 I'm so pleased all of you have joined us today for this webinar directions and digital scholarship support for digital data intensive and computational research in three institutions. We have over 200 registrants for this webinar and while they haven't all logged in yet. We really have a lot of people here and just delighted at the interest that this has shown. We started this initiative, although Cliff and I were discussing it over the course of last year but the initiative actually started in January of this year, and included a number of elements that you see here including two invitational online forums with 24 participating institutions. I've drawn from that group to highlight three examples of programs in part to illustrate the variations among institutions. I also thought it would be valuable to include perspectives from various levels of the organization, all of whom have responsibilities for their libraries digital scholarship program. We had a session at the spring CNI meeting that was a summary of the institutional profiles collected and the information from the forums. The slides from that session are already linked on the web page for this initiative, and the resulting report should be available later this spring. You'll see the URL for the initiative on this slide and pages put it into the chat so that you can link to it more quickly. This is quite an expansive notion of digital scholarship, and I wanted to show you this definition from University of Colorado libraries that I thought kind of encapsulated my thinking on what I was trying to demonstrate through this program the broad view of digital scholarship in compassing all disciplines and encompassing many technologies that either are computational or relate to data science, etc. So this is these are the kinds of programs that we're talking about in this initiative. Today we have three terrific presenters who will give brief talks on their programs highlighting institutional alignment priorities programs facilities and other items. I'll follow with a question for each presenter but will hold your questions until all three have presented. However, please put your questions for presenters in the chat at any time, and I'll be reviewing them and asking them of our presenters at the end. So we have today, Joe Lucia Dean of University Libraries at Temple University, Nikki and gate assistant university librarian for lead for research and digital scholarship at University of Pennsylvania, and Olivia Michael digital initiatives librarian University of Idaho, and our first speaker will be Joe and I'm going to end my screen share and turn it over to him. Thank you Joe. Thank you Joan and thank you for the invitation to be here today I really appreciate it. Let me get my slides up and one second. There we go. Okay, are you all seeing us. Excellent. Okay, so I want to start just to give you all a little bit of context on temple if you're not familiar with it. So we are in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and interestingly have two Philadelphia institutions here today University of Pennsylvania is a few miles away from us. We describe ourselves as the public University of the city of Philadelphia student body size at present of roughly 34,000. And we take our mission in the city with the utmost seriousness that drives learning scholarship and community engagement so just as a context. I'll tell you a little bit about our digital scholarship enterprise, which relative to many is probably a little bit more recent but about 10 years old at this point, and the origin story is as an interesting one from my perspective because when I was hired by in 2013. My point was announced, and I think it was in March of that year and I was scheduled to start my position on July one. And shortly after that announcement I got an email from a faculty member in the English Department of Temple attached to which was a report from a working group. He had shared that have been comprised of members of a number of schools and colleges that their office of research, and some folks from the library which examined the possibility of establishing what at that time was called the digital arts sciences humanities initiative dashing was the acronym, and he had put that proposal forward to the provost. He was telling stories out of school here, and was told that there was no funding to launch it. So, Peter Logan was the name of the faculty member and I began an email conversation about the importance of making this happen. Even before I was on site at temple, we began a series of meetings to determine how the library could effectively embrace and implement a group to support this work. So, the initiative really came directly out of a small group of faculty and some folks from the library who actually felt that, in particular, graduate students at temple in fields where digital scholarship was emerging as a significant practice were disadvantaged by not having access to support and resources. So, literally as soon as I arrived, we began looking at our then main library facility, the Paley library, and for those of you who don't know we were in that moment also beginning to plan a new building which opened in 2019 but we had probably six more years of residence in Paley and one thing the provost had hired me said well was why don't you wait till you open the new building to do this. And I said because it'll already it's already late for us in the game to get something like this launched at a research university. So he gave me the green light to invest in building out our initial on what we called the digital scholarship center at that point it was not yet named. And we, we repurposed a roughly 2500 square feet and our lower level of our building at that time, we removed a very large installation of compact shelving that had housed our government documents collection and then designed and built out a space that would house what we called the digital scholarship center. We came up with a staffing model that was built around providing a couple of essentially technology experts from the library as support. We defined a role for an academic director that would be a faculty member in that position came into the library from our College of Arts and Sciences. It was actually occupied by Peter Logan the proposer of this project, who had prior to that been the director for the center for the humanities at temple. We also developed a staffing model before we opened that involved recruiting and hiring several clear fellows to be essentially digital scholarship domain experts. So our staffing model was a couple of support positions from the library a couple of clear fellows in an academic director. So