are to further study to help solve some of the most critical issues that we've identified and to prove communication between and with industry partners. This slide is a snapshot from one of our appendices. The working group used an environmental scan of the marketplace in its early discussions to sort out various qualities and capabilities which led to the development of those four models. We hope all of the diagrams and the tables in the document will allow readers to better understand both existing and possible future offerings. This is the complete cast of characters who served on the working group. All of a sudden the working group look forward to receiving your comments and on the draft document before April 21st. You can access it at the working group webpage and via the NISO homepage. Thank you very much. Hi everyone. So today I want to share a project we started this year at the Center and the Virginia Tech Libraries. So AI, John McKenzie in 1955, coin AI in computer science is almost like 69 years old and AI changed a lot especially last year. So AI is a tool now is commonly accessible to everybody. I teach AI arguing to my students every week. And it's not like AI is not just like arguing in the past, a lot of computer science researchers to working in the lab. Right now, just like I do on the weekend, I teach my kids how to use Treaded GPT because everybody can use that. And to use these tools, it's become like you need to think about how do you work with these tools? It will help you. And again, this is the tools. So you have your domain knowledge and with these tools, and it will become more efficient and more productive. As you can see, now everybody can be a sorceress. You have a tool. And if you know how to interact with these tools, tell them what you want to do and you will become more powerful. Okay. But interact with AI techniques. For example, we hear a lot of transformers today, right? So if you simply ask just a GPT or whatever, quite transformer, so you maybe he will get you this kind. Or maybe a movie, right, transformer, right? But actually you want to ask transformer, right? Which is built entire quite a bit, chat box we see today, right? It's very complex. And so you need skills. And also you can see there are a lot of research, right? If you really expert on talk to these tools, you will get very good performance. And then you not apply to a field, you apply to multiple field. And you can see on the left side, you can apply to a philosophy law and a lot different law, a lot different. As long as you know how to talk to them, okay? So these two, about it, so there are a lot of technique research, like there are a lot of pump engineering and they tell you how to talk to them. And of course, like a little shot, free shot, channel of salt, and maybe a lake. Make it just another kind of pump engineering just with the source that you have, right? And before you answer the question to your users, you combine your back end with your own data, right? Supply with the user's pump to these models that they can generate the answer which will narrow down like my ghost reference or something like. And also you can think about it. So our brain have two systems, okay? If you read a book called Thinking Fast and Slow, they tell you our brain have two systems. One system one and another system two, okay? System one just like quickly just answered. You ask you like two parts, two is what? You just simply answer four very quickly, right? Most of our time just like just using system one. But we're human different with machines. Most of the time we create our value or creativity is using system two, okay? Just like I create these slides. I use most of my system two, okay? So this is like additional, okay? So back to here, right? If we can use some kind of this technique created by these companies, right? And we just using them, okay? And using our logic, okay? So we can create more efficiently, okay? And the cultural counter, so this is also another research you can see. With this help, a lot of people use that, increase a lot of productivity and efficiency. This is from the Microsoft, okay? So which come to our project? So we start upon libraries. So sources need a spell book, right? So we need upon recipes. And we want to create a project to share this recipe to everybody, okay? So it's a collect every useful point, efficient point to interact with large language models in order to get the result we want, okay? And also we want to create this one and we can create data set to find you this language model for a particular domain, okay? All right, so this is our center. So we start from these upon libraries and we also want to create some form education and help user to how to use these tools more efficiently. And also make parties, okay? And so library for the future, right? So think about other companies, similarly it's just one example, right? They just up skills, okay? And we can think upon engineering maybe is another kind we can help librarian to use these and to do many different things, okay? Thank you. Good afternoon everyone, my name is Chris Prom and I am the associate dean for digital strategies at the University of Illinois Library. My goal in this brief time is to describe a project that has deep significance to me personally in my evolution of my work related to digital preservation and to network building and also to invite your participation and support in this project. It seeks to expand the range of institutions and people who are able to participate and determine the content and shape of digital archives. And while I would like to emphasize it, while I'm one member of this team, the group that I'm working with is really an entire group of people from Africa who discussed their needs with me and brought forth the project idea that I'm presenting here and I'm very humbled to be presenting this on their behalf. So the project that I am seeking to describe seeks to support groups in Africa who are working already to digitally preserve and provide access to indigenous knowledge. This is knowledge that contributes to and that they see will foster both social good and the achievement of sustainable development goals. The project takes as its basis that this is really a matter of epistemic justice, both in whose stories we are preserving and also in the ways in the people who participate in shaping the systems that preserve and network indigenous