This presentation was provided by Kenning Arlitsch of Montana State University during a NISO Webinar entitled "Supporting Research on Your Campus", held on May 4, 2016
What does success look like when it comes to library discoverability? Index based discovery systems have seen a dramatic rate of adoption since introduction to the research ecosystem in 2009, with more than 9,000 libraries relying on a discovery system to provide users with a comprehensive index to their offerings. Some issues bar the way to providing this comprehensive view, but many challenges have been overcome through collaboration between libraries, content providers and discovery partners. The NISO ODI initiative began to examine these issues in 2011, and released a best practice in June 2014.
Speakers will highlight examples of successful collaboration, note continued areas of challenge, and provide insight on how the Open Discovery Initiative Conformance Checklists can be used as a mechanism to evaluate content provider or discovery provider conformance with the best practice.
This presentation was provided by William Cross, Madison Sullivan, and Eka Grguric of NCSU during the Aug 10 NISO-NASIG webinar, How Libraries Use, Support and Can Implement Researcher Identifiers.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
John Mark Ockerbloom, Digital Library Architect and Planner, University of Pennsylvania
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Maryann Martone, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego
Your digital humanities are in my library! No, your library is in my digital ...Rebekah Cummings
A presentation on the intersection of libraries and digital humanities presented at the Utah Digital Humanities Symposium at Utah Valley University on February 26, 2016.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Beth R. Bernhardt, Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications, University Libraries, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Anna Craft, Metadata Cataloger, University Libraries, University of North Carolina Greensboro
February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference
Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Improving Integrity, Transparency, and Reproducibility Through Connection of the Scholarly Workflow
Andrew Sallans, Partnerships, Collaborations, and Funding, Center for Open Science
This presentation was provided by Suzie Allard (Univ Tennessee - Knoxville) during a NISO Virtual Conference on Data Curation, held on Wednesday, August 31
What does success look like when it comes to library discoverability? Index based discovery systems have seen a dramatic rate of adoption since introduction to the research ecosystem in 2009, with more than 9,000 libraries relying on a discovery system to provide users with a comprehensive index to their offerings. Some issues bar the way to providing this comprehensive view, but many challenges have been overcome through collaboration between libraries, content providers and discovery partners. The NISO ODI initiative began to examine these issues in 2011, and released a best practice in June 2014.
Speakers will highlight examples of successful collaboration, note continued areas of challenge, and provide insight on how the Open Discovery Initiative Conformance Checklists can be used as a mechanism to evaluate content provider or discovery provider conformance with the best practice.
This presentation was provided by William Cross, Madison Sullivan, and Eka Grguric of NCSU during the Aug 10 NISO-NASIG webinar, How Libraries Use, Support and Can Implement Researcher Identifiers.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
John Mark Ockerbloom, Digital Library Architect and Planner, University of Pennsylvania
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Maryann Martone, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego
Your digital humanities are in my library! No, your library is in my digital ...Rebekah Cummings
A presentation on the intersection of libraries and digital humanities presented at the Utah Digital Humanities Symposium at Utah Valley University on February 26, 2016.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Beth R. Bernhardt, Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications, University Libraries, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Anna Craft, Metadata Cataloger, University Libraries, University of North Carolina Greensboro
February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference
Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Improving Integrity, Transparency, and Reproducibility Through Connection of the Scholarly Workflow
Andrew Sallans, Partnerships, Collaborations, and Funding, Center for Open Science
This presentation was provided by Suzie Allard (Univ Tennessee - Knoxville) during a NISO Virtual Conference on Data Curation, held on Wednesday, August 31
This presentation was provided by Rick Johnson of Notre Dame University during the NISO virtual conference, That Cutting Edge: Technology's Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library, held on October 24, 2018.
Kimberly Silk, Data Librarian, Martin Prosperity Institute at
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, presented during the Nov. 13, 2014 Library Connect Webinar on the services she provides as an embedded data librarian for a research institute.
Putting Research Data into Context: A Scholarly Approach to Curating Data for...OCLC
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February 18 2014 NISO Virtual Conference
Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Capacity Building: Leveraging existing library networks to take on research data
Heidi Imker, Director of the Research Data Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
R. David Lankes, Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies; Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse
Sommer Browning, Assistant Professor; Head of Electronic Access & Discovery Services, Auraria Library, University of Colorado, Denver
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
RDAP14: Building a data management and curation program on a shoestring budgetASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014
San Diego, CA
Margaret Henderson
Director, Research Data Management
Virginia Commonwealth University
This presentation was provide by Mita Williams of the University of Windsor during the NISO virtual conference, That Cutting Edge: Technology's Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library, held on October 24, 2018.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Frances Pinter, Founder and Executive Director, Knowledge Unlatched
The vision for ‘the Research Paper of the Future’ promises
to make scholarship more discoverable, transparent,
inspectable, reusable and sustainable. Yet new forms
of scientific output also challenge authors, librarians,
publishers and service providers to register, validate,
disseminate and preserve them as elements of the scholarly
record. What constitutes authorship in a collaborative
process of GitHub pull requests and commits? When to
capture, reference and preserve dynamic data sets that
change over time? How to package and render complex
executable collections for review and delivery? This session
considers key challenges in operationalising the Research
Paper of the Future from the perspectives of a publisher,
a library administrator and a scientist/developer of a
collaborative authoring platform.
