Hi YouTube, guess what?  Well, I don't know if you guys are but I'm gonna have some fun That's what we're going to do. I'm gonna take you out. We took a ride earlier in the truck and stuff, but I'm gonna take you out on the track We're gonna take a little ride on the old John Deere all right and Just kind of I won't be able to talk But I'm gonna take you out on the tractor.  That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take a little ride up the street Five-minute video of just riding on the tractor. Some of you guys will like it. Some will hate it, but That's what we did. We just want to have some fun. You know what I mean?  There's some trees down But It's not real bad in this area Not many houses damaged. That's good. That's awesome.  So that's what we're gonna do this weekend. So but Still windy yet to be burning Nobody's really doing that. It's not a good idea anyway, but as you can see it's what's going on There's a big tree now right there. I Can't really see the screen. I'm on a tablet our camera our new camera I don't know if you guys watch the video where we was on the boat when we took We took the boat tour the big paddle boat The camera got wet hasn't been working right since so I'm using the tablet right now. So please forgive me for that Like I said, I know you can't hardly hear but I thought I'd take you guys for a little cruise Monkeys like take a video. I said I will she's not gonna get you taking the truck Cuz I don't know, you know, I was gonna take this thing out last night But I didn't and I wouldn't I went in lay down bed with her Because she hadn't been sleeping while she was really scared Lay down with her But my around her so she knew she was okay, and she she slept while and then About 5 30 this morning. I got a couple hours sleep and She got up early so she's gonna be if she's taking another nap her and the doll but I Just want to take you guys for a little cruise around show you what's going on here You know the trucks going everything, but I don't do many tractor rides I don't think I ever have done one as a matter of fact but I'm taking a little tractor ride right now kind of cruise around the neighborhood see the birds Anyway, this is what's going on here So let's take a little drive and I'll take it back. I'm gonna upload this Thanks again everybody. We can't tell you enough how much we appreciate everything I guess So let's take a little drive.  That's right Street over just right halfway up the hill We have no power, but I've got inverters batteries. We're good. No cable. Well, we don't have cable anyway Yeah, I I'm not sure I haven't checked it out Well, of course, it's north of us, but I don't know how far I haven't heard anything last time I turned it on They was pretty much talking about what was going on like around Leesburg and camping all that Yeah I'm just kind of showing my viewers. I'm you tubing, you know, yeah. Yeah shown what that we did pretty good You know Yeah, I've seen them up there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, I'm on tangelo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so Yeah, man, you need any help. You all right? That's right, that's right. Hey, you have a good one, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You too. Thank you Street behind us He's pretty cool. It's the first time I've actually talked to him, but I've seen him out a couple times.  Sorry about that. I'm getting a lot of wind here how we do We took her out earlier today like I told you as a conductive fried chicken There's a duck fried chicken up there. They were open. Of course, they were wrapped. They were not on the street Off to the side waiting in line for the dry crew, but there's a gas station there. We stopped at They were open, but they had no water But there's a couple places open Kind of sounds like it's missing a little bit, don't it? Might be running on fuel But the house is just right up there. So let's go ahead and pull in the air And hold this tap kind of hard to hold this tablet drive fight the wind and smoke the cigarette at the same time but we're gonna guys Kind of have a little hangout day with you, you know, my father lifted up off the seat But we could be getting low on fuel That little gas station that we just went through It closed down about two months ago maybe while maybe a little longer than that three three-and-a-half months ago it closed down and And It was Chevron while they just open back up it's Chevron again, but I see their clothes now again, I mean they was literally only open just like this past week And then we get the hurricane they ran out of gas poor guys, but I don't know what's going on there, but it's handy to have them right there, you know There's a lot of times I go to cut the grass that's before we had two vehicles and You know, like she's at work or something. I go cut the grass. I would just take a lawnmower down there Fill up the lawnmower Get my drinks whatever and come back up here And hold this steady, but I know I'm not gonna get job, but I'm with you guys man See there's a house right up there on the right Right through them trees. You should see the boat So we just made a little circle There's our home right there but Kind of do a little four-wheeling on the John Deere but I've been very fortunate To find a girl like monkey Well actually to find monkey period There she is right there as a matter of fact Look at her smiling so pretty My baby, but I'm real fortunate to have her in my life She's freaking awesome. I Know why it was cutting out now. I didn't have it all the way off choke, but it's good but um the home she's got here Very nice. Well, maybe not so much now, but she's worked she worked all her life and Saved every penny she had bought this place with cash And She bought her truck with cash. She worked hard for it. Didn't you babe? She don't like payments.  So we took a little cruise I Don't know something's going on with this tablet. It looks like really dark down here in this bottom area So I don't know if it's on the video if it is I apologize, but anyway, I'm gonna go Thought I'd give you a little drive. So We're good No, we just went up Like next straight over went across and then went down here talked to the neighbor down here He's out washing his SUV Old guy can't hardly stand up straight, but he's out of power.   What you got going on? You have no power Yeah, well, thank you babe All right, well we're gonna go soon. Oh I love you too. Bye. Bye. So shea bear. Thanks for riding along with me appreciate it We'll get back with with you after a bit. We'll talk at you soon and shea bear. I'm gone. Thanks for watching guys. Bye. Bye


Hello and welcome to the live stream been three weeks off for me. So I'm sure there'll be something that goes wrong today, but today we are talking about the OBSPOT tail air. This is a really interesting device actually. And they contacted me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I'd like to test it out. And they've actually sent me three of them. So there's another one just behind me over there. And I'll talk about how these are all set up in a little while. But it's actually a really interesting device because it's got so many different ways that it can connect to your computer. So first of all, it is a 4K streaming device that can plug in either over USB. So there's a little USB port on the side there, USB-C. There's also an HDMI out though. So if you want to take it into a capture card, you can do that as well. But there is also streaming via ethernet. So there is a dongle that you can get, which I've currently got plugged into this one and another one over here, which I'll show you in a moment. But that allows you to connect it over ethernet. And then you can use either the RTSP protocol or NDI to actually transmit the video. It will also work over Wi-Fi. So pretty great that you've got all these different connection options. And as a streaming solution, then, if you're in a studio like I am, then a multicam setup. And I can show you a few different cameras going on the screen here. So here is all of them. In fact, of course, they're not all there because I've got one of them unplugged. Let me just come swiftly out of that and not set that up for you in a moment. But if you want to have a multicam setup for a studio to show different camera angles and things like that, then obviously this would be a way to do it. This is another one that's just obviously over here. But really, the interest that I had in these is not to have lots of different angles of my particular studio, but because I'm working with a number of people who are doing either live events or other people who are working in fields where they're working somewhat remotely. So obviously this does have a battery in it and it can work wirelessly as well. There are a number of accessories for this as well which I'll get into in a little while, but obviously it can use it wired. So the reason why this particular camera was missing off that list was because if I plug in the USB-C here and I can plug in the HDMI, this one I've got working over HDMI, where's the HDMI? You can plug that into there like that. And now if I switch over to this camera, it's probably gonna be a weird camera angle, but there we go looking through that. Now, the image at the moment, I've not done any tweaking of it, so it's just as it is. But if I just move this round for a little second, and it is a PTZ camera, pan tilt zoom, so it means that I do have full control over the position of it, where it's pointing to. There are also a number of different presets on it as well, so you can set those up and have, I've got the little remote here, which I'll talk about in a moment, but here I've just got a number of different presets. So if I come over to this camera, for example, I can switch to camera two on the remote, which I'll talk about more. And we've got position one, I could show you my lights. If I click on the button here, oops, Daisy, isn't it always the same that the demos never quite work? Let me just try and fix this one second. Isn't it always the same? Things work absolutely flawlessly, and then the first time you're actually livestreaming, talking about them, and then suddenly they decide to give up on you. So let me just see what I have possibly done there. Maybe I am actually adjusting the wrong one. Here we go, let's go back to this. And we've got that one working, and it's just this one here. Isn't this always the case? Aren't demos an absolutely wonderful thing? Let me try this one. There we go, I should probably switch back to this one. Let me see. And of course, that one's not linked up. There we go, that's the end of the stream today. I'll see you all next week. Right, what I'll do is I'll do some bit of a troubleshooting with this on the fly, because as I say, these have been working flawlessly for a week, and then the second I go live, they decide not to, isn't that the joy of livestreaming? I mentioned the remote there. The primary way that you're gonna set these up though, so I'll just kindly, nicely segue into this, is that there is a mobile app. Now at the moment, the mobile app is Android only, and I had to go out and get an Android mobile. But it is coming to iOS as well. So I should say that this has been an Indiegogo project, and so it's just in the sort of pre-release at the moment. So actually all of these devices are technically prototypes, and the software is all sort of in beta, as it were at the moment. But if I just come down to this one here, I can show you the app. So at the moment, I'm looking at this camera directly in front of me, which is the one, as you can see with my finger, the one in the top left of your screen. The one that I'm pointing at right now on the right-hand side of your screen is my Sony ZVE10, and then down here, we've got the mobile app. So you can access all of the different features of it from in here, so the pan tilt and zoom. I can control from the app, so you can see as I'm moving that round. You can adjust the speed of this as well, by the way, so you can have control over the speed of movement. There is these different presets as well that you can save, so you can save up to three presets, and then