1. Carol and John Moriarty Library

2. Visual Arts Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals 2 Kate Thornhill, MLS Visual Resources Curator

3. Why data literacy in the visual arts? Research Data management services – trend in eScience and Humanities:, Ithaka S+R Survey, JISC funded projects CaRio, Kaptura, and VADS4R projects (VRA 2015 workshop: http://sched.co/1vNf18B) But what about non-grant funded? What about personal data management? Little to no research on the subject Non-grant funded visual arts digital scholarship Digital classroom is a hot bed for digital content creation Focused on creation and capture – so what about everything else in the data life-cycle process? Digital information management is a professional skill for anyone making digital artwork 3 Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals

4. Why should VR Professionals lead data literacy initiatives in the visual arts? We are digital information specialists – Primarily manage digitization and born- digital content and develop our own professional data management plans for digital collections We understand visual art communities and know what type of research they do and content produced 4 Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals

5. Why should VR Professionals lead data literacy initiatives in the visual arts? Subject Liaison: Need for digital information management advice and QC of digital projects produced in the classroom – Online student publications and digital portfolios Opportunity for visual resource professionals to participate in outcome/assessment based learning through digital projects management instruction – Curriculum integration. 5 Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals

6. Goals over the next 1-5 years 6 1. Create data management web presence for the Moriarty Library 1. Create SLOs mapping of data literacy to art school curriculum 1. Demonstrate how data literacy contributes to recruitment and retention through student generated digital collections 1. Develop scalable data services for my library that make sense to users 1. Develop data management profiles for LUCAD departments to aid in long term management of institutional scholarship 1. Become embedded in LUCAD digital project initiatives in the art school 1. Demonstrate and market the library as an authority on the management of digital information, specifically for digital project management (digital portfolios, IR management, digital project collaborations) 2. Continue to build faculty relationships and by-in for classroom collaboration and working with other department across campus – Academic Technology and IT Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals

7. First Steps Spring 2015… 7 Create data management presence Developing LibGuide focused on DCC’s data lifecycle model and apply to visual artists – will be tutorial and resources focused Begin outreach with MFA Visual Art and BFA Photography programs Digital Project – Shared Shelf Plans to work with BFA Photography course and become embedded in digital project management as well as developing digital archive for the project’s 2003-present digital collection Data Management: A New Role for Visual Resources Professionals

8. Thank You! Kate Thornhill, MLS kthornhi@lesley.edu