CNI: Coalition for Networked Information
CNI: Coalition for Networked Information
David McCaslin
Access and Fulfillment Services Manager
California Institute of Technology
Recognizing the increasing popularity of e-readers and electronic access to books, the California Institute of Technology Library has decided to introduce a pilot program to lend Kindles to its patrons. The library’s goal is to provide a service which increases quick access to titles and to investigate patron-initiated acquisitions.
http://libguides.caltech.edu/kindle
Handout (PDF)
Brian Owen
Associate University Librarian
Simon Fraser University
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has been a very successful open source project during the past 10 years. The most recent count of Open Journal Systems (OJS) installations exceeds 8,000 and continues to grow. PKP’s most recent initiative, Open Monograph Press (OMP), intends to extend the success in sustainable journal publishing to the book domain. As PKP grows, it has commenced the development of a long term sustainability strategy that will undertake the transition from a project to a distinct organizational entity and the concurrent development of a more robust financial model that will not be largely dependent on grant funding. PKP is seeking opportunities to consult with not only the extensive PKP community, but also others involved in developing and implementing systems to support scholarly communications services.
The purpose of this session is to review PKP’s recent initiatives, describe the community it serves, and invite feedback on a variety of key areas including:
• development of partnerships
• operational and support tiers
• financial models
• incorporation
• governance models
Handout (MS WORD)
John A. Kunze
Associate director, University of California Curation Center
California Digital Library
Catherine Mitchell
Director, Publishing Group
California Digital Library
Steven Abrams
Associate Director, University of California Curation Center
California Digital Library
Patricia Cruse
Director, University of California Curation Center
California Digital Library
There is a need to establish a new publishing paradigm to cope with the deluge of data artifacts produced by data-intensive science, many of which are vital to data re-use and verification of published scientific conclusions. Due to the limitations of traditional publishing, most of these artifacts are not usually disseminated, cited, or preserved. At the California Digital Library (CDL), one promising approach to the problem is to wrap these artifacts in the metaphor of a “data paper,” which is a somewhat unfamiliar bundle of scholarly output with a familiar facade: minimally, a set of links to archived artifacts and a cover sheet containing familiar elements such as title, authors, date, abstract, and persistent identifier, just enough to create basic citations, build “overlay journals,” and enable discovery of data by Internet search engines. Additional elements that permit deeper domain-specific discovery and re-use, such as variable names, methods, etc., are planned. A pilot implementation at CDL will bring a number of existing services to bear on the problem, including (a) the Merritt repository for safe, stable storage for datasets; (b) EZID for generating, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers; and (c) eScholarship for publishing data papers and overlay journals.
Craig Dietrich
Lecturer, Institute for Multimedia Literacy
University of Southern California
Erik Loyer
Creative Director, Alliance for Networking Visual Culture
University of Southern California
Steve Anderson
Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Division
University of Southern California
This presentation will survey the infrastructure, design, and critical applications of an online publishing platform named Scalar, presently in development by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture. Based on best practices formed through the creation of interactive scholarship for the University of Southern California’s Vectors journal, and with a foundation in Semantic Web technology that links the platform to partner media archives, Scalar features the affordances of templates while remaining flexible to support a range of scholarly disciplines and approaches.
Handout (PDF)
Micah Altman
Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
Jonathan Crabtree
Assistant Director, Odum Institute
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The archival community has largely recognized that a geographically—and organizationally—distributed approach is necessary to minimize long-term risks to digital materials. The SAFE-Archive system is an open source system designed to form an overlay network on top of a peer-to-peer replication network, to support provisioning, monitoring, and TRAC-based auditing. This provides the reliability of a top-down replication system with the resilience of a peer-to-peer model. The current version of the SAFE-Archive system, to be released in March 2011, enables memory institutions and preservation collaboratives to formalize their replication policies and inter-archival replication commitments; represent these in machine-readable form; and to continuously audit any set of public or private LOCKSS systems for compliance. This presentation includes a discussion of SAFE-Archive current capabilities, architecture, and future development plans.