if I press the button, it's just gonna zoom in on that particular area, press preset number two, it's gonna move over to that one, preset number three, and so on, you get the idea. It also does have a lot of functionality when it comes to sort of color correction and things like that, so I haven't really done a proper setup of this yet. However, if I go into here, you've got the, and I should say, let me just put up on screen just for a second while we're here. I'll just put up some specs to just go through this so that we're starting with this information. The one 1.8 inch CMOS Sony sensor, it's got an eight sort of piece of prime lens assembly with an aperture of f1.8, so it is actually great for sort of low light. The output is 4K 30 frames per second or 1080p at 60 frames per second, and then it's got some AI tracking and gesture control, which we'll get into in a moment. I've already mentioned those four different modes of connection and then also the PTZ control using the app which we're looking at right now and then also the remote, but the other thing you can do with it is you can actually control it with a network PTZ controller as well. So I'll just sort of mention what that is in a little while as well. You can also actually stream from the device itself and I also forgot to mention that it has a micro SD card so you can actually record on the device itself as well. So incidentally the PTZ controller I was talking about, this is not made by them, this is a third party controller, but this would be something that you could use to control sort of network pan tilt zoom cameras and you can actually pair something like this or any other brand with these so that you can actually then control them over the network. So obviously I've got these cameras at the moment all in my studio, one in front of me, one there and one behind me. So it's very easy to use the mobile app or the remote to just sort of control those. However, if you are doing some sort of live production, maybe you're in a much bigger facility, maybe somebody's monitoring all this from a control room and you've got the cameras in a conference hall or something like that, then you would be able to have full control over these using a PTZ controller, something like that. So that is basically works over ethernet and then it's sort of addressing each individual camera also when it's plugged in over ethernet as well, that you can have full control. So the little sort of a joystick there is to control the position of them. And then there's, you can program all the presets basically that you could do with the app or with the remote you could do with something like that. Incidentally, the remote just to show you this again, it's got a little joystick in the middle. So that's how you sort of control the position and you can see that if I sort of do that, the one in the background is sort of rotating round in the back there. You've got up to three cameras, so one, two and three and then you've got these different presets for positions P1, P2, P3 down there as well. To actually set those, you can just sort of move the camera into position that you want it and then you can just press and hold the button and then that will just fix that as a preset and then that will be addressable then when you just sort of press the button, it will move to that position. There's a couple of other things in here. So there is tracking mode. So I'll talk about tracking in a moment but you can activate that from the remote itself. There's also a built in laser pointer, interestingly enough because obviously if you're using this at a conference or something like that, then having a laser pointer to be able to point on to things I guess would be useful. Although I'm not sure you'd necessarily be actually controlling the device while you are up on stage but anyway, maybe there's another use for that that I'm missing. And a few other controls on here. There's also the zoom in and zoom out is on the back there. One thing that looks a little bit weird and I've seen this in other reviews of people who have had early access to these and tested them is this whole arrangement on the side. And so I saw, what was it, Senpai Gawing, he reviewed them and he was sort of confused by this and I've got to say I was as well when I got it out of the box and thought, it looks like this is part of a bigger device and so it's not like a sort of all in one remote. So I wondered if it was like a kind of off the shelf remote that had been for something else and they had sort of repurposed it for this given that it is a sort of early access prototype but with a little bit of digging, I found something really interesting. Now I understand that this isn't going to be in the initial release but the idea for this was that there was going to be this screen that attaches to it as well. So then you would really have a complete all in one control and viewing device. Now, as I understand it from being in some of the forums about the Taylor launch and so on, that one of the guys that's involved in the development there has said that they had some issues with this particular screen and so that's not going to be available as part of the initial release but it's interesting that the remote is still obviously shipping as was and I understand that they are still working on that. So that would be a really cool addition to have like a sort of full controller unit like that and especially if that's going to work over, I'm not sure whether it would or not, I'm just speculating but if that was going to work over a network as well. So that little network controller that I mentioned, if that was something that you could have instead of something like this where you've got it as a desktop device where you can actually see the outputs, that would be really interesting.  I think he's actually back, there we go. Let me come back to that view. I think what it might be is it might be that in this view, oh no, there we go. So what we've got here then is if I just put this one back to position one, you can see that I can just have these preset positions, the one down at the bottom left. Don't know my left from right. I've just got three different positions locked into this and so this has given you a bit of a view of my studio, there are my lights, there's my acoustic panel just above my head and so just being able to move around like that. The other thing that I was just having a slight issue with was this one, let's see if everything suddenly fixed itself now. I wonder if it's actually, let me try switching this off. Maybe that it's just suddenly decided to not pair or I've not paired it properly. Let me try and do this once more whilst we are here. I'll just press this, so to pair the remote you basically just press this button here with that one. Let me see, I may have just messed things up. There we go, it's still moving this one though, nevermind, I'll just ignore this one for the moment. I have done something, it is guaranteed to be a human error. Let me just come back to this one though. So let's come back to the actual app itself. And in here, yeah, you've got full control over the thing I sort of digress to talk about the specs of the lens here but you've got the ISO, the ISO, the shutter speed and so on. There's also various other different settings that you can adjust here like flipping the picture and so on, as you can see, HDR setting and various other different things in there as well. But you've also got in here this AI tracking. So there's a number of different gestures that you can use.  And so if I now move, then it will follow me around. There's various different things that you can set in here as well. So if you want to set up, let's have a look where we are. If I go into these settings on one, these ones. And if I go into the gesture control, this shows you the different gestures.  You've got a record gesture. So if you've got a card in and you hold up your hand like this, it's gonna start the recording. You've also got zoom. So if I hold up my hand like this, then it will just automatically zoom to a predefined level. You've also got dynamic zoom, which is if you hold your hand like this, then you can have it to zoom in and zoom out if I get my hands in the right place based on the position of your hands. So, and you can set the increments that that's going to zoom. There is also a couple of options here in terms of the specific area that you are capturing. So you've got all the controls for the output methods, by the way. So UVC is USB video, basically video of USB, I forget what this is standing for, but you can basically toggle on these different modes. So USB mode, NDI or RTSP, none of these are activated on this particular camera because you're doing it over the HDMI. You've then got media settings where you can set the resolution and so on out of there as well. Tail air settings. So you've got various different things here in terms of the control of the device itself with timer, auto power off, all of that kind of stuff. And then let me just come down. There is a section here, if I go to about device, they've got the name, the serial number, the Bluetooth address, the wireless address and so on. So firmware updates are done via the app on the currently Android, but coming to iOS as well. So that's where you would do that part of it. Update that through the app and onto the device. There is a setting somewhere, which I'm just missing for a second, which is talking about like with the tracking at the moment, if I just switch over to a different mic. So this is just my love mic now, but you can see if I switch over to here, or maybe this one, you can see what the tracking is like. It's pretty quick and sort of keeps up with me. So wherever I go, if I disappear out of shot, it'll probably just get confused for a little bit, but you can see how sort of fast around the room that it's moving. Let me just plug my monitors back in. There we go. Let's switch over to my other mic again. The other thing then that you can do on the app, if we just go back to the app for a second, is here you can see the tracking, it's sort of showing up with this little box on the screen. You can change the, this is actually the speed of the zoom, but if I go into the AI section, you can change the speed of the tracking as well. So it's currently on standard, but you can change that to slow. And that's showing you how fast that is moving. Whereas if I go to fast, then it's going to sort of track that faster. This is obviously the top left hand camera. You can also then move a, so the composition lines here, these are these little yellow lines that are on the screen. You can set the composition. So if you want it to be that, you've always got yourself to one side of the screen, then it's still going to track you, but you're just adjusting sort of where you are in the shot. So that's something that you may want to adjust. That is not to the right place. So if I click on that, so it's now going to keep me sort of in that position as I move around and always be just over at that side. So that is the composition that you can adjust there. If I click on the AI, so this is the setting that I was looking for earlier. So you've got either wide auto close-up, half body or full body. So if I just switch over to this, this is going to obviously show you what portion you want to be capturing. So if I change that to half body, then it's going to zoom in somewhat. And if I go to the close-up, then it's going to still track me, but it's much sort of closer up, obviously. And then the other one is wide. So if you just want a wide shot, it'll track like that. So those are some of the settings that you've got from the AI tracking. Personally, although you can turn on and off the tracking just by sort of holding your hand up and then the little light on the front will flash. So now it's turned off the tracking. I have already found, even though I've not been using it as my sort of primary camera, I have already found that just with me flailing my hands around as I often tend to do while I'm talking and gesturing, then sometimes it's inadvertently sort of activated that tracking. So that's just one thing to be aware