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1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War

March 26, 2014

Nicolas Apostolopoulos
Professor
Freie Universtät Berlin

Oliver Janz
Professor
Freie Universtät Berlin

On the centenary of the start of World War I, “1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War” will present a virtual, open access handbook and encyclopedia on World War I to the academic community and the general public. It will be the most comprehensive academic encyclopedia on World War I created by the largest network of World War I researchers worldwide. The multi-perspective, refereed reference work will be the result of an international collaborative project that is coordinated by the Freie Universität Berlin (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Center for Digital Systems) in cooperation with the Bavarian State Library, and is funded by the German Research Foundation.

“1914-1918-online” is based on semantic wiki technology. Hyper-linked documents and metadata as well as the use of the underlying taxonomy will enable users to find their way through complex, non-linear structures. The visualization of related documents provides versatile access routes to the encyclopedia’s contents based on user defined selection criteria. The structure of the encyclopedia will be shown and tools will be demonstrated that support the creation and the usage of the system.

http://www.1914-1918-online.net
http://www.cedis.fu-berlin.de
http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/arbeitsbereiche/ab_janz/index.html

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Digital Humanities, Ebooks, Project Briefing Pages, Publishing, Scholarly Communication
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Assessment of E-book Strategies

March 26, 2014

Maria Savova
Collection Management and Digital Integration Librarian
Claremont Colleges

Terese Heidenwolf
Director of Research & Instructional Services, Library
Lafayette College

Kevin Butterfield
University Librarian
University of Richmond

 

What do we know about the use and acceptance of e-books by students and faculty? At the December CNI Executive Roundtable, “E-book Strategies,” several institutions reported on data collection efforts to assist them in better understanding the use of and satisfaction with e-books among their constituencies. In this session, findings from three institutions will provide insight into the kinds of information collected, what the data revealed, and the impact of these studies on policies and strategic directions:

*The University of Richmond Libraries will discuss how the implementation of a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) program for e-books impacted purchasing decisions and ways in which implementation of a discovery layer service impacted reception of e-books.

*Lafayette College Libraries will discuss how format preference data and use data from both subscription and patron-driven acquisition (PDA) e-book packages have shaped e-book acquisition policies.

*Claremont Colleges Library will present results from a study, comparing the usage of the print and electronic equivalent of the same Course Adopted Book title, as well as a quick look at the types of data collected and analyzed from the e-book DDA service.

Presentation  (Savova)
Presentation (Heidenwolf)

Filed Under: Assessment, CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Ebooks, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Beyond Serials: Lessons Learned and Future Directions for e-Book Preservation

March 26, 2014

Stephanie Orphan
Director of Publisher Relations
Portico

Robert Wolven
Associate University Librarian for Bibliographic Services and Collection Development
Columbia University

Charles Hammer
Associate Director of Product Management Global Research
John Wiley & Sons

Portico began working with libraries and scholarly publishers on the preservation of e-books in 2008. The past five years have seen incredible growth in the scholarly e-book space and vastly increased coverage of e-books in digital preservation services. As is the case with all growth spurts, these accomplishments have been accompanied by inevitable growing pains. This session will bring together stakeholders from across the e-book preservation landscape to discuss lessons learned, challenges, and possible future directions for e-book preservation. Areas for discussion include the challenges of developing preservation business models for a market that is still evolving, making sense of the multi-platform and aggregator space, the impact of rights restrictions, format and technical issues, and challenges presented by complex and numerous publisher sales and access models.

 Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Ebooks, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

CASRAI: Working Toward Research Information Interoperability in the UK

March 26, 2014

Ben Showers
Head of Scholarly and Library Futures
Jisc

CASRAI data standards are aimed at simplifying interoperability in order to reduce duplication and improve the quality of research administration data that is distributed across multiple software tools, organizations, disciplines and countries.

This presentation will describe the work of the CASRAI-UK project, which is working to develop a ‘UK chapter’ of the CASRAI dictionary to improve the interoperability of UK research information. It will describe the work of CASRAI, the pilot UK project and its development of national networks and the current UK research information management landscape.

http://casrai.org/
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/researchinformation/casraipilot.aspx

Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Metadata, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management, Standards
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Can a Consortium Build a Viable Preservation Repository?

March 26, 2014

Suzanne E. Thorin
Program Director, Academic Preservation Trust
University of Virginia

Bradley Daigle
Director, Digital Curation Services; APTrust Content Lead
University of Virginia

Stephen Davis
Director, Columbia Libraries Digital Program
Columbia University

Linda Newman
Head, Digital Collections and Repositories
University of Cincinnati

Scott Turnbull
Senior Software and Systems Administrator; APTrust Technology Lead
University of Virginia

 

The Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), a consortium of 16 institutions, was formed two and a half years ago when a small group of academic library deans agreed to take a community approach in building and managing a repository that would provide long-term preservation of the scholarly record. The repository also aims to aggregate content, to provide for disaster recovery, to leverage economies of scale, and to explore access and other services. From its beginning, APTrust has been a layered collaboration of deans, technology experts, content/preservation specialists, and a small APTrust staff located at the University of Virginia. The growth of the consortium has been bumpy at times, with differences of opinion regarding technology decisions and, inside the University of Virginia (UVA), in building awareness that an entrepreneurial program requires quick responses from the infrastructure. APTrust remains repository and format agnostic by using the Baglt specification for content submission. Metadata is managed by Fedora with pointers to content preserved in Amazon S3 and Glacier with administrative functions built using Hydra and Blacklight. The repository is scheduled to go live in June and will become a Digital Preservation Network (DPN) node. A panel of APTrust partners and UVA staff will describe the interplay in decision making among deans, technologists, and content experts and will discuss the evolving nature of an effort that is approaching full production, including questions of governance, business modeling, certification goals and the consortium’s evolving approach to the complex issues related to digital preservation.

http://aptrust.org

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages, Repositories
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

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