This presentation considers the changing nature of the scholarly record and applies the findings of NMC Horizons Report Library Edition 2014 to the Claremont Colleges Library's institutional repository.
2. What Now?
1. Fast Trends (1-2 years):
Increasing focus on research data management
for publications
Prioritize mobile content & delivery
2. Mid-Range Trends (3-5 years):
Evolution of scholarly record
Increasing accessibility of research content
3. Long-Range Trends (5+ years):
Continual progress in technology, standards, and
infrastructure
New forms of multi-disciplinary research
3. Fast Trends: Research Data Management
and Mobile Content Delivery
@Claremont
Suggestions
Structured data: Using URIs
to name digital objects and
link related resources.
Begin implementing now
but it is also a long-range
trend
Access to research
databases & data
visualizations
Integration of various media
in scholarly publishing
Mobile Apps
Resources & Examples
LOD for Newcomers:
http://documentingcappadocia.newmedialab.cuny.e
du/linked-data-for-the-uninitiated-part-1/
Visualizing historiography:
http://clio.osu.edu/fhq/3d/
U-Mass Re-use & Re-distribution
Guidelines:http://www.library.umass.edu/service
s/services-for-faculty/data-management/data-management-
plan-guidance/re-use-and-re-distribution/
University of
AZhttp://www.library.arizona.edu/help/how-do-i/
mobile#other
Mobile Brown University:
http://library.brown.edu/m/
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4. Multiple Word http://Clouds clio.osu.edu/fhq/– 3d/
10-Year Spans
Data Visualizations
David J. Staley, Scott A.
French and Bill Ferster, “Visual
Historiography: Visualizing
‘The Literature of a Field’”,
Poster Presented at DH2013
and featured in JDH 3:1
(Spring 2014).
http://journalofdigitalhumanities
.org/3-1/visual-historiography-visualizing-
Phrase Net - x’s Topic Modeling By Time – Most Common
The call for visualizing “Big Data” has generated a groundswell of interest among historians and humanities scholars, as
demonstrated by the international response to the National Endowment for the Humanities’ 2010 and 2011 Digging into
Data challenges. Exemplary efforts from the first two rounds of projects suggest the great potential for visualizing large
repositories of primary sources for historical insight.
Our project treats a peer-reviewed scholarly journal – Florida Historical Quarterly, housed at the University of Central
Florida – as a dataset to be analyzed and visualized. In applying macro-level reading and text-mining tools to the
secondary literature of a scholarly field, we are making visible patterns of topical coverage.
In this poster, we present the results of our case study. We machine-read over 1500 research articles across the entire
85 year run of the journal (1924-2009) and identified the top 100 key terms. (The top key term “Indian” is located at the
center of the visualization; the rest of the key term list expands out from the middle.) We then arrayed each of these key
terms according to the number of times the key term appears per year in order to develop a “macro-reading” of the
journal. Key terms were identified using the Data For Research application developed by JSTOR. The key terms were
determined using term frequency–inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), a statistical measure of how important a word is
in a given document. We have generated two such visualizations from this data: a 2-D chart and the same data as a 3-D
interactive “topology” (the latter soon to be “translated” into a physical sculpture.)
the-literature-of-a-field/
Heat Map
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5. Access to Research Data
Sets
Source: Left: C. Tenopir Et Al. Plos One 6, E21101 (2011); Right:
Tenopir/Allard/Sandusky/Birch/NSF Dataone Project. In “Publishing Frontiers: The Library Reboot.”
http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-frontiers-the-library-reboot-1.12664
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6. Marketing
Scholarship@Claremont
Scholarship@Claremont on Twitter
Link to it on the library home page
Invite faculty and students to do lightning talks
and longer interviews about their research
Create a YouTube stream to feature them and
embed it in the website
Showcase multimedia publications, interactive
digital projects & scholars’ websites
Host an “induction” ceremony each term for
scholars whose work has been added to the
database
*
7. Mid-Range Trends (3-5 years):
Evolution of Scholarly Record
@Claremont
Suggestions
Access to grey literature
through
Scholarship@Claremont:
Conference proceedings,
white papers, lab reports,
etc.