of. And I'm not generally a fan of gesture controls. I guess it would be great if you're standing on a stage somewhere and you want to be able to activate some of these things, but I'm my own worst enemy with that kind of stuff. So just coming back over to here though, I've already mentioned the different positions that you can save. So you can just save presets in here and you can just click on one and update the position if you want to save it as a new preset. But in terms of the quality though, I mean, I haven't done much of an adjustment of the settings in these. This is pretty much as they come out of the box, but you've got control over all of the usual things that you would expect. The speed of it, as I say, you can adjust that. But as a tool for just sort of showing off different things, let me switch back to this mic in a studio space. So when I'm doing demos, not necessarily the one right behind me, but certainly this one over to the right-hand side to be able to zoom in on specific aspects of the stuff that I'm trying to demo for Amazon Lives, which I'm going to be starting to do more of in the coming weeks. Then it'll be great for that, for showcasing things. But really it is the reason why I was intrigued to test it out was for some of these other use cases. So it'd probably be useful to just flick over to the website. And by the way, this is linked in a pinned comment at the top and also in the description. But because they are essentially, could be used fully wirelessly, then they are really useful for things where, I mean, some of these use cases they got here, in a kitchen, multi-camera angles, and look at the sort of size of them. So instead of having some sort of bulky camera, I mean, it's pretty lightweight as well. Having it just on a simple stand like that would be really easy to do. Interview processes as well. Again, nothing too intrusive and out of the, and taking up too much space. Live performances, live events. And as I say, the sporting thing is something that I'm interested in. I'm a bit lazy these days and don't tend to venture much out from the studio. I am working with a number of sports coaches and people like that who are looking for ways to capture active movement instead of my rapid movements here at my desk. So because of the human tracking, it's also got animal tracking as well, then you can actually just have this set up and it can be tracking all of the action that is going on. There's also another thing actually built into the app, which I should just tell you about, which is called director mode. So if I come back into the top down shot of the app here, if I click onto this one, it's got this thing called director mode. And what that allows you to do is from the single camera, you've obviously got the different presets, but you can also set in like different zoom levels, different crops or from the one camera. So basically you can then switch between these different views to give you a different sort of view in the shot. So let me just show you an example of what this looks like in a sort of real world example. So here you can see more of these sort of tracking shots, but it's this thing, the AI director grid. So here you've got basically one shot, but then they've got these different parts that are cropped into these different people on the screen. So it means that you can easily just have a single camera shot, but then you're just cropping into different areas depending on what you want to show. So that's an interesting feature in itself. I mean, it's a bit like we do in Ecam where we bring something in as a camera and then you can just have multiple scenes cropped into a different portion of the camera shot to give you those multiple different camera, seemingly different camera shots. The other thing that you can do from this, which I haven't mentioned yet, is you can actually live stream directly from it. So within the app, you can set up an RTMP stream. So that means that you can stream to any platform as well. And here's just a little diagram showing all of the different ways that you can actually sort of connect this up. And the, yeah, the NDI. In fact, what was interesting, let me just come to this one. One thing that I was a little bit intrigued by was that here you can see I've got four cameras and the top left, as it says, is Sony ZVE-10. The top right, which is now shooting right up my nose. So let me just give a bit of a better camera angle with that. That is the tail air over HDMI. The one over this side is HDMI, sorry, RTSP with a wide connection. And in fact, the one behind me is NDI. And although it says Wi-Fi, I have actually wired it up. So that's also wired as well. But just watch what happens if I raise my hand. Like you can see the difference in the latency between these things. So you can see like where they are. And actually the NDI one is pretty consistent over the network with the one that's right in front of me, the Sony. There is a slight delay, I guess. In fact, there's probably slightly less of a delay in the tail air over HDMI than the Sony coming through the Streamer X. So it's just interesting to see like this is a real example of the different sort of latency that you get on things. And yeah, the RTSP one seems to be a little bit slower, although it's connected wired exactly the same as the NDI one behind me is. Incidentally, when I was saying these are connected over the network, there is a separate device or separate dongle that you can get that is for power over ethernet. So you plug in your ethernet cable. You also plug in your power cable into that as well. And then it's got a pretty long USB cable with a USB-C connector on the back. And you just plug that directly into the back of the device. I should probably talk about some pricing on these as well. As I say, this is a sort of Indiegogo or Kickstarter. They actually link to their Indiegogo. It's probably on Kickstarter as well. But if I just come over to this, there's various different kits, obviously. So the standard kit is just the camera itself. And when I say just the camera itself, it does actually come with a number of accessories. I'll come to that in a moment. You've also got the remote. Look at the price on the picture itself. The picture there is showing me tie-bar in my local currency, but the picture there is showing the US dollar price. There's the remote control kit, which is the camera plus the remote, 538. Then you've got this one, the power-up kit. So this one has got the remote and the... I think that includes the ethernet cable. It's also got a set of filters. So the filters I haven't got those to test out. Those aren't quite ready yet, but those are available as well. I'll go through all the accessories in a moment. Then there's what they're calling the professional kit, which comes with a little tripod. It also comes with this extra charging stand. So I'll talk about that in a moment as well. It does have a built-in battery, but there is a sort of an extra beefy battery that you can get with that. The multi-cam kit comes with three of the devices, and then also the ethernet, three ethernet kits, and the remote as well. Let's just quickly look at some of those accessories, though. I'll just mention those. I've currently put the camera directly in front of the screen, if I'm looking. And this is, by the way, the streaming interface. So you can actually stream from the devices through the mobile app. So there is this. This is something else that I don't have to test out at the moment, but this is a charging base. You can see that this basically just sits on top of that. The device itself does have these little contacts underneath it. So there's two little or a little bank of contacts underneath, so when it's sitting on top of this charging stand here, then it will just be sort of charging from that as well. So that gives it some extra power. And then the USB-C to ethernet adapter, there are the ND filters. Just talking about what you actually get in the box, though, I do like their packaging, by the way, because you basically get a nice big box like that, but as soon as you open it, there is no extra packaging as such, apart from the little manual, because it's just got its own carry case. So no need for any extra packaging. I do like that concept, and I like the case that comes with it as well. So it's a really sort of tough hard shell case. And then in here, you've got a few things. So there is the USB-C cable. You also get a USB-C to USB-A little adapter as well. And then the other thing that's in here is one of these, which is a little adapter, which has got the USB-C on that end, and then on the back, it's got two USB-C sockets. One of them is for power, and one of them is for the camera output. So it means that you can still have this powered with a proper power supply, but then you've got the USB-C out going for your, when you're using it as a USB-C webcam.  Let me just come back to my comments or say come back to my comments. I don't think I've even addressed my comments. So first of all, hello, David. Let's see you. Look at that. First day back into streaming and of course my comments are all over the place. Hey, David, great to see you. Parker as well. Fantastic to see you here. George, great to see familiar faces, by the way. People are met at Creator Camp. I've got my Creator Camp mug here. I use it every day to remind me of the times that we had for my water though. I've got one from Mr. Camerajunky. Upgrade your skills. It was so great to see everyone at Creator Camp. I probably need to do a bit of a video or stream all about that because I can't really describe what an amazing feeling that was to just meet everyone there. Hey, Johnny, great to see you as well. Keely, waiting for yours from Kickstarter. So is he on Kickstarter as well? I just followed the link from their website but it's on Indiegogo and I guess Kickstarter as well then. Hey there, Dan, how are you doing? I got back from vacation last week so just on Friday or Saturday, what is it? I can't remember now. My mind is all a blur. Oh, yeah, so tracking with an umpire on the pitch. I mean, the things that they've given, because you are actually selecting the examples that they've given if I complete my sentences properly, the examples they've given are, you were literally tapping on a particular person and yet even with multiple people on the pitch, it will be interesting to see how that works. Certainly some of the examples they've given here though, with things like trees in the way, people walking behind, obstacles that have been very clear about showing examples of people at a distance. Also, people walking past each other on stages and so on to show that they are really targeting an individual person. So I can't wait for your test to see if it gets confused by things like that. Look at that, you can even have it follow the broccoli. That is pretty cool. So they talk about animal tracking and human tracking but yeah, they also do vegetable tracking it seems. So yeah, but great to see your real world use case for that. Hey Marcus, great to see you here as well. So the comparison between this and the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, there is a comparison to be made there because I forget who we were talking with this about just the other day, but about, I've talked to a few people about this. I don't consider myself actually a camera guy. So I see that the, and the audio as well, very much is a kind of these are the tools that I use to communicate with and I dig into a lot more depth on the things like roadcasters and stream decks and all these things that I've got these multiple different uses. But we're getting into a really interesting time with cameras where they are, if I just take this off the screen for a moment, we're getting into a really interesting time with cameras where these small compact things are really becoming, I'll tell you where it was, it was in my weekly Q&A with my Academy members. But yeah, we're talking about, actually things like the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, something like this OBSBOT tail air, the quality of video that you can get out of them now in these sort of compact devices