we launched I think in the fall of 2014 maybe it was in the middle of the year, the middle of the fall. We put together a faculty advisory board. We engaged Peter to bring his research program in and the original concept for the center was that it would really be focused on advanced research for faculty and grad students. This year we launched a program of faculty fellowships again I pulled funding from the library to do this and also a graduate externship program. And the goal there was to essentially seed into the center. We had active researcher engagement to bring in current research projects that were potentially reinforced or enhanced by by having capacity to adopt and use digital methods and even from the early days of the enterprise. Back to the slide that the Joan showed beginning we embraced a range of approaches. So, I'm just thinking back to that early textual analysis geospatial data data visualization. We had some work with digital telemetry and some site work with digital reconstructions of historical architectural sites with our art history department so it was a it was a multidisciplinary research environment from day one, and the faculty fellows program got off the ground very quickly we had we've had five to six fellows a year. And now in our, I think this would be our ninth year of operation with the fellows and graduate externships which we co fund with the schools and colleges and those range. Usually, the number of those parallels the number of faculty fellows because those graduate students are attached to a faculty researcher as a as a research support colleague. So, fast forward in, you know, in planning the new building we designed a specific space to expand and enhance that digital scholarship enterprise with the overarching vision that over time it would become more and more part of the core offering of the library not kind of an isolated center that was focused focused exclusively on advanced back to work. So in our new building, we have a facility that's much more open that's permeable to walk in users that is actually a multifunctional space. In addition to supporting the ongoing activities of the fellows, the graduate students and others on that space includes a maker space of the R studio and AV recording space, some presentation and rooms workshop area. It's a kind of a great multifunctional space programmatically. We've expanded to support many grants to faculty for the incorporation of maker space and digital scholar scholarship projects into undergraduate courses. We've since we've been in the new building. In spite of the pandemic we had been sponsoring conferences and symposia and we also have in place now a number of funded research projects that have come in either in partnership with faculty or through the work of staff in the center itself. The staff compliment has grown. We now have I think six full time library staff in there plus the faculty fellows and then collaboration and partnership with librarians from outside the center who come in and work on projects with faculty. We also are engaged in a conversation with our computer science department around building out some support for data science collaborative projects that will include workshops for undergraduates potentially across the curriculum and as I said that's an emerging activity. I'll show you quickly a couple of screenshots. This is the main website for the Loretta see duck now Loretta see Duckworth scholar studio we received a naming gift during the campaign for our building from a woman who at that point was a member of our board of trustees. Sadly, she passed away before the building was complete and was never actually able to see the completed space. But this gives you a sense of kind of some of the core offerings there. One of the ways you can get a clear picture of the sorts of work that that go on in a continuing way in the centers that we have a WordPress site that contains really frequently updated blogs posted by by faculty fellows and the research externs on work they're doing and basically these blogs each described specific projects or activities it's a great place to get a sense of the range of things we do there. And then one of the things I'm particularly excited about is that are we have a really wonderful exhibit space in our build in our new building and we are actually just about to open tomorrow. We have an exhibit in that space that is about gaming and game design and it's comprised it was comprised of five projects around gaming that were done in the scholar studio to bring that work to a broader public. And I just these are a couple of quick screenshot shots of the space you can see it's kind of got it very deliberately and open industrial aesthetic it's very different from any other space in the building in that regard. And this is the maker space before it was, this was literally as the library is opening so it was before it was fully populated with equipment now it's it's jam packed and they didn't have a current slide of that. There's, I think, 24 printers in there now to laser cutters, see and see mill just all kinds of stuff sewing machine bench electronics. So one of the break we have four breakout rooms and a main kind of presentation space and this is just one of the breakout rooms that we that is available to students for general access but then is used in a more dedicated and scheduled way when we have workshops and other kinds of sessions there. That's the sort of quick overview and I'll be happy later on to take questions. I'll take down my slides now and hand it off. Thank you so much Joe. I hosted the most recent designing libraries conference at temple and the Charles library is truly magnificent I would don't use that word lightly. And I hope you all get a chance to visit that space. As I mentioned the scholars lab has an open area at the entry point, and then there's some rooms available or some areas where it's clear that they're for specialized functionalities. Can you give us an idea of how the space has worked. Can you describe some of the early lessons learned about how you configured that part of the library. I'm sure many here would love to hear your thoughts. But again this was not without a certain amount of controversy in the sense that you know the, the original kind of founding group had a very proprietary view of the space we created in the paper library that was really kind of a research center. And I argued from day one that the evolution of our mission space would be to open it out to the broader world and that we wouldn't create a closed off environment in the new building. The current space as you said Joan has dedicated areas that do specific functions