Change in the Library
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The document outlines the digital transformation efforts at the University of Edinburgh's library, highlighting the establishment of services like the Ucreate makerspace and a digital scholarship center to support innovative projects and collaborative work. It discusses the implementation of new technologies, including AR/VR systems and digital tools to enhance research and accessibility of library collections. Additionally, the digital library program aims to ensure ease of discovery and long-term accessibility of digital collections while fostering partnerships and community engagement.
Change in the Library
- 1. CHANGE IN THE LIBRARY Rethinking digital Kirsty Lingstadt, Director of Library, Archives and Learning Services University of York
- 3. Edinburgh Context ▷ Converged Service ▷ City Deal awarded 2018 ▷ Data-driven innovation focus ▷ Focus on data economy ▷ Focus on skills delivery ▷ Growth of interest in digital scholarship 3
- 4. Digital Transformation at Edinburgh 4
- 5. Where next for the Library? 5
- 6. 2. Digital Making and Scholarship 6
- 7. Digital Making and Scholarship 7 3-D modelling 3-D printing Scanning – lidar etc Visualisation GIS/mapping AR/VR Digital exhibitions Project planning Experimentation Collboration Electronics – arduino, rasberry pi Model Making Arts & crafts Including fabrics Text & Data Mining Encoding content Computational text analysis Digital publishing Developing Digital Scholarship tools
- 8. GLAM Labs 8
- 10. uCreate Makerspace ▷ Pilot project 2016/17 ▷ Consumer grade equipment ▷ Multiple business cases ▷ Move from pilot to project to service 2018/19 ▷ Staffed 50 hours per week ▷ 2 staff and 9 student staff ▷ Students from all 21 schools participate 10
- 11. Expansion in AR/VR ▷ University’s first holodeck! ▷ VR/AR systems acquired to allow room scale use with eye and full body tracking ▷ VR set loan kits ▷ Upgrades in scanning including lidar 11
- 12. uCreate Studio ▷ Supporting Students and staff ▷ Flipped to online delivery during pandemic 12
- 13. uCreate Collection Challenges ▷ Astrolabe – Reconstruct a medieval astrolabe using modern technologies. ▷ Book Mounts – Build a kit for easily customisable book mounts. ▷ Digitising the Campus – Carry out LIDAR scanning to build a detailed record of the University of Edinburgh campus. ▷ Fantasiescope – Construct a replica fantasiescope and develop templates for creating custom animations. 13
- 15. Digital Scholarship Centre ▷ Opened in 2018 ▷ Supporting researchers ▷ Training focused ▷ Collaborative – multi user groups working together to offer a co- herent digital scholarship offer ▷ Awareness ▷ Specialist – demand lead eg Library Carpentries ▷ Engagment & Network development eg TEI community ▷ Flipped online during pandemic 15
- 17. Vision for the Digital Library Programme ▷ Ensuring ease of discovery and accessibility of collections ▷ Create a fresh and exciting website, responsive on all devices, where you can discover our collections ▷ Providing an efficient and prompt digitisation request service (now moving to Digitisation as a Service ▷ Provide a range of digital scholarship tools for our students and academics ▷ Guaranteeing long term accessibility to collections ▷ Delivering digitised items as ‘collections as data’, as standard ▷ Growing digital capability/skills in our Digital Library Team ▷ Supporting growth of Digital Scholarship at Edinburgh by collaborative working with the Digital Scholarship Team 17
- 18. Programme Benefits ▷ Increase awareness and appreciation of University of Edinburgh collections so they may be used to their fullest potential ▷ Increase the opportunities for engagement with digital collections in complex and meaningful ways – ‘generous interfaces’, digital tools, and collections as data ▷ Provide technological support in conjunction with the subject matter expertise in CRC to help employ digital content in ways that supports research and scholarship ▷ Provide instruction and access to digital scholarship services and techniques to students, researchers, staff, and others interested in working with the University of Edinburgh digital collections and other digital collections ▷ Increase the range of partnerships with peer institutions and other UoE divisions such as Centre for Data, Culture & Society, contributing to a digital research/scholarship eco system at University of Edinburgh ▷ Provide a sustainable infrastructure for the University of Edinburgh Collections ▷ Provide an infrastructure which supports efficient processes and ways of working 18
- 19. ‘Generous Interfaces’ Search, visualisations, data analysis, processing, browsing (DLIB007) Digital Scholarship Tools + TDM VRE Noteable Collections as Data (DLIB002a) DAMs (DLIB005) - Provides IIIF and manages all content types for dissemination Museum Catalogue - Vernon Archive Catalogue - ArchivesSpace Digital Preservation Other Remote Access to Collections Digitisation Workflows – Goobi (DLIB004) Storage Digital Library Programme 19
- 20. Remote Access to Collections On demand digitisation One-to-one consultation Digitisation Workflows Goobi DLIB004 DAMs DLIB005 ‘Generous Interfaces’ DLIB007 Remote Access to Collections 20 Virtual Reading Room
- 21. Collections as Data ▷ Launched 2021 ▷ Utilising OCR and other ML processes ▷ 2 datasets more to come 21
- 22. Online Exhibitons ▷ Launched in 2021 ▷ Widening access to collections ▷ Utilising IIIF ▷ Built on knowledge gained from working with Google Arts and Culture 22
- 23. EDINA Digital Imaging Unit Dev Services Archivists Museums 23 Collaboration – Projects and Library Activities Project Services Tobar An Dualchais Special Collections Academic Support Librarians Procurement PGR / UG Students Collections Services Development & Systems LTW - Web Platform Centre for Data Culture & Society CAHSS Enterprise Architecture Dev Services - API Standards
- 24. Thanks! Any questions? You can find me at: @klingstadt Kirsty.Lingstadt@york.ac.uk 24