Andrea Scharnhorst, Frank van der Most, Christophe Gueret, Tamy Chambers (IU, Bloomington), Linda Reijnhoudt. Presentation at the ACUMEN workshop, March 8, 2013, Copenhagen
The document discusses the future of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and its role as a center of expertise in data curation and preservation. It outlines the DCC's proposed core services for the next phase, including providing reference resources, training, expertise/consultancy, community building, and tools/toolkits. It also discusses potential additional services and ensuring the DCC complements rather than conflicts with the UK Research Data Service.
This document describes a project report submitted by T.S. Prasanna to partially fulfill requirements for a training program in information technology applications to library and information services. The report discusses developing a program to enhance CDROM search results from the J.R. Dutta Memorial Library's journal holdings database. It was submitted to the National Centre for Science Information at the Indian Institute of Science in April 2001.
This document summarizes an presentation about opportunities for data exchange and optimizing data sharing conditions. It discusses several projects by LIBER, including Europeana which aims to make cultural content available online. It notes that with proper infrastructure, researchers can collaborate on shared data sets across locations. However, challenges include authentication, skills, and managing large amounts of data being generated. Overall, the presentation argues that data sharing can advance scientific inquiry if barriers are addressed and key stakeholders work together.
Rare (and emergent) disciplines in the light of science studiesAndrea Scharnhorst
Andrea Scharnhorst. Insights from TD1210. presentation given at Exploratory Workshop “Integrating the stake of rare disciplines at the European level” COST, Brussels, September 9, 2015
This document discusses open access to scientific research data. It notes that scientific research is increasingly data-driven and large-scale, especially in fields like high-energy physics, astronomy, and biology. However, inadequate access to research data is a problem, limiting opportunities to reuse data and validate or build upon past findings. The document examines some incentive-based approaches and key developments related to improving data sharing. It provides examples of large-scale data generation projects and challenges around managing and analyzing big data. Overall, the document argues that unrestricted sharing of scientific data deposited in the public domain could accelerate research and advance knowledge.
The document discusses the future of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and its role as a center of expertise in data curation and preservation. It outlines the DCC's proposed core services for the next phase, including providing reference resources, training, expertise/consultancy, community building, and tools/toolkits. It also discusses potential additional services and ensuring the DCC complements rather than conflicts with the UK Research Data Service.
This document describes a project report submitted by T.S. Prasanna to partially fulfill requirements for a training program in information technology applications to library and information services. The report discusses developing a program to enhance CDROM search results from the J.R. Dutta Memorial Library's journal holdings database. It was submitted to the National Centre for Science Information at the Indian Institute of Science in April 2001.
This document summarizes an presentation about opportunities for data exchange and optimizing data sharing conditions. It discusses several projects by LIBER, including Europeana which aims to make cultural content available online. It notes that with proper infrastructure, researchers can collaborate on shared data sets across locations. However, challenges include authentication, skills, and managing large amounts of data being generated. Overall, the presentation argues that data sharing can advance scientific inquiry if barriers are addressed and key stakeholders work together.
Rare (and emergent) disciplines in the light of science studiesAndrea Scharnhorst
Andrea Scharnhorst. Insights from TD1210. presentation given at Exploratory Workshop “Integrating the stake of rare disciplines at the European level” COST, Brussels, September 9, 2015
This document discusses open access to scientific research data. It notes that scientific research is increasingly data-driven and large-scale, especially in fields like high-energy physics, astronomy, and biology. However, inadequate access to research data is a problem, limiting opportunities to reuse data and validate or build upon past findings. The document examines some incentive-based approaches and key developments related to improving data sharing. It provides examples of large-scale data generation projects and challenges around managing and analyzing big data. Overall, the document argues that unrestricted sharing of scientific data deposited in the public domain could accelerate research and advance knowledge.
This document discusses the need for digital curation specialists in library settings to manage the growing volume of scholarly data and output. It recognizes that libraries have the skills and infrastructure to curate digital resources but will need new roles like digital curators, archivists, and data scientists. These roles require new training programs and concentrations in areas like data curation to develop specialists that can preserve, organize, and provide access to digital collections over the long term.
The document discusses the roles, tasks, and competencies of data librarianship. It outlines how research data management is relevant for libraries and defines key aspects like disciplinarity, organization, technology, access, and quality. International curriculum models for data librarianship are presented, covering topics such as data management, description, curation, archiving, and dissemination. The roles and competencies of data librarians, data managers, data scientists, and data creators are also compared.
The document summarizes the Oxford e-Social Science Project (OeSS), which aimed to identify challenges and solutions related to emerging digital research infrastructure and practices. The project occurred in two phases from 2005-2012, studying issues like privacy, ethics, and how researchers access data and collaborate in networked environments. It highlights both opportunities and challenges of networked institutions and individual researchers, and calls for a focus on implications for research quality rather than just technical innovation.
This document provides information about finding and managing academic information. It discusses searching techniques, using keywords and limits. It recommends starting with the library catalogue and provides tips on using databases to find journal articles. It also discusses citing and referencing sources and using EndNote reference management software. The document encourages exploring the library guide for the student's subject and practicing the skills discussed in the accompanying handout.
This document summarizes a presentation about the history and future of digital repositories and text analysis tools. It discusses how text collections have evolved from non-digital and dispersed, to digitized but dispersed, to full text collections in repositories, and finally to texts organized into corpora. However, many challenges remain, such as incomplete digitization and a lack of tools for combining close and distant reading. The document envisions a future of distributed infrastructure that connects dispersed data and tools. However, careful interpretation of results will still be needed to understand what texts are included or missing and make valid claims.
