This document summarizes a presentation by Joan K. Lippincott on e-research and digital scholarship. It discusses how new technologies enable combining dispersed resources in new ways and data mining large collections to gain new insights. Examples are provided of projects that analyzed combined datasets, such as a slave trade database. New forms of scholarship are emerging using 3D visualization, augmented reality, and student projects. Digital scholarship centers in libraries support these activities through specialized services, expertise, and creating communities of collaboration among students, faculty, and information professionals. Challenges include promoting these new areas and developing sustainable models.

1. Joan K. Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information
Columbia University
February 21,2012

2. Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI)
 Joint program of ARL and EDUCAUSE
 Founded in 1990 to bridge library and IT communities
in the Internet environment
 Focus on scholarship, teaching & learning
 Program areas:
 Content
 Individuals, Professions, Teaching & Learning
 Technology
 www.cni.org

3. Why E-Research?
E-Science E-Social Sciences

4. Why Digital Humanities?
ACLS Report HATHI Trust

5. E-Research – New Questions
 Technologies enable:
 Bringing together dispersed resources
 Combining resources in new ways
 Data-mining of very large collections of resources
 Linking resources and geographical places
 Visualizing information in new ways
 A personal story

6. Large data sets in sciences lead to
new discoveries

7. New information from many combined
datasets provides new insights
http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.f Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
aces Database
 Earlier datasets focused on
slave trade in one city or of
one ship
 Patterns emerged when data
was combined
 Visual representations
assisted in discerning
patterns

8. Manuscripts from different
locations
http://romandelarose.org/#home

9. Manuscripts from different
locations

10. Studies of bibliography and
biography

11. My story: Undergraduate scholarship –
traditional style

12. Google Books

13. Europeana
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

14. Digging into the Enlightenment: Mapping
the Republic of Letters
http://enlightenment.humanitiesnetwork.org/

15. New representations
3-D Visualizations Rome Reborn – B. Frischer
http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu
 Use of large data sets
 Institutionally affiliated and
curated
 Geo-location and 3-D
visualization
 Implications for research and
teaching & learning

16. Digging into Data 2011 Awardee

17. New representations
www.vectorsjournal.org USC-based
 New forms of scholarship
 Authors supported by multi-
media team

18. New representations
 Augmented reality
 JISC-funded project
 U. Manchester
 View context of images
in university Special
Collections

19. My inspiration: Undergrads create
3-D fly-through of the City of Troy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qOzjT2BSY

20. New collaborations
 Digital humanities is a collaborative enterprise
 Humanists working with other humanists, including
grad students
 Humanists working with faculty from other disciplines,
especially Computer Science
 Humanists working with information professionals

21. New collaborations
 Funding agencies from
several countries
 Collaborative projects
 Very large data sets
 New types of research
questions
 New modes of scholarly
communication
 http://www.diggingintodata.org

22. New collaborations
 Project Bamboo
 Multi-institutional
 Researchers, IT, and
digital library
professionals
 Infrastructure and tools

23. New collaborations
 Scholars creating
community
 Sharing research
products
 Providing peer review
 Promoting an open
environment

24. New partnerships with the
community
http://www.bl.uk/maps/ Help place maps
 Citizen science model
 Exposes non-experts to
digital source materials
 Engages them in the process
of developing digital libraries

25. Digital Scholarship Centers
 Relatively new area of focus for libraries
 Specialized services and spaces for faculty and
graduate students
 High-end hardware and software
 Staff expertise for consultation
 Emphasis on humanities and social sciences

26. Recently featured at CNI meetings
Brown U. & U. Nebraska UCLA

27. Recently featured at CNI meetings
U. Calgary Columbia U.

28. Visualization centers

29. GIS Centers

30. Involving students in data-intensive
work
Net Gen Students McMaster U. Library
 Oriented to visual projects
 Attracted to interactive
information products
 Engaged in active learning
 Develop skills that can
translate into job offers

31. Assignments to involve students –
citizen science

32. My current work
 Intersection of interests
 Graduate students
 ETDs
 Digital humanities
 Learning spaces
 Understand current models of digital scholarship
centers services
 Identify good practice
 Initial interviews – faculty and librarians

33. How do Digital Scholarship Centers
support graduate work?
Offer a range of services Ex.: U. Va. Scholars’ Lab
 Fellowships
 Cohort of students
 Daily interaction with staff
 Workshops, courses,
certificate programs
 One-on-one consultation
 Online tutorials
 Create a community
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/

34. What skills do students need?
A variety of views U. North Texas
 Ability to ask new types of
questions and link to
technologies
 Project management skills
 Understand how computer
systems work
 Database structure
 A range of literacies
 [Digital preservation]
 [Intellectual property issues]

35. What are the challenges?
 Articulating and promoting the goals and services of
centers
 Providing staff with appropriate skills
 Developing scalable projects and services
 Developing a sustainable funding model

36. What are the challenges?
 Acceptance of new forms
of scholarship by
academic departments
and disciplinary societies

37. What are the challenges?
 Promoting information professionals’ skills to faculty
 Engaging in genuine collaboration (faculty, student,
information professional)

38. Thank you!
Contact:
Joan Lippincott
joan@cni.org
http://www.cni.org/
about-
cni/staff/joan-k-
lippincott/
Photos are my own
Joan at the Duke U. “The Link”