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- 1. Digital Libraries, DigitalArchives, 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 ScholarlyCommunication 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” evolvedin 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 12/13/2011Scholarly 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 Datasets 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 6
- 7. Scholarly communication cycle 12/13/2011Scholarly 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 ofemerging 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 wehave 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 methodsin instruction! 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 10 Alternate forms of expressing research Interactive research Training digital humanists
- 11. SO WHAT’S ANACADEMIC LIBRARY TO DO? 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 11
- 12. What’s next fordigital 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 12/13/2011Scholarly Communication Working Group 13
- 14. Tiered faculty-facing services “Firstof a kind” collaborative projects API access to objects and metadata Put collections online 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 14
- 15. How do weensure 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 ScholarlyCommunication 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 ofa preservation repository 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 17 CDR Faculty research Born-digital acquisitions Locally digitized content
- 18. SAVE A PLACEFOR EXPERIMENTATION (especially in scholarly communication) (we’re not all comfortable with this yet) 12/13/2011 Scholarly Communication Working Group 18
- 19. Balance reactive withproactive 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 CommunicationWorking Group 20
- 21. Thank you! jennriley@unc.edu 12/13/2011Scholarly Communication Working Group 21
Editor's Notes
- #5 Distinctive feature of DH – process is as important (or more) than product “Humanities computing” Text encoding Scholarly editions Text mining Computational linguistics Scholar-driven Expansive, inclusive, interactive Digital collections Online reference works Spatial & temporal visualizations Collaborative: library connections
- #8 And then think about how scholarship is changing
- #13 Joyce/NCSU study
- #14 Within the library To scholars themselves
- #21 Disciplinary repositories rather than institutional repositories Cloud, consortial storage “Centers of excellence”