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Doing Data Together: BWR, Shared Shelf, and CONA

December 7, 2012

Carole Ann Fabian
Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Columbia University

James Shulman
President
ARTstor

Bill Ying
CIO and Vice President of Technology
ARTstor

This session will describe the inter-organizational collaboration of Columbia’s Avery Library, ARTstor, and the Getty Research Institute towards building the Built Works Registry (BWR), an open, shareable data resource for architectural works and the built environment. In 2010, the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a three-year grant to develop BWR. The project brings together these three institutions (each experienced in doing big data projects and each with separate and unique strengths) to collaborate on policies, standards, content aggregation, technical infrastructure, geo-location, and data exchange protocols. As a networked, distributed environment, BWR will allow contributors to participate in development and maintenance of this community-generated data resource. This large-scale inter-institutional collaboration is a model for how organizations can do more together now and in the future. By investing collective efforts and resources on common problems, we participate in crafting a future data system that will more efficiently and effectively meet community-wide needs.

 

 http://builtworksregistry.wordpress.com/

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Cyberinfrastructure, Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management
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E-Science Institute: An Approach to the Challenge of Digital Research

December 7, 2012

MacKenzie Smith
University Librarian
University of California, Davis

Gary Strong
University Librarian
University of California, Los Angeles

Valorie Hollister
Director of Community Programs
DuraSpace

Last year the Association of Research Libraries/Digital Library Federation (DLF) E-Science Institute was created to help research libraries develop strategic agendas for e-research support, with a particular focus on the sciences. The Institute consisted of a series of interactive modules that took small teams of individuals from academic institutions through a dynamic learning process to strengthen and advance their strategy for supporting digitally dependent research, such as e-science or computational linguistics. The coursework included a series of exercises for teams to complete at their institutions, and culminated with an in-person workshop. Local institution assignments helped staff establish a high level understanding of research support background needs and issues. The first cohort of the Institute included seventy institutions and was well received.
Demand has continued to grow, so the DuraSpace organization is partnering with DLF to continue the Institute into the future. The second cohort is now underway, concluding with a Capstone event immediately following this Coalition for Networked Information meeting. The Institute has been improved based on feedback from the first cohort and is poised to help libraries of all types (large academic, college, corporate, public, government, etc.) develop approaches to digital research support, individually and collectively.

This presentation will include an overview of the challenges facing universities and libraries in dealing with digital research and especially data, the E-Science Institute approach of Strategic Agendas, a case study from a member of the Institute’s first cohort (University of California, Los Angeles), and an overview of the current Institute managed by DuraSpace.

 

 

http://www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/escieninstitute/index.shtml
http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Cyberinfrastructure, E-Science, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management, User Services
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Establishing Infrastructures for Scholarly Publishing

December 7, 2012

Kevin Comerford
Assistant Professor/Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of New Mexico

Jonathan Wheeler
Data Curation Librarian
University of New Mexico

Kevin S. Hawkins
Head of Publishing Production, MPublishing
University of Michigan

 

Hosting Open Access Journals for the University and Beyond: The University of New Mexico Open Journals Portal (Comerford, Wheeler)

Print publishing costs for small scholarly journals continue to increase, and even electronic publishing options are not without ongoing costs. University of New Mexico (UNM) Libraries has found that many research organizations in New Mexico would like to provide open electronic access to their group’s publications, but simply do not have the funding or the technical expertise to host their own journal server on the Internet. This presentation will discuss the UNM Libraries’ Open Journal Systems (OJS) initiative, designed to provide fee-free electronic publishing services to both institutionally sponsored and independent research organizations in the Southwest. UNM Libraries’ scholarly resources team works directly with journal publishers to build journal websites, prepare journal issues for publication, and train each journal’s staff how to implement their editorial, subscription and administrative processes online.

Presentation (Comerford)

mPach: Publishing Directly in HathiTrust (Hawkins)

HathiTrust, a shared digital repository, has been archiving and providing access to reformatted library holdings. Since libraries are increasingly involved in open-access publishing of new journals, HathiTrust is a natural place to archive and provide access to born-digital publisher content to ensure its long-term preservation and discoverability. This presentation will give an overview of mPach, a modular, end-to-end system being developed by the University of Michigan Library for publishing journals in the HathiTrust repository, which will be made available for use by other HathiTrust member institutions.

 

 http://ejournals.unm.edu/
http://www.lib.umich.edu/mpach
Presentation (Hawkins)

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, E-Journals, Project Briefing Pages, Publishing, Scholarly Communication
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Extending Access to Scholarly Resources: JSTOR’s Alumni Program

December 7, 2012

Bruce Heterick
Vice President, Outreach & Participation Services
JSTOR

Susan Gibbons
University Librarian
Yale University

Damon Jaggars
Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services
Columbia University

Molly Tamarkin
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology
Duke University

In 2009, JSTOR began partnering with institutions in a pilot program to provide access to their alumni. A range of participants was selected for the pilot, including public and private institutions, universities in the US and abroad, and theological seminaries. After nearly three years of collecting quantitative and qualitative feedback on the efficacy of the pilot, and based on an enthusiastic response from pilot partners, the Alumni Access program is being made accessible to all JSTOR participating institutions.

In this discussion, librarians who participated in the pilot will discuss how this tool was used for engaging with alumni, and what was learned about the level of interest in access to scholarly resources after graduation.

