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Learning Spaces

April 1, 2011

Paul A. Soderdahl
Library Information Technology Director
University of Iowa

Steven R. Fleagle
Chief Information Officer
University of Iowa

John Maclachlan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in New Media
McMaster University

 

“Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage (TILE): Innovative and Collaborative Learning in High-Tech Classrooms at the University of Iowa”
(Fleagle, Soderdahl)
The University of Iowa has rapidly transformed several classrooms into engaging, active learning spaces, and it has shifted the curriculum of 56 faculty members since the fall of 2009. Students are engaged in their learning as instructors move from the traditional role of “sage on the stage” to “guide on the side.” The rooms have been branded TILE to signify four basic principles: Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage. This session will include discussion of some of the challenges faced during this project, with particular attention to the use of active learning spaces in arts and humanities, and planned next steps including current assessment projects.

Handout (PDF)

“Uses of the Lyons New Media Center in Mills Library, McMaster University” (Maclachlan)
McMaster University’s Lyons New Media Center (LNMC) opened in Mills Memorial Library in September 2010, incorporating a help desk to assist with questions concerning new media (including software), video and audio editing workstations, a consultation space, a gaming theatre, and numerous additional features and benefits, including pedagogical. Numerous classes from across campus use the LNMC as both a permanent and occasional classroom and even more have created assignments to take advantage of the space and the expertise associated with it. This presentation will discuss how courses have effectively used the new Center, and will feature examples of student projects that have been created using LNMC resources.

Presentation

http://its.uiowa.edu/instruction/tile/
http://library.mcmaster.ca/lyons

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Learning Spaces (includes Information/Learning Commons)
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Managing Research Information for Researchers and Universities

April 1, 2011

Jennifer Schaffner
Program Officer
OCLC Research

 

A plethora of recent reports provide evidence of intensive information needs of researchers and their universities. The simultaneous evolution of discipline-based hubs and institution-based repositories has been occurring for over 10 years. Diverse international studies, however, have identified gaps in digital infrastructure and library provision of services to manage research information. In some situations, services are best delivered by national, third-party, commercial or other external sources. The authors of many reports challenge academic research libraries and their parent institutions to develop new services that will serve the needs of universities and the researchers themselves. What services are desired?

The ecology of information-related services in a wide variety of disciplines and universities will be examined in this session. There seems to be an opportunity to rethink lessons learned from institutional repositories and the open access movement. It is not clear yet whether scientists will welcome librarians and archivists, with or without necessary training in the sciences, to help manage large data sets, despite research requirements and the success of the data curation movement. It is also not yet certain what other useful information-related services librarians can offer their universities, such as assembling bibliographic metadata dispersed across an institution for a Current Research Information System (CRIS).

OCLC Research has completed a series of projects on research information management, data curation, research assessment and support for research workflows. This project briefing will synthesize the results of many related studies, conducted in Europe and North America, about managing research information and creating necessary research services within universities and libraries. Qualitative and quantitative studies of academic administrators and scholars provide a wealth of evidence about requirements for digital content and infrastructure that span the entire life cycle of the fruits of research.

 

http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/rim.htm

Handout (PDF)

Presentation

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Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Past Web

April 1, 2011

Robert Sanderson
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory

 

The Memento project adds a time dimension to the Web: enter the Web address of a resource in your browser and set a time slider to a desired moment in the Web’s past, and see what the resource looked like around that time. Memento has received significant international attention since it was presented at the Fall 2009 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Membership Meeting, and several indicators suggest that a new stage on the path towards acceptance and deployment has been reached.

This project briefing will provide an overview of recent developments regarding the proposed framework, the availability of tools, ongoing adoption, and standardization. Special attention will be paid to new insights, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged since Memento’s early days, including discovery and branding of archived Web content, the mapping of Memento concepts to a variety of systems that host archived/stable Web content, and the applicability of Memento’s time travel notions to data.

