User centered design (UCD) is an iterative process that focuses on gaining user feedback through small, fast experiments. It uses metrics and real-time user input to continuously improve the user experience. UCD approaches design as a guerrilla warfare that puts users first to understand their needs and pain points. It aims to capture best practices through monitoring the outcomes of minor changes to features, designs, and services.
This presentation was provided by Karen A. Wetzel of NISO, Mary Alice Baish of The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), Keith Johnson of The Stanford Digital Repository, Victoria Reich of Stanford University Libraries, and Carl Grant of ExLibris North America, during the NISO Webinar "Digital Preservation: Current Efforts" held on January 14, 2009
The document discusses the history and future of open science. It describes how open science has evolved from early empirical studies to today's data-driven computational research. Currently, many projects and repositories are making scientific data and findings openly accessible online. However, challenges remain regarding policies, infrastructure, and cultural changes. Moving forward, librarians can help by supporting data management, metadata standards, and identifying appropriate repositories for preserving and sharing research. The future of open science relies on continued collaboration across disciplines to facilitate data-intensive discovery.
Layers of Leadership for Archives, Libraries and MuseumsEducopia
Discussions and findings will inform future leadership development programming, including recommendations for PLA Leadership Academy, and will ultimately provide opportunities to assist members in leadership development that is effective and sustainable across their entire career span.
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Science Executive Committee. Washington, DC. 12 January 2015
This curriculum vitae summarizes Sheeji Kathuria's education and experience as a librarian. She received her Master's in Information Science from the University of Tennessee in 2011. Since 2014, she has worked as an Assistant Professor and Social Sciences Librarian at Mississippi State University. Prior to that, she held reference and instruction positions at the University of Alabama, Huntsville and Georgia Perimeter College. Her experience includes providing reference services, developing research guides, and coordinating outreach and instruction activities.
Ask a Librarian: The Role of Librarians in the Music Information Retrieval Co...Jenn Riley
Riley, Jenn and Constance A. Mayer. "Ask a Librarian: The Role of Librarians in the Music Information Retrieval Community." ISMIR 2006: 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Victoria, British Columbia, October 8-12, 2006.
The document discusses enabling tools and methods for international collaboration using virtual workspaces. It describes three types of workspaces - DataSpaces to connect data providers and users, ActivitySpaces to connect people working on shared activities, and ToolSpaces to connect tool creators and users. Examples are given of different projects that have used these virtual workspaces to facilitate collaboration, including developing naming conventions, air quality data summits, and designing a community air quality data system. The workspaces allow distributed groups to easily share and archive related content, discussions, and resources to support ongoing collaborative work.
User centered design (UCD) is an iterative process that focuses on gaining user feedback through small, fast experiments. It uses metrics and real-time user input to continuously improve the user experience. UCD approaches design as a guerrilla warfare that puts users first to understand their needs and pain points. It aims to capture best practices through monitoring the outcomes of minor changes to features, designs, and services.
This presentation was provided by Karen A. Wetzel of NISO, Mary Alice Baish of The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), Keith Johnson of The Stanford Digital Repository, Victoria Reich of Stanford University Libraries, and Carl Grant of ExLibris North America, during the NISO Webinar "Digital Preservation: Current Efforts" held on January 14, 2009
The document discusses the history and future of open science. It describes how open science has evolved from early empirical studies to today's data-driven computational research. Currently, many projects and repositories are making scientific data and findings openly accessible online. However, challenges remain regarding policies, infrastructure, and cultural changes. Moving forward, librarians can help by supporting data management, metadata standards, and identifying appropriate repositories for preserving and sharing research. The future of open science relies on continued collaboration across disciplines to facilitate data-intensive discovery.
Layers of Leadership for Archives, Libraries and MuseumsEducopia
Discussions and findings will inform future leadership development programming, including recommendations for PLA Leadership Academy, and will ultimately provide opportunities to assist members in leadership development that is effective and sustainable across their entire career span.
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Science Executive Committee. Washington, DC. 12 January 2015
This curriculum vitae summarizes Sheeji Kathuria's education and experience as a librarian. She received her Master's in Information Science from the University of Tennessee in 2011. Since 2014, she has worked as an Assistant Professor and Social Sciences Librarian at Mississippi State University. Prior to that, she held reference and instruction positions at the University of Alabama, Huntsville and Georgia Perimeter College. Her experience includes providing reference services, developing research guides, and coordinating outreach and instruction activities.