Data citation standards and practice paul uhlirASIS&T
Data Citation Standards and Practices
Paul F. Uhlir, Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences
Presentation at Research Data Access & Preservation Summit
22 March 2012
Data Citation Standards and Practices - Paul Uhlir - RDAP12ASIS&T
This document summarizes a presentation given by Paul F. Uhlir and Daniel Cohen to the ASIS&T Conference on March 22, 2012. The presentation discussed the work of the CODATA Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices and the BRDI (Board on Research Data and Information) at developing data citation standards and best practices. It provided an overview of the objectives and activities of these groups, including conducting analyses of existing practices, identifying stakeholder needs, and working to develop formal standards. It also summarized a symposium and workshop held in 2011 to discuss issues around developing data attribution and citation standards across disciplines.
Data Equivalence
Mark Parsons, Lead Project Manager, Senior Associate Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data citation, especially using persistent identifiers like Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), is an increasingly accepted scientific practice. Recently, several, respected organizations have developed guidelines for data citation. The different guidelines are largely congruent in that they agree on the basic practice and elements of data citation, especially for relatively static, whole data collections. There is less agreement on the more subtle nuances of data citation that are sometimes necessary to ensure precise reference and scientific reproducibility--the core purpose of data citation. We need to be sure that if you follow a data reference you get to the precise data that were used or at least their scientific equivalent. Identifiers such as DOIs are necessary but not sufficient for the precise, detailed, references necessary. This talk discusses issues around data set versioning, micro-citation, and scientific equivalence. I propose some interim solutions and suggest research strategies for the future.
This document discusses the need to improve content and update information on academic library websites. It analyzes the website of the DJUG Library from 2002-2012, noting its rigid design, poor content management, and lack of web-based services. A methodology was used to investigate other university library websites. The results showed that the new 2013 DJUG Library website has a more flexible design, rich content management, and added web-based reference services and information literacy tutorials. Further investigations are suggested to continue improving the website.
This document discusses virtual libraries. It begins by defining a virtual library as an organized set of links to items on the network that enables users to find information elsewhere. It then discusses key aspects of virtual libraries including their purpose, features, functions, design and development. Some advantages are immediate access to resources not in physical collections and availability anywhere with an internet connection. Challenges include different interfaces for each product and limitations in coverage. Overall, the document provides an overview of virtual libraries, their advantages, and some challenges to their use.
Finding the annotation needs of the botanical community in a digital libraryWilliam Ulate
The Center for Biodiversity Informatics at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Saint Louis University are analyzing the web annotation needs of the botanical community to develop a prototype of how those needs may be met within a digital library platform. We want to assess the practicality of existing tools to satisfy the technical, economic, and operational needs of botanical users to annotate. This will inform on requisites, best practices, and further developments for a research project to integrate an annotation tool within a virtual library. We surveyed 14 members of 10 different institutions in the botanical and scientific communities. We included both, those who currently annotate online as well as those who have only annotated offline (e.g. print or analog), in order to better understand the functionality needed to encourage and support online annotation activities. The answers to this survey were analyzed in the context of an annotation tool in a digital library and a prioritized list of annotation needs for users of a botanical virtual library was produced, taking into account the minimal and recommended functionality required to comply with the users requirements. Preliminary results from the report of the in-depth user assessments of annotation needs in the specific domain of botanists are shared with the attendees. Advances in the definition of a prototype are also shown.
Scientific discovery and innovation in an era of data-intensive science
William (Bill) Michener, Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries, University of New Mexico; DataONE Principal Investigator
The scope and nature of biological, environmental and earth sciences research are evolving rapidly in response to environmental challenges such as global climate change, invasive species and emergent diseases. Scientific studies are increasingly focusing on long-term, broad-scale, and complex questions that require massive amounts of diverse data collected by remote sensing platforms and embedded environmental sensor networks; collaborative, interdisciplinary science teams; and new tools that promote scientific data preservation, discovery, and innovation. This talk describes the challenges facing scientists as they transition into this new era of data intensive science, presents current solutions, and lays out a roadmap to the future where new information technologies significantly increase the pace of scientific discovery and innovation.
This document provides an overview of digital humanities (DH), including definitions, history, tools and projects. It discusses DH as using technology to enhance humanities research and communication. Definitions presented emphasize DH as an umbrella term for diverse activities involving technology and humanities scholarship. The history outlines early use of computers in humanities and development of standards like TEI. Tools discussed include network analysis, data visualization, text analysis, and GIS. Examples provided are DH projects mapping relationships and visualizing data. The role of libraries in supporting DH through collections, expertise, partnerships and experimentation is also covered.
The first workshop on the "Qatar Digital Library Project”, held at Qatar University on May 20, 2013.
This project is part of a program of national priorities for scientific research NPRP, and funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).
The project is managed by Dr. Edward Fox, the Lead Principal Investigator from Virginia Tech and Dr. Mohamed Samaka the Co-LPI from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Qatar University, and shared by many experts in digital libraries such as Dr. Lee Giles from Pennsylvania State University, and Dr. Richard Furuta from Texas A & M University. Consultants such as Dr. John Impagliazzo from Hofstra University in New York and Dr. Susan Lukesh, and Carol Thompson and Robert Laws, researchers Myrna Tabet and Asad Nafes from Qatar University and Tarek Kanan from Virginia Tech, Hamed AlHouri from Texas A & M University.
This workshop is the first part of a series of workshops and seminars to present the project and to train faculty, students, librarians and digital Qatari community members interested in joining the project and expand the national collections and services.
More info at http://qdl.qu.edu.qa/
Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: From generation to generationPeter Brusilovsky
Keynote talk slides for Brusilovsky, P. (2004) Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: From generation to generation. In: Proceedings of 4th Hellenic Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Athens, Greece, September 29 - October 3, 2004, pp. 19-33.
Getting Started with Institutional Repositories and Open AccessAbby Clobridge
This document provides an overview and agenda for a conference on institutional repositories and open access. It discusses the history and purpose of institutional repositories and open access, including key definitions, events, and documents. It outlines the typical content in repositories and different repository systems. It also addresses stakeholders, challenges, and guiding principles for developing repository programs.
