HKBU Library has been a local pioneer and leader in supporting and promoting digital scholarship/humanities since 2013. It provides support for project management, data structure, and digital technologies for various types of digital projects, including digitization with OCR, data visualization, GIS applications, corpus development, and crowd-sourcing projects, among other areas. The digital scholarship service can extend the life of scholarly sources to facilitate deeper information sharing and new research findings.
The presentation will briefly discuss why the HKBU Library decided to enter this area, the actual benefits of this service to both the Library and academics, and how to maintain the provision of the service.
Date: 13 October 2023 (Friday)
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Ms. Rebekah WONG (Head of Digital Initiatives and Research, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Venue: Activity Room on 2/F Library
Language: English
Registration: Please register in Moodle on or before 11 October 2023)
Speaker’s Bio
Rebekah Wong is head of the Digital Initiatives and Research Cluster at the Hong Kong Baptist University Library. Her team provides user-focused services in the areas of research visibility and impact, copyright and open access, digital scholarship/humanities, and research data techniques. She also oversees two modules of the University’s IRIMS system and the Library’s Multimedia Learning Center.
She has authored a number of research articles and book chapters on digital scholarship and the impact of libraries on university success, and co-edited a book on the development of digital humanities in the Asia-Pacific region. See her profile here.