vra 2012, emerging new roles, moving with the changing landscape
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Presented by Jodie Double at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 18th - April 21st, 2012, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Session: Emerging new roles for VR professionals: research into and beyond the arts At a time of international financial instability, with positions constantly under threat, analogue collections facing forced closure and space at a premium, this session will hear from VR professionals who are reinventing themselves and evolving roles in changing landscapes, pushing into new disciplines and spaces.Each speaker will discuss the new roles they have taken on, either by accident or design and how their experiences are shaping their view of the VR profession in “the tens”. In many cases this has meant working across disciplines; making their professional presence felt in the classroom and the boardroom; developing new skills but in all cases, broadening their horizons through collaboration.Speakers will discuss supporting courses beyond traditional visual arts, design and art history; collaborating with libraries, IT and faculty in course development and delivery; working with artists and archivists to preserve and expose their work, collections and archives; building repositories; involvement in project funding applications; working in arts research and coordinating non-traditional research outputs.ORGANIZER: Stephanie Beene, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, ORMODERATOR: Victoria Brown, University of OxfordPRESENTERS:1: Stephanie Beene, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR2: Victoria Brown, University of Oxford, UK3: Jodie Double, University of Leeds, UK4: Catherine Worrall, University College Falmouth, UKTRANSCRIPT
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, [email protected]