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Ellysa Stern Cahoy
Penn State University
Personal Archiving and Personal Archiving and Scholarly WorkflowScholarly Workflow
An Exploratory Study of Penn State Faculty
4/4/2013
Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University
Project overview0Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded study
0April, 2012 – June, 2013
0Methodology: 0web-based survey0 ethnographic interviews
0Sciences, humanities, social sciences
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Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University
Initial questions 0How do faculty create, manage, share, and archive personal information collections?
0Is there a natural place to integrate personal archiving in the online scholarly workflow?
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Critical ChallengesAccumulation
Distribution
Curation
Long-term access
Marshall, C., Bly, S., Brun-Cottan, F., (2007). The Long Term Fate of Our Digital Belongings : Toward a Service Model for Personal Archives. Arxiv preprint arXiv:0704.3653. Retrieved from http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1032046M
Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University
Initial Findings
0Younger faculty0More likely to use cloud-based services0 Less likely to curate / cull personal information
collections
0Older faculty0More likely to save web sites, images, and
email collections
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Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University
Interview Findings0Data Management
0 Big problem across disciplines
0 Inadequate institutional services
0 Lack of funding
0 Privacy and sustainability
0 Fragmentation and accessibility
0 Curation and annotation
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Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University
Interview Findings0 Need for linked data and linked practices.
0 Repository should also have annotation functions, sharing, personal profile …
0 "I want [a tool] to get my full research circle closed, where I can go from searching through annotation and everything else to publication.”
0 "I use Dropbox for everything. It has saved my life, it has changed my life."
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Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University
Interview findings
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0Broader issues:
0 Lack of training
0 Lack of workflow awareness
0 Lack of reward
Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University
Initial outputs
0Integrating personal archiving into the online workflow
0Connecting discovery to the scholarly workflow
0Identification of critical digital literacies for faculty management of online scholarly workflow
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Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University
Questions / Comments?
www.scholarlyworkflow.org
@scholarly_work4/4/2013