is such that, do we need to go down the route of having some sort of fancy DSLR with mirrorless lens, DSLR or mirrorless camera with a fancy lens to actually get some really stunning results. And the answer, as we've seen with cameras like the OBSBOT tail air with the DJI Osmo 3, I mean, Doc did a great example of that in a hotel room with a pretty poor quality light, albeit fairly close to his face, but it was just showing that, yeah, the quality of image that we can get is pretty great. And I will be testing the Osmo Pocket 3 as soon as I can actually get one. Seems to be a bit of a backlog in delivery, but there is a bit of a comparison to be made there. Comparing it to this though, this is, I would guess, very much more of a, although it's a mobile device, you can see you can use it out in the field. Having multiple cameras set up like this is something that the DJI simply can't do. That is just a single camera. You could obviously just add more of them into the mix. It doesn't do any of the remote controlling, whereas this obviously, some of those solutions of either a PTZ controller, something like this, the Ethernet as well, to have it actually a wide connection over Ethernet, being able to have all those different transfer protocols for transferring stuff. If they ever make this, or when they get round to figuring out how to solve whatever issues they've had with that particular thing, that's gonna be a really great thing too. So it is a different device. I mean, it's similar in that it's a pan-tilt zoom camera, ostensibly, with tracking. So it'd be interesting to see like a side-by-side of the actual tracking of these two devices. So I'll leave that to others to do, or when I get one, then maybe I'll have to get the kids to run around the garden. And I'm also just mindful of your specific use case, Keely, and being mobile. Would you use this in the same way as the Osmo Pocket? The Osmo Pocket could certainly be a vlogging camera. I guess this could be a vlogging camera. It's got tracking. You could literally have it like this if I just activate the tracking on it for a moment. There we've got tracking. It's now following me around, and I can move wherever I want. And this thing is going to follow me if I set the tracking target correctly. So technically, you could use this as a vlogging camera, but it's pretty massive, you know, by comparison to the Osmo Pocket. The Osmo Pocket will literally fit into your pocket, whereas this one certainly won't. However, although D-Obsbot sent me this one, one of the things that happened at Creator Camp is on the last day, they were giving out various different prizes for different things. And one of the ones that I and Mommy Lala from mommyguide.com got for traveling the furthest. She actually came further. She came from Philippines, but was actually this one, which is another OBSBOT, and this is the OBSBOT Tiny 2. So if you're familiar with this device, just to put these two into perspective as to how big they are by comparison, you know, the Tiny 2 is really teeny tiny. So if you were looking for something that was, and this is, you know, I know before the DGI, you know, this was Doc's sort of mobile streaming camera. So this type of camera, and this comes with things like, you know, a little magnetic stand so that you can clip it to the top of your computer and use it as a webcam. The quality of this is really great. This can be used over USB, so it's just a USB webcam.  It's also got their AI tracking. This one also has a stream deck plugin. I'm gonna do a whole separate video about this, but the stream deck plugin allows you to control things like Pantil, Zoom, all the, you know, color grading and things like that, and then, you know, different presets and so on. So, you know, all of this is to say that I'm not giving you a direct answer because it kind of does depend on what you're wanting to do with it. Knowing that you're thinking about maybe doing some traveling though, the Osmo Pocket, being a pocket vlogging camera, if you were intending to do any sort of vlogging or anything like that, then that could be, you know, it could be really useful for that. One of the reasons why I'm keen to test it is because having been on holiday recently and taking my Sony ZV-E10 with whatever lenses I took with me, I rarely actually took the thing out of the bag. It was usually, you know, camera phones that people are using, not using my camera phone, by the way, I'm still rocking a success. But, you know, the family have all got much better cameras than I have. So, on their much better phones than I have. So it was, you know, my wife and daughter was taking pictures, but I find that there's something, for me, I'm not really a sort of photographer. I'm not big into cameras from that point of view. And it was quite bulky to be sort of carrying around. And so as a result, I wasn't really taking it out of my pocket. And then there is friction involved in actually dealing with that after the fact. One of the things that I like about the Osmo Pocket 3 from a vlogging point of view, or for me just, you know, actually capturing moments with the family is the portability of it. It can literally fit into, you know, my trusty tech pouch, which is my handbag. This is what I carry everywhere. But the Osmo Pocket 3 would fit into that. So from that point of view, I'm interested to use it for that. Interestingly, I mentioned to somebody that you were thinking of, you know, actually switching out your Sony for the Osmo Pocket potentially for your setup. And one question immediately came to mind, which was what about the teleprompter? Like how would that work with the teleprompter? And somebody said something genius, which was, well, actually, you know what? If you've got an Osmo Pocket, you could literally just have it right in front of a monitor. And the monitor, you know, it's that small. If you want to go for eye contact on Zoom, you could even, it's so tiny, you could have it in front of the Zoom window. And you would have that eye contact, but the camera would literally be in front of the screen because it is just that small. So yeah, that's my sort of feelings on that. They are slightly different use cases. And this year, the tail air for, certainly for these sort of multicam setups is gonna be a real help to some of the people that I'm working with. So that was kind of my interest in it. Let me see, I need to get this up. Everything's really slow. By the way, those, now, how did that come up? I don't quite know how that came up, but if you are enjoying it, then do go and like and subscribe. I think I just tapped the Stream Deck with my tripod. But yeah, let me just bring this up. My computer is telling me that I need to upgrade and I'm just waiting for the new Apple laptops to be available in Thailand to put in my order. And it is more into the multi-camera use of OBSPOT. I hadn't even paid attention to that as a possibility. Yeah, I mean, they do, they work really well as that. I mean, obviously you can just use one over NDI and you could technically, I guess, set up multiple things, but yeah, I do like the little remote feature and that ability to control them remotely as well. The Pocket 3 would fit in your pocket quite rightly. You know, if only they had named it something that would give it that implication. That's a question in my mind too. Yeah, hang it maybe.  Yeah, there is a webcam. I think Jeff uses one actually that is physically designed to hang over the top of your monitor. So yeah. I'm sure there will be a way of mounting it into the teleprompter though because essentially it's just a case of, you know, having it going through the hood on the back depending on what type of teleprompter you've got. Some of them got those sort of cloth hoods that fit over the back. So as long as you could sort of mount it in there, it should be all right. I mean, this one potentially could mount into the teleprompter that I've got right now which has got a sort of hood on the back of it. So it could fit into that. I did also wonder if it could be a case of, obviously the gimbal can rotate in all directions. So maybe it could be just mounted from the back sort of coming through at an angle because as long as it's still got the ability to tilt like that, then yeah, you could literally have it sort of shooting through the from the back of your teleprompter so that it's kind of mounted more like that if it was going to go in a teleprompter. But anyway, yeah, we'll have to see. But yeah, definitely we'll be checking out the Osmo Pocket 3 as well because that was intriguing. But yeah, these cameras, I mean, somebody said it on Dockstream where he was talking about the Osmo Pocket. With having the wireless mic that you get with the Creator Kit with the Osmo Pocket as well, then that's kind of like an ultimate, YouTube beginners starter kit if you like because it's got the mic, the thing like that. It's almost no excuse then not to do it. But I digress from these. As I say, so far I've been really impressed. I'm not quite sure what I've done to disable this one. Let me just try once more to reconnect this because it has been working flawlessly until just now. But there we go. So in terms of the availability, I'm not quite sure what the shipping time is. Keely, you mentioned that you had got the, you had ordered yours from Kickstarter, so I'm not sure of the delivery date on there. I'm gonna be doing some more, sort of four more videos. This is literally my sort of first impressions of them. But if I just come back over to this, I'll leave a link or I have left a link down in the description. But if you just go to their website here, then you can order. Make sure that if you are ordering, this is the Obsbot Tail Air. So there is also what's called the Tail. So the Tiny Two was the little one that I showed you. So that is this one. There is the Obsbot Tiny First Generation. So that was the original one, but the Tiny Two is higher resolution and so on. You've got these other options down here, but the Obsbot Tail, so this is the sort of predecessor to the Tail Air, which I'm talking about now. So if you go onto their product page, you will see the Obsbot Tail on there, but just note that that is the previous version. That's not the one we're talking about now. And definitely I would recommend the Tail Air that you wanna check out. So go to the new product. That's where you're gonna find all of the details about that. As I say, the accessories, I've tested the wireless connection, which is, oh sorry, the ethernet connection, which is how these are all connected at the moment, and the remote, but a couple of other accessories that are in here are the power adapter for the bottom to give you increased life, and then also the ND filters. It's too many acronyms in this game. Too many little abbreviated letters. So that is it for now. What I'm gonna do though is as I say, I'm gonna make a couple of videos on the Tail Air for specific use cases and more of a tutorial with a better capture of the app to go through all of the settings in detail. This was obviously intended just to be my first impressions. Choices, choices, choices. Indeed, Marcus, there are so many choices, especially with all of these new cameras that are coming out now, that are giving really great and affordable solutions for getting great quality images on your content and in your live streams. Any questions about this, then feel free to drop them in the Discord as well. So if you have any specific use cases you'd like to discuss, you can always drop those. Join the Discord, it's free to join the community. Take one tech.io slash family, come into the Discord and then we can have a conversation about it, where we can all follow along with threaded conversations unlike YouTube comments, which I still struggle to keep up with. Okey dokey, have a wonderful day wherever you are and I'll leave a link to some of my other studio videos over on the right-hand side and I just want to say a big thank you to my supporters. Take one tech, Academy members and also of course the supporters on my YouTube channel memberships as well. Have a wonderful day wherever you are. My little animation does not seem to be...