like the VR room and the maker space but the core of the space is a big open study area that students are welcome to come into and they use it to collaborate and meet. One of the things that was interesting that we did you know in the in the trials library. We conceived of the facility as a mobile technology building so we did not put very much wired in computational resource in the building but in the scholar studio we put in 16 high end machines that were for data analysis and collaboration. And we turned that over to the campus gamers yield, and that is the site where our gaming community comes multiple times a week to do multi user game. So we wanted to create a space that was multi purpose. And that felt like it could be used in a variety of ways that creates some tension and some conflict around the identity of the space. And it is not without frustration at times when we for instance have to move students out because you have a large event going on so we'll do something like a projection mapping evening where we close the whole space down and use all the walls for projecting and it becomes available to students. So there's um, you know there's some tension around how it gets used and when it gets used but it's better to have it as a public space than not. And the underlying and this is this is a kind of a bigger answer to the to the kind of mission and vision component. And I had a long meeting today with a couple of my staff members about the fact that our view of this enterprise looking forward is that it is literally dissolved into our entire enterprise as a library. And that's so separation does not make sense and one of the challenges is organizationally. What does that look like. How do we create it as a space that is embraced and used in more ways. And also how does it relate to the what I think of as the morphing of our mission, more broadly in this direction, especially if we start thinking more and more about, you know, the transformation of information literacy into digital literacy and data science facing things right in this facility I think will be a core space for that so the way we designed it anticipated implicitly a move in that direction and you know that that involves to some degree change of identity as well. Well thank you for that Joe the comments on integration into the core competencies or core infrastructure of what the library is about and what it does will be something I touch on in the report on this whole initiative and I do think is perhaps one of the most important aspects in looking to the future so I particularly appreciate that. So we're going to go on next to Nikki you can start doing your screen share and in the meantime I just want to remind people I see one multifaceted great question that's come in so far and I invite all of the participants to put questions in the chat and all three speakers have finished I'll start asking them some of those questions. So over to you, Nikki. All right. Let's get your loading. Okay, there we go. Yes. Um, so thanks all so much for inviting me to part of this conversation for the gift of your time and attention in what is. I'm sure for everybody a really hectic time in the semester. I have the opportunity to join you and my colleagues and my Philly colleagues here to talk about the work of the research data and digital scholarship team just west of Temple there at the University of Pennsylvania. When I talk to students and faculty about what we do the reaction is usually like wait what libraries do that like libraries do that. I like to say yes we're just getting started like yes, so this is a really exciting panel to be part of. So, broadly speaking, our group is all about helping the pen community but not only data skill but data literate. We try and help our collaborators understand data is a decision making process rather than a product. And to realize that through that process data requires people right so the people whose lives and online interactions are quantified and those who aren't people who train models for analysis. So this is how we visualize promote cell data and it feels like it's our aim no matter what we're teaching to help students bring their own critical skills the ones that they're learning in their classes at Penn to the data that they're encountering in their research. And to bring all of that into the projects they might build with us or stuff they might be putting online with us. So, this takes sort of these three main areas of focus for us project support, digital and computational methodologies and research support. Project support is probably the most traditional sort of digital humanities center type. Element of our work sorry. And so, a lot of it is actually done in collaboration with the price lab for digital humanities which is in the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn. A major difference between us though is that the price lab is sort of because of where it is in the school and because of the very. The school in Penn is its own victim, you could say, and they have to serve arts and sciences, the School of Arts and Sciences first, right, whereas we as a library, and sort of bringing and collaborate a lot more broadly across the campus. What happens is that a faculty member might apply to the price lab for project funding, and that money usually pays for students to work on projects. And then the research data and digital scholarship team trains those students and works with them to build them so we have one sort of workflow for all of the research data and digital scholarship projects whether they come through the price lab or not we have a shared digital form. And so a couple of the ones we're currently working on that might be interesting. There's a multimodal open educational resource that's highlighting diversity for Italian language learners right so a, a much and it's we use a lot of multimodal resources. A collaboration with the Philadelphia Community College on slaverable and a collaboration with an English professor at Penn on the history of a newspaper that was created and published by inmates in a prison here in in Philly. There's a lot of work in that project team on sort of rationalizing our stack really getting our workflows down and making sure that we are documenting everything and approaching projects with the sustainability of work and people, which we established as one of our core values at the heart of what we're doing there. In terms of instructional support and that ranges across the gamut from multi day carpentries events and workshop series we did a six week data job recently. I think libraries are really ideally positioned to provide the intellectual and physical