قائمة الويبينارات المحلية والإقليمية June 2014Mohamed Mahdy
This document lists 99 library and information science conferences occurring between June 2014 and June 2015 around the world. The conferences cover topics such as electronic records, archives, academic libraries, cloud computing, digital libraries, data mining, web technologies, and information management. Many of the conferences will take place in European countries, though some are in North America, Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world.
Ancient Gurus in ancient Gurukulas used to impart knowledge to their pupils through oralteaching. The Gurus themselves were treasure troves of knowledge, without the need to refer to
hard and soft copies, and online resources. The long-driventransition from paperless back topaperless, that is, from oral instruction through palm leaves through copper plates through virtualpaper through electronic to digital Libraries is as arduous as it is fascinating.
Drowning in information – the need of macroscopes for research fundingAndrea Scharnhorst
Andrea Scharnhorst (2015) Drowning in information – the need of macroscopes for research funding. Presentation at the international conference: PLANNING, PREDICTION, SCENARIOS - Using Simulations and Maps - 2015 Annual EA Conference - 11–12 May 2015 Bonn
This document describes a methodology to aggregate and link the scientific publications of Dutch professors between 2000-2010 using data from two sources: the NARCIS database containing bibliographic and affiliation information for Dutch scholars, and the CWTS bibliometric database containing over 23 million publications. Five "seed" approaches are used to initially link professor profiles between the two sources, which are then expanded using publication classification methods and Scopus author identifiers. Evaluation against a "gold standard" of 1,400 manually verified professor profiles found the micro-discipline and Scopus-based approaches identified 80% of Dutch professors with precision of 88.5% and recall of 95.9%. The methodology demonstrates the ability to connect different bibliographic databases and identify full publication profiles
This document discusses the need for digital curation specialists in library settings to manage the growing volume of scholarly data and output. It recognizes that libraries have the skills and infrastructure to curate digital resources but will need new roles like digital curators, archivists, and data scientists. These roles require new training programs and concentrations in areas like data curation to develop specialists that can preserve, organize, and provide access to digital collections over the long term.
The document discusses the roles, tasks, and competencies of data librarianship. It outlines how research data management is relevant for libraries and defines key aspects like disciplinarity, organization, technology, access, and quality. International curriculum models for data librarianship are presented, covering topics such as data management, description, curation, archiving, and dissemination. The roles and competencies of data librarians, data managers, data scientists, and data creators are also compared.
The document summarizes the Oxford e-Social Science Project (OeSS), which aimed to identify challenges and solutions related to emerging digital research infrastructure and practices. The project occurred in two phases from 2005-2012, studying issues like privacy, ethics, and how researchers access data and collaborate in networked environments. It highlights both opportunities and challenges of networked institutions and individual researchers, and calls for a focus on implications for research quality rather than just technical innovation.
This document provides information about finding and managing academic information. It discusses searching techniques, using keywords and limits. It recommends starting with the library catalogue and provides tips on using databases to find journal articles. It also discusses citing and referencing sources and using EndNote reference management software. The document encourages exploring the library guide for the student's subject and practicing the skills discussed in the accompanying handout.
This document summarizes a presentation about the history and future of digital repositories and text analysis tools. It discusses how text collections have evolved from non-digital and dispersed, to digitized but dispersed, to full text collections in repositories, and finally to texts organized into corpora. However, many challenges remain, such as incomplete digitization and a lack of tools for combining close and distant reading. The document envisions a future of distributed infrastructure that connects dispersed data and tools. However, careful interpretation of results will still be needed to understand what texts are included or missing and make valid claims.
Data citation standards and practice paul uhlirASIS&T
Data Citation Standards and Practices
Paul F. Uhlir, Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences
Presentation at Research Data Access & Preservation Summit
22 March 2012
Data Citation Standards and Practices - Paul Uhlir - RDAP12ASIS&T
This document summarizes a presentation given by Paul F. Uhlir and Daniel Cohen to the ASIS&T Conference on March 22, 2012. The presentation discussed the work of the CODATA Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices and the BRDI (Board on Research Data and Information) at developing data citation standards and best practices. It provided an overview of the objectives and activities of these groups, including conducting analyses of existing practices, identifying stakeholder needs, and working to develop formal standards. It also summarized a symposium and workshop held in 2011 to discuss issues around developing data attribution and citation standards across disciplines.
Data Equivalence
Mark Parsons, Lead Project Manager, Senior Associate Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data citation, especially using persistent identifiers like Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), is an increasingly accepted scientific practice. Recently, several, respected organizations have developed guidelines for data citation. The different guidelines are largely congruent in that they agree on the basic practice and elements of data citation, especially for relatively static, whole data collections. There is less agreement on the more subtle nuances of data citation that are sometimes necessary to ensure precise reference and scientific reproducibility--the core purpose of data citation. We need to be sure that if you follow a data reference you get to the precise data that were used or at least their scientific equivalent. Identifiers such as DOIs are necessary but not sufficient for the precise, detailed, references necessary. This talk discusses issues around data set versioning, micro-citation, and scientific equivalence. I propose some interim solutions and suggest research strategies for the future.
This document discusses the need to improve content and update information on academic library websites. It analyzes the website of the DJUG Library from 2002-2012, noting its rigid design, poor content management, and lack of web-based services. A methodology was used to investigate other university library websites. The results showed that the new 2013 DJUG Library website has a more flexible design, rich content management, and added web-based reference services and information literacy tutorials. Further investigations are suggested to continue improving the website.