Stay current on digital
publication trends to advise
administrators, faculty & grad
students.
Blogs, Twitter, &
Academia.edu
Digital scholarship
assessment:
Resources & Examples
Grey Lit Database:
http://www.greylit.org/
Innovating Communication
in Scholarship (ICIS) @UC
Davis:
http://icis.ucdavis.edu/?pag
e_id=259
microBEnet: The
Microbiology of the Built
Environment:
http://microbe.net/
H-Net:
http://networks.h-net.org
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8. New Forms of Scholarly Communication &
Publication
2.
The Orbis Project from Stanford: http://orbis.stanford.edu/. For more information, see:
JDH 1:3 http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/
9. New Forms of Scholarly Communication &
Publication
2.
Other examples of digital scholarship
include:
Mapping the Republic of Letters (Stanford):
http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
Shaping the West (Stanford):
https://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/
site/project.php?id=997
Hypercities (UCLA): http://hypercities.ats.ucla.edu/
Van Gogh Letters (Van Gogh Museum):
http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/
10. Long-Range Trends (5+ years):
Technology, Standards and Infrastructure
@Claremont
Suggestions
Re-envisioning library
services
Maker-spaces
DH Lab
Virtual meeting & research
collaboration platforms
Facilitating multidisciplinary
research
Demo such research
Create interactive spaces
Host intercollegiate
networking opportunities
Resources & Examples
GVSU Tech Showcase:
http://www.gvsu.edu/techsh
owcase/
LMU|LA Library:
http://library.lmu.edu/usingth
elibrary/spaces/#d.en.90115
Scholars’ Lab Maker Space @
UVA:
http://scholarslab.org/maker
space/
Heurist Collaborative Digital
Workspace
http://heuristnetwork.org/
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15. Supporting Claremont
Experience with multiple platforms, technologies,
and projects in diverse disciplines
Training scholars to re-conceptualize the digital
environment
Facilitating digital scholarship, data visualization,
and publication
Guiding collaborative, multi-disciplinary projects
in a digital space
Building digital repositories and conducting
workshops on metadata, copyright, and
digitization best practices
Marketing in a university setting
16. Charting new territory
@Claremont
We need to know about:
How faculty and students use current resources
Users’ “wish lists”
Marketing to point users to resources
Technology trends
Changing copyright and intellectual property laws
Community collaboration
Revenue streams
17. Challenges Potential Solutions
Embedding libraries in the curriculum Coordinate with departments to train faculty how
to integrate information & digital literacy in their
courses
Capturing & archiving the digital outputs of
research as collection material
Continue to expand the data captured, archived,
and made accessible through
Scholarship@Claremont.
Competition from alternative avenues of
discovery
• Student and faculty instruction
• Developing intuitive and efficient digital
workflows
• Meet users where they’re at – social media,
mobile apps, and integrated searchable
databases (like Sherlock)
• Content tailoring and suggestions for source
discovery
Embracing the need for radical change Work with local government officials, community
and business leaders to stay abreast of
emerging technology trends and form
partnerships to extend library services and
access to technology
Maintaining ongoing integration, interoperability
and collaborative projects
Build strategic partnerships with other libraries
and the OCLC to offer integrated services and
an interoperable system with access to
aggregated sources and resources.
