Ellysa Stern Cahoy Penn State University Personal Archiving and Scholarly Workflow An Exploratory Study of Penn State Faculty 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Project overview 0 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded study 0 April, 2012 – June, Methodology:  web-based survey 0 ethnographic interviews 0 Sciences, humanities, social sciences 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Initial questions 0 How do faculty create, manage, share, and archive personal information collections? 0 Is there a natural place to integrate personal archiving in the online scholarly workflow? 4/4/2013

Critical Challenges Accumulation 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: Retrieved from

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Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Storing Information 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Survey Results 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Inaccessible files 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Initial Findings 0 Younger faculty  More likely to use cloud-based services  Less likely to curate / cull personal information collections 0 Older faculty 0 More likely to save web sites, images, and collections 4/4/2013

Challenges within the Workflow 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Interview Findings  Data Management  Big problem across disciplines  Inadequate institutional services  Lack of funding  Privacy and sustainability  Fragmentation and accessibility  Curation and annotation 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Interview Findings  Need for linked data and linked practices.  Repository should also have annotation functions, sharing, personal profile …  "I want [a tool] to get my full research circle closed, where I can go from searching through annotation and everything else to publication.”  "I use Dropbox for everything. It has saved my life, it has changed my life." 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Interview findings 4/4/2013  Broader issues:  Lack of training  Lack of workflow awareness  Lack of reward

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Initial outputs 0 Integrating personal archiving into the online workflow 0 Connecting discovery to the scholarly workflow 0 Identification of critical digital literacies for faculty management of online scholarly workflow 4/4/2013

Ellysa Stern Cahoy -- Penn State University Questions / Comments? 4/4/2013