As part of the ALIA professional development series - "What's your job title mean?" - this presentation describes what's involved working with Informatics in Digital Humanities & Education at the University of Melbourne.

1. ALIA RAIS (Vic) Seminar
Greg D’Arcy
University of Melbourne

2. Greg D’Arcy
Socio-informatician
Research & Collections (Library)

3. Socio-what???
Informatics is about using
computers to work with
digital information –
gathering, using, storing,
retrieving, and visualising
information and data.
CSIRAC, the fourth computer in the world. Accessed from
https://museumvictoria.com.au/csirac/

4. Socio-what???
Social informatics is the study
of information and
communication tools in cultural
or institutional contexts.
Another definition is the
interdisciplinary study of the
design, uses and
consequences of information
technologies that takes into
account their interaction with
institutional and cultural
contexts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_informatics Water, marks and countenances: Works on paper from the
Grainger Museum collection. Accessed from
http://grainger.unimelb.edu.au

5. What is SCIP?
SCIP is a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and
Melbourne Graduate School of Education supporting
research in the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and
Education.
Supported by the Melbourne Collaborative Research
Infrastructure Program (MCRIP) which aims to develop a
interwoven network of platform technologies and analysis
services that span the breadth of research conducted
within the University.

6. Why SCIP?
To support researchers in the
Arts and Education to use and
manage digital tools and
platforms as part of their
research projects.
SCIP supports key digital
humanities concepts, such as
data representation, digital
archives, information
visualization and user
interaction.
Arts West building, The University of Melbourne

7. Services ~ Research Data Management
Research data
management covers
the planning, creating,
storing, organising,
accessing, sharing,
describing, publishing
and curating of data.

8. Services ~ Research Data Management
• Grant Proposal: Data Management plan to document use of research data
• Research Design: Dataset organization and management, documentation,
choosing standardized metadata to be used throughout the research process
• Data Analysis: Data storage, security, and backup
• After Publication: Preserve, share, and archive research data.

9. Services ~ Research Tools & Services
Information technology
and networking are
revolutionizing
traditional scholarly
practice

10. Services ~ Research Tools & Services
Research tools can include
databases, GIS and maps to survey
software, text mining, digital archives,
content management systems and
visualisations.

12. My background
pre-2004
University Lecturer, IT Trainer, Writer, Web developer, Training
Manager
2004-2014
Senior Project Manager, Education Services Australia / TLF
• Project management of digital curriculum resource projects
• Metadata & Repositories
• Copyright & Licensing
• Curriculum alignment
• Outreach & Stakeholder Management
• Open Education Resources (OER)
• Standards & Vocabularies
• Report writing / Briefing papers

13. My background
2014-2015
Project Manager, Major Open Data Collection. Latrobe University
• Research data
• Ethics
• Policy & Procedures
• Training
• Requirements gathering for research tools & services
2016-Current
Socio-informatician. The University of Melbourne

14. A Socio-informatician skill-set
Digital humanities
Project management
Web publishing
Informatics budgeting
Research data services
Open Educational Resources
Data policies and data management plans
Data visualisation
Digital scholarship
Stakeholder management
Standards
Training & Outreach

15. gregory.darcy@unimelb.edu.au
https://au.linkedin.com/in/greg-d-arcy-8a4a2511