This document summarizes discussions from the NISO (National Information Standards Organization) conference on standards and best practices.
It describes recent work by NISO committees on:
1) Revising the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) standard to improve metadata for consortial holdings and e-books/proceedings.
2) Finalizing the PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals) standard for consistent journal title display and ISSN assignment.
3) Developing the Open Discovery Initiative to define fair linking and usage data exchange between libraries, publishers and discovery services.
4) Forming a working group on Open Access Metadata and Indicators to define a
Speakers: Laurie Kaplan, ProQuest; Nettie Lagace, NISO. This program provides an update on several NISO projects potentially of interest to serials librarians, including PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals), ODI (Open Discovery Initiative), KBART (KnowledgeBases and Related Tools), and OAMI (Open Access Metadata and Indicators). The projects are at different stages in their creation, publication and revision lifecycles, but all require community understanding and input. Participants will receive practical information on how the initiatives affect their daily work and how their experiences can shape the creation and uptake of consensus-based community standards in the library and information industry.
This presentation was provided by Kevin Cohn of Atypon Systems, Inc., during the NISO at NASIG Pre-conference "Metadata in a Digital Age: New Models of Creation, Discovery, and Use," held on June 4, 2008.
The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) is a National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Working Group formed to develop a recommended practice in the area of index-based library discovery services. These single search services, ever-more relied upon as a primary basis for accessing a library’s collections, have improved the research experience immensely, but they remain firmly seated in a heterogeneous ecosystem consisting of diverse players with individual interests. With the intent of streamlining communications and processes in order to better serve library end users, ODI is investigating the stakeholder landscape in the following areas: data format and data transfer; communication of libraries’ rights to specific content; level of indexing performed for content; definition of fair linking to published content; exchange of usage data between discovery providers and information providers. This session will report on the progress of the group’s research work, including interviews and surveys of stakeholders, and preview the Draft ODI Recommended Practice, expected to be released for public comment soon after the Coalition for Networked Information spring 2013 membership meeting.
This presentation was provided by Renee Register of OCLC, during the NISO at NASIG Pre-conference "Metadata in a Digital Age: New Models of Creation, Discovery, and Use," held on June 4, 2008.
June 17, 2015
NISO Virtual Conference: The Eternal To-Do List: Making Ebooks work in Libraries
Technology Evaluation and Meeting the Needs of People with Disabilities
Sue Cullen, M.S., Assistant Director, Accessible Technology Initiative, CSU Office of the Chancellor
Dawn Futrell, MA, Accessible Technology Specialist, CSU Accessible Technology Network (CSU ATN), Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI), California State University Chancellor’s Office
There is a growing trend towards a consolidation of services for Electronic Resource Management (ERM), A-Z journal listings, full text link resolving and discovery services under a single service provider. In many cases, the adoption of a discovery service from a provider that is not the same as the libraries' existing link resolver service means managing multiple knowledgebases. In this session, 3 libraries will provide an overview of their experience and strategies for maintaining separate link resolving and discovery services in lieu of adopting a full suite of services from a single service provider. Each speaker will provide a case study on the advantages and/or challenges of managing their chosen discovery service, EBSCO's EDS, Ex Libris' Primo and ProQuest's Summon, in conjunction with the CUFTS/GODOT open source knowledgebase/link resolver.
Presenters:
Leanna Jantzi, Electronic Resources Copyright Librarian, Capilano University
Jennifer Richard, Academic Librarian, Acadia University
andra Wong, Electronic Resources Librarian, Simon Fraser University
Speakers: Laurie Kaplan, ProQuest; Nettie Lagace, NISO. This program provides an update on several NISO projects potentially of interest to serials librarians, including PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals), ODI (Open Discovery Initiative), KBART (KnowledgeBases and Related Tools), and OAMI (Open Access Metadata and Indicators). The projects are at different stages in their creation, publication and revision lifecycles, but all require community understanding and input. Participants will receive practical information on how the initiatives affect their daily work and how their experiences can shape the creation and uptake of consensus-based community standards in the library and information industry.
This presentation was provided by Kevin Cohn of Atypon Systems, Inc., during the NISO at NASIG Pre-conference "Metadata in a Digital Age: New Models of Creation, Discovery, and Use," held on June 4, 2008.
The Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) is a National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Working Group formed to develop a recommended practice in the area of index-based library discovery services. These single search services, ever-more relied upon as a primary basis for accessing a library’s collections, have improved the research experience immensely, but they remain firmly seated in a heterogeneous ecosystem consisting of diverse players with individual interests. With the intent of streamlining communications and processes in order to better serve library end users, ODI is investigating the stakeholder landscape in the following areas: data format and data transfer; communication of libraries’ rights to specific content; level of indexing performed for content; definition of fair linking to published content; exchange of usage data between discovery providers and information providers. This session will report on the progress of the group’s research work, including interviews and surveys of stakeholders, and preview the Draft ODI Recommended Practice, expected to be released for public comment soon after the Coalition for Networked Information spring 2013 membership meeting.
This presentation was provided by Renee Register of OCLC, during the NISO at NASIG Pre-conference "Metadata in a Digital Age: New Models of Creation, Discovery, and Use," held on June 4, 2008.