http://data-pass.org/syndicated-storage.jsp
Handout (MS WORD)
Kenning Arlitsch
Associate Director for IT Services
University of Utah
Patrick O’Brien
Managing Partner
RevX Corporation
Surveys conducted by the University of Utah across numerous libraries and archives have revealed a disturbing reality: the number of digital objects successfully harvested and indexed by search engines from library digital repositories is abysmally low. The use of the scholarly and lay content in these databases is predicated on visibility in Internet search engines, and libraries have spent millions over the past decade creating repositories whose objects are being harvested and indexed only minimally. The reasons for the poor showings in Internet search engines are complex, and are both technical and administrative. The problem lies less with the search engines than with the content they have to work with. Institutional repositories face added challenges as Google Scholar inclusion guidelines differ from Google’s main index. Improvements to the way the content is presented can help search engines parse, organize, and serve more relevant results to researchers and other users. This presentation will report findings and some solutions associated with this ongoing research.
Handout (MS WORD)
James Shulman
President
ARTstor
Neil McElroy
Dean of Libraries and Information Technology Services; Special Assistant to the President for Information Technology Strategies
Lafayette College
Laine Farley
Executive Director
California Digital Library
Judith Thomas
Head, Robertson Media Center
University of Virginia
Shared Shelf is a cloud-based cataloging and asset management system created by ARTstor in collaboration with eight colleges and universities (Harvard and Yale Universities as lead partners; Cornell University, University of Illinois, University of Miami and New York University as university partners, and Colby and Middlebury Colleges) and currently being rolled out at an initial group of 25 subscribing institutions. This session will present a conversation about the business and fee model (which aims at cost-recovery in accordance with ARTstor’s non-profit mission). Discussion topics will include:
While the session will focus on the particular case of Shared Shelf, the issues should be relevant to other community-based collaborative ventures as well.
Grace Agnew
Associate University Librarian, Digital Library Systems
Rutgers University
The research process is a complex ecosystem of information. Research frequently begins with a grant proposal or other methodology for establishing a hypothesis and a research proposal, data is collected, and throughout the collection process, documents are created, such as lab or experiment notes, images, video, etc. Instruments are used to collect and analyze data, such as sensors, particulate collectors, telescopes, microscopes, etc. Maintenance or calibration records for those instruments can be important when collection practices must be justified or explained. At the end of the research process, peer reviewed publications share the conclusions and extensively reference the research data. From conception to collection to publication, the entire research process produces valuable data that should be collected and made available for others.
RUcore takes a unique approach, combining event and relationship information to capture the entire context behind data in a user friendly manner. Events can be hidden or exposed for different audiences in different portals. RUcore has built its understanding of research context through more than three years of studying researchers, including a two year ethnographic study undertaken at the libraries and the generous assistance of researchers who are helping us build the research portal. The resulting portal captures the context surrounding research data from hypothesis to publication.
Matthew Loy
Senior Analyst
Ithaka S+R
Maria Pantelia
Project Director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Professor of Classics
University of California-Irvine
It has been two years since ITHAKA S+R’s Case Studies in Sustainability offered a candid view of just how developers of new and innovative digital content resources devise and modify their plans to contain costs and generate sustaining revenue streams for the long term. With data on actual costs and revenues, the case studies offered a rare glimpse of the array of strategies that leaders put in place to support their projects. Today the questions are starker than ever: In a time of drastic budget cuts, what new and innovative thinking will permit us to sustain the value of the digital content created? What new strategies are project leaders trying? Which strategies have held up well, and less well, under the strain of a tight economy?
This session will include findings from Ithaka S+R’s updated case studies and a presentation by, and discussion with, the leader of one of the case study projects.
http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/ithaka-case-studies-in-sustainability/ithaka-case-studies-in-sustainability
http://www.tlg.uci.edu
Robert A. Seal
Dean of University Libraries
Loyola University Chicago
Susan Malisch
Chief Information Officer & Vice President for Information Technology Services
Loyola University Chicago
In January 2008, Loyola University Chicago opened a state-of-the-art information commons (IC) operated by the University Libraries and Information Technology Services (ITS). The award-winning building has become the center of campus intellectual life, a technology hub, and a gathering place for Loyola students and faculty. The success of the project has been due in large part to the Library-ITS partnership which has stressed close cooperation and communication from the initial planning through implementation to day-to-day operations. There have been challenges along the way but these have been met by managers and front-line staff working together. The briefing will describe the management of the IC, lessons learned, changes made, and future directions in an effort to help others who are plannning an IC or similar service.