This document discusses virtual libraries. It begins by defining a virtual library as an organized set of links to items on the network that enables users to find information elsewhere. It then discusses key aspects of virtual libraries including their purpose, features, functions, design and development. Some advantages are immediate access to resources not in physical collections and availability anywhere with an internet connection. Challenges include different interfaces for each product and limitations in coverage. Overall, the document provides an overview of virtual libraries, their advantages, and some challenges to their use.
Finding the annotation needs of the botanical community in a digital libraryWilliam Ulate
The Center for Biodiversity Informatics at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Saint Louis University are analyzing the web annotation needs of the botanical community to develop a prototype of how those needs may be met within a digital library platform. We want to assess the practicality of existing tools to satisfy the technical, economic, and operational needs of botanical users to annotate. This will inform on requisites, best practices, and further developments for a research project to integrate an annotation tool within a virtual library. We surveyed 14 members of 10 different institutions in the botanical and scientific communities. We included both, those who currently annotate online as well as those who have only annotated offline (e.g. print or analog), in order to better understand the functionality needed to encourage and support online annotation activities. The answers to this survey were analyzed in the context of an annotation tool in a digital library and a prioritized list of annotation needs for users of a botanical virtual library was produced, taking into account the minimal and recommended functionality required to comply with the users requirements. Preliminary results from the report of the in-depth user assessments of annotation needs in the specific domain of botanists are shared with the attendees. Advances in the definition of a prototype are also shown.
Scientific discovery and innovation in an era of data-intensive science
William (Bill) Michener, Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries, University of New Mexico; DataONE Principal Investigator
The scope and nature of biological, environmental and earth sciences research are evolving rapidly in response to environmental challenges such as global climate change, invasive species and emergent diseases. Scientific studies are increasingly focusing on long-term, broad-scale, and complex questions that require massive amounts of diverse data collected by remote sensing platforms and embedded environmental sensor networks; collaborative, interdisciplinary science teams; and new tools that promote scientific data preservation, discovery, and innovation. This talk describes the challenges facing scientists as they transition into this new era of data intensive science, presents current solutions, and lays out a roadmap to the future where new information technologies significantly increase the pace of scientific discovery and innovation.
This document provides an overview of digital humanities (DH), including definitions, history, tools and projects. It discusses DH as using technology to enhance humanities research and communication. Definitions presented emphasize DH as an umbrella term for diverse activities involving technology and humanities scholarship. The history outlines early use of computers in humanities and development of standards like TEI. Tools discussed include network analysis, data visualization, text analysis, and GIS. Examples provided are DH projects mapping relationships and visualizing data. The role of libraries in supporting DH through collections, expertise, partnerships and experimentation is also covered.
The first workshop on the "Qatar Digital Library Project”, held at Qatar University on May 20, 2013.
This project is part of a program of national priorities for scientific research NPRP, and funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).
The project is managed by Dr. Edward Fox, the Lead Principal Investigator from Virginia Tech and Dr. Mohamed Samaka the Co-LPI from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Qatar University, and shared by many experts in digital libraries such as Dr. Lee Giles from Pennsylvania State University, and Dr. Richard Furuta from Texas A & M University. Consultants such as Dr. John Impagliazzo from Hofstra University in New York and Dr. Susan Lukesh, and Carol Thompson and Robert Laws, researchers Myrna Tabet and Asad Nafes from Qatar University and Tarek Kanan from Virginia Tech, Hamed AlHouri from Texas A & M University.
This workshop is the first part of a series of workshops and seminars to present the project and to train faculty, students, librarians and digital Qatari community members interested in joining the project and expand the national collections and services.
More info at http://qdl.qu.edu.qa/
Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: From generation to generationPeter Brusilovsky
Keynote talk slides for Brusilovsky, P. (2004) Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: From generation to generation. In: Proceedings of 4th Hellenic Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Athens, Greece, September 29 - October 3, 2004, pp. 19-33.
Getting Started with Institutional Repositories and Open AccessAbby Clobridge
This document provides an overview and agenda for a conference on institutional repositories and open access. It discusses the history and purpose of institutional repositories and open access, including key definitions, events, and documents. It outlines the typical content in repositories and different repository systems. It also addresses stakeholders, challenges, and guiding principles for developing repository programs.
قائمة الويبينارات المحلية والإقليمية June 2014Mohamed Mahdy
This document lists 99 library and information science conferences occurring between June 2014 and June 2015 around the world. The conferences cover topics such as electronic records, archives, academic libraries, cloud computing, digital libraries, data mining, web technologies, and information management. Many of the conferences will take place in European countries, though some are in North America, Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world.
Ancient Gurus in ancient Gurukulas used to impart knowledge to their pupils through oralteaching. The Gurus themselves were treasure troves of knowledge, without the need to refer to
hard and soft copies, and online resources. The long-driventransition from paperless back topaperless, that is, from oral instruction through palm leaves through copper plates through virtualpaper through electronic to digital Libraries is as arduous as it is fascinating.
Drowning in information – the need of macroscopes for research fundingAndrea Scharnhorst
Andrea Scharnhorst (2015) Drowning in information – the need of macroscopes for research funding. Presentation at the international conference: PLANNING, PREDICTION, SCENARIOS - Using Simulations and Maps - 2015 Annual EA Conference - 11–12 May 2015 Bonn
This document describes a methodology to aggregate and link the scientific publications of Dutch professors between 2000-2010 using data from two sources: the NARCIS database containing bibliographic and affiliation information for Dutch scholars, and the CWTS bibliometric database containing over 23 million publications. Five "seed" approaches are used to initially link professor profiles between the two sources, which are then expanded using publication classification methods and Scopus author identifiers. Evaluation against a "gold standard" of 1,400 manually verified professor profiles found the micro-discipline and Scopus-based approaches identified 80% of Dutch professors with precision of 88.5% and recall of 95.9%. The methodology demonstrates the ability to connect different bibliographic databases and identify full publication profiles
This document provides an overview of analyzing dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes. It discusses structures without names in complex networks and how to name them. It also discusses where Wikipedia is going based on a Knowledge Space Lab project mapping design versus emergence. Finally, it discusses intangible libraries and archives with visual interfaces and graphical knowledge engines to browse collections. It provides contact information to join related events and working groups.
