Eszter Hargittai. “Digital Natives or Digital Naives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use,” Closing plenary given at Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2013 Membership Meeting (Dec 10, 2013).
CNI: A Changing Landscape: Federal Mandates, Stewardship, & Biography
Clifford Lynch. “CNI: A Changing Landscape: Federal Mandates, Stewardship, & Biography,” Opening plenary given at Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2013 Membership Meeting (Dec 9, 2013).
Accuracy in Web Analytics Reporting on Digital Libraries
Kenning Arlitsch
Dean of the Library
Montana State University
Patrick OBrien
Semantic Web Research Director
Montana State University
Martha Kyrillidou
Senior Director Statistics and Service Quality Programs
Association of Research Libraries
Ricky Erway
Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
As part of their assessment and evaluation activities, libraries routinely report website and digital collections visits to their own institutions, professional organizations, and funding agencies. Publication downloads from institutional repositories are often included in this reporting as a way of demonstrating their value. Initial research by a team from Montana State University, OCLC Research and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has demonstrated that reporting in all these areas can be grossly inaccurate, leading to a variance in numbers across the profession that makes it difficult to draw conclusions, build business cases, or engender trust. The inaccuracy runs in both directions with under-reporting of visits and downloads as much a problem as over-reporting. This presentation will build the case for the developing research and will suggest some preliminary solutions for improving the accuracy of Web analytics reporting.
Additional team members include Robert Fox (Dean, University of Louisville Libraries), Jean Godby (Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research), Jeff Mixter (Research Support Specialist, OCLC Research), and Roy Tennant (Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research).
Presentation (Arlitsch)
Presentation (Kyrillidou)
Aligning National Approaches II Action Assembly Update
Katherine Skinner
Executive Director
Educopia Institute
Martin Halbert
Dean of Libraries
University of North Texas
Gail McMillan
Director, Digital Research & Scholarship Services
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Matt Schultz
Program Manager, MetaArchive Cooperative
Educopia Institute
Aaron Trehub
Assistant Dean for Technology & Technical Services
Auburn University
Tyler Walters
Dean of University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
This project briefing will report on accomplishments, next steps, and action items from the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP) II Action Assembly held in Barcelona, Spain on November 18-20, 2013. ANADP is a community alignment forum designed to foster and support sustained global networks of influence and action. During ANADP I (Estonia, 2011), the community gathered to study the opportunities for alignment across national contexts and sectors. As documented in the final chapter of the award-winning volume “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation” (Educopia, 2012), the ANADP community established 47 targeted alignment areas that the international community could pursue through lightweight alliances. During ANADP II, the community will focus its attention around seven concrete Action Sessions that have emerged in response to these alignment opportunities. The Action Sessions represent cross-national, community-driven work in digital preservation. This project briefing will include discussion of the ANADP alignment methodology and community, the seven 2013 Action Sessions outcomes, next steps this international community established at ANADP II, and how to follow and contribute to individual ANADP-inspired efforts and events.
http://educopia.org/events/ANADPII
The App as a Metaphor for Learning Objects and Tools
Sandra DeCastro
Vice President, Community Programs
IMS Global Learning Consortium
In the last five years the mobile app has transformed and revolutionized software development by moving from a small number of large all-inclusive applications to hundreds of thousands of small, but focused, applications that provide specialized niche solutions. This session will describe a model for extending the app concept to learning objects and learning tools so that instructors and students can create custom learning solutions. The session will include discussion of relevant standards that make this possible and a new effort being launched by IMS Global to provide the necessary infrastructure for learning apps to flourish.
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