Digital Scholarship and the Institutional Repository:
Insights from the Fine Arts

Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library

College of Charleston || Charleston, SC

21 June 2014


Courtney Baron  || @FutArtLibrarian

Anna-Sophia Zingarelli-Sweet  || @aszingarelli


research
+
practice

collect
+
structure
+
facilitate




The institutional repository is a central online location

charged with digitally collecting,

preserving,

and distributing

the institution's scholarly output.




alleviate preservation concerns
+
strengthen relationships
+
promote discovery
+
choose access

Case Study





University of Georgia Libraries
+
Lamar Dodd School of Art

Development of the IR


Eprints || 2000 || University of Southampton

   DSpace || 2002 || MIT 



open access
+
the "serials crisis"


open source
+
community


preservation


  • link rot
  • reliable backup
  • provenance
    • chain of custody
    • authenticity


preservation



  • persistent storage
  • persistent unique identifier
  • digital preservation + forensics


preservation



scholars may have an acute level of anxiety
accompanying their evaluation
of new digital scholarship
methods



preservation



scholars may question the longevity
of scholarship
presented outside the norms
of scholarly publishing:
books and PDFs


preservation



"little awareness of 
digital publishing, 
dissemination, 
or curatorial services 
offered by the University"

Gale Moore, 

Survey of University of Toronto 

Faculty Awareness, Attitudes, and Practices 

Regarding Scholarly Communication

2011




a key site
where library and information professionals
interact with and directly support
the institution's researchers

organization and retrieval
+
metadata
+
intellectual property



















Digital Scholarship and the Institutional Repository

By Anna-Sophia Zingarelli-Sweet

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