What is DS?
Defining DS in HKU Libraries
Digital Scholarship is an open, interdisciplinary, and collaborative value via using or reusing digital evidence and methods to address new research questions without limiting methods, resources, and disciplines, in any kind of activity. Undoubtedly, the rapid evolution of digital technologies facilitates new models of research, forms of collaboration, channels of publication, and methods for visualizing and analyzing data. In the HKU community, the new value is spreading and draw our staff, researchers, and students' attention to keep upgrading and transforming the practices in research, teaching, and learning with the new possibilities from digital approaches and tools.
The Libraries Start to Support
HKU Libraries are a good starting point to explore, discover and practice the wide-ranging world of Digital Scholarship. Digital Scholarship, as a shared value of collaboration, interactivity, interdisciplinary, and sustainability, many libraries invest their resources and environment to helps the community construct new scholarly communication models and enrich digital academic products by connecting people, data, and technology in a collaborative environment.
Following the effect of digital technology development, a great change in users’ needs. Information publishing and accessing are being high-demand expectations without geographical and chronological limitations. The inevitability is that scholars also start to explore the feasibility of merging their efforts with digital content such as Data Visualization with big data analytics, and online research publication, and digital exhibition.
Traditionally, “Libraries have always been in the business of knowledge creation and transfer, and the Digital Scholarship incubator within the library can serve as a natural extension of this essential function”. (Sinclair, 2014). Such kinds of new features provide innovative virtual space to support learning and discovery at different scales which gives a new transformation of teaching style and research paradigm.
The Libraries will keep evolving to meet communities' expectations and work with the community in the creation, preservation, allocation, and dissemination of libraries' materials effectively, and construct a well-supported environment for scholarship innovation.
References:
Sinclair, B. (2014). The university library as incubator for digital scholarship. Educause Review, 30. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2014/6/the-university-library-as-incubator-for-digital-scholarship