Digital Libraries, Digital Archives, Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarship: What’s the Difference? Prioritizing, Strategizing, and Executing

1. Digital Libraries, Digital Archives, Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarship: What's the Difference? Prioritizing, Strategizing, and Executing Jenn Riley Head, Carolina Digital Library and Archives UNC Library

2. A STORY… 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 2

3. Evolution of the “digital library” Item-level digitization/presentation with non-MARC metadata Curated online exhibits Addition of contextual materials: essays, lesson plans, etc Application of MPLP ideas from archives and special collections Rise of mass digitization 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 3

4. “Digital humanities” evolved in parallel 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 4 Early • “Humanities computing” • Text encoding • Scholarly editions Now • Expansive, inclusive • Interactive • Digital collections • Text mining • Computational linguistics • Scholar-driven •Spatial & temporal •Online reference works •Collaborative

5. Continuum of work 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 5 Digital collections Onlineexhibits Onlinereference sources Criticaleditions Immersive experiences Spatial humanities Collections Scholarship

6. Enter Institutional Repositories Preprints/OA Campus grey literature Data sets 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 6

7. Scholarly communication cycle 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 7 Library buys Scholar reads/accesses Scholar does research Scholar writes Scholar publishes We’re here Should we be here?

8. Some areas of emerging library involvement Data management plans • Funding mandates Open Access • Faculty-led campus policies Library as publisher • Dissemination, not necessarily peer review/editing 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 8

9. And then we have born digital library acquisitions (For which we take on stewardship responsibility) 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 9 Personal papers Research data Administrative records Student records Government publications

10. And then…digital methods in instruction! 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 10 Alternate forms of expressing research Interactive research Training digital humanists

11. SO WHAT’S AN ACADEMIC LIBRARY TO DO? 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 11

12. What’s next for digital collections? 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 12 • Basic description, then possible enhancement • Description from users Build over time • Quick UI generation • Reusable, user-friendly collection builder tools Streamlined collection building • Librarian and scholar built exhibits • APIs More methods of access • With other institutions • With web-scale servicesSharing

13. EXPAND KNOWLEDGE, SPREAD THE RESPONSIBILITY 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 13

14. Tiered faculty-facing services “First of a kind” collaborative projects API access to objects and metadata Put collections online 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 14

15. How do we ensure sustainability? We can’t. • But we can make it more likely Adhere to community practices • Metadata • Object formats • Software development practices • Business planning Build core infrastructure • Upgrade/build once to benefit many • Avoid monolithic systems 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 15

16. Modular architectures 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 16 Small pieces, loosely coupled • Microservices • Allows specialized development • Pipelined together into larger ones Flexibility • Presentation • Storage • Easy replacement of parts Data flow • More important than ever • We need to get much better at this

17. UNC’s interpretation of a preservation repository 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 17 CDR Faculty research Born-digital acquisitions Locally digitized content

18. SAVE A PLACE FOR EXPERIMENTATION (especially in scholarly communication) (we’re not all comfortable with this yet) 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 18

19. Balance reactive with proactive 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 19 Assessment Business planning Project and respond to demand Take the long view

20. COLLABORATE 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 20

21. Thank you!  jennriley@unc.edu 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 21

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