Knowledge – dynamics – landscape - navigation – what have interfaces to digit...Andrea Scharnhorst
When we google, search Wikipedia, and share information on Mendeley, we obviously deal with complex networks of information. But also traditional information spaces – the collections of libraries for instance – and their classification systems are evolving complex systems. This talk explores the possibilities to use concepts and methods from statistical physics to analyze information dynamics. We depart from information dynamics in scholarly communication, and point to current encounters between physics and scientometrics. We discuss more in-depth the evolution of category systems in libraries (Universal Decimal Classification) in comparison to on-line spaces (Wikipedia). The talk closes with an introduction into a new European network – the COST Action KnowEscape – in which information professionals, sociologists, computer scientists, physicists and digital humanities scholars in an unique alliance seek for knowledge maps to better navigate through large information spaces.
Talk on June 11, 2013 by Andrea Scharnhorst at the IMT in Lucca, Italy.
The title of this talk borrows from the title of a chapter in a recently published book by Richard Smiraglia, Cultural Synergy in Information Institutions (7.9: What if There Were a Map?). The use of visualizations in the exploration of bodies of knowledge and for the organization of knowledge has a long history. Think in terms of the tree(s) of knowledge and large-scale maps of science (see Atlas of Science by Katy Börner). This talk introduces the work of a European network of research collaboration (a so-called COST Action) KnoweScape. KnoweScape explores how knowledge maps (from simple to sophisticated) can be made and applied to better understand, navigate, and curate collections held by libraries and archives. In terms of general research methodology, this talk is also a plea for creating overview prior to in-debt analysis and to seek for relative stable reference frameworks against which rapid changes of our knowledge can be interrogated. Looking at results produced by this community of scholars so far, it will become clear why the making of knowledge maps requires the collaboration of physicists, computer scientists, sociologists of knowledge, digital humanities scholars, and information scientists and professionals.
Knowledge maps for libraries and archives - uses and use casesAndrea Scharnhorst
A. Scharnhorst, R. Smiraglia, C. Gueret, A. Salah (2015) Knowledge maps for libraries and archives - uses and use cases. International UDC Seminar "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery” , The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, 29-30 October 2015.
Mapping Digital Humanities projects. A pilot of a DH project registry for The...Andrea Scharnhorst
Mapping Digital Humanities projects - A pilot of a DH project registry for The Netherlands
Presentation given at the DH Benelux Antwerp June 8-9, 2015
Stef Scagliola, Barbara Safradin, Almila Akdag, Hendrik Smeer, Linda Reijnhoudt, Sally Wyatt, Andrea Scharnhorst
Mapping Social Sciences and Humanities - Impact, Orientation, Understanding A...Andrea Scharnhorst
This presentation gives an overview about the current use of science maps in evaluation, strategic planning, career development; and how they could be used in future.
Rebecca Grant - DH research data: identification and challenges (DH2016)dri_ireland
Presentation made by Rebecca Grant as part of the panel session “Digital data sharing: the opportunities and challenges of opening research” at the Digital Humanities conference, Krakow, 15 July 2016. This paper “DH research data: identification and challenges” provided an introduction to concepts of research data in the digital humanities, including accepted definitions of what constitutes research data in a DH context.
Presentation given by Rebecca Grant of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Digital Preservation for Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DPASSH) conference, Dublin, 26 June 2015. This paper investigates how guidance on research data management differs for researchers in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Rebecca Grant DAH Research Presentationdri_ireland
Presentation given by Rebecca Grant of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Research in the Digital Age symposium at the Trinity Long Room Hub, 14 July, 2015. The presentation gives an overview of some of the key concepts and drivers in research data management for the arts and humanities, and introduces the Digital Repository of Ireland as potential place of deposit for such data.
Do Libraries Meet Research 2.0 : collaborative tools and relevance for Resear...Guus van den Brekel
Presentation June 30th 2009 Toulouse at LIBER Conference 2009
http://liber2009.biu-toulouse.fr/
Research Libraries & Web 2.0. Scientists engage in science & research 2.0, libraries should follow, outreach, engage, explore and facilitate etc
DataCite: the Perfect Complement to CrossRefCrossref
DataCite was created to address the lack of effective ways to link datasets to articles and identify datasets. It assigns digital object identifiers (DOIs) to datasets to allow them to be cited similarly to scholarly articles. Many research institutions and libraries around the world are members of DataCite, including organizations in Europe, North America, and Asia. DataCite helps establish datasets as legitimate contributions to the scientific record that can be identified and cited.
5-14-13 An Introduction to VIVO Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.” Webinar #1: An Introduction to VIVO, May 14, 2013
Presented by: Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist at Cornell University Library and Chair of the VIVO-DuraSpace Management Committee, Brian Lowe, Semantic Applications Programmer, Cornell and Jon Corson-Rikert, VIVO Development Lead, Cornell
Short paper presentation at the The 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014) 12TH SEPTEMBER 2014 (FULL DAY), LONDON, UK in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014.
4.2.15 Slides, “Hydra: many heads, many connections. Enriching Fedora Reposit...DuraSpace
This document summarizes a webinar presented by ORCID on integrating ORCID persistent identifiers with repositories like DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO. It discusses how ORCID helps disambiguate author identities and connect researcher works and metadata to external sources to better demonstrate research impact. The webinar presents how Notre Dame has integrated ORCID into its Hydra-powered institutional repository, CurateND, allowing users to create and link to ORCID IDs and share metadata between the systems. It outlines the architecture and benefits of the integration as well as plans to promote its adoption.
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.
