Building Data Resilience Through Collaborative Networks

The UNCG Libraries include the Walter Clinton Jackson Library and the Harold Schiffman Music Library. The online catalog also includes the holdings of the Teaching Resources Center, the Intercultural Resource Center, and the Interior Architecture Library.Through its quality information resources, technology, learning environments and staff expertise the University Libraries serve as the information and learning hub for the UNCG campus and surrounding community. The Libraries’ buildings provide a variety of spaces for group collaboration and quiet study; through the web site, users have access to vast online resources from around the world including books, journal articles, newspapers, and digital collections. Our outstanding faculty and staff help patrons find the information they need, teach students how to find appropriate resources, and assist faculty with their research. Up-to-date technology helps users create a wide variety of products such as videos, posters, and 3D objects as well as traditional reports and papers. The Special Collections and University Archives Department preserves and makes available several notable collections including UNC Greensboro history, Cello Music, and the Betty H. Carter Women Veteran’s Historical Project, just to name a few. The Libraries are also committed to digitizing unique collections so that they are freely available to everyone. And, throughout the year we sponsor numerous interesting programs and exhibits; most are free and open to the public.This event is co-organized with the Educopia Institute. Educopia empowers collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge. We believe in the power of connection and collaboration. In all of our work, we encourage knowledge sharing and network building across institutions, communities, and sectors. Our strengths include training, facilitation, community cultivation, and administrative backbone support services for collaborative communities.

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What is the Role of Collaborative Networks in Supporting Digital Scholarship?

Scholarship increasingly relies on “research data,” a catch-all term applied to the digital objects and collections that are now crucial foundation blocks for research across disciplines and fields. This content is notoriously ubiquitous and decentralized, and today’s research institutions regularly struggle to provide ways for their faculty and students to access, build, share, and store new knowledge derived from it. In particular, universities are challenged to provide mechanisms and environments to researchers that are suitable for interfacing with these ever-changing flows of research data. The pace and rate of technical change has made it difficult for institutions to fully embrace or in many cases even fully become cognizant of the range of new opportunities they need to be supporting for their faculty, staff, and students. Anticipating and meeting the needs of these researchers requires adaptable infrastructure that is expensive to create and upkeep locally.Collaborative networks are key players that can help institutions adapt to this changing landscape. This symposium will bring together representatives from leading digital scholarship infrastructure projects and programs to ask critical questions about how existing consortia and collaborative networks are supporting the digital scholarship needs of institutions. The aim of this symposium is to share information and best practices on the opportunities, challenges, models, methodologies, successes, and collaborative strategies concerning data sharing for digital scholarship, science, and community formation more broadly. The broad audience addressed will include faculty, librarians, technologists, and university administrators interested in these topics.The “Building Data Resilience through Collaborative Networks” symposium will include presentations by regional consortia and collaborative groups on developing and co-owning infrastructure. Speakers will include:<ul><li>Cynthia Vitale, ARL</li><li>Courtney Mumma, Texas Digital Library </li><li>Jennifer Gibson, Dryad</li><li>Catherine Mitchell, California Digital Library</li><li>John Sherer, UNC Press</li><li>Doug Seefeldt, Clemson Digital History Program</li><li>Chris Houghton, Gale Digital Scholarship Lab</li><li>Roopika Risam &amp; Jennifer Guiliano, Reviews in the Digital Humanities</li><li>Kacy Reid, APLU </li><li>Toby Smith, AAU</li></ul><a href="https://educopia.org/building-data-resilience-through-collaborative-networks-schedule/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">View the entire schedule</a>

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