Ask a Librarian: The Role of Librarians in the Music Information Retrieval Co...Jenn Riley
Riley, Jenn and Constance A. Mayer. "Ask a Librarian: The Role of Librarians in the Music Information Retrieval Community." ISMIR 2006: 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Victoria, British Columbia, October 8-12, 2006.
The document discusses enabling tools and methods for international collaboration using virtual workspaces. It describes three types of workspaces - DataSpaces to connect data providers and users, ActivitySpaces to connect people working on shared activities, and ToolSpaces to connect tool creators and users. Examples are given of different projects that have used these virtual workspaces to facilitate collaboration, including developing naming conventions, air quality data summits, and designing a community air quality data system. The workspaces allow distributed groups to easily share and archive related content, discussions, and resources to support ongoing collaborative work.
Dp Geosc Info Presentation Final Version 2Smita Chandra
Digital preservation of geoscience information is important to ensure long-term access to valuable scientific data. For example, data from the 1975 Viking Mars mission was corrupted and unusable after 20 years. The presentation discusses the importance of digital preservation, outlines different types of digital information and threats. It also describes institutional repositories, digital preservation strategies like the OAIS model, and the current scenario in India. The research aims to test implementing an OAIS-compliant preservation layer in a geoscience institutional repository.
OCLC Research @ U of Calgary: New directions for metadata workflows across li...OCLC Research
Presentation used as scene setting for 2 days worth of discussion around library, archive & museum convergence, metadata workflows and single search at the University of Calgary.
Presentation in Canberra: Preparing for your data future seminar
Fri 22 July 2016
Panel session: Charting the Future
Ms Heather Jenks, Associate Director, Library Services, ANU
Biodiversity Heritage Library in AustraliaElycia Wallis
The Atlas of Living Australia project is a collaboration between the Australian Government and various research institutions to create a biodiversity data management system. It aims to link biological knowledge with scientific collections and make data freely accessible. The project is funded by the Australian Government and involves developing tools and data stores to share biodiversity information and support research. Major milestones include releasing a new interface for an existing site by December 2010 and implementing ingestion workflows by March 2011.
Fuller Disclosure: Getting More Collections into the Network Flowkramsey
The document discusses how libraries can make more of their collections discoverable by being where users search for information online. It recommends focusing on collection-level descriptions rather than exhaustive item-level metadata. Libraries should digitize materials, share metadata across systems, and engage users to add descriptive information over time. The goal is to expose hidden collections and get them integrated into the online information landscape where discovery happens.
Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partner...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given by Trish Rose-Sandler, Leora Siegel, Katie Mika, Pamela McClanahan, Ariadne Rehbein, Marissa Kings, and Alicia Esquivel at the DPLAFest in Chicago on April 21 2017
- OAIster is a digital library catalog that provides access to academic resources by harvesting metadata from open archives using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
- It contains over 23 million records from over 1100 organizations worldwide, representing a variety of digital materials like articles, books, audio, images, and datasets.
- OAIster is now maintained by OCLC to ensure its continued support and to broaden the scope of resources available in WorldCat. It provides access to scholarly resources that may not be found through other search engines or library catalogs.
Cataloging Landscape Update: RDA and LC Working Group on the Future of Biblio...kramsey
The document summarizes the report from the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The report recommends that bibliographic control become more collaborative, decentralized, web-based, and international in scope. It suggests making efficiency improvements, enhancing access to special collections, positioning technology and the community for the future, and strengthening the library and information science profession. Key themes are economics, standards, cooperation, users, and research. The LC plans to analyze the recommendations and work with the library community to respond and implement changes over time.
Towards OpenURL Quality Metrics: Initial Findingsalc28
Presentation on creating a method for benchmarking metadata consistency in OpenURL links. See also: <http: />. Delivered at the July 2009 American Library Association conference in Chicago.
The document provides an overview of a presentation on open science and open data for librarians. It includes:
- An introduction to open science/open data concepts and the library's role in research data services.
- Examples of activities working with research data, including data collection, visualization, cleaning, analysis and preservation.
- A discussion of the benefits of open data, challenges researchers face in opening their data, and the role of data repositories and standards.
- An overview of the African Open Science Platform project which aims to promote open science on the continent.
