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Digital Scholarship Services

Digital Scholarship Services enable faculty and students to engage in new and exciting scholarship made possible by digital technologies. Together with campus partners, University Libraries helps users access digital technologies and services.

Listed are links to services and expertise to get you started!

Data Services

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Data management is an administrative process that includes acquiring, validating, storing, protecting, and processing required data to ensure the accessibility and reliability of data for its users.
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Scholarly Communication

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System through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use.
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Digital Repository

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Institutional Repositories (IRs) bring together all of a University's research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research.
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GIS Tools

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A geographic information system is designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze spatial information, edit data in maps, and present the results of all these operations.
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Data Analysis

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Data analysis is a process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making.
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Data Visualization

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Data visualization refers to the methodologies, tools ranging from a simple table of numbers to complex and highly sophisticated charts and interactive graphics.
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Digital Projects

Curious about what types of digital scholarship projects are happening at UAlbany? Browse our sample projects list and learn how the Libraries can support your digital scholarship work!

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98 Acres in Albany

The 98 Acres in Albany project is a deep social history of urban renewal in a mid-sized city. Thanks to NEH support,goal is to build a place-based, people-centered, interactive website that will showcase the rich visual record for urban renewal.

Story Map, Telling the social History of Urban Renewal

Software tools: QGIS

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Off-Screen Landmarks on Mobile Devices(Android App)

The research proposes the use of resized symbols to indicate the identities of off-screen objects, direction and distance to those objects to overcome the limitations of a small mobile screen.

Software tools: Mapbox, OpenStreetMaps API,ArcGIS API, Google Maps