Transcript The future of digital scholarship (PPTX, 13.7MB)

Informed Decision Making: The
future with digital scholarship
Bill Beach,
Manager, UQL Centre for Digital Scholarship
LARS, Learning & Research Service, UQL
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Bigger than Jesus? Let’s prove it…
"U.S. ban on Beatles over
religion." Times [London] 5 Aug. 1966:
8. The Times Digital Archive.
http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/ktw9X
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Text Mining in Action
Dr Michaela
Mahlberg,
University of
Nottingham
http://clic.nottingham.ac.uk:8080/index.html
CLiC – Corpus Linguistics in Cheshire
“Political thriller” is one of the most
popular content categories
Kevin Spacey is the most popular actor
with customers
David Fincher-directed films are watched
all the way to the end
Source: Wired UK Edition Feb 2015
https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/support-tools-grants/services/mapping-data-imagery/maps
https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/mapping-data/maps/floodmapping-program/floodcheck-map
Interactive FloodCheck map - Department of Natural
Resources and ...
https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/mapping.../maps/floodmapping.../flocks...
Dec 23, 2015 - The FloodCheck maps are an
interactive guide to flood lines, imagery, and data and
... imagery for 2010–2011; data relating to drainage
basins, river gauges and flood studies. ... 61 Mary
Street, Brisbane, Queensland 4000
[email protected] Mike Law
Digital Scholarship Projects currently being pursued in the HaSS Faculty –
Comments by academics
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Using social media comments to assess impact of social intervention with broad
community
Empirical musicology – searching for patterns in musical features of scores and
recordings ## possible implications for copyright compliance
Using geospatial mapping to understand business change dynamics associated
with legislation changes
Interested to explore how refugees and/or asylum seekers use social media and
mobile phones through their journey
We use digital tools not as the focus but as the method (e.g. way of collecting
data) or outcome. [comments on social media about the research]
Issues
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Skills & knowledge of the researcher/academic of the
software environment - & the students skills base
Curriculum inclusion & assessment – planning, processes
& infrastructure issues
Sustainability in an ever changing environment – data
collection, storage & reuse both for academic purposes &
governance
Graduate employability – new engagement model
Open software v subscribed platforms
Thank you