Digital Scholarship
at Penn Libraries
Andy Janco (he/him)
Vision for Head of DS role:
- Key differences between DS programs
- Differing priorities and goals
Emerging DS areas:
- Datafication
-
Community-driven research collections
Outline
You have to ask the question,
isn't all scholarship "digital" nowadays?
What are they even talking about?
around shared research questions and ideas
Research Collections
Collaboration of Arts & Sciences
Partnerships
Scholarly
Communications
resulting in:
Digital Scholarship is ...
Range of Options
Extreme 2
Extreme 1
Range of Options
Extreme 2
Extreme 1
Where we are now
Where we could go
Centralized in the library
Distributed across campus
SAS Computing
Wharton Computing
SIMS
Global Collections
SCETI
Digital Library Development
Digital Preservation
Library IT
Subject Librarians
Community Engagement
Civic Engagement
Price Lab
Engineering HPC
Penn Medicine Academic Computing
Linguistic Data Consortium
Data Driven Discovery
Weitzman IT
GSE IT
PDM IT
CTIC (Law)
SP2 IS
Impact Assessment & Organizational Analysis
Penn Museum
OGC
Office of Research Services
Custom Projects
Plug and Play Tools
Faculty idea
Team ideas
Innovator in Residence Program
from digitization to datafication
Community-driven research collections
Distinctive
Service
Access
Library
Community
Research
2022
photograph and digitize the archive with SCETI
Semillero
cataloging and interpretation phase
2023
members of the project team visited the Muntu Bantu Center in Qubidó
Fichero
a complementary approach to cataloguing which uses a machine learning workflow
Fundación Muntú Bantú,Quibdo Colombia
handwritten text recognition
Vision for DS:
- Key differences between DS programs
- Differing priorities and goals
Core DS areas:
- From Digitization to Datafication
-
Community-driven research collections
Summary
Thank you!
apjanco@upenn.edu
Bento
By Andrew Janco
