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Will The 21st Century Need a Library ? Cyberinfrastructure and its Implications

Will The 21st Century Need a Library ? Cyberinfrastructure and its Implications. A New Environment for Research and Teaching. Very high speed networks Enormous amounts of data Grid computing Coordinated aggregation and analysis of data Advanced software and tools

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Will The 21st Century Need a Library ? Cyberinfrastructure and its Implications

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  1. Will The 21st Century Need a Library?Cyberinfrastructure and its Implications

  2. A New Environment for Research and Teaching • Very high speed networks • Enormous amounts of data • Grid computing • Coordinated aggregation and analysis of data • Advanced software and tools • Human expertise:digital libraries • Stewardship of information

  3. Behavioral Assumptions • Collaboration • Sharing of data, resources, tools • Making information more accessible • Reuse of data

  4. Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  5. Quasar Redshift

  6. Particle Physics

  7. Large Hadron Collider

  8. Large Hadron Collider

  9. Climate Modeling

  10. Climate Models

  11. Typhoon Models

  12. Tsunami Modeling

  13. Humanities Cyberinfrastructure Some New Technologies: laser scanning CT scans 3-D visualization tera scale storage and retrieval multimedia digital libraries DNA Analysis

  14. Humanities Cyberinfrastructure • Greater collaboration • Increased dependencies on technology • Working with scientists and engineers • New methods of conducting research • New questions and paths of inquiries • Digital environment more pervasive

  15. Rome Reborn

  16. The Ancient Sky

  17. Michelangelo: Laser Capture

  18. Amiens Cathedral 3-D

  19. Amiens 3-D

  20. Archeology: Cuneiform

  21. CT Scans

  22. Roman de la RoseDigital Manuscript Surrogates

  23. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

  24. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

  25. New Genetics and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Database Working Group Co-Directors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelynn M. Hammonds Under the direction of Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelynn M. Hammonds, the New Genetics and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Working Group was convened for the first time in January 2006 and included the nation’s top scientists, social scientists, and historians who discussed the latest research in genetics and how to effectively use historical and social contexts to understand the origins of the Africans who survived the Middle Passage in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the United States.

  26. Cy-Ark

  27. DNA Analysis of Medieval Parchment

  28. Art and Neuroscience

  29. USC Shoah Foundation Institute

  30. Dunhuang Caves

  31. What does this imply? • New Models of Knowledge Organization • New Collaborations across Academic Boundaries • New International Cooperation for Data Preservation and Access • New Research Methods and Strategies • New Curriculum

  32. What Does This Imply For Research Libraries? Will the 21st Century Need Libraries?

  33. YES: But Research Libraries Will Transform

  34. Libraries Must Adopt a Cyberinfrastructure Model:Deep Functional Collaborations • Shared collections: discarding duplicates • Shared staff: working toward the collective goal • IT infrastructure shared across several institutions • University presses form coalition on single software platform • Digital object is the official scholarly representation: no warehouses, no press, no out of print, no inventory

  35. The New Library, Con’t • Digital library activities and projects must widely federate • Scholarly environments must emerge from digital libraries: *background data *notes *instrumentation *methodological descriptions *comprehensive references and bibliographies *Large datasets of audio, visual, multimedia materials

  36. The New Library, Con’t • Centers for instruction and collaborative research in synch with the shared mission • Centers that explore the changes that are effecting them and what they are becoming: a collective autopoiesis • Create an audit authority to assure perpetual persistence and access to the myriad data and information layers (articles, research statistics, course information, archival drafts, pre-publications)

  37. The New Library, Con’t • Cyberinfrastructure characteristics: *wide community of interest and collaboration *multidisciplinary *high level of shared expertise *tremendous amounts of data *responsibility for data curation and persistence *integral to research and its strategies *involved with data analysis, visualization, mining, semantic search

  38. The Next Library • A formal, physical entity with staff and some analog materials with an individual identity (name, tradition, areas of special focus) • Beneath, a tremendously complex virtual strata that is coherent with 10 or more institutions in a shared functional infrastructure • Operations and services inextricable from the wider collaborative: a new ‘information entanglement’ model

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