I'm Tim McGarry, I'm the associate university librarian for digital strategies and technology at Duke University and I'm going to lead off our panel, I have a few slides and then each of our presenters will introduce themselves as we go through. We're talking about developing and scaling research data management and curation services and I'm going to start talking a little bit about the story at Duke and where we are in research data management and data curation. So setting some context up in general, many of you will know that back in 2011 the National Science Foundation began requiring data management plans in all of their grant proposals in 2013 following up on NSF and other federal agencies who had been starting to work on this. The Office of Science and Technology Policy from the White House began requiring any federal agency that had more than $100 million in research and development expenditures to develop plans for making the results of thoroughly funded research freely available to the public and this included both publications and the data that supported the publications which was a change in the movement of the data management plans and the publication policies up to this point. In January of 2016 the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy announced that they were jointly working on a public repository for publications and requiring all of their PIs to submit within 12 months of their grant, within 12 months of their actual publications to submit those publisher-based articles into their repository. At the same time though they were also requiring that the data be made available at the expense of the research institution or the PIs so that solved a little bit of the problem but also shifted some of the challenge to us as a university. So specifically at Duke around the same timeframe in 2015 we got our first notice that a researcher who submitted a proposal to NSF had their proposal rejected. Someone who had had success in the past with NSF had their proposal rejected because they had an insufficient data management plan. They didn't have a lack of, their plan lacked how they were going to deposit their data and so we realized at this point, okay the NSF is getting serious and they're going to start enforcing these policies. At that same time with just a little bit of collusion, the libraries, the Office of Information Technology and the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences all requested from the provost a very significant amount of funding for data storage or for storage for research data and the provost quite naturally said why are you all asking for this amount of storage, why can't we do this together, what is the real reason behind this and so she asked us to write a white paper and as well as a charge for a faculty working group to study this problem and to come up with a series of recommendations so through the end of 2015 and early 2016 we had an interdisciplinary faculty working group meeting for about nine months and submitted a list of recommendations for how we should be doing digital research data services at Duke and this is maybe difficult to see from the back but hopefully whenever you download our slides you can see a little bit more detail. This is a workflow that we came up with, a workflow and a map of what we came up with in the faculty working group as far as recommendations for how to support digital research data. It starts in the upper left corner with a project creation and ends in the red circle on the right hand side where the project ends as we all know some projects really do end but for the theoretical example here it goes through this process. There are two people in the very beginning, we recommended that there be new research data consultants that are hired to help the faculty with these and the researchers with this work. Jen and Sophia who are to my left are two of those people or those two people and they'll talk about their work in a little bit and then we had a series of the gray box in the lower left being the general technology that we're going to be providing to all faculty and we may just need a boost to this. This is the 80% of the work that we expected that we needed and then the box in the middle the gradient between pink and white with all the circles in there. Those are the specialty substrates that we felt were necessary to do a little bit more detail oriented investigation about probably had nuances or very specific functional details that aren't going to be generally met for every faculty member or every researcher would probably need a lot more investment and probably isn't something we should just give away for free. It probably had a lot more involvement than necessary to just be able to do that. In either case whether you went through the general technology substrate or the specialized technology substrate the idea was is that it would get into a repository whether it's a Duke repository it's open whether it's a Duke repository that's protected and we also made the case it could go to a repository outside of the campus as well and then there is an actor in the middle of the lower middle of the page called the repository ingest specialist. We made a recommendation as a faculty working group to hire two of those as well and we actually were able to do that at the same time as hiring Jen and Sophia and so these recommendations to the provost as far as the workflow the people that were involved as well as increases to the technology infrastructure that the central IT organization should be running and the provost accepted every single one of those recommendations and in January 2017 we were able to implement a baseline set of services for all faculty projects not faculties individuals but all faculty projects that had baseline virtual machines a certain level of core computing certain level of memory in their VMs and a certain level of archiving that would go into the repository after after the project was completed so I'm going to transfer over to Jen now and she'll talk a bit about how we're implementing these services. Okay thanks Tim as Tim said my name is Jen I am one of two research data management consultants at Duke and started there in January of 2017 he gave you a bit of the why and history and now I'll go into the how and what we're doing right now. Our research data management program has a three-pronged focus building knowledge and skills through our education program supporting researchers data management needs throughout the research lifecycle and a data curation program built around our own data repository. Our education program runs during the fall and spring semesters with a variety of one to two-hour workshops on data management topics while our workshops have been developed for Duke researchers at any level the inclusion of our workshops as part of the responsible conduct of research series has resulted in our primary attendees being graduate and postdoctoral students. I will say though that both research staff and faculty have also attended. While graduate students and postdocs are required to attend RCR workshops for credit they do have a choice in what they take and we're glad that they often choose to take hours. Given that graduate students and postdocs are often the ones doing the on-the-ground data management work for labs projects and out in the field we are glad to be teaching them best practices and data management early while they are developing their research skills and habits. The statistics we have here are from the 2017 academic year. During that time we offered 12 workshops on a variety of topics such as those listed above the statistics box. Our total attendance across all workshops was 435. The discipline breakdown shows the highest rate of attendance from the sciences with the social sciences making up the second largest attendee group followed by those from the health sciences and medical center and humanities. We have also been actively collaborating with members of the Duke research support community such as IRB staff from our office of research support staff from research computing and our library's own office of scholarly communications to develop comprehensive workshops that touch on their areas of expertise as well. Another education initiative we have been working on is with the advancing scientific, this is a tough one, advancing scientific integrity services and training office within the Duke School of Medicine to develop two modules for an online course on research quality and reproducibility that will be offered through the epigem training arm of Oxford University Press starting in fall of 2018. Our lifecycle services are designed around the cyclical nature of the research process. The services are holistic but also designed to meet discrete points of need which we could frame as potential pain points that researchers encounter during the research lifecycle. We'll now take a closer look at our four main service quadrants. With regard to data management planning, DMPs in and of themselves can be a bit of a pain point for researchers. Where we can provide assistance is by reviewing and optimizing formal data management plan language and structure. In addition to that we also have boilerplate texts that Duke researchers can include in their plans if they want to use Duke's research data repository as their platform for data sharing and preservation. With regard to data workflow design, one of the biggest pain points we are trying to alleviate is the complicated nature of collaborative research with researchers working across institutions in distributed environments and systems. As an example, we assisted a large project out of the Duke Marine Lab to develop a project site on the open science framework that would allow them to use the systems they work with natively but share materials through one primary access point. While this is an example of a large scale solution, we also can provide advice and sometimes training on resources and tools that help with individual workflow issues as they arise. For data and documentation review, the pain point we are attempting to alleviate here is getting all of your proverbial ducks in a row as it relates to preparing data for broader sharing. This involves identifying appropriate metadata standards, reviewing and providing suggestions for documentation, guidance on intellectual property or data sensitivity issues, and how to prepare your data should you wish to deposit it with Duke or another repository determined by the data that is available to you as a funder, publisher, or discipline. And finally, there is that pain point of where to publish data when it hasn't been stipulated by funder, publisher, or discipline. And this is where Tim was talking about. We have a local solution under the Duke umbrella with the Duke University Library's research data repository. I'm now going to transition over to my colleague Sophia, who's going to tell you all a bit more about our curation program. Thank you, Jen. So when we are developing our curation services, we're going to be looking at how we could help ensure that the data that researchers were entrusting to us meet those fair principles. And I'm sure many of you are aware that fair is really being referenced widely and viewed as those ideal