The European Student Parliament organizes debates around different topics. Smart cities is one of them. What is behind the Smart City concept, how a Smart City can become MyCity, and how a map of this Smart City would look like - those are topics of the expert hearing and the follow-up debate
The Liber 2009 presentation repeated for a Dutch audience IN Dutch but with the english slides (just the first one is in Dutch :-)
Samenwerking Hogeschool bibliotheken SHB, 5 november 2009
Towards Culturally Aware AI Systems - TSDH SymposiumMarieke van Erp
The document discusses culturally aware AI and polyvocality in knowledge graphs. It notes that most current knowledge graphs reflect a single perspective and contemporary sources, lacking polyvocality. The challenges of identifying polyvocal knowledge, representing polyvocality in models and data, and presenting polyvocal knowledge are discussed. Transparent data stories are proposed as a way to represent multiple perspectives on cultural objects through alternative storylines and making the underlying data and knowledge graph transparent.
Digital Humanities Venice Group Presentation - Opening the Libro d'OroMichael Mitchell
This document outlines a project to create a social networking environment and standardized database for information about historical Venetians. The goal is to provide open access to data and tools for research, visualization, and education. Researchers and citizens would contribute profiles with standardized fields like name, birth/death dates, occupation, family, etc. Sources would be included for validation. Tools would allow network and epidemiological analysis. The timeline is 2 years for data collection and interface development, then maintenance. A team of humanities experts in areas like databases, design, history, and development would oversee the project with potential funding from charitable organizations. The impact would be engaging the public, adapting to research needs, aggregating sources, and visualizing history.
How to use science maps to navigate large information spaces? What is the lin...Andrea Scharnhorst
A. Scharnhorst (2016) Wie können Wissenschaftskarten zur Suche in grossen Informationsräumen eingesetzt werden? How to use science maps to navigate large information spaces? What is the link between science maps and predictive models of science? Invited lecture Fraunhofer-Institut für Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen, Euskirchen, Germany, December 7, 2016
ALIAOnline Practical Linked (Open) Data for Libraries, Archives & MuseumsJon Voss
This document discusses practical applications of Linked Open Data (LOD) for libraries, archives, and museums. It describes how LOD allows these institutions to publish structured data on the web in ways that are interoperable and can be connected to other open datasets. Examples are given of how LOD is being used by various institutions to share metadata, images, and other cultural heritage assets on the web in open, machine-readable formats. The presenter argues that LOD represents a new paradigm that these cultural organizations should embrace to make their collections more accessible and useful on the web.
The Internet, Science, and Transformations of KnowledgeEric Meyer
Talk on June 7, 2012 in the Harvard SAP Speaker Series (Office of the Senior Associate Provost for the Harvard Library).
http://www.provost.harvard.edu/harvard_library/sap_speakers_series.php
Libraries, research infrastructures and the digital humanities: are we ready ...Sally Chambers
This document discusses libraries and their potential role in supporting digital humanities research infrastructures. It describes how libraries could help manage data, serve as embedded librarians working directly with researchers, assist with digitization and curation efforts, and help with the discovery and dissemination of digital scholarship. The document emphasizes that libraries need to adopt a researcher-centric approach and form truly equitable collaborations in order to meaningfully contribute to digital humanities work.
2013 DataCite Summer Meeting - Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) (...datacite
Michael Witt presented on the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) at the DataCite summer meeting. PURR is a collaborative effort between Purdue University Libraries, Office of the Vice President for Research, and Information Technology. It provides researchers a space to store, share, and publish research data, with librarian support for data management plans and curation. PURR aims to encourage citation of datasets by assigning identifiers, displaying licenses, providing citation examples, and exposing structured citations. It is built on open source HUBzero software and has over 1,000 registered researchers sharing data across 200 projects.
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Flexibility in Metadata Schemes and Standardisation: the Case of CMDI and the...Andrea Scharnhorst
Presentation given at ISKO UK: research observatory, November 24, 2021
RESEARCH REPOSITORIES AND DATAVERSE: NEGOTIATING METADATA, VOCABULARIES AND DOMAIN NEEDS
Vyacheslav Tykhonov, Jerry de Vries, Eko Indarto, Femmy Admiraal, Mike Priddy, and Andrea Scharnhorst: Flexibility in Metadata Schemes and Standardisation: the Case of CMDI and the DANS EASY Research Data Repository
Abstract:
The development of metadata schemes in data repositories (and other content providers) has always been a process of negotiation between the needs of the designated user communities and the content of the collection on the one side and standards developed in the field. Automatisation has both enabled and enforced standardisation and alignment of metadata schemes (see as an example). But, while designated user communities turned from being local users to global ones (due to web services), their specific needs have not vanished. Technology offers possibilities to give the aforementioned negotiation a new form. In this presentation, we present the Dataverse platform, used by many data repositories. We show - using the case of the CMDI metadata and the CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure)community - how the Dataverse common core set of metadata called Citation Block can be extended with custom fields defined as a discipline specific metadata block. In particular, we show how these custom fields can be connected to a distributed network of authoritative controlled vocabularies. So, that at the end semantic search is possible. The presentation highlights opportunities and challenges, based on our own experiences. Related work has been presented at the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021 (see Proceedings).
