CNI Spring 2018 Membership Meeting

This panel will present results of a 2017 survey aimed at understanding how various stakeholders in digital humanities (DH) discover, create, and reuse digital scholarship, as well as the workflows and tools that DH scholars use at each stage of their research process. These stakeholders include researchers, librarians, and technologists. The survey is part of a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project, "Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE." Combined with a workshop and series of site visits to DH centers on US and Canadian campuses, the project team is investigating how SHARE's metadata-harvesting technology can integrate with the world of DH registries, identifiers, and repositories to improve discovery and curation. The presentation will include discussion of the project as a community-facing use case for SHARE, and it will provide an outline of SHARE's overall trajectory for 2018, including: 1) refactoring of the harvesting framework; 2) placing greater emphasis on community code contribution; 3) developing a metadata reconciliation and editing pipeline. The push toward engaging the community, both in DH and in the wider circle of library technology, is meant to expand SHARE to include additional partners and more efficiently leverage contribution of library and institutional stakeholders.