June 17, 2015
NISO Virtual Conference: The Eternal To-Do List: Making Ebooks work in Libraries
Technology Evaluation and Meeting the Needs of People with Disabilities
Sue Cullen, M.S., Assistant Director, Accessible Technology Initiative, CSU Office of the Chancellor
Dawn Futrell, MA, Accessible Technology Specialist, CSU Accessible Technology Network (CSU ATN), Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI), California State University Chancellor’s Office
There is a growing trend towards a consolidation of services for Electronic Resource Management (ERM), A-Z journal listings, full text link resolving and discovery services under a single service provider. In many cases, the adoption of a discovery service from a provider that is not the same as the libraries' existing link resolver service means managing multiple knowledgebases. In this session, 3 libraries will provide an overview of their experience and strategies for maintaining separate link resolving and discovery services in lieu of adopting a full suite of services from a single service provider. Each speaker will provide a case study on the advantages and/or challenges of managing their chosen discovery service, EBSCO's EDS, Ex Libris' Primo and ProQuest's Summon, in conjunction with the CUFTS/GODOT open source knowledgebase/link resolver.
Presenters:
Leanna Jantzi, Electronic Resources Copyright Librarian, Capilano University
Jennifer Richard, Academic Librarian, Acadia University
andra Wong, Electronic Resources Librarian, Simon Fraser University
This presentation was provided by Noah Levin, NISO KBART Standing Committee Co-Chair, Dominic Benson of Brunel University London, Ben Johnson of ProQuest/Ex Libris, Robert Heaton of Utah State University Libraries, and Andrée Rathemacher of The University of Rhode Island Libraries, during the NISO Event "KBART 101: An Introduction to Knowledgebases and KB Data Best Practices for the Library Industry," held on March 11, 2019.
ER&L 2019 - Forming a More Perfect Knowledgebase: A Tale of Publisher, Vendor...Matthew Ragucci
This session examines how publishers and vendors collaborate to make a more seamless knowledgebase experience for librarians. Representatives from Wiley and OCLC will discuss KBART file creation, representation, and more. A representative from OhioLINK will explain how the state of the knowledgebase affects workflows at the consortium and library levels.
Facing our e-demons: challenges of e-serial management in a large academic li...NASIG
As electronic serials have shifted from being the exception to the norm, libraries are becoming increasingly reliant on knowledge base driven systems to help manage their electronic resource holdings. In 2011, after over a decade of managing e-serials within a local database, the University of Toronto Libraries migrated its electronic serial holdings to a fully integrated commercial e-resource management system. Now, with two years of experience under our belts, we endeavored to take stock and analyze how our library is coping with e-serial management within this new environment. How accurate are our e-journal holding statements within the ERM? How effective are we at managing e-serial title changes? How well are we tracking journal purchases that fall outside of the big package deals? Throughout this study, we have encountered many of the benefits and pitfalls of managing electronic journals within a knowledge base-driven system. While using a commercial ERM and companion MARC record service has allowed the library to present better data to users and expose previously hidden collections, there are several new challenges that we must contend with in a knowledge base environment. A common issue hindering access to our e-journals is the supply of incorrect, outdated or incomplete metadata within the data supply chain. These metadata problems have a detrimental effect on libraries, and consequently on our users, as it affects the accuracy of our e-journal holdings within our e-resource inventories. Although the study began as an internal investigation of our e-serials management practices and workflows, the results highlight the need for greater standardization within the data supply chain, better communication with publishers and knowledge base providers, and increased collaboration to improve the e-resource management process.
Presenters:
Marlene van Ballegooie
Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
Juliya Borie
Cataloguing Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
Join us for a comprehensive insight into COUNTER and the COUNTER Code of Practice including:
What is COUNTER?
Why COUNTER is important to library customers
Why COUNTER is important to publishers
How to become COUNTER compliant and the COUNTER Code of Practice
COUNTER reports for books, journals and databases
NISO access related projects (presented at the Charleston conference 2016)Christine Stohn
Presentation by Pascal Calarco (University of Windsor), Christine Stohn (Ex Libris/ProQuest), John G. Dove (Paloma Associates), covering NISO D2D work, ResourceSync, KBART and KBART automation, ODI (Open Discovery Initiative), Link origin tracking, ALI (Access and License Indicators), and a discussion around improvements and challenges for open access discovery
OA Network: Heading for Joint Standards and Enhancing Cooperation: Value‐Adde...Stefan Buddenbohm
OA‐Network collaborates with other associated German Open Access‐related projects and pursues the overarching aim to increase the visibility and the ease of use of the German research output. For this end a technical infrastructure is established to offer value‐added services based on a shared information space across all participating repositories. In addition to this OA‐Network promotes the DINI‐certificate for Open Access repositories (standardization) and a regularly communication exchange in the German repository landscape.
The NISO Update provides the latest news about NISO's current efforts, including standards, recommended practices and community meetings covering many areas of interest to the library community. Working group members will provide updates on projects newly underway or recently completed.
Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), Laura Morse, Director, Library Systems, Harvard University
This presentation was provided by Elizabeth Winter of Georgia Tech Library, Adam Chandler of Cornell University, Andreas Biedenbach of Springer Science+Business Media, Sarah Pearson of The University of Birmingham, and Maria Stanton of Serials Solutions, during the NISO webinar "It’s Only as Good as the Metadata: Improving OpenURL and Knowledge Base Quality" which was held on October 13, 2010.
