Presentation given at the annual RLUK (Research Libraries UK) conference on Thursday 9th March 2017. I discuss the British Library's 'Everything Available' portfolio that aims to transform the Library's research services, in particular around discovery, access and use of content.
Imperial College London - journey to open scholarshipTorsten Reimer
Talk given at the 2016 Open Repositories conference in Dublin, Ireland. This paper follows the journey of a research intensive university towards making its outputs available openly, discusses approaches outlined above and identifies problems in the global scholarly communications landscape.
Transforming scholarly communications support at Imperial College LondonTorsten Reimer
Presentation given by Ruth Harrison and Torsten Reimer at the 2016 RLUK Conference in London. We discuss how collaboration between Library Services and the Research Office has transformed Scholarly Communications Support (Open Access and Research Data Management, but also related areas such as reporting and ORCID) at Imperial College London.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Open Access in the UKTorsten Reimer
This presentation was given at the Open Access Tage 2014 in Cologne, Germany. It
1) gives an overview of the OA policy context in the UK,
2) outlines how a research-intensive university (Imperial College London) addresses the issues with around the policies and
3) summarises the latest data available on OA publishing activity, in particular issues around hybrid journals.
Automate it – open access (compliance) as by-product of better workflowsTorsten Reimer
Presentation about challenges and solutions for open access workflows, including a case study on OA at Imperial College London. Presented at the 11 May Digital Science Webinar on "Smarter Open Access Workflows".
Green Shoots:Research Data Management Pilot at Imperial College LondonTorsten Reimer
This presentation by Ian McArdle and Torsten Reimer was given at the 10th International Digital Curation Conference in London (10th February 2015). It describes a "Green Shoots" research data management pilot programme at Imperial College London.
Introducing ORCID at Imperial College LondonTorsten Reimer
Presentation given at the 6th German Library Congress (6. Bibliothekskongress Deutschland) in Leipzig, 15th March 2016. I discuss the position of ORCID in the scholarly communications system - in particular with reference to developments in the UK - and the ORCID implementation project at Imperial College London.
Imperial College London - journey to open scholarshipTorsten Reimer
Talk given at the 2016 Open Repositories conference in Dublin, Ireland. This paper follows the journey of a research intensive university towards making its outputs available openly, discusses approaches outlined above and identifies problems in the global scholarly communications landscape.
Transforming scholarly communications support at Imperial College LondonTorsten Reimer
Presentation given by Ruth Harrison and Torsten Reimer at the 2016 RLUK Conference in London. We discuss how collaboration between Library Services and the Research Office has transformed Scholarly Communications Support (Open Access and Research Data Management, but also related areas such as reporting and ORCID) at Imperial College London.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Open Access in the UKTorsten Reimer
This presentation was given at the Open Access Tage 2014 in Cologne, Germany. It
1) gives an overview of the OA policy context in the UK,
2) outlines how a research-intensive university (Imperial College London) addresses the issues with around the policies and
3) summarises the latest data available on OA publishing activity, in particular issues around hybrid journals.
Automate it – open access (compliance) as by-product of better workflowsTorsten Reimer
Presentation about challenges and solutions for open access workflows, including a case study on OA at Imperial College London. Presented at the 11 May Digital Science Webinar on "Smarter Open Access Workflows".
Green Shoots:Research Data Management Pilot at Imperial College LondonTorsten Reimer
This presentation by Ian McArdle and Torsten Reimer was given at the 10th International Digital Curation Conference in London (10th February 2015). It describes a "Green Shoots" research data management pilot programme at Imperial College London.
Introducing ORCID at Imperial College LondonTorsten Reimer
Presentation given at the 6th German Library Congress (6. Bibliothekskongress Deutschland) in Leipzig, 15th March 2016. I discuss the position of ORCID in the scholarly communications system - in particular with reference to developments in the UK - and the ORCID implementation project at Imperial College London.
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Slides from a talk at the annual conference of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e. V. (DPG) in Berlin (18/03/2015). I summarise the current OA policy landscape in the UK, use Imperial College London as an example of how a research-intensive university approaches these issues and then take a look at the (UK) data on the cost of open access and total cost of ownership.
A workshop at the Repository Fringe 2014 in Edinburgh looks at the new Jisc Publications Router service, how it works and what it offers suppliers and consumers.
