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Integrating user environments and data liquidity to improve the research experience
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Challenged traditional ideas of original, authoritative sources,books, role of libraries, places of learning, discourse
1996 view
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Services
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What modern scholarship requires is for research institutions to be comprehensively attuned not only to how the bit-streams of these newly created resources are best technically derived and maintained, but also to how they are best socially exchanged and governed.
Nora Daly on Growing Knowledge outcomes
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Information overload or filter failure?
(Clay Shirky)
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SEARCH & FILTER
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Aspects of the demand
Annotate & share • buy • cite • collaborate • compare & contrast (n-gram search) • count occurrence of idea • create 3D models •
create tag cloud • create geo-temporal visualisations • do morphology • find more like this one •
find similar & different • get • graph • highlight • map • mine datasets • print • publish • rank • reformat •
remove from my list • renew save to my list • search content of • search my list
semantic analysis • summarize • trace citation forward & backward •
trace idea forward & backward • • translate
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Library response to demand - projects
• Metadata standards
• Integrating traditional and new processes
• Extending and deploying services
• Starting to think more about the tools that analyze, visualize and annotate data to improve social exchange and flows
• Starting to internalize the project experience
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BL Digital Research & Curator Team - community
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Team plan
Consolidate
Collaborate
Extend
Digital Curation as process:
content, acquisitions, tools& Digital Asset Register
Cross-directorate initiatives:project management, apps, exhibitions, events, strategies
Digital Scholarship:horizon scanning, communities of practice
Training & development:seminars, conferences, courses, debates
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[ Engagement + Social Media ]
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JING
British NewspaperArchive
Launching inNovember
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Applying Gephi visualisationto UK Web Archive
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Users and libraries heading towards a relationship of equals
[In future] the catalogue will be less about inventory and
ownership. Instead it will be more about access and
usefulness. Eric Lease Morgan (2008)