The importance of digital services and the value of academic/public libraries
"Public Libraries and Academic Libraries: Digital Partners?"
James Peter Neal, III - @james3neal
James Peter Neal, III - @james3neal
Trends - Academic Libraries● Communicating value
● Data curation
● Digital preservation
● Higher Education
● Information technology
● Mobile environments
● Scholarly communication
● Staffing
● User behaviors & expectations
"Cyberinfrastructure consists of computing systems, data storage systems, advanced instruments and data repositories, visualization environments, and people, all linked by high speed networks to make possible scholarly innovation and discoveries not otherwise possible." - Indiana University - UITS
Digital services are programs, projects, and services that create, manage, and develop digital scholarship and access with regard to content, organization, user behavior, and publishing.
DISINTERMEDIATION
DIGITAL SERVICES
COPYRIGHTSCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
AUTHOR'S RIGHTS
OPEN ACCESS
PEER REVIEW
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL SERVICES
Social Media
Ebooks - Audiobooks - Downloads
DatabasesWebsit
e
Mobile Applications
Information Technology
Public RelationsAccess - Literacy
MACROSCOPE
DATA +
CODE +
SOCIAL NETWORKS =
digital services
DATA
Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data.
A quintillion is 1,000 times a quadrillion, which is 1,000 times a trillion, which is 1,000 times a billion.
*IBM
Data is:●SHARABLE●EXTENSIBLE●REUSABLE
●Where does data come from?●What methods were used to gather and analyze data?●What cognitive biases do we bring to data interpretation?
DATA SCIENCE
"The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it — that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades." - Hal Varian, founding dean of School of Information - UCBerkeley, Chief Economist - Google
CODE
HTML, PHP/MySQL, Python, Javascript, SQLShare, Google Refine, DataWrangler, DataExplorer, Excel, Fusion Tables, BibSoup, ScraperWiki, Dataverse, FigShare, R, Tableau, Fusion Charts, D3, Protovis, WordPress, Drupal, NoSQL / MongoDB, Solr, and Hadoop
SOCIAL NETWORKS
Tom Scheinfeldt
"In as much as digital humanities is an Internet-based social network, it should come as no surprise that digital humanities looks a lot like the Internet itself. Digital humanities takes more than tools from the Internet. It works like the Internet. It takes its values from the Internet."
- Tom Scheinfeldt -
"...digital humanities starts to look a lot like a social network. Indeed, in some ways digital humanities increasingly is a social network built, for better or worse, on Twitter’s platform."
- Tom Scheinfeldt -
Why digital services?
VALUE
KNOWLEDGE OF:DATA - CODE - SOCIAL NETWORKS
LEADS TO GREATER:●DATA LITERACY ●DIGITAL LITERACY ●INFORMATION LITERACY
OUTREACH
j@james3neal
Recommended