This presentation will focus on collaboration between key partners on campus to create a new and unique student-focused learning environment. The creation of the Learning Commons in Ekstrom Library at the University of Louisville has been a successful partnership between the University Libraries, Resources for Academic Achievement (REACH), the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning, the Metropolitan Computer Lab, and campus Information Technology. The collaboration among these partners has created a Learning Commons for students with:

• newly renovated space
• academic enrichment programs
• a Computer Resource Center
• research support
• a Digital Media Suite offering video and sound editing for academic projects

The libraries provide space, personnel and guidance for research support for the Commons. REACH provides computer skills seminars for students, along with math and general tutoring. The Delphi Center, library facility for faculty technology development, provides equipment and training for all forms of digital media editing. The Metropolitan College, funded through a partnership with United Parcel Service (UPS), provides a course-integrated computer lab. The campus Information Technology unit provides support for technology planning. The Writing Center, also located in the library, assists students with their writing activities.

http://www.library.louisville.edu/CNI

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Libraries and publishers have joined forces in an initiative called CLOCKSS, providing leadership and the supporting technology, to ensure reliable, long-term access to scholarly e-content. The CLOCKSS archive preserves Web scholarly published content at geographically-dispersed nodes located at major research libraries. Archived copies remain “dark” until a trigger event and the CLOCKSS Board votes to “light up” the content by copying the content from the archive to designated hosting organizations.

The Web-published content of the journal Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation (SAGE Publications) has been exported from the CLOCKSS dark archive, and is available to the world from CLOCKSS hosting platforms at Stanford University and the University of Edinburgh. Released under a Creative Commons license, this content is free to all, without any prior subscription, fee, or registration.

When SAGE announced that it was discontinuing Graft, this became the first real-world test for the CLOCKSS system and its procedures. This CNI briefing session will cover:

• policy issues, including open access, DOIs, etc.
• license and copyright issues and implications
• technical processes (all CLOCKSS software is open source)
• extracting the content and URL rewriting
• setting up hosts with the extracted content
• content use statistics and implications
• a demo of the triggered content

http://www.clockss.org

http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Graft_Public_Copies

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The recent American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) report on Cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences, Our Cultural Commonwealth, highlighted the importance of digital humanities centers as central building blocks for scholarship in the 21st century. The early pioneering digital humanities centers vary greatly in mission and location within universities. Some are in libraries, others are tied to departments, and others are fundamentally interdisciplinary. At some schools, existing humanities centers have begun to transform themselves for the digital age. This breakout session will look at the various models and divergent missions of digital humanities centers and explore the institutional and intellectual challenges involved in developing and sustaining such centers.

http://www.acls.org/programs/Default.aspx?id=644&linkidentifier=id&itemid=644

http://matrix.msu.edu/

http://cdrh.unl.edu/

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/

Cornell University Library, in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University Libraries, has generalized the open-source electronic publishing application DPubS, originally developed for Project Euclid. A first public release of the code was made in October 2006 and significant development has occurred since then. Initial support for this project was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a project briefing was presented at CNI in Spring 2005. DPubS is a flexible electronic publishing platform currently used at several institutions for the delivery of scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and monographs. The system can be configured to deliver a wide variety of metadata and content types, in both open access and subscription controlled environments. DPubS offers a range of publishing-related functions, including OAI-PMH support, full-text indexing, rich publication branding opportunities, subscription access controls, editorial management tools in support of peer-review, and Web-based administrative interfaces for management of routine processes.

The project briefing will provide:

1. a brief overview of the present system’s design and functionality, and examples of its use
2. a review of the outcomes of the grant-supported effort, and a discussion of current and projected development work
3. a discussion of the current context and demand within libraries for e-publishing software and how that environment affects software adoption choices

http://dpubs.org

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In recent years, the federal government — including Congress, executive-branch agencies, and the courts — have taken an increased interest in technology. From CALEA to file-sharing to broadband deployment to social networking, higher education’s use of computers and the Internet regularly bumps into activity where the government is expressing concern and, frequently, authority. In this session, representatives from EDUCAUSE review the current status of several of these issues, based on key issues of the moment.

