Introduction The University of Pretoria (UP) Library MakerSpace Rationale Services Successes Why a Digital Scholarship Centre (in the Library)? Rationale Examples Services Expanding the Library MakerSpace concept to create an UP Library Digital Scholarship Centre? Digital Scholarship services that our MakerSpace / Digital Scholarship Centre can deliver currently In conclusion

1. BUILDING A DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
CENTRE ON THE SUCCESSES OF A
LIBRARY MAKERSPACE?
Dr Heila Pienaar
Deputy Director: Strategic Innovation
Library Services
University of Pretoria
South Africa
CV: https://www.slideshare.net/heila1/dr-heila-pienaar-cv-aug2017/1

2. Content
• Introduction
• The University of Pretoria (UP) Library MakerSpace
• Rationale
• Services
• Successes
• Why a Digital Scholarship Centre (in the Library)?
• Rationale
• Examples
• Services
• Expanding the Library MakerSpace concept to create an
UP Library Digital Scholarship Centre?
• Digital Scholarship services that our MakerSpace / Digital
Scholarship Centre can deliver currently
• In conclusion

3. Introduction
• Digital scholarship technologies refer to the suite of digital
and computational tools currently being used to advance
scholarship in higher education.
• Digital Scholarship Centres are often created in academic
libraries in order to drive this transformation of scholarship.
• Many Digital Scholarship Centres developed as a result of
Digital Humanities (DH) activities. In South Africa DH is a
recent development and still in its infancy
• Some Digital Scholarship Centres are incorporating 3D
services at a later stage in their service offering. The
University of Pretoria developed a successful Makerspace
and this presentation will investigate if our Makerspace could
be used as the basis of a Digital Scholarship Centre.

4. UP LIBRARY MAKERSPACE

5. Rationale
A hackerspace (also referred to as a
hacklab, makerspace or hackspace)
is a community-operated workspace
where people with common interests,
often in computers, machining,
technology, science, digital art or
electronic art, can meet, socialize and
collaborate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace

8. Why in the library?
• A neutral place on campus
• Accessible to all the faculties
• Interaction by people of different backgrounds
• Part of the goal to make the library ‘your space
for innovation’
• Not only 3D printing; also include other types of
tools and services

9. UP Library MakerSpace

10. Services
• 3D scanning, printing and designing projects
• Training in electronics, e.g. robotics
• Integration into the curriculum, and to drive
research projects and products
• Integration into the Entrepreneurship drive on
campus
• Business incubator (prototyping of products)
• Hackathons with industry partners
• Library and Data carpentry training e.g.
OpenRefine
• ‘Mini-me’ 3D scanning and printing

11. Successes - Entrepreneurship
• Integration into the Entrepreneurship drive on campus,
e.g.
• SA RILab and MakerSpace teams attend
RMB EXPO
• UP's MakerSpace hosts Manufacturing
Systems module award ceremony
• UP students awarded at Youth Spark
Innovation Grants Awards ceremony

12. Successes – 3D printing projects
Helping a blind student
to understand diagrams
To illustrate food portions
Hyrax (dassie) enlarged
skull
Naledi skull
Copy of brain

13. WHY A DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
CENTRE (IN THE LIBRARY)?

14. Rationale
The concept of digital scholarship has origins in the late
1990s in the UK. Originally referred to as e-science, the
idea of applying new technology and data analysis tools
to scholarship cycled through other names like cyber-
infrastructure and e-scholarship before landing on the
current umbrella term.
Academic libraries were quick to position themselves
as incubators for this transformation of research.
Through a collaborative approach, libraries developed
shared virtual and physical places for fostering scholarly
inquiry. http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2017-nmc-horizon-report-library-EN.pdf
“The digital scholarship centres (DSC) that have become
fashionable are often located in the library providing a
focus for this type of activity (broad set of digital services to
support research)” https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/international-advances-in-digital-scholarship

15. Digital research examples
Kramer B and Bosman J. Innovations in
scholarly communication - global survey
on research tool usage [F1000Research
2016, 5:692
(doi:10.12688/f1000research.8414.1)
UP Library took part in this survey

16. http://www.ukdissertationwriters.com/make-the-academic-research-process-easier-with-these-tools/

17. Examples of Centres for Digital Scholarship
• Centre for Digital Scholarship, University of Leiden
Library, the Netherlands https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/research-
and-publishing/centre-for-digital-scholarship
• Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford,
UK https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digitalscholarship
• Centre for Digital Scholarship, University of Queensland
Library, Australia https://web.library.uq.edu.au/locations-hours/centre-digital-
scholarship
• Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library,
USA http://library.brown.edu/cds
• And …… The DiRT (digital research tools) Directory is a registry of
digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for
those conducting digital research to find resources ranging from
content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis
packages to mind mapping software https://dirtdirectory.org/

18. Services
•Defining and disseminating
emergent digital scholarship
•Inspiring digital curiosity
•Opening imaginations

19. Services
• Research Data
Management, incl. Data
& Library Carpentry
workshops
• Text & data mining
• Open Access
• Publication advice
• Copyright
• Collaborative
environments e.g. VRE’s
• GIS
• 3D software & hardware
• Digital Humanities
Services and advice
for digital projects:
. Creating and managing
digital collections
. Metadata
. Management of projects
using digital research
methods
. Long term preservation
. Digitisation of analogue
primary sources

20. EXPANDING THE LIBRARY
MAKERSPACE CONCEPT TO
CREATE AN UP LIBRARY
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
CENTRE?

21. DS services that our MakerSpace / Digital
Scholarship Centre can deliver currently:
MakerSpace
• 3D scanning, printing and
design projects
• Training in electronics
• Library and Data
carpentry training e.g.
OpenRefine
• Making its space available
for digital projects
Digital Scholarship
• Virtual space for digital tools
and virtual training
• Research data management
(RDM) service portfolio
• Digitisation service e.g.
digitisation on demand
• Repository for digital objects
• VRE’s
• Services and advice for
digital projects

22. In conclusion
• The UP Library is privileged to have initiated a successful
Makerspace that can form the basis for the development
of digital scholarship services
• Developing a Digital Scholarship Centre has been
identified as one of five focus areas to transform the UP
Library into a modern, dynamic library

23. Library services linked to roadmaps
• Roadmaps must be developed for:
• Research process (list of research steps)
• Post-graduate process (fly HIGHER document)
• Under-graduate process (FLY document?)
• Link library services to the different steps / stages of each
process
• Market these services effectively (e.g. the roadmaps with
the linked services)