principles that all research data should adhere to. So now I'm going to quickly walk through our data curation workflow and some of the things that we do to help ensure that Duke data meet that goal of fairness. So the pipeline begins when researchers have data that they want to deposit. Prior to this point, there may also be some conversations to ensure that our repository is a good fit for their data. If it is, then they'll submit their data, their documentation, their code, their metadata for the data set package. We also ask that all researchers select creative commons license to assign to their data set. And we do strongly suggest CC zero waiver to allow for the broadest reuse possible. Once we receive the data, we then perform a review of the data package. So one of the big things we do is obviously look at the data and we also look at the documentation. So we want to ensure that there's enough information for others to understand the content and the context of the data. If it's human subjects data, then we'll also do a once over to see if we spot any potentially problematic direct or indirect identifiers to lessen potential inadvertent disclosure. We'll look at the file formats to see if we have suggestions for how to optimize those for portability across systems and preservation and just check for any other potential issues such as missing files or minor errors in the data. If we spot any issues or areas for improvement, we'll then communicate with the depositor. And this may then trigger a resubmission of revised files. After any potential issues are addressed, we'll then ingest the data into the repository. At this point, we may transform files into non-proprietary or standardized formats. And we'll also arrange the files in a logical way using our data model to help secondary users understand kind of what's in that overall data package. We'll generate standardized double and core metadata. Part of that's also assigning that license. The final step prior to publishing the data, we do assign DOIs to all data sets to help meet that goal of making them persistently findable and easily accessible online. We also include that DOI within a standard data citation that we generate for all data sets. Before publishing, we also do some reviewing and testing to make sure everything looks good. We do ingest some administrative documentation that kind of tracks our curation procedures on the back end for provenance and preservation purposes. And then finally, the data are published and made publicly accessible within our repository. So thus far, we've had, I think, around 20 data sets go through this data curation pipeline process. As far as disciplines, we've seen mostly within the sciences depositing, we've seen a lot from chemistry, a few from biomedical engineering, some from the life sciences. I think we've had one from the social sciences and we have some clinical data that should be coming in soon as well. We've also had a particular uptake by one lab in chemistry, which presents kind of an interesting story for depositors' motivations. So for this lab, they've really integrated data submission into their overall workflow. So after they complete a study and they're writing a paper on that data, they send us that replication data, it'll go through the pipeline, then we send them that DOI, which they use to link the data in the article. And for the PI, he really sees this as an essential step to ensure that data that's being generated by his graduate students in his lab are properly described and safely archived. So for him, it's not only that giving access to secondary users, but making sure that he himself as the PI will have access to data into the future. Some other motivations we've been seeing from our depositors is that need to comply with growing journal data sharing policies and mandates. Some have also expressed to us that they really like the idea of depositing their data at Duke because they get that institutional backing for long-term preservation and stewardship. Anecdotally, we've also had some expressed that they like the idea of kind of having a second set of eyes on their data prior to it being released out into the wild. And we've been able to see through our work how we've been able to help people really create some more richer documentation for that data to meet that goal of reusability. As far as some next steps for the program, we're currently in the process of implementing a new software platform for data within our repository. So we're going to Hyrex and we hope to be rolling that out in the fall. Another big next step which we're really excited about is we're going to be joining the data curation network, which Claire is going to describe in a lot more detail in just a moment. As far as lessons learned, we've obviously learned lots of lessons while developing our program. And I'm going to highlight just a few. One, obviously, we're good academics. When we started our program, we did look externally. So we wanted to know what other people were doing. We performed an environmental scan. We did research into data curation practices. We specifically looked at some of the early outputs from the data curation network. And this was really useful to look at what some of our peers were doing that had established programs such as Minnesota to help us avoid remaking the wheel and provided some invaluable information for benchmarking. As we've been thinking about how to further enhance the fairness of data within our repository, we've also really recognized through our work that a certain level of data curation really benefits from in-depth subject and data type expertise. And this is someplace where we see a lot of value of the data curation network model of sharing curatorial expertise across institutions. And finally, we've been really lucky at Duke that we've been able to collaborate with folks both internally at Duke and externally while we developed this program. And this helped us to keep kind of a holistic view of how our program fit within the broader scholarly and data ecosystem, both at Duke and beyond. So now I'm going to pass it over to Claire. And she's going to talk about what's going on at the University of Minnesota and the data curation network. Thank you. Good morning. I'm the Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning at the University of Minnesota, and I'm going to give a very aggressively abbreviated history of what we've been doing at Minnesota and then talk about the data curation network in a little bit more detail. So like Duke, we've been, and I'm sure most of you or many of you, we've been offering research data management and DMP support for quite a while with formal, our first formal workshops on that topic starting in the year 2011. And in 2013, Lisa Johnston was sponsored by the libraries to participate in the President's Excellence in Leadership program, and she chose as her project to develop a data curation pilot, which proposed and tested the processes that we are now using to curate research data at Minnesota. And her mentor for the project was actually the then Vice President for Research, Brian Herman, which was a great connection and champion to have made. So following that 2013 pilot and the lessons we learned, two things happen. One, we launched our data repository drum in late 2014, and in early 2015, the University released its policy on research data management, which articulates specific requirements, ownership, and also specific obligations and authorities for the group of organizations that you see here, including the libraries. So this was a pretty foundational document that conveyed specific roles for the library to the entire university. So it's part of our, drum is part of our DSPACE instance. It's the same DSPACE instance that we're using for our IR, the University Digital Conservancy. And here you're seeing just two of the last, two of the datasets that have been deposited within the last month. So we're seeing a nice diversity of content coming in. I know you can't see this detail. These are just some of our statistics. You'll be able to see them more easily when you download the slides. But just after sort of a slow start, we had, and then a couple of big peaks, we're now seeing more of a steady growth in deposits to drum. About 75% of the submissions are coming in from the sciences, so the same thing that Duke is seeing. But we have some notable use from other areas as well. Most, the department that had the most deposits is anthropology, thanks in part to some graduate students. So we've had about 85,000 file downloads from drum since it started. And we've also been gradually expanding our capacity to perform the data curation that the deposits require. And in many cases, we've been gradually moving from temporarily funded positions. So we had two clear post- act fellows who had a role in data curation and also had a 50% time grad student at one point. Two more permanent lines. And we're really trying hard to create balance across all of our disciplines. So since the design and launch, we've been expanding on all fronts. There was, from an inception of the policy in 2015, something called the use case characterization. I forget what the S stands for scheme, I think, is committee. That was supposed to be kind of monitoring use and needs across campus. Just last year, that group spawned a new subgroup, which we really think is going to be where most of the planning and work is taking place. This new storage council, and you see on the right there, the core units, MSIs, our Supercomputing Institute, AHC, is the Economic Health Center. And you see a very clear role for the libraries in helping to lead. So this is not just going to be about storage, this will be about advocacy and developing champions on campus, and really integrating very deeply into the academic, the schools and colleges. Huge growth and demand for training. We're having a lot of trouble keeping up with this research data boot camp, which we offer now twice a year for graduate students. We've had to double the enrollment from 50 to 100 seats, and we still have over a hundred people on the waiting list every year, every time we offer it. So my dean and I are meeting in a couple of weeks with the dean of the graduate school to talk about how are we going to scale up this training that the library is increasingly offering for graduate students. And this is only one, we're also doing an indigital scholarship, but sort of an interesting emerging role for us. One of the things that has really been exciting but challenging, it's interesting that both Duke and Minnesota have had this experience with chemists, because I frankly did not expect chemistry to be the one that moved more quickly towards research data deposit. But the National Science Foundation was getting frustrated. The Chemistry Director, with its funded projects and the slow rate of adoption for data curation practices and deposit and sharing. And they targeted their centers for chemical innovation to lead the way. And they turned, so they turned to all of them, including the Center for Sustainable Polymers, which is the center at Minnesota, and said, you have to change your, accelerate the work that you're doing in research data deposit and sharing. We want to see that. They gave them a very short time horizon.  