Todd Carpenter's presentation to the Amigos Library Services "Discovery Tools Now and in the Future" Virtual conference on the NISO Open Discovery Initiative. November 18, 2014
About the Webinar
Link resolvers have become an important element of providing access to full-text electronic content and are now ubiquitous in both the library and publishing community. These systems work well enough a majority of the time. However, they are not entirely problem free, and as a result users may not always obtain access to information which their institutions have licensed for them. The management of the large volumes of linking data necessary to support these services is a problem in scale as well as in detail. Several NISO projects have sought to improve the reliability of these systems, including the Knowledgebases and Related Tools (KBART) and Improving OpenURL through Analytics (IOTA) initiatives.
This webinar will highlight these NISO projects and other community initiatives launched to create community-managed knowledge base repositories.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
Building the Global Open Knowledgebase
Kristen Wilson, Associate Head of Acquisitions & Discovery / GOKb Editor, North Carolina State University Libraries
KBART: A Recommended Practice to Increase Accessibility and Discovery
Chad Hutchens, Head, Digital Collections, University of Wyoming Libraries
What we learned about OpenURL in NISO’s IOTA Initiative
Adam Chandler, Electronic Resources User Experience Librarian, Cornell University
Nettie Lagace, presentation at Electronic Resources & Libraries, Open Discovery Initiative, April 5, 2016
http://erl2016.sched.org/event/5ZQ6/s36-01-open-discovery-initiative-priorities-and-directions
Nettie Lagace presentation Open Discovery Initiative April 5, 2016
http://erl2016.sched.org/event/5ZQ6/s36-01-open-discovery-initiative-priorities-and-directions
This presentation was provided by Noah Levin, NISO KBART Standing Committee Co-Chair, Dominic Benson of Brunel University London, Ben Johnson of ProQuest/Ex Libris, Robert Heaton of Utah State University Libraries, and Andrée Rathemacher of The University of Rhode Island Libraries, during the NISO Event "KBART 101: An Introduction to Knowledgebases and KB Data Best Practices for the Library Industry," held on March 11, 2019.
ER&L 2019 - Forming a More Perfect Knowledgebase: A Tale of Publisher, Vendor...Matthew Ragucci
This session examines how publishers and vendors collaborate to make a more seamless knowledgebase experience for librarians. Representatives from Wiley and OCLC will discuss KBART file creation, representation, and more. A representative from OhioLINK will explain how the state of the knowledgebase affects workflows at the consortium and library levels.
Facing our e-demons: challenges of e-serial management in a large academic li...NASIG
As electronic serials have shifted from being the exception to the norm, libraries are becoming increasingly reliant on knowledge base driven systems to help manage their electronic resource holdings. In 2011, after over a decade of managing e-serials within a local database, the University of Toronto Libraries migrated its electronic serial holdings to a fully integrated commercial e-resource management system. Now, with two years of experience under our belts, we endeavored to take stock and analyze how our library is coping with e-serial management within this new environment. How accurate are our e-journal holding statements within the ERM? How effective are we at managing e-serial title changes? How well are we tracking journal purchases that fall outside of the big package deals? Throughout this study, we have encountered many of the benefits and pitfalls of managing electronic journals within a knowledge base-driven system. While using a commercial ERM and companion MARC record service has allowed the library to present better data to users and expose previously hidden collections, there are several new challenges that we must contend with in a knowledge base environment. A common issue hindering access to our e-journals is the supply of incorrect, outdated or incomplete metadata within the data supply chain. These metadata problems have a detrimental effect on libraries, and consequently on our users, as it affects the accuracy of our e-journal holdings within our e-resource inventories. Although the study began as an internal investigation of our e-serials management practices and workflows, the results highlight the need for greater standardization within the data supply chain, better communication with publishers and knowledge base providers, and increased collaboration to improve the e-resource management process.
Presenters:
Marlene van Ballegooie
Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
Juliya Borie
Cataloguing Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
Join us for a comprehensive insight into COUNTER and the COUNTER Code of Practice including:
What is COUNTER?
Why COUNTER is important to library customers
Why COUNTER is important to publishers
How to become COUNTER compliant and the COUNTER Code of Practice
COUNTER reports for books, journals and databases
NISO access related projects (presented at the Charleston conference 2016)Christine Stohn
Presentation by Pascal Calarco (University of Windsor), Christine Stohn (Ex Libris/ProQuest), John G. Dove (Paloma Associates), covering NISO D2D work, ResourceSync, KBART and KBART automation, ODI (Open Discovery Initiative), Link origin tracking, ALI (Access and License Indicators), and a discussion around improvements and challenges for open access discovery
OA Network: Heading for Joint Standards and Enhancing Cooperation: Value‐Adde...Stefan Buddenbohm
OA‐Network collaborates with other associated German Open Access‐related projects and pursues the overarching aim to increase the visibility and the ease of use of the German research output. For this end a technical infrastructure is established to offer value‐added services based on a shared information space across all participating repositories. In addition to this OA‐Network promotes the DINI‐certificate for Open Access repositories (standardization) and a regularly communication exchange in the German repository landscape.
