University of Bath’s Alex Ball talks about the indicators of research data impact. From the Oct. 22, 2015 Library Connect webinar, How to assist researchers in sharing research data: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=175949
Presentation I gave at OGF 28 in Munich (Mar. 15-18, 2010). It is about challenges and achievements to date in the GeoChronos project, which is aimed at the development of an on-line collaborative environment for earth observation scientists.
Mining and Mapping the Research LandscapeSimon Price
Presentation at Digital Research 2013, University of Oxford. ExaMiner is a "research intelligence" tool that analyses the University of Bristol's research web sites and corporate databases to produce new ways of searching, accessing and visualising its research landscape. We discuss the rationale for and implementation of four proof-of-concept web applications that profile researchers' publications, web pages and non-confidential staff details before matching them to each other or against submitted text. We also report on the use of ExaMiner to support a multidisciplinary workshop between researchers from across the university and local health trusts. Historically at Bristol, as elsewhere, researchers and their projects are organised into departments, faculties, schools and so on, largely on the basis of their discipline. An unfortunate side-effect of this organisational structure is that researchers tend to know of other researchers and projects within their own branch of the organisational hierarchy. It is not untrue to say that they know more about researchers and projects elsewhere around the world than in their own institutions. This can leave researchers unaware of potentially relevant research going on elsewhere within their own university. Recognising that many important research areas now span multiple disciplines, the University Research Committee identified a need to produce a research intelligence tool to mine and map its research landscape. The aim being to provide its researchers and its Research and Enterprise Development group with new ways of searching, accessing and visualising connections between existing research -- irrespective of the organisational boundaries and structures. The resultant ExaMiner demonstrators, listed below, are e-Science/e-Research workflows built using the SubSift RESTful web services framework, augmented with secure web service wrappers around queries to corporate databases.
In many cases, these tools give sensible results, but not always. SubSift compares textual documents using the vector space model from information retrieval, demoting the significance of words that occur in most of the documents and promoting words that occur rarely. In ExaMiner, because of the heterogeneity of staff homepage contents, rare but irrelevant words can take on exaggerated significance. Experimentation suggests that this may be countered by calculating significance within research groups rather than across the whole department or institution. Also, expanding the range of stopwords to be specific to academia will filter out many trivial connections (e.g. ignoring words like 'conference', 'international', 'workshop') regardless of their computed significance. Using ExaMiner to support a multidisciplinary workshop surfaced a new requirement. The organisers had conducted a pre-workshop survey of delegate's research interests and expectations for the event. Possible future work might scale-up ExaMiner to handle more data.
This webinar will discuss the special needs of digital humanities researchers and help you learn how to talk them about their information management needs.
Topics that will be covered:
What is humanities data?
What special considerations are involved in creating DMPs for humanities data?
Where can you store humanities data?
What will humanities funding agencies be looking for? What regulations apply to humanities data (e.g., data sharing, data management, data availability)?
What librarians should know before meeting with a humanist; how humanists differ from other researchers in the way they think about their version of data.
Presentation I gave at OGF 28 in Munich (Mar. 15-18, 2010). It is about challenges and achievements to date in the GeoChronos project, which is aimed at the development of an on-line collaborative environment for earth observation scientists.
Mining and Mapping the Research LandscapeSimon Price
Presentation at Digital Research 2013, University of Oxford. ExaMiner is a "research intelligence" tool that analyses the University of Bristol's research web sites and corporate databases to produce new ways of searching, accessing and visualising its research landscape. We discuss the rationale for and implementation of four proof-of-concept web applications that profile researchers' publications, web pages and non-confidential staff details before matching them to each other or against submitted text. We also report on the use of ExaMiner to support a multidisciplinary workshop between researchers from across the university and local health trusts. Historically at Bristol, as elsewhere, researchers and their projects are organised into departments, faculties, schools and so on, largely on the basis of their discipline. An unfortunate side-effect of this organisational structure is that researchers tend to know of other researchers and projects within their own branch of the organisational hierarchy. It is not untrue to say that they know more about researchers and projects elsewhere around the world than in their own institutions. This can leave researchers unaware of potentially relevant research going on elsewhere within their own university. Recognising that many important research areas now span multiple disciplines, the University Research Committee identified a need to produce a research intelligence tool to mine and map its research landscape. The aim being to provide its researchers and its Research and Enterprise Development group with new ways of searching, accessing and visualising connections between existing research -- irrespective of the organisational boundaries and structures. The resultant ExaMiner demonstrators, listed below, are e-Science/e-Research workflows built using the SubSift RESTful web services framework, augmented with secure web service wrappers around queries to corporate databases.
