As the environment and climate have increasing impact on the economic sustainability of our country, scientists are being compelled through their own interest or through directives from funding agencies to share the results of their research, which often take the form of collections of data. Sharing collections, particularly at scale where the volumes are large, introduces numerous challenges that we discuss in the context of our research and additional challenges that we point out as unaddressed problems. We discuss in particular provenance collection with a system independent collection tool, Karma, the XMC Cat application schema friendly metadata catalog, and the integration of data streams into a workflow composer, XBaya. We conclude with a discussion of the goals of the Data to Insight Center within the Pervasive Technologies Institute of which the Center for Data and Search Informatics and the Digital Library Program have a role.

We'll take a look at mobile design from the perspectives of a course taught at CHI2009 and what is currently happening at IU. Mobile design ideas for the DLP and the Libraries will be discussed (ideas from the audience will also be most welcome) and tools for testing mobile devices will be reviewed.

The Victorian Women Writers Project started at Indiana University in 1995, under the leadership of Perry Willett, and had as its stated goal "to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century." In 2007, encouraged by interest among the English department's faculty and graduate students, the Libraries and the English Department began exploring how to best reinvigorate this project, and over the summer of 2009 work has begun to upgrade the current contents of the VWWP and to add new texts. Currently plans are underway to involve English graduate student in the encoding process. This brown-bag conversation will share the changes to date and look ahead to the plans we are making to incorporate the VWWP in English graduate courses thereby establishing an ongoing dedication to this scholarly encoding project.

The Variations/FRBR project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services from 2008 to 2011, is designed to fully implement the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) conceptual model in the production Variations music discovery system at IU. The project will provide an innovative discovery platform for musical materials on our campus, and will serve as a model for the development of other FRBRized library catalogs. This presentation will discuss the goals and accomplishments of the project, particular challenges our project team has encountered in turning a conceptual model into a concrete data model with an XML binding, and other technical issues surrounding the move from a MARC-based library catalog to a FRBR-based one.

Policy-based management systems are used to assemble data grids for sharing data, digital libraries for publishing data, and persistent archives for preserving reference collections. Each environment provides similar functionality, while implementing unique management policies for retention, disposition, distribution, and replication. The integrated Rule Oriented Data System enforces management policies, automates administrative functions, and automates validation of assessment criteria. The principles behind the construction of policy-based data management infrastructure will be presented, as well as projects using the technology.

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 DL brown bag 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.

Sakai 3 will eventually mean a major change in IU's Oncourse. This talk will provide an overview of Sakai 3 current plans and directions. A demo will illustrate some of the major changes coming in Sakai, including a new emphasis on content authoring and social media. There will also be an opportunity to discuss the implications of Sakai 3 for libraries.