Digital Toolkit: Essentials for the Researcher of Today and Tomorrow

Hoffman, Kimberly M.

poster and reference

http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:38642

[Academic poster derived from a presentation of the same title. Presented at The Catholic University of America Research Day April 15, 2016.] Scholarly communication is “the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. Researchers and librarians live in a complex scholarly ecosystem with a changing palette of digital tools and outputs. This presentation provides an overview of the essentials— persistent identifiers for researchers - ORCID; institutional repositories; author’s rights, open access and copyright; measuring the impact of scholarship with bibliometrics and altmetrics; and research data. #HamiltonMusical demonstrates brilliantly that research is alive. It exists in a larger digital space and in many forms. From an idea, born of a book to a Broadway musical and beyond, the cultural phenomenon of the 2015 Broadway show Hamilton demonstrates scholarship from primary sources through collaboration and ongoing educational outreach. Hamilton uses all of the tools - books, primary sources, performance, score, digital presence that highlights interdisciplinary research, and social media. The digital scholarship of Hamilton engenders criticism, echo and transformation. Digital scholarship now includes digital tools for searching, analyzing and organizing information. New apps and networks allow for connection and collaboration. Digital text, sensors and global sources of data need computational tools and discernment. Communicating the impact of this digital scholarship and preserving the digital scholarly record for future scholars is the ongoing work of all who, as Hamilton raps, “drop knowledge.”

2016-04-15