1. The Global Library Lisa Spiro Digital Media Center, Fondren Library November 2008 Lisa Spiro Digital Media Center, Fondren Library November 2008

2. Rice’s Global Aspirations

3. How can Rice raise its international profile?

4. Reaching a Global Audience Online

5. Ranking Universities by Web Presence http://www.webometrics.info/

6. Top 10 Universities (Webometrics)Webometrics Top 10 Universities (Webometrics)Webometrics

7. Rice’s Ranking (Webometrics)

8. Rice’s Digital Scholarship Archive http://scholarship.rice.edu/http://scholarship.rice.edu/ Rice’s Digital Scholarship Archive http://scholarship.rice.edu/http://scholarship.rice.edu/

9. Rice Digital Scholarship Archive Collections  Americas Archive  Fondren Library  George R. Brown School of Engineering  Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations  TIMEA - Travelers in the Middle East Archive  The Rice Institute Pamphlet  Wiess School of Natural Sciences  Woodson Research Center  We welcome more contributors  Americas Archive  Fondren Library  George R. Brown School of Engineering  Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations  TIMEA - Travelers in the Middle East Archive  The Rice Institute Pamphlet  Wiess School of Natural Sciences  Woodson Research Center  We welcome more contributors

10. Global Users of Rice’s Digital Collections Visitors to Rice ’ s Digital Scholarship Archive, 10/18-11/17/ 2008

11. Top Visitors to Rice Scholarship Archive, By Country

12. Focus of the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA)  Available at http://timea.rice.edu/http://timea.rice.edu/  Supported by grants from IMLS & K2I  Historical maps, primarily 19th C maps of Egypt  GIS maps of Egypt & Cyprus  GoogleMaps providing geographical interface to collection and documenting Nile routes  Texts, e.g  Successive editions of 19th and early 20th C travel guides for Egypt  Travelogues  Museum catalogs  Images, e.g.  Stereographs & postcards  Book illustrations  Teaching modules to contextualize materials, including several on GIS & places in Egypt  Available at http://timea.rice.edu/http://timea.rice.edu/  Supported by grants from IMLS & K2I  Historical maps, primarily 19th C maps of Egypt  GIS maps of Egypt & Cyprus  GoogleMaps providing geographical interface to collection and documenting Nile routes  Texts, e.g  Successive editions of 19th and early 20th C travel guides for Egypt  Travelogues  Museum catalogs  Images, e.g.  Stereographs & postcards  Book illustrations  Teaching modules to contextualize materials, including several on GIS & places in Egypt

13. Goals of TIMEATIMEA Goals of TIMEATIMEA  Enable “ virtual exploration ” : reflect the archive ’ s focus on travel by using GIS and other interactive technologies  Organize access to content in digital archive based on geography, so that users could discover travel narratives and images associated with specific places  Facilitate analysis of geographical phenomena, e.g. relationship of water to settlement patterns  Promote information fluency  Allow comparison of maps, texts and images from different time periods, places, perspectives, etc.  Enable “ virtual exploration ” : reflect the archive ’ s focus on travel by using GIS and other interactive technologies  Organize access to content in digital archive based on geography, so that users could discover travel narratives and images associated with specific places  Facilitate analysis of geographical phenomena, e.g. relationship of water to settlement patterns  Promote information fluency  Allow comparison of maps, texts and images from different time periods, places, perspectives, etc.

14. Egypt through the Stereoscope (1905) Egyptologist James Henry Breasted touted the power of “ stay-at-home travel ” through the stereograph system and maps, which was “ comparable to that obtained by traveling there...The map system … first furnishes a clear idea of locality in every case; and with this in mind, these superb stereographs furnish the traveler, while sitting in his own room, a vivid prospect as through an open window, looking out upon scene after scene, from one hundred carefully selected points of view along the Nile ” (12).