Presentation made at the 'Towards linked science - Open Data and DataCite Esrtonia seminar as part of the Estonian Open Access Week at University of Tartu
Introduction to SUNCAT
Background to the redevelopment of the service
Key enhancements of the new interface
Contributing to SUNCAT
How SUNCAT can help you and your users
Demo of the new service
Future plans
Feedback and questions
Presented by Zena Mulligan at the Interlend 2014 Conference, 23-24 June 2014, Carlton Highland Hotel,
Edinburgh.
Présentation projet espace Coworking / FabLab à claretRaid Entreprendre
Exemple présentation d'un projet de création d'un espace Coworking + MiniLab en milieu rural.
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« L’Atelier », qu’est-ce que c’est ?
Au commencement, une tribu d’irréductibles (entrepreneurs, viticulteur, artisan, formateurs, consultants, designer, archi, graphiste, traducteur, développeur Web, geeks & passionnés), tous de Claret. Certains ont démarré dans un garage, une chambre d’étudiant, un coin de bureau, à partir de quelques mots griffonnés sur la terrasse d’un café, une rencontre ou par hasard.
Pour nous ce sera l’Atelier et une promesse :
« Construire l’avenir plutôt que chercher à le prédire »
Personal Branding: Women's Private Equity Forum Half Moon Bay, CA March 2017Jennifer Jones & Partners
Personal branding is a requirement today. It’s not just about self-promotion. It’s about finding a signature image, a unique voice, and a recognizable standard that your friends, customers and others can grow to appreciate. It’s knowing what you are best at doing and not being afraid to put it out there. It’s having the confidence to project a persona and live in it.
Presented by Stuart Macdonald at the IT Professionals Forum (20/5/14) and the PPLS (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) RDM Workshop (6/5/14).
The state of play currently with the preservation of all things webby and concrete actions to take. Delivered by Peter Burnhill at the ALSP event "Standing on the Digits of Giants: Research data, preservation and innovation" on 8 March 2015 in London.
Slides from a talk at the annual conference of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e. V. (DPG) in Berlin (18/03/2015). I summarise the current OA policy landscape in the UK, use Imperial College London as an example of how a research-intensive university approaches these issues and then take a look at the (UK) data on the cost of open access and total cost of ownership.
A workshop at the Repository Fringe 2014 in Edinburgh looks at the new Jisc Publications Router service, how it works and what it offers suppliers and consumers.
Presentation made at the 'Towards linked science - Open Data and DataCite Esrtonia seminar as part of the Estonian Open Access Week at University of Tartu
Introduction to SUNCAT
Background to the redevelopment of the service
Key enhancements of the new interface
Contributing to SUNCAT
How SUNCAT can help you and your users
Demo of the new service
Future plans
Feedback and questions
Presented by Zena Mulligan at the Interlend 2014 Conference, 23-24 June 2014, Carlton Highland Hotel,
Edinburgh.
Présentation projet espace Coworking / FabLab à claretRaid Entreprendre
Exemple présentation d'un projet de création d'un espace Coworking + MiniLab en milieu rural.
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« L’Atelier », qu’est-ce que c’est ?
Au commencement, une tribu d’irréductibles (entrepreneurs, viticulteur, artisan, formateurs, consultants, designer, archi, graphiste, traducteur, développeur Web, geeks & passionnés), tous de Claret. Certains ont démarré dans un garage, une chambre d’étudiant, un coin de bureau, à partir de quelques mots griffonnés sur la terrasse d’un café, une rencontre ou par hasard.
Pour nous ce sera l’Atelier et une promesse :
« Construire l’avenir plutôt que chercher à le prédire »
Personal Branding: Women's Private Equity Forum Half Moon Bay, CA March 2017Jennifer Jones & Partners
Personal branding is a requirement today. It’s not just about self-promotion. It’s about finding a signature image, a unique voice, and a recognizable standard that your friends, customers and others can grow to appreciate. It’s knowing what you are best at doing and not being afraid to put it out there. It’s having the confidence to project a persona and live in it.
Get the latest announcements on Microsoft and NVIDIA's HGX-1 platform for artificial intelligence cloud computing, Facebook's new AI server, and the launch of Jetson TX2 for AI computing in cameras, sensors, and more.