The NISO Update provides the latest news about NISO's current efforts, including standards, recommended practices and community meetings covering many areas of interest to the library community. Working group members will provide updates on projects newly underway or recently completed.
Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), Laura Morse, Director, Library Systems, Harvard University
This presentation was provided by Elizabeth Winter of Georgia Tech Library, Adam Chandler of Cornell University, Andreas Biedenbach of Springer Science+Business Media, Sarah Pearson of The University of Birmingham, and Maria Stanton of Serials Solutions, during the NISO webinar "It’s Only as Good as the Metadata: Improving OpenURL and Knowledge Base Quality" which was held on October 13, 2010.
Todd Carpenter's presentation to the Amigos Library Services "Discovery Tools Now and in the Future" Virtual conference on the NISO Open Discovery Initiative. November 18, 2014
About the Webinar
Link resolvers have become an important element of providing access to full-text electronic content and are now ubiquitous in both the library and publishing community. These systems work well enough a majority of the time. However, they are not entirely problem free, and as a result users may not always obtain access to information which their institutions have licensed for them. The management of the large volumes of linking data necessary to support these services is a problem in scale as well as in detail. Several NISO projects have sought to improve the reliability of these systems, including the Knowledgebases and Related Tools (KBART) and Improving OpenURL through Analytics (IOTA) initiatives.
This webinar will highlight these NISO projects and other community initiatives launched to create community-managed knowledge base repositories.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
Building the Global Open Knowledgebase
Kristen Wilson, Associate Head of Acquisitions & Discovery / GOKb Editor, North Carolina State University Libraries
KBART: A Recommended Practice to Increase Accessibility and Discovery
Chad Hutchens, Head, Digital Collections, University of Wyoming Libraries
What we learned about OpenURL in NISO’s IOTA Initiative
Adam Chandler, Electronic Resources User Experience Librarian, Cornell University
Nettie Lagace, presentation at Electronic Resources & Libraries, Open Discovery Initiative, April 5, 2016
http://erl2016.sched.org/event/5ZQ6/s36-01-open-discovery-initiative-priorities-and-directions
Nettie Lagace presentation Open Discovery Initiative April 5, 2016
http://erl2016.sched.org/event/5ZQ6/s36-01-open-discovery-initiative-priorities-and-directions
A presentation on FAIR, FAIRsharing and the FAIR ecosystem for the ENVRI-FAIR community on the 13th December 2019. This presentation covers the basics of what FAIR is, how FAIRsharing can help 'FAIRify' standards, repositories, knowledgebases and data policies, and then the connections FAIRsharing has with other initiatives, such as the FAIR Evaluator, Data Stewardship Wizard, our RDA WG, GO-FAIR and EOSC-Life.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting by Senior Program Officer, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and hosted by the University of Sydney in Sydney, NSW Australia, 17 February 2017. This meeting provided an opportunity for Research Library Partners to touch base with each other on issues of common concern and explore possible areas of future engagement with the OCLC Research Library Partnership and OCLC Research.
Open Access in the UK - challenges of compliance with funder mandatesChris Banks
This was a presentation given at the LIBER2014 conference in Riga.
See http://liber2014.wp.lnb.lv/programme/papers/abstracts-and-biographies/#ChrisBanks for an abstract and biography.
Whose Property Is It Anyway? Part 2: The Challenges in Supporting the UK’s Ma...LIBER Europe
Whose Property Is It Anyway? Part 2: The Challenges in Supporting the UK’s Main Research Funder Agendas which Seek to Ensure that the Outputs from Publicly-Funded Research are Published Open Access
Chris Banks, Imperial College London, UK. This presentation was one of the 10 most highly ranked at LIBER's Annual Conference 2014 in Riga, Latvia. Learn more: www.libereurope.eu
Ctrl + Alt + Repeat: Strategies for Regaining Authority Control after a Migra...NASIG
Speaker: Jamie Carlstone
This presentation is on how to regain authority control in a large research library catalog: first, dealing with a backlog of problems from years without authority control and second, creating a process for ongoing workflows to realistically maintain authority control when new records are added to the collection.
The Serial Cohort: A Confederacy of CatalogersNASIG
Speaker: Mandy Hurt
In 2018, at a time when our department was shrinking through attrition, the decision was made to further leverage the particular skill sets of a select group of monographic catalogers by training them to also undertake the complex copy cataloging of serials.
This presentation concerns the assumptions underlying how this decision was originally made, the initial plan for how this would be accomplished by CONSER Bridge Training, the eventual formation of the Serials Cohort with a view to creating an iterative process I would design and manage, and the problems, obstacles and time constraints faced and addressed along the way.
Calculating how much your University spends on Open Access and what to do abo...NASIG
Librarians are working hard to understand how much money their university is spending on open access article processing fees (APCs), and how much of what they subscribe to is available as OA. This information is useful when making subscription decisions, considering Read and Publish agreements, rethinking library open access budgets, and designing Institution-wide OA policies.
This session will talk concretely about how to calculate the impact of Open Access on *your* university. It will provide an overview on how to estimate the amount of money spent across a university on Open Access fees: we will discuss underlying concepts behind calculating OA article-processing fee (APC) spend and give an overview of useful data sources, including:
FlourishOA
Microsoft Academic Graph
PLOS API
Unpaywall Journals
We will also talk about Open Access on the subscription side, including how much of what you subscribe to is available as open access and how you can use that in your subscription decisions and negotiations.
