1. Joan K. Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information
Columbia University
February 21,2012

2. Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI)
 Joint program of ARL and EDUCAUSE
 Founded in 1990 to bridge library and IT communities
in the Internet environment
 Focus on scholarship, teaching & learning
 Program areas:
 Content
 Individuals, Professions, Teaching & Learning
 Technology
 www.cni.org

3. Why E-Research?
E-Science E-Social Sciences

4. Why Digital Humanities?
ACLS Report HATHI Trust

5. E-Research – New Questions
 Technologies enable:
 Bringing together dispersed resources
 Combining resources in new ways
 Data-mining of very large collections of resources
 Linking resources and geographical places
 Visualizing information in new ways
 A personal story

6. Large data sets in sciences lead to
new discoveries

7. New information from many combined
datasets provides new insights
http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.f Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
aces Database
 Earlier datasets focused on
slave trade in one city or of
one ship
 Patterns emerged when data
was combined
 Visual representations
assisted in discerning
patterns

8. Manuscripts from different
locations
http://romandelarose.org/#home

9. Manuscripts from different
locations

10. Studies of bibliography and
biography

11. My story: Undergraduate scholarship –
traditional style

12. Google Books

13. Europeana
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

14. Digging into the Enlightenment: Mapping
the Republic of Letters
http://enlightenment.humanitiesnetwork.org/

15. New representations
3-D Visualizations Rome Reborn – B. Frischer
http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu
 Use of large data sets
 Institutionally affiliated and
curated
 Geo-location and 3-D
visualization
 Implications for research and
teaching & learning

16. Digging into Data 2011 Awardee

17. New representations
www.vectorsjournal.org USC-based
 New forms of scholarship
 Authors supported by multi-
media team

18. New representations
 Augmented reality
 JISC-funded project
 U. Manchester
 View context of images
in university Special
Collections

19. My inspiration: Undergrads create
3-D fly-through of the City of Troy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qOzjT2BSY

20. New collaborations
 Digital humanities is a collaborative enterprise
 Humanists working with other humanists, including
grad students
 Humanists working with faculty from other disciplines,
especially Computer Science
 Humanists working with information professionals

21. New collaborations
 Funding agencies from
several countries
 Collaborative projects
 Very large data sets
 New types of research
questions
 New modes of scholarly
communication
 http://www.diggingintodata.org

22. New collaborations
 Project Bamboo
 Multi-institutional
 Researchers, IT, and
digital library
professionals
 Infrastructure and tools

23. New collaborations
 Scholars creating
community
 Sharing research
products
 Providing peer review
 Promoting an open
environment

24. New partnerships with the
community
http://www.bl.uk/maps/ Help place maps
 Citizen science model
 Exposes non-experts to
digital source materials
 Engages them in the process
of developing digital libraries

25. Digital Scholarship Centers
 Relatively new area of focus for libraries
 Specialized services and spaces for faculty and
graduate students
 High-end hardware and software
 Staff expertise for consultation
 Emphasis on humanities and social sciences

26. Recently featured at CNI meetings
Brown U. & U. Nebraska UCLA

27. Recently featured at CNI meetings
U. Calgary Columbia U.

28. Visualization centers

29. GIS Centers

30. Involving students in data-intensive
work
Net Gen Students McMaster U. Library
 Oriented to visual projects
 Attracted to interactive
information products
 Engaged in active learning
 Develop skills that can
translate into job offers

31. Assignments to involve students –
citizen science

32. My current work
 Intersection of interests
 Graduate students
 ETDs
 Digital humanities
 Learning spaces
 Understand current models of digital scholarship
centers services
 Identify good practice
 Initial interviews – faculty and librarians

33. How do Digital Scholarship Centers
support graduate work?
Offer a range of services Ex.: U. Va. Scholars’ Lab
 Fellowships
 Cohort of students
 Daily interaction with staff
 Workshops, courses,
certificate programs
 One-on-one consultation
 Online tutorials
 Create a community
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/

34. What skills do students need?
A variety of views U. North Texas
 Ability to ask new types of
questions and link to
technologies
 Project management skills
 Understand how computer
systems work
 Database structure
 A range of literacies
 [Digital preservation]
 [Intellectual property issues]

35. What are the challenges?
 Articulating and promoting the goals and services of
centers
 Providing staff with appropriate skills
 Developing scalable projects and services
 Developing a sustainable funding model

36. What are the challenges?
 Acceptance of new forms
of scholarship by
academic departments
and disciplinary societies

37. What are the challenges?
 Promoting information professionals’ skills to faculty
 Engaging in genuine collaboration (faculty, student,
information professional)

38. Thank you!
Contact:
Joan Lippincott
joan@cni.org
http://www.cni.org/
about-
cni/staff/joan-k-
lippincott/
Photos are my own
Joan at the Duke U. “The Link”