Raymond John Uzwyshyn

University of California, Riverside | UCR

This research conducts an environmental scan of current best practices in academic library technology to reflect on future landscapes. The work takes the premise that by projecting out from current leadingedge technology realities, it is possible to better plan for the future. Academic Library learning commons, 3D printing labs, makerspaces, online...

This article pragmatically reviews possibilities for development and implementation of online data research repositories for universities and research environments: what they are, why they are needed, how to implement them and recommended timelines and possibilities for software infrastructure development. Article and further links: http://www.info...

This article presents a new model for virtual global distributed information and research services currently implemented at a completely online university. It outlines online academic library technology innovation through geographically dispersed librarians, information technologies and online course guides, an award winning library alternative to...

Purpose – This paper presents a schematic for building a multimedia information visualization system and digital archive which takes advantage of a wider spectrum of media elements (images, video, sound, datasets) and interactivity with regards to a research level historical body of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology for thi...

This AI workshop presentation provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of Generative AI for university research faculty and students who may be absolute beginners to Artificial Intelligence. It targets specialists in their respective university or research disciplines at varying levels who may be very specialized in their respective acade...

This presentation provides an overview of the evolution and new roles of academic libraries in the digital age. It presents a research and pragmatic real world based exposition of academic research libraries delineating the paradigm shift from traditional library book repository models to technologically advanced learning commons and synthetic tech...

"Three Significant Technology Trends in Academic Library Research Services," explores the transformative IT developments shaping 21st Century academic libraries providing a structured analysis of the following three key trends: the evolution of technology-enhanced learning commons, the expansion and evolution of research data services towards AI, a...

This is an introduction to a new edited volume on a series of projects on AI in Libraries to be published by De Gruyter in 2024. This section focuses on introducing briefly Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in Libraries and provides a historical overview beginning with Weizenbaum's Chatbot ELIZA and moving to present day pragmaticall...

Background: The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era of creative possibilities, challenging traditional notions of art, authorship, and the creative process. This study aims to benchmark AI model creativity, exploring intersections of AI and creativity through through a comparative analysis of three leading AI large langu...

This research introduces an innovative method for the evaluation of artificial intelligence large language models (LLMs), particularly those targeting Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Traditional benchmarks in AI assessment have predominantly relied on IQ tests and performance on standardized examination...

The presentation "Exploring Artificial Intelligence" overviews significant advancements in AI over the last decade for neural nets (Deep Learning) within the wider scope of AI history and research centers and libraries, emphasizing the past years (2023-2024) paradigm shift with these improved algorithms, enhanced processing and storage power, and e...

This research conducts a review of the application of psychoanalysis, film semiotics towards multimodal deep learning AI models. The work presents a structured prescriptive agenda for the advancement of artificial intelligence models to future Artificial General intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). The article takes the premi...

The presentation "Artificial Intelligence: From ChatGPT to Autonomous Agents" overviews the evolution of AI from its early history in the 1950s to current advancements of 2024. It covers significant milestones, such as the introduction of neural nets, AI winters, and the resurgence of deep learning and neural nets in the 2010s. The presentation hig...

This is IFLA IT's January 2024 issue on Technology Enhanced Learning Spaces in Libraries: New Technology Learning Commons for Gen-Z, New VR and AR possibilities and the Evolution of Library Technology Enhanced Research and Learning Spaces. This issue is introduced by Traci Lesneski, architect and principal for MSR Design (US) and offers an insightf...

This presentation overviews CloudSource+ OA, a new technology open access aggregator content discovery platform within the changing open access global research online landscape. Cloudsource+ OA aggregates and brings to light for discovery a huge global body of freely available open access vetted academic research (OA) articles and open educational...

This presentation overviews cutting-edge new library infrastructure technology paradigms and methodologies available for academic libraries and research institutions dealing with fiscal constraints. New open access solutions are enabled by Cloudsource+ and Article Galaxy Scholar for innovative new focused resource access methodologies. These open n...