In many cases, these tools give sensible results, but not always. SubSift compares textual documents using the vector space model from information retrieval, demoting the significance of words that occur in most of the documents and promoting words that occur rarely. In ExaMiner, because of the heterogeneity of staff homepage contents, rare but irrelevant words can take on exaggerated significance. Experimentation suggests that this may be countered by calculating significance within research groups rather than across the whole department or institution. Also, expanding the range of stopwords to be specific to academia will filter out many trivial connections (e.g. ignoring words like 'conference', 'international', 'workshop') regardless of their computed significance. Using ExaMiner to support a multidisciplinary workshop surfaced a new requirement. The organisers had conducted a pre-workshop survey of delegate's research interests and expectations for the event. Possible future work might scale-up ExaMiner to handle more data.
This webinar will discuss the special needs of digital humanities researchers and help you learn how to talk them about their information management needs.
Topics that will be covered:
What is humanities data?
What special considerations are involved in creating DMPs for humanities data?
Where can you store humanities data?
What will humanities funding agencies be looking for? What regulations apply to humanities data (e.g., data sharing, data management, data availability)?
What librarians should know before meeting with a humanist; how humanists differ from other researchers in the way they think about their version of data.
Slide data stewardship in library for sustainable and open scienceDamiano Orru
Thesis Master Maris 30 april 2020
full text open access
https://zenodo.org/record/3779063
in memory of
Maria Grazia Gargioli (20 novembre 1946 – 18 aprile 2020)
Jonathan Tennant (6 maggio 1988 – 9 aprile 2020)
Breif overview of the FAIR Cookbook for the UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2021: https://www.earlham.ac.uk/uk-conference-bioinformatics-and-computational-biology-21
Learning Exchange May 15 - Extending and measuring reach and impact of resear...northerncollaboration
Nick Sheppard, Repository Developer at Leeds Beckett University explores the Library's work with research staff in the light of the HEFCE Open Access requirements for 2016. Presented at the Northern Collaboration Learning Exchange: Communicating with New Technologies, held at Leeds Beckett University, May 2015.
Extending and measuring the reach and impact of research output: #openaccess,...Nick Sheppard
Research can be easily disseminated online amongst communities of researchers and interested lay people, via social media for example, and it is clearly beneficial if that research is freely accessible on the open web rather than restricted by subscription access. Evidence suggests that OA can increase traditional citations and, increasingly, developments in alternative or “altmetrics” are enabling online social activity around research to be recorded and measured. This session will explore initiatives in this are at Leeds Beckett in the context of the new HEFCE requirements for OA that come into effect in 2016.
Ag Data Commons: Adding Value to open agricultural research dataCyndy Parr
A talk presented on 30 September 2013 at the Biodiversity Information Standards (Taxonomic Databases Working Group TDWG) annual meeting in Nairobi, Kenya
Westminster Higher Education Forum policy conference Open research data in the UK: https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conference/open-research-data-20
Input Presentation at the „Computational Communication Science: Towards a Strategic Roadmap” conference in Hannover (http://ccsconf.com/), 15th Feb 2018
As an incomer to the Library (I moved from ITS in 2014, with a stint in the Research Office in 2011) I see the challenges that the fast pace of policy development –both external (OA, impact, Research Data Management, Research Outcomes) and internal (KPIs, Benchmarking) – is presenting across the Institution. Where does the Library fit into this? What opportunities can be exploited to redesign the services we provide? This session seeks to explore these questions and explain some of the systems, standards and initiatives available, illustrating examples of best practice in how and why the Library should take a leading role in understanding, promoting and implementing their use.
James Toon, Research Information System Manager, University of Edinburgh presentation on the topic of using a current research information system (Pure) as an institutional repository, among its many other functions. See the webinar: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9995/125071
Slide data stewardship in library for sustainable and open scienceDamiano Orru
Thesis Master Maris 30 april 2020
full text open access
https://zenodo.org/record/3779063
in memory of
Maria Grazia Gargioli (20 novembre 1946 – 18 aprile 2020)
Jonathan Tennant (6 maggio 1988 – 9 aprile 2020)
Breif overview of the FAIR Cookbook for the UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2021: https://www.earlham.ac.uk/uk-conference-bioinformatics-and-computational-biology-21
Learning Exchange May 15 - Extending and measuring reach and impact of resear...northerncollaboration
Nick Sheppard, Repository Developer at Leeds Beckett University explores the Library's work with research staff in the light of the HEFCE Open Access requirements for 2016. Presented at the Northern Collaboration Learning Exchange: Communicating with New Technologies, held at Leeds Beckett University, May 2015.
