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Internet2 Net+ Services

December 7, 2012

Khalil Yazdi
Internet2 Business Development
Internet2

Dana Voss
Program Manager, Internet2 Net+ Services
Internet2

Leveraging the Internet2 Network and enabling services like InCommon federated identity management, the Internet2 NET+ Services team is developing a portfolio of service offerings that bring value to Internet2 members. The goal of the program is to create services that are cost-effective, easy to access, simple to administer, and tailored to the unique needs of our community. This session will offer an overview of the Net+ program, including the eContent pilot, which is sponsored jointly by Internet2 and EDUCAUSE.

 

http://www.internet2.edu/netplus/
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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, E-Books, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages, Teaching & Learning
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Ithaka S+R’s Research Support Services: Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of Chemists and Historians

December 7, 2012

Roger Schonfeld
Program Director, Ithaka S+R
Ithaka

Deanna Marcum
Managing Director, Ithaka S+R
Ithaka

 

Over the past year, Ithaka S+R has conducted studies of the changing research methods and practices of scholars in two major fields: history and chemistry. At the spring 2012 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) meeting, researchers shared background information about this new program of work. This presentation will include the comprehensive findings regarding the needs of scholars in these fields to facilitate discussion about implications for the CNI community.

For history, even when research methods remain fairly traditional, new practices are transforming the needs of historians. For chemistry, thinking about the needs of the laboratory group and not just the individual chemist may open up new avenues for research support. This session will include recommendations for possible service models to address these needs, and it will also include extended discussion about the feasibility of these service models and others that may build on our findings.

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Humanities, E-Science, Project Briefing Pages, Scholarly Communication, User Services
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Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Support New Roles of the 21st Century Research Library

December 7, 2012

Mark Phillips
Assistant Dean for Digital Libraries
University of North Texas

Declan Fleming
Chief Technology Strategist
University of California, San Diego

Lois Widmer
Chair, Digital Services and Shared Collections
University of Florida

 

Libraries around the country have evolved digital library infrastructure, workflows, and service from startup, grant-funded initiatives into core functions that define a research library in the 21st century. This shift has challenged our thinking about offering new services, moving projects into programs, and evaluating initiatives which may or may not deliver the expected outcomes. At the same time, researchers and other campus entities are looking to libraries as supporters and collaborators for research in the age of “big” research (meaning distributed, collaborative, and resource intensive research, and often referred to as e-research, e-science, research cyberinfrastructure, digital humanities, big humanities, digital scholarship, data science, etc.). Libraries now have many opportunities to leverage the infrastructure and programmatic support for digital libraries to serve also as a core component of the larger scholarly cyberinfrastructure.

This panel will discuss the challenges that three university libraries have experienced with institutionalizing digital library infrastructure and how they continue to adapt their services to meet a changing set of requests and needs from across their institutions. Each member of the panel will present a brief background of their institution and the unique collections and services which have shaped their institution’s thinking about digital library services. An overview of new initiatives each library has chosen to support and how they fit into the overall strategic direction of the institution will also be presented. Finally, all speakers will discuss challenges and opportunities in areas such as technical infrastructure, scaling of services, training and retention of professional staff to support both technical and nontechnical aspects of running repository infrastructure and services at scale.

 

http://ufdc.ufl.edu
http://digital.library.unt.edu
http://libraries.ucsd.edu/digital
http://rci.ucsd.edu/data-curation/index.html

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries, E-Science, Project Briefing Pages, User Services
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Library Innovation: Initiatives to Support Content Discovery and eResearch

December 7, 2012

Jim Hahn
Orientation Services and Environments Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Bill Mischo
Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Beth Sandore Namachchivya
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Tyler Walters
Dean, University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Julie Speer
Associate Dean, Research and Informatics, University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Technology Innovation in Support of Institutional Priorities: Exemplars at the University of Illinois Library (Hahn, Mischo, Namachchivya)

This briefing describes two innovative approaches to developing discovery and access tools in a library. The two programs featured are:
• A program focused on design and implementation of federated search and discovery systems that incorporates research and mentoring of librarians, information professionals, and graduate students in library and information science (LIS) and computer science.
• A library technology prototyping service that employs and mentors undergraduate computer science minors from diverse backgrounds.

The panel takes an in-depth look at key products that have emerged from this work, what has fueled their success, and how lessons learned can shape future technology innovations that support the important organizational themes of effective discovery and growing diversity in technology design and development.

