Centre for Digital Scholarship at Leiden University Libraries

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Centre for Digital Scholarship
Laurents Sesink
Academy of Korean Studies (AKS)
26-04-2017

Universiteit Leiden. Bij ons leer je de wereld kennen
Leiden University Institutional Plan 2015-2020
Supporting academics in the transition to a more interactive academic
environment by setting up a Centre for Digital Scholarship within the
Leiden University Libraries.
University Leiden 2015 – 2020
• Sharing and collaboration are keywords in today’s academic practice. The arrival of open access
and open data means that the sharing of research data and results and collaboration in collecting,
analysing and publishing them are becoming increasingly important.
• Leiden University wants to make it easier for academics to share information and to collaborate by
providing state-of-the-art ICT support and infrastructure.
• The University is therefore setting up a Centre for Digital Scholarship at the University Libraries
Leiden, that will provide services to researchers and students in the use of new technology,
including in terms of digital research methods, open access, data management and social
networking.

’Digital Scholarship’
Answering research questions with new digital technologies.
Digital Scholarship has consequences for:
• Research – Access to Big data and metadata, (inter) disciplinar
collaboration, development of new methodologies, technologies and
instruments. Data Science
• Research process – Requirements of research funders, -
organisations, publishers and government regarding Research Data
management.

’Digital Scholarship’
• Publication process – New possibilities for online publishing,
requirements of government and funding organisations regarding
Open Access
• Digital Longevity – New approaches to long term preservation
of the scholarly record. Digital Preservation

Goal
Support and facilitate, in collaboration with expert centres, faculties and
(inter)national partners, digital scholarship within the University.
CDS:
• Keeps track of new technology
• Facilitates researchers in the use of new methodologies and technology
• Facilitates the use of state of the art collaboration environments
• Supports new ways to publish and reuse articles, data and research software.
• Has a proactive role during all phases of the research proces (before, during and after
research)
• Collaborates with partners if desirable

Expertise
• Support for Open access, copy right and publication advice
• Support for Data management
• Support for Data Science
- Text- & data mining
- Collaboration environments
- Repository infrastructure (data and metadata)
- Database design and websites
- GIS
• Support for Digital Preservation

Activities
• Keep track of, influence and implement relevant policies (university,
national, European)
• Keep track of and use the possibilities of ‘state of the art’ technologies
• Provide information
• Give advice
• Training and Support
• Develop new services

Collaboration
• UBL
- Faculty liaison, Project leaders, Curators, Services Special Collections
• UL
- ISSC; ISSC back office technical/application management storage
- BB-IM; information management university
- BB-AZ: policy development
- LURIS; LURIS grant office.
- Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities; LCDH has a goal to enhance Digital
Humanities research.
- Leiden Centre of Data Science FWN; Focus of LCDS is research about innovative
methodologies regarding data science

Collaboration
• UL
- University wide Data Science Program
- Faculty data managers
- Data Protection/Security Officer
• (Inter)National
- UKB, Surf, VSNU, Research Data Netherlands, Nationale Coalitie Digitale
Duurzaamheid (NCDD), RDA, Knowledge Exchange
- Research Data Infrastructures like CLARIN, DARIAH and CESSDA.

Timetable
• Short term (now till 2 year): Building
- Quartermasters
- Laying foundation
- Gradually building
- Start with current services
- Building by means of pilots
• Medium term (2 till 4): Consolidation
- Extending and capture
- Robust foundation, future proof
- Transparent portfolio, with monitoring
- Protocols, procedures
- Standing services and innovations
- Fixed position
• Long term (from 4 year): Institutionalising
- Looking forward
- Complete building
- Formalisation of collaboration and institutionalising
- Standing services and innovations
- Extending fixed position

Covering the whole research life cycle
• Before-, during-, after research
- One-stop-shop (datamanagement, open access, copyright/licenses)
- LURIS, BB-AZ, BB-IM, ISSC and CDS
- Start with Research Life Cycle. Who is involved in which process
- Self Service
- First Line CDS
- Second Line LURIS, ISSC, BB-AZ, BB-IM