space for students to come together in communities of practice. And so we really try and facilitate a lot of that through monthly meetups for users of our Python or mapping and GIS. Part of the idea behind that is to say okay so maybe you go take a two day carpentries book camp. Or maybe you go take a workshop then what do you do afterwards how do you keep the skills going and how do you find other people who are sort of at your level. And so by providing these clubs were trying to provide ways for people to to find to meet other people across the entire campus and to work together and learn these things. We're also working with colleagues to create a series of AI breweries right now a set of open conversations that we are presenting as a sort of an unconference model that was spread out over the whole summer and this is something we're going to be doing, actually just for our colleagues in the libraries with the idea of having a set of open conversations about the challenges and opportunities of AI right now. I would say mainly the goal with all of our instructional and method logic methodological support is to be as welcoming and judgment free as possible and to provide an environment in which any member of the pen community can feel like they can be met where they are to learn essential and transferable digital methods programming languages and tools. And then our research support and it's funny because you know people people have a digital scholarship and at a certain point like well isn't all scholarship digital at this point, almost. So our digital research support or research support is really focused on all sorts of data so we do a lot of work with qualitative data quantitative data spatial data and that's really across the whole data life cycle from finding it curating it managing scraping it through publishing and visualizing it and so we've been working a lot recently with the office of I suppose a provost for research and campus to help the university prepare for and meet the new mandates coming out of the NIA and that's been a really great relationship for us and our head of research data services has been particularly fantastic in building and maintaining those relationships so that the libraries is really seen as a crucial partner in these discussions about research. This is an example so we are like our library website has just been migrated and we don't have the editing access to the new website yet so my screenshots we're all going to be very old, but this is one that's from our blog. Like Joe, we have a blog where we put a lot of material that we're really trying to focus on process sort of the whole like Miriam Posner, how did they build that thing. And so if we give a top or a workshop, or we come together and read about something one of us will blog about it and blog about the process of making it same thing with the projects. And we tend to embed the recordings off any workshops that we do online in here so that people can come to them later on. A brief example of what we're doing. This slide is just showing a little bit how the research data and digital scholarship work is aligning with the priorities of the library so the library had in its strategic plan. These goals around engagement and enrichment for students and so I was trying to map what we were doing on to the strategic goals. When I first started at Penn, which is three years ago now which is why I can't give you the same sort of decade long history that Joe was able to give you. One of the new strategic priorities for the libraries was a center for research data and digital scholarship and that not necessarily a physical one right. The strategic priority in terms of social infrastructure intellectual infrastructure. That's not but maybe physical infrastructure as well so we don't currently have a physical space, we are going to have what we're calling a proto center starting in the fall, which will really be a sort of place with a lot of modular furniture and screens that we can use to kind of have a home for all of this stuff that we've been doing because up until now we've been doing it wherever we can book a room. And so when I was asked about the center and what my vision for a center would be. I really wanted to think about people first before and people and programming before I started to think about space that felt really really important that we were able to and to to work out how we work together. And so the people here, almost all of them have joined in the past three years. We have. Next slide and I'll sort of explain some of these roles, but everything from an applied data science librarian to a public digital scholarship librarian to a contemporary publishing fellow and then on this last slide I can sort of talk about how some of that goes. So when I was trying to think about the center, I wanted to think about it in, in terms of four main areas of focus, digital literacies ethics methods. And so for this one we hired our applied data science librarian, who has been leading a lot of the initiatives around carpentries training around the R and Python club, he's doing that work and that was that work was created after a lot of internal scanning and a lot of internal scanning to find out what else was being offered on campus and where they get and where the gaps were. And then from that I was able to create a position. Similarly, with digital projects and publishing it was in talking with a lot of the faculty who work on the price lab executive committee or who are fellows in the price lab, and who are really interested in thinking about how to increase the reputational impact of digital scholarship work, how to make it count more. And so I talked a lot with Mary Francis who's the director of pen press, and he's also really interested in this and so we came up with a plan to to hire a fellow. And we now have a contemporary publishing fellow who's leading us through developing what it would look like to create the proper policies and workflows and infrastructure for monograph equivalent digital projects that would have both the developer and the peer review processes of a press, along with the sort of discovery and access and technical capabilities of the library and so that's a really exciting partnership going through here. The two areas of focus for us have been on pen research data so again, really like getting that head of data, head of research data services role and then getting another research data engineer to support her has been really really important to us we also were able to be able to do a proper geospatial support, and then collections of data which is our most nationed area of all of these, where we are currently