CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

Academic Research Portals: Integrating Librarians and Academic Programs

John Zenelis
University Librarian
Associate Vice President, Information Technology
George Mason University		 Wally Grotophorst
Associate University Librarian for Digital Programs and Systems
George Mason University
Victoria Shelton
Life Sciences Liason Librarian
George Mason University		 LeRoy J. LaFleur
Head, Arlington Campus Library
George Mason University

In response to a recommendation from the President’s Library Task Force for the university libraries to provide as much assistance as possible to both faculty and students becoming more productive in their respective endeavors, the library has embarked on a program to develop disciplinary-based research portals for nearly 100 academic graduate programs by the end of 2010. The program has two goals: first, to respond to faculty requests for stronger academic collaborations with their disciplines (by offering tailored portals to digital scholarly resources) and, second, to provide the university’s 20+ liaison librarians with a mechanism that can foster closer cooperation and integration with the department/academic program.

This system is unique in that it combines a resources database, a calendaring service, a blog and discussion forums, and relevant RSS feeds into a single, discipline-focused Web resource. It is a useful way to get librarians and instructors/researchers working together. In a very real sense, this project pushes the evolution of the “subject” guide into a more interactive platform, and helps build interaction between library staff, faculty, and graduate students across the institution.

Two open source packages were combined to provide the framework for these services: WordPress and CWIS (part of the Scout Internet Portal Toolkit). This session will address various administrative, cultural/professional, and “change management” challenges that such a large-scale project inevitably entails. The presentation will also include demonstrations and comments on two sample portals by liaison librarians, as well as answers to technically oriented implementation questions.

http://phobos.gmu.edu/melange/
http://gmutant.gmu.edu/global/

Presentation (PDF)

 

Accelerating Developments in Internet Identity and Privacy

Kenneth J. Klingenstein
Director, Middleware and Security
Internet2 and the University of Colorado, Boulder

As the use of federated identity grows, new technologies, new businesses and new collaborations continue to blossom. This session will highlight a number of the most recent activities, including international inter-federation activities, new European Union privacy requirements, emergent privacy managers, integration of collaboration tools, engagement with federal research activities, and the hints of harmony now beginning in the open source application space. The session will end with the traditional impassioned speech for librarians to bring their expertise to help on the critical issues emerging in human interface, privacy management, and metadata.

Power Point Presentation

 

 

Bamboo Planning Project Update

Chad J. Kainz
Senior Director, NSIT Academic Technologies
University of Chicago		 David A. Greenbaum
Director, Data Services
University of California, Berkeley

Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon foundation, Project Bamboo is an 18-month arts and humanities cyberinfrastructure planning project that aims to explore how shared technology services can enhance research, learning, and scholarship. The first series of workshops engaged over 350 people from nearly 100 institutions and organizations worldwide in exploring and detailing contemporary scholarly practice. The second workshop in mid-October built upon the previous work and defined and refined the direction of Bamboo. This briefing will bring CNI members up-to-date with the latest information regarding the project including findings to date and the evolving directions for Bamboo.

http://projectbamboo.org

Presentation (PDF)

 

Building the Universal Library: Introducing the HathiTrust

Patricia A. Steele
Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries
Indiana University		 John Price Wilkin
Associate University Librarian
University of Michigan

The HathiTrust is a newly formed collaborative digital repository for research libraries. Its initial aspirations are nothing less than building the universal library, beginning with bringing together the content created through large-scale digitization efforts. By the end of this calendar year, the repository will provide at least some level of access to more than 2 million volumes of digitized content, and this number will grow by millions of volumes each year. The HathiTrust effort embeds all of the principles of long-term, secure archiving in a framework devoted to the needs of large research libraries and the institutions of which they are a part.

This briefing will discuss the developments of the HathiTrust to date, as well as the short- and long-term objectives of the HathiTrust. The presenters will discuss the current organizational structure of the enterprise and will attempt to convey a vision of where they hope the HathiTrust will be in five years. Time permitting, this presentation will demonstrate some of the basic access technology of the HathiTrust while discussing functions under development (e.g., services for users with disabilities) and the future enhancement of access strategies (e.g., large-scale full text search).

http://www.HathiTrust.org

Handout

Power Point Presentation

 

Canadian Research Data Strategy Working Group: Update

Pam Bjornson
Director-General
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)

Formed in January 2008, the Research Data Strategy (RDS) Working Group is a collaborative effort to address the challenges surrounding the access and preservation of data in Canada. The RDS Working Group includes representatives from Canadian universities, government and non-governmental research institutes, university and national libraries, granting agencies, and individual researchers. This session will include a report on outcomes to date and plans for the next year.

http://data-donnees.gc.ca/eng/index.html

Handout (MS Word)

Power Point Presentation

 

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