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*All Aboard: Bringing the Community Forward to Fedora 6.0

David Wilcox
Program Leader
LYRASIS

Arran Griffith
Program Coordinator
LYRASIS

Fedora 6.0, the next major version of Fedora, is rapidly approaching full production release. The design and development of Fedora 6.0 has been guided by three principles: improve the digital preservation feature set, support migrations from all previous versions of the software, and improve performance and scale. Much of this work is also supported by an IMLS grant-funded project to pilot upgrades to Fedora 6.0 and create a toolkit for others in the community to use in their efforts to adopt and migrate to the latest version of the software. This presentation will provide an overview of Fedora 6.0 and discuss how the Fedora team is coordinating efforts between core software development and testing, migration pilots, and a robust communications strategy to bring the community forward to Fedora 6.0.

https://fedorarepository.org

*Bibliometric and Research Impact Services at the University of Waterloo

Laura Bredahl
Bibliometrics and Research Impact Librarian
University of Waterloo

Alison Hitchens
Associate University Librarian, Collections, Technology and Scholarly Communication
University of Waterloo

University libraries are partnering with campus administrators, departments, and groups on providing bibliometric and research impact services and metrics. Research impact data is being used as an assessment tool for measuring faculty and research group productivity; in promotion and tenure processes; in grant and funding applications; and in program and institution reviews and rankings. Libraries have the tools and expertise to assist in the gathering, organization, and visualization of research impact indicators and measures. The introduction of various bibliometric and database tools and APIs has provided libraries with the ability to responsibly extract a variety of research impact measures including publication, citation, co-authorship, H-Index, journal impact metrics, awards, and grant and patent activity. The University of Waterloo has growing expertise in the research impact assessment enabled by their campus-wide community of practice. Through this community of practice, professionals are sharing not only their approaches to working with data, but also tackling questions about which data sets they are using, what data might best support their common needs, what specific data and assessment techniques they use to explore discipline-specific impact, and how to access and manipulate data sets. This presentation will share some of the approaches these professionals are using, including the systems they are using for visualizing these metrics.

See also: Bibliometric and Research Impact Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

*Bibliometric and Research Impact Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

William Mischo
Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center; Berthold Family Professor in Information Access and Discovery
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Elisandro Cabada
Interim Head, Mathematics Library; Medical and Bioengineering Librarian; Assistant Professor, University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University libraries are partnering with campus administrators, departments, and groups on providing bibliometric and research impact services and metrics. Research impact data is being used as an assessment tool for measuring faculty and research group productivity; in promotion and tenure processes; in grant and funding applications; and in program and institution reviews and rankings. Libraries have the tools and expertise to assist in the gathering, organization, and visualization of research impact indicators and measures. The introduction of various bibliometric and database tools and APIs has provided libraries with the ability to responsibly extract a variety of research impact measures including publication, citation, co-authorship, H-Index, journal impact metrics, awards, and grant and patent activity. The University of Illinois Library has developed a system for generating dynamic and interactive visualizations and dashboards for displaying research impact data at the individual faculty, department, and research group level. This presentation will describe the elements of the Illinois research visualization system and look at the relationships between the various available research indicators, including providing correlation analyses.

See also: Bibliometric and Research Impact Services at the University of Waterloo

*The BIG Collection: Building a Knowledge Commons for the Big Ten

Maurice York
Director of Library Intiatives
Big Ten Academic Alliance

In an unprecedented collaborative gesture, the fifteen research libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance have committed to intentionally managing their core collections of books and digital assets as one collection (BIG Collection) to meet the growing needs of faculty and students on each campus. The BIG Collection is the overarching initiative to advance this commitment. The objective of the BIG Collection is to create a coherent knowledge commons for our faculty and students, with content universally available to all without regard to what institution produced or purchased it, supported by interoperable services and systems that rest on a foundation of shared infrastructure. We are beginning by building the infrastructure for the knowledge commons. This presentation will describe the vision, direction, and priorities for the BIG Collection.

https://www.btaa.org/library/big-collection/the-big-collection-introduction

Presentation

Bringing Social Learning to All Educational Texts: Creating a Coalition

Heather Staines
Consultant
Independent

Dan Whaley
CEO and Founder
Hypothesis

Remi Kalir
University of Colorado Denver
Assistant Professor

Hugh McGuire
Rebus Foundation
Founder & CEO

Mark Graham
Director, Wayback Machine
Internet Archive

In a landscape where ensuring student success is paramount and more and more learning moves online, faculty and institutions are looking for new capabilities that enable students to engage with content together, starting with the books and articles that form the foundation of teaching and learning. Social learning provides proven benefits: making learning active, visible, and social while improving outcomes—a need further highlighted by the present COVID crisis. However, these capabilities do not yet extend inside the content platforms where books and articles reside. The IMS LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) standard has shown the benefit of interoperability between systems but has not yet been extended to support interoperability within systems. Without a goal of interoperability, platforms will naturally implement their own unique approaches. However, teachers and students work across diverse platforms on a daily basis and need solutions that can provide uniform experiences. This effort endeavors to unite the major players to avoid proprietary approaches in favor of user-friendly interoperable solutions by bringing together the major educational content and learning platforms, defining the essential elements necessary for interoperability, and making a joint commitment towards these principles.

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