Joe M. Williams
Director of Public Services, Library
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Carol Hunter
Deputy University Librarian, Associate University Librarian for Collections & Services
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Jill Kuhn Sexton
Head of Digital Research Services, Libraries
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill’s University Libraries are taking data visualization research support to the campus scale. This session illustrates a sustainable and expandable approach through four recent use cases that leverage library-led training, community expertise, existing digital collections and inexpensive, accessible tools and spaces. The Libraries Research Hub provides a distributed network of engagement spaces across the UNC campus, supporting data visualization and other digital scholarship needs. Hub services are provided by library staff as well as several other pan-university research support organizations. Select projects described in this session, which used simple tools and modest levels of staff training time to develop broad community expertise, are: DocSouth Data, which makes the full text of North American Slave Narratives and other Documenting the American South collections available for text mining and data analysis with tools like Voyant and CATMA; UNC Catcall map, a campus resource that began as a student project mapping sexual harassment on campus; Low Wage NC, a collaborative project between the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning Masters Workshop and the Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity, which uses ArcGIS Online and Tableau software with economic and social data; Virtual field trips, describing how some faculty pedagogy has changed through use of the Research Hub’s Liquid Galaxy, an economical, immersive visualization screen.
http://library.unc.edu/hub/
http://docsouth.unc.edu/docsouthdata/
http://go.unc.edu/r9F6R
http://www.lowwagenc.org/
http://www.infodocket.com/2014/10/20/university-of-north-carolinas-davis-library-now-home-to-a-liquid-galaxy-panoramic-display-system/