building pyramids: creating partnerships in digital scholarship

BUILDING PYRAMIDSCreating Partnerships in Digital ScholarshipRichard Cox & Chelcie Juliet Rowell2015 NCLA Biennial ConferenceGreensboro, North Carolina

Librarians and technologists atUNCG and Wake Forest partner withfaculty and students to createscholarly digital projects

Digital Initiatives PartnershipsUniversity LibrariesUNC Greensborolibrary.uncg.edu/research/support

Build.ZSRZ. Smith Reynolds Library

Wake Forest Universitybuild.zsr.wfu.edu

WHO ARE THE PARTNERS?

SERVICE TIERS @ UNC GREENSBORO

● Internal Grants – Through a competitive annual application process,the University Libraries will provide up to $22,500 worth of IT resources(a combination of IT staff time and infrastructure, but no cash awards).

● External Grants – The University Libraries can provide advice on a wide range of IT-related services and would be willing to discuss providing some of these services, if externally funded.

SERVICE TIERS @ WAKE FOREST

FORMALIZING PARTNERSHIPS

● Position librarians and technologists throughout the scholarship lifecycle,not just at the beginning (providing inputs) and the end (preserving outputs)

● Preserve research and research data

● Enable partnerships in digital scholarship to scale as demand grows

● Make applications (e.g. maps) and data (e.g. slavery petitions) available for unknown potential future uses

● Develop ‘first of their kind’ applications that become part of the standard suite of applications available to future partnerships in digital scholarship

GOALS & DESIRED OUTCOMES

SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES

Richard CoxDigital Technology Consultant

Electronic Resources & Information TechnologyUniversity Libraries, UNC Greensboro

rlcox@uncg.edu

Chelcie Juliet RowellDigital Initiatives LibrarianZ. Smith Reynolds Library

Wake Forest Universityrowellcj@wfu.edu

Questions? Comments? Get in touch!

The Louvre Pyramid at sunset by Peggy2012CREATIVELENZ on Flickr.

Menkaures Pyramid Giza Egypt by Kounosu on Wikimedia Commons.

Portico from the General Description of the UNCG University Libraries.

Z. Smith Reynolds Library Cupola by Wake Forest University Photographer Ken Bennett.

Hackathon by Tom Woolley for the Jisc-funded Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit.

Websites by Tom Woolley for the Jisc-funded Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit.

Damaged Data (Mac) by Tom Woolley for the Jisc-funded Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit.

IMAGE CREDITS

DH curation guide: A community resource guide to data curation in the digital humanities. Retrieved from guide.dhcuration.org.

Munoz, T. (2012) Digital humanities in the library isn’t a service. Retrieved from trevormunoz.com/notebook/2012/08/19/doing-dh-in-the-library.html.

Nowviskie, B. (2011) A skunk in the library: The path to production for scholarly R&D. Retrieved from nowviskie.org/2011/a-skunk-in-the-library.

Varner, S. (2014) Project charter. Retrieved from stewartvarner.com/2014/05.06/project-charter.

Vinopal, J., & McCormick, M. (2013) Supporting digital scholarship in research libraries: Scalability and sustainability. Journal of Library Administration, 53(1), 27–42. doi:10.1080/01930826.2013.756689.

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