Twitter gives B2B marketers a powerful opportunity to access broad networks of brands, companies and decision makers on Twitter. Supported by the latest research, we demonstrate why Twitter is not optional and why private and publicly listed brands are missing out on a solid opportunity if they do not incorporate Twitter into their marketing mix.
We demonstrate that Twitter is not optional for brands engaged with B2B marketing. We include the most recent data from multiple leading sources, including The Social Media Examiner, Inc.; Twitter, Inc.; Regalix, Inc. and others.
Twitter provides private and publicly-listed brands an opportunity to engage with broad networks of other brands, firms and key decision makers that also use Twitter. We note that Twitter's active user base is comprised of 250 million plus users and is growing.
When used effectively and in combination with communication strategy and tools, Twitter represents the optimal platform for deploying ongoing messaging. When viewed as a communications hub, Twitter is unrivaled through its ability to integrate other channels and information sources and to coordinate their priority and emphasis. Twitter is effective at relaying information on channels that include Websites, Press releases, Instragram, Facebook, Snapchat, URLs, and any other linkable source of information, and driving traffic to these same sources.
We note that press releases and awareness in general can be difficult for some brands and companies to generate but that Twitter is a proven solution.
Sky Alphabet is a social media marketing agency that utilizes Twitter to achieve growth, awareness and sales objectives through integrated forms of traditional and digital communications driven by Twitter. We understand that Twitter is "not easy" because of its unrelenting requirement for fresh and relevant content, but it is this same requirement that makes Twitter the ideal platform for brands, companies, people and products that are prepared to express themselves through such an advanced channel.
Author: Steve Yanor Aug 2016. @skyalphabet
Research sources: Regalix, Inc. Twitter, Inc. Social Media Examiner, Inc.
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The lack of visible female role models is pervasive in the tech industry, particularly on Wikipedia, where just under 17% of Wikipedia biographies were on women. That's why HubSpot wrote fourteen Wikipedia entries for remarkable women in tech to help inspire young women to reach positions at the highest levels of STEM.
Delivered by Richard Boulderstone of the British Library at the Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS), which took place 1-3 June 2009.
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Researching researchers Delivering a systematic user research programme in a ...Torsten Reimer
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
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Objective:
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‘Everything Available’ – a vision for the development of the British Library services for research
1. ‘Everything Available’
– a vision for the development
of the British Library services
for research
Dr Torsten Reimer
Head of Research Services
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8357-9422
RLUK conference, London, 09 March 2017
2. www.bl.uk 2
Living Knowledge
• Our mission is to make our intellectual
heritage accessible to everyone, for
research, inspiration and enjoyment.
• Living Knowledge articulates the vision
of the British Library in 2023 as the most
open, creative and innovative institution
of its kind in the world.
• Roly Keating: ‘These are times of
historic disruption in the whole global
system of information and publication,
and it seems right that the great
knowledge institutions – with their
historic remit to think and act with a view
far into the future – should play a full
part in shaping the changes that lie
ahead.’
8. www.bl.uk 8
Disruption 4: open science & scholarly
communication
• Access
• Data
• Source
• Science
• …
Open
9. www.bl.uk 9
How to respond?