As a third place of community and learning, university academic libraries are shifting from quiet study spaces for reflection and inspiration to spaces of creation, technology and interdisciplinarity. Information technologies, media technologies and learning technologies are rapidly expanding in academic libraries. Spaces such as digital media cent...

As a third place of community and learning, university academic libraries are shifting from quiet study spaces for reflection and inspiration to spaces of creation, technology and interdisciplinarity. Information technologies, media technologies and learning technologies are rapidly expanding in academic libraries. Spaces such as digital media cent...

This research overviews pragmatic principles of Agile project management techniques for library IT projects and project teams in academic and research library environments. It is oriented towards implementing agile project management methods and tools in academic library IT projects ranging from creating technology-enhanced learning commons to digi...

This presentation overviews pragmatic principles of Agile project management techniques for library IT projects and project teams in academic and research library environments. It is oriented towards implementing agile project management methods and tools in academic library IT projects ranging from creating technology-enhanced learning commons to...

This Special Issue of the IFLA's Trends and Issues in Library Technology focuses on Agile Project Management, innovative new digital library possibilities and a review of IFLA IT Section's Satellite AI conference in Singapore (Patrick Cher). The issue also overviews of IT conference sessions for IFLA's 2023 World Library Information Conference in t...

This research investigates the pragmatic implications and possibilities of implementing Agile project management techniques for library IT projects and project teams in academic and research library environments. It focuses on the efficacy of implementing agile project management methods and tools in leading edge academic library IT projects rangin...

Possibilities for deep learning, machine learning and natural language processing present fascinating new library service areas. These areas are being integrated into traditional academic library information, digital literacy and university research environments. Much of university faculty, graduate students and library staff work outside of Comput...

This Special Issue of the International Federation of Libraries Association (IFLA) IT Section 'Trends and Issues in Library Technology' focuses on intersections. Projects involving AI, Cultural Heritage, Open Science and Agile Project Management provides a cross section of international library IT research projects including: Topic Modeling on the...

Exciting new online digital library infrastructures are now available for open science and experimental research data. These possibilities are being enabled by online data repositories, research ecosystems and artificial intelligence discovery. This research overviews and outlines these recommended new infrastructures focusing on online research da...

This presentation overviews research library digital collections and eresources collections focusing on 21st century academic library management strategies. Structurally, three major digital collection management components are overviewed: budgets, technology and implementation. Texas State University research libraries 8.8 million dollar digital e...

Online Data research repositories are currently being leveraged to accelerate global research, promote international collaboration, and innovate on levels previously thought impossible. Research data repositories may also link data to further content from online publications and other digital communication and aggregation tools. This article prag...

This research overviews methodologies for building new AI services within the 'third interdisciplinary space' of the academic library, utilizing pragmatic steps taken by Texas State University Libraries, USA. Data-centered steps for setting up digital scholarly research ecosystem infrastructure are reviewed. Setting needed data-centered groundwork...

This research overviews methodologies for building new AI services within the 'third interdisciplinary space' of the academic library, utilizing pragmatic steps taken by Texas State University Libraries, USA. Data-centered steps for setting up digital scholarly research ecosystem infrastructure are reviewed. Setting needed data-centered groundwork...

Online networked data research repositories allow sharing and archiving of research data for open science and global research. This sharing opens data to modern interoperability and metadata for search, retrieval, and larger possibilities of open scholarly research ecosystems and foundational AI infrastructure. Data research repositories are curren...

An overview of challenges and possibilities for academic research library collections and technology services. This presentation focuses on online and digital collections and technology services through pragmatic example of Texas State University Libraries and lens of budgets, implementation and shifting paradigms of new technology. This includes o...

An overview of new opportunities and challenges for academic research libraries in the new millennia focusing on new technology. This includes transformation of the physical Library from book warehouse to digitally enabled learning commons, new technologies, imagineering design and new spaces possible, new varieties of literacy including digital, a...