The presenters are the cofounders of Our Research, the nonprofit company behind Unpaywall, the primary source of Open Access data worldwide.
Heather Piwowar, Co-founder, Our Research
Jason Priem, Co-founder, Our Research
Measure Twice and Cut Once: How a Budget Cut Impacted Subscription Renewals f...NASIG
Speakers: Ilda Cardenas, Keri Prelitz, Greg Yorba
The process of looking at subscriptions with the goal of proactively downsizing revealed that the library’s existing renewal workflows were outdated and in need of regular analysis to identify underused resources. Additionally, this project uncovered shortcomings of analysis that is reliant on usage data, the unexpected ramifications of large-scale subscription cancellations, as well as the need for improved communication within and between the many library departments affected by subscription cancellations.
Analyzing workflows and improving communication across departments NASIG
Presented by Jharina Pascual and Sarah Wallbank.
The presentation provides people with simple techniques for analyzing their local workflow and information-sharing practices, some ideas for interrogating and improving intra-technical services communication, and ideas for simple changes that can improve communication and build a sense of community/joint purpose within or across departments.
Supporting Students: OER and Textbook Affordability Initiatives at a Mid-Size...NASIG
Presented by Jennifer L. Pate.
With support from the president and provost of the university, Collier Library adopted strategic purchasing initiatives, including database purchases to support specific courses as well as purchasing reserve copies of textbooks for high-enrollment, required classes. In addition, the scholarly communications librarian became a founding member of the OER workgroup on campus. This group’s mission is to direct efforts for increasing faculty awareness and adoption of OER. This presentation discusses the structure of the each of these programs from initial idea to implementation. Included will be discussions of assessment of faculty and student awareness, development of an OER grant program, starting a textbook purchasing program, promotion of efforts, funding, and future goals.
Access to Supplemental Journal Article Materials NASIG
Presented by Electra Enslow, Suzanne Fricke, Susan Shipman
The use of supplemental journal article materials is increasing in all disciplines. These materials may be datasets, source code, tables/figures, multimedia or other materials that previously went unpublished, were attached as appendices, or were included within the body of the work. Current emphasis on critical appraisal and reproducibility demands that researchers have access to the complete shared life cycle in order to fully evaluate research. As more libraries become dependent on secondary aggregators and interlibrary loan, we questioned if access to these materials is equitable and sustainable.
Communications and context: strategies for onboarding new e-resources librari...NASIG
Presented by Bonnie Thornton.
This presentation details onboarding strategies institutions can utilize to help acclimate new e-resources librarians with an emphasis on strategies for effectively establishing and perpetuating communications with stakeholders.
Full Text Coverage Ratios: A Simple Method of Article-Level Collections Analy...NASIG
Presented by Matthew Goddard.
his presentation describes a simple and efficient method of using a discovery layer to evaluate periodicals holdings at the article level, and suggest a variety of applications.
Web accessibility in the institutional repository crafting user centered sub...NASIG
Presented by Jenny Hoops and Margaret McLaughlin.
As web accessibility initiatives increase across institutions, it is important not only to reframe and rethink policies, but also to develop sustainable and tenable methods for enforcing accessibility efforts. For institutional repositories, it is imperative to determine the extent to which both the repository manager and the user are responsible for depositing accessible content. This presentation allows us to share our accessibility framework and help repository and content managers craft sustainable, long-term goals for accessible content in institutional repositories, while also providing openly available resources for short-term benefit.
Linked Data is exploding in the library world, but the biggest problems libraries have are coming up with the time or money involved in converting their records, looking into Linked Data programs, finding community support, and all the various other issues that arise as part of developing new methods. Likewise, one of the biggest hurdles for libraries and linked data is that they do not know what to do to get involved. As we have fewer people available and smaller budgets each year, we would like to explore ways in which libraries can get involved in the process without expending an undue amount of their already dwindling resources. To see how linked data can be applied, we will look at the example of the Smithsonian Libraries (SIL). Over the past 18 months, SIL has been preparing for the transition from MARC to linked open data. This session will talk about various SIL projects and initiatives (such as the FAST headings project and the introduction of Wikidata and WikiBase); how to incorporate linked data elements into MARC records; and how to develop staff and give them proficiency with new tools and workflows.
Heidy Berthoud, Head, Resource Description, Smithsonian Libraries
Walk this way: Online content platform migration experiences and collaboration NASIG
In this session, a librarian and a publisher share their perspectives on content platform migrations, and the Working Group Co-chairs will describe the group’s efforts to-date and expected outcomes. Our publisher-side speaker will describe issues they must consider when their content migrates, such as providing continuous access, persistent linking, communicating with stakeholders, and working with vendors. Our librarian speaker will describe their experience and steps they take during migrations, such as receiving notifications about migrations, identifying affected e-resources, updating local systems to ensure continuous access, and communicating with their front-line staff and patrons.