Next steps for the Alumni Access program, and how this fits within JSTOR’s larger aims of extending access to scholarship, will also be discussed.

http://about.jstor.org/service/access-alumni
Presentation (Tamarkin)

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, E-Journals, Project Briefing Pages, User Services
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eTexts at Illinois: Digital Textbook Publishing

December 7, 2012

Glenda Morgan
Director of Academic Technology Services & eLearning Strategist
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Millind Basole
eText Lead
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

 

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently debuted an innovative approach to providing students with electronic textbooks and instructional materials. The etext platform and process provides an endpoint-neutral and completely accessible platform for presenting text, equations and a variety of multimedia in textbook form. The content comes from two major sources: faculty developed content (both where faculty retain copyright as well as open textbooks), and publisher owned content. Academic Technology Services is actively seeking to partner with the library to leverage library holdings for use in etextbooks where such uses are possible. The benefits of the etext at Illinois service includes considerably lower costs for students, publishing opportunities for faculty, device neutrality, and a platform that is markedly more accessible and easier to use than most commercial solutions. This briefing will include a demonstration of eText at Illinois and the technical infrastructure underlying it, a discussion of the process and approach to accessibility, and a review of future plans and strategies for expanding the service.

 

 https://etext.illinois.edu

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, E-Books, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages, Publishing, Teaching & Learning
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Force 11: The Future of Research Communications and E-Scholarship

December 7, 2012

Maryann Martone
Co-Director, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
University of California, San Diego

Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology, which will also broaden to include, for example, the publication of software tools, research communication via social media channels, and sharing data and workflows in innovative ways. Force11 can be seen as a starting point for a community that will, hopefully, grow and be augmented by individual and collective efforts by the participants and others. This talk will include discussion of the background, goals, and plans for Force11.

Presentation Slides

 http://force11.org

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Scholarly Communication
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The Future of Fedora

December 7, 2012

Edwin Shin
Managing Partner
MediaShelf

Tom Cramer
Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director
Stanford University

Matthias Razum
Head e-Science
FIZ Karlsruhe

Jonathan Markow
Chief Strategy Officer
DuraSpace

Thornton Staples
Director, Office of Research Information Services
Smithsonian Institution

Mark Leggott
President
DiscoveryGarden

 

Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) is an open source system under the stewardship of the DuraSpace not-for-profit organization. Fedora is in use around the world, and has met the goal of becoming a durable repository for hundreds of institutions, with years of proven, production-level software supported by a vibrant community. But the world has changed as Fedora has matured, and new needs are emerging for scaling, performance and ability to integrate into wider ecosystems. Research data management, linked data, and ease of incorporation into frameworks like eSciDoc, Hydra, Islandora and microservice-based architectures have become paramount concerns.

To meet these emerging needs and position Fedora to not just survive but thrive in the face of these challenges, a small set of activist Fedora users has engaged with DuraSpace to develop a “Fedora Futures” strategy, with the goal of dramatically increasing the project’s velocity and level of community investment to address these challenges and expand Fedora into new markets over the next three years. Members of the Fedora community and DuraSpace will discuss planned improvements in this presentation and panel discussion.

 

 http://www.fedora-commons.org/
Presentation (Cramer)

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Repositories
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The HathiTrust Research Center: Opening Up the Elephant for New Knowledge Creation

December 7, 2012

John Unsworth
Vice Provost for Library & Technology Services and Chief Information Officer
Brandeis University

Beth Sandore Namachchivaya
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy and Associate Dean of Libraries
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Robert McDonald
Associate Dean of Libraries and Deputy Director of the Data to Insight Center
Indiana University

This panel will feature collaborative partners from the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and will focus on HTRC and its unique cross-institutional partnership (Indiana University/University of Illinois, University of Michigan). Furthermore, the presentation will focus on work that is being accomplished in the first two years of the existence of the HTRC with the mission of enabling computational access to nonprofit and educational users for the mass-scale digital corpus of the HathiTrust Digital Library (13 million volumes and growing).

Following a brief overview of the mission and history of the HTRC, the HTRC partnership will be described, including information on how it is working to deliver computational access to the HathiTrust digital corpus for the research community. Additionally, a detailed view of the work plan over the first two phases of the HTRC towards the evolving long-term plans and sustainability for the center will be discussed. Emphasis will be on:
• HTRC Phase 1 Demonstration and outcomes of the first HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp
• Current status of the HTRC non-consumptive research methodology prototype
• Status of HTRC current research proposal partnerships
• Focus of HTRC Phase 2 and the implementation of the demonstration prototype into a production operations environment

 http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc
Twitter: @hathitrust

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Humanities, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages, Repositories, Scholarly Communication
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HarvardX: Developing Communities of Practice for Innovation in Online Learning

December 7, 2012

Samantha Earp
Managing Director, Academic Technology Services
Harvard University

Susan Fliss
Interim Librarian of Harvard College for Research and Instruction
Harvard University

 

In May of 2012, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced edX, a groundbreaking new partnership in online learning. This session will give an overview of edX and HarvardX, with particular attention to the communities of practice being creating to develop and sustain innovation in online learning, in partnership with faculty, students, instructional designers, librarians, information technologists and other participants within and across edX institutions.

 

http://edx.org

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Teaching & Learning
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Innovation and the Law: An Analysis of the Barriers and Benefits of Text Mining

December 7, 2012

Torsten Reimer
Program Manager
JISC

 

Text mining and data analytics are of increasing interest to the international scholarly community. They promise to enable researchers to deal with an ever-increasing amount of publication and information, and to develop new research based on existing materials. Despite this promise, wider uptake of text mining is currently hampered by a range of barriers, most notably on the legal side. To assess these barriers as well as the potential benefits of text mining in education, JISC has commissioned the study, “Value and Benefits of Text Mining.” This session will introduce the study, with a particular focus on the potential of text mining for innovation, notable barriers, and the legal context.

 

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2012/value-and-benefits-of-text-mining.aspx

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages
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