Also, as part of the Memento project, explorations into alternative Web archiving strategies have started. Specifically, the focus is on archival approaches that do not rely on Web crawling but rather are based on a transactional paradigm: Web content is archived at the very moment it is being used. The presentation will include a report on the status of ongoing activities in this realm that are aimed at releasing open source software.

Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Michael L. Nelson (Old Dominion University), and Robert Sanderson are project co-collaborators.

 

http://www.mementoweb.org/

Presentation

Video:
“Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Past Web”

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Information Access & Retrieval
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Meta-Image: A Digital Collaborative Environment for Image Discourse

April 1, 2011

Martin Warnke
Head, Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media
Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany

 

The aim of the Meta-Image project is to provide a network-based research environment for art history and other disciplines concerning visual culture. This research environment facilitates digital image discourse and collaborative research on images and their details by cross-referencing them in a hyper-textual manner, relying on a huge collection of images in a legally safe context.

 

http://www.meta-image.de

Presentation

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Migrating to the Cloud: Pepperdine Libraries at Web Scale

April 1, 2011

Michael Dula
Director for Digital Initiatives and Technology Strategy
Pepperdine University

Gan Ye
Digital Systems Librarian
Pepperdine University

In early 2010, Pepperdine University Libraries made the decision to migrate all library data and systems functionality to OCLC’s Webscale Management System, a then-nascent cloud-based system. One of the initial four pilot institutions, Pepperdine went live in December 2010.

This presentation will discuss:

• Why the migration decision was made
• Data migration lessons
• Current project status
• Lessons learned, work flow changes, and cultural impact
• Path forward

http://library.pepperdine.edu

Presentation

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Minnesota Digital Library and HathiTrust Prototype an Image Preservation Archive

April 1, 2011

John Butler
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology
University of Minnesota

John Weise
Head, Digital Library Production Service
University of Michigan

Eric Celeste
Consultant
Minnesota Digital Library

 

From September through December 2010 the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL), a state-wide coalition of cultural heritage institutions, worked with HathiTrust to add image content from MDL’s Minnesota Reflections database and the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) to the HathiTrust Digital Library as a prototype preservation archive. In addition to exploring a state-wide approach to addressing growing digital preservation needs, the project also intended to help HathiTrust make progress against its long-term objective to support formats beyond books and journals. Nearly 50,000 images from Minnesota Reflections and MHS were ingested into to HathiTrust for ingest in January 2011. We will share some of the lessons learned related to policy, standards, and technology by both the Minnesota and HathiTrust teams from this early effort to engage partners in the ingest preparation process and take HathiTrust beyond the book.

 

http://mndigital.org/projects/preservation/

Handout (PDF)

Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Digital Preservation
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NSF and Beyond: Data Management Planning

April 1, 2011

D. Scott Brandt
Associate Dean for Research
Purdue University

Dorothea Salo
Research Services Librarian
University of Wisconsin

There is no doubt about the importance of librarians assessing information needs, especially as the issue of disseminating research data bombards the scholarly communication landscape. Can librarians build long term relationships to become integral to research in the university? And/or can they take advantage of opportunities to insert themselves into the role of partner?

Presented here are two perspectives/approaches to those questions, exemplified by participation in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Data Management Plan process. At Purdue University, the Libraries have built relationships with the Vice President for Research (VPR) and Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) over a course of several years of collaborations and partnerships. Building an institutional response to the NSF “mandate” was an organizational approach charged by Research and co-led by the Libraries and the Information Technology (IT) department. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, IT professionals and librarians interested in research-data management “manufactured serendipity” to keep the issue on the campus radar. Years of patient explanations and sub rosa pilot projects paid off when the NSF data-management plan requirement arrived and Research Data Services was ready to manage the challenge.

http://researchdata.wisc.edu/
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/34859
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/21443
http://datacurationprofiles.org
http://d2c2.lib.purdue.edu

Handout 1 (PDF)
Handout 2 (PDF)
Handout 3 (PDF)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Digital Curation
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A New Publishing Ecosystem: Applications and Developers for Better Outcomes

April 1, 2011

Rafael Sidi
Vice President, Applications Marketplace and Developer Network
Elsevier

This session explores a new publishing ecosystem that enables developers, researchers and research institutions to develop applications that leverage scientific content. The speaker will discuss a platform that enables collaboration with the scientific community—researchers and developers—on solutions that target specific researcher interests and workflows. The presentation will include an explanation of how publishers can offer their content through application programming interfaces (APIs) and how publishers and platform providers can present developers with application building tools. This ecosystem will create a channel where developers can collaborate with researchers in developing new applications and will set a new paradigm in the way research information is discovered, used, shared and re-used to accelerate science and deliver better outcomes.

