CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

Bibliographic Framework Initiative: Process and Expectations

Roberta Shaffer
Associate Librarian of Congress for Library Services
Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress (LC) has kicked off a process called the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) to develop a new communications vehicle for bibliographic data, a cornerstone of libraries. The library and cultural heritage institution environment has and is changing, with the Web and the Internet becoming central factors for sharing both bibliographic data and resources themselves. The result page number on Google is a statistic of concern as it means visibility for the resources that libraries can supply to the community. While MARC has served well beyond the original expectations, there are aspects of the current community that could function better and enable libraries to be more central and relevant if the bibliographic description exchange tools were “retooled.” This presentation will describe the BIBFRAME steps taken thus far and the current expectations for this development with an aim of stimulating interest and concerns from attendees.

http://bibframe.org
http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition

 

Chinese Canadian Stories: Uncommon Histories from a Common Past

 

Allan Bell
Director, Library Digital Initiatives
University of British Columbia

Chinese Canadian Stories (CCS) uses technology to bring the past to life and preserve digital objects for the future. In doing so, it has fostered innovative research that connects students with elders, developed educational materials for Grade 5-7 students across the country and helped an array of Canadian community groups tell their fascinating yet often overlooked legacies. Highlights of the CCS project, led by the University of British Columbia Library and Simon Fraser University Library, include interactive kiosks that present visually powerful narratives in three languages (English, French, Chinese); a searchable Chinese Head Tax Register of 97,000 digitized records, along with interactive modules that visualize the data for users; an educational video game entitled Gold Mountain Quest; and more. This cutting-edge project presents history for the digital age in a way that truly engages students and communities.

http://ccs.library.ubc.ca
http://ccs.library.ubc.ca/en/videos/ccs_trailer.html
http://ccs.library.ubc.ca/en/GMQ/trailer.html
http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/project.php?id=1049

 

Collaboration to Innovation

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

Annette Bailey
Assistant Director for Electronic Resources and Emerging Technology Services
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The LibX project was launched in Fall 2006 to provide libraries worldwide with the ability to integrate librarians and their services into users’ webflow, providing help with information seeking and discovery at the point of need. In early 2013, the leading faculty on the LibX project developed a real time visualization of user activity in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University’s discovery system. This presentation will discuss how disruptive organizational change at the University Libraries and strategic collaboration across the University has lead to rapid, successful technology innovation that benefits the development and adoption of new services in libraries.

 http://libx.org/

The DataShare Project: Collaboration Yields Promising Tool

Angela Rizk-Jackson
Biomedical Informatics Project Manager
University of California, San Francisco

Julia Kochi
Director, Collections and User Services
University of California, San Francisco

Perry Willett
Digital Preservation Services Manager
California Digital Library

The goal of the DataShare project is to achieve widespread voluntary sharing of scientific data. In an effort to reach this goal, DataShare has created a data sharing website that enables investigators at the University of California (UC) to publish all of their research outputs (e.g., tabular data, images, and software). Currently, data sharing is not widespread across all disciplines; scientific advancement and society as a whole would benefit if more research data were widely shared and easily discoverable. The DataShare website serves as a portal for (1) finding data, via browsing or searching by metadata fields; and (2) depositing data and accompanying DataCite metadata with customized data use agreements. The DataShare project is a collaboration between the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), the UCSF Library, and the UC Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library.

This project briefing will include discussion of the impetus for the DataShare project, the collaborators’ roles, the methods used to work towards the project goals, and a demonstration of the current DataShare website. Additionally, discussion of the role of projects such as DataShare in the larger landscape of data management and archiving tools will be included.

 http://datashare.ucsf.edu

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Developments in Scholarly Identity Management

Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

David Millman
Director, Digital Library Technology Services
New York University

Laurel L. Haak
Executive Director
ORCID

Neil Jacobs
Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure
Jisc

Dean B. Krafft
Director of Library Information Technology
Cornell University

This panel will provide an update on several developments in scholarly identity management, with particular emphasis on places where national or international programs connect with campus-based activities. Cliff Lynch will provide an overview of some of the developments, and will also offer a brief look at key issues that emerged from the invitational Executive Roundtables on Scholarly Identity held earlier in the spring meeting and then moderate the rest of the session. Panelists will offer comments on developments in the UK (Neil Jacobs), the ORCID system (Laurel Haak), VIVO (Dean Krafft), and the implications for institutional systems (David Millman), and they will respond to questions from the moderator and the audience.

 

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