Cell phones and other mobile devices are ubiquitous and offer increasingly robust operating systems, user interfaces, and hardware sophistication. The potential of these devices for accessing the richness of library and information content, services, and applications provided is largely unrealized. This is particularly unfortunate in considering library outreach to undergraduate students. This session will review projects in development in the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the College Library at the University of California at Los Angeles to explore possibilities for communication, content delivery, and instruction through mobile devices and the principles guiding these projects. Significant time in the session will be devoted to discussion of the opportunities, possibilities, challenges, and issues as libraries work to address this important issue – the move to mobile.

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nanoHUB provides users with “fingertip access” to over 70 simulation tools for research and education. Users not only launch jobs that are executed on the state-of-the-art computational facilities of Open Science Grid and TeraGrid, but also interactively visualize and analyze the results–all via an ordinary Web browser. nanoHUB middleware hides the complexity of Grid computing, handling authentication, authorization, file transfer, and visualization, and letting the researcher focus on research. This approach also helps educators bring these tools to the classroom, letting them bypass the difficulties of Grid computing and focus instead on learning science and engineering.

http://www.nanohub.org

http://www.hubzero.org

http://www.ncn.purdue.edu

Digital objects are a significant part of New Zealand’s and many national, state and academic research libraries’ growing digital culture and heritage. The National Library of New Zealand must collect, preserve and make accessible its heritage in ways that ensure current and future access. In order to guarantee that these materials are available in perpetuity, the National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) program was created and a unique, international partnership approach was used to accomplish the large scale software development effort needed to obtain a trusted digital repository. In this international case study, the program will be discussed, as well as an approach to obtaining a standards-based, open systems archive and preservation system that is replicable in other organizations wishing to preserve digital collections.

http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/current-initiatives/ndha

In January, 2008 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a revision of its Public Access Policy, requiring researchers to deposit articles resulting from NIH funding in the NIH digital archive. Supporters of Open Access consider this policy revision, which was taken in response to an act of Congress, a major step forward in providing broad access to the results of research funded by public monies. Researchers in our academic institutions may need guidance in complying with this new policy, including working with publishers. Key campus players may include offices of research, legal counsel, and the library. This session will provide a brief overview of the policy and then descriptions of the strategies that two institutions are developing to work with their constituencies to ensure compliance. Participants will be invited to share developments in their institutions in an informal discussion.

http://www.arl.org/sc/implement/nih/guide/index.shtml

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html

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Johns Hopkins University, the National Virtual Observatory (NVO), and its partners are developing a data curation prototype system that connects data deposition with the publishing process using a Fedora-based repository at its foundation. As part of this effort, the development team is evaluating the use of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) – Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) specification to create an ORE Aggregation that models the relationships between the various resources related to a particular publication (e.g., an article, the data it describes, and references cited).

As stated on the OAI-ORE Web site, OAI-ORE provides “specifications that allow distributed repositories to exchange information about their constituent digital objects. These specifications will include approaches for representing digital objects and repository services that facilitate access and ingest of these representations.”

This presentation will outline observations from the data modeling process, illustrate the mapping of the model to an ORE Aggregation (and its associated ORE Resource Map or ReM) for the NVO data curation system, and identify linkages between the ORE Aggregation and other conceptual models. Finally, the presentation will identify potential next steps to advance this work into other domains.

http://www.openarchives.org/ore/

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Based in the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Print Media, the Open Publishing Lab (OPL) is a cross-disciplinary center that focuses on researching new methods of content creation and developing innovative applications to publish across various media.

The lab’s current projects center on the challenge of bringing digital content created by the various Web 2.0 applications back to print in an on demand, appropriately formatted and finished form. In this way, digital content can reside side by side with other traditional printed content (on a bookshelf, for example), but also take advantage of the enhanced user generated concepts of Web 2.0 capabilities (i.e., user-driven on demand content). The projects discussed during this session take the next step in completing the loop in the emerging publishing cycle. The transition from analog to digital technology is well embedded into this processes. The projects of the OPL explore the capability to take digital content back to analog and other digital formats but driven by the user generated principles of Web 2.0.

