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Collaboration success in the dataverse : Libraries as digital humanities research partners

- Owen, Sue, Verhoeven, Deb, Horn, Anne, Robertson, Sabina

  • Authors: Owen, Sue , Verhoeven, Deb , Horn, Anne , Robertson, Sabina
  • Date: 2014
  • Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
  • Relation: 35th International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries Conference (IATUL 2014); Espoo, Finland; 2nd-5th June 2014 p. 1-9
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  • Description: At Deakin, the Humanities Networked Infrastructure project (HuNI), has paved new ground for facilitating the effective use and re-use of humanities research data. HuNI is one of the first largescale eResearch infrastructure projects for the humanities in Australia and the first national, crossdisciplinary Virtual Laboratory (VL) worldwide. HuNI provides new information infrastructure services for both humanities researchers and members of the public. Its development has been funded by the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources project (NeCTAR) and undertaken by a consortium of thirteen institutions led by Deakin University. A Deakin University Library team with skills in data description, curation, retrieval and preservation is exploring with digital humanities researchers and developers effective means to support and maintain the HuNI project. HuNI ingests and aggregates data from a total of 31 different Australian cultural datasets which cover a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and creative arts. The HuNI VL also provides a number of online research capabilities for humanities researchers to discover and work with the large-scale aggregation of data. The HuNI VL enables researchers to create, save and publish selections of data; to analyse and manipulate the data; share findings and to export the data for reuse in external environments. In a major innovation, HuNI also enables researchers to assert relationships between entities in the form of ‘socially linked’ data. This capability contributes to the building of a ‘vernacular’ network of associations between HuNI records that embody diverse perspectives on knowledge and ramify avenues for research discovery beyond keyword and phrase searches. This paper reports on key milestones in this project, the future role of Libraries as digital humanities research partners and the challenges and sustainability issues that face national digital humanities research projects that are developed in strategic library settings.

Hope Street : From voice to agency for care-leavers in higher education

- Wilson, Jacqueline, Mendes, Philip, Golding, Frank

  • Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Mendes, Philip , Golding, Frank
  • Date: 2018
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Life Writing Vol. 15, no. 4 (2018), p. 597-609
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  • Description: In the early 1980s, one of the authors became an adolescent ward of the State of Victoria, Australia, and went into out-of-home care. While in care, repeated encounters with researchers, journalists and policy-makers left her disillusioned as to the efficacy and relevance of their activities, in that although she was sporadically provided with a ‘voice’, this did little to bridge the divide between their world of privilege and the non-privileged world of the subject of their attentions. The article argues that this divide is perpetuated long after people leave care as adults, and that a mere ‘voice’ is not enough–what is needed is agency, in the design and execution of research. This can be achieved through extended education, depending in turn on an inclusive culture shift within institutions of higher learning. The article utilises the author's personal experience as a brief case study.
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