Research Collections and Support
Libraries are increasingly leveraging the raw materials of scholarship and knowledge formation by emphasizing the creation and curation of institutional research assets and outputs, including digitized special collections, research data, and researcher profiles. Our work informs current thinking about research collections and the emerging services that libraries are offering to support contemporary modes of scholarship. We are encouraging the development of new ways for libraries to build and provide these types of collections and deliver distinctive services. Our efforts are focused in the following three areas:
Presentations
![Smarter Data for Smarter Libraries](/content/dam/research/presentations/frick/frick-mixter-smarter-data-arc2017.pptx.thumb.1280.1280.png)
Smarter Data for Smarter Libraries
Frick and Mixter make the case for viewing collections as data, how analyzing institutional repository data can provide intelligence on how library materials are being used, the importance of analytics, and OCLC's work in and support of IIIF.
Topics: IIIF, Research Data Management
![New Data, Same Skills: Applying Core Principles to New Needs in Data Curation](/content/dam/research/presentations/connaway/connaway-data-curation-ifla-2017.pptx.thumb.1280.1280.png)
New Data, Same Skills: Applying Core Principles to New Needs in Data Curation
Warsaw (Poland)
In this presentation, Silipigni Connaway describes how core roles of data curation can be applied to new areas librarianship in research data management.
Topics: Research Data Management
![Do Your Data Management and Curation Practices Support Data Reuse?](/content/dam/research/presentations/faniel/faniel-harvard-conference-2017.pptx.thumb.1280.1280.png)
Do Your Data Management and Curation Practices Support Data Reuse?
Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
In this presentation, Faniel introduces the concepts of data management and data curation for archaeology in the context of optimizing for data reuse.
Topics: Research Data Management, User Research