An example of this will be discussed under the project BookIt. This project uses wiki content and the shopping cart metaphor to output individually selected content and produce a finished PDF for publication across multiple channels, i.e. on-demand pushing streams or mobile devices.

http://opl.cias.rit.edu

This presentation will focus on ResearcherID, a system that gives the research community the ability to create a unique, persistent, identity and profile that links to their research output. For the past year, Thomson Scientific has conducted research with academic partners to understand name identity issues and the link between the researcher and their scholarly output. At the center of this system is an open registry that manages name authority, unique identity, and creates a persistent location where the information can be accessed and managed. Security and privacy, capturing consistent metadata, and use by the global research community were issues addressed in development of the system. ResearcherID is being developed with researchers, academic institutions, and industry partners around the world. The system will continue to evolve into a set of tools around authority, identity management, communications, and community.

http://www.researcherid.com

Most of the literature related to creating an institutional repository program suggests starting small — either with one department or a project such as electronic theses and dissertations. Bucknell University took an entirely different approach in an attempt to get broader experience by working with a cross-section of members of the university community and multiple types of digital objects all in one shot. This initial collection was built around Bucknell’s participation in Focus the Nation, a one-day national teach-in being held at colleges and universities designed to raise awareness about environmental issues. The resulting archive includes video and slide shows from faculty presentations, digital images taken of students and faculty with exhibits, electronic copies of research posters, and other relevant materials. This session will include exploration of the experiences, problems encountered, and success stories in getting an institutional repository program off the ground in less than two months.

Topics will include:

• faculty copyright issues
• developing a license for submitting materials to a repository
• video recording an event from a novice’s perspective
• working with video files
• using an Akamai server
• attempting to build a collection with other institutions
• getting submissions from students
• Open Access 101 for Faculty — a.k.a. yes, it will be accessible on the Internet

http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/3

http://www.bucknell.edu/x39940.xml

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Geneva Henry
Executive Director, Digital Library Initiative
Rice University

Diane C. Butler
Manager, Enterprise Systems and Applications
Rice University

Institutional repositories (IRs) were originally intended for archiving faculty publications, assuming a print model that generally equaled a journal article. With time, however, IRs have grown to support a greater breadth of materials that represent the intellectual output of a research university. Music schools with an emphasis on performance can generate many, many hours of music from faculty and student recitals that serve much the same purpose as does a publication for a faculty member in science, engineering or the humanities. Scholarly video created by faculty and students as well as video of speeches given at the institution by famous visitors are also materials that can be managed by the IR.

One of the challenges, however, is the ability to efficiently deliver these kinds of materials to users directly from the IR without requiring significant bandwidth for downloading. Audio and video streaming servers are designed to handle these types of interactions, providing users with flexible tools that allow them to move easily through various parts of the digital asset. At Rice University, a desire to manage these assets in the institutional repository so they would be sustained long term and be associated with a persistent identifier has led to the implementation of an approach for shared storage. An interface to the University’s DSpace repository allows multimedia files to be stored in a common Isilon clustered storage system, managed by DSpace and front-ended by streaming servers that have access to the same file for streamed delivery rather than full downloads. This method provides a highly scalable and efficient solution that can accommodate front-end servers to the repository as new technologies come along without compromising the integrity of the digital asset and its persistent identifier. Not only does this solution address a technical need for managing really large multimedia files, it has the advantage of building stronger collaborations across the campus as more groups are willing to trust their assets being managed by the Rice IR.

http://scholarship.rice.edu

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This presentation will discuss a transformational reorganization occuring at the University of Tennessee which is rooted in development of the Commons. The reorganization represents a major realignment of personnel and resources to meet the needs of 21st century students and faculty. The process, the players, and the results for the campus community will be presented, accompanied by a detailed organizational chart. The presentation is intended to provoke discussion and provide a methodology for transformational change in a collaborative 21st century research library setting.

http://www.lib.utk.edu/plan/plans/org-chart-03032008.pdf

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