 I'm going to talk about digital scholarship network, which is a relatively new network. I'm one of the co-conveners. My colleague Stuart Lewis is the other. There are details up there. I'll tell you a bit about why it was set up. So we're talking about the RLUK strategy, reshaping scholarship. Mae'r amlwg yw'n credu y newydd ychydig o'r reisarch. Mae'n fwyaf yw'n rhaid i'ch gweithio'r strategiaeth, ond ein bod y cyfnodd, yw'r cyfrifio'r llanfogaeth, yw'r 8 llanfogaeth, ac ein bod yw'r cyfrifio'r llanfogaeth yw'r reisarch yn ddiwedd i gydag o'r newid o'r cyfrifio'r digital. Mae'r cyfrifio'r llanfogaeth yn ymdilyg dros y cyfrifio'r llanfogaeth yn y ddigital ysgrifol. Ac mae'n fwyaf yw'n golygu, yw'r ysgrifol. Mae'r Lluoedd RLU wedi cyfrifio'r gweithio a ymdodd o'r cyfrifio'r llanfogaeth o'r gweithio'r llanfogaeth yn y ddigital ysgrifol a'r cyfrifio'r llanfogaeth yn sefydliad, o'r cyfrifio'r llanfogaeth yw'r best. A dyna'r wneud ychydig oherwydd y cyfrifio'r llanfogaeth. Mae gennym ni'n mynd i gwerthio, rwy'n gwasanaeth y popor. Mae gennym i'r gweithio â'r ddweud o'r ffemolion ar 9 ymgyrch. Rwy'n gweithio i'r gweithio aroed dweud o'r ffioedd cyfrifolion i'r ddweud o'r gweithio ar gyfer o ddweud o'r ddweud o ddweud o'r sgolorshwyr yn ddweud o gweithio'r hwrs. Rwy'n gweithio iawn am eu gwasanaeth o ffioedd ar y ddweud ond we have two members per RLUK institution and those members could be in strategic roles or they could be practitioners. So we have quite a big membership. I think we have about 60 members at the moment. We have two conveners, me and Stuart at the moment. We will do a two-year term and then there will be the usual process to elect new conveners. We have excellent support from our colleagues on the RLUK board and the RLUK executive who are helping us whilst we get set up. We are quite a big group but we will aim to have two or three full group meetings or events each year. But we are also very keen that this is a practical network. We want to get things done so we anticipate setting up specific task and finish groups which can focus on individual areas of interest. We have a mailing list and we have a website and members area on the RLUK website. So planning, so this is what we are going to do for the first year. So one of the main things is consultation. Yes, we are going to do a survey. Yes, some of you might have already received it and I hope you are going to do it. I will say a little bit more about that in a minute. But we are also consulting with our members asking them what they expect to get from the network, what they would like and how the network will help them in their everyday roles. So the survey should establish the nature and extent of digital scholarship activities and we hope to establish the infrastructure and skills that are required. Skills have come up quite a lot yesterday and today. What we will be focusing on is skills for digital scholarship. There will be a report, don't worry, and obviously this will be widely shared, wildly. And as I said before, we are very keen that this is a practical network and we deliver an action plan of collective activity, hopefully with our colleagues in the other networks as well. So the other big thing is facilitate discussion and knowledge sharing between RLUK, RDSN and also the other groups. And we don't just mean here the other RLUK networks, but we are aware of lots of other work that is going on internationally as well with ARL, Conal, Libre. So we need to be aware of all that. The first thing we did once we had our members was we sent out an interest and expectation survey. What do people want from the network? It covered quite a few areas. As you can imagine, digital scholarship has quite a broad definition. So we were seeing members coming from backgrounds of open access, research support, very digital digitisation, developers, software developers. So there was a really big and wide membership there. So one of our challenges is to focus. What do we need to focus on? Certainly in the first couple of years. We asked what we should focus on, what our members would like to develop their knowledge in, what challenges do they face, and how the network can support. So we've put participation in other networks, but this tended to be wider. People were doing things with liby, carpentry, Libre, and so on. And now I'm not going to show you all the results of the survey because it will take a very long time. But one of the questions we asked is what area should the network concentrate on. At the top, which is probably a bit blurry, is digital preservation. And then infrastructure. And then we had three categories of training. Training staff, training users, and just training. So that comes across quite loud and clear. Then we've got metadata, advocacy standards. We love standards. Partnership working. Excuse me. Discovery, digitisation, TDM, which is a particular challenge at the moment. Raising awareness. Excuse me. We also asked people what would be the role of the network for their professional development. I'm probably quite overwhelmingly sharing good practice, staying up to date. That's something we can do. Networking with colleagues. This was seen, this came across very strongly. People wanted to find out what was happening in other institutions, how they could learn from their colleagues as well. Quite a few people said learn digital scholarship skills, leadership development, nicely. Someone wants to contribute their skills and we hope we see more of that as well. Then you probably can't read this one at all. But ratings of importance for the DSN activities. We're trying to prioritise what we need to focus on. So as you might have guessed, what was seen as very important was to identify, share and develop good practice and case studies in these fields. Important or very important to provide peer networking opportunities. Important for professional development opportunities. Not moderate to create and deliver a tangible programme of work. But we're going to do that anyway. Some other things, not so important, so at the very top, is identifying opportunities for collaboration. I thought that was quite surprising. But this is why we wanted to follow things up with a meeting, face-to-face meeting. Then we have some comments. What areas should the conveners, Stuart and I prioritise? Well, number one, what is digital scholarship? What should a