The presentation was provided by Angie Oehrli of the University of Michigan during the NISO Two-Part Webinar, Digital and Data Literacy, held on September 20, 2017
This presentation was jointly given by Kevin Read and Alisa Surkis of New York University during the two-part NISO webinar, Digital and Data Literacy, held on September 20, 2017.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Jeff Penka, Director of Channel and Product Development, Zepheira
Transforming liaison roles for academic librarians is critical, as universities are moving to position themselves to meet the demands of a more competitive national research environment. At La Trobe University, librarians are repackaging current research support services to streamline and incorporate these more efficiently into the researcher’s life cycle, in order to support the University’s research initiatives
Reveal Digital: innovative library crowdfunding model for open access digita...PaolaMarchionni
Slides from a webinar held on 1 Dec 2016 by Jisc and Reveal Digital on Reveal Digital's library crowdfunding model for their Independent Voices digital collection. This includes information on pledging fees for UK universities as negotiated by Jisc Collections. A recording of the webinar is available at https://goo.gl/kEHRrD.
This presentation was provided by Kristin Lee of Tufts University during the NISO hot topic virtual conference "Effective Data Management," which was held on September 29, 2021.
This presentation was jointly provided by Darby Orcutt and Susan Ivey, both of North Carolina State University during the NISO Virtual Conference, That Cutting Edge: Technology's Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library, held on October 24, 2018.
Organizational Implications of Data Science Environments in Education, Resear...Victoria Steeves
Data science (DS) poses key organizational challenges for academic institutions. DS is a multidisciplinary field that includes a range of research methodologies and fields of inquiry. DS as a domain is interested in many of the same issues as libraries: data access and curation, reproducibility, the value of ontologies, and open scholarship. At the same time, identifying opportunities to collaborate and deploy unified services can be challenging. The Data Science Environment (DSE) program, co-funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore and Alfred P. Sloan foundations, provides resources to help universities develop collaborations between researchers, develop tools in DS, and create new career paths for data scientists. Working groups within the DSE focus on reproducibility, career paths, education/training, research methods, space issues, and software/tools. This program has introduced new opportunities for libraries to explore how to engage with this community and consider how to bring the expertise in the DS community to bear on library missions and goals. In this panel, program members from each of the three partner universities, the University of Washington, New York University and the University of California, Berkeley, consider the research questions of the DSE and the organizational impact of these groups in the University as a whole and for the libraries specifically. The panel will employ a case-study presentation model framed through three lenses: the role of data sciences in information science, the
potential career paths for data scientists in libraries, and the potential
amplification of information services (e.g. data curation, institutional repositories, scholarly publishing).
CNI Program: Talk Description: https://www.cni.org/topics/digital-curation/organizational-implications-of-data-science-environments-in-education-research-and-research-management-in-libraries
Video of Talk--Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/149713097
Video of Talk--YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0G9JsPMEXY
This presentation was provided by Rick Johnson of Notre Dame University during the NISO virtual conference, That Cutting Edge: Technology's Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library, held on October 24, 2018.
Kimberly Silk, Data Librarian, Martin Prosperity Institute at
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, presented during the Nov. 13, 2014 Library Connect Webinar on the services she provides as an embedded data librarian for a research institute.
Putting Research Data into Context: A Scholarly Approach to Curating Data for...OCLC
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February 18 2014 NISO Virtual Conference
Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Capacity Building: Leveraging existing library networks to take on research data
Heidi Imker, Director of the Research Data Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
R. David Lankes, Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies; Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse
Sommer Browning, Assistant Professor; Head of Electronic Access & Discovery Services, Auraria Library, University of Colorado, Denver
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
RDAP14: Building a data management and curation program on a shoestring budgetASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014
San Diego, CA
Margaret Henderson
Director, Research Data Management
Virginia Commonwealth University
This presentation was provide by Mita Williams of the University of Windsor during the NISO virtual conference, That Cutting Edge: Technology's Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library, held on October 24, 2018.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Frances Pinter, Founder and Executive Director, Knowledge Unlatched
The vision for ‘the Research Paper of the Future’ promises
to make scholarship more discoverable, transparent,
inspectable, reusable and sustainable. Yet new forms
of scientific output also challenge authors, librarians,
publishers and service providers to register, validate,
disseminate and preserve them as elements of the scholarly
record. What constitutes authorship in a collaborative
process of GitHub pull requests and commits? When to
capture, reference and preserve dynamic data sets that
change over time? How to package and render complex
executable collections for review and delivery? This session
considers key challenges in operationalising the Research
Paper of the Future from the perspectives of a publisher,
a library administrator and a scientist/developer of a
collaborative authoring platform.
