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
Content
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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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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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BL Digital Research & Curator Team - community
commercial
digital
scholars
academic
digital consortia
social
networks
machines
funding bodies
DR&CT
media
systems & services
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Team plan
Training & development:
Extend
seminars, conferences,
courses, debates
Digital Scholarship:
Collaborate
horizon scanning,
communities of practice
Cross-directorate initiatives:
project management, apps,
exhibitions, events, strategies
Consolidate
Digital Curation as process:
content, acquisitions, tools
& Digital Asset Register
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[ Engagement + Social Media ]
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JING
British Newspaper
Archive
Launching in
November
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Applying Gephi visualisation
to UK Web Archive
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http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/index.htm
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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)
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