The Future is Now: Capacity Building and Partnership Development to Advance eResearch Programs (Walters, Speer)

Research universities are adapting to a changing environment where networked open research, cyberinfrastructure, and cyberlearning approaches are transforming them. Organizational change is inevitable and the pace of this change moves more quickly with each new disruptive development in the economic, policy, technological, and social realms. This milieu calls for entrepreneurial approaches and intra-organizational strategies that produce new technological and organizational platforms through which new partnerships of information and technology professionals with researchers, instructors, and learners are created. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) Libraries has developed two sets of strategies for advancing eResearch partnerships and programs within the university: 1) Internal strategy: developing new positions such as the Associate Dean for Research and Informatics, Research Environments Librarian, and other specialty positions such as the Engineering Informatics and Data Librarian and Art & Design Informatics Librarian; designing work units with a new, flexible model: the hub. The library-based hub fosters capacity-building to support eResearch and digital scholarship practices, processes, and technologies; 2) External strategy: establishing a research center (the VT Center for Digital Research and Scholarship [CDRS]) that also serves as a services center for mapping and integrating the Libraries into the research enterprise. The Center monitors and assesses changes in the university environments in which research and scholarly knowledge is produced. It offers tools and services that address the many research and scholarly environment needs of VT researchers. The Center partners with researchers and others to solve information/data/content-related academic problems and serves as a consultant on digital curation processes.

 

 http://minrvaproject.org/
https://github.com/minrva
http://minrvaproject.tumblr.com/
http://goo.gl/BxCuu
http://goo.gl/r7pyY
http://uofi-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?&vid=UIU
http://search.grainger.uiuc.edu/linker/
http://hades.grainger.uiuc.edu/guy/pip3.asp?geology

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Humanities, E-Science, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages, User Services
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Library Publishing Coalition Project: Advancing the Emerging Library Publishing Field

December 7, 2012

Katherine Skinner
Executive Director
Educopia

Tyler Walters
Dean
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Julie Speer
Associate Dean, Research and Informatics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Martin Halbert
Dean of Libraries
University of North Texas

Spencer Keralis
Director, Digital Scholarship Co-Operative
University of North Texas

This briefing will discuss a recently launched project to create a Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) dedicated to advancing the emerging field of library publishing, defined as the set of activities undertaken by college and university libraries to support the creation and dissemination of scholarly works.

The project is hosted by the Educopia Institute, and has been designed in collaboration with a large number of academic libraries, including Purdue University, the University of North Texas, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Project participants currently number well over 40 institutions, all of which are providing seed support for this initiative at one of two participation levels: Founding and Contributing Institutions.

This briefing will review the initiative and several concrete project deliverables:
• A concentrated study that will document the current range of library publishing activities (including costs, staffing, and how libraries are financing these ventures); refine justification and positioning for library-based publishing activities; align library activities in this area with university needs and goals; and help additional libraries to envision and develop publishing services programs.
• A forum for networking and sharing communications about library publishing services, including an annual event and ongoing virtual training and community-building activities.
• The design and implementation of the LPC.

 

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Publishing, Scholarly Communication
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Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change

December 7, 2012

Lynne O’Brien
Director, Academic Technology & Instructional Services
Duke University

Since announcing a partnership with Coursera in July 2012, Duke has launched two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and has eight more in development. Spanning humanities, social sciences and science topics, these courses have over 320,000 enrollments as of October 2012. Duke’s goals in experimenting with MOOCs are to drive teaching innovation in both campus-based and online courses, to extend Duke’s commitment to knowledge in service to society, and to expand Duke’s reach and reputation in a global environment.

This presentation will:
• Describe how the Coursera partnership has shaped campus discussions about higher education and teaching
• Discuss the impact of MOOCs on library planning and academic technology support
• Share early feedback from students and faculty about the MOOC teaching and learning experience

The session also will explore the rapidly evolving format of MOOC courses and consider what the implications may be for campus-based courses in the near future.

http://cit.duke.edu
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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Teaching & Learning
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New Tools for Enabling Research: DMPTool, DataUp, and DataONE

December 7, 2012

William Michener
Professor and Director of DataONE, University Libraries
University of New Mexico

Carly Strasser
Data Curation Specialist, University of California Curation Center (UC3)
California Digital Library

John Kunze
Associate Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3)
California Digital Library