The presentation was provided by Angie Oehrli of the University of Michigan during the NISO Two-Part Webinar, Digital and Data Literacy, held on September 20, 2017
This presentation was jointly given by Kevin Read and Alisa Surkis of New York University during the two-part NISO webinar, Digital and Data Literacy, held on September 20, 2017.
NISO Two Day Virtual Conference:
Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform:
Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 21-22, 2014
Jeff Penka, Director of Channel and Product Development, Zepheira
Transforming liaison roles for academic librarians is critical, as universities are moving to position themselves to meet the demands of a more competitive national research environment. At La Trobe University, librarians are repackaging current research support services to streamline and incorporate these more efficiently into the researcher’s life cycle, in order to support the University’s research initiatives
Reveal Digital: innovative library crowdfunding model for open access digita...PaolaMarchionni
Slides from a webinar held on 1 Dec 2016 by Jisc and Reveal Digital on Reveal Digital's library crowdfunding model for their Independent Voices digital collection. This includes information on pledging fees for UK universities as negotiated by Jisc Collections. A recording of the webinar is available at https://goo.gl/kEHRrD.
This presentation was provided by Kristin Lee of Tufts University during the NISO hot topic virtual conference "Effective Data Management," which was held on September 29, 2021.
This presentation was jointly provided by Darby Orcutt and Susan Ivey, both of North Carolina State University during the NISO Virtual Conference, That Cutting Edge: Technology's Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library, held on October 24, 2018.
Organizational Implications of Data Science Environments in Education, Resear...Victoria Steeves
Data science (DS) poses key organizational challenges for academic institutions. DS is a multidisciplinary field that includes a range of research methodologies and fields of inquiry. DS as a domain is interested in many of the same issues as libraries: data access and curation, reproducibility, the value of ontologies, and open scholarship. At the same time, identifying opportunities to collaborate and deploy unified services can be challenging. The Data Science Environment (DSE) program, co-funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore and Alfred P. Sloan foundations, provides resources to help universities develop collaborations between researchers, develop tools in DS, and create new career paths for data scientists. Working groups within the DSE focus on reproducibility, career paths, education/training, research methods, space issues, and software/tools. This program has introduced new opportunities for libraries to explore how to engage with this community and consider how to bring the expertise in the DS community to bear on library missions and goals. In this panel, program members from each of the three partner universities, the University of Washington, New York University and the University of California, Berkeley, consider the research questions of the DSE and the organizational impact of these groups in the University as a whole and for the libraries specifically. The panel will employ a case-study presentation model framed through three lenses: the role of data sciences in information science, the
potential career paths for data scientists in libraries, and the potential
amplification of information services (e.g. data curation, institutional repositories, scholarly publishing).
CNI Program: Talk Description: https://www.cni.org/topics/digital-curation/organizational-implications-of-data-science-environments-in-education-research-and-research-management-in-libraries
Video of Talk--Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/149713097
Video of Talk--YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0G9JsPMEXY
Objectives: To explore potential collaborations between academic libraries and Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA)-funded institutes with respect to
data management training and support.
Methods: The National Institutes of Health CTSAs have established a well-funded, crucial infrastructure supporting large-scale collaborative biomedical research. This infrastructure is also valuable for smaller, more localized research projects. While infrastructure and corresponding support is often available for large, well-funded projects, these services have generally not been extended to smaller projects. This is a missed opportunity on both accounts. Academic libraries providing data services can leverage CTSA-based resources, while CTSA-funded institutes can extend their reach beyond large biomedical projectsto serve the long tail of research data.
Results: A year-long series of conversations with the Indiana CTSI Data Management Team resulted in resource sharing, consensus building about key issues in data management, provision of expert feedback on a data management training curriculum, and several avenues for future collaborations.
Conclusions:Data management training for graduate students and early career researchers is a vital area of need that would benefit from the combined infrastructure and expertise of translational science institutes and academic libraries. Such partnerships can leverage the instructional, preservation, and access expertise in academic libraries, along with the storage, security, and analytical expertise in translational science institutes to improve the management, protection, and access of valuable research data.
