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Digitizing the Library
October 3, 2o13
International Summer School "Digitization
and its Impact on Society" in Dresden
Felix Lohmeier
Open Content Opens Up New Avenues of Research

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“A piece of data or content is open
if anyone is free to use, reuse, and
redistribute it — subject only, at
most, to the requirement to
attribute and/or share-alike.”
http://opendefinition.org

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Table of Contents
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(1) Digitization
(2) New presentation and discovery possibilities
(3) Increased communication and collaboration
(4) But there is a „data gap“…
(5) The rise of Open Knowledge
(6) Benefits can be measured
(7) Open Bibliographic Data
(8) The role of libraries in the digital age
(9) How SLUB supports the research process
(10)You are doing research - how can the library help you?
Felix Lohmeier | Head of IT department

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Digitization
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 Saxon State and University Library
 3 fields of action: university literature provider, collector for the
federal state of Saxony, service provider for other Saxon libraries
 10 Mio bibliographic records, important collection of manuscripts,
early prints, musical scores, photographies in one of the largest image
collections (Deutsche Fotothek)
 Digitization Center
 Scans per year (images) – OCR is on the way…
 License for metadata: CC0; License for images: CC BY NC ND
 250.000 photos available via Wikimedia with CC BY SA license
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2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
2,723,082 3,068,254 2,332,757 981,169 233,174

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New presentation and discovery possibilities
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“iPlant Collaborative members discuss an example shown on the TACC Visualization Wall”
some rights reserved by Andrew Lenards, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenards/3955049822/

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New presentation and discovery possibilities
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SLUBsemantics – Multilingual and semantic retrieval of automatically
enriched catalogue entries
Copyright Norbert Kaiser

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Increased communication and collaboration
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 Researchers talk to each other in widening circles and in earlier
stages of the research process (exchange of research data)
 in semi-public discipline-specific communities (Virtual Research
Environments)
 in the general public (Websites, Twitter, reference management, etc.)
 Data and nano publications
 publication of partial results
 publication of primary research data
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Cf. Katherine Mangan (29.4.2012): Social Networks for Academics Proliferate, Despite Some Doubts.
In: The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Networks-for-Academics/131726/

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But there is a „data gap“…
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Source: Monastersky, Richard (March 27, 2013): Publishing frontiers: The library reboot.
http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-frontiers-the-library-reboot-1.12664
Data Source: C. Tenopir et al. PLoS ONE 6, e21101; 2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021101

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The rise of Open Knowledge
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Source: Nissila, Jussi; Braybrooke, Kaitlyn; Vuorikivi, Timo (Ed.) (February 22, 2013): The Open Book.
http://archive.org/details/TheOpenBook
See also the Open Book Timeline for more details:
http://openbook.okfn.org/timeline/

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Benefits can be measured
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Source: PLOS Article Level Metrics. http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/researchers/

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Open Bibliographic Data
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Current
Research
Information
System
Long time
preservation
Green Road
Golden Road

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The role of libraries in the digital age
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 Provider of convenient services instead of access provider
 Enabler of scholarship instead of a gatekeeper of knowledge
 Technological stewardship instead of adherence to traditional
cultural ideas
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Acquisition
Handling
Exploitation
LifeSciences
MaterialSciences
Humanities
…
generation, selection,
preprocessing, storage
management,
knowledge extraction,
meta data, ontologies
analysis, publication,
portals, archiving

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How SLUB supports the research process
(without any claim to completeness)
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Research idea
• Research question
• Field of research
• Theory formation
Operationalization
• Study design
• Choice of methods
• Cooperation
partners
Data collection and
data generation
• (Meta) analysis
• Simulation,
experiments
• observations
Analysis and
interpretation
• Data processing
• Evaluation
• Formulating
conclusions
Publication
• Conferences
• Research reports
• Media distribution
Open Access
Repository
Research Workflow
Tools & infrastructure
Consulting Services
Current Research
Information System
Library Catalogue ResearchData
Repository
Semantic Resource
Discovery
Providing library
holdingsas big data
Crowdsourced
Taggingang Games
Alertingservices based
on Big Smart Data
Campus Communities Digitization and
Digitization support Virtual Research
Environments
Text mining
platforms
Academiccommunity
building
Bibliometrics Open Access
Publishing
Information Support
Topic mapping
Digital Scholarship
Open Journal System
Open Monograph
Press
Reference
Management
Long term
preservation
Data Publishing
Full text repositories
/ deep indexing

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You are doing research - how can the library help you?
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 Please write down
 a) your research questions and the data you need
 b) what you expect from the library to help you
 We will cluster all ideas
 In the second part of the workshop we will talk about methods
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