http://www.educause.edu/p2pfs

http://www.educause.edu/netneutrality

http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/ABlueprintforBigBroadband/46209

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This presentation describes the underlying vision and the projects encompassing Elsevier’s Biological Research Information Enrichment Framework (BRIEF). Developed in close collaboration with several leading research groups in bioinformatics, Semantic Web technologies and information extraction, the BRIEF framework is meant to enable a closer integration and greater semantic enrichment of the Elsevier life sciences content. Projects include the development of a curated, Structured Digital Abstract for the FEBS Letters journal, a neuroanatomical navigation framework for Elsevier publications in neurosciences, and an authoring tool to help identify biological entities during the manuscript submission phase. A proposed Web-services based architecture will also be discussed, which can enable integration with existing data repositories and user interfaces in the life sciences. Lastly, plans for the Elsevier Life Sciences Knowledge Enhancement Challenge will be described, which is an invitation to the academic community to describe and/or prototype an environment that improves the interpretation of meaning in a collection of life science journals.

Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) will share its open source software release platform, particularly its policies and procedures, developed over the past few years, to release current and future open source software packages. Highlights of the open source software platform include an organizational structure to manage the testing, documentation, release and ongoing support; a significant shift in RUL’s programming design and development philosophy and practices to create more modular and robust applications; a holistic project-oriented release process that emphasizes compelling end uses for open source software; and a separate release and support process for the Rutgers community that enables the open source process to provide cyberinfrastructure support to Rutgers academic departments. This presentation will also demonstrate the website and discuss the initial open source offering, a METS-based bibliographic utility.

http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/open/

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Over 14,000 University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff log in to the MyU portal every day. This Metadot-powered site delivers personalized information ranging from course syllabi to pay statements. In the past year, the University of Minnesota Libraries have begun delivering a wide variety of library tools and resources within the MyU Portal. Users can view their circulation information, bookmark their favorite indexes and e-journals, search the Libraries’ resources, and view targeted lists of suggested information sources. These suggestions are made based on users’ academic or administrative role within the University as represented by “affinity strings” generated from publicly available information managed in the University’s PeopleSoft system. Subject librarians match these strings to library resources to provide users with a personalized set of tools relevant to the user’s discipline. Through a similar process, undergraduates are presented with suggested resources based on the courses they are taking. By tracking usage according to affinity strings, the Libraries are able to aggregate data while maintaing user privacy. This data may eventually allow for resource recommendations to users based on the behavior of their peers.

Building on the work that has been done to display this information in the MyU Portal, the University Libraries have created mechanisms to move this data into other systems, such as iGoogle.

This session will include a description of the efforts to deliver library resources through the MyU system, including the campus partnerships necessary to make this possible. The session will also feature a demonstration of the system, and a discussion of future plans.

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Surveys and interviews of members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have revealed that a majority are now developing publishing services. Publishing centered in research institutions has a long history. Departments, institutes and other campus publishing have complemented university press publishing, collectively producing a wide range of high-quality works. Research libraries are positioned to transform university publishing as they create organized publishing services.

Libraries launch publishing services in response to needs for new kinds of support for scholarly publications. Services focus on the local constituency, although much of the content they are publishing comes from outside the institution. Journal publishing is the most common genre supported, although a majority of programs also support monographic publishing.

This session will characterize developing services and consider the scale and scope of library publishing programs as well as their potential impact on scholarly publishing broadly. The origins and motivations underlying this new role will be explored. It will look at the resource models that support publishing services with the community’s expectations of how those resource models might evolve over time.

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Over the past five years the SIMILE Project at MIT has investigated useful applications of Semantic Web standards and technologies to the problems of digital libraries and across the spectrum of data management from the personal to the enterprise. The project has produced a large number of tools in common use today, including Longwell (a faceted browsing engine for RDF data), Timeline (a DHTML Ajax widget for visualizing time-based data), and Exhibit (a javascript Web application framework for publishing collection data on the Web with a range of cool search, browse and visualization features). This session will include a demonstration of these tools in action, an update on the latest innovation from the project to manage enterprise citation data, and thoughts about what’s next for this project.

http://simile.mit.edu/

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