Read & Publish – What It Takes to Implement a Seamless Model?NASIG
PANELISTS
Adam Chesler
Director of Global Sales
AIP Publishing
Sara Rotjan
Assistant Marketing Director, AIP Publishing
Keith Webster
Dean of Libraries and Director of Emerging and Integrative Media Initiatives
Carnegie Mellon University
Andre Anders
Director, Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM)
Editor in Chief of Journal of Applied Physics
Professor of Applied Physics, Leipzig University
“Read & Publish” agreements continue to gain global attention. What’s rarely discussed when these new access and article processing models are introduced is the paperwork, back-end technology and overall management required to implement the new program that works for all involved. This panel, comprised of a librarian, publisher, and researcher, will focus on the complexities of developing, implementing and using the infrastructures of different Read & Publish models and the challenges of developing a seamless experience for everyone.
From article submission to publication to final reporting, the panel will discuss the “hidden” impact that new workflows will have on stakeholders in scholarly communications. Time will be allotted for Q&A and attendee participation is encouraged.
When to hold them when to fold them: reassessing big deals in 2020NASIG
This presentation goes into details for each of the publishers’ big deals that we examined and present reasons as to why we cancelled them, with concrete examples from our experiences (four cancellations and two restructurings).
Getting on the Same Page: Aligning ERM and LIbGuides ContentNASIG
This presentation gives background on the development of the initial processes, the review and revision of the processes,and the issues encountered in developing a workflow for importing data from one system to the other.
A multi-institutional model for advancing open access journals and reclaiming...NASIG
The presenters will provide brief overviews of CIL and PDXScholar, and they will detail the challenges and ultimate successes of this multi-institutional model for advancing open access journals and reclaiming control of the scholarly record.
Knowledge Bases: The Heart of Resource ManagementNASIG
This session will discuss the knowledge base metadata lifecycle, current and upcoming metadata standards, and the effect that knowledge bases have on discovery and e-resource management. The presenters will look at ways knowledge bases can be leveraged to create downstream tools for resource management and discovery. The session will also provide different perspectives on knowledge bases, including from librarians and product managers, as well as a discussion of the NISO's KBART Automation recommended practice and what this could mean for knowledge bases in the future. The session will also include a conversation regarding how leveraging knowledge bases can aid librarians in improving resource discovery within their own libraries and ultimately decrease the amount of time spent on metadata workflows. Through this presentation, we also aim to improve communication between the library community and metadata providers and creators.
Elizabeth Levkoff Derouchie, Metadata Librarian for Serials & Electronic Resources, Samford University Library
Beth Ashmore, Associate Head, Acquisitions & Discovery (Serials), North Carolina State University
Eric Van Gorden, Product Manager, EBSCO
This session will talk about various SIL projects and initiatives (such as the FAST headings project and the introduction of Wikidata and WikiBase); how to incorporate linked data elements into MARC records; and how to develop staff and give them proficiency with new tools and workflows.
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Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
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Actions and Updates on the Standards and Best Practices Front
1. Actions and Updates on the
Standards and Best Practices Front
Nettie Lagace, NISO - @abugseye
Laurie Kaplan, Proquest
NASIG 29th Annual Conference, Fort Worth TX
May 3, 2014
2. What’s NISO?
• Non-profit industry trade association accredited by ANSI
with 150+ members
• Mission of developing and maintaining standards related to
information, documentation, discovery and distribution of
published materials and media
• Represent US interests to ISO TC46 (Information and
Documentation) and also serve as Secretariat for ISO
TC46/SC 9 (Identification and Description)
• Responsible for standards like ISSN, DOI, Dublin Core
metadata, DAISY digital talking books, OpenURL, SIP, NCIP,
MARC records and ISBN (indirectly)
• Volunteer driven organization: 400+ spread out across the
world
3. Premise of “Standards”
• Consensus standards created by a community with
various stakeholders
• Trust
• Leading to broader acceptance
• Standards as plumbing
• Standards facilitate trade, commerce and innovation
• Standards reduce costs
• Standards support better communication and
interoperability across systems
5. Considerations
• Value to be gained
• Feasibility
• Community(ies) affected
• Stakeholders (Vested interests)
• Participants required/desired
• Timeframes
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6. Today
• Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART)
• Presentation and Identification of E-Journals
(PIE-J)
• Open Discovery Initiative (ODI)
• Open Access Metadata and Indicators (OAMI)
9. article citation
OpenURL
query (base URL
+ metadata string)
link resolver/
knowledge base
target (cited)
article
publisher
website
database
print
collections
gateways
publisher/provider
holdings data
repository
OpenURL basics
10. Where the chain breaks
• Wrong data
– Publisher gives wrong metadata for title to the KB
– Link resolver uses bad metadata to make link
– Link does not resolve to correct target
– Dead end
• Outdated data
– Publisher said it has a particular issue
– Link resolver links to an article from it
– Issue has been removed
– Dead end
– Or, provider doesn’t notify that issue is now live
– So no traffic from link resolvers to that issue!
12. Phase II work:
1. Metadata for Consortia
2. Open Access metadata
3. E-book/ Conference Proceeding metadata
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13. 1. Consortia
• Survey results
• Libraries purchase titles as a consortium
• Consortium administrators and librarians need
the same title-level information from their
consortium-purchased packages as they do
from “vanilla” publisher packages.
