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