Don
I’ve been working with library colleagues here at Loughborough for a couple of years on setting up a digital archive.
One has been the Art and Design subject librarian, and another is the university’s Research Data Manager. They have both been tremendously helpful, initially for writing grant proposals, but most relevant in relation to your enquiry, they have helped me set up a digital archive for my own research as well as the practice-based component of PhD students I am supervising. This year one of my PhD students will use the archive to deposit practice components of his PhD submission (in a secure university maintained location), and he is now working directly with library staff to test the possibilities of the archive, bringing another dimension to his work. This is the first time that this archive opportunity has been embedded in the PhD learning experience.
Some of this activity will soon be reported in International Journal of Digital Curation (http://www.ijdc.net/index.php), for which an abstract is here:
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/23965
If you are interested in early developments of the archive, see:
https://lboro.figshare.com/Urban_Graphic_Object_Archive
… or individual projects and images that demonstrate the scope of work can be directly accessed here:
https://figshare.com/projects/Latina_Province_Italy_pilot_study_/15534
https://figshare.com/projects/City_of_Westminster_street_nameplate_London/19894
https://figshare.com/projects/The_Graphic_Image_of_Beijing/16086
https://figshare.com/projects/Transport_for_London_seat_cover_patterns/24400
https://figshare.com/projects/Colour_Identity_of_Place_A_Case_Study_of_Leicester_UK/23164
As someone who knew very little about the possibilities of data repositories, this work has completely changed my perception of what a library resource can be.
If anyone knows of anything similar under development, I’d welcome further information and links offline.
Regards,
Rob
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On 03/12/2017, 18:23, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design on behalf of Don Norman" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> on behalf of [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
I'm looking for help.
I have agreed to give a Keynote talk to the University of California
Librarians on February 28 on February 28 (the conference is called
"Building the UC Digital Library"). This is for the librarians of all 10
campuses of the UC system. https://ucdlfx2018.sched.com/
<https://ucdlfx2018.sched.com/>
I want to use Design Thinking to figure out what the 21st-century
University library is about. What is the core issues it should work on? How
might it be approached? I do NOT want to repeat the same issues and
arguments that have long been discussed. e.g., Not about the value of
electronic versus print, the value of different media, the copyright
issues.)
Note that the conference I will be talking about states this as its goal:
The inaugural 2018 University of California Digital Library Forum (UC DLFx)
"Building the UC Digital Library: Theory and Practice" will explore a range
of topics such as engaging, enhancing our communities and creating data
from materials at our respective University of California libraries;
demystifying data curation; project collaboration; using emerging
technologies such as 3D scanning to enhance access, and creating a UC
system wide standard for born digital archival material.
Because my talk is for University of California librarians, the problems of
a University Library are very different from that of a public or community
library. Thus, many cities are transforming their libraries into wonderful
community engagement spaces. In my recent travels, the Amsterdam
(Netherlands) holiday is one example. The new San Diego Library is yet
another -- it even houses a high-school within it. This, however, is not a
sufficient model for a University library.
(I have already spent time talking with the UCSD Head Librarian: I did not
get inspired.)
I have gathered together students from the design lab to observe and talk
with library users: students, staff, faculty, researchers, bums, derelicts,
the homeless, .... We will do the normal data=-gathering, ideation, etc.
==
Most people on this list are at universities where the same issues might
exist. What is the future of the library in this age of electronic media
that can readily be accessed from home or office or anywhere there is
internet?
So PhD-Design list: Any ideas? or do we simply turn the vast space that a
library requires into study halls?
I want to make this exciting and thought-provoking. It might be completely
impossible, as long as it causes people to think.
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Don
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Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
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