Visual Arts Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals
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Presented at ArLiSNAP/VREPS Virtual Conference: Visualizing the Future: New Perspectives in Art Librarianship, January 15th, 2015 Shared thoughts on data management as an expertise visual resource professions exercise daily - thereby highlighting the VR community's leadership role for initiatives that support art communities, including data curation consultation services, and advice for creating and managing digital projects.
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- 1. Carol and John Moriarty Library
- 2. Visual Arts Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals 2 Kate Thornhill, MLS Visual Resources Curator
- 3. Why data literacy in the visual arts? •Research Data management services – trend in eScience and Humanities: , Ithaka S+R Survey, JISC funded projects CaRio, Kaptura, and VADS4R projects (VRA 2015 workshop: http://sched.co/1vNf18B) • But what about non-grant funded? What about personal data management? Little to no research on the subject •Non-grant funded visual arts digital scholarship • Digital classroom is a hot bed for digital content creation • Focused on creation and capture – so what about everything else in the data life-cycle process? •Digital information management is a professional skill for anyone making digital artwork 3 Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals
- 4. Why should VR Professionals lead data literacy initiatives in the visual arts? •We are digital information specialists – Primarily manage digitization and born- digital content and develop our own professional data management plans for digital collections •We understand visual art communities and know what type of research they do and content produced 4 Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals
- 5. Why should VR Professionals lead data literacy initiatives in the visual arts? •Subject Liaison: Need for digital information management advice and QC of digital projects produced in the classroom – Online student publications and digital portfolios •Opportunity for visual resource professionals to participate in outcome/assessment based learning through digital projects management instruction – Curriculum integration. 5 Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals
- 6. Goals over the next 1-5 years 6 1. Create data management web presence for the Moriarty Library 1. Create SLOs mapping of data literacy to art school curriculum 1. Demonstrate how data literacy contributes to recruitment and retention through student generated digital collections 1. Develop scalable data services for my library that make sense to users 1. Develop data management profiles for LUCAD departments to aid in long term management of institutional scholarship 1. Become embedded in LUCAD digital project initiatives in the art school 1. Demonstrate and market the library as an authority on the management of digital information, specifically for digital project management (digital portfolios, IR management, digital project collaborations) 2. Continue to build faculty relationships and by-in for classroom collaboration and working with other department across campus – Academic Technology and IT Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals
- 7. First Steps Spring 2015… 7 Create data management presence • Developing LibGuide focused on DCC’s data lifecycle model and apply to visual artists – will be tutorial and resources focused • Begin outreach with MFA Visual Art and BFA Photography programs Digital Project – Shared Shelf • Plans to work with BFA Photography course and become embedded in digital project management as well as developing digital archive for the project’s 2003-present digital collection Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals
- 8. Thank You! Kate Thornhill, MLS kthornhi@lesley.edu
Editor's Notes
- Slide 1 Introduction Hello everyone! My name is Kate Thornhill and I’m the Visual Resources Curator for Lesley University’s Carol and John Moriarty Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Moriarty Library is a 3-person library staff team, including myself, who primarily support Lesley’s College of Art and Design, formerly the Art Institute of Boston. In late 2013 I was hired to support the development and changing service for the University’s visual resources, and be the expert on campus for digital image research and classroom instruction imaging needs. With a visual arts background of my own and just coming out of library school with a focus in digital curation, I knew starting my position that a studio art data management initiative was a service I wanted to implement.
- Side 2 Title slide – Data Management: A New Role for VR Professionals So today my quick talk is going to focus on data management as a new role for visual resources professionals. I’ll discuss less about what VR professionals have done in the past and more about why data management is an important initiative for us to embrace and foster.
- Slide 3 Why data literacy in the visual arts? Data literacy is the ability to read, create, and communication digital material as information. And opens opportunity and discussion about the skills students and faculty need to effectively produced and manage personal and institutional digital content. In recent years academic libraries have begun to develop and offer data literacy instruction to their communities. Much of the research available on this topic relates to disciplines and institutions involved with grant funded research – which eScience and Digital Humanities library discourse has coined: Research Data Management (RDM). What literature I’ve found relating RDM to the visual arts is little to none in the United States. Internationally though, JISC funding has allowed the UK’s University for the Creative Arts, Glasgow School of Art and other partnering UK institutions to explore and expand on the concept and policy development. In fact, there’s going to be a visual arts RDM workshop at this year’s VRA conference instructed by a representative from this project. I included the URL in my presentation if anyone is interested in reading more about it. But what about the non-funded visual arts? What about personal digital projects or artwork? This categorization of data management is important to my institution because we aren’t a heavily grant funded research university. Visual art studio classrooms are a hot bed for content creation. Anyone who has taken a digital arts course knows much of the focus has traditional been on content creation and capture. As a digital curation specialist my response to that is… But what about the rest of the data life-cycle process? Foundational data curation or digital project management skills are an integral to professional success as a working artist. And someone like myself who went to art school 10 years ago would love to know where the hard drive holding all her digital photography lives.
- Slide 4 Why should VR Professionals lead data literacy initiatives in the visual arts? Regardless of data management being grant funded or not in the visual arts, students and faculty need to be taught how to manage their digital information because it will be lost or not accessible in the future. Not going into major detail, in the visual arts there are all kinds of file types, formats and methods for capturing, storing, securing, licensing and copyrighting, publishing and sharing digital information. So why should VR Professionals be the people to teach students and faculty how to strategize the creation and management of their digital content? Well we are information specialists who manage digitization and born-digital content. As a manager regardless of what content is in our collections, we develop our own professional data management plans because of our deep understanding for data curation life-cycle practices. Data management is the thing we do everyday. We also have a deep understanding for the studio art disicplines, let it be because we have a studio art degree or have worked so long with a community that we know the ins and outs. This allows us to successfully communication on the content creation and management level specific to BFA or MFA degree fields.
- Slide 5 Why should VR Professionals lead data literacy initiatives in the visual arts? Liaisoning with visual arts departments also gives us the opportunity to help facilitate and advise on classroom assignments like making student publications or creating professional digital portfolios. Connecting to the bullet point above. This is also a space for us to participate in outcomes/assessment-based learning. Digital projects in the classroom, developing websites, and using social media to promote artwork or assignments are common practice. Students and art professionals various types of content management systems like Wordpress or Drupal and sites like Tumblr, Facebook, Squarespace, and Other Peoples Pixels to promote their digital content. This as a space for us to teach our academic community how to think about developing digital collections or personal digital archives of their artwork with the goal of being able to access it for need now and in the future. So over the coming years, the data literacy initiative I would like to lead is focused with a major goal of having literacy outcomes mapped to the College of Art & Design’s curriculum. It will also give me the ability to demonstrate to the University the value of the library as a partner in 21st century student learning.
- Slide 6 Aside from my long-term goal to have data literacy integrated into the art and design curriculum, there are smaller goals leading up to that one. Create data management web presence for the Moriarty Library Create SLOs mapping of data literacy to art school curriculum Develop scalable data services for my library Demonstrate how data literacy contributes to recruitment and retention through student generated digital collections Develop data management profiles for LUCAD departments to aid in long term management of institutional scholarship Become embedded in LUCAD digital project initiatives in the art school Demonstrate and market the library as an authority on the management of digital information, specifically for digital project management (digital portfolios, IR management, digital project collaborations) Continue to build faculty relationships and by-in for classroom collaboration and working with other department across campus – IT and EdTech department