digital scholarship retreat 2014
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digital scholarship retreat 2014welcome#UMDSR
Coffee + Re-Arrange
→ Break into groups based on the color on your name badge.
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DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIPMorning Session
Q1: How do you define digital scholarship?Q2: What does digital scholarship mean for UM? Q3: What does UM mean for digital scholarship?
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Lunch Time ExerciseWhat to do with $40M?
→Read the spending categories & rules→Discuss with people at the table→Create a pie chart→Give a 2-min lightning talk
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DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIPAfternoon Session
Q1: What are you doing in this area?Q2: What would you like to be doing? Q3: What resources or expertise do you need to make this happen?Q4: What do you see U-M doing in this area in the next five years?
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Google Doc. Presentation Links➔ Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy:
➔ Digital Scholarship and Support/Project Management:
➔ Digital Scholarship and Publishing/Scholarly Communication:
➔ Digital Scholarship and Physical Space:
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Publishing/Scholarly Communication● Updating older monographs with new digital content
○ can’t go to the academic department for it● Need developer’s/programming expertise for publishing● Scaling up: if one faculty author does this, what if more come forward?● Publishing subvention: $$ from author’s institution to defray publishing
costs (cost-sharing) (only $5,000)○ change policy to include digital scholarship
● Preservation: publishers don’t care, but it is huge mission of library● Culture clash: being able to hire the expertise you need in a library setting;
cannot offer the type of salary that developers expect● One size fits all? Build one platform for all of authors’ needs?
○ How sustainable or scalable?○ Custom, bespoke “DH projects,”--but moving toward a template
(Omeka, WordPress)
Publishing/Scholarly Communication cont.
● Deep Blue for preservation, but not presentation○ certain formats
● Currently no robust support for data services● Don’t know yet what people will need when it comes to data● But for digital scholarship: need place to go for dev. support
○ conceptually working through what to build● Digital literacy problem: understanding what is possible● Hiring people is HARD
○ Why? The “unicorn problem”● UMSI is producing people with these needed skills● Press currently in mindset of what scholarship will sell the best, not what is
the best scholarship. ○ but the fact remains that they must still sell books
Publishing/Scholarly Communication cont.
Q1: What are you doing in this area?“Bespoke” publishing projectsQ2: What would you like to be doing? Platform publishingQ3: What resources or expertise do you need to make this happen?Developers and brokersQ4: What do you see U-M in this area in the next five years?
● Building responsive, scalable infrastructure for scholars on this campus● U-M has new leadership across the board: new president, new head of ARC, new library
leadership
Support/Project Management● Help people understand what they need to understand
when they start the project● Preparing them not to fail● Support structure - don’t have to do everything yourself● Infrastructure support for the virtual (like plumbing)● “Give them the yearning for the sea”● Sustainable high level of support● Expertise & Stuff● Need the new “Kodak” (Experts have your back)● Land of M.S.U (Making sh...stuff up)
Digital (techne) Pedagogy● Move away from tool-based teaching → Teaching people how to learn● Think algorithmically, computationally but also visual literacy (balances,
foreground/background, etc.) and critical thinking [qualitative side of things]● Teaching through the digital creates and requires qualitative decision making.● What is digital literacy? Defining it.● Learning to shape questions that are findable. [Information literacy]● Adopting palimpsest nature of physical spaces for digital ones (traces).● Jumping into 24/7-ness of digitalia is making assumptions about students’ (digital)
lives outside of the classroom.● positions for graduate students (post-graduation) to teach → keep knowledge within
the system as opposed to shipping off to Google, etc.● Education of undergraduates; fostering critical thinking; skill set acquisition● Digital pedagogy does not directly relate to digital scholarship.
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