Zheng (John) Wang
Associate University Librarian, Digital Access, Resources and Information Technology
University of Notre Dame
Tracy Bergstrom
Program Co-Director, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship
University of Notre Dame
Mitsunori Ogihara
Associate Dean for Digital Library Innovation
University of Miami
Reflections on a Digital Scholarship Center, Year One (Wang, Bergstrom)
Notre Dame’s Center for Digital Scholarship, constructed and launched in 2013 with funding from the university president, advances the vision of the University of Notre Dame to redefine and transform library services and spaces for the 21st century. Looking at digital scholarship centers at peer institutions and in consideration of local unique needs, the new center emphasizes services that augment digital fluency and can be sustained in the long-term by the Libraries. Constructed simultaneous to a comprehensive library reorganization, Center staff are a combination of repurposed personnel, strategic new hires, and a CLIR postdoctoral fellow. Through strategic marketing and significant outreach to faculty, the center has successfully attracted attention and continued funding. This session will cover the achievements and challenges of year one within a digital scholarship center, including funding strategies, staff models, the service portfolio, and productive collaborations across campus as well as difficulties with project selection and establishing sustainable services. The session is intended to facilitate a conversation on the extension of libraries’ missions in knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation via digital scholarship centers.
Presentation (Wang)
Jump-starting Digital Humanities (Ogihara)
At the University of Miami in the College of Arts and Sciences and in the Otto G. Richter Library, an effort to promote digital humanities is underway, and a new associate dean position was created for the purpose. For the past two years the new dean has been collaborating with humanities and library faculty members to develop new research programs in digital humanities. Efforts so far include: software development for the Cuban Theater Digital Archive, text mining of Thomas Carlyle letters, text mining of Horace and Virgil, and optical character recognition (OCR) correction for handwritten Latin texts. This presentation will introduce these research projects and discuss future plan.
http://www.as.miami.edu/news/feature-stories/mining-new-discoveries-with-digital-humanities.html
http://ctda.library.miami.edu
Presentation (Ogihora)