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LYRASIS Research is a digital repository for research output at LYRASIS, including original staff research, Catalyst Fund reports, and grant related publications.
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Increasing Accessibility of Audiovisual Content Using Whisper: A LYRASIS Catalyst Fund Research Report
(LYRASIS; Emory University, 2024-12-20) Rao, Nina; O'Riordan, Simon
This project’s goal was to assess the viability of the open-source AI software tool Whisper as an accurate and cost-effective solution to captioning and transcribing audiovisual content in library, archive, and museum collections, and to develop resources that could be widely used by members of the Lyrasis community to caption and transcribe digital audiovisual materials at large scale, increasing the discoverability, searchability, and accessibility of these materials for all audiences and users. Over the course of 2023-2024, 250 hours of digitized audiovisual content from Emory Libraries were processed through Whisper, and the resulting caption and transcript files were edited by a team of student editors. Data was collected on optimal hardware and software configurations, average editing times for the output, and word error rate by collection. Resources created for use by the community include benchmarks for processing time, editing time, accuracy, and power consumption; style guide examples for editors; and step-by-step details of the project's workflow for caption creation and editing.
Creating a Microcredential Model: Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery for Libraries, Museums, and Performing Arts Centers
(LYRASIS, 2025-02-17) Grimes, Neil D.; Eddington, Samuel
In 2023, William Paterson University submitted an idea application to the Lyrasis Catalyst Fund. It outlined a microcredential model for professional development in the focus areas of disaster preparedness, crisis communication, response, and recovery to assist organizations in responding to crises brought on by climate change, natural disasters, and future pandemics. Lyrasis would pilot the microcredential from late May to early July 2024 on a small scale to a group of 8 participants consisting of current librarians, archivists, museum professionals, and performing arts leaders. All participants completed Lyrasis’ first microcredential and earned the organization’s first digital badge. The findings from the pilot study are presented in this case study.
CC-PLUS: Beyond the Danger Zone
(LYRASIS; Kentucky Virtual Library, 2024-04) Burdette, Ilona
CC-PLUS, Consortia Collaborating on a Platform for Library Usage Statistics, is open-source software designed to automate monthly harvesting of COUNTER 5 library usage statistics using NISO’s SUSHI protocol. The project had its origins in 2014 in the International Consortium of Library Consortia.
Original development, made possible by IMLS grant funds (2017-2021), was led by PALCI and partners. Further development took place in 2022-2023 when KYVL was awarded a LYRASIS Catalyst Fund grant. Active development resumed in February 2024 with funds committed by KYVL.
The goals of the KYVL Catalyst Fund project were to (1) deliver a working implementation of CC-PLUS software in a large consortial setting, and (2) develop an implementation toolkit and user documentation, paving the way for use by libraries and consortia worldwide. This report details the successes and challenges, progress and detours the project met with during the grant period, and ongoing work that would not have taken place in the absence of Catalyst Grant funds.
Expanding ReCiter Publication Manager: A LYRASIS Catalyst Fund-Supported Project
(LYRASIS; Weill Cornell Medicine; Texas A&M University, 2023-03) Albert, Paul J.; Jangari, Mahender; Dutta, Sarbajit; Gabeskiria, Judy; Mansour, Mohammad; Lamont, Phillip; Wheeler, Terrie
In 2022, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and Texas A&M University were awarded a grant from LYRASIS’ Catalyst Fund to develop open-source tools that use faculty data to generate research intelligence and reports. WCM's project aimed to improve the capabilities of its publication management tool, ReCiter Publication Manager. As part of this initiative, WCM enhanced the application to allow users to generate publication lists based on nine distinct criteria, incorporating author and article filters as well as a variety of bibliometric reports. In March 2023, Publication Manager successfully completed a beta test involving a group of faculty and departmental users at WCM. Consequently, the institution will launch the application for production in April. Publication Manager was designed to benefit other institutions, and the open-source code for the application can be downloaded from: https://github.com/wcmc-its/ReCiter-Publication-Manager.
Y'ALL Means All: Piloting a Distributed Digitization, Program to Support Digital Diversity
(LYRASIS; Louisiana State University Libraries, 2024-08-31) Harrell, Jonathan G.; Naquin, Elisa
Louisiana State University Libraries applied for a 2022 LYRASIS Catalyst Fund grant to fund “Y'ALL Means All: Piloting a Distributed Digitization Program to Support Digital Diversity” to advance digital inclusion for small and under-funded cultural heritage institutions by creating a permanent regional digitization hub in central Louisiana. This was to build on the work accomplished by the Louisiana Heritage Digitization Award (formerly the You Are Louisiana’s Legacy, or Y’ALL, award), in which LSU Libraries works with smaller cultural heritage institutions to digitize their holdings and share them in the Louisiana Digital Library.