This is a 16 million dollar grant for the university. So they turned immediately to the libraries. And we spent about six months having a team of science librarians work with them to develop a pipeline and a protocol and a way to get all of the data supporting their publications deposited and available publicly. So that, that is something that is just about, we can see that coming. We're about to, we know that that's going to dramatically increase our use, our deposits and the demand on our staff time. Before I turn to the data curation network, I just wanted to mention that we were in the final stages of a new strategic plan for research data services. And since 2016, our team has been co-chaired by a colleague of ours in the Liberal Arts Technology Unit. So we've had, we've had pretty strong collaboration with that part of the university, but as part of our new strategic plan we're anticipating much deeper integration with the collegiate technology units. So we'll, there are 75 separate recommendations coming out of this. I don't know how we're going to do all of them, how we're going to staff them, but this is where really we feel things like the data curation network become important so that we can actually consider scaling up in the way that we believe we'll need to. So I'm, I'm delighted to start talking about the data curation by announcing that the Sloan Foundation has just funded the three-year implementation phase of the network as a follow-on to the planning grant that they provided. And so we're extremely grateful to the foundation and to Josh Greenberg and his staff because they, not only for the support, but the really critical guidance that, and input that they provided about the design of this project. These are the data curation network partner institutions. Duke, Dryad and Johns Hopkins are officially joining as of the implementation phase, but in actuality they've been involved for at least the last six or eight months or so in testing the model, participating in sustainability planning and then helping us with the proposal to the, the now successful proposal to the Sloan. So Jen, Tim, Jen and Sophia have already talked about the requirements in the larger environment and the importance of having data that's fair. This is, this is sort of the central belief that we had coming to forming the data curation network, that it's not enough just to provide access. These data have to be well curated and they will be more valuable if they are well, more well curated. They'll be easier for scholars and future collaborators to find. They'll be easier for them to understand and it will be more likely that they can be replicated. But we also felt very strongly that it was not possible either to fully automate this curation or for a single institution to create the capacity that we would need to curate all of the data that we were likely to see coming in. We're all working in environments where we have, you know, heterogeneous environments, lots of interdisciplinary research and don't, we don't feel it's realistic to expect that every academic library can hire a data curator for every type of data that they're going to have coming in GIS data, tabular, statistical, audio and video, genomic data, all of the things that we've already seen coming in to the Minnesota repository. So the data curation network is our answer to that and it will create, it will actually create a shared pool of staff capacity across its partner institutions. We believe it will accelerate the local curation capacity that we each have, that it will really strengthen the collaboration between libraries and disciplinary researchers and projects, and that it will significantly enhance library's collective voice and influence in conversations about the future of research data. So these are the major steps in building the network. I'm going to talk very briefly about what we learned in the planning phase and then how the workflow model looks right now, how we think we are going to be assessing our work and then finish up with a few thoughts about sustainability before we turn to discussion with all of you. So these were the major activities of the Sloan-funded planning grant and we don't, I don't have time to go into each of these in detail. There is a very detailed report on our website with all of the results from the various activities that we undertook during the planning phase, all of the instruments that we used, it's all available only on our site. So I'm just going to talk about a few things. The first, one of the first things we did was to start with some baseline measurement across the six original partner institutions so that we could identify where our practices converged and diverged. Even though we came together because we were all already offering curation services, the way in which we were offering them was pretty different or at least had there was some difference across our institutions. So we knew it was important to identify where we might need to focus to develop a normalized model that we could use across our institutions. We also, and this was something that the Sloan had specifically urged us to do in order to establish a researcher that researchers would actually value the curation services. We held focus groups with researchers at each of the six institutions. So we had over 90 researchers participate. And we asked them to share their perspectives on the importance and value of 47 different curation activities. And we also asked them about the distributed approach, which is something we get a lot of questions about. How would people actually feel if their data was being curated by someone who was not at their own institution? We get that question a lot from librarians. Interestingly, the researchers didn't really seem to care about that. No concerns on that front. And there are some pretty clear indications that there are curation activities that they value. Interestingly, we also proposed and carried out an ARL spec kit survey. We had 80 ARL libraries respond to this. About two-thirds or 51 of the 80 who responded indicated they were already providing some kind of curation service with an additional 13 who planned to and 16 who did not. But we do see a mismatch between the things that the researchers told us they value highly and the services that we are actually planning or planning to provide. So this was an incredibly valuable activity to go through and really helped set the stage for some of the things we're going to focus on and implementation. So because we have a limited time, I'm going to skip over the detail of a couple of the other things we did in planning, but they're covered in detail in the report. I just wanted to briefly acknowledge all of the colleagues who were so wonderful about sharing their time and expertise. We had had a lot of conversations with these projects and people at various institutions in that those have all been invaluable in helping to really improve the model and the plan for the data curation network. So we hope to return and talk more about partnership as we move into implementation. So these are our current partners for the implementation. As I said, Sloan was very keen to see a strong connection to disciplines and disciplinary repositories. So we're particularly pleased to have Dryad as a partner. They've been wonderful to work with so far. Pretty much all of the staff that you see here, this is contributed effort, except for the coordinator. So the coordinator position is actually funded by the grant. Everything else at this point for the first phase of implementation is contributed effort by the partners. So here's a very, very brief overview of the workflow model for the data curation network. It is by design repository agnostic. So the local institution remains to keep the point of contact with their own local researcher and retains responsibility for the technical function of the repository if it's a local deposit. It could also be going into a disciplinary repository. So once data sets are selected for DCN curation, the coordinator will conduct a preliminary review and then assign it to an appropriate curator at whatever institution has the capacity at the time based on an expertise match, so the discipline and the file format. And then there will be sort of a meat that will be a mediated communication between the coordinator and the local contact and the curator. We do have an articulated set of steps that we will go through, so it's file format specific and domain aware curation activities. I call them curate. More detail on our website. And we, of course, plan some assessment activities. So these are some of the kind of the two pronged approach for taking to assessment, some of the key questions that we'll be seeking answer to answer. A really important part of the data curation network is that we do plan to transition to a self-sustaining model in year three. So we've already consulted fairly extensively on this as part of the planning, but we will be engaging a consultant to help with. What we know will be some pretty significant financial and legal issues to address. The model that seems to resonate right now and the one that we're going with for initial implementation is a hybrid of an in kind and a fee for service model. The DCN will operate as an alliance of institutional partners who will contribute staffing and funds. But then we plan to also offer this as a fee for service to other institutions who either can't don't have the capacity to hire their own staff or need supplementary expertise. And we think that the fee for service we could actually go in other directions. It might not just be fee for curation services. It could be fees for training or consultations. So I think there's a number of ways that we might think about generating the revenue that we believe will need to sustain the network. At least the coordinator position. If this is really successful, hopefully actually funding additional curation capacity. We did some preliminary testing of the membership model because that was where we originally started and we thought would be the model. We had a lot of skepticism from our own deans and university librarians when we tested that model. And I think this has to do with membership fatigue. There are just so many projects out there and they don't really know how to evaluate which is the right one to invest in. So we haven't completely abandoned that as a possibility but the signs are so far then that's probably not the best model to go with. So just a last thought before we open it up for discussions. We do plan to expand to new partners. We would love to talk with any of you who are interested about this and our possible directions. We're planning to formally open up in 2020 but this would be a great time for us to be talking about the network in the community and what everyone else thinks about the fee for service model and the model overall and how we can really strengthen it. So that's it for me. I was going to stop here. Just leave on the screen. These are, I answered some of the questions that we've been getting about the data curation network so far but there are many more and I think we'd all be happy to take those or other questions that you might have. So thank you.


