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The Right Tool for the Job: DPubS Publication Management Software

December 1, 2005

Sarah E. Thomas
University Librarian
Cornell University

Nancy L. Eaton
Dean of Libraries
Pennsylvania State University

Having the right tool for the job makes a huge difference, as we all know when we struggle to turn a Philips head screw with a flat-bladed screwdriver. DPubS, a new open source digital publishing system, promises to be a useful tool in the scholarly communications toolkit when it becomes widely available in mid-2006. Funded through The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, DPubS is a generalized version of the journal management and delivery software developed to support Project Euclid (projecteuclid.org), a user-centered initiative providing effective and affordable distribution of serial literature in mathematics and statistics. Cornell University Library will extend the capabilities of the software by adding an editorial management component as well as the ability to interoperate with two of the most widely adopted open source repositories, DSpace and FEDORA. This joint project between Cornell University and the Pennsylvania State University will provide the final code as open source in order that other institutions of higher education can utilize it.

The Cornell University Library, which operates arXiv and Project Euclid under the auspices of its Center for Innovative Publishing (http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/cip.html), is collaborating with the Pennsylvania State University Libraries and the Penn State University Press (via their partnership in the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing) in the development of DPubS. Pennsylvania History (http://dpubs.org/PennHistory) and Indonesia (http://e-publishing.library.cornell.edu/Indonesia) are two examples of titles made available through the current version of DPubS.

This non-technical briefing will provide an overview of the opportunities for libraries, presses, and other organizations to use DPubS as a tool for the transformation of scholarly communications. The presentation will demonstrate the software, describe the timeline for it wider availability, and offer a behind-the scenes review of the scholarly publishing activity of the Cornell University Library and Penn State University.

http://dpubs.org

Handout – DPubS (MS Word)
Handout – Cornell (MS Word)
Handout – Penn State (MS Word)

PowerPoint Presentation (Eaton)
PowerPoint Presentation (Thomas)

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2005 Project Briefings, E-Journals, Publishing, Scholarly Communication
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Social Bookmarking in an Academic Environment

December 1, 2005

Michael Winkler
Director, Information Technologies & Digital Development
University of Pennsylvania

Social software like delicious, flickr or conneta have taken the web world by storm. The development of folksonomies from systems such as these can provide supplemental metadata to more formal organizational structures provided by libraries and courseware systems. The Pennsylvania University Library has developed a tagging system and has begun to use it to collect annotated bibliographies of videos from patrons. Additional uses include research guides for undergraduates, annotations in the Library catalog, and image portfolios. The presenters would like to receive feedback on their system, and on the potential uses of such a system.

http://tags.library.upenn.edu

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2005 Project Briefings, Metadata, Social Media
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The Spoken Word: New Resources to Transform Teaching and Learning

December 1, 2005

Mark Lawrence Kornbluh
Director of MATRIX
Michigan State University

Jerry Goldman
Professor
Northwestern University

David Donald
Principal Investigator
Glasgow Caledonian University

Dean Rehberger
Associate Director of MATRIX
Michigan State University

The Spoken Word project is jointly funded by NSF and JISC as part of the Digital Libraries in the Classroom initiative. This presentation will report on three years of research aimed at enhancing undergraduate learning and teaching through integrating the rich media resources of digital audio repositories into undergraduate classrooms. We will present two complimentary suites of tools for students and teachers to utilize audio resources and report on classroom implementation at multiple universities.

http://www.historicalvoices.org/spokenword/

Handout (MS WORD)

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2005 Project Briefings, Repositories, Teaching & Learning
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TechLens: Exploring the Use of Recommenders to Support Users of Digital Libraries

December 1, 2005

Joseph A. Konstan
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota

Nishikant Kapoor
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
University of Minnesota

Sean M. McNee
Ph.D. Student, Computer and Information Sciences
University of Minnesota

John T. Butler
Director, Digital Library Development Laboratory
University of Minnesota

Recommender systems are tools that use ratings, opinions, or actions from a community to help individuals find information or products of interest to them.  While recommenders have been most prominent in electronic commerce and entertainment, we have shown in prior research that the same techniques can be used to exploit citation data to help library users discover papers of interest.  In this briefing, we will demonstrate technology and interfaces through which such recommendations can be used to help users build reading lists, enhance their bibliographies, and perform other tasks related to the use of a digital library.  We also will present for discussion a variety of applications of recommender technology to serve library users, along with some of the key challenges that exist in realizing such applications.  Finally, while all of our current work uses fully public data, we recognize the tremendous potential of incorporating personal bibliographies; accordingly, we plan to raise the issues of personal privacy, and engage in discussions about the nature of voluntary informed consent needed to ethically put such tools at the disposal of users.

http://www.grouplens.org/

Handout (PDF)

PowerPoint Presentations

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2005 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Personal Archives, Social Media
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Toward A Digital-Based Information Management Practice

December 1, 2005

Avra S. Michelson
Principal, Information Management
MITRE Corporation

Michael Olson
Distributed Systems Principal Engineer
MITRE Corporation

This project briefing will report on a special initiative by the MITRE Corporation’s Information Technology Center to explore the unique aspects of the information management challenge in the digital world.  The last 30 years have witnessed an evolution from paper to digital environments, yet little has changed in our approach to managing information.  While paper persists as a medium of convenience, the dominant means of storing, retrieving, and managing information occurs within the digital environment.  What does the transition to the digital environment imply about the efficacy of information management practices in use today that largely were derived from the paper-based world?

Appreciating that information management practices are not static but change over time, our objective is to stimulate a broad re-examination of information management practices in the digital age.  Toward this end, we will present our understanding of digital information management, current approaches for addressing the challenges, and the limitations of those approaches.  We will also present initial thoughts on “next generation” information management, including a set of life cycle processes, guiding principles, and areas in greatest need of focused research.  This work is exploratory in nature and we invite your feedback and contributions.

PowerPoint Presentations

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2005 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Information Access & Retrieval, Personal Archives
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Year One Lessons Learned: Partnerships in the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program

December 1, 2005

Beth Sandore
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

William G. LeFurgy
Digital Initiatives Program Manager
Library of Congress

Patricia Cruse
Director, Digital Preservation, California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President

Martin Halbert
Director for Library Systems
Emory University

Sarah M. Pritchard
University Librarian
University of California, Santa Barbara

Steven Morris
Head of Digital Library Initiative
North Carolina State University

David A. Kirsch
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland

Myron P. Gutmann
Director, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
University of Michigan

In December 2000, Congress passed special legislation (Public Law 106-554) in recognition of the importance of preserving digital content for future generations, appropriating $100 million to the Library of Congress to lead this effort. The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP), provides a national focus on important policy, standards and technical components necessary to preserve digital content. Investments in modeling and testing various options and technical solutions will take place over several years, resulting in recommendations to the U.S. Congress about the most viable and sustainable options for long-term preservation. One year into the Library of Congress NDIIPP partnership, the Library of Congress and seven of the eight partners discuss the challenges of digital preservation and report significant milestones in their projects.

Library of Congress
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov

Web at Risk:
A Distributed Approach To Preserving Our Nation’s Political Cultural Heritage
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/preservation/webatrisk/

MetaArchive
http://www.metaarchive.org/

National Geospatial Digital Archive
http://ngda.org/index.php

North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP)
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ncgdap/

EchoDepository Project
http://ndiipp.uiuc.edu

Dot Com Archive
http://www.dotcomarchive.org/

Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DATAPASS

PowerPoint Presentations

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