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Publishing
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ORCID: The Open Researcher and Contributor ID Registry

April 1, 2011

MacKenzie Smith
Research Director
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Personal name ambiguity for correct attribution of scholarly work is a persistent, critical problem in academic research. ORCID, Inc. aims to solve the author/contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communication by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers, and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes. These identifiers, and the relationships among them, can be linked to the researcher’s output to enhance the scientific discovery process and to improve the efficiency of research funding and collaboration within the research community. The ORCID initiative represents a community-wide effort to establish an open, independent registry of identifiers that is adopted and embraced as the de facto standard.

Accurate identification of researchers and their work is also one of the pillars for the transition from science to e-Science, wherein scholarly publications can be mined to spot links and ideas hidden in the ever-growing volume of scholarly literature. A disambiguated set of authors will allow new services and benefits to be built for the research community by all stakeholders in scholarly communication: from commercial actors to non-profit organizations, from governments to universities.

The ORCID initiative officially launched as a non-profit organization in August, 2010 and is moving ahead with broad stakeholder participation. Nearly 200 organizations are registered participants already, including major commercial and society publishers, universities, funders, large digital archives, and a variety of other stakeholders. The researcher name ambiguity problem affects every part of the scholarly communication ecosystem and ORCID is the first initiative to bring that large and diverse community together around a shared solution. The presentation will cover the scope, vision and status of ORCID, the registry infrastructure options, the data proposed for inclusion, and the plan for future growth and sustainability. A discussion of the academic community’s needs for this registry and how academic organizations can participate will be facilitated as part of the session.

 

http://orcid.org/

Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2011 Project Briefings, Identity Management, Standards
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Out of the Eddies and into the Mainstream: Making Special Collections Less Special and More Accessible

April 1, 2011

Merrilee Proffitt
Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research

Ricky Erway
Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research

This presentation extracts the essence of several related efforts done under the auspices of OCLC Research to help libraries increase access to their special collections, particularly focusing on uniquely held, unpublished materials.

• “Shifting Gears” (2007) argued for scaling up the digitization of special collections by encouraging behavior that would lead to more radically accessible collections, with a particular focus on adopting a “do it” attitude towards digitization.
• Digitization of special collections is frequently inhibited by concerns about Internet Protocol (IP) or privacy rights. The 2010 “Well-Intentioned Practices” (WIP) document establishes a community of practice for digitization of unpublished materials based in risk analysis and, where appropriate, the adoption of fair use.
• The 2007 “Good Terms” report offers guidance for ensuring broad access to collections in cases where third party, private sector partners have helped to facilitate digitization that the institution could not otherwise afford, and this guidance has since been echoed in a set of 2010 guidelines from ARL.
• “Rapid Capture” looks at the moment of actual digitization of non-book formats and highlights approaches that attempt to digitize collections at scale.
• There are other ways to make collections more accessible. “Capture and Release” (2010) argues for allowing, if not encouraging, cameras in reading rooms. “Scan and Deliver” investigates policy issues related to patron-initiated digitization of materials in special collections.

In an era of increased institutional and user interest in special collections, coupled with flatlined or decreasing budgets, finding ways to shift expectations and streamline processes is the best way to do more with less.

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2007/2007-02.pdf
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2010/2010-11.pdf
http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/rights/practice.pdf
http://www.trln.org/IPRights.pdf
http://dlib.org/dlib/november07/kaufman/11kaufman.html
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/principles_large_scale_digitization.pdf
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2010/2010-05.pdf

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