engaged in an investigation into what it would, what the workflows would have to be to allow for the use of some of the pens, especially special collections in data projects and you know we want to do this properly and be able to document like all the various library labor that would need to be involved in terms of metadata and in terms of digitization and then in terms of computational analysis to kind of create a blueprint for when we wanted to do this in the future and we've been trying out some very light pilots using Jupiter notebooks and some of the documents from our Kaplan collection and we're looking forward to seeing where this goes next. I think that's about everything I wanted to talk about right now but I am happy to begin and share more after. Terrific thanks so much, Nikki and if you'll end your slide share, Olivia can get her slides up and in the meantime I'm going to ask you if you could give us a brief answer and maybe at the end you might want to expand on it but I noticed in the forum, you talked more about building community than anyone else, and actually that had been such a theme in earlier CNI workshops, and I noticed that it was somewhat absent. And I wondered if it was because of the pandemic but can you tell us just briefly some of your ideas or some of the ways you're building these communities. Yeah, of course, and maybe this comes from me just having been a community manager at a couple of different places so I come to that with that kind of mindset, but for me it's been really, really important and I think especially since the pandemic, because what we have are undergraduates who maybe had two years where they were not connecting with their peers and then they come into a huge institution like Penn and they don't have places to meet folks here from other areas or we had graduate students who were in a similar situation. And one of the easier, the more lightweight things we did during the pandemic was we hosted a building your online presence or a series of workshops we created a cohort in collaboration with the Graduate Center, and we got applications from all the 12 schools, and took 15 of them, and then we met every other week, and ran them through a set of different workshops, and worked with a career center and sort of brought them into the think about digital scholarship and different ways of research communication and digital humanities building and they were all just so grateful to have a place to meet and a regular cohort of people that when they haven't even really met people in their department. So that was a huge one. Thank you. Nikki, I think. I'll shut up. Thank you for that example. Appreciate it. All right. Thank you, Joan. Thank you all. I'm excited to be here and so I wanted to say off the bat that I'm the currently the digital initiatives librarian at the University of Idaho. In July I'll be transitioning into head of digital scholarship and initiatives Iowa State University, but I've been in this position in Idaho since 2018. And that's came about two years after the creation of our digital scholarship center, which is called the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning or CDL for short, which is founded in 2016 and CDL is a collaboration between the University of Idaho library and our College of Digital Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences or class. And currently, we have three co directors. They are associate dean for research and instruction Devin Becker, our head of digital scholarship and open strategies Evan Williamson, and myself, and I've been really closely involved in CDL activities throughout my time at Idaho. My discussion today is informed by my own experience but since I wasn't around for its founding. I'm also drawing on conversations with my co director colleagues since they were really instrumental in driving the creation of the center. So its history really starts in the, in the early 2010s around 2012 2013 Devin started collaborating on digital scholarships with humanities faculty with Evan joining when he was hired. Then in 2015, this work started attracting a pretty significant support from our Dean of College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences at the time, who really saw the success of those current projects saw the potential for grant coming out of digital scholarship projects and and saw a need for continuing community building around digital projects digital skills and methodologies on campus and a real need for a more formalized space for that to happen because there wasn't one yet. So he brought together this group of faculty members from the library and from class in around 2015. To start discussing what this type of program what this type of presence might look like that happened to coincide with the university offering a new internal grant program to fund new ideas that would farther their strategic goals and that group saw that this funding opportunity as a chance to get some funding to establish a space that's dedicated to digital scholarship on campus and start funding some of the project work that was happening. So a proposal for that funding was led by librarians and was ultimately successful. So more than half of that original funding went to establish CDIL as a physical space it's on the second floor of the library room on the second floor it's still in that same space today. And it contains specialized computing equipment and software scanning stations virtual reality technology on large screens that we use for presenting and demonstrating and teaching. And the furniture is designed to be pretty modular so there are several desks that can be rearranged large tables a couch and chairs for collaborating and meetings. And despite being staffed full time CDIL is actually not necessarily a public space so it's not a space where somebody can walk in and make inquiries. Although we, we do our collaborations and consultations there, all the time we just don't have a reference desk staffed in there. But we really see CDIL's purpose as creating the social and the technical infrastructure for digital projects at our university to be successful. And when we're thinking about that social infrastructure we've established annual faculty and student fellowships that have been pretty, pretty successful and we also run annual week long summer digital fellowship symposium for teaching digital skills and methodologies and this setup has really let us start sort of a pipeline of digital learning so those who are new to digital scholarship might not know a lot yet they can participate in that symposium, learn new skills brainstorm project ideas and then have a much better proposal for fellowships