Digital Strategies & Innovation
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Overview
Digital Strategies & Innovation furthers OU Libraries’ mission by providing technical leadership for major initiatives including repositories, the virtual library experience, and access to online research tools for teaching and learning. The division also supports campus researchers by offering expertise and partnerships in data management plans, informatics, researcher workflows, Digital Humanities, digitization, 3D services, and digital preservation.
About This Division
The division is led by Jessica Davila, Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Innovation. It comprises four departments, each offering expertise in the following areas:
- Digital Collections and Digitization. The Digital Collections and Digitization department brings greater access to the University Libraries Special Research Collections materials, in order to enhance scholarship, teaching, and community engagement.
- Digital Scholarship and Data Services. Our vision for Digital Scholarship and Data Services (DSDS) is to serve as a dynamic hub of innovation, collaboration, and excellence in support of scholarly endeavors.
- Library Technology Operations. This team is responsible for ensuring that our systems, platforms, and workflows support the discoverability, access, use, and preservation of the Libraries' resources.
- Open Initiatives and Scholarly Communication. The OISC team provides advocacy, information, programs, and services designed to increase information access.
Notable Initiatives
The Nautilus portal
University Libraries is using Nautilus to provide researchers with hosted pods (also known as containers) for JupyterLab environments to access common software setups for coding languages and applications. Check out our Nautilus service page for more info!
Digital Collections
The purpose of the University of Oklahoma Libraries digital collections is to provide online, public access to OU Libraries Special Collections materials in order to enhance scholarship, teaching, and community engagement.
The Digital Strategies and Innovation team manages our digital collections platform, Islandora, which is an open-source software framework. Our team members work with the Special Research Collections team to digitize materials, manages the digital collections, supports the technical infrastructure, and owns the development of the platform.
SHAREOK
SHAREOK is the joint institutional repository for the University of Oklahoma (OU) and the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). It serves as the home for the intellectual output of those institutions, such as: digital theses and dissertations, faculty publications, open access publications, open educational resources, institution-specific content and much more. Our team supports the technical infrastructure, development, and partner relationships for the repository.
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