http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/6652 The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) provides a wide variety of technology services to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://minds.wisconsin.edu:80/retrieve/5635 http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/6652 http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/35653 Factors Motivating Use of Digital Libraries McMartin, Flora Manduca, Cathy Iverson, Ellen Wolf, Alan Morgan, Glenda Knowledge about how users use digital libraries and their contents is inextricably tied to a library's ability to sustain itself, grow its services and meet the needs of its users. This paper reports on the preliminary results of a study of how science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructors perceive and use digital libraries. Preliminary findings indicate that: they do not differentiate between digital libraries and other kinds of content that comes from the web, they seek content to supplement traditional teaching methods and their reliance on Google and personal networks impedes their ability to recall the primary sources of useful content. (c) ACM, 2006. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, {, ISBN:1-59593-354-9, (2006)} http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1141753.1141808 Mon, 29 May 2006 22:58:59 GMT http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/35623 UNDERSTANDING FACULTY NEEDS OF DIGITAL RESOURCES AND LIBRARIES Morgan, Glenda Manduca, Cathy McMartin, Flora Iverson, Ellen Wolf, Alan Use of a particular type of technology or resource is notoriously difficult to study. There are many different dimensions to use, and this complexity cannot be captured using a single research method. This position paper presents the method of a project that we will conduct over the next two years. We describe our formulation of a multi-method approach that will allow us to triangulate our research methods and our sources of data. Our approach will begin with qualitative focus groups of faculty. The protocol is designed to allow themes to emerge based on responses to questions regarding digital resource and digital library use. This will be followed by a large-scale quantitative survey to give us an over-arching picture and identify broad trends. Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:58:59 GMT http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/34859 Summary Report of the Research Data Management Study Group Wolf, Alan Simpson, Mike Salo, Dorothea Flee, Doug Cheetham, Jan Barton, Bruce The Research Data Management Study Group (RDMSG) conducted focused interviews with representatives from a number of research communities, to assess current researcher data assets, needs, and funding situations. The interviews revealed a broad diversity in asset content and format, a large number of disparate needs, and an inadequate funding base for many researchers. The study group proposes a one-year pilot project to address the most common, most urgent subset of these issues. Specific pilot pro ject activities would include partnership with between three and five campus communities in order to develop and maintain a network of distributed storage nodes, with mechanisms for au- tomated backup and archival support of data stored on them, access to storage capacity via multiple standardized protocols, and management interfaces allowing simple, flexible, researcher-controlled assignment of access management policies; and provision of consultation services to researchers attempting to preserve existing or new assets: assistance would focus on helping researchers locate existing cam- pus resources, determining appropriate metadata standards and resolving format compatibility issues, and helping to develop sustainable preservation workflows. These actions will address critical common needs of many research communities, pro- viding support that will enhance the quality and maintainability of research efforts, and alleviating the risk of losing a valuable part of the scholarly record. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:53:24 GMT http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/21443 Summary Report of the Scholarly Assets Management Initial Exploratory Group Simpson, Mike Cheetham, Jan Gorman, Peter C. Herr-Hoyman, Dirk Larson, Eric Salo, Dorothea Wolf, Alan DoIT's Academic Technology and the UW-Madison Library's Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing conducted discussion group meetings with invited participants representing a broad spectrum of faculty and administrative interests, focusing on digital asset management in the context of evolving technology-driven forms of scholarship, the reassessment of traditional dichotomies between pedagogy and research, and rising tension between central and distributed IT. Participant feedback provided insight into several problem areas, highlighting that attempts by DoIT to assist digital resource management must take into account problems with current institutional focus and resource allocation; that the loss of the culture of curatorship in the transition to a digital scholarly record severely threatens the preservation of institutional memory; and that adoption of solutions depends upon the implementation of trusted, comprehensive, interfederated identity management and access control. To address these concerns, DoIT should promote emerging open access paradigms in publication and the open data movement in research, collaborating with campus partners to provide encouragement and education in order to promote the growth of the new culture of digital curatorship. Further, DoIT should support emerging cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional social networks, providing liaison functions and facilitating coordination between potential partners, discovering opportunities for collaboration, and providing resources to seed their growth. This activity should take place in partnership with distributed IT staff, developing solutions and services that directly address the needs of their disciplinary areas, and Involving them directly through shared decision-making and collaborative work. Developed solutions should emphasize integration and interoperability as primary characteristics. Finally, DoIT should adopt open, standards-based identity management and access control mechanisms that support interfederation of credentials and access control policies. Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:52:35 GMT http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/6660 2004/2005 UW-Madison Student Computing Survey Report Dwelle, Kathi The annual student computing report is an attempt to collect information on the computing ownership and behavioral trends of UW-Madison students. Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:58:59 GMT http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/6658 2004/2005 UW-Madison Faculty/Staff Computing Survey The 2004-05 UW-Madison Faculty/Staff Computing Survey is DoIT’s annual effort to gauge IT needs, concerns and performance of faculty and staff on the UW-Madison campus. Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:58:59 GMT