New challenges for digital scholarship and digital curation in
the era of ubiquitous computing
Prof Derek W. KeatsDeputy Vice Chancellor
(Knowledge & Information Management)
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
http://kim.wits.ac.za/[email protected]
Yes, we have
no answers!Disclaimer
I am a
techno
geek
We need to reduce barriers to
innovation, not increase themAlarming perspective
New
challengesdigital scholarship
digital curation
ubiquitous computing
New
challengesdigital scholarship
digital curation
ubiquitous computing
Academic
work
General CommunicationThe process
of researchQuasi-academic& grey literatureFormal research
outputDerived research
output
digital scholarship
digital curation
General CommunicationThe process
of researchQuasi-academic& grey literatureFormal research
outputDerived research
output
digital scholarship
digital curation
Data
Digital scholarship
Digital curation
Digital scholarship
of
selectionpreservationmaintenancecollectionarchivingdigital
assets
of
selectionmaintenancecollectionarchivingdigital assets
preservation
BlogsActivity
streamsemailPapersAudio &
VideoMultimedia
& gamesLab notesSimple
webSoftwareVirtual
worldsSmart
objectsLinked
data
Today
Acting as theravages of time
Cory Doctorow
bits are never going to get harder
to copy
Preserve as much as we can of today's objectsBe highly
selective
Key challenge
More and more people producing more and more
content on more and more devices
Increasing array of breakable linkagesThe specter of smart
contentThe role of
community
YesterdayTodayTomorrow
TodayTomorrow
New challenges for digital scholarship and digital curation in
the era of ubiquitous computing
In the ancient
world of
the 20th
CenturyComputerswere big!People
went to
computersPeople used computersfor really dumb tasks
such as...Browsing
the webWordprocessingReading
email
a "web of data" that enables machines to understand the meaning
of information on the World Wide Web
Rate of production
much greater than capacity to
store
conserve
curate
Digital assets
What are
digitalassets?
How does the computer'see' them?
Digital Asset Management
Records management
Document management
Contract management
Film production
Historical papers
Image collections
Audio/video recordings
Research / other data
Convergence
Research papers
Theses / dissertations
VirtualizationUtility computingSoftware & hardware
as services
storage
processing
Cloud computing
Public
cloud
Private
cloud
Cloud computing
Institutional
repository
Cloud
initiative
Digital Asset Management System (DAMS)
Historical
Papers
Electronic
Thesis &
DissertationFree & Open
Educational
Resources
Wits
perspective
Institutional
repository
Cloud
initiative
Digital Asset Management System (DAMS)
Historical
Papers
Electronic
Thesis &
DissertationFree & Open
Educational
Resources
Wits
perspective
A set of architectures
Institutional process
architectureInformation architectureApplication
architectureTechnical architecturePeopleCosts & benefits
Success CriteriaChallenge Vision
Process architecture
Digital assetmanagementDigital formBorn analogueSource
artefactDigital
conversion
DocsAudioVideoetcBorn digitalWorkflow
Rights
Search
Retrieval
Publication
Version
Deletion
IngestDigitization
CaptureCreateClassifyShareArchiveDestroyProtectRetainFind
&usePreserveRouteSocial andsemantic elements
Build for data
Storage cloud
Second tier storage:
spinning diskCompute cloudX86First tier storage: flashThird tier
storage:
tapeVirtual
machine-1Virtual
machine-2Virtual
machine-n
ApplicationsTechnical (hardware) architecture
The Wits private cloud
Enterprise document
management
An approach using private cloud
Folder
serverWEWEWeb
layer
Private cloud infrastructure
orHigher Education Grid
SiteIngest
Born
digitalShared
folderNetwork
WEWE
Network
SiteSiteSite
Shared
folderWWWWEWEWorkflow (WEWE layer)
CreateinfrastructureDesigncomprehensivearchitectureProject
1Micro-
servicesWorkflow
Project 2Project N
BehavioursWorkflow
Micro-
servicesWorkflow
Recognitionof need and
opportunity(businesscase)TalentKnowledgeCapability
Anagile approach
People & projects
One digital asset management project for WitsAgile approach that
builds on our talent within the UniversityContent through
process
(part of normal workflow)
Digital scholarship
Isn't it just scholarship?
The Social NetworkThe social academic
Not particularly linked to scholarship
Social networking and semantic web
e.g.
Crowdsourced curation
of research papers
for researchers
The more of your
own work you put in
the more valuable
the system becomes
to othersWhichmeansThe more
valuable
it is to you
Group
Articles in the group
MyOpenArchive
People in the group
MyOpenArchive
IntegrationThe web interface
Computer and Information Literacy3898 groups
Closed group: ask to join99+users18
papers
Most read
articlesMost read
authors
Activity
streams
Your own
activity
streams
Open APIs
Social
curation
of digital
objects
to support research
is still in
its infancy Research
libraries
should
plan for
supporting
the social
aspects of
digital
scholarshipExpect
it to
expandThink open, think linked....
Data archiving
and curationhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/780345833/ Under
BY-NC license
Linked
data
Using the Web to
connect related
dataExtends http
and URIsData can be
read automatically
by computersData fm different
sources can be connected &
queried
Linked
open
data
Semantic web:
a "web of data" that enables machines to understand the of
information on the World Wide WebNew insights
for researchers
by analysing
linked open
dataAll researchers
an be Hans Roslings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lod-datasets_2010-09-22_colored.png
Linked Open Datadatasets as of
2010-09-22
LOD2 project
SELECT description FROM http://WIKISPECIES_DATA
WHERE species='Gadus morhua' JOIN species FROM
http://DISTRIBITION_DATA JOIN species FROM http://CATCH_DATA INFER
population_size
FROM http://HISTORICAL_DESCRIPTION_DATA FOR 1600 TO 2011 PLOT
RELATIONSHIP catch_data X fishing_rate ANIMATE bubble_size =
fleet_size OVERLAY description
The big challenge:
secret science
The output of scientific research that is only published in ways
that
are only accessible to some people, or that is locked up in the
newly
altered form of patents that are designed to withhold disclosure
and
lengthen monopoly privileges.
The big challenge:
secret science
A widespread belief in
benefits of secrecy, and
entrenched processes to
foster it, the potential of
digital scholarship and
digital curation will not be
realised.
Free & Open
Educational Resources
Open Access
Licenses
Free & Open Source
Software
Scarcity
Abundance
Proprietary accessOpen accessThe scarcity is entirely
artificially maintained
The big challenge: scarcity mentality
Community not technology will
solve this challenge: technology
must make communities
more efficient
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