Slides from dsr2014.info, a retreat on digital scholarship for the University of Michigan Community. They include slides written on-the-fly during breakout sessions.

1. #UMDSR

2. digital scholarship retreat 2014
welcome
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3. Coffee + Re-Arrange
→ Break into groups based on
the color on your name badge.
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4. DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
Morning Session
Q1: How do you define digital scholarship?
Q2: What does digital scholarship mean for UM?
Q3: What does UM mean for digital scholarship?
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5. Posting to Padlet
Go to http://bit.ly/1lR7PBG
Double-click anywhere on the wall to post something.
(Or tweet with the hashtag #UMDSR!)
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6. Lunch Time Exercise
What to do with $40M?
→Read the spending categories & rules
→Discuss with people at the table
→Create a pie chart
→Give a 2-min lightning talk
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7. DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
Afternoon Session
Q1: What are you doing in this area?
Q2: What would you like to be doing?
Q3: What resources or expertise do you need to make this happen?
Q4: What do you see U-M doing in this area in the next five years?
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8. Google Doc. Presentation Links
➔ Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy:
➔ Digital Scholarship and Support/Project Management:
➔ Digital Scholarship and Publishing/Scholarly Communication:
➔ Digital Scholarship and Physical Space:
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9. Publishing/Scholarly Communication
● Updating older monographs with new digital content
○ can’t go to the academic department for it
● Need developer’s/programming expertise for publishing
● Scaling up: if one faculty author does this, what if more come forward?
● Publishing subvention: $$ from author’s institution to defray publishing
costs (cost-sharing) (only $5,000)
○ change policy to include digital scholarship
● Preservation: publishers don’t care, but it is huge mission of library
● Culture clash: being able to hire the expertise you need in a library setting;
cannot offer the type of salary that developers expect
● One size fits all? Build one platform for all of authors’ needs?
○ How sustainable or scalable?
○ Custom, bespoke “DH projects,”--but moving toward a template
(Omeka, WordPress)

10. Publishing/Scholarly Communication cont.
● Deep Blue for preservation, but not presentation
○ certain formats
● Currently no robust support for data services
● Don’t know yet what people will need when it comes to data
● But for digital scholarship: need place to go for dev. support
○ conceptually working through what to build
● Digital literacy problem: understanding what is possible
● Hiring people is HARD
○ Why? The “unicorn problem”
● UMSI is producing people with these needed skills
● Press currently in mindset of what scholarship will sell the best, not what is
the best scholarship.
○ but the fact remains that they must still sell books

11. Publishing/Scholarly Communication cont.
Q1: What are you doing in this area?
“Bespoke” publishing projects
Q2: What would you like to be doing?
Platform publishing
Q3: What resources or expertise do you need to make this happen?
Developers and brokers
Q4: What do you see U-M in this area in the next five years?
● Building responsive, scalable infrastructure for scholars on this campus
● U-M has new leadership across the board: new president, new head of ARC, new library
leadership

12. Support/Project Management
● Help people understand what they need to understand
when they start the project
● Preparing them not to fail
● Support structure - don’t have to do everything yourself
● Infrastructure support for the virtual (like plumbing)
● “Give them the yearning for the sea”
● Sustainable high level of support
● Expertise & Stuff
● Need the new “Kodak” (Experts have your back)
● Land of M.S.U (Making sh...stuff up)

13. Digital (techne) Pedagogy
● Move away from tool-based teaching → Teaching people how to learn
● Think algorithmically, computationally but also visual literacy (balances,
foreground/background, etc.) and critical thinking [qualitative side of things]
● Teaching through the digital creates and requires qualitative decision making.
● What is digital literacy? Defining it.
● Learning to shape questions that are findable. [Information literacy]
● Adopting palimpsest nature of physical spaces for digital ones (traces).
● Jumping into 24/7-ness of digitalia is making assumptions about students’ (digital)
lives outside of the classroom.
● positions for graduate students (post-graduation) to teach → keep knowledge within
the system as opposed to shipping off to Google, etc.
● Education of undergraduates; fostering critical thinking; skill set acquisition
● Digital pedagogy does not directly relate to digital scholarship.

14. → Please fill out the survey:
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15. thank you!
dsr2014.info
dhc-officers@umich.edu
@DH_Collective
special thanks to sponsors: North Quad Space 2435 and the
Institute for Humanities