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
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
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
