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ScholarSpace and Scholarly Communication: A Needs Assessment

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05) Tillinghast, Beth

In the last few years there has been a marked increase in the number of educational and cultural institutions worldwide which are in the process of developing institutional repositories. Though there is a dramatic increase in the development of institutional repositories, it is, therefore, a curious phenomenon that developers of these repositories often struggle with populating them with content. This poster displays information from a recently-completed paper, which explores this situation and discusses a needs assessment conducted at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to better understand how best an institutional repository can meet the research needs of faculty and researchers at that campus. Results from the needs assessment will be graphically displayed as part of the poster.
Don't Miss This! Recent Outputs from JISC's Repositories Work

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05) Mahey, Mahendra ; Robertson, R. John ; Stevenson, Adrian

Building on the successful 03/05 programme, JISC's Repositories and Preservation programme began on June 1st 2006 and runs until March 31st 2009. As part of the Digital Repositories Programme, JISC established the Repositories Research Team. In the final stages of the programme the RRT are producing a sort of annotated index for the outputs of the programme to be used in the next stage of the process, which will be the actual synthesis and evaluation of the outcomes. The blog in progress is available at http://rrtsynthesis.wordpress.com/. Our poster will present a snapshot of twelve project outputs that we think the repository community may not know about but could be of immediate benefit to them. The indentified outputs cover areas such as: plug-ins and add-ons for repositories, repository workflow design, standards usage and related guidelines, and stand alone tools. Our criteria in the selection of the outputs will be: outputs that are ready to use, that aren't already very well-known, and that aren't otherwise disseminated at OR2009. We'll include outputs of obvious benefit that address basic questions faced by repository managers : how do I?, what do I need to know about?
Customizing DSpace Manakin for Educational Video Collections to Enhance User Experience

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05) Foster, Marie ; Huang, Jane Q. ; Moen, William E. ; Polyakov, Serhiy

The poster reports our experience of using DSpace Manakin for Starlink Video Repository. The project is a cooperation between STARLINK (Richardson, TX) and TxCDK of University of North Texas, under the supervision of Dr. William Moen. The project uses DSpace v.1.5 Manakin to create a dynamic digital repository system to store, manage and present STARLINK's various video collections. STARLINK has recently successfully launched its Ideas Collection with the new depository with much improved user interface and seamless integration with STARLINK's existing web site. More collection will be added to the depository for more streamlined operation. The project showcases DSpace as a low-cost and flexible platform appropriate for educational institution like STARLINK to run a web-based depository system for better resource sharing and user interaction. The poster will also discuss the challenges the project faced in customizing DSpace to provide different types of access for subscription and non-subscription users, and DSpace Manakinâ s better interface design functionalities.
Building an Institutional Repository in Hard Times

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05) Holt, Michael ; Oguz, Fatih ; Landis, Cliff

This poster presents an overview of an exploratory research initiative to examine and assess the viability of developing an institutional repository system at a teaching-oriented four-year university with minimal monetary commitment. A need has been identified for an institutional repository and necessary steps have been taken to implement it. Several departments worked together to create a prototype Institutional Repository using DSpace, an open source repository software. This repository represents a unique endeavor, in that it has been instituted at a non-research based university and has chosen to involve students in the planning, design, implementation, and documentation stages of the project. In addition, the university's Library Science students will also be involved in creating and maintaining collections. This poster focuses on the steps taken to set up and the plans to maintain a quality Institutional Repository at Valdosta State University without placing a large demand on the institution's resources.
UPR Digital Repository Instrument of Community of Practice to Support Research

