64 Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Activity Supports Primary Responsibility
Project planning 182 70
Project management 153 60
Making digital collections 141 41
Data curation and management 129 47
Digital preservation 120 24
Metadata creation 119 23
Digital Publishing 107 40
Digital exhibits 91 15
Interface design and/or usability 87 19
Visualization 86 21
Digitization/imaging of analog material 85 17
Technical upkeep 77 15
Database development 72 11
GIS and digital mapping 69 26
Computational text analysis/support 67 14
Developing digital scholarship software 64 17
Encoding content (e.g., TEI markup) 61 13
Statistical analysis/support 51 11
3-D modeling and printing 29 8
Other DS activity 64 32
Total Responses 229 204
If you selected “Other DS activity” above, please briefly describe that activity. N=62
Primary Responsibility N=32
Collaborating with faculty, researchers, and students to advance digital research initiatives and
partnerships such as the Digital Scholars Lab, in conjunction with Digitization and Repository Services,
Research Data and Visualization, Spatial and Numeric Data Services, the Copyright Office, the Prairie
Regional Research Data Centre, liaison librarians, and other subject specialists.
Consulting, support, and advocacy for copyright and licensing issues, open access, repository deposit,
faculty profiles, impact metrics and altmetrics, research identifiers, and other issues related to the
evolution of the scholarly communication ecosystem.
Coordinating DS activities across campus. Bringing together stakeholders and making sure the
Libraries are involved in discussions across campus about DS and digital humanities.
Copyright consultations, author’s rights, and image management
Creating materials (primarily video tutorials) around topics related to the curation of cultural heritage
(analog and digital).
Data ethics
Data finding/reference data acquisitions and collections building
Data Life Cycle Management, Instruction
Data Life Cycle Management, Instruction, Outreach and Marketing
Activity Supports Primary Responsibility
Project planning 182 70
Project management 153 60
Making digital collections 141 41
Data curation and management 129 47
Digital preservation 120 24
Metadata creation 119 23
Digital Publishing 107 40
Digital exhibits 91 15
Interface design and/or usability 87 19
Visualization 86 21
Digitization/imaging of analog material 85 17
Technical upkeep 77 15
Database development 72 11
GIS and digital mapping 69 26
Computational text analysis/support 67 14
Developing digital scholarship software 64 17
Encoding content (e.g., TEI markup) 61 13
Statistical analysis/support 51 11
3-D modeling and printing 29 8
Other DS activity 64 32
Total Responses 229 204
If you selected “Other DS activity” above, please briefly describe that activity. N=62
Primary Responsibility N=32
Collaborating with faculty, researchers, and students to advance digital research initiatives and
partnerships such as the Digital Scholars Lab, in conjunction with Digitization and Repository Services,
Research Data and Visualization, Spatial and Numeric Data Services, the Copyright Office, the Prairie
Regional Research Data Centre, liaison librarians, and other subject specialists.
Consulting, support, and advocacy for copyright and licensing issues, open access, repository deposit,
faculty profiles, impact metrics and altmetrics, research identifiers, and other issues related to the
evolution of the scholarly communication ecosystem.
Coordinating DS activities across campus. Bringing together stakeholders and making sure the
Libraries are involved in discussions across campus about DS and digital humanities.
Copyright consultations, author’s rights, and image management
Creating materials (primarily video tutorials) around topics related to the curation of cultural heritage
(analog and digital).
Data ethics
Data finding/reference data acquisitions and collections building
Data Life Cycle Management, Instruction
Data Life Cycle Management, Instruction, Outreach and Marketing