18. Technology Developments and
Implications
Technology Implications
Electronic Publishing E-publishing workflows, storage
capacity, linking research and digital
publication, as well as software tools to
visualize e-pubs and complex data
Mobile Apps Resource discovery, library orientation,
annotation, and guidance through the
research process
Bibliometrics and Citation
Technologies, including
Altmetrics
Advance the impact of Claremont
scholars’ work to stay on the cutting
edge of research and garner further
funding
Open Content Changing role of librarians in creating
and advising on OER projects (i.e.
selecting & documenting relevant,
credible open content)
Internet of Things Inventory management and UX in real-time
& physical spaces
Semantic Web & Linked
Data
Library catalog metadata need to be
interoperable part of semantic web &
Notas del editor
According the 2014 New Media Consortium Horizons Report Library Edition, an annual project that examines and identifies significant trends in emerging technologies and their implications, there are six trends we should pay close attention to. These are broken down into fast, mid-range, and long-range trends, depending on how quickly the trends will likely be implemented. They are determined by a group of international experts from library management, education, technology, and various additional fields who convene over the course of three months in the spring to come to a consensus about both the trends, the most pressing challenges, and the most important individual technologies, as well as their implications at three levels: policy, leadership, and practice. Today, I am going to focus almost exclusively on practice for the sake of time.
Fast Trends (1): Archive the observations and data that led to the published ideas and open them up to others for further exploration. “Enhanced formats and workflows, within the realm of electronic publishing have enabled experiments, tests, and simulation data to be represented by audio, video, and other media and visualizations. The emergence of these formats has led to libraries rethinking their processes for managing data and linking them between various publications” (6). Furthermore, the development of the semantic web (LOD and structured data) has created a structure that reveals the connections between ideas and publications so scholars and students can more easily determine how ideas, theories, perspectives, and representations have evolved over time. To take advantage of these advances, we, as digital scholars and librarians must become even more familiar with the latest copyright and intellectual property laws as they continue to evolve and attempt to keep pace with the changing technological landscape. We also need to begin organizing our repositories and databases using LOD and rethink the interface to make the rich connections between sources apparent to users.
(2) Mobile Content Delivery & Mobile Apps: Claremont already has a beautiful responsive web design. Here are some resources we can take advantage of to continue to improve our mobile content delivery: ** The American Library Association’s Tech Source offers information and training on how to improve a library’s mobile website.
** 23 Mobile Things is a self-paced online course that explores the potential for mobile tools for the delivery of library services ** Duke University Libraries are using the “BrowZine” app for tablets to make library resources more mobile-friendly, enabling library patrons to browse, read, and monitor current academic journals. ** Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki: go.nmc.org/m-li
(3) OTHER: Better marketing for services like the trial access to databases – get students and faculty excited about this opportunity! What amazing resources!
Here are just a couple of examples built to visualize trends in the secondary literature or historiography. Many other examples exist and point to new opportunities for big data and quantitative studies, even in fields that have traditionally embraced primarily qualitative study. Even in the field of art history, data visualization is allowing scholars, such as Lev Manovich to ask entirely new questions about the field, such as the use of various colors among all of the impressionists – which colors predominated the collective artwork produced in this movement? Which colors were used more by some painters than others. What about visual similarities among all of these paintings – a task far too time-consuming without the aid of computational analysis. What is the role of the library to provide researchers access to visualization tools and the products of such research? The argument is increasingly becoming that this now falls precisely in the library’s domain.
This graphic from the article “Publishing Frontiers: The Library Reboot” reveals the vast majority of scientists who wish they had access to others’ research datasets to conduct their own investigations and the gap between this desire and actual access in practice. We will need to begin collaborating with researchers to archive their datasets, help them navigate copyright issues, and publicize this work as scholarship in its own right, as well as a resource for further examination. At the policy level, the NSF has recently (2013) released a report that discusses its data management requirements and examines repository responses. Resources are already available to help librarians navigate this new territory, including from Jisc (formerly known as Joint Information Systems Committee based in the UK), and the Council on Library and Information Resources, among others.
“No longer limited to text-based final products, scholarly work can include research datasets, interactive programs, complex visualizations, lab articles, and other non-final outputs, as well as web-based exchanges such as blogging. There are profound implications for academic and research libraries, especially those that are seeking alternative routes to standard publishing venues, which are often expensive for disseminating scientific knowledge. As different types and methods of scholarly communication are becoming more prevalent on the web, librarians will be expected to stay up-to-date on the legitimacy of these innovative approaches and their impact in the greater research community” (10).
