What does it mean to Publish Digital Scholarship? …and how do I do it? Case Studies from Columbia Libraries Digital Scholarship Michelle Wilson Head, Open Scholarship Services University of Maryland Libraries hello! 2015-2018 – Associate Editor for Art Reference, Oxford University Press 2018-2022 – Digital Publishing Librarian, Columbia University Libraries Sept 2022 – Head of Open Scholarship Services, University of Maryland columbia libraries digital scholarship 2022 Digital Publishing Librarian Departs Opportunities to propose new digital projects are suspended. Publishing services are maintained for current partners. 2023 New Digital Scholarship Director Hired . 2007 CDRS Founded The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) is established at Columbia University. 2018 Digital Scholarship Division Established CDRS is dissolved and staff are absorbed into the Libraries across the IT development, history and humanities, project management, and a new digital scholarship units. New roles for an Assistant Director of Digital Projects and Scholarly Communications and Digital Publishing Librarian are developed and hired. what does it mean to publish digital scholarship? goals for this presentation ● Encourage library publishers to think about expanding the scope of what they publish ● Help you not to be intimidated! ● Identify a set of tools and workflows you probably already use for publishing journals, OER, or monographs that can be employed for publishing non-traditional, born-digital projects ● Share a framework and set of questions you can use to guide your publishing process what is digital scholarship? “...uses digital content and tools to pursue research and interpretation…”* “‘Scholarship’ is the collective attainments of experts working within a particular field of academic study, especially but not exclusively in the humanities. ‘Digital scholarship’ takes place when digital technology is used to enhance the materials or methods available to scholars.”** *Library of Congress Digital Scholarship Working Group Report (2020) **”What is Digital Scholarship?” University of Oxford https://labs.loc.gov/static/labs/work/reports/DHWorkingGroupPaper-v1.0.pdf https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/what-digital-scholarship#collapse3217736 what is digital scholarship? Can encompass methodologies and praxis that in and of themselves may not be considered a research output May generate projects that are ongoing or evolve over time ● Born-digital ● In some fixed format(s) ● Project owners have a desire to publish as part of a scholarly or research portfolio what is digital scholarship? Repositories (images, scholarly texts) - Collaborative research endeavors Digital exhibitions - Maps and data visualizations - Databases - Code Blogs - Immersive VR experiences - Oral History projects - 3D Prints Multimodal and interactive websites - Digital editions & digitized artifacts Podcasts - Teaching Instruments Teodelinda Barolini, Digital Dante Julie Van Peteghem, Intertextual Dante https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/ https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/intertexual-dante-vanpeteghem/ Shoe Leather, Columbia University Libraries and Columbia Journalism School Anna Mutoh and Liann Herder, The Bronx is Burning https://shoeleather.podcasts.library.columbia.edu/ https://shoeleather.podcasts.library.columbia.edu/podcast/the-bronx-is-burning/ Madiha Choksi, “Guide and Design for Rapidly Produced Face Shields,” Columbia University Libraries (2020) covidmakerresponse.com (archived) https://studio.cul.columbia.edu/face-shield/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200403063251/http://covidmakerresponse.com/ Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/ Kaiama Glover and Alex Gil: In the Same Boats (sameboats.org) http://sameboats.org Columbia Oral History Masters Annual Exhibits: ohmaexhibits.org http://ohmaexhibits.org Liturgical Manuscripts https://liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu/ what does it mean to publish? what does it mean to publish? what does it mean to publish? a framework for publishing born digital scholarship stable discoverable citable preserved trackable stable discoverable citable preserved trackable A stable digital scholarship project is built using trusted and sustainable hardware/software. It is hosted in an environment where the publisher or project owner(s) can control access to content, infrastructure, and security settings. Funding should be discussed to ensure that costs of long-term hosting and domain ownership are accounted for. stable discoverable citable preserved trackable Projects should be discoverable to their intended audience. This can happen: - on the web, through practices like search engine optimization - in academic catalogues, databases, and indexes, often requiring the creation of specialized metadata or formats - through platforms or content delivery systems unique to the media or discipline. stable discoverable citable preserved trackable Citation is an important practice that ethically recognizes the contributions of other researchers, establishes the sources of information, and allows impact to be quantified. A citable project will provide clear information about