• Add value, be a partner in content creation and research
• Bring content to the user (even if the ‘user’ is a machine)
• Collections in a global world (preserve locally, discover globally)
• Grow capability for discovery and access services
• Focus on user experience, usability and value proposition
• Tailored content provision
• Move to platform / infrastructure provision
• Replace/update all core library systems
• Deliver more in partnership
10. www.bl.uk 10
The five major change portfolios
Everyone
Engaged
St Pancras
Transformed
Boston Spa
Renewed
Heritage Made
Digital
Everything
Available
BL’s most important
and/or at-risk heritage
collections fully
digitised
All digitised content
on a common
platform
Interoperable with
other great digitised
heritage collections
around the world
At-risk collections
from other countries
digitised with EAP/BL
support
BL’s London campus
completed and
successfully serving
3m+ visitors per year
Improved and
extended facilities for
exhibitions, learning,
research and business
support
Alan Turing Institute
fully established and
integrated on campus
BL understood, valued
and supported by
people right across
the UK
50,000 people paying
membership fees at
different levels
BL at the heart of a
thriving professional
network of major UK
libraries and
knowledge quarters
BSP established as
international centre of
excellence in
collection
management, physical
and digital
Multiple partners from
cultural and research
sectors
New generation digital
skills, diverse
workforce
Attractive, high-quality
campus facilities,
buildings and
landscape design
Comprehensive and
immediate on-site
access to the latest
research content
Sustainable models for
remote access
Common access and
discovery tools for all
content in BL collections
– and beyond
Supporting scholarly
communications
nationally / globally
BL recognised as
offering the best
national research library
service in the world
11. www.bl.uk 11
Improving discovery
short
• UX study and UI changes
• Trial new approaches
mid
• Review and possibly
replace current discovery
long
• Take a lead in researching
& delivering new solutions
13. www.bl.uk 13
Access & use
• From just-in-case to just-in-time provision
• Tailored delivery, feature OA content
• Open up collections:
– BL API platform
– universal viewer
• Supporting research: BL Labs, data analytics,
plans for Digital Research and AV Suite
• Reconsider infrastructure for access and preservation
14. www.bl.uk 14
Replacing the Digital Library System
• Primary driver: enhance BL capacity
• Opportunity to offer preservation and access services to others
Current system Replacement
Developed in-house ten years ago Dramatic increase in scalability
750 TB, replicated over four sites Multi-tenancy enabled
Preservation-focused system Preservation and access
15. www.bl.uk 15
Repository services and questions
• EThOS, widely used BL repository service for theses,
to be replatformed (with preservation capability?)
• BL needs own repository function
• Discussion with partners about
a shared repository service
• Open access preservation?
16. www.bl.uk 16
BL data strategy
‘Our vision for the British Library is that research data are as
integrated into our collections, research and services as text
is today.’
Data Archiving and
Preservation
Data Discovery,
Access and Reuse
Data CreationData Management
18. www.bl.uk 18
(Start of a) roadmap
Short-term
Improve discovery solutions
User registration and
remote access
Tailored delivery and just-in-
time-provision of content
API platform
(starting with EThOS)
Improve user experience
Develop open access
strategy and policy
Lay groundwork to implement
the BL data policy
Scope services for proposed
Digital Reading Room
Medium-term
Improved whole discovery
architecture
Enhanced identifier and digital
preservation services
Shared services model and
national infrastructure
Make Library collections
accessible through external
tools/infrastructures
Appropriate on-site support for
data-driven research and
digital/AV materials
BL as custodian for culturally
relevant business data
Long-term
New approaches to discovery,
including AI-based systems
Exceptional increase in TDM
capacity for heritage content
and BL collections more
Provide support for digital
research lifecycle, working with
partners
19. www.bl.uk 19
Making everything available means working together
• No single institution can crack this
• Time for more coordination at
national level and beyond
• Collect jointly, preserve nationally,
discover internationally
Two concrete things:
• Skills: work shadowing and
placements
• Repository / preservation
workshop this spring
Editor's Notes
2014 survey from the UK’s Software Sustainability institute shows how important the use of software in research has become. Who is preserving this software? Are we set up to manage the digital outputs properly? Can we feed our information sources into these tools so researchers can use them in their preferred workflows?
Researchers expect simple, clean interfaces, with immediate online access to information. What isn’t available that way is increasingly seen as irrelevant. Device and location independent working
2012 British Library and Jisc study on Researchers of Tomorrow; shows Google and similar services way ahead of library catalogue as discovery solution. Libraries risk becoming invisible.
Researchers’ frustration with publisher and library solutions for discovery and access shown by SciHub. Illegal, but fast and simple access to masses of scholarly content.
Cost of subscriptions keeps increasing, while budgets often shrink – certainly in case of BL. Purchased Acquisitions Review concluded that BL may pull out of big deals - cost per download is simply too high. HE libraries struggle too, but cost per download much lower.
Research outputs are increasingly open. Which means not only do researchers expect to be able to access and reuse content easily, they are also increasingly less likely to need the library for access. We also need to update our infrastructure to support the requirements of open science.
This is the ultimate aim – being able to find, access and use research data at the British Library should eventually become business as usual.
BL is serving individual users onsite and online, but also provides services indirectly via other institutions and has a role in (inter)national service provision.
This is the start of a roadmap, feedback and discussions welcome!