The Challenge of Capturing Raw material for Scholars of the Future Tomorrow’s “manuscript” collections Alice Prochaska 12 October 2011

A framework for debate Association of Research Libraries CNI Canadian collaborations JISC and transatlantic collaborations LIBER and a European strategy for special collections The IFLA and UNESCO contexts

Digitized Manuscript collections Collaborations Stand-alone digital libraries Virtual exhibitions The role of the curator/librarian Shaping scholarship? The role and nature of metadata

Virtual exhibitions (1)

Virtual exhibitions (2)

Librarians and Archivists as creators of content Oral Histories Visual resources Capturing records of the creative process Teaching resources Research output

Created content: Oral histories http://www.yale.edu/oham/index.html Duke Ellington Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Aaron Copeland Images from Yale University Library Oral History of American Music collection David Lang Mel Powell

Created content (2) Fortunoff video Archive Edith P. http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/excerpts/edithp.html Marion P. http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/excerpts/marionp.html

Created content: visual resources (ARTstor)

Fostering the creation of content: teaching resources Collaborative Learning Center (CLC) http://clc.yale.edu/

Collecting from the web Technical issues Questions of timing and urgency disappearing and mutating sites Ethical issues Problems of scale Visibility and its attendant challenges Preservation Accountability

Disappearing sites

Disappearance and ethics http://www.lib.utexas.edu/hrdi/hr_archive.php