authorship and dates of publication, as well as stable links and identifiers to guide researchers and facilitate the use of impact tracking tools. stable discoverable citable preserved trackable Offering publishing services to novel forms of scholarly communication acknowledges their value within the scholarly record and we need to ensure that they are preserved for long-term access. Digital scholarship projects are often complex and multifaceted. In order to ensure that they are truly usable going forward, we need to consider whether we have captured the project as a whole, preserved access to individual citable components, and maintained functionalities key to the value of the project, such as interactivity or the ability to manipulate data. stable discoverable citable preserved trackable There are a variety of reasons why project owners might want to track their projects. Demonstrating the impact of one’s research is important for faculty working in academic institutions, and so the ability to demonstrate the volume of visitation, downloads, and citations can be essential. Tracking can also be important to demonstrate return on investment to investors or funders. In addition to analytics tools, other forms of demonstrating impact may include press coverage, course adoptions, and narrative reviews. *divestable Do you have a plan to sunset or archive the project partnership, or transfer ownership and/or services to another entity? What kinds of export formats are available - for the project as a whole? For individual items? For data? Is this recorded in an MOU and is there technical documentation to help you achieve it? questions to ask: Who is the audience for this work? What are the individual citable elements within this project? Do we need to be able to update or add to this project? How often and for how long? What does success look like? How do you need to be able to demonstrate success and impact? Trackable Preserved Citable Discoverable Is this project discoverable via search engines? Do you want it to be discoverable via library catalogs and/or WorldCat? Should it appear in academic indexes or databases? And, if so, which items should be individually discoverable? Where does/will this project live? Is there a URL for the project, and who owns that domain? Are softwares, hardwares, code bases, or other digital tools integral to the project sustainable and regularly updated? Stable What are the individual citable elements within this project? Do all individually citable scholarly artifacts have preferred citations, stable links, and DOIs? If appropriate, is this project web archived? Is there a plan to regularly capture this project going forward? Can you preserve the project as a whole and its citable components in stable digital formats? Where do media assets, data, and metadata live? Can you provide information on the performance of the scholarship for the project owners? Are they interested in impact metrics and data on citations, views, and downloads? Will they be interested in other quantifications of project use, reviews, and narrative impact statements? and how do i do it? case study: women film pioneers project | wfpp Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries. wfpp.columbia.edu http://wfpp.columbia.edu DePrest, Jessica . "Aloha Wanderwell Baker." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-c4ct-7j76 https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-c4ct-7j76 Women Film Pioneers Explorer Sarah-Mai Dang. “The Women Film Pioneers Explorer: What Data Visualizations Can Tell Us about Women in Film History.” Feminist Media Histories 9, no. 2 (April 1, 2023): 76–86. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2023.9.2.76. https://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/women-film-pioneers-explorer/ Gaines, Jane and Columbia University Libraries. Women Film Pioneers Project Biographical Data. Dataset compiled December 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/m4dc-n768 https://doi.org/10.7916/m4dc-n768 case study: edition 640 Making and Knowing Project, Pamela H. Smith, Naomi Rosenkranz, Tianna Helena Uchacz, Tillmann Taape, Clément Godbarge, Sophie Pitman, Jenny Boulboullé, Joel Klein, Donna Bilak, Marc Smith, and Terry Catapano, eds., Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640 (New York: Making and Knowing Project, 2020), https://edition640.makingandknowing.org. https://doi.org/10.7916/78yt-2v41 https://edition640.makingandknowing.org https://doi.org/10.7916/78yt-2v41 Chessa, Maria Alessandra. “Counterfeit Coral.” In Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640, edited by Making and Knowing Project, Pamela H. Smith, Naomi Rosenkranz, Tianna Helena Uchacz, Tillmann Taape, Clément Godbarge, Sophie Pitman, Jenny Boulboullé, Joel Klein, Donna Bilak, Marc Smith, and Terry Catapano. New York: Making and Knowing Project, 2020. https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_015_sp_15. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.7916/3mtj-rk54 https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_015_sp_15 https://www.doi.org/10.7916/3mtj-rk54 case study: shoe leather Tools for publishing ds Having an institutional repository is a fantastic foundation for publishing digital scholarship **It is also possible to use this workflow with a disciplinary or inter-institutional repository like CORE or Dryad, which also means that this process can be utilized by independent scholars or teams who prefer not to affiliate their projects with a single institution. tools for publishing ds ● Softwares like WordPress, OJS, Janeway, PubPub ● Web archiving through the Wayback Machine/Archive-it ● Free and open source tools like Webrecorder (interactive and replayable archiving), webscraper.io (browser extension for data scraping) ● Trusted third-party hosting platforms like Reclaim Hosting The best tool is often the one that you already have… Diana Newby and Cat Lambert, “Why Critical Feminism?,” Getting Started: Teaching Citational Practice (2021) Claudia Irene Calderón, Reimagining Our Citational Practices: Centering Indigenous and Campesino Ways of Knowing (August 17, 2022) some off-label ojs use… https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/citationalpractice/whycriticalfeminism https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/citationalpractice/article/view/10025 The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities: Care for the Polis Maria Gonzalez Pendas, Arden Hegele, Amy Chazkel, “Speaking of Worlds Without Police,” Z-Panel: Friday, June 12th Uptown's People Assembly Wallach Gallery, Care for the Polis (2020) more off-label ojs… https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/careforpolis https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/careforpolis/article/view/6403 why should your library publish digital scholarship? Providing publishing services to non-traditional digital scholarship… ● might not involve any additional or unique costs! ● can be offered without developing or hosting projects! ● welcome new partners and participants into the library publishing community! ● supports a more diverse academic landscape and more radical landscape of open scholarship! “Lost projects by people of color reveal potholes in the in the infrastructure of critical digital humanities and demonstrate how the social justice frameworks espoused by the field in theory can be neglected in practice” Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier, People, Practice, and Power (2021) ______________ “Practitioners in many fields seek genuine, responsive partnership with the communities in which cultural artifacts were created…[requiring] investigation into the role of algorithm, interface, and tool design in reinforcing power differentials inherent in the status quo” Rust and Flanders, “Information and System Design for Diversity: Can We Do Better?,” ADHO Digital Humanities Conference (2017) ______________ “What does it mean for library publishing programs to publish the knowledge of communities of color and how can we ensure that these programs don’t continue to replicate an exploitative relationship with communities of color?” Inefuku, “A Platform is Not Enough: Examining the Relationship Between Library Publishing and Scholars of Color,” Common Place (2021) all of the projects in this presentation Digital Dante Shoe Leather Guide and Design for Rapidly Produced Face Shields Footprints: Jewish Books through Space and Time In the Same Boats Columbia Oral History Masters Exhibits Liturgical Manuscripts Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Explorer Edition 640: Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France The Making and Knowing Project Columbia University Library Podcasts Teaching Citational Practice Care for the Polis https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/ https://shoeleather.podcasts.library.columbia.edu/ https://studio.cul.columbia.edu/face-shield/ https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/ http://sameboats.org http://ohmaexhibits.org http://liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu http://wfpp.columbia.edu https://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/women-film-pioneers-explorer/ https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/ https://www.makingandknowing.org/ https://podcasts.library.columbia.edu/ https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/citationalpractice/index http://careforthepolis.library.columbia.edu resources Reviews in DH | Digital Art History Directory Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook. (Hannah L. Jacobs and Beth Fischer, eds.) supDigital Blog, Stanford University Press Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE Melanie Wacker, “MARC cataloging for digital projects,” from the Digital Art History Directory Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier, People, Practice, and Power. Part of the series Debates in the Digital Humanities (2021) https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452968346 https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/ https://dahd.hcommons.org/ https://handbook.pubpub.org/ http://blog.supdigital.org https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019.11.21-integrating-digital-humanities-into-the-web-of-scholarship-with-share.pdf https://dahd.hcommons.org/2021/03/17/marc-cataloguing-for-digital-art-history-projects/ https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452968346 Get these slides Get in touch! mewilson@umd.edu