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05) Centeno, Purisima

The poster presentation illustrates all the steps to create a UPR Digital Repository, the structures and the impact of this development in support the research and creative work in UPR. These initiative it's part of the project AILCUPR a Community of Practice to Support Research it's generate a UPR Digital Repository (http://dspace.uprrp.edu:8080/dspace/). A place in which UPR collect, preserve, disseminate and provide access to gray literature from researchers, faculty and student investigations from University of Puerto Rico. Our faculty and graduate students can deposit their research into the Repository. They can put posters, power point presentations offered in conferences and proceedings, and dissertation and master thesis. The poster aims to show how a community of practice strategy helps to develop a repository by strengthening good communications in a system wide university with 11 campuses across the island. It is expected that as a result of our management, develop an inventory of best practices and recommendations that can be implemented in other units or enclosures. This tool will facilitate and assist in developing the integration of information technology in areas of work in tandem to promote a sense of community among librarians UPR System and creative work in order to identify best practices around how to support the researcher, from the library, to develop and strengthen a culture of evaluation and appraisal. This community aims to identify and share information as a strategy of community support among the sites and units that comprise the UPR system. The project responds to initiatives by the Vice-President in Academic Affairs, University of Puerto Rico, through the umbrella project called Redefining the other communities in Practice UPR Libraries System: a collective experience. This project conforms to the following evaluation of academic libraries (Association of College and Research Libraries) to visit some campuses and some units and identify areas to strengthen. The methodology used in the project is through the formation of communities of practice, defined as groups of people who share an interest or passion for something they do, and learn how to do better as they interact regularly.
Music, Science, and Technology

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-03-03) Hunt, William D. ; Valk, Henry

Music and its performance have been part of our inheritance since primitive times. But what is music? How do we produce and hear it? How are popular instruments that we use to perform it, such as the guitar and piano, evolving? These and related questions will be discussed from the standpoint of current science and technology.
Transformers

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-03) Sweat, Kyle

The poster was designed based on a combination of related movie posters. The good versus evil was the main reasoning behind the layout of the poster. On the top of the poster is Megatron, the evil transformer. On the bottom of the poster, facing the opposite direction is Optimus Prime, the hero of the transformers. In between the two, stand two humans as if they are in the middle of the war between the transformers. The red background gives a feeling of violence or rage. The shadowing was done more on the top to give a darker feeling. In contrast, the bottom was made brighter to go along with the hero. The actor names were placed in the middle above the title to draw emphasis. They were not made to standout nor distract from the poster. The title was put in the middle and set as a dark, lonely color to project such feelings. The middle box was made to be distinctively different from the top and bottom to portray the difference between man and machine. The quote also implies that there will be some kind of death or lose within the film. While this is true, the viewer’s first impression may be to think a main character will die. The overall theme of the poster is similar to another which is more horizontally focused rather than vertically. The basic good versus evil theme is predominant in both. Man stuck in the middle of a war also appears in both posters. The main difference between the two is the orientation between the two transformers. While both are facing the same directions, one is above the other. This may give the viewer as sense that the villain is more powerful than the hero.
Band of Brothers

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-03) Sterritt, Justin

My poster is of the invasion of Normandy and how Easy Company, along with the rest of the 101st Airborne Division, was dropped behind enemy lines the night before D-day. I chose this event in the series, because it was a good representation of how soldiers had to trust their airplane and pilot to get them safely to their destination. It took bravery to go up in a plane that was going to be taking heavy gunfire from the enemy on the ground. One hit could end their chance of surviving the war. I began by just putting together images of a airplane and soldiers with parachutes together. I wanted to show an airplane that was flying overhead and dropping soldier behind enemy lines. The airplanes could hold many people, which meant that the company could fly and jump together, so I put many men parachuting down in a big group. Then I added explosions in the air, because the are dropping behind enemy lines. After that I placed a quote that Easy Company would use as a war cry. It was Currahee, which is a mountain located where they had basic training. As a group during basic training, they would suffer together, and run up the mountain many times. Then for the final touch I placed the title at the bottom of the poster. Also notice, that there are no individuals or faces, which helps preserve the concept of a unit. In addition to the images, I decided to go with a black and white color scheme for the poster. A black and white scheme made it look like a picture that could have been taken from the time period. Besides following the theme of trust between the soldiers and their plane and pilot, I also decided to go with a theme of awe. This is just a picture of one plane dropping many people out of one plane. The viewer can then imagine many more planes dropping more people behind enemy lines. The demonstrates the same awe to the viewer as it would have to the enemy when they saw thousands of soldiers parachuting around them. Overall the poster is to attract interest to by amazing the viewer using sublimation and evoking respect for the brave soldiers for trusting a relatively new technology. The drop of the airborne division was massive, and hard for a person to imagine. A person can wonder and might be able to begin to understand a drop of that size, but that person can’t fully visualize the drop with out an aid of some sort like video, and that is why a full picture is not shown on the poster. It intrigues the viewer to watch the show and find out.
Tora! Tora! Tora!

