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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 Utah Anna Neatrour, Metadata Librarian, University of Utah Utah Digital Humanities Symposium, Utah Valley University February 26, 2016

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Page 1: 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

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

Page 2: 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

What happens in libraries?

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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/

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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

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DH Support: Digitization

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DH Support: Metadata Creation

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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/

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Challenge #1 – Evolving Standards

https://xkcd.com/927/

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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/

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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

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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

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Case Study: Chronicling America

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Case Study: Robots Reading VogueCo-Principal Investigators: Peter Leonard, Librarian for Digital Humanities Research, Yale University LibraryLindsay King, Public Services Librarian, Yale University Library

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Lovely? Pretty? Beautiful? Sexy?

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Case Study: UCLA/GRI Collaboration

Students from Information Studies, Art History, Comparative Literature, and Musicology

+ Museum and library professionals from the Getty Research Institute

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DH+Lib Emerging Trends

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Emerging Trend: Libraries and Linked Data

https://linkedjazz.org/

Pratt Institute School of Library Information Science

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Emerging Trend: Libraries and Linked Data

http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/

Kansas City Public Libraryand many partners

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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

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Emerging Trend: Digital Library Objects designed for DH

http://docsouth.unc.edu/docsouthdata/

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Emerging Trend: Multiple Access Points

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Emerging Trend: Multiple Access Points

Open APIs Hack-a-thons VisualizationsBulk data downloads Twitterbots

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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

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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!

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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)

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Thank you! Questions?

Rebekah Cummings, Research Data Management [email protected]@rebekahcummings

Anna Neatrour, Metadata [email protected]@annaneat