knowledge. I'd like to emphasize that while the project is the result, it's really the result both of some deliberate planning that took place and also a little bit fortuitous. Planned in that the African partners had been working with the Digital Preservation Coalition for many years, hoping to attend iPres meetings and other facilitated deeper engagement with digital preservation resources that had been developed in the global north, but also fortuitous in that a specific set of circumstances led to these five African partners coming to Urbana-Champaign last fall for the iPres meeting when we were able to resolve visa issues and we were able to get funding from some of our academic partners to bring them. So we sponsored five individuals from a variety of African countries in the group after the meeting expressed a strong desire for a north-south partnership to develop so that they can benefit from digital preservation resources and network resources that we have in the north, but also so that they could incorporate their own knowledge and expertise back into materials that had been developed in the north. So the vision that the partners described to me really complements other projects that are currently taking place such as the Endangered Archives Program and the Modern Endangered Archives Program as well as initiatives that Clear, for instance, has launched with their hidden collections in Africa Initiative. What's really new here is that this project seeks to catalyze African leadership and to activate a network of people in Africa who are engaged in community-engaged research and links that preserve digitization and preservation and networking of these resources specifically to the achievement of sustainable development goals. You can see here the initial partners. What happened here? I think I'm going the wrong direction. That was bad. Okay, so here you see one slide and I think I'm going to bring it forward here. So there's the group from iPres 2023 and we have our partners here. So here you can see them listed. And as a group, the teams listed here are seeking to do three things. First is to develop some training materials. Second, to provide the trainer session in the use of those materials in Botswana, in Ghana, and in Kenya. And then third, to provide tangible support for community champions, indigenous knowledge holders and African partners who wish to digitally preserve and provide access to indigenous knowledge. Specifically on topics related to food production, ecosystem preservation, climate change mitigation strategies, peace building, and reconciliation efforts. The project's ultimate aim is to facilitate long-term reciprocal partnerships. We do have a short-term grant from the University of Illinois call to action program and to continue fostering community-engaged research. So there are the goals and I think I'm a little bit behind on my slides. But I'd just like to say that work will commence with a summit that we're beginning in September of 2024 at the iPres meeting in Ghent, Belgium. So if you're interested in that and in this project, come to Ghent and speak with me there more about it. Thank you. Thank you so much. So today I will introduce an organic farming-inspired library-founding model and its implementation at Virginia Tech Libraries. The purpose of this finding model is to cultivate library transformation. So transforming the library's technology and service model is a complicated matter. For example, how can we move the library to be more embedded in campus research and learning? And how to motivate our librarians to be more proficient in using tools like AI and data sciences. If our staff have very little positive experience with this, the chances that they will move along with us is not very high. Learning the lessons from organic farming, we know that in order to have more sustainable yields, we must do two things. The first is to put more time, efforts and resources to prepare the soil to teal, to fertilize, and to water. And the second is to avoid introducing artificial stimulus to forcefully promote the growth. In other words, let the nature take its courses. So the four Chinese characters highlighted in the background paintings caption refers to a cautionary tale told by Manchus, circa 300 BC, about a man who was so anxious about the slow growth of his crops' seedlings that he pulled them up. So going to the first components of organic farming, how to prepare the soil, the water, and fertilizer for library growth. Like farming, library transformation needs a symbiotic local environment. In other words, we need our local faculty members and students to work very closely with the library. To incentivize campus partnership, Virginia Tech Libraries initiated a seed grant program to fund research collaboration between library staff and campus researchers through short-term projects that directly advance the researchers instead of the library's agenda. As a condition to receive the seed funding, a project must include at least one library staff and one campus researcher as KPIs and equal partners. A proposed project must leverage library resources and or expertise. Now the second component of organic farming, the not pulling your seedlings part, that translate to avoid peak winners and allow 1,000 flowers to bloom on their own terms. That was the idea behind the program design that replaces the standard merit review with the scope review. In this case, a library admin, in this case that was me, worked with and established a faculty member to turn the scope review into a mentoring process to help early career faculty members and library staff to crystallize research ideas and scope them down into actionable items. The winners then are selected through a lottery. In two years, Virginia Tech Libraries have invested $325,000 to found 48 projects, involving 60 faculty members from all Virginia Tech colleges and 32 unique library staff from all library departments. So what are this library staff's core competency that qualifies them to be equal partners in these projects? Not surprisingly, data science, AI, systematic review and maker space expertise together represent about a third of these partnerships. Also blooming are our disciplinary expertise in 3D VR, bioinformatics, social sciences methods, especially running surveys, agriculture and VATMAT, as well as the library's forte, such as metadata, publishing, digitization, data