The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria
(http://etcl.uvic.ca/) invites you to attend the fourth meeting of the
2014-5 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal lunchtime
seminars for faculty and graduate students in the Faculty of Humanities
and across the university to discuss issues in digital literacy, digital
humanities, and the changing face of research, scholarship, and teaching
in our increasingly digital world. For an hour once per month, we meet
to hear from an invited speaker, share ideas, and build knowledge.
On Thursday March 12th, from 12 until 1 p.m., Lisa Goddard (Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Strategy) will be presenting a talk entitled,
Library Services for Digital Humanists.
Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.
Tuesday March 12th,12 – 1 p.m.
David Strong Building, Room C128, University of Victoria
Abstract: New modes of knowledge production in the Digital Humanities emphasize collaboration, scale, and interdisciplinarity. Emerging digital research environments are able to ingest large amounts of text and image data, to support the contribution of annotations and revisions by multiple researchers, to enrich texts with geographic, bibliographic, and numeric data, and to allow for semantic tagging and linking. Humanist researchers are a core constituency for libraries and archives, and the University of Victoria Libraries are challenged to transform traditional collections and services to better align with the demands of digital scholarship.
UVic Libraries are developing a new suite of services for digital scholars. These include digitization services, open licensing, digital publishing, content hosting, and digital preservation. We intend to develop and articulate these services so that they can easily be included in grant applications and project proposals. Libraries will continue to be an indispensable part of the research continuum as the humanities undergo their digital transformation. Come to this session to help us shape UVic library services to best meet your needs.
Bio: Lisa Goddard is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Strategy at University of Victoria Libraries. She holds degrees from Queen’s, McGill, and Memorial University, and is currently completing an MA in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta. Lisa’s research interests include open access publishing, semantic web technologies, digital publishing & preservation, and digital humanities.
Bring your lunch and join us to discuss digital technologies and research in our community!