the next year around and when they get that fellowship they work with my digital librarian colleagues and we work with them to visualize and publish their research as websites most often. We've also had a lot of success with those fellowships leading to classroom instruction so if a faculty member learns something in the course of their fellowship or has a project that they're really interested in. So we've been able to bring it into the classroom have students contribute to that project and learn digital, some great digital literacy skills in that in the process. And then those fellowships also have led to some external grant funding so in those cases the support for the fellowship the work to contribute to it gets to go on because they've, they've gotten this external funding as a result of the initial project. And on the technical side, our strengths and our interest in CDL have really focused more and more on web publishing so the publishing of digital scholarship, digital collections and more and more the publishing of open educational resources and open scholarship and for this work we emphasize sustainable technical infrastructure and that's really supported, especially by our development of the static web digital exhibit framework collection builder which we develop in house so our creation of collection and digital material there really rose sort of organically as a solution for for teaching and creating digital collections and now has expanded quite a bit through grant funding, through our use of it and several different ways for digital scholarship projects, through other institutions use of it. And the great thing about it the, the, all the benefits of it include building static sites. Let us approach our projects with more of a preservation mindset, more of sort of a collections this data mindset and we're able to working this way we're able to create sites that last a long time. We don't require long term maintenance, which is really crucial for us because we're small staff. And they also enable us to be really agile so to try out projects, try out ideas adapt quickly which is great when you're working in a digital scholarship context with a with a scholar who has lots of ideas. So just to give a quick example of a project along these lines, our voices of gay rodeo digital scholarship project was the initial project site was developed during a history faculty members fellowship with us. And this is an oral history project so that project website that that we initially developed help that faculty member get additional funding in the form of a writing foundation grant to fund the collection of additional interviews, which in turn enabled her to teach a faster long course to graduate students who she taught how to collect more interviews and they were able to go out collect those interviews, come back code those interviews and prepare them technically and then actually upload them directly to the site so having this sort of technical investment already in place, allowed us to quickly and creatively create a new site, and then have these additional opportunities on top of it happen including that external funding, and that opportunity for learning for students on top of the original project. So in terms of data services are our space for data services in the library is quite a bit newer than CDL. It arose, kind of starting around 2019 a group of our librarians started looking at whether the data management needs of our faculty on campus were being focused on. So, after an assessment they kind of came to the discovery that support for research data services and data management on campus really could be stronger. And these were services not traditionally focused on in CDL at that time and the or this this this finding from the assessment coincided with some donor money that the library had it also coincided with realization that on the first floor there was a space that was being relatively underutilized. So that moving forward on that space was developed into what became the data hub. And this is a room that's used for collaboration and consultation and teaching around data science and GIS research here at the university. And in contrast to CDL is and it's an open space so there's a desk that staffed by librarians and graduate students to answer questions when people come in. And that staffing brings in the expertise of our GIS librarian our head of research and experiential learning. And right now also our head of digital scholarships and and open strategies. So that we and the other the other part of of the space to is being inviting and and connecting with partners across campus and there's already been a lot of success in that so the data has only been up and running since last fall. By the time it was renovated it was fall 2022. So it's still pretty new but there's already been success and having external departments and collaborators and research computing and statistics. So it's a great space to host a data intensive workshops which have been pretty successful so far. Nearing the end of my time so I just wanted to kind of wrap up by saying again that these two services digital scholarship and data services are situated separately in our library is to separate spaces. The data services, the data have been relatively new and our library coming out of a recent reorganization we're still kind of seeing how how we're going to work together but we're already seen lots of collaboration already and I think that's really reflective of an increasingly interdisciplinary focus on campus as well so we're seeing initiatives and labs and centers across campus bringing together arts and humanities and sciences to pursue new approaches to things like climate change or environmental issues and the projects and ideas that are emerging from these groups the student projects faculty projects need all of these expertise that we have so the data and the GIS expertise and the web publishing services to so we've already been collaborating across our centers on some student fellowships in these along these lines and I think that that sort of collaboration is only going to continue as this sort of focus on interdisciplinary approaches grows at our university in particular so that wraps up my slides and happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much Olivia. I do hope that all of the participants can see both the differences and the commonalities among the programs. And it's really fascinating to me and I think that, partly, it's really important to understand how you, your program needs to reflect the institutional priorities that you have where our gaps and needs on campus, what expertise you can realistically offer