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Bringing Computational Access to Book-length Documents Via an ETD Pilot

January 3, 2020

William Ingram
Assistant Dean and Director of IT, University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) Libraries, in collaboration with Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science and Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science, is the recipient of an IMLS National Leadership Grant for Libraries award to fund research into bringing computational access to book-length documents, through a research and piloting effort employing electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The three-year project is motivated by the following library and community needs:
(1) Despite huge volumes of book-length documents in digital libraries, there is a lack of models offering effective and efficient computational access to these long documents.
(2) Nationwide open-access services for ETDs generally function at the metadata level. Much important knowledge and scientific data lie hidden in ETDs, and we need better tools to mine the content and facilitate the identification, discovery, and reuse of these important components.
(3) A wide range of audiences can potentially benefit from this research, including but not limited to librarians, students, authors, educators, researchers, and other interested readers.

Our research focuses on extracting and analyzing segments of long documents (chapters, reference lists, tables, figures), as well as methods for automated classification and summarization of individual chapters of longer texts to increase findability. The project brings cutting-edge machine/deep learning technologies to advance discovery, use, and potential for reuse of the knowledge hidden in the text of books and book-length documents. By focusing on libraries’ ETD collections, the research will enhance ETD programs, devising effective and efficient methods for opening the knowledge currently hidden in the rich body of graduate research and scholarship.

Filed Under: CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs), Emerging Technologies, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages
Tagged With: cni2019fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Building a Digital Preservation Strategy Across a Broad University System

January 3, 2020

Todd Grappone
Associate University Librarian for Research and Development
University of California, Los Angeles

Edson Smith
Data Management Strategist
University of California, Los Angeles

Mary Elings
Assistant Director and Head of Technical Services at The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley

In the fall of 2018, the University of California (UC) libraries, the largest university research library in the world, formed a multi-campus working group charged both with developing a practical, shared vision of digital preservation for library content, and with outlining a roadmap to guide the UC libraries in advancing that shared vision. The initial incarnation of the group was charged with conducting a survey of notable exemplars, detailing current digital preservation best practices in the field, and investigating the state of digital preservation at each individual UC campus. This talk will detail the group’s activities, methodology, and findings, and describe how they will inform an overall digital preservation strategy within the UC system.

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Project Briefing Pages
Tagged With: cni2019fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Building and Sustaining Community Infrastructure: An Update from the Research Organization Registry (ROR)

January 3, 2020

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

The Research Organization Registry (ROR) launched in early 2019 with a mission to provide open, trusted, and noncommercial infrastructure for research organization metadata. ROR fills a crucial gap in scholarly communications. Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are increasingly central to the research landscape in the United States and beyond: researchers are using ORCID IDs, and DOIs are assigned to articles, datasets, dissertations, and other outputs, and these PIDs facilitate access to research as well as the tracking of research use and impact. But without an identifier for the institutions affiliated with authors and outputs, ORCIDs and DOIs only take us so far. ROR is the missing piece of the PID puzzle. ROR is a comprehensive and authoritative registry of organizations (close to 100,000 at present), all with unique IDs. ROR is uniquely focused on accessible infrastructure by and for the scholarly community. Its scope encompasses all research organizations and its aim is explicitly toward and driven by the needs of research stakeholders. Librarians and academic administrators increasingly need access to data on their institutions’ publications and research outputs to support reporting requirements, funder and federal mandates, institutional Open Access policies, and library collection development and licensing negotiations. As a community initiative, ROR has been built through collaborations and donations of in-kind resources, and developed with input from a range of advisors and stakeholders with experience that spans libraries, publishing, research administration, and PIDs. ROR is currently scaling up its operations and establishing a sustainability model to secure the necessary resources to keep the project operational, ensure the registry data can always be open and free, and maintain the registry as a community-based effort. In this talk, the ROR project team will update the CNI membership on our progress toward a sustainability model and solicit feedback from the community about next steps and strategic directions in this area.

https://ror.org

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Identity Management, Metadata, Project Briefing Pages
Tagged With: cni2019fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Can We Talk? Adding a Smart Assistant Interface to Library Services

January 3, 2020

Greg Davis
Assistant Director of Assessment and Planning
Iowa State University

Lisa Smith
Director of Library IT
Iowa State University

The Iowa State University (ISU) Parks Library has been working with a third-party developer to create a smart assistant app, currently based on Amazon Alexa technology, to interface with various library services. The smart assistant, called Parks Libro, uses APIs provided by various ISU library systems to return a variety of library-related information, including results of searches of library collections, information related to the user’s library account, and information related to library hours and events. This session will provide background information on the work to develop Parks Libro, a demonstration of the current Parks Libro capabilities, and show the roadmap for the next phase of Parks Libro development.

https://www.lib.iastate.edu/spaces-computers/computers/parks-libro

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Emerging Technologies, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages, User Services
Tagged With: cni2019fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions, Videos

Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of Colorado Boulder

January 3, 2020

Thomas Hauser
Director, Research Computing
University of Colorado Boulder

Thea Lindquist
Director, Open and Digital Scholarship Services
University of Colorado Boulder

The Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of Colorado Boulder is a campus research center that supports data-intensive research undertaken by the CU Boulder campus community. The center is a partnership between the University Libraries and the Office of Information Technologies’ Research Computing group. The center provides consulting and training in methods and practices supporting digital research (e.g., digital humanities, research data management, programming languages), offers cloud and other cyberinfrastructure to support data-intensive research, and provides interdisciplinary educational opportunities. The center’s directors will discuss this partnership in practice as well as some of our infrastructure and educational programming, including data publishing for large data sets and the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate.

https://www.colorado.edu/crdds/

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2019 Project Briefings, Cyberinfrastructure, Digital Humanities, E-Science, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management
Tagged With: cni2019fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

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