Roundtable : Digital Resources humanities data, digital libraries and eScholarship

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Roundtable Digital Resources humanities
data, digital libraries and eScholarship
partnerships and purposes

• Ross Coleman

• Digital and eScholarship Services, University
  Library

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tensions and sustainability

• Digital resources
• Commercial / licenced
• Created / public
• Library is organisational and institutional
• Research is not necessarily either

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Digital resources are data

• Data
• The quantities, characters, or symbols on which
  operations are performed by computers and other
  automatic equipment, and which may be stored or
  transmitted in the form of electrical signals,
  records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.
• eScholarship facilitates innovation and
  supports experimentation in the production and
  dissemination of scholarship. Through the use of
  innovative technology, the program seeks to
  develop a financially sustainable model and
  improve all areas of scholarly communication.
  (California Digital Library 2005)

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• The digital humanities comprise the study of
  what happens at the intersection of computing
  tools with cultural artefacts of all kinds and
  how these common tools may be used to make new
  knowledge from our cultural inheritance and from
  the contemporary world.
• Kings College

• "Digital librariesprovide the resources to
  offer intellectual access to and ensure the
  persistence over time of collections of digital
  works for use by a defined community or set of
  communities.
• Digital Library Federation

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• The digital humanities comprise the study of
  what happens at the intersection of computing
  tools with cultural artefacts of all kinds and
  how these common tools may be used to make new
  knowledge from our cultural inheritance and from
  the contemporary world.
• Kings College

• "Digital librariesprovide the resources to
  offer intellectual access to and ensure the
  persistence over time of collections of digital
  works for use by a defined community or set of
  communities.
• Digital Library Federation

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• The digital humanities comprise the study of
  what happens at the intersection of computing
  tools with cultural artefacts of all kinds and
  how these common tools may be used to make new
  knowledge from our cultural inheritance and from
  the contemporary world.
• Kings College

• "Digital librariesprovide the resources to
  offer intellectual access to and ensure the
  persistence over time of collections of digital
  works for use by a defined community or set of
  communities.
• Digital Library Federation

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• Digital humanities
• individualistic
• data gathering / research
• analysis
• tools
• work spaces
• generating new forms / data
• project focussed
• publication

• Digital library
• organisational
• digitisation/conversion
• curation and management
• access and delivery
• standards and rights
• primary/source data
• re-use
• continuity
• scholarly communication

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Why Library

• Strategic role - changes in practices of research
  and teaching,
• Partnerships on campus FLLs, eResearch,
  eLearning, projects
• Challenges in scholarly communication, open
  access etc
• Publish Your Research
• Concerns about digital preservation and access
• Expertise in information description (metadata)
  and management
• Roles in research assessment services and
  expertise - ERA
• Technical collaborations open source (DSpace,
  TEI, XTF etc)
• National contexts - eHumanities etc
• Digital Editing, Digital Humanities symposium -
  Friday 10 December, 930am-500pmWoolley Common
  Room

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• Funding
• External for content development ARC Discovery,
  Linkage, Infrastructure
• Partnerships (external/internal)
• Faculty / industry
• Internal business and strategic relationships
• SUP, faculties, ARC , UPS, OJS, RO, OGC, ICT,
  repositories etc
• How and who etc
• opportunism
• Staffing
• Operational / project etc

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• AustLit SF and classic novels
• APRIL (Australian Poetry Library)
  -http//stage-poetry.heroku.com
• NSW Archaeology on line -http//greylit-dev.librar
  y.usyd.edu.au/
• Harpur / White projects
• Dictionary of Sydney
• eResearch projects (ie ANDS funded) - Seeding
  the Commons, FieldHelper
• Image projects Salamanca, Frontiers of Science,
  Archaeology
• ERA /OA projects (Publish my Research etc)
• Completed/managed projects SETIS collections
  and upgrades
• OJS projects (Sydney Studies in English etc) -
  http//escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/
• SUP Arts publishing projects including students
  creative writing