15. Egypt through the Stereoscope Egypt through the Stereoscope (1905) Egypt through the Stereoscope Egypt through the Stereoscope (1905)

16. Egypt through the Computer Screen (2000-)

17. Historical maps  Collection includes 150 digitized historical maps  Examples of maps & plans:  19 th C maps of Egypt, the Nile, Cairo, Alexandria, etc.  Includes maps by  Wagner & Debes (leading German publisher of maps)  Heinrich Kiepert (distinguished German cartographer)  W. & A.K. Johnston Limited (British cartographer)  Stanford's Geographical Establishment (associated with the Royal Geographic Society)  Plan to incorporate JPEG 2000 software to enable zooming, panning, etc.  Collection includes 150 digitized historical maps  Examples of maps & plans:  19 th C maps of Egypt, the Nile, Cairo, Alexandria, etc.  Includes maps by  Wagner & Debes (leading German publisher of maps)  Heinrich Kiepert (distinguished German cartographer)  W. & A.K. Johnston Limited (British cartographer)  Stanford's Geographical Establishment (associated with the Royal Geographic Society)  Plan to incorporate JPEG 2000 software to enable zooming, panning, etc. Wagner & Debes, Le Nil Du Caire (1908)

18. Arc IMS GIS Map of Egypt

19. Comparing Nile excursions in 1847 and 1897  Nile cruise centerpiece of trip to Egypt: monuments of Thebes,  In 1847, most travelers took dahabiyas (houseboats)  By 1897, steamers operated by Cook ’ s dominated  Steamers cut Nile tour from 3 months to 3-4 weeks  Steamers made travel in Egypt much cheaper & made possible mass tourism  Also, 1847 guide includes details on overland transit to India (obviated by opening of Suez Canal in 1869)  Nile cruise centerpiece of trip to Egypt: monuments of Thebes,  In 1847, most travelers took dahabiyas (houseboats)  By 1897, steamers operated by Cook ’ s dominated  Steamers cut Nile tour from 3 months to 3-4 weeks  Steamers made travel in Egypt much cheaper & made possible mass tourism  Also, 1847 guide includes details on overland transit to India (obviated by opening of Suez Canal in 1869)

20. Google Map of Travel Routes in Egypt: 1847 1847 Google Map of Travel Routes in Egypt: 1847 1847 Based on Sir John Gardner Wilkinson's Hand-book for travellers in Egypt (1847)Hand-book for travellers in Egypt

21. Google Map of Travel Routes in Egypt: 1897 1897 Google Map of Travel Routes in Egypt: 1897 1897 Based on Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert (1897)Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert

22. Our Americas Archive Partnership Overview  http://oaap.rice.edu/ http://oaap.rice.edu/  Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)  Aims:  Make unique archival collection (Rice ’ s Americas collection) digitally available  Build common interface between partners ’ repositories, enabling additional digital archives to be added - Develop collaborative environment for global community of scholars using Web 2.0 technologies - Support research & teaching  http://oaap.rice.edu/ http://oaap.rice.edu/  Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)  Aims:  Make unique archival collection (Rice ’ s Americas collection) digitally available  Build common interface between partners ’ repositories, enabling additional digital archives to be added - Develop collaborative environment for global community of scholars using Web 2.0 technologies - Support research & teaching

23. Humanities 2.0 “ Hybridity, exchange, flow, and cultural transaction are all explored more responsibly and adventurously when the resources of many nations, in many languages, have been digitized, made interoperable, and offered for research by scholars around the world. ” --Cathy Davidson, “ Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions ” (2008) “ Hybridity, exchange, flow, and cultural transaction are all explored more responsibly and adventurously when the resources of many nations, in many languages, have been digitized, made interoperable, and offered for research by scholars around the world. ” --Cathy Davidson, “ Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions ” (2008)

24. OAAP Vision  Focus on Americas from a hemispheric perspective rather than the nation state  OAAP captures cultural transformation that spans the five hundred year period that saw the making of modern and colonial cultures in the Americas  OAAP will enhance the study of American literary and cultural history by more easily allowing scholars to understand cross-cultural influence  Focus on Americas from a hemispheric perspective rather than the nation state  OAAP captures cultural transformation that spans the five hundred year period that saw the making of modern and colonial cultures in the Americas  OAAP will enhance the study of American literary and cultural history by more easily allowing scholars to understand cross-cultural influence

25. Collection Showcase Letters & journals Prints Constitutions, Decrees, Manifestoes Books

26. Final Thoughts  “ technology is erasing boundaries and creating an international community of learning ” (Richard C. Atkinson, Pres. Emeritus of UC System)  “ we have an opportunity to dramatically improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world through freely available, high-quality, locally relevant educational and learning opportunities. ” (Cape Town Open Education Declaration)  “ technology is erasing boundaries and creating an international community of learning ” (Richard C. Atkinson, Pres. Emeritus of UC System)  “ we have an opportunity to dramatically improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world through freely available, high-quality, locally relevant educational and learning opportunities. ” (Cape Town Open Education Declaration)