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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

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Riley, Jenn. "Digital Libraries, Digital Archives, Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarship: What’s the Difference? Prioritizing, Strategizing, and Executing." University of North Carolina Scholarly Communications Working Group, December 13, 2011.

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Page 1: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives, Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarship: What’s the Difference? Prioritizing, Strategizing, and Executing

Digital Libraries, Digital Archives, Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarship: What's the Difference? Prioritizing, Strategizing, and ExecutingJenn Riley

Head, Carolina Digital Library and ArchivesUNC Library

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 2

A STORY…

12/13/2011

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 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

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 4

“Digital humanities” evolved in parallel

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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

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Continuum of work

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 6

Enter Institutional Repositories

Preprints/OA

Campus grey

literature

Data sets

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 7

Scholarly communication cycle

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Library buys

Scholar reads/accesses

Scholar does

research

Scholar writes

Scholar publish

es

We’re here

Should we be here?

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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

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And then we have born digital library acquisitions

(For which we take on stewardship responsibility)

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Personal papers

Research data

Administrative records

Student records

Government

publications

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 10

And then…digital methods in instruction!

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Alternate forms of expressing research

Interactive research

Training digital humanists

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SO WHAT’S AN ACADEMIC LIBRARY TO DO?

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What’s next for digital collections?

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• Basic description, then possible enhancement

• Description from usersBuild 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

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 13

EXPAND KNOWLEDGE, SPREAD THE

RESPONSIBILITY

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Tiered faculty-facing services

“First of a kind” collaborative

projects

API access to objects and metadata

Put collections online

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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

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Modular architectures

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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

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 17

UNC’s interpretation of a preservation repository

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CDR

Faculty research

Born-digital

acquisitions

Locally digitized content

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SAVE A PLACE FOR EXPERIMENTATION

(especially in scholarly communication)

(we’re not all comfortable with this yet)

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Balance reactive with proactive

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Assessment

Business planning

Project and respond to demand

Take the long view

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 20

COLLABORATE

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Scholarly Communication Working Group 21

Thank you!

[email protected]

12/13/2011