your digital humanities are in my library! no, your library is in my digital humanities! how...

Your digital humanities are in my library! No, your library is

in my digital humanities! How libraries are enabling

and engaging in digital humanities projects

Rebekah Cummings, Research Data Management Librarian, University of UtahAnna Neatrour, Metadata Librarian, University of Utah

Utah Digital Humanities Symposium, Utah Valley UniversityFebruary 26, 2016

What happens in libraries?

Why do digital humanities?

1. Provide wide access to cultural information 2. Enable manipulation of that data 3. Transform scholarly communication 4. Enhance teaching and learning5. Make a public impact.-Lisa Spiro, “Why the Digital Humanities?” https://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-digital-humanities/

How libraries support DH

• Offer physical/neutral space

• Digitization

• Offer virtual server space

• Librarians as project

managers

• Find data/ acquiring data

and tools

• Metadata creation/

manipulation

• Librarians as collaborators

• Digital preservation

• Data management

DH Support: Digitization

DH Support: Metadata Creation

DH Support: Digital Preservation

• Early digital archive of primary source documents, started in the 1990s

• Required major preservation and reformatting in 2009, helped with substantial grant funding http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/

Challenge #1 – Evolving Standards

https://xkcd.com/927/

Challenge #2 – Technological Improvements

Text Scans - University of Virginia Libraries - 1998

The Initiative for Digital Humaities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M http://emop.tamu.edu/

Challenge #3 – Anticipating future use of digitized materials

• Rights statements• Inflexible vendor based repository systems• Deeds of gift that cover future use• Structuring metadata to enable GIS/spatial

mappings• Robust metadata

How [48% of] libraries support DH

Survey of libraries supporting digital humanities in 2008 found that only a few had a dedicated center for DH, with almost half the respondents reporting that DH services were provided on an ad hoc basis,http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/spec-326-web.pdf

By Staecker - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2424631

Case Study: Chronicling America

Case Study: Robots Reading VogueCo-Principal Investigators: Peter Leonard, Librarian for Digital Humanities Research, Yale University LibraryLindsay King, Public Services Librarian, Yale University Library

Lovely? Pretty? Beautiful? Sexy?

Case Study: UCLA/GRI Collaboration

Students from Information Studies, Art History, Comparative Literature, and Musicology

+ Museum and library professionals from the Getty Research Institute

DH+Lib Emerging Trends

Emerging Trend: Libraries and Linked Data

https://linkedjazz.org/

Pratt Institute School of Library Information Science

Emerging Trend: Libraries and Linked Data

http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/

Kansas City Public Libraryand many partners

Linked Data: Regional Library WorkAuthority Control, or one name to rule them all

● Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909● C. R. Savage (Charles Roscoe Savage and George Ottinger), Pioneer Art Gallery, EastTemple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah● Charles R. Savage● C. R. (Charles Roscoe) Savage, photographer● Savage, C. R.

C.R. Savage Bust Portrait, BYU Special Collections, http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Savage/id/925

Emerging Trend: Digital Library Objects designed for DH

http://docsouth.unc.edu/docsouthdata/

Emerging Trend: Multiple Access Points

Emerging Trend: Multiple Access Points

Open APIs Hack-a-thons VisualizationsBulk data downloads Twitterbots

Emerging Trend: Data Management and Curation

“The activity of managing digital materials for research: digital curation, digital stewardship, data curation, digital archiving.” – Trevor Munoz, University of Maryland

Librarians as DH collaborators

• Subject knowledge• Databases• Metadata• Data visualization• Data organization and

preservation• Identify and acquire

datasets• Physical space

Libraries + Digital Humanities =Two great things that go great together!

References• Dh+lib Community, http://acrl.ala.org/dh/• Lisa Spiro, “Why Digital Humanities?”

https://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-digital-humanities/

• Trevor Munoz, Digital Humanities in Libraries isn’t a Service, http://trevormunoz.com/notebook/2012/08/19/doing-dh-in-the-library.html

• Miriam Posner, “No Half Measures: Overcoming Common Challenges to Doing Digital Humanities in the Library,” Journal of Library Administration 53:1 (January 2013)

Thank you! Questions?

Rebekah Cummings, Research Data Management Librarianrebekah.cummings@utah.edu@rebekahcummings

Anna Neatrour, Metadata Librariananna.neatrour@utah.edu@annaneat