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Integrating user environments and data liquidity to improve the research experience

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Challenged traditional ideas of original, authoritative sources,books, role of libraries, places of learning, discourse

1996 view

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Services

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What modern scholarship requires is for research institutions to be comprehensively attuned not only to how the bit-streams of these newly created resources are best technically derived and maintained, but also to how they are best socially exchanged and governed.

Nora Daly on Growing Knowledge outcomes

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Information overload or filter failure?

(Clay Shirky)

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SEARCH & FILTER

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Aspects of the demand

Annotate & share • buy • cite • collaborate • compare & contrast (n-gram search) • count occurrence of idea • create 3D models •

create tag cloud • create geo-temporal visualisations • do morphology • find more like this one •

find similar & different • get • graph • highlight • map • mine datasets • print • publish • rank • reformat •

remove from my list • renew save to my list • search content of • search my list

semantic analysis • summarize • trace citation forward & backward •

trace idea forward & backward • • translate

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Library response to demand - projects

• Metadata standards

• Integrating traditional and new processes

• Extending and deploying services

• Starting to think more about the tools that analyze, visualize and annotate data to improve social exchange and flows

• Starting to internalize the project experience

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Team plan

Consolidate

Collaborate

Extend

Digital Curation as process:

content, acquisitions, tools& Digital Asset Register

Cross-directorate initiatives:project management, apps, exhibitions, events, strategies

Digital Scholarship:horizon scanning, communities of practice

Training & development:seminars, conferences, courses, debates

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[ Engagement + Social Media ]

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JING

British NewspaperArchive

Launching inNovember

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Applying Gephi visualisationto UK Web Archive

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Users and libraries heading towards a relationship of equals

[In future] the catalogue will be less about inventory and

ownership. Instead it will be more about access and

usefulness. Eric Lease Morgan (2008)