The world is changing, and the technological paradigms of AI are quickly being adopted in the world of libraries and information management. This special June 2022 AI themed Trends and Issues in Library Technology focuses on AI in libraries. Information professionals around the globe are engaging with these new leading edge AI paradigms and this gr...

This editorial introduction summarizes and contextualizes a larger group of articles from the IFLA'S IT Section's Trends and Issues in Library Technology (Summer 2022) Special Issue on AI and Libraries. This includes summaries of: Juja Chakarova, of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, historical overview of AI in libraries; Lynn Kleinve...

This is a Special 'Big Data' Issue of Trends and Issues in Library Technology, the International Federation of Libraries Associations (IFLA) IT Section Bulletin. The issue contains leading edge set of articles from around the globe involving current thinking and best practices on the latest trends in Libraries and Big Data: Research Data Repositori...

Online networked data research repositories allow sharing and archiving of research data for experiments and research studies. This opens data to modern interoperability and metadata standards for search and retrieval. Located in open scholarly ecosystems, data research repositories are currently being leveraged to accelerate global research, promo...

In the new millennium, long term digital preservation infrastructures have become important areas for libraries and memory institutions. Academic libraries have particularly taken these areas to heart because of their unique historical role as stewards of knowledge. This presentation provides a pragmatic focus and overview on how to build these new...

This presentation reflects on academic research libraries from vantages of current IT infrastructures and technological tools. It takes a pragmatic approach from strategic and stakeholder perspectives. The presentation seeks to answer three core academic research library IT questions: 1) What technological tools and infrastructures do academic libr...

This presentation overviews Academic Research Library Collections in the 21st century from perspectives of new technology, e-resources, e-books, print monographs and shifting collection budgets. It overviews the trend away from large vendor electronic (digital) academic journal deals and current building of offsite repositories to house historical...

In the new millennium, long term digital preservation infrastructures have become important areas for libraries and memory institutions. Academic libraries have particularly taken these areas to heart because of their unique historical role as stewards of knowledge and our collective memory. This article overviews and pragmatically focuses on build...

Can we better enable scholarly research network ecosystem possibilities on global levels? Is it time to begin thinking about systematically empowering a global research community collectively? In the last 5 years, Texas State University Libraries has developed a robust open source digital ecosystem to support research and collaboration. The ecosyst...

This article overviews new possibilities of Open Digital Research Ecosystems for a general research/technology audience: How to Build these systems and the wider rationale for implementation and development. The article overviews examples of best in class primary components: Digital Collections Repositories, Research Data Repositories and secondary...

In the last 5 years, Texas State University Libraries has developed a robust digital research ecosystem to serve faculty and graduate students and connect them to global research communities. The ecosystem is especially suited to the needs of Open Science, AI, Public Health and STEM disciplines comprising a suite of open-source software focusing up...

In the last 5 years, Texas State University Libraries has developed a robust digital scholarly research ecosystem to serve faculty, students, and a larger global community. The ecosystem comprises of a suite of open-source software, including an online research data repository (Dataverse), an electronic thesis and dissertation management system (Vi...

Campus Technology Featured Interview with Dr. Ray Uzwyshyn on Texas State University Libraries Digital Scholarship Research Ecosystem, software components, human resource infrastructure and implementing this set of tools for research faculty and graduate students in the 21st Century

This presentation overviews the landscape for digital preservation storage infrastructures for libraries, archives and research institutions. The presentation introduces the topic of digital preservation storage and unique existing library models and characteristics. It then pragmatically focuses upon how to get started with a working group and met...

This presentation overviews elements necessary to develop a Digital Scholarship Research Ecosystem for a university, college or research institution. This was originally presented at the International Conference on Educational and Information Technology, St. Anne's College, Oxford. Software systems, hardware, human resources and timelines are outli...

