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The Challenge of Capturing Raw material for Scholars of the Future

The Challenge of Capturing Raw material for Scholars of the Future. Tomorrow’s “manuscript” collections Alice Prochaska 12 October 2011. A framework for debate. Association of Research Libraries CNI Canadian collaborations JISC and transatlantic collaborations

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The Challenge of Capturing Raw material for Scholars of the Future

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  1. The Challenge of Capturing Raw material for Scholars of the Future Tomorrow’s “manuscript” collectionsAlice Prochaska12 October 2011

  2. A framework for debate • Association of Research Libraries • CNI • Canadian collaborations • JISC and transatlantic collaborations • LIBER and a European strategy for special collections • The IFLA and UNESCO contexts

  3. Digitized Manuscript collections • Collaborations • Stand-alone digital libraries • Virtual exhibitions • The role of the curator/librarian • Shaping scholarship? • The role and nature of metadata

  4. Virtual exhibitions (1)

  5. Virtual exhibitions (2)

  6. Librarians and Archivists as creators of content • Oral Histories • Visual resources • Capturing records of the creative process • Teaching resources • Research output

  7. Created content: Oral histories http://www.yale.edu/oham/index.html Duke Ellington Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Aaron Copeland Images from Yale University Library Oral History of American Music collection David Lang Mel Powell

  8. Created content (2) Fortunoff video Archive • Edith P. http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/excerpts/edithp.html • Marion P.http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/excerpts/marionp.html

  9. Created content: visual resources (ARTstor)

  10. Fostering the creation of content: teaching resources Collaborative Learning Center (CLC) http://clc.yale.edu/

  11. Collecting from the web • Technical issues • Questions of timing and urgency • disappearing and mutating sites • Ethical issues • Problems of scale • Visibility and its attendant challenges • Preservation • Accountability

  12. Disappearing sites

  13. Disappearance and ethics http://www.lib.utexas.edu/hrdi/hr_archive.php

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