Reflections on a Digital Scholarship Center: Year One
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Reflections on a Digital Scholarship Center:
Year One
Zheng (John) Wang & Tracy Bergstrom, University of Notre Dame Libraries
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To leverage state-of-the-art technologies to transform the ways in which teaching, research, and scholarship are performed
Vision
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Knowledge Curation and DisseminationInformation/ Digital Literacy
Why Hesburgh Libraries?
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Increase Digital FluencyService Sustainability
Foci
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Center Milestones
• Summer 2012 – President’s Circle Funding• January 2013 – Formation of Planning Team• August 23 – Soft Open on First Day of Class• November 1 – Opening Reception• Jan 14 – First Senior Faculty Inquiry• Feb 14 – First DH project
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Funding Strategies
• Consistent Messaging on Vision Alignment• Marketing and Outreach Activities To
Create Strong Brand Recognition • Partnerships• Result and Impact Driven
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Partnerships
CDS
Office of Research
Center for Research
Computing
Center for Creative
Computing
Center for Social
Research
OIT
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Eight months to opening day
• Environmental scan of campus and peers• Focused on what services and expertise were
needed and could be offered• University architects and team with subgroups• Uniquely ours– we had to respond to our
community’s needs within our resources
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Results of environmental scan
CDS Core
Services
GIS
Dig. & Metadata Services
Data Mgmt.
Planning
Data Use &
Analysis
Text Mining & Analysis
Referral Services
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Digital Production & Outreach
Metadata
Text Digitization
Audio Digitization
Visual Resources
[Copyright Librarian]
Dig. Initiatives
CLIR Postdoc
[DH/ History]
CDS Coord.
Projects (20%)
Projects (20%)
Copyright (25%)
Outreach (25%)
IT Support (25%)
Current staffing
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Area 1 – Entryway, consultation spaceArea 2 – Open collaborative study spaceArea 3 – dual screen, high power processor workstations and scanning stations, 3-D printer, large format scanner and printerArea 4 – Distributed HD video classroom with instructor podium (20 cap.)Area 5 – Office spaceArea 6 – Video and audio enabled conference room
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Teaching Classroom
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Data/ GIS Workstations
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Conference Room
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Digital Production Facility
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Outreach
• Advertising in all shapes and sizes• Newsletters• Press releases• Celebratory Open House – two months after soft
open, timed with campus kickoff weekend• Targeted open houses by discipline
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Workshop goals
• Focus on student and faculty engagement at the start of their research processes
• Inform participants of the availability of tools and resources provided by the library
• Promote in-library expertise • Reinforce the role of the University’s institutional
repository in capturing research output
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Inquiries for Arts and Letters
GIS34%
Text Mining20%
Data Analysis18%
Digitization19%
Metadata5%
Printing 2%
Custom Workshops2%
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Sample Projects
• GIS: distribution of minority religious populations• Text mining: analysis of ~200 English state trials • 3D printing: biology, design prototypes • Rights: access to the EEBO dataset• Targeted workshops: GIS applications for medieval
studies graduate students
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Challenges
• Lack of ongoing, permanent funding • Reaching faculty at start of research projects • Prioritize multiple projects • Shift to public services for most staff • Support for digital media production and other tools
out of scope
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Future
• Upcoming renovation increases plan to ~8000sf• Retooling of graduate student service• Expansion of staff and services– Digital humanities – Data visualization – Digital publishing
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CDS Future
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Future
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Future
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Questions?
Zheng (John) Wang Tracy BergstromAssociate University Librarian, Head, Digital Production Digital Access, Resources & IT and [email protected] [email protected]