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-03) Wilson, Christopher

When making my own version of the Tora! Tora! Tora! movie poster, I chose to remain true to the simple color scheme in my design. I decided that the yellow was rather out of place with the other colors so I removed it in my design. I also omitted any author portraits or names because I felt them unnecessary in conveying the theme of my poster. The background of my poster is a photograph of the USS. Arizona explosion with a picture of a Japanese Zero fighter plane superimposed into the foreground. I believe the historical pictures not only let the viewer know what the movie is about, but also improve upon the old poster’s ominous tone while emphasizing the action of the film. When people go to the movies they want to see plenty of action, so I made sure to exploit that desire in my poster. In making my poster, I also changed the original dull red background to a transparent Japanese flag. Not only did I find the change more visually appealing than the original, but it also plays into the Japanese flag theme of the whole poster. In addition, I decided to place the title for the film in bright red font directly on the side of the fighter plane. This placement makes the title more noticeable and also emphasizes the speed and danger of the Japanese Zero sweeping in for the kill. To top it all off, I added bits of Roosevelt’s pearl harbor speech at the top and bottom of the poster. These quotes further hint at the plot, and also inspire a sense of reverence in the viewer. Together these elements make a solid advertisement that is still just as eye catching as the original poster, but more appealing to the modern moviegoer.
Pearl Harbor

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-03) Witharana, Janek

For the revision of the Pearl Harbor movie poster, I chose to make the love theme within the movie more evident. In the original poster, one can hardly guess that there is a love story in the movie since the main focus of the poster is the pilots and nurse in heroic poses and war imagery filling in the rest of the poster. To emphasize the love theme in the new poster, the three main characters are positioned in the near bottom center of the poster, silhouetted by the sun behind them. Since the three characters form a love triangle, all three had to help present the love theme. Ben Affleck’s character is embracing Kate Beckinsale’s character and a side profile image of the two is seen in front of the sun. Josh Harnett’s character is standing off to the right side of them and looking away from the couple, but Kate Beckinsale is extending her arm out behind her, out of Ben Affleck’s sight to hold on to Josh Harnett’s hand. This is as far as the representation of the love theme goes. The characters in the new poster are made to be small to show that their struggle is nothing compared to the epic conflict around them. The war theme has still a major part in the poster revision. The characters are emphasized in the center of the image but are small compared to the rest of the war imagery that surrounds them. The sun behind them is setting on the horizon above the ocean (the three characters are standing on the horizon). And emanating off the sun are rays that are slightly tinted red. This is an abstract image of the WWII era Japanese flag (the Rising sun). To either side of the poster are numerous warships, facing each other. And in the sky above the sun and horizon and ships is a Japanese aircraft formation flying out of the poster. The ocean is faded to black down to the bottom of the image where the title text is. The text is in a similar font to the one used on the original poster. The poster allows the viewer to assume with a greater degree of certainty that a love theme is prevalent throughout the movie. The evidence is the pilot and nurse embracing while the nurse is holding on to the hand of the other pilot. However, the viewer can still expect to see war action scenes and fighting. While the imagery in the poster is sparse, the viewer will have an easier time assuming that the movie incorporates two themes, love and war, which play large roles in the movie Pearl Harbor.