Abstract
This chapter draws upon a variety of expert technical perspectives—in preservation, data management, metadata, and digital scholarship—to examine digital data and digital scholarship in terms of how libraries are positioned to support scholarly needs. We consider the technical needs of scholarship through a socio-technical—people, policies, communities, and technologies together—lens for data and digital scholarship in anthropology and the social sciences. There are concerns of working with living people, ethical standards, anonymity, privacy, and so forth for data and digital scholarship. Working from case studies of the University of Florida, we situate questions on technical aspects of data management, metadata, preservation, and digital scholarship in relation to the retrieval, dissemination, and presentation of digital scholarship and data, in regards to the current, new, and evolving infrastructure in libraries for data management and digital scholarship.
We also discuss library services for training and education, core elements in the support systems for data and digital scholarship, and how libraries can serve as experimental labs and neutral resources brokers for research relationships within large, hierarchical organizations. The chapter also notes innovative programs such as the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows Program for Data Curation in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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This grant program finances projects which support innovative methods of scholarly collaboration. See more on this grant and examples of past funded proposals: http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/funding/strategicopportunitiesgrantprogram
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See the event guide for more information: http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/digitalufworkshop
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There is considerable literature on Digital Humanities instruction and critical thinking, especially on the need to move beyond simply teaching new tools to instead teach people to think about the broader context. For instance: Russell, John E., and Merinda Kaye Hensley. 2017. “Beyond Buttonology: Digital humanities, Digital Pedagogy, and the ACRL Framework.” College & Research Libraries News 78, no. 11: 588–600.
Stanley, Sarah, and Micah Vandegrift. 2016. “Cross-disciplinarity at the Crossroads.” Digital Humanities in the Library/Of the Library: A dh+lib Special Issue, edited by Caitlin Christian-Lamb, et al., http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2016/07/29/cross-disciplinarity-at-the-crossroads/ (accessed January 22, 2018).
Powell, Susan, and Ningning Nicole Kong. 2017. “Beyond the One-shot: Intensive Workshops as a Platform for Engaging the Library in Digital Humanities,” College &Undergraduate Libraries 24, no. 2–4: 516–31.
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The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. For more information, visit: http://dloc.com/
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Smith, P.L., Felima, C., Durant, F., Van Kleeck, D., Huet, H., Taylor, L.N. (2020). Building Socio-technical Systems to Support Data Management and Digital Scholarship in the Social Sciences. In: Crowder, J., Fortun, M., Besara, R., Poirier, L. (eds) Anthropological Data in the Digital Age. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24925-0_3
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