2017
DOI: 10.31229/osf.io/t7hfu
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De-Centering and Recentering Digital Scholarship: A Manifesto

Abstract: Digital scholarship is an evolving area of librarianship. In this piece we propose 10 theses, statements about what this kind of work DOES, rather than trying to define with it IS. We believe that digitally-inflected research and learning, and the characteristics they employ, are essential to the recentering of our profession's position in/across the academy. We also believe that the "digital scholarship center" has served its time, and that the activities and models for digital scholarship work are core to li… Show more

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“…These activities/programs/initiatives include things like -library publishing, open access advocacy, repository development, data visualization, digitization, digital humanities projects, open educational resources, and more. The term "digital scholarship" represents the common characteristics of these activities -radically prone toward openness, (currently) innovative in our field, technology-dependent, interested in a container/format(s) agnostic future, predisposed toward new or emerging research methods, and typically project-based (Moritz et al, 2017).…”
Section: Environment • Scholarly Communication (Open Access Repositomentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…These activities/programs/initiatives include things like -library publishing, open access advocacy, repository development, data visualization, digitization, digital humanities projects, open educational resources, and more. The term "digital scholarship" represents the common characteristics of these activities -radically prone toward openness, (currently) innovative in our field, technology-dependent, interested in a container/format(s) agnostic future, predisposed toward new or emerging research methods, and typically project-based (Moritz et al, 2017).…”
Section: Environment • Scholarly Communication (Open Access Repositomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Or, as outlined in a digital scholarship manifesto I produced with my colleagues at Florida State, we argued that "digital scholarship places libraries in a central role as a transdisciplinary site of scholarly engagement." Therefore " Rather than locating digital scholarship within an administrative "center," we advocate for the "recentering" of digital scholarship and its activities as a core practice for all the intellectual and knowledge work done in libraries " (Moritz et al, 2017).…”
Section: Omnipresentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Being "tired of using the word infrastructure all the time, with its attendant technophiliac tendencies" and inspired by "conversations about the ecosystem of academic publication", Vandegrift (2018) introduces the concept of "ecologies" defined as 'interactions between organisms and their environment' for a holistic view of all the activities regarding digital scholarship. In Vandegrift's vision, there are no "digital centers" in libraries, but instead there will be "an ecosystem wherein new ideas are generated, incubated, and enveloped into the university, the locality, and the global community" (Moritz et al, 2017;Vandegrift, 2018). This will be achieved by four "nearterm revolutions that will lead to long-term evolution", triggered by digital scholarship: "Librarianship is/will be 1) omnipresent in the research lifecycle, 2) data-focused, 3) infrastructure aware, and 4) essential to the community, within the university and beyond" (Vandegrift, 2018).…”
Section: Kthb and Kthb Vs Wwu And Ulb Msmentioning
confidence: 99%