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These links are extremely helpful. Thank you so much. I am in the process of developing a metadata service arrangement with a clinical research unit on our campus. I'd be interested in if anyone has had a similar experience or other wisdom to share. Renee -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah Melton Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2017 10:58 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] memorandums of understanding, copyrights, & acknowledgements Hi Eric, These are big, important questions! Collaboration is a giant topic in digital scholarship, so I'll just offer a few brief thoughts. I would say that part of it depends on the kind of work. Is it a one-off consultation? An ongoing project? Is the library offering long-term support, whether through storage, labor, or other expertise? As Kari mentions, the question of copyright is likely a question of institutional policy. But the other elements you mention—MOUs and attribution—get a little murkier. For ongoing projects or larger-term investments, at least, I think MOUs are a great idea. They help define the scope of the collaboration, in addition to outlining roles and responsibilities. UT-Arlington has a nice collection of MOUs: https://uta-ir.tdl.org/uta-ir/handle/10106/25646. My view is that if you want to create a culture of collaboration, it helps to be explicit about it. As such, I like TaDiRAH's taxonomy of digital humanities scholarship activities, objects, and techniques: https://github.com/dhtaxonomy/TaDiRAH/tree/master/reading I'm happy to chat further—I love this topic! Sarah On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > To what degree do any of you enter into memorandums of understanding > between yourselves and the people for whom you provide services? > Similarly, are the products of your services copyrighted, and if so, > then by whom? And finally, if you provide services to your > constituents, then to what degree do you require copyright statements and/or acknowledgements? > > I work in a digital scholarship center with a number of other people. > [1] As a group, we provide sets of different value-added services to > students, faculty, and staff. These value-added services go beyond the > packaging and re-packaging of data/information. Instead, our services > are analysis against content. We evaluate data given to us and answer questions like: > what trends can be gleaned from this data, what are the anomalies, > when & where did given events occur, what are some of the possible > reasons why, etc. In this way, we act more akin to “special > librarians” where we essentially "give them the fish as opposed to > teaching them to fish." These value added services often manifest > themselves in the forms of software systems/scripts, indexes, > datasets, as well as charts/graphs. Many of our constituents are > humanities and social sciences scholars. As such and in general, they > do possess the skills necessary to some of our text mining, GIS, and > statistical analysis. Additionally and unlike the hard scientists, > they often work in very very small groups of single individuals; co-authorship is uncommon. > > The center’s services are free, as in free beer. But the services > represent real scholarly effort. As such there is a desire to make > explicit our contributions. Such is part of the academic tradition. > After all, our intellectual capital is all we have. To resolve some of > these issues, or to bring them to the fore, there is some desire to > enter into memorandums of understanding — a sort of contract outlining > different party’s roles & responsibilities. There is some desire to > add copyright attribution statements to charts & graphs. There is some > desire to ensure, at the very least, acknowledgements in articles & > presentations. Heck, if we were to go the whole nine yards, then there > are also desires to have the whole kits & caboodles deposited into local repositories. > > On the other hand, much of this flies in the face to traditional > librarianship, and after all, library services have always been free, > and if we require memorandums, copyright statements, and/or > acknowledgements, then the scholars may simply do without. > > How might some of y’all be dealing with these changing roles in your > libraries? > > [1] center - http://library.nd.edu/cds/ > > — > Eric Lease Morgan, Digital Initiatives Librarian Hesburgh Libraries > University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 > > [log in to unmask] > 574/631-8604 > -- Sarah Melton Head of Digital Scholarship O'Neill Library Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave. Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467