‘How the partnership between the Library of Trinity College Dublin Digital Resources and Imaging Services and the ADAPT Centre is inspiring and supporting research’ - Declan O’Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin)
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Presented at CONUL conference, May 2017, Athlone, Ireland
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‘How the partnership between the Library of Trinity College Dublin Digital Resources and Imaging Services and the ADAPT Centre is inspiring and supporting research’ - Declan O’Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin)
- 1. The ADAPT Centre is funded under the SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106) and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund. Declan O’Sullivan Principal Investigator, ADAPT Centre Arlene Healy Sub Librarian (Digital Systems and Services) TCD Library Partnership ADAPT Centre and the Library of Trinity College Dublin
- 2. www.adaptcentre.ieADAPT Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded since Jan 2015 30 Academics, 205 Researchers across TCD, DCU, DIT, UCD Focus: Digital Content Technology
- 3. www.adaptcentre.ieADAPT goes to the Library | 3 • Bringing across expertise • REAL people; Real Problems; Real Insights Cross-Cultural Excellence • Awareness of existing workflows & services • Leap-frogging the ‘starter’ questions Targeting Impact, Benefit & Novelty • Strategic imperative to catalyse research • Strategic emphasis on user-centricity Organisational Commitment
- 4. www.adaptcentre.ieResearch questions | 4 What multi-modal interfaces and interaction paradigms will expand and improve discovery of, and engagement with, scholarly content as the forms of that content also expands? How do we to improve curation of content given new diverse sources of publication, accelerated availability of new content and increased demand for access?
- 5. www.adaptcentre.iePartnership from ADAPT perspective Ongoing projects • App Prototype for accessing Digital Repository • Approach to Linked Data publication – Harry Clarke demonstrator – Uplift of metadata into MODS RDF • See Lucy Mc Kenna next session – Library Staff interface for interlinking • See Christophe Debruyne next session • Novel recommendation system for TARA open repository | 5 The partnership continues • ADAPT/Library Ussher Lecturer:. Joeran Beel • Big Content part of TCD Research Strategy
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- Origins of the partnership At a high level, the partnership came about following an initial, wide-ranging discussion between the Director of ADAPT and the Director of the Library, including the concept of “Library as Big Content”, rather than as “Big Data” What are the benefits? Unique Irish context - unique content in the island of Ireland: ‘UK electronic legal deposit’ Big Data; Big Content - 6.5m volumes. 80,000 e-journals. 350,000 e-books. UK e-legal deposit material. 110,000 digital collection objects. REAL people, REAL problems, REAL expertise, REAL insights Why now? The technology is ready, the need is urgent: MOOC, Google, the digital shift, the need for social The strategic direction is being defined; user-centricity, multiplicity of audiences Why partner? Not the Library doing it alone: paedagogues, psychologists, lawyers, archivists, librarians, technologists – distributed collaborative model ‘Open Innovation model’ rather than small internal research unit Highlight practical implications associated with the ‘Open innovation model’ – commercial software used in Library; testing in a ‘real world’, ‘live’ environment Appetite to leapfrog simpler questions eg around digitized content
- Agreed to progress research using the following overarching research questions: What multi-modal interfaces and interaction paradigms will expand and improve discovery of, and engagement with, scholarly content as the forms of that content also expands? User Experience Thread How to improve curation of content given new diverse sources of publication, accelerated availability of new content and increased demand for access? Metadata Thread “right information to the right people at the right time” What is the Library’s goal in supporting search and retrieval? We need to know more about how users, find, acquire, store, organise, share, and re-use information Personalisation; recommendation…
- Types of projects: Immediate term: Projects suitable for short demonstrator projects driven by postdocs or as Phd directed studies projects or MSc dissertation projects Undergraduate final year internship projects Future: Projects that may require more extensive resources funded through existing funding (e.g. ADAPT, College grants) or funding applications The partnership between the Library and ADAPT led to the successful formulation of an Ussher Associate Professorship in Intelligent Systems. The Ussher professorships are a very important University-wide initiative whereby 40 new academics have been recruited as a significant research cohort. There was a particular emphasis on cross-disciplinary collaboration, and for the first time, the Library could be a partner. We are delighted Dr Joeran Beel has been appointed to the position.