and factors such as that. We're going to go right now to the participant Q&A. There are so many questions I know we won't get to them in time that we have left. If the presenters would like to message me privately and let me know if they can stay on a little bit longer after the session formally ends at two o'clock and whether you could stay and answer a few more questions. I appreciate it. And I see, for example, Nikki's been answering some questions in the chat which is great but you're not obliged to do so but I'm sure it's appreciated so I'm going to start with the early question that was for Joe. And the question from Jiwu is, except for the space concierge seed funding and project management support, what do you think are the key competencies and critical contributions. In other words, without which the research outcomes would not have been possible from the library to the center so what what makes your program successful or what what are the elements what what are the ingredients I believe Jiwu is asking. I think there's two distinct faces of that. I think the first thing that adds value and that added value from the very very beginning was the integration of projects into a project management framework. And that you know the service we provided was to assist faculty and grad students with sometimes large unruly ideas to begin shaping them into a set of activities. And kind of focused tasks that would use the tools and in productive ways, especially for the individuals who are coming in wanting to pursue a digital initiative but without a whole lot of experience in that kind of work. And so project management, I think, was an interesting I'd say added value from day one and remains that way. And then obviously that we could have a portfolio of skills among our staff that were kind of discipline agnostic to some degree. You know, and I think being able to address a range of project types, you know, from textual analysis to use of geospatial data to the social network scraping to, you know, kind of visualization and modeling all those we tried to have to be able to find ways to draw on those competencies to be able to support different kinds of activities, rather than be focused on one particular approach. Thank you. Our next question is from and but there's a part of it is similar question from Cameron. I'd love to hear about your institutional investment in terms of FTE, how you staff, some of your things like your meetup groups your consultations instruction, and I, and Cameron adds how does your budget work how how do you allocate funding for your positions. And if you can weave into that something about some of you have already shown us your organization or in your specific positions, but if you can weave into that also how people from other units in your library participate that would be useful to people too. Let's start with Olivia. Do you think I know it's kind of a complex question but can you give it a go. Sure. So, um, Well, right now we have three faculty, the three faculty librarians that work in in CDL and there they are the co directors that I mentioned in the presentation. And we're, we, we do the, the, the project work with our with our fellows or primarily fellow based with our with our work. And when we get questions for consultation, where one of us is always taking one of those. We have a collaborative group. So, there might be a couple people working on one project at one person working on another. We have a couple of staff that do work in our digital scholarship center for full time. And because our digital because CDL is also the place where we digitize our archival material. And that, that is why they're in that room full time. And there's a lot of overlap in the material that's produced from that scanning that metadata work. Sometimes it crosses over into digital scholarship projects or inspires digital scholarship projects to. So that, that is the staffing that that we have right now in our digital scholarship center. So we have, as I mentioned, we're going through a reorganization and have a new department that CDL sits within right now which is digital scholarship and open strategies and with that move. We're hoping to pull in more explicitly, I guess, open work around open education open scholarship and that's already really been happening with CDL we have worked to create open education materials. In a lot of different ways. If sometimes stemming from our digital scholarship projects. And now I think that's going to be more formalized moving forward as we, we have several open, open access fellowships already, and we'll, we'll sort of just take our sustainable technical approach and apply it to to those open projects in the way that we've been doing with digital scholarship as well. Thank you, Olivia, I'm going to go to a quick, very quick wrap up and stay on if you can I know that Joe needs to move on to a two o'clock meeting. But if you would like stay on for the rest of you and we'll continue questions. I wanted to make sure that you were the first ones to hear that we have our next webinar scheduled for May 24. The theme is going to be what's next, and these will be the three presenters who just confirmed we had the final confirmation earlier today. We'll put out an announcement on CNI announced probably early next week. And then I want to thank our terrific presenters for all the information they put into such a short period of time. It was, I think, very valuable to our participants and I appreciate the great questions that you raised as well. Thank you, Joe, Nikki, Olivia, and I'll go back to the Q&A and if you need to leave, please, please do so. The next question I'm not taking all of these in order some of them have been answered in various ways in the chat. A couple of questions related to storage. Nikki, would you want to take a run at that? How are you working either with campus IT or just within the library on questions about data storage for projects? This is always a complicated one. So there's like one question is sort of the data that people need to share in terms of research data. That's one side of things. Another side of things is when people want to do text and data mining on data that the library has subscribed to, but I don't necessarily think has a really good way for serving up to people yet. So fender data, that's another one. And then the third piece for sort of a more traditional humanity style project. For the most part, we're using digital ocean. And then for other, their smaller projects we claim hosting for those they are paid for and supported by the libraries, but a little bit on the side of overall library infrastructure, I would say. Thank