The Polifonia portal: a confluence of user stories, research pilots, data man...Andrea Scharnhorst
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Scharnhorst, Andrea, Admiraal, Femmy, van Kranenburg, Peter, Guillotel-Nothmann, Christophe, & Mulholland, Paul. (2021, September 7). The Polifonia portal: a confluence of user stories, research pilots, data management and knowledge graph technology. DARIAH Annual event 2021, Interfaces, virtual. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5483727
This project aimed to enhance findability and searchability of the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud by indexing vocabularies relevant to the social sciences and humanities (SSH) domain using knowledge organization systems (KOS). The project objectives were to: 1) Develop methods to index the LOD cloud with SSH vocabularies; 2) Develop recommendations for SSH communities to publish LOD datasets while reusing existing vocabularies; and 3) Develop guidelines for archiving and ensuring sustainability of SSH LOD datasets and domain-specific vocabularies. The project achieved indexing of SSH vocabularies and developed guidelines for LOD publication and archiving, while further work is pending on applying the indexing principles to the LOD cloud
Introductory lecture, Visit of students at DANS-KNAW, as part of the programme “Dutch Designs: Innovation in Library, Museum and Information Services in the Netherlands.” University of Washington, Seattle (Directors Trent Hill, Rose Paquet), July 18, 2019
Andrea Scharnhorst, Femmy Admiraal, Dirk Roorda: DARIAH
Contributions /In-kind contributions - Activities and Services:
A visual walk through the Contribution tool. Paper given at the DARIAH Annual event 2019, Warsaw May 15-17, 2019
Data curation and data archiving at different stages of the research processAndrea Scharnhorst
Henk van den Berg, Jerry de Vries, Andrea Scharnhorst (2019) Data curation and data archiving at different stages of the research process. Presentation given at the DANS Colloquium on Research and Data: Women readers finding their literary foremothers, March 21, 2019, The Hague
SUSTAINABILITY BEYOND GUIDELINES: How our perception of research infrastructures shapes our understanding of sustainability?
Presentation by Francesca Morselli/Andrea Scharnhorst(DANS, DARIAH CIO) (with contributions by Jennifer Edmonds (Trinity, DARIAH) and Mike Priddy (DANS))
March 2019, EURISE workshop Utrecht
Information science in practice - research at a Trusted Digital ArchiveAndrea Scharnhorst
DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO that operates as a Trusted Digital Archive. The presentation discusses DANS' role in archiving research data and the importance of research at an archive. It provides an overview of current research topics and projects at DANS, including work on data reviews, linked data, and digital preservation with organizations like DARIAH. A key area of focus is the work of Herbert van de Sompel on reference rot and studying science through usage data to map knowledge over time.
Bibliometrics, Webometrics, Altmetrics, Alternative metrics.Andrea Scharnhorst
DANS is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) that focuses on digital archiving and long-term accessibility of research data. The presentation discusses the development of metrics to measure science over time, including bibliometrics, altmetrics, and new types of metrics for research assessment. It argues that metrics should be tailored to their purpose and granularity of analysis, and that qualitative research should complement quantitative metrics. New research information systems and ontologies can help understand science dynamics if they clearly communicate their scope and limitations.
Andrea Scharnhorst (2016) Why do we need to model the science system? Talk at the seminar of the Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Sciences, June 2, 2016
Andrea Scharnhorst (2016) Humanities and ICT. Introduction at the Workshop National Infrastructure, Social Science and Humanities, January 20, 2015, ePlan workshop at NLeSC, Amsterdam.
Comparison of methods – an unloved duty? Examples from an ongoing bibliometri...Andrea Scharnhorst
Andrea Scharnhorst, Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang (2016) Comparison of methods – an unloved duty? Examples from an ongoing bibliometric study. Presentation given at eHumanities group, research meeting, Feb 11, 2016
Between information retrieval services and bibliometrics research. New ...Andrea Scharnhorst
R. Koopman, S. Wang, A. Scharnhorst (2015) Between information retrieval services and bibliometrics research. New ways of semantic browsing and visual analytics. Presentation at the Sigmetrics workshop, ASIST 2015, November 7, 2015 St. Louis, Missouri
Digital Humanities in The Netherlands DARIAH, CLARIN, CLARIAH, … DHx.0 A pers...Andrea Scharnhorst
Digital Humanities has grown significantly in the Netherlands over the past decade. Several major initiatives have contributed to its development, including DARIAH, CLARIN, CLARIAH, and the Computational Humanities program of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The document discusses the growth of Digital Humanities through metrics like publications and conferences. It also highlights community-building efforts like the Digital Humanities course registry and pilot project registry. The future of the field remains unclear - it may remain distinct from other humanities or become absorbed as digital approaches are more widely adopted.
Digital Humanities as Innovation: ‘constant revolution’ or ‘moving to the su...Andrea Scharnhorst
Andrea Scharnhorst & Sally Wyatt
Paper given at the "New Trends in eHumanities" Research Meeting of the eHumanities group, 4 June 2015
Digital Humanities as Innovation: ‘constant revolution’ or ‘moving to the suburbs’?
Digital Humanities (DH) has been depicted as an innovative engine for humanities, as a challenge for Data Science, and as an area where libraries, archives and providers of e-research infrastructures join forces with research pioneers. However DH is defined, one thing is certain: DH is a new community which manifests and identifies itself via the Internet and social media. In this paper we propose to describe DH as a virtual community (VC), and discuss the implications of such an epistemic approach. We start with a (re)inspection of the scholarly discourse about VCs, and the analytic frameworks which have been applied to study them. We discuss the aspects that are highlighted by taking such a stance, and use the guidelines proposed by the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS) in our investigation.
This document discusses knowledge maps and observations from year 1 of the KnoweScape project. It contains several sections on the uses of knowledge maps including for personal digital archives, databases of projects, literature review bases, and catalogues of libraries. Additional sections discuss forms of knowledge maps such as scientific diagrams, web-based interactive visualizations, and art. The document outlines functions of knowledge maps such as communicating, navigating, analyzing, and managing. It addresses audiences and sources of images used and provides an outlook on embracing new technologies, visualizing research problem and literature spaces, and education in visualization.
Models and Maps of Science. Maps and instruments for the navigation on the ocean of scientific knowledge
Andrea Scharnhorst
"Modeling epistemic and scientific groups: interdisciplinary perspectives" Nancy, November 25-26, 2013
Cross domain knowledge discovery, complex system theory and semantic webAndrea Scharnhorst
Cross domain knowledge discovery, complex system theory and semantic web - or - Why Otlet?