Assessing Digital Scholarship:
** MLA: http://www.mla.org/guidelines_evaluation_digital
** http://digitalhumanities.unc.edu/resources/valuing-evaluating-dh-practice/
** http://www.academiccommons.org/2014/07/24/digital-scholarship-and-the-tenure-and-promotion-process/
ICIS: (1) role & impact of social media on scholarly publishing. (2) Alternative metrics for assessing scholarly impact. (3) How openness of communication influences impact.
Openness: (Ex – math & physics deposit pre-published articles in ArXiv before submission)
More may be done in this arena, but further investigations into current practices, willingness, and faculty buy-in, as well as workshops to educate and advise administrators, faculty members, and graduate students will be necessary before determining the next best steps to take in this particular arena. **See Diane Dawson, “Making your publications open access: Resources to assist researchers and librarians,” College & Research Libraries News 74, no. 9 (October 2013): 473-476.
Orbis: An Interactive, Digital Scholarly Publication on the Roman World
It is a “digital archive of sites and routes, a tool for exploring Roman transportation, and an argument about the dynamic shape of the Roman world and the nature of transport within it.” (Elijah Meeks and Karl Grossner, “ORBIS: An Interactive Scholarly Work on the Roman World,” JDH 1, no. 3 (Summer 2012). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/orbis-an-interactive-scholarly-work-on-the-roman-world-by-elijah-meeks-and-karl-grossner/)
Other examples of digital scholarship include:
**Mapping the Republic of Letters (Stanford): http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
**Shaping the West (Stanford): https://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/project.php?id=997
**Hypercities (UCLA): http://hypercities.ats.ucla.edu/
**Van Gogh Letters (Van Gogh Museum): http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/
Publishing interactive data sets alongside and embedded within the scholarly argument – something that is only possible in a digital environment.
Shift from focus on building print collections to “providing remotely accessed online resources and guiding students and researchers through new discovery services.” (14)
Facility renovation and reconstruction
Enhance digital infrastructures through digital preservation & curation, resource discovery, and managing the life cycle of digital content from acquisition through usage.
“Digital humanities and computational social science research approaches are opening up pioneering areas of multidisciplinary research at libraries and innovative forms of scholarship and publication. Researchers, along with academic technologists and developers, are breaking new ground in data structures, visualization, geospatial applications, and innovative uses of open-source tools.” (15)
H-Net began as a listserv in 1995 to connect scholars and students and facilitate an open exchange of information and ideas. It was groundbreaking for its time but quickly became outdated.
Since 1995, H-Net has expanded to encompass nearly 200 scholarly networks and more than 200,000 subscribers from more than 90 countries. In the transition to the new Commons platform, built on Drupal, I have trained more than 200 network editors and have helped facilitate a number of collaborative scholarly projects. In addition to editor training, I also worked on the site’s new theme, depicted here.
Here are just some of the types of academic projects around the new Commons…
I also edit our occasional newsletter. In our most recent edition – published just a couple of weeks ago, we featured H-Material-Culture’s “American Childhood in 25 Artifacts” and a new “Crossroads” collaborative network focusing on World War I scholarship. Our next major endeavor is an interactive mapping project for H-South that will include embedded multimedia files that highlights the intellectual and cultural life of nineteenth-century African –Americans in the Southern United States.
“There is now an onus on library leaders to accurately understand how people prefer to learn and to incorporate those methods” (27).
Authentic user experience in research – from discovery through notes and experiments to publication
Training in skill acquisition (Georgetown University Library offers workshops on social media marketing, data visualization, video editing, and other emerging technologies)
**Altmetrics: “takes into account a scholar’s online social media imprint as well as their ability to publish their own research in repositories and disseminate it through blogging or other avenues.”
**Internet of Things: Network of connected objects that link the physical world with information world through the web
**”Semantic-aware applications infer the meaning, or semantics, of information on the Internet using metadata to make connections and provide answers that would otherwise be elusive or altogether invisible.” (44)