This research presents elements necessary to develop a Digital Scholarship Research Ecosystem for a university , college or research institution. Software systems, hardware, human resources and timelines are outlined with brief theoretical overviews and a pragmatic focus on 'open-source' (freely available) software, best-in-class applications and g...

In Fall 2017, Texas State University Libraries launched the Texas State Research Data Repository as part of the Texas Digital Library statewide consortial Data Repository. This presentation overviews development, implementation and infrastructure considerations for any institution or consortia thinking about venturing down online research data repo...

This article presents a blueprint for marketing libraries for the 21 st century. Through an inspirational overview, this research presents an episodic outline for a documentary series to promote libraries surveying various historical and technological areas, among them: Great US and European libraries, The Ancient Library of Alexandria, Asian, Afri...

This research conducts an environmental scan of current best practices in academic library technology to reflect on future landscapes. The work takes the premise that by projecting out from current leading-edge technology realities, it is possible to better plan for the future. Academic Library learning commons, 3D printing labs, makerspaces, onlin...

A pragmatic overview for developing and implementing an online research data repository for universities or research institutions. Possibilities, infrastructures needed, pragmatic best in class examples and longer bibliography of current best practices

An overview of current possibilities in online research data repositories. Research data management for universities and research institutions. Online research data considerations and considerations for setting up an online research data repository for institutions.

The manifold echnology possibilites for academic learning commons are transforming libraries globally. Whether public, special or especially academic, a creative focused application of new technology is moving the needle and shifting traditional use of library space and expectation of services. This article looks at new technological areas and poss...

Pragmatic Investigation of Learning Commons possibilities for spatial design and new technology possibilities for academic libraries: Information Visualization, ePublishing and In House Presses, Learning Commons, Maker Spaces, Imagineering spatial design and architectural and engineering considerations

Step by step overview of setting up a 3D printer lab for university and academic research environments, considerations, environmental scans, comparative overview of marketplace and needs.

Disaster recovery is an important practical risk management area for online IT systems. It is especially important for universities and academic institutions with online libraries where system integrity is dependent on 24/7 continuity for students, faculty and the university infrastructure. Academic Libraries in the 21st century are increasingly el...

Overview of Emerging Academic Technologies for Universities, academic libraries and Research Centers: 3D Printing, Online Research Tools, Learning Commons and Makerspaces, Data Management Repositories, Research Analytics

Pragmatic overview of new paradigm academic library learning commons possibilities: visualization technologies, maker spaces, visualization walls, interactive and Imagineering design possibilities for university learning commons.

Pragmatic overview of Data Management Repositories, plans and infrastructures for research institutes. What they are, why required (NSF, NIH funding). Current state of software infrastructure development. pragmatic implementation pathways: IR's, Dataverse, Hubzero, DMP Tool, Further resource links and suggestions for implementation and open source...

Overview of American Public University System Online Course Guide Project, an award winning initiative which connected the universities curricular resource methodology (1800 university courses) with online library resources (article databases, ebooks, digital video) as a high quality online curricular methodology and massive library ROI and univers...

Case study of 3D printer implementation. Use scenarios and needs assessment. 3D printer selection parameters and safety factors. Cost vs. quality assessment. Policy and services examples.

Overview of the evolutionary path of library resources for books and articles to article databases and ebooks to new paradigm online hybrid software/database research tools

Overview and Comparison of Online Print-On-Demand/eBook Publishers, Lightning Source, Lulu and Ingram Spark

Overview of new paradigm 21st century academic library collections and digital services. Learning Commons, Online Learning, Electronic Resources, Media and Video, Digital Libraries

Overview of new generation academic epress possibilities with a focus on online and non-traditional university paradigms.

The Idea of the Digital University/ Ancient Traditions, Disruptive Technologies and the Battle for the Soul of Higher Education; Edited by/ Frank Bryce McClusky and Melanie Winter Reviewer/ Ray Uzwyshyn.

