The Scholar’s Box is a four-year U.S. Department of Education project to develop models for creating and sharing open and reusable digital collections to improve campus scholarship and K-12 education. The Scholar’s Box is supported in part by the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE Grant # P116B040739).
Objectives:
1. Develop models for campus production and sharing of reusable digital collections by lowering the barriers to gathering information, creating new works, sharing content, and saving the products of these efforts.
2. Engage a range of campus faculty and departments to produce and test reusable digital collections and assess their value for higher and K-12 education.
3. Enable campus adoption of strategic sharing technologies and university digital resources for teaching, research, learning and public service.
4. Develop a center on campus for digital scholarship in the public interest [OKAPI] that will foster the wide spread adoption of digitally empowered scholarly practices in support of the public education system from K through graduate student.
5. Disseminate project models and tools, resources, findings, and “better practices” to libraries, musuems, and K-12 and higher education professionals, locally and nationally.
People:
Paul Gray, Principal Investigator
David Greenbaum, Project Director
Ruth Tringham, Faculty Advisor
Noah Wittman, Project Lead
Amy Kimball, Finance Manager
Elizabeth Ha, Media Production Manager
Links:
Raymond Yee’s Scholar’s Box Software
http://raymondyee.net/wiki/RemixCultureUcBerkeleyLibraryTalk
An early inspiration for this project
Mankita, Isaac et al. “A Handful of Things:Calisphere’s Themed Collections from the California Digital Library” D-Lib Magazine. May 2006.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may06/mankita/05mankita.html
Describes data gathering and design process of Calisphere Themed Collections.
Scholar’s Box eLiterature Review
http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/104036
Case Studies of Digital Collections Use
http://okapi.berkeley.edu/res/sites/pool/media/drp_docs/EdTechArticle_v3kb.doc
Focus Group Report:
http://okapi.berkeley.edu/res/sites/pool/media/drp_docs/SB_FocusGroups_FINAL.pdf
Catalia Digitization Lab:
http://okapi.wordpress.com/projects/catalia-digitization-lab/
Created to pilot digitization and digital asset management services
Curiosity Box
http://okapi.dreamhosters.com/curiosity_box/
An effort to collect feedback and “prized research and teaching resources” from a broad range of faculty. This project is on hold.
Anthropology Digital Resource Pool:
http://okapi.wordpress.com/projects/anthropology-digital-resource-pool/
Designed to facillitate sharing of digital research and teaching materials
Open Archaeology Collection
http://okapi.berkeley.edu/openarchaeology
Open access materials for teaching archaeology
Remixing Catalhoyuk
http://okapi.berkeley.edu/remixing
This multimedia exhibit shares the products and process of an international team of archaeologists
Okapi Island in Second Life
http://okapi.wordpress.com/projects/okapi-island-in-second-life/
An offshoot of the Remixing Catalhoyuk project and an effort to explore the project goals within the more immersive, social, and participatory environment of Second Life
Omeka Theme
http://okapi.wordpress.com/projects/omeka-theme/
Our Omeka theme will provide an open source solution for publishing our digital collections
Media Vault Program
http://mvp.berkeley.edu/
Many of the technologies and practices pioneered in the Scholar’s Box have been folded into the campu-wide Media Vault Program
Public Outreach 2.0: Web Services for Sharing Research and Teaching Materials
http://okapi.dreamhosters.com/docs/openarchaeo/webservices.doc
We shared Remixing Catalhoyuk content at 9 different websites. This document compares the usability, unique features, licensing options, and resulting traffic of each of the sites.
