vra 2012, emerging new roles, moving with the changing landscape

Moving with the Changing Landscape

Jodie DoubleDigital Library and Repositories ManagerUniversity of Leeds, UK

VR professionals as agents of change

Change was and is happening

Careers are taking turns

roots / old home

new home

Brotherton Library: Reading Room

Digital Content and Repositories Team

3 Repositories:• White Rose Research Online (WRRO)• White Rose eTheses Online (WREO)• Leeds Digital Collections (aka LUDOS with official name YTD)

Digitisation Service:• Studio• On-demand digitisation• Digitisation Programme

Copyright Advisory Service:• Training and licensing

the Digital Library @ Leeds: 3 repositories

• White Rose Research Online (WRRO)– open access publication archive of research from – University of Leeds, University of Sheffield and University of York

• White Rose eTheses Online (WREO)– electronic theses, PhD only at the moment– University of Leeds, University of Sheffield and University of York

• Leeds Digital Collections ( a.k.a. LUDOS)– Research outputs that do not fit into collection policy of WR– Images, audio, video, data– everything else....

the Projects• LIFE-SHARE

– Consortia digitisation straegies – University of Leeds, University of Sheffield and University of York

• RePosit– Encouraging full-text deposit with publication systems– University of Leeds, Symplectic, University of Exeter, University of Plymouth,

Queen Mary University London, and Keele University

• AQuA– Automated Quality Assurance of Digital Collections– University of Leeds, University of York, and the British Library

• SPRUCE– Digital Preservation tools mash-ups and business case templates for digital

preservation– University of Leeds, the British Library, LSE, and Digital Preservation Coalition

Brotherton Library: Rotunda

Workflow (1.0)

Workflow (2.0)

Sub-workflow

Workflows (old and new)

Lessons Learned while exploring

Advocacy and Promotion of Services

Align activities and services with strategy?

Preservation of cultural heritage and research

we are building upon history

Here and Now!• Digital preservation• Crowd-sourcing • Digital humanities• Mashed data• Hybrid collections• Born digital archives• Research data

thank you.

Contact info:

Jodie DoubleDigital Library and Repositories ManagerUniversity of Leeds, UKj.l.double@leeds.ac.uk