The document discusses the ESIP Commons, which aims to provide a knowledge repository and citation mechanism for information generated by the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). The ESIP Commons allows members to publish, cite, and discover various non-traditional scholarly works, including white papers, meeting materials, and future content types. It tracks contributions by individuals and organizations to further knowledge sharing within the ESIP network.
Νetworking content repositories to provide meaningful services to usersNikos Manouselis
The document discusses networking content repositories to provide meaningful services to users, drawing on experiences from the agricultural and biodiversity domains. It was authored by Nikos Manouselis and Giannis Stoitsis of Agro-Know Technologies.
Constructing Semantic Gazetteers: Managing GeoSpatial Vocabularies Using Open...Stephane Fellah
The document discusses constructing a semantic gazetteer to manage geospatial vocabularies using open semantic web standards. It describes encoding the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) controlled vocabulary terms semantically using SKOS, geocoding the terms, and enabling spatial search of the ASFA database integrated with topic and author search. The goal is to demonstrate the value of linked data and semantic approaches by enabling geospatial reasoning and reusability of the linked data.
Evolving NASA’s Data and Information Systems for Earth Scienceinside-BigData.com
In this deck from the HPC User Forum, Rahul Ramachandran from NASA presents: Evolving NASA’s Data and Information Systems for Earth Science.
"NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) missions help us to understand our planet’s interconnected systems, from a global scale down to minute processes. Working in concert with a satellite network of international partners, ESD can measure precipitation around the world, and it can employ its own constellation of small satellites to look into the eye of a hurricane. ESD technology can track dust storms across continents and mosquito habitats across cities. ESD delivers the technology, expertise and global observations that help us to map the myriad connections between our planet’s vital processes and the effects of ongoing natural and human-caused changes."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-k8y
Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science
and
http://hpcuserforum.com
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
The document summarizes a webinar on May 18, 2011 about the future of integrated library systems and user interaction. The webinar featured four speakers discussing their projects focused on improving the user experience of library discovery systems. Jennifer Bowen presented on the eXtensible Catalog software being developed at the University of Rochester to give libraries more control over their metadata and interfaces. John Blyberg discussed the SOPAC library discovery system and its user-centered design. Allie Flanary and Anya Arnold then described the shared catalog system used by the Orbis Cascade Alliance and efforts to enhance it based on user research findings.
Data Facilities Workshop - Panel on Current Concepts in Data Sharing & Intero...EarthCube
This series of presentations was given at the EarthCube Data Facilities End-User Workshop held January 15-17, 2014 in Washington, DC. This workshop provided a forum to discuss the unique requirements and challenges associated with developing the communication, collaboration, interoperability, and governance structures that will be required to build EarthCube in conjunction with existing and emerging NSF/GEO facilities.
This panel and discussion, specifically, outlined and explained several current concepts in data sharing and interoperability, featuring presentations by:
Paul Morin (UMN): Polar Cyberinfrastructure
Don Middleton (UCAR): Atmospheric/Climate
Kerstin Lehnert (LDEO): Domain Repositories & Physical Samples
David Schindel (CBOL, GRBio): Biological Perspective & Collections
Hank Leoscher (NEON): Observation Networks
Daniel Fuka (Virginia Tech) and Ruth Duerr (NSIDC): Brokering
Ilya Zaslavsky (UCSD): Cross-Domain Interoperability
A demonstration of transparent and scalable OpenURL quality metrics for use i...alc28
This document summarizes Adam Chandler's presentation on using OpenURL quality metrics to promote metadata consistency across content providers. It discusses literature on OpenURL and metadata quality, analyzes elements in OpenURLs, and presents Chandler's 2008 findings on common and variable elements. The goal is to build a tool to evaluate OpenURL quality from content providers based on Hughes' metadata evaluation approach and analysis of core OpenURL elements.
The document discusses the Moving Image Collections (MIC) project which aims to create a union catalog and provide access to moving image collections held by various organizations. The MIC project grew out of national plans to preserve film and television in the US. It will provide a central portal with a union catalog of metadata records harvested from participating institutions. The metadata will be mapped to various standards like MPEG-7 and Dublin Core to make the collections more accessible. The project is developing cataloging and mapping utilities to help diverse institutions participate and expose their materials.