Aida Slavic, Christophe Gueret, Andrea Scharnhorst
Presentation at the First Annual KnowEscape Conference,
Nov 18-20, 2013, Aalto University, Espoo Finland
Cross domain knowledge discovery, complex system theory and semantic web
Genericity versus expressivity – reflections about the semantics of interoperable research information systems
1. Data Archiving and Networked Services
Genericity versus expressivity –
reflections about the semantics
of interoperable research
information systems
Andrea Scharnhorst, Frank van der Most, Christophe Gueret,
Tamy Chambers (IU, Bloomington), Linda Reijnhoudt
Presentation at the ACUMEN workshop, March 8, 2013,
Copenhagen
DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO
2. Andrea Scharnhorst – “science located”
•Head of eResearch at DANS and scientific coordinator of the Computational Humanities
programme at the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences (KNAW) – DANS=Data Archiving and Networked Services Institute (DANS)
3. ElectronicArchivingSYstem and NARCIS –
Core services (‘products’) of DANS
www.easy.dans.knaw.nl
DANS as non-proprietary information provider
contributes to transparence and accessibility
public funded research
www.narcis.nl
4. Overview
•How this research started?
•Bibliometrics, research information systems and Linked Open
Data
•The need for core vocabulary
•Our proposal
•Outlook
6. Overview
•How this research started?
•Bibliometrics, research information systems and Linked Open
Data
•The need for core vocabulary
•Our proposal
•Outlook
7. Quantitative studies of science
- scientometrics, bibliometrics, informetrics
Persons – Organizations - Projects
Input Output
Processes of knowledge creation
Number of scientists Number of publications
Number of PhD students /citations
R&D expenditure Number of PhD students
Instruments Number of patents
….. …..
Education Libraries
Libraries Books
Books Journals
Data Information Archives
Archives Information Data
Information resources
provision storage
8. What is a Research Information System?
Ref: KG Jeffery 2008 History of CRIS http://www.eurocris.org/Uploads/Web
%20pages/historyCRIS/3HistoryofCRIS.ppt
See also: Nick Sheppard. "Learning How to Play Nicely: Repositories and CRIS". July 2010, Ariadne Issue 64
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/wrn-repos-2010-05-rpt/
9. What do we want ?
• The dream: single, user-curated, consistent and
up to date source that knows everything about
someone
• Many aiming at being the one
10. The Dutch situation – many players
Metis is very detailed, fed by admin (universities, KNAW)
but has a limited on-line interface.
CWTS is the ‘Scientific Observatory’ in NL for
Research Evaluation; but the databases are
not public.
NARCIS is the main national portal for those looking for information
about researchers and their work.
11. Courtesy of Nick Veenstra TU/e See: http://ehumanities.nl/vivo-symposium-january-18-2013/
12. VIVO
http://nrn.cns.iu.edu/
Katy Borner, Mike Conlon, Jon Corson-Rikert, Ying Ding (eds). 2012.
VIVO: A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery, Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
13. Overview
•How this research started?
•Bibliometrics, research information systems and Linked Open
Data
•The need for core vocabulary
•Our proposal
•Outlook
19. Why is information lost ?
• Incentives
o Keeping one data source up to date is costly
o Keeping several is even more so!
• Standards
o Information that can not be expressed is lost
• Confusion
o Re-invent the well & (partially) duplicate
information
20. Overview
•How this research started?
•Bibliometrics, research information systems and Linked Open
Data
•The need for core vocabulary
•Our proposal
•Outlook
23. Scope Position
International
Hoogleraar
National
National
Institutional
Institutional Academisch
Hoogleraar
Individual
Individual
The core vocabulary proposal crosses the usual multi-purpose Expressivity
ontologies at different scales of scope. It has one purpose
(the presentation of a researchers career). It does not translate 1:1;
but defines shells of meaning (facets).
Up-scaled (higher scope) it losses expressivity;
down-scaled it gains expressivity in turn for lesser interoperability
of the fine-grained information.
24. Overview
•How this research started?
•Bibliometrics, research information systems and Linked Open
Data
•The need for core vocabulary
•Our proposal
•Outlook
25. Just another ontology?
There is no escape of machine-readable information
exchange and processing.
There is a limit at user-provided content.
There are institutional and national interests.
There is a tension of locally cared information and the
globalization of science.
Might not be ‘our’ system, but a system will come!
Discourse about this is needed!
26. VISION I: All research information
[change](P. Doorn) 26
27. Börner K, Klavans R, Patek M, Zoss AM, et al. (2012) Design and Update of a Classification System: The UCSD Map of Science. PLoS ONE 7(7):
e39464. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039464 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0039464
VISION II: A way for researcher to presented themselves
(taylored) extracted from a research information ecosystem 27
28. eResearch DANS
Katy Börner
Indiana University
Frank van der Most Dirk Roorda Linda Reijnhoudt Visiting fellow DANS-KNAW
Rene van Horik NARCIS, Visualizations
Sustainability and Scientific careers and cultures Queries as annotations,
permanence, multi-media of data sharing, ACUMEN CLARIN, Circulation of
sources, APARSEN, NEDIMAH knowledge
Peter Doorn Christophe Guéret Albert Moroño Peñuela Ashkan Askpour
Semantic web, Semantic web, CEDAR History, information sciences,
eHistory, Clarin, Dariah,
complex networks IISH
Clariah
CEDAR, CEDAR
Director of DANS
PI: WikiReg
Leen Breure Cristian Dinu Marat Charlaganov
Enhanced publications, WikiReg WikiReg
eHistory
Thank you for your attention!
For more information please contact
Andrea.scharnhorst@dans.knaw.nl