you. Olivia, anything you'd like to discuss in terms of storage issues on your campus? Yeah, we, well when we work on our digital scholarship projects, we take an approach that encourages preservation. So we're, we try to prioritize preservation of objects and metadata and we have a digital archive where we store those currently in terms of server space and serving our projects we work mostly with static projects and that makes it possible to serve our just flat HTML, CSS and JavaScript files from a simple web server. So we don't take up too much space server wise either and the cost is relatively low. So in terms of, in terms of our digital archive space, it's where we could, we could be better with digital archiving and digital preservation and but I think a lot of people can. And, and so we haven't run into any space issues necessarily with that but just workflows and figuring out what the best processes are in order to be good stewards of that material is a bigger issue for us than than having the space for storage of that material. I would love to follow up on, I asked Olivia a question if that's possible. So, at your institution so for us we are not actually able to put faculty content into our digital asset repository, right so the stuff where our collections go which is something we'd love to do because it's to play F enabled and would really really help because we have to really try and take a static approach so are you able to do that and then get all sort of the yeah you are. Yeah, yeah we're lucky we have access to a static server or libraries server web server. And we can put, we can put our faculty projects on there, along with our digital collections and serve everything from that server and we just are relatively, you know we don't have a huge library we don't have an it department or library and so, we have the access to do that and the central it is relatively okay with that because we're not, we're not using, you know, we're, it's static so it's secure, relatively. So, we do have a few digital scholarship projects that the faculty members choose to purchase their own URL and, and in those cases we, you know we make, we sort of talk through how that process is going to go. And who's going to manage it for the long term. But we make that an option to if some, if somebody wants that, instead of being served from the library is web server. Thank you. Question for me is about whether you have some examples of projects in the science and engineering or engineering fields that they saw a lot of the projects that on the screen captures of your website that seem to be much more humanities arts, social sciences oriented. Do you like to respond. Yeah, I can talk a little bit. We are the history of CDL is that it was because it was originally a partnership or it still is a partnership between the College of letters arts and social sciences. In the library that's where the majority of the initial projects were coming from. And we still have that support and that does desire and interest from that college, but more recently, we've been getting more and more interest from places like the college of natural resources and our College of Education, who are not. They are projects that maybe have elements of arts and humanities in them but aren't purely digital humanities I would say, and we have. I mentioned in the presentation that the, we have a confluence lab which is a group of folks from all over campus who are really considering unique ways to approach climate and environmental issues and we have gotten a closer and closer collaboration with them and that's where a lot of the College of Natural Resources support is coming from a few of our project along those along those lines are a project on the extinction of caribou in Idaho and oral histories around wildfires histories of wildfires in general. And so there is, there's a growing, and I think really interesting collaboration that's coming out of colleges that maybe aren't more traditionally aligned with digital humanities work here. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I would say that we, we collaborate actually really broadly, but the project the nature of the project takes on a different, it's different. Instead of sort of going through our proposal process and building the whole project with us it's usually much more based on instructional or methodological approaches where we might be teaching graduate students mapping and GIS for a program in education or in biology, text mining certain like teaching text mining methods for certain resources but it won't actually result in what we might I guess we'd have to define the project how we might define a project, but it would, it would result in a long term collaboration. Right, but the result of that long term collaboration might end up being a traditional publication, even though the methods are digital. That's the difference there for me. I'd like to also comment that in the report. I'll note one example of a university that participated in the forums that said in one quarter there on the quarter system rather than semester. There were like 89 different departments and units within the university participating in their online workshop series. And you know that's I actually wrote that individual to verify the number to make sure that the recording and the transcript were correct and it was. These programs can reach a very wide audience and I think maybe perhaps in some things for especially those universities and digital scholarship programs, offering workshops and things like Python and are from what I gather are extremely popular in the stem areas and but also increasingly in humanities and social sciences so they're, they're reaching all. I think that's right. I mean I would say we're probably we're actually in the process of doing an annual report where we're counting all of the schools and departments but I would say that wouldn't be far off it for us when it comes to instruction and on consultation it's just the difference between that and long term projects. Thank you. Well, I think we've reached the end I hope I've touched on most of the questions or that the presenters have answered them in the chat I apologize if I've left out your question, but we've covered a lot of ground and I appreciate our two speakers who are able to be on to answer questions that they did that and for their fine presentations it's so hard to do this in such a short period of time and I really really appreciate your participation in efforts and thanks to all of you who are able to stay and continue to interact with us. Thanks so much and see you in May for the next webinar. Thanks so much everyone. Thanks for your questions.