BUCH Forum, Building From the Inside Out

A presentation for the Boston University Center for the Humanities' BUCH Forum, "Building from the Inside Out: Empowering Librarians to Develop Digital Scholarship Collaboratories" on October 6, 2017.

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1. Building from the Inside Out Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Recording Archives in the Digital Age” Boston University, October 6, 2017 Empowering Librarians to Develop Digital Scholarship Collaboratories
2. From Richard Dagley, “Death's Doings; consisting of numerous original compositions, in prose and verse.” British Library
3. Where is the academic library going? @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu
4. Transformation “Within two decades, the research library will have transitioned its focus from its role as a knowledge service provider within a single university to become a collaborative partner within a broader ecosystem of higher education…. Research libraries will be even more intimately engaged in supporting the full life cycle and activity range of knowledge discovery, use, and preservation, as well as the curating and sharing of knowledge in diverse contexts of the university’s mission and of society more broadly.” Association for Research Libraries, The Future of Research Libraries Reimagined @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu
5. Librarians in Digital Scholarship ARL SPEC Kit #350: Supporting Digital Scholarship Studies and reports from Ithaka S+R, Association for Research Libraries (ARL), and Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) White and Gilbert (eds.), Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries (2016) Hartsell-Gundy et al. (eds.), Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists (2014) ACRL forthcoming Digital Scholarship Section (Digital Humanities IG, Digital Curation IG), ADHO Libraries Special Interest Group @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu
6. New Avenues of Collaboration…. “A more mature DH institutional culture is one that recognizes that many forms of DH work — particularly those that involve computationally intensive and/or data -intensive analysis — are most effectively implemented through partnerships between individuals with diverse skill sets. In these cases, the role of librarians and IT professionals is not simply to provide access to resources or to produce code according to predefined specifications. Instead, DH work becomes a partnership that provides access to a different kind of valuable expertise, starting with the project design.” Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: A Framework for Institutional Planning. ECAR Working Group Paper @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu
7. Digital Infrastructure for the Humanities = Collaborative Community “A cyberinfrastructure for humanities and social sciences must encourage interactions between the expert and the amateur, the creative artist and the scholar, the teacher and the student. It is not just the collection of data—digital or otherwise— that matters: at least as important is the activity that goes on around it, contributes to it, and eventually integrates with it.” American Council of Learned Societies, Our Cultural Commonwealth @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu
8. Digital Scholarship and Connections “Let’s create more cultural heritage platforms that promote an understanding of the vulnerability of the individual person and object. Let our visualization systems more beautifully express the relationship of parts, one to another and to many a greater whole. Let our open data finally be linked.” Bethany Nowviskie @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu
9. Data and Collections for Digital Curation “Ensuring users, both onsite and online, are able to discover the data held by the Library (as well as by third parties) and use that data, requires us to develop new tools and skills. We will develop new models of data access, and attempt to widen access to restricted data, to ensure that our users, wherever they are, can make the most of the UK’s research data.” British Library, British Research Data Strategy 2017 @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu
10. Digital Pedagogy Engagement @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu Digital Literacies Information Visual Media Cultural Critical Operational
11. Data and Digital Tool Literacies @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu
12. What Does Training Look Like?
13. Data Driven Scholarship Institute Hong Kong University • 4-Person Team from University of Illinois Library and iSchool • 3-day institute hosted by Hong Kong University Library in November 2016 • Over 30 participants from academic libraries in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, the Philippines, and Taiwan • Taught librarians about digital scholarship skills and tools including text mining, GIS, data visualization, machine learning, and database design @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu
14. ARL Digital Scholarship Institute • 28 participants from 16 institutions: subject librarians, special collections, technical services • Provided an introduction to digital scholarship approaches and tools: digital publishing, data visualization, GIS, text mining, digital scholarship consultations • Aim to build a community of practice among a broad community of academic librarians: Enable them to teach colleagues and campus members @greenharr green19@Illinois.edu https://github.com/tech-at-arl/Digital-Scholarship-Institute
15. http://teach.htrc.illinois.edu ▪ Arm librarians with instructional content and tool skills in digital scholarship and digital humanities; ▪ Empower librarians to become active research partners on digital projects at their institutions; ▪ Enable librarians to build foundations for digital scholarship centers and services award #RE-00-15-0112-15
16. ▪ Developed a curriculum for training LIS professionals in approaches and tools frequently used in text analysis research ▪ HathiTrust Digital Library collections as the cornerstone dataset and HTRC Analytics tools (http://analytics.hathitrust.org ) as the core toolkit ▪ National series of workshops in 2017 – 2018: http://teach.htrc.illinois.edu/workshop-schedule/
17. Looking Ahead for Libraries
18. IMAGE CREDITS • Richard Dagley, from “Death's Doings; consisting of numerous original compositions, in prose and verse, the ... contributions of various writers; principally intended as illustrations of twenty-four plates designed and etched by R. Dagley.” British Library, Flickr Commons, https://flic.kr/p/hLD7cN • "Bridge," by Pimthida, on Flickr, CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/9CGGNY • “Construction,” by Matt, on Flickr, CC-BY-NC 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/7Q5xYn • “Tèlèscope,” by Goulven Champenois, on Flickr, CC-BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/4Kv6sk
19. Works Cited • Lynne Siemens, “‘It’s a team if you use Reply All’: An Exploration of Research Teams in Digital Humanities Environments,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 24, no. 2 (2009): 225-234. • Kirk Anne, Tara Carlisle, Quinn Dombrowski et al. Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: A Framework for Institutional Planning. ECAR Working Group Paper. Washington, DC: EDUCause Center for Analysis and Research, 2017. https://library.educause.edu/resources/2017/5/building-capacity-for-digital-humanities-a- framework-for-institutional-planning • Tanya Clement, “Where is Methodology in Digital Humanities?” Debates for Digital Humanities 2016 Edition, dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/65 • Bethany Nowviskie, “On Capacity and Care,” http://nowviskie.org/2015/on-capacity-and-care/ • British Library, British Research Data Strategy 2017. http://blogs.bl.uk/digital- scholarship/2017/08/announcing-the-new-british-library-research-data-strategy.html • Thomas Padilla, “On Collections as a Data Imperative,” Proceedings from the Library of Congress’s Collections As Data Forum 2016. • “Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine HathiTrust Digital Library Resources” is funded in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, award #RE-00-15-0112-15.
20. Thank you! Harriett Green Head of Scholarly Communication & Publishing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign green19@Illinois.edu | @greenharr