digital scholarship consist of? We need a clear definition of what the network means by digital scholarship. We need to build up an understanding of where different institutions are, that the network is representative and I hope we are working towards that. Then someone to do a state of the nation. What digital scholarship activities go on? We're doing that. And then finally, not just writing another 100 page report, let's actually do something. Thank you. I agree with that. So we had our first meeting quite quickly in January and we did get everyone together and we did some old-fashioned exercises with flip charts. I think we had 55 people in the end. You have a lot of very clever people in the room. We don't want to waste people's time. We want it to be meaningful and we want to get something out of it. So we had to do some group work, lots of thinking. So we focused on developing a shared understanding of digital scholarship, identifying current activities, what are people working on, what are they doing, what would they like to be doing, sharing good practice. We had a couple of speakers. We had someone from the British Library and we also had a researcher, which is very important not to forget the researchers are at the heart of everything that we're doing here. As you can see, there was quite a big group, so sometimes finding a space can be a challenge. We also did exercises around setting objectives. What objectives do individuals have, either for their institution or for themselves for the next three years? This is something very practical. Then we had to identify barriers. What might stop you getting to those objectives that you really want to do? Then can we prioritise how the digital scholarship network can help you? Of course, the whole point of the meeting really was to enable networking so we mixed people up, gave them lots of chance to talk to each other. Obviously we can always do better. Outcomes, Stuart and I have got a lot of flip charts to write up. Here is just one of them. We have all the dots, and Stuart will have to remind me here. We tried to prioritise digital scholarship activities, what is core, what is related or peripheral, and what is out of scope, trying to make it a bit clearer. Funnily enough, whereas everyone has put digital preservation was probably the most important, from the group discussions it didn't come out that it was a core activity, interesting thing. Then we got people to stick dots on the activities. Now that was a complicated system. Orange means they are already doing it. Blue is planning to do, green is what you are good at and yellow is you are not good at yet. Is that right? Perfect. I won't go through all the core activities because we collected quite a few, but there are quite a few similarities around research using digital objects, skills, tools, digital collections as you might expect, and digitisation. Of course. Oh, I should say something about the barriers. We got people to feedback on the barriers, and there were three that probably came to the top. Staff skills, lack of, or not being able to keep staff who have the skills, building staff confidence in those skills, technical infrastructure, and the relationship with the institution, the institutional buy-in, long term funding. I think those were the biggest ones. Then the role of the DSN. What can we do to help? There were quite a few very practical suggestions, mostly around addressing the skills gap, providing training, facilitating webinars, workshops, offering training ourselves, supporting institutions to make a case for infrastructure, sharing expertise, opportunities, reaching out to practitioners I could go on. We've got lots of good things we can be getting on with. The feedback from the meeting, people liked the opportunity to share ideas with others about what digital scholarship is, what other institutions are doing, they like case studies. Some people like the group work. They really like networking. But there were some constructive comments as well. They want to see more case studies. It's great. We can do that. More input from researchers themselves. I think that's quite important. And look at different locations other than London, which we are going to do, aren't we? In the feedback, we also asked a question about RLUK. Has this network, or the meeting, changed the way you perceive RLUK? There were quite a few comments, but one of them I quite liked, which was understand more about the networks. Previously, their only knowledge was from reading reports they have produced. So if you wrote that, thank you. Great. So our next bit of work is the survey, which I talked about earlier. Now, we are starting to collaborate with other networks already. And this survey is one of the first examples of that. So we're doing a survey based on questions taken from surveys that international organisations have done. So ARL did one in 2015, and Connell did one in 2018. So we want to be able to benchmark with our international colleagues. So what we're seeking to do is to establish the current landscape, what services are we offering, are being developed, how are libraries changing to support this, what are the future challenges that we might face, what are the areas of development, how do we ensure the library's voice is heard, what are the requirements, infrastructure skills, cultural changes to make progress against these challenges, what are the resource implications, international benchmarking I've just mentioned, and we had a section exploring digital shift, which is another part of the RLUK strategy. And it was that part that we shared with colleagues in the special collections leaders network. And I know we're all working really hard to submit our responses. It is important because this and the meeting and all the other outcomes will inform the report that we produce, which won't be 100 pages. And it will also inform the action plan. So what work can we do over the next couple of years? And it will also inform activity in our colleagues networks as well. So surveys open till Monday 25th of March. So you still got we can rush back on Friday and complete it if you haven't already. I've done it with my colleagues. And we actually found it quite interesting because it opened up a whole conversation about digital scholarship, what we offer and the digital shift. So I'd encourage you to do it. Thank you.