Dp Geosc Info Presentation Final Version 2Smita Chandra
Digital preservation of geoscience information is important to ensure long-term access to valuable scientific data. For example, data from the 1975 Viking Mars mission was corrupted and unusable after 20 years. The presentation discusses the importance of digital preservation, outlines different types of digital information and threats. It also describes institutional repositories, digital preservation strategies like the OAIS model, and the current scenario in India. The research aims to test implementing an OAIS-compliant preservation layer in a geoscience institutional repository.
OCLC Research @ U of Calgary: New directions for metadata workflows across li...OCLC Research
Presentation used as scene setting for 2 days worth of discussion around library, archive & museum convergence, metadata workflows and single search at the University of Calgary.
Presentation in Canberra: Preparing for your data future seminar
Fri 22 July 2016
Panel session: Charting the Future
Ms Heather Jenks, Associate Director, Library Services, ANU
Biodiversity Heritage Library in AustraliaElycia Wallis
The Atlas of Living Australia project is a collaboration between the Australian Government and various research institutions to create a biodiversity data management system. It aims to link biological knowledge with scientific collections and make data freely accessible. The project is funded by the Australian Government and involves developing tools and data stores to share biodiversity information and support research. Major milestones include releasing a new interface for an existing site by December 2010 and implementing ingestion workflows by March 2011.
Fuller Disclosure: Getting More Collections into the Network Flowkramsey
The document discusses how libraries can make more of their collections discoverable by being where users search for information online. It recommends focusing on collection-level descriptions rather than exhaustive item-level metadata. Libraries should digitize materials, share metadata across systems, and engage users to add descriptive information over time. The goal is to expose hidden collections and get them integrated into the online information landscape where discovery happens.
Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partner...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given by Trish Rose-Sandler, Leora Siegel, Katie Mika, Pamela McClanahan, Ariadne Rehbein, Marissa Kings, and Alicia Esquivel at the DPLAFest in Chicago on April 21 2017
- OAIster is a digital library catalog that provides access to academic resources by harvesting metadata from open archives using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
- It contains over 23 million records from over 1100 organizations worldwide, representing a variety of digital materials like articles, books, audio, images, and datasets.
- OAIster is now maintained by OCLC to ensure its continued support and to broaden the scope of resources available in WorldCat. It provides access to scholarly resources that may not be found through other search engines or library catalogs.
Cataloging Landscape Update: RDA and LC Working Group on the Future of Biblio...kramsey
The document summarizes the report from the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The report recommends that bibliographic control become more collaborative, decentralized, web-based, and international in scope. It suggests making efficiency improvements, enhancing access to special collections, positioning technology and the community for the future, and strengthening the library and information science profession. Key themes are economics, standards, cooperation, users, and research. The LC plans to analyze the recommendations and work with the library community to respond and implement changes over time.
Towards OpenURL Quality Metrics: Initial Findingsalc28
Presentation on creating a method for benchmarking metadata consistency in OpenURL links. See also: <http: />. Delivered at the July 2009 American Library Association conference in Chicago.
The document provides an overview of a presentation on open science and open data for librarians. It includes:
- An introduction to open science/open data concepts and the library's role in research data services.
- Examples of activities working with research data, including data collection, visualization, cleaning, analysis and preservation.
- A discussion of the benefits of open data, challenges researchers face in opening their data, and the role of data repositories and standards.
- An overview of the African Open Science Platform project which aims to promote open science on the continent.
The document discusses the ESIP Commons, which aims to provide a knowledge repository and citation mechanism for information generated by the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). The ESIP Commons allows members to publish, cite, and discover various non-traditional scholarly works, including white papers, meeting materials, and future content types. It tracks contributions by individuals and organizations to further knowledge sharing within the ESIP network.
Νetworking content repositories to provide meaningful services to usersNikos Manouselis
The document discusses networking content repositories to provide meaningful services to users, drawing on experiences from the agricultural and biodiversity domains. It was authored by Nikos Manouselis and Giannis Stoitsis of Agro-Know Technologies.
Constructing Semantic Gazetteers: Managing GeoSpatial Vocabularies Using Open...Stephane Fellah
The document discusses constructing a semantic gazetteer to manage geospatial vocabularies using open semantic web standards. It describes encoding the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) controlled vocabulary terms semantically using SKOS, geocoding the terms, and enabling spatial search of the ASFA database integrated with topic and author search. The goal is to demonstrate the value of linked data and semantic approaches by enabling geospatial reasoning and reusability of the linked data.
