Works in Progress Webinar Collections as Data
Channel: OCLC Research
Date: 2019-02-13

Presenter - Thomas Padilla, Visiting Digital Research Services Librarian, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Description:
Collections as Data: Part to Whole is the second in a series of grant funded projects exploring computational access to library and archive collections. Building on the work of Always Already Computational: Collections as Data, the project aims to foster the development of broadly viable models that support implementation and use of collections as data. This effort is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Over a period of three years, Part to Whole will fund and programmatically support two cohorts, each composed of project teams jointly led by librarians and disciplinary scholars.

Project teams will develop models that support collections as data implementation and holistic reconceptualization of services and roles that support scholarly use. Collections as data produced by project activity will exhibit high research value; demonstrate the capacity to serve underrepresented communities; represent a diversity of content types, languages, and descriptive practices; and arise from a range of institutional contexts. 

In this webinar, Principle Investigator Thomas Padilla will introduce the concept of collections as data and describe its progressive development across two grant-funded projects. He will also introduce projects from the first cohort funded by Collections as Data: Part to Whole and share information and field questions about potential participation in the second cohort.