they don't want to get beat by the girl and then as soon as I put my helmet on and I'm on the track like I'm a **** like what if I beat you I like that that's okay that's okay welcome in rendezvous with Lindsay today Lindsay is an indie pro driver so that road to india we've got usf 2000 indie pro indie light indica right it's like the equivalent to formula three in the f1 so f4 f3 f2 f1 all right so tell me about how you started where the passion came from yeah so I basically went to a go-kart track for a birthday party when I was 11 just my family's never been into racing I'm from Colorado originally so I grew up snowmobiling like four wheeling all that fun stuff so when I went to the go-kart track I ended up being quicker than all the adults all the boys like all of that we just did the rental cards the outdoor ones though and then the owner of the track was like oh you should get her her own you know rotex mini max cart and so my dad bought me one and I ended up winning the regional championship my first year then I kind of just worked my way up from there I did rotex junior race nationally with that and then I did shifter carts so I did the I did the stock Honda which like super gnats and stuff it's called scuza in America but it wasn't kz it was like a different shifter car okay yeah but it was still it was a lot of fun and then that's kind of how I think it all sparked and then from there I moved up to I tested in usf 2000 and I did some skip barber schools like you know you go to like some of the transition I did that and I was going to race usf 2000 and then my dad you know my family unfortunately racing is so expensive so my parents couldn't financially support me and they said it's either you know college or racing and they kind of forced they said you need to go to college so I went to their right yeah I got my degree I went to San Diego state I did race my freshman year of college in these funny cars called legend cars they were kind of so I won the championship in that um in 2015 2016 my freshman year of college and then yeah the unfortunately sponsorship ran out and I didn't race for three to four years and but I got my degree in business so I graduated back in 2019 right before covid hit which was what's good but then yeah last year 2020 didn't race last year I raced touring cars and some skip barber f4 stuff and then now this year big step up to yeah that's a big step it's a big step yeah look it's basically jumping from yeah f4 it was a slowed down version of f4 too so they were pretty pretty slow cars up to this which is so you're discovering most of the tracks yeah I mean it's I've never been to Toronto I've never done a street race before so I'm really excited for this weekend a bit nervous but you know I'm just gonna build my way into it you know luckily I've been to indy and road america which are the other two tracks I've driven this year so they went decent like I don't have too high of expectations for my first year in this because they did make such a drastic jump that I just want to learn and get better and be on pace and so next year we're going to do another year of indy pro and hopefully compete for you know wins and podiums yeah the pace is there you know um in indy I during the race I did I was a tenth off the fastest lap in race pace so like the race pace is there I just need to work on my qualifying yeah but the qualifying if you had a break you know three four years it's so intense and it's so about one lap exactly that everything is to go right that yeah if you kind of lose a bit the momentum yeah and it was such a new car and so much more down course new tires I've never driven I feel like it's just learning it's a toronto exciting yeah yeah straight so you get a bit different obviously you need to stay away from the wall yeah what do you think's the biggest difference between just a road course and a street course it's just that on road course you know if you overcook the braking point and you go two ways in the grass it's not a big deal yeah it's a few toe links and you might be out for the weekend you know depending on yes but I feel like qualifying when you get a right lap so it's just a special feeling yeah did you love car when or small cars when you were a kid because you know I've got three kids two boys and one girl and I see my boys playing all the car at the time it's cars yeah all the time no my daughter she doesn't care at all honestly played a lot of video games growing up with my brother so I didn't play with toy cars but I would play like Mario Kart a lot growing up in the gate the racing games but um I honestly just loved outdoor activities I've loved a snowmobile I love to go fast like on a jet ski my mom would put me in front of her lap and I would push her hand to go faster when I was three like I always wanted to go faster whether it's snowmobiling jet skiing like just any sort of motorized vehicle I've always just like had a drive to go faster even when I was like three years old but I never played with like toy cars or really I never really had an interest in actual cars it was more just the aspect of racing and being fast like you know and I think that's even today there's a big car community in California and sometimes people ask me they're like oh you race well what type of car is this and what type of engine I'm like I'm not a car fanatic I love cars but I'm not like a gearhead I just love the passion the sport of racing the speed and the sport yeah I just love love that you know they may be a little bit stupid questions how do the boys behave they behave differently with you do they well in karting kind of I think guys are yelling they don't want to get beat by the girl especially in like when they're boys and so sometimes I felt like I have a bit of a target on my back like they would make really stupid decisions and passes that just weren't you know you shouldn't have done and so I think sometimes that was just their ego growing up and I think it's gotten better I think I do find a lot of like guys wanting to help me and I do see a lot of support which is which is awesome but I just think there needs to be more opportunities for women which I think the W series is great I wish I wish they would put that funding towards putting women in Formula 3 or Formula 4 but I still think you know they're helping women and I think that's awesome I think it's still great that series it's great to see that yeah some girls are doing in the car one day I would love to see girls doing Formula 1 I know hopefully I want to see a girl do it too but as you say I guess at the beginning it's hard because yeah you young teenager don't really want to be beaten by the girl no they don't behind the wheel wheel the same you know exactly like I'm such a smiley I feel like I'm very bubbly and nice off track and then as soon as I put my helmet on and I'm on the track like I'm a **** like yeah I just I'm more I'm way more aggressive and people are like I did not expect you to be like that I just I don't feel like a girl or a guy you know it's just one it's just a driver it's just a driver yeah yeah you have to be right yeah you are driving fast trying to make passes being competitive you can yeah you can be smiley and nice and it's not a racing car but once you're in there it's you're smiling and nice too I feel like some yeah some drivers are very serious and I think it's just their personality but it's some people take life too seriously outside of the trip paddock you know take it seriously without taking it yourself yourself seriously yeah that's the that's just a wide balance exactly but it's awesome and that's what I like in any kind you know I like yeah it's way more chill and with the drivers with you with everyone it just feels like it's pretty cool it's more of a family in IndyCar from what I've seen it's just much more relaxed it is and at the end there's a community there's respect between drivers I don't know if it comes because of the ovals yeah and ovals you have to rely on the other not to be stupid yeah bigger than it you know can be both life in danger didn't Max just say he doesn't want to do they need 500 because he's like I don't want to risk my life yeah yeah and it's true it's it's valid absolutely yeah so it's there's a lot of respect for each other I think I said the same before I came to India and you're like screw them no I'm doing over did you like it was it worth is there a different thrill with it yeah there's something there's something very special about it on super speedway like Texas or India is not so much a driving skill but it's it's more your racing skill and how you understand how things gonna plan out on short ovals like Iowa or Gateway then this is a lot of driving and it's I think I prefer it more we have to drive well I didn't do it this year but next year we have to drive at Lucas oil and it's the smallest it's like 0.3 miles and you really yeah any lights doesn't even run it because it's too powerful like and I arguably would say indy pros a little bit too fast is it the one in Indian outside oh yeah it's like a bus yeah it is the laps are like 15 seconds it's crazy well now you know what we do 18 seconds yeah so you see yeah but it yeah it is quite something with it it's it's different just to feel in the car and how it behaves and first of all it doesn't go straight on the straight lines it's so weird initially it's over when you're starting the car up and it like wants to know you're like what when you get it it's it's cool and indy 500 if you have the chance to do it one day I hope one day that's the goal maybe one day I hope so maybe I'll still be racing maybe I know what if I race you in like three well because I'm hoping three to four years that's the goals what if I beat you I like that would you be okay that's okay no there's 10 questions that I'm gonna ask you okay is your bed made right now my bed in California is made because I'm leaving for a month I'm going to Europe after this for a few weeks but my bed at the hotel is no I'm made at all yeah what's your guilty pleasure in and out animal fries oh what's one of your nicknames little brew little brew it's like people in high school called me that and could be my rap name can you wrap no not at all what item is worse spending more money on oh cars or racing it you forget how much money you actually are spending but it's just you love it so much so I mean that's cliche but true if you could afford any car which one would you drive the law Ferrari is someone so basic I love it it's my dream car I mean McLaren P1 also the sun is nice too I love I don't know but the law Ferrari your celebrity crush I would have to say Leo Leo DiCaprio that's so basic or Christian Bale but when he's in American Psycho spiders I think it's called arachnophobia I actually am terrified of bugs like I don't mind going 160 miles an hour in the pro car but if you put us if a spider was right here I would lose my mind what do you usually answer the phone how do I answer the phone yeah it's funny I always answer my hello like with a question and everyone's like you know it's me calling you have caller ID but it's something I don't know why I always am like hello and they're Lindsey it's your mom like you know it's me it's not like a stranger any I Eden talent piano I can play the piano yeah it's awesome why is your happy place if not the track then it's at Laguna beach I love being at the beach with my friends and I love to travel so well thank you very much it was a pleasure talking to you yes pleasure as always make sure you subscribe you like you follow Lindsey on instagram I'll see you on track see you on track later