Covering the whole research life cycle
• Before
• During
• After

National approach for Open Science
• Goal is to accelerate:
- 100 % Open Access
- Re-Use of Research Data
FAIR Data
• Stimulate (New!)
- Evaluation and Rewards for researchers

Support for Open Access and
Datamanagement
• Open access, copy right and publication advice
- Realizing Dutch Open Access policy. Information (SD’s), processes (Faculty
Information managers, ORCID project), transparency of costs and benefits.
• Data management
- Implementation of university policy, embed in processes (LURIS),
development of services (IM, ISSC), training & support (Faculties)

Data Science Support
• Text & Data Mining
• Data & Metadata
• Virtual Research Environments
• GIS
• Database modelling & websites
• Skills building. Data Carpentry

Building up expertise
• Collaboration environments
- Existing activity, VREs, upscaling, extend with other environments (ISSC)
• Repository infrastructure (data and metadata)
- New activity, Proof of Concepts in collaboration with researchers,
exploration of new functionalities (Metadata enrichment, IIIF, Geo)
• Text- & Data mining
- New activity, Proof of Concepts, pilots in collaboration with researchers,
possibilities/hurdles data science, software & data carpentry
• Database design, websites
- New activity, testing ground (ISSC), Pilots with researchers
• GIS
- New activity, testing ground Geo service, Pilots with researchers

Digital preservation
• Publications
• Research Data
• Webarchiving
• Digital Born Academic Heritage
• Policy, processes and facilities

Special Collections UB Leiden
• International orientation
• Used in research and education by students, teachers and researchers
• Part of our national and international heritage
Maps, photographs, books,
manuscripts, video, audio, newspapers
journals …....
• More then 4 million objects

New repository infrastructure
3 main principles
• Sustainable
- In compliance with the requirements of Trusted Digital Repositories
OAIS
Data Seal of Approval
• Visible
- Interoperable with (inter)national portals
OAI-PMH, Persistent Identifiers
• Usable
- Data accessible for digital tools
Science: Domain architecture Research Data
Heritage: DERA (Digitaal Erfgoed Referentie Architectuur –
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed)

4 Activities
• Defining clear policies for the digital collections
• Redesigning our infrastructure
• Designing workflows based on OAIS
• Designing workflows for copyright

Redesign of the repository infrastructure
• Replacement of current systems:
- DigiTool, KIT & KITLV repositories
- Dspace
• Needs & Limitations
- Trusted Digital Repository
- Variety of data (digital reproductions, publications, research
data
- Flexible and scalable
- (Inter)national exchange
- Limited capacity for in house developments

Under the ‘hood’

The ‘hood’

Enhance the usability
• Integration with International Image Interoperability
Framework (IIIF)
- UBL is member of IIIF
•Text and Data Mining
• Integration with GeoBlacklight (GIS)
• Linked Open Data (LOD)

IIIF: Digital Mushaf

IIIF: Koran fragments from 4 collections

GIS: Colonial Architecture

GIS: Buildings in Jakarta

School

Proof of Concept with Linked Open Data
Collections and Tools

Planned activities
• Integration of IIIF in the repository infrastructure
• Proof of Concept Text & Datamining in collaboration with researchers
• Exploration of GIS in the repository infrastructure
• Exploration of LOD in collaboration with researchers

Approach
• Researcher is in the ‘driver seat’
• Building on the existing digital infrastructure of the UBL
• Activities contribute to the development of new services
• Limited capacity
• Agile project methodology (SCRUM)
• Progress monitored in Trello

Proof of Concept TDM Sino-Maleis

Epic 1: Collections as FAIR data
• Scans alone are not enough
• Epic 1:
- collect all books
- add metadata
- clear copyrights
- books in for human and machines readable formats
- assess the quality of OCR
• FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable
- persistent identifier, metadata available, accepted open
formats,

Epic 2: Data on Demand
• Browse, read and download data
• Make selections and download selected data.

Offline analysis with downloaded data

Epic 3: Analysis on Demand
• Analysis without downloading
• Bring the tools to the data
• Voyant Tools – Visual exploration of text
• Recogito – annotations

Voyant Tools – "See through your text"

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