• Difficult to obtain accurate consortium-
specific title lists.
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14. 1. Consortia
• Re-states the importance of providing a separate
file for each “Global” package that the Content
Provider offers.
• Consortium-specific files should be created when:
– A unique set of titles has been packaged for the
consortium, different than the Content Provider’s
standard packages.
– A package contains unique dates
of coverage.
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15. 1. Consortia
• Changes to file naming for ALL files.
• Addition of “Region/Consortium” value in file
structure.
– [ProviderName]_[Region/Consortium]_[Package
Name]_[YYYY-MM-DD].txt
– Applicable to Consortia packages and Regional variants
(e.g., “Asia-Pacific”, “Germany”, etc.)
– “Global” value is used if the package
is available for all libraries to
purchase.
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16. 2. Book Series / Proceedings
• Phase I
– recommendations were serial-centric
– Some fields were dual-purpose
• date_first_issue_online
• Identifiers
– Holding’s content type was ambiguous
• Challenges
– Both serial and monograph
– Users search for both titles
• New fields
– parent_publication_title_id
– preceding_publication_title_id
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17. 2. E-book metadata
• Phase II
– Specify fields for use by serials and those for use
by monographs – disambiguation of usage
– 4 new monographic fields added, plus
- publication_type
- first_editor
- parent_publication
- preceding_publication_title_id
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18. 3. Open Access
• Much more content now available in ‘OA’
form
• Importance of facilitating access to both paid
and free peer-reviewed, quality publications
(not just fee-based material).
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19. 3. Open Access
• Challenges
– What to do with Hybrid OA models?
• Delayed OA – example: free access until one year ago.
• Title transfer OA – title changes from OA to paid (or vice
versa) upon transfer to another publisher.
• Author-paid OA – some articles fee-based.
• Full OA – all content is free
– Title-level vs. article-level OA metadata
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20. 3. Open Access
• Free-text coverage_notes field suggested to
explain subtleties of OA availability for that
particular title.
• New field – access_type
– “F” – title is open access or free
– “P” – title requires payment of fee of any kind (even if
not 100% material is paid)
Use repeated fields for hybrid titles with different
coverage types
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21. 1. Everything can be found at
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart/endorsement/
2. Review the requirements (data samples available)
3. Format your title lists accordingly.
4. Self-check to ensure they conform to the recommended
practice
5. Ensure that you have a process in place for regular data
updates
6. Register your organization on the KBART registry website:
http://bit.ly/kbartregistry
Publisher Involvement
22. NISO – PIE-J
Presentation and Identification of
Electronic Journals
Laurie Kaplan
May 3, 2014
NASIG Annual Conference
23. Brief History
• NISO Working Group created in October, 2010
• 13 Working Group members representing
libraries, publishers/providers, and content
solutions vendors
• PIE-J finalized as a Recommended Practice,
dated March 25, 2013
• Standing Committee created in Sept. 2013
• 10 Committee members
24. PIE-J
• This Recommended Practice was developed in
order to provide guidance on the presentation
of e-journals
• particularly in the areas of title presentation,
accurate use of ISSN, and citation practices
• to publishers and platform providers as well as
to solve some long-standing concerns of
serials librarians
25. PIE-J Highlights
The recommended practice guidelines address the following:
• Retention of title and citation information under which articles were
originally published
• Display of title histories, including information relating to title changes and
related metadata
• Display of correct ISSN for different formats and for changed titles
• Retention and display of vital publication information across the history of
a journal,
• including publisher names; clear numbering and dates; editors, editorial
boards, and sponsoring organizations; and frequency of publication
• Graphic design and inclusion of information that allows easy access to
• all content
• Special considerations for retroactive digitization
26. • Full 67 page Recommended
Practice includes positive
examples of each point listed
and additional related
Appendix materials.
• Available on the NISO site:
http://www.niso.org/apps/org/
workgroup/piej/download.php/
10368/rp-16-2013_pie-j.pdf
27. Tri-fold Print Version: Electronic Version:
These are both two page brochures
focused on the main points in the
recommended practice
28. Representative
Example
• One examples from
the Appendix
• Clearly indicates the
point being
illustrated
• Links in the caption
point to the relevant
recommendation(s)
29. Creation of the Standing Committee
• Created in September 2013
• 10 committee members
30. What has the SC done?
• Review of all sections
– Indicate any changes
• New document(s) posted
– Publisher/Provider letter template
• Marketing Efforts
– Publicity letter for discussion lists and related
newsletters
– Presentations at conferences
32. PIE-J Document Statistics
Published March 2013:
• Full Recommended Practice – 4854 downloads
• Print Brochure – 974 downloads
• Online Brochure – 1459 downloads
– These stats rose quickly after the publicity information
was sent to various discussions lists and newsletters
Published March 2014:
• Publisher /Provider letter – 129 downloads
As of April 9, 2014
33. What can you do?
• Notify publishers/providers when their
websites are in compliance with PIE-J, or are
confusing or missing relevant information
• Work with interested publishers/providers
who want to improve their sites:
– Sage project with California Digital Library and
Becky Culbertson
• Send NISO your feedback
34. Contact information
PIE-J Website:
• http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej
Send feedback to:
– nisohq@niso.org with subject PIE-J Feedback
Thank you!
