Your digital humanities are in my library! No, your library is in my digital humanities! How libraries are enabling and engaging in digital humanities projects.
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Your digital humanities are in my library! No, your library is
in my digital humanities! How libraries are enabling
and engaging in digital humanities projects
Rebekah Cummings, Research Data Management Librarian, University of UtahAnna Neatrour, Metadata Librarian, University of Utah
Utah Digital Humanities Symposium, Utah Valley UniversityFebruary 26, 2016
What happens in libraries?
Why do digital humanities?
1. Provide wide access to cultural information 2. Enable manipulation of that data 3. Transform scholarly communication 4. Enhance teaching and learning5. Make a public impact.-Lisa Spiro, “Why the Digital Humanities?” https://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-digital-humanities/
How libraries support DH
• Offer physical/neutral space
• Digitization
• Offer virtual server space
• Librarians as project
managers
• Find data/ acquiring data
and tools
• Metadata creation/
manipulation
• Librarians as collaborators
• Digital preservation
• Data management
DH Support: Digitization
DH Support: Metadata Creation
DH Support: Digital Preservation
• Early digital archive of primary source documents, started in the 1990s
• Required major preservation and reformatting in 2009, helped with substantial grant funding http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/
Challenge #1 – Evolving Standards
https://xkcd.com/927/
Challenge #2 – Technological Improvements
Text Scans - University of Virginia Libraries - 1998
The Initiative for Digital Humaities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M http://emop.tamu.edu/
Challenge #3 – Anticipating future use of digitized materials
• Rights statements• Inflexible vendor based repository systems• Deeds of gift that cover future use• Structuring metadata to enable GIS/spatial
mappings• Robust metadata
How [48% of] libraries support DH
Survey of libraries supporting digital humanities in 2008 found that only a few had a dedicated center for DH, with almost half the respondents reporting that DH services were provided on an ad hoc basis,http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/spec-326-web.pdf
By Staecker - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2424631
Case Study: Chronicling America
Case Study: Robots Reading VogueCo-Principal Investigators: Peter Leonard, Librarian for Digital Humanities Research, Yale University LibraryLindsay King, Public Services Librarian, Yale University Library
Lovely? Pretty? Beautiful? Sexy?
Case Study: UCLA/GRI Collaboration
Students from Information Studies, Art History, Comparative Literature, and Musicology
+ Museum and library professionals from the Getty Research Institute
DH+Lib Emerging Trends
Emerging Trend: Libraries and Linked Data
https://linkedjazz.org/
Pratt Institute School of Library Information Science
Emerging Trend: Libraries and Linked Data
http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/
Kansas City Public Libraryand many partners
Linked Data: Regional Library WorkAuthority Control, or one name to rule them all
● Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909● C. R. Savage (Charles Roscoe Savage and George Ottinger), Pioneer Art Gallery, EastTemple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah● Charles R. Savage● C. R. (Charles Roscoe) Savage, photographer● Savage, C. R.
C.R. Savage Bust Portrait, BYU Special Collections, http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Savage/id/925
Emerging Trend: Digital Library Objects designed for DH
http://docsouth.unc.edu/docsouthdata/
Emerging Trend: Multiple Access Points
Emerging Trend: Multiple Access Points
Open APIs Hack-a-thons VisualizationsBulk data downloads Twitterbots
Emerging Trend: Data Management and Curation
“The activity of managing digital materials for research: digital curation, digital stewardship, data curation, digital archiving.” – Trevor Munoz, University of Maryland
Librarians as DH collaborators
• Subject knowledge• Databases• Metadata• Data visualization• Data organization and
preservation• Identify and acquire
datasets• Physical space
Libraries + Digital Humanities =Two great things that go great together!
References• Dh+lib Community, http://acrl.ala.org/dh/• Lisa Spiro, “Why Digital Humanities?”
https://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-digital-humanities/
• Trevor Munoz, Digital Humanities in Libraries isn’t a Service, http://trevormunoz.com/notebook/2012/08/19/doing-dh-in-the-library.html
• Bethany Nowviske, “Skunks in the Library: a Path to Production for Scholarly R&D” Journal of Library Administration 53:1 (January 2013)
• Miriam Posner, “No Half Measures: Overcoming Common Challenges to Doing Digital Humanities in the Library,” Journal of Library Administration 53:1 (January 2013)
Thank you! Questions?
Rebekah Cummings, Research Data Management Librarianrebekah.cummings@utah.edu@rebekahcummings
Anna Neatrour, Metadata Librariananna.neatrour@utah.edu@annaneat
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