Integrating user environments and data liquidity to improve

Integrating user environments and data liquidity to improve the research experience 1

Challenged traditional ideas of original, authoritative sources, books, role of libraries, places of learning, discourse 1996 view 2

Services Content 3

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 4

Information overload or filter failure? (Clay Shirky) 5

CH R ER LT FI & EA S 6

Aspects of the demand Annotate & share • buy • cite • collaborate • compare & contrast (n-gram search) • count occurrence of idea • create 3 D 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 7

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 8

BL Digital Research & Curator Team - community commercial academic digital consortia machines s hip us ers rtn social networks pa digital scholars DR&CT funding bodies media M /ST e. IS ons ibiti exh ser v ser ation vice s pre ting ma rke sea rc retr h & iev al cu ser rator vic ial rea es & d roo ing ms systems & services 9

Team plan Training & development: Extend seminars, conferences, courses, debates Digital Scholarship: Collaborate horizon scanning, communities of practice Cross-directorate initiatives: Consolidate project management, apps, exhibitions, events, strategies Digital Curation as process: content, acquisitions, tools & Digital Asset Register 10

[ Engagement + Social Media ] 11

JING British Newspaper Archive Launching in November 12

Applying Gephi visualisation to UK Web Archive 13

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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) 17