36. The context for ODI
• Emergence of Library Discovery Services solutions
– Based on index of a wide range of content
– Commercial and open access
– Primary journal literature, ebooks, and more
• Adopted by thousands of libraries around the world,
and impact millions of users
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37. General Goals
• Define ways for libraries to assess the level of
content providers’ participation in discovery services
• Help streamline the process by which content
providers work with discovery service vendors
• Define models for “fair” linking from discovery
services to publishers’ content
• Determine what usage statistics should be collected
for libraries and for content
providers
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38. Balance of Constituents
Libraries
Publishers
Service Providers
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Marshall Breeding, Independent Consultant
Jamene Brooks-Kieffer, Kansas State University
Laura Morse, Harvard University
Ken Varnum, University of Michigan
Sara Brownmiller, University of Oregon
Lucy Harrison, Florida Virtual Campus (D2D
liaison/observer)
Michele Newberry, Independent
Lettie Conrad, SAGE Publications
Jeff Lang, Thomson Reuters
Linda Beebe, American Psychological Assoc
Aaron Wood, Alexander Street Press
Roger Schonfeld, JSTOR, Ithaka
Jenny Walker, Independent Consultant
John Law, Proquest
Michael Gorrell, EBSCO Information Services
David Lindahl, University of Rochester (XC)
Jeff Penka, OCLC (D2D liaison/observer)
39. Subgroups
• Technical recommendations for data format
and data transfer
• Communication of library’s rights/Descriptors
regarding level of indexing
• Definition of fair linking
• Exchange of usage data
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40. Deliverables
• Vocabulary
• NISO Recommended Practice
– Data format and data transfer
– Library rights to specific content
– Level of indexing
– Fair linking
– Usage statistics
• Mechanisms to evaluate conformance with
recommended practice
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41. Current steps
• 30-day public comment period Fall 2013
• Working Group evaluation of comments, edits
to RP, responses
• Working Group approval
• Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee
approval
• NISO Publication
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45. Why is This Necessary?
Growth of OA + More Funder Mandates + Hybrids
=
Lots of OA papers with different associated rights
and responsibilities =
Confusion concerning who can do what when
47. Working Group’s Objectives
1. A specified format for bibliographic metadata and
possibly, a set of visual signals, describing the
readership rights associated with a single scholarly
work
2. Recommended mechanisms for publishing and
distributing this metadata
3. A report on the feasibility of including clear
information on downstream re-use rights within the
current project and, if judged feasible, inclusion of
these elements in outputs 1 and 2
4. A report stating how the adoption of these outputs
would answer (or not) specific use cases to be
developed by the Working Group
48. Working Group Membership
Co-chairs:
• Cameron Neylon, PLoS
• Ed Pentz, CrossRef
• Greg Tananbaum, Consultant
(SPARC)
Members:
• Tim Devenport, EDItEUR
• Gregg Gordon, Social Science
Research Network (SSRN)
• Julie Hardesty, Indiana
University Library
• Paul Keller, Europeana
Licensing Framework
• Cecy Marden, The
Wellcome Library
• Jack Ochs, American
Chemical Society
• Heather Reid, Copyright
Clearance Center
• Jill Russell, University of
Birmingham
• Chris Shillum, Elsevier
• Ben Showers, JISC
• Eefke Smit, STM
Association
• Christine Stohn, Ex Libris
• Timothy Vollmer, Creative
Commons
49. “open access” politically fraught
• Won’t use this label
Factual information:
– Is a specified work free to read – can it be
accessed by anyone who has access to the Web?
– What re-use rights are granted to this reader?
• Minimal set of metadata needed
• Decided not to create/recommend a logo
50. <free_to_read> Tag
• Indicates content can be read or viewed by
any user without payment or authentication
• Simple attribute of “yes” or “no”
• Optional start and end dates to accommodate
embargoes, special offers, etc.
<free_to_read="no" start_date="2014-02-3”
end_date=”2015-02-03"/>
<free_to_read="yes" start_date="2015-02-3”/>
51. • Content of this tag would include a stable identifier
expressed as an HTTP URI
• URI would point to license terms that are human and/or
machine readable
• Multiple URIs can be listed if article exists under specific
license for certain period of time and then changes
<license_ref start_date="2014-02-
03">http://www.psychoceramics.org/license_v1.html</li
cense_ref>
<license_ref start_date="2015-02-
03">http://www.psychoceramics.org/open_license.html</
license_ref>
<license_ref> Tag
52. Distributing Metadata
• Who? Publishers, aggregators, content
providers
• Include the metadata in all standard metadata
sets
– Intended that this population/distribution will
become part of standard editorial and production
workflows
• Could also include in alerts such as e-TOCs and
RSS feeds and A&I feeds
53. What’s Next?
• Public Review and Comment period
• Working Group will address and potentially
incorporate Comments
• NISO Approval
• NISO Publication as a Recommended Practice
54. Benefits of Successful
Implementation
Growth of OA + More Funder Mandates + Hybrids =
Lots of OA papers with different associated rights and
responsibilities =
Confusion concerning who can do what when
+
OA Metadata Indicator =
Transmittal of an article’s openness in a manner that
makes discovery, tracking, readership, and (hopefully)
reuse straightforward