Three new data-centric developments that support scientists throughout the research data life cycle are highlighted in this session: the DMPTool, DataUp, and DataONE. The DMPTool is an online “wizard” that helps scientists and data librarians create comprehensive data management plans that meet sponsor requirements for well-documented, high-quality, sharable, and interpretable data. The DataUp tool enables the protection of the long-tail distribution of data (those data that all too frequently become orphaned) by helping scientists organize their tabular data (i.e. Microsoft® Excel), document it with standard metadata, and archive the data in a repository. Finally, DataONE, which became operational in July 2012, provides mechanisms to search data repositories worldwide for relevant biological, ecological, environmental and Earth science data (over 200,000 data products and growing weekly), as well as access to tools that support all aspects of the data life cycle and that are integrated with the data resources. In combination, the three new tools can greatly increase the nature and pace of science as will be demonstrated via several relevant examples.

 http://dataone.org
http://dataup.cdlib.org
http://dmptool.org

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Cyberinfrastructure, Digital Curation, E-Science, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management
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Novel Collaboration Forms for Developing and Maintaining Research Data

December 7, 2012

Anita de Waard
Disruptive Technologies Director, Labs
Elsevier

David Marques
Senior Vice President, Research Data Services
Elsevier

 

Funding agencies are displaying two counteracting trends regarding research data repositories: on the one hand, partly motivated by a need for reproducibility and fear of fraud, funding agencies are encouraging scientists and scholars to make their (raw and summarized) research data available in open, publicly accessible repositories; on the other, they are de-scoping and defunding the maintenance of many well-established data repositories. To address this dichotomy, and the clear and present need for the population and maintenance of open research data repositories, more technically and socially acceptable models of and tools for representing, uploading and storing research data are needed, as are innovative and collaborative business models for maintaining data repositories in a scalable, sustainable way.

Elsevier is interested in exploring novel (open, public access-based) collaborations and business models to address both of these needs, and provide uploading, maintenance and annotation tasks and tools in a service-based model. The company is interested in discussing and exploring the views of the Coalition for Networked Information community regarding the relative role of libraries, data repositories, and publishers to develop an open and sustainable research data infrastructure. Issues to discuss include the development of researcher-controlled distribution of research data, and the assessment of attribution, credit and impact of research data, as well as metadata and archiving standards. This talk will include Elsevier’s thoughts and current projects in this direction and then invite comments and ideas from the community on the practical, philosophical and financial possibilities for publishers and libraries to collaborate on this important and emerging topic.

 

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Curation, E-Science, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management
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Olive: An Executable Content Archive Underway

December 7, 2012

Gloriana St. Clair
Dean of University Libraries
Carnegie Mellon University

Daniel F. Ryan
Coordinator for Executable Content for Olive
Carnegie Mellon University

 

Now funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Sloan Foundation, the Olive project to preserve executable content is underway. Carnegie Mellon University’s Mahadev Satyanarayanan and his team are leading the technical development. Jerome McDonough, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Anita de Waard, of Elsevier, are the co-principal investigators for the IMLS award. The presenters will describe their objectives under each of the two grants, discuss methodologies employed to meet those objectives, and gather opinions about pending issues.

 

 http://www.olivearchive.org

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages, Repositories
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Open Annotation Update: OAC Experiment Results and Ongoing Work of the W3C OA Community Group

December 7, 2012

Timothy Cole,
Mathematics and Digital Content Access Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Paolo Ciccarese
Biomedical Informatics Research & Development Instructor of Neurology
Harvard University & Massachusetts General Hospital

 

A year ago the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) and the Annotation Ontology Initiative joined forces to found the W3C Open Annotation Community Group. The group has refined and merged data models and ontologies for describing scholarly annotations of web-accessible resources. The Community Group released a late beta version of the reconciled data model in May 2012; the 1.0 release is expected in January 2013. This briefing will provide an update on data model and ontology work done over the last 18 months and summarize results that informed this work from nine annotation demonstration experiments sponsored by the Open Annotation Collaboration (institutions participating in these experiments include: Alexander Street Press, Brown University, Cornell University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Meertens Institute, New York University, Stanford University, University of Colorado, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, and University of Queensland).

The presentation will also include a preview of plans for Spring 2013 public rollouts of the Open Annotation specifications. Concrete illustrations of the Open Annotation data model in action will be presented, and participants will be encouraged to ask questions about how to apply the data model to their specific scholarly use cases.

The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

 

http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/
http://www.openannotation.org/
http://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/wiki/Homepage

Presentation (Cole)
Presentation (Ciccarese)

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2012 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Scholarly Communication, Standards
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