In implementing any digital library project, there is a required gathering of project metrics and numbers with regards to timelines and quantitative project assessment. Many metrics from online digital library projects also later find their way into university quarterly and annual reports to demonstrate project progress and report back to senior le...

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, our society and institutions have become increasingly techno-centric. Academic libraries are no exception to this paradigm shift with an increasing range of complex IT implementation expectations through rosters of IT projects. To handle both new IT implementation and ongoing integration demands of...

A visual exploration of Community of Inquiry learning framework (John Dewey) in relation to online education and larger questions of educational methodology. Focus on the concepts of cognitive, social and teaching presence from the vantage of e-learning and twenty-first century applications. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVk__Ax86wM

The etextbook market is rapidly evolving from a relatively obscure corner of higher education into a multi-billion dollar industry, changing the nature of education in the 21st century. This exploration focuses on new etextbook strategies, platforms and curricular innovation by current market competitors to present a roadmap of this emergent territ...

Overview of online video possibilities for online classrooms and online universities. Pedagogical rationale and methodology and pragmatic possibility

Puzzling over the arcana of the TEACH Act [Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act, 2002], more than a few university administrators will be reminded of the minutiae of the tax code. To be sure, copyright law needs to be reconceptualized for the new millennium. Libraries and universities are witnessing a sea change from an earlier er...

To generalize, image and audiovisual copyright is a form of protection provided for original works of authorship, including documentary, literary, dramatic, musical and experimental audiovisual creations. A body of exclusive rights is granted by law to copyright owners for protection of their work. Audiovisual copyright infringement occurs when a c...

By augmenting human intellect we mean increasing the capability to visualize a complex information situation. (Douglas Engelbart, Augmenting Human Intellect, 1956) Visual Information Systems have longstanding antecedents. This section focuses on a fairly recent history related to digital developments, information visualization and human-computer in...

In early 2010, The University of West Florida Libraries was awarded a large University Technology Fee to develop a new student-centered technology-enhanced learning space, the Skylab. This panel pragmatically explores Skylab dreams and pragmatic realities recounting lessons learned and wider conceptual ideas to provide a first-hand look at inventiv...

An innovative paradigm for image search metadata collection is exemplified by the Luis von Ahn's Human Computation application of gaming principles (GWAP) to information science search and retrieval challenges. In parallel, a suite of Web 2.0 interface applications for visual search now more easily allow interactive possibilities and visual metapho...

In 2007, the University of West Florida Department of Digital and Learning Technologies was charged with the task of rapidly developing a digital image library focusing on the university's upcoming 40th anniversary. This project was to highlight a spectrum of the university's archival holdings with special attention to images and linking to them pe...

Conceptual overview of social media including blogs and wikis

Information visualization allows the exploration of large sets of non-linear paradigms for the organization of a wider spectrum of media elements (i.e. video, visual images, sound, and datasets). Information visualization in the form of 2D and 3D objects and environments has been moving from conceptual theory to digital implementation. The panelist...

Project Plan for Repurposing Open Source Weblog Software (Wordpress) to Create a Digital Image Archive.

Human Knowledge Seeking and Information Visualization: Historical Overview and Model Possibilities

Twenty-first century culture is largely visually inspired. Children learn the visual grammars of film and television before they can read or write. The current trend in universities has been toward interdisciplinarity of academic departments and schools. The Otto G. Richter Library recently had the opportunity to explore both areas in shaping the U...

Project overview of the original Cuban Rafter Multimedia Archive at the University of Miami. http://balseros.miami.edu (Methodology, Rationale, Technical Overview). Mapping, Narrative and Multimedia synthetic possibilities.

Typescript. Dissertation (Ph. D.)--New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 627-686).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, Dept. of Cinema Studies, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 627-686). Filmography: leaves 602-603. University Microfilms order no. 9970941. Photocopy.