David Millman
Director, Digital Library Technology Services
New York University

Laurel L. Haak
Executive Director
ORCID

Neil Jacobs
Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure
Jisc

Dean B. Krafft
Director of Library Information Technology
Cornell University

Drawing from recent publications on digital humanities centers, professional debates, research on innovation, and experiences at the Alabama Digital Humanities Center (ADHC), this presentation will raise challenging issues related to library involvement in digital humanities (DH) work and DH approaches and illustrate with lessons learned from the development and growth of the ADHC. The discussion will attempt to decouple specific DH issues from humanities challenges in general, recast the DH reach to humanities more generally (as opposed to discipline specific), and highlight the roles that libraries and librarians can play in creating DH infrastructure within the larger organization.

 http://www.lib.ua.edu/digitalhumanities

For the first several decades of the Web’s existence, human communication and interaction has been re-engineered for new online forms. On the precipice of understanding how to present human knowledge using distributed networked technologies, open standards and tools are being drafted that permit commentary and discourse across different kinds of media and representations, whether text, image, audio, or PDF. Leveraging new identity systems, Web standards, and distributed storage, Vannevar Bush’s future can be glimpsed. Hypothes.is, a not-for-profit start-up, is building a reference implementation for open annotation, and will demonstrate its new tools.

 http://hypothes.is

Maurice York
Head of Information Technology
North Carolina State University

Realizing the vision required converging physical and virtual spaces. Unlike library spaces that support undergraduate study, research-focused physical spaces require complementary virtual spaces. Thus, infrastructure is a core enabler. The building’s data center design, IP and AV fiber networks, HPC and high-performance storage (integrated with campus infrastructure), are all designed to support extensible use of spaces and to minimize operational staff support. As the most technologically advanced building on campus, Hunt has quickly become the test bed for new technologies on campus. As the physical infrastructure settles into operation, new service areas are emerging. A core service offering will be “project cloud” space, which will enable students and researchers to easily “check out” computing power and transfer large projects in and out of the library’s environment. Technology staff have been retrained and redeployed to support the new capabilities, and an academic technologist added to consult with researchers and match their needs with the building’s capabilities. Since all library services must be scalable, technology staff effort is focused on identifying good pilot projects that can serve as prototypes to be converted into templates for future projects.

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/12/18/2553438/ncsus-hyper-modern-new-james-b.html

Presentation Slides (PDF)

 http://network.bepress.com/

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This project briefing presents preliminary findings of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project currently underway at Pennsylvania (Penn) State University, University Park, exploring personal archiving and the digital scholarly workflow of Penn State faculty across disciplines encompassing the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The project aims to create a set of design principles for sustained easy integration of archival practices into the online scholarly workflow, as well as identification of critical digital literacies for faculty management of personal information collections, and a set of recommendations for liaison librarians on best practices for supporting faculty in further developing these critical literacies.

The first research phase of the project concluded in fall 2012 and included surveying over 300 Penn State faculty across a variety of disciplines with regard to their common information management practices, as well as about scholars’ general experiences in using digital research tools and resources. Ethnographic interviews with approximately 25 faculty members were conducted as follow-up to the initial survey results, and were designed to dig deeper into faculty needs with regard to the scholarly workflow, including user challenges and critical literacies surrounding self-archiving and curation of personal information collections. The broad results of the survey data and interviews will be shared as part of the project briefing, as well as the planned future trajectory of the project.

 http://scholarlyworkflow.org

Presentation

Neil Jacobs
Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure
Jisc

Governments, universities, and researchers are increasingly concerned with the impact of research outside the academy. Increasing investment is being made in information systems to capture, share and exploit evidence of research impact. The DESCRIBE project in the United Kingdom has reviewed international best practice in this area including STAR-Metrics in the United States, and has assessed the complex policy questions behind the information systems. It is making recommendations to all stakeholders that address questions of taxonomy, methodology and interoperability.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/researchinformation/describe.aspx
http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/describe/

This presentation reports on the outcomes of a workshop on new models of scholarly communication held at the University of Pittsburgh in January 2013. The discussions focused on approaches for effectively communicating the full range of processes and products of “digital scholarship,” that based on data and computation in which new types of data analytics, information objects and heuristic representation of findings are common, but frequently cannot be accurately or faithfully described using current scholarly communication models. The meeting also addressed the value of capturing, documenting and reporting information associated with each stage of the scholarly workflow in order to gain a full record of the often complex set of activities. When this can be done, the final value of a research endeavor is enhanced further if it can be naturally and easily linked and become part of larger and often global data infrastructures. Linked open data and semantic Web technologies were viewed as particularly valuable and advantageous in accomplishing these ends. Taken together, efforts of this kind could result in continually expanding global data and knowledge infrastructures capable of acquiring and delivering valuable information for scholars from many disciplinary domains, often in real-time; infrastructures that could, over time, mature into higher order infrastructures capable of supporting a full range of unencumbered, complex scholarly communication models. The result would be new sustainable resources of exceptional value to the overall scholarly enterprise.

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Michael Boock
Head of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services, Libraries & Press
Oregon State University

Deborah Ludwig
Assistant Dean, Libraries
University of Kansas

Diane Geraci
Associate Director for Information Resources, Libraries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

James Mullins
Dean of Libraries
Purdue University

This panel of presenters from members of the Coalition of Open Access Institutions (COAPI) will present information about what strategies have been most successful in fostering a culture of open access (OA) at their universities. Each presenter will highlight different strategies for enabling OA to succeed. Some of the topics to be discussed include: strategies for getting faculty buy-in, benefits of OA deposit for articles in terms of impact, the land grant institutional context mandating public access to publicly funded research, most effective outreach programs to raise awareness, working with the individual departments and schools to gain their support, and strategies for working with university administrations to ensure OA success.

http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/COAPI/

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Ryan Shaw
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Presentation Slides

http://editorsnotes.org/
http://ecai.org/mellon2010/