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At NCSU, librarians have developed a curriculum which is being offered to the library community as the Data and Visualization Institute for Librarians, enabling participants to develop knowledge, skills, and confidence to communicate effectively with researchers.This presentation will discuss the skills liaison librarians must now learn to support faculty and students in these new areas.
Bridging the Silos: Creating Sustainable Research Infrastructure with Implications for Digital Scholarship - presentation given at the Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference Jan 2010, Baltimore MD. Referenced by inside higher ed here:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/18/silos
About the Webinar
Big data is being collected at a rate that is surpassing traditional analytical methods due to the constantly expanding ways in which data can be created and mined. Faculty in all disciplines are increasingly creating and/or incorporating big data into their research and institutions are creating repositories and other tools to manage it all. There are many challenge to effectively manage and curate this data—challenges that are both similar and different to managing document archives. Libraries can and are assuming a key role in making this information more useful, visible, and accessible, such as creating taxonomies, designing metadata schemes, and systematizing retrieval methods.
Our panelists will talk about their experience with big data curation, best practices for research data management, and the tools used by libraries as they take on this evolving role.
UVa Library Scientific Data Consulting Group (SciDaC): New Partnerships and...Andrew Sallans
A. Sallans. "UVa Library Scientific Data Consulting Group (SciDaC): New Partnerships and Services to Support Scientific Data in the Library." Presented at the 2011 International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology.
RDAP14: Collaboration and tension between institutions and units providing da...ASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2014
San Diego, CA
March 26-28, 2014
David Minor, University of California, San Diego
Amanda Whitmire, Oregon State University
Stephanie Wright, University of Washington
Lisa Zilinski, Purdue University
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, during the closing segment of the NISO training series "AI & Prompt Design." Session Eight: Limitations and Potential Solutions, was held on May 23, 2024.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, during the seventh segment of the NISO training series "AI & Prompt Design." Session 7: Open Source Language Models, was held on May 16, 2024.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, during the sixth segment of the NISO training series "AI & Prompt Design." Session Six: Text Classification with LLMs, was held on May 9, 2024.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, during the fifth segment of the NISO training series "AI & Prompt Design." Session Five: Named Entity Recognition with LLMs, was held on May 2, 2024.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, during the fourth segment of the NISO training series "AI & Prompt Design." Session Four: Structured Data and Assistants, was held on April 25, 2024.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, during the third segment of the NISO training series "AI & Prompt Design." Session Three: Beginning Conversations, was held on April 18, 2024.
This presentation was provided by Kaveh Bazargan of River Valley Technologies, during the NISO webinar "Sustainability in Publishing." The event was held April 17, 2024.
This presentation was provided by Dana Compton of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), during the NISO webinar "Sustainability in Publishing." The event was held April 17, 2024.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, during the second segment of the NISO training series "AI & Prompt Design." Session Two: Large Language Models, was held on April 11, 2024.
This presentation was provided by Teresa Hazen of the University of Arizona, Geoff Morse of Northwestern University. and Ken Varnum of the University of Michigan, during the Spring ODI Conformance Statement Workshop for Libraries. This event was held on April 9, 2024
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, during the opening segment of the NISO training series "AI & Prompt Design." Session One: Introduction to Machine Learning, was held on April 4, 2024.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, for the eight and final session of NISO's 2023 Training Series on Text and Data Mining. Session eight, "Building Data Driven Applications" was held on Thursday, December 7, 2023.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, for the seventh session of NISO's 2023 Training Series on Text and Data Mining. Session seven, "Vector Databases and Semantic Searching" was held on Thursday, November 30, 2023.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, for the sixth session of NISO's 2023 Training Series on Text and Data Mining. Session six, "Text Mining Techniques" was held on Thursday, November 16, 2023.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, for the fifth session of NISO's 2023 Training Series on Text and Data Mining. Session five, "Text Processing for Library Data" was held on Thursday, November 9, 2023.
This presentation was provided by Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, during the NISO webinar on "Strategic Planning." The event was held virtually on November 8, 2023.
This presentation was provided by Rhonda Ross of CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, and Jonathan Clark of the International DOI Foundation, during the NISO webinar on "Strategic Planning." The event was held virtually on November 8, 2023.
This presentation was provided by William Mattingly of the Smithsonian Institution, for the fourth session of NISO's 2023 Training Series on Text and Data Mining. Session four, "Data Mining Techniques" was held on Thursday, November 2, 2023.
This presentation was provided by Tiffany Straza of UNESCO, during the two-day "NISO Tech Summit: Reflections Upon The Year of Open Science." Day two was held on October 26, 2023.
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12. #4 - Semantic Web Identity Services
2015-10-29 MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY 12
Academic organizations are poorly represented on the Semantic Web…
…because search engines don’t understand them as entities…
…because librarians have not built and maintained the data sources
that search engines trust.