growing knowledge : supporting the digital researcher
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Event: Metadata and Web 2.0 seminarOrganised by: Cataloguing & Indexing Group in ScotlandHeld on Friday 2nd March at the National Library of Scotland, EdinburghPresented by: Nora McGregor, British LibraryTRANSCRIPT
Nora McGregorDigital Curator
@ndalyrose
Supporting the Digital Researcher
Three deliverables:
1. Install a prototype digital research space within the Front Hall for both individual and collaborative working.
2. Design and build user interfaces and workstation arrays that demonstrate a vision for multimedia digital research.
3. Evaluate the individual and group user experiences in this technology-rich environment and inform the Digital Research Centre programme and other future service proposition development
A project to help us design and deliver future research services and environments with a view to the “Land to the North” and our 2020 Vision
prototype digital research space launched fall 2010 through summer 2011
digital media workstation arrays
new user interfaces
displayed subject area resources
digitised resources
eJournals
audio/visual materials
new user interfaces [continued]
CIBER Research Group Evaluation
What we’ve learned:
It’s not just about the space, it’s about the interaction
An average of 40% of survey respondents said they are inclined to use tools they learned about in Growing Knowledge
We are not just content providers. We are advisors, partners, practitioners, facilitators.
Tooling up @British Library
•Building a readers network on Facebook/Twitter•Professional networking on Yammer•Collaborative working via internal wiki•Using social media for collection development•Leveraging external platforms•Text mining, data mining•Setting up a crowdsourcing project
Crowdsourcing the Geo-referencing maps
British Library Wikipedian-in-Residence
Questions?
Nora McGregorDigital Curator
https://twitter.com/ndalyrose