Developing a library infrastructure to enable digital scholarship

James Hardiman Library

Developing a Library infrastructure to

enable Digital Scholarship

Cillian Joy

Infrastructure, technology, standards, people, and collaboration.

29 July 2014


Contents

Digital Library

Library infrastructure

The Library as a hub

What the Library brings

Summary

Questions


Digital Library

School Institute Name to go here James Hardiman Library Barth, J. (2011). Digital Library [screenshot from video]. Available from:

http://vimeo.com/13963295 [17 July 2014].


Digital Library: Aspects of Service and

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Technology: Systems & tools; Standards: Metadata & workflow

People: Service, skills, & collaboration

Service is emerging Relationship & engagement based

Our unique content

Archives/ Collections

Publications Data


Key service areas for Digital Scholarship

Archives/ Collections

Unique content with

scope for innovation

Publications

Existing repository, eg ARAN

Data

Curation, long-term

preservation, and analysis of research

data


Some examples

Archives

Abbey Archive

Brendan Duddy Archive

Balfour album


Some examples

Publications

Existing repository, eg ARAN

School Institute Name to go here James Hardiman Library


Some examples

Data

Dataverse pilot with Duanaire


Library

infrastructure

School Institute Name to go here James Hardiman Library 2009_03_06_sfo-bos_015 (2009) by Doc Searls. Retrieved from

https://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/3335080959/.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/

School Institute Name to go here James Hardiman Library Office Desk (2014). By Markus Spiske, 2014, Retrieved from

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125167502@N02/14354991089/.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125167502@N02/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125167502@N02/


Infrastructure: Technology and standards

Our principles:

… scalability, is critical to support long-term growth

… build for change, with service oriented approaches

… align with central University IT resources

… human and machine interfaces

… match what is required


Infrastructure: Technical design


Infrastructure: Technical design


Infrastructure: What technology?

The main offerings will be:

… Fedora (primary repository)

… Dataverse (data)

… DSpace (publications)

… Primo (discovery)

School Institute Name to go here James Hardiman Library Lunch atop a skyscraper (2007), by Mike Stimpson, 2007, Retrieved from

https://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/1614997917/.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/


Infrastructure: People

Key attributes for staff working in this area are:

… skilled

… service focus and looking for partnerships

… collaboration

… knock on doors, start-up mentality


The Library as a

hub

School Institute Name to go here James Hardiman Library Stuck On The Grid (2005), by Grant Hutchinson, 2005, Retrieved from

https://www.flickr.com/photos/splorp/21984315/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/splorp/


The Library as a hub

That:

… is a starting point for digital scholarship support

… connects campus services

… is engaging and open

… provides service mixed with innovation and partnership


What the Library

brings



Technology and standards:

… platforms and solutions

… consultancy

… metadata

… interoperability

… digital curation/preservation



People:

… a connecting mentality

… service excellence

… project structures

… skilled experts and partners



and overall:

… a starting point


Possible services and collaborations

Hosting of digital collections Joint bids for funding & other

Subscription to identifier

services, e.g. DOIs

Establish a digital “maker

space” in the Library

Metadata creation and

enhancement for linked data

Workshops and training events

to develop and share skills

Long-term preservation Active participation in research

projects

Text and data mining Digitisation


Summary


Summary

Library enables Digital Scholarship by providing:

… a hub for digital scholarship, a starting point

… infrastructure in terms of technology, standards, and people

… preservation and innovation for scholarly content

(publications, data, and archives)


Thanks for your

time

… and nearly time for lunch!


Questions


Possible service and collaboration areas

Hosting of digital collections Joint bids for funding & other

Subscription to identifier

services, e.g. DOIs

Establish a digital ‘maker

space’ in the Library

Metadata creation and

enhancement for linked data

Workshops and training events

to develop and share skills

Long-term preservation Active participation in research

projects

Text and data mining Digitisation

Education

Developing a library infrastructure to enable digital scholarship