Database Publishing and its Side Effects
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Carol Meyer, a publisher and database expert, gave a presentation on database publishing and its effects. The presentation covered how databases can be a valuable asset, examples of other database products and services offered by publishers, including reference databases. It also discussed the beauty of metadata and included various quotes and references. The presentation concluded with thanking the audience.
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Database Publishing and its Side Effects
- 1. Carol Anne Meyer @meyercarol ORCID: 0000-0003-2443-2804 25 October 2013 Database publishing and its side effects
- 2. Who am I? • Publisher • Database geek • MBA CHIMERA
- 3. The Beauty of Metadata
- 4. <Agenda> <Topics> –Database as an asset –Other database products & services by publishers </Topics> </Agenda>
- 5. 55
- 7. 77
- 8. 88
- 10. < Database as an asset>
- 11. Enough about me, let's talk about you for a minute Alanis Morissette
- 12. Enough about you, let's talk about life for a while Alanis Morissette
- 13. < Other database products & services from publishers>
- 24. Databases of reference works
- 25. 25 Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations 25 1904 1992 1999 2013
- 26. </Other database products & services from publishers>
- 27. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- Book cover from Five Little Peppers and How they Grew
- A chimera is a female monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body and a serpent’s tale. I’ll let you decide which of those animals fits which role.
- Credit Bob Oeste of Johns Hopkins University Press for his entertaining introduction to metadata--his is based on Onix XML.
- Microsoft uses CrossRef metadata to improve the performance and accuracy of its scholarly search engine Academic Search
- It’s all about data now.
- Description from Digital Book World’s conference marketing--all about data
- THe ACM digital library had its roots in publications. ACM used to stand for the Association for Computing Machinery--the original computers.
- In 1959, Computing Reviews was created as a print publication. It contained bibliographic metadata for articles and books in computing, and reviews of that content. In 1986, it and the annual ACM Guide to Computing Literature were both produced out of a database by computer. This was 10 years before the web became ubiquitous.
- Computing Reviews still exists--now it is an online only resource, accessible via subscription
- An example search result from CR
- An example review from CR. It has the bibliographic info of the source material (database stuff) at the top, followed by the review.
- The well-respected ACM Digital Library now incorporates the ACM Guide to Computing Literature--all ACM publications in full text, plus bibliographic records of everything in the Guide. Bernard Rous, my boss at the time, had this vision back in the mid 80s.
- We did a printed book that was a slice of the “Guide” and Computing Reviews on the topic of Human Computer Interaction. That bibliography continues to this day as a free web resource.
- HCI bibliographic record
- Here’s a CrossRef Member publisher, Oxford University Press, that has a reference work of close to 100,000 entries, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. This is a database. They also happen to assign CrossRef DOIs to each reference entry, so they can be easily citable, and findable.
- This last example is my favorite--another reference work. “Familiar Quotations” by Bartlett used to be a pocket-sized book, like this example, that was carried around and well-loved by one of my great grandparents at the turn of the last century. When I worked for Little Brown in the mid 1990s, Bartlett’s was available as a big book, as it still is today. And we were building a web site, which lived a long and healthy live. In 1999, the Little Brown web site had a random quote of the day from Bartlett’s. Now, Bartlett’s has returned to the pocket as an app. This is all possible because it is a database. (there’s actually another app that lets you use quotations in Bartletts to create graphic memes to share on social networks. )