Evolving NASA’s Data and Information Systems for Earth Scienceinside-BigData.com
In this deck from the HPC User Forum, Rahul Ramachandran from NASA presents: Evolving NASA’s Data and Information Systems for Earth Science.
"NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) missions help us to understand our planet’s interconnected systems, from a global scale down to minute processes. Working in concert with a satellite network of international partners, ESD can measure precipitation around the world, and it can employ its own constellation of small satellites to look into the eye of a hurricane. ESD technology can track dust storms across continents and mosquito habitats across cities. ESD delivers the technology, expertise and global observations that help us to map the myriad connections between our planet’s vital processes and the effects of ongoing natural and human-caused changes."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-k8y
Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science
and
http://hpcuserforum.com
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
The document summarizes a webinar on May 18, 2011 about the future of integrated library systems and user interaction. The webinar featured four speakers discussing their projects focused on improving the user experience of library discovery systems. Jennifer Bowen presented on the eXtensible Catalog software being developed at the University of Rochester to give libraries more control over their metadata and interfaces. John Blyberg discussed the SOPAC library discovery system and its user-centered design. Allie Flanary and Anya Arnold then described the shared catalog system used by the Orbis Cascade Alliance and efforts to enhance it based on user research findings.
Data Facilities Workshop - Panel on Current Concepts in Data Sharing & Intero...EarthCube
This series of presentations was given at the EarthCube Data Facilities End-User Workshop held January 15-17, 2014 in Washington, DC. This workshop provided a forum to discuss the unique requirements and challenges associated with developing the communication, collaboration, interoperability, and governance structures that will be required to build EarthCube in conjunction with existing and emerging NSF/GEO facilities.
This panel and discussion, specifically, outlined and explained several current concepts in data sharing and interoperability, featuring presentations by:
Paul Morin (UMN): Polar Cyberinfrastructure
Don Middleton (UCAR): Atmospheric/Climate
Kerstin Lehnert (LDEO): Domain Repositories & Physical Samples
David Schindel (CBOL, GRBio): Biological Perspective & Collections
Hank Leoscher (NEON): Observation Networks
Daniel Fuka (Virginia Tech) and Ruth Duerr (NSIDC): Brokering
Ilya Zaslavsky (UCSD): Cross-Domain Interoperability
A demonstration of transparent and scalable OpenURL quality metrics for use i...alc28
This document summarizes Adam Chandler's presentation on using OpenURL quality metrics to promote metadata consistency across content providers. It discusses literature on OpenURL and metadata quality, analyzes elements in OpenURLs, and presents Chandler's 2008 findings on common and variable elements. The goal is to build a tool to evaluate OpenURL quality from content providers based on Hughes' metadata evaluation approach and analysis of core OpenURL elements.
The document discusses the Moving Image Collections (MIC) project which aims to create a union catalog and provide access to moving image collections held by various organizations. The MIC project grew out of national plans to preserve film and television in the US. It will provide a central portal with a union catalog of metadata records harvested from participating institutions. The metadata will be mapped to various standards like MPEG-7 and Dublin Core to make the collections more accessible. The project is developing cataloging and mapping utilities to help diverse institutions participate and expose their materials.
GARNet workshop on Integrating Large Data into Plant Science
The Making of A Natural History Digital Library
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Editor's Notes
The entire Sonoran Desert region covers over 200,000 square miles of surface area, over half of which is water. It includes all of the world’s biomes, is home to 60 species of mammals, more than 250 kinds of birds, 20 amphibians, at least 100 reptiles, 30 native freshwater fish, and 1,000 mineral species. Additionally, the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) is listed as one of the world’s most biologically diverse and productive ocean regions, supporting an estimated 6,500 species of animal life. This narrow enclosed sea has been explored scientifically since the 1800s and is an integral part of the Sonoran Desert, the only maritime desert in North America. Jacques Yves Cousteau once described the southern Sea of Cortes as the Galapagos of North America. ASDM’s digital library is the only existing digital catalog of the Sonoran Desert region, although content and usability are in early development stages.
Target Audience/Uses The ASDM Digital Library is designed to serve primarily: scientists from the region and worldwide in their research and documentation of the region; teachers, students (3rd grade through post-graduate), and the general public as an educational tool; governmental and land-management agencies as an authoritative resource.