Growing Knowledge: The Evolution of Research by Nora Daly Digital Curator at the British Library which provided insight into the aims of the British Library's Growing knowledge exhibition which is exploring what future research and research environments look like

1. Nora Daly
Digital Curator

2. Whoa. What is going on here?

3. Not a portal to outer space.
(although that would also be cool)

4. An Exhibition. An Experiment.
An
Evaluation.
To help us design and deliver future
research services and environments.

5. “… one day a scholar will be able to quiz a regional
computer by telephone from his office; whereupon the
answer, perhaps from a paper by a foreign colleague, will
bounce off an orbiting communications satellite first into a
simultaneous translator and then on to the scholar's TV
screen."
“Libraries: How Not to Waste Knowledge.”
Time Magazine 1965

6. Good news on that front.
We have not been wasting it….
We’ve been Growing Knowledge
(Bah-dump-CHING!)

7. The Exhibition
Showcases how knowledge is growing through innovative and exemplary
projects which leverage new technologies to overcome classic issues
that scholars face throughout the research process.
● Information access, overload, integrity
● Time & resource management
● Cross-site collaboration
● Funding
….to name just a few!

8. Some highlights
● Garibaldi Scroll Improving access to large format materials
● London Lives Building communities around digitized content
● Galaxy Zoo Handling mass quantities of data requiring human
intervention
● Journal of Visualized Experiments Adding visual context to complex
peer reviewed research

9. The Haptic Cow!
July 28th, 2011

10. The Experiment

11. The Evaluation
CIBER Research group will be analysing the results
of the Growing Knowledge survey and focus groups
to help provide clues as to what services, tools and
environments we must expect to provide in the 21st
century.

12. www.growingknowledge.bl.uk
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