management, and web development. We're also very delighted to see that newly developed strength in podcasting, hip hop, oral history, and research impact are also recognized by our faculty members. Many of these skills are derived not only from the library's education and training experience, but also their life experience and their social networks. So what about outcome? First, this program is a major DEI win. Faculty members in assistant professor rank and women BIPOC faculty members are significantly more likely to be selected than their campus demographic compositions. The reasons is not that we pick the winners, but that people from these groups are just more likely to apply for this grant. And in terms of research productivity, it's also very high. And remember, these are very short-term projects, and so far, within two years, one book, many peer review papers, and other forms of creative work such as music concert and podcast have been produced. Actually, the large portion of the deliverables of these projects are actually external proposal, external funding proposals. And innovative open education resources project recently won a publishing award, and then three of those external funding proposals is being founded by National Archive, NEH, and Malone Foundation. So these funding makes the C grants return on investment reaches about 300%, make this pilot also a financial success. So in addition to Virginia Tech, three other ARRA members libraries are currently studied as model and will implement their local adaptation through a project called Joint Professional Development Institute or Joint PDI. So if your library is also interested in knowing more or even participate, please get in touch. The project website is at jointpdi.gihub.io. Thanks a lot. All right, thank you. My name is John Dunn. I am Assistant Dean for Library Technologies at Indiana University Bloomington. But I am here today as a member of the Digital Preservation Coalition. And I am here to talk with you about a new program of work just launched by the Digital Preservation Coalition, or DPC, that will support existing and new members across the Americas, bringing greater access to good practice and excellence within the dynamic digital preservation community across the region. But first, digital preservation. So digital preservation in the context of the DPC is the series of managed activities required to ensure that digital materials are available in the format we need them, when we need them, for as long as required. This is quite a challenge, as all of you know, and not something that any of us can do alone. Therefore, collaboration is a central pillar of a shared response to this shared global challenge. One cannot collaborate alone, and in the DPC, we work together. It takes the community and all are welcome in the dynamic and diverse DPC community. Originally founded in 2002 by its first members in the UK and Ireland, the DPC's membership has now grown to incorporate 157 members in 24 countries around the world, including 19 right now across the Americas. With staff already in the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands, the DPC works with its network of organizations to deliver resilient, long-term access to digital content and services through community engagement, targeted advocacy work, training and workforce development activities, capacity building, and sharing of good practice and standards. And that is done through the ways that you see here on this slide, as well as many more in addition. Oops. Which brings us to the present day and the newly launched DPC Americas program of work. The DPC Americas program will see a new US-based DPC dedicated staff member working to support existing and new members across the Americas region. And I should note recruitment for this position is happening right now. The new DPC dedicated staff member will be given an organizational home by the New York City-based nonprofit Ithaca, a longtime DPC member organization. They will be employed by Ithaca and seconded full time to deliver the DPC Americas program of work. This program will bring greater attention and access to good practice and excellence within the digital preservation community from across North, Central and South America. By establishing a US-based resource, DPC hopes to expand its collaboration with the established robust digital preservation community that already exists in the Americas to complement, celebrate and sustain their activities and amplify them for other DPC members around the world. And after a period of planning and development, DPC will deliver a program of face-to-face events for members of the Americas, as well as facilitate acknowledge exchange between organizations in the region through briefing days, working groups and task forces. So Indiana University Libraries is a very new member of the DPC. We joined just last month in February as an associate member. And really the reasons for joining the DPC in our case were twofold. One is this broad goal of helping to advance the cause of digital preservation to sustain access to research and cultural heritage for future generations, but also at a practical level so that we could better learn from and contribute to the broader global digital preservation community. So at IU, we have a very large amount of digital data under preservation, compared to many of our peer institutions in the US. We have about 20 petabytes of data under preservation, mainly created through digitization of video and or audio and moving image materials, but also all of the other sorts of formats that all of us are dealing with. And we really need to bring in that global perspective to help us figure out how to sustain our digital preservation activities and in exchange, help to be able to share some of our unique experience and learnings in dealing with audio-visual resources and dealing with large-scale digital preservation from our own context, back with that broader community. So Chris Prom, who spoke just a little bit ago from University of Illinois, and I will be hosting a breakfast discussion table tomorrow morning from 7.45 to 9 a.m. If you'd like to find out more about joining this inclusive digital global community of the DPC or ask questions about the DPC's work, so just look for our table sign in the breakfast room or you can email the DPC team directly using the contact details on this slide. Thank you very much.