Extending and measuring the reach and impact of research output: #openaccess,...Nick Sheppard
Research can be easily disseminated online amongst communities of researchers and interested lay people, via social media for example, and it is clearly beneficial if that research is freely accessible on the open web rather than restricted by subscription access. Evidence suggests that OA can increase traditional citations and, increasingly, developments in alternative or “altmetrics” are enabling online social activity around research to be recorded and measured. This session will explore initiatives in this are at Leeds Beckett in the context of the new HEFCE requirements for OA that come into effect in 2016.
Ag Data Commons: Adding Value to open agricultural research dataCyndy Parr
A talk presented on 30 September 2013 at the Biodiversity Information Standards (Taxonomic Databases Working Group TDWG) annual meeting in Nairobi, Kenya
Westminster Higher Education Forum policy conference Open research data in the UK: https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conference/open-research-data-20
Input Presentation at the „Computational Communication Science: Towards a Strategic Roadmap” conference in Hannover (http://ccsconf.com/), 15th Feb 2018
As an incomer to the Library (I moved from ITS in 2014, with a stint in the Research Office in 2011) I see the challenges that the fast pace of policy development –both external (OA, impact, Research Data Management, Research Outcomes) and internal (KPIs, Benchmarking) – is presenting across the Institution. Where does the Library fit into this? What opportunities can be exploited to redesign the services we provide? This session seeks to explore these questions and explain some of the systems, standards and initiatives available, illustrating examples of best practice in how and why the Library should take a leading role in understanding, promoting and implementing their use.
James Toon, Research Information System Manager, University of Edinburgh presentation on the topic of using a current research information system (Pure) as an institutional repository, among its many other functions. See the webinar: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9995/125071
Snowball Metrics as Standard Information Agreements - Anna Clements and Peter...CASRAI
Snowball Metrics aim to become the international standard that is endorsed by research-intensive universities so that they can build and monitor the most effective strategies. It is a “bottom-up”, or sector-led, initiative in which universities themselves agree a single method to calculate metrics about their own performance so that they can compare themselves against each other in an apples-to-apples way. This enables them to benchmark and understand their strengths and weaknesses to help to decide in which areas to invest, and in which to divest.
Library Connect Webinar - Librarians Do Research Too!Library_Connect
Eminent LIS researcher Carol Tenopir, Chancellor’s Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, presented these slides during the Library Connect webinar on April 16, 2015, titled "Building a professional identity: from research to impact." These slides present an overview of why librarians should do research and how they can get started.
View the webinar at: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9995/125073
Linked Data Love: research representation, discovery, and assessment
#ALAAC15
The explosion of linked data platforms and data stores over the last five years has been profound – both in terms of quantity of data as well as its potential impact. Research information systems such as VIVO (www.vivoweb.org) play a significant role in enabling this work. VIVO is an open source, Semantic Web-based application that provides an integrated, searchable view of the scholarly activities of an organization. The uniform semantic structure of VIVO-ISF data enables a new class of tools to advance science. This presentation will provide a brief introduction and update to VIVO and present ways that this semantically-rich data can enable visualizations, reporting and assessment, next-generation collaboration and team building, and enhanced multi-site search. Libraries are uniquely positioned to facilitate the open representation of research information and its subsequent use to spur collaboration, discovery, and assessment. The talk will conclude with a description of ways librarians are engaged in this work – including visioning, metadata and ontology creation, policy creation, data curation and management, technical, and engagement activities.
Kristi Holmes, PhD
Director, Galter Health Sciences Library
Director of Evaluation, NUCATS
Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical Informatics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Trust and Accountability: experiences from the FAIRDOM Commons Initiative.Carole Goble
Presented at Digital Life 2018, Bergen, March 2018. In the Trust and Accountability session.
In recent years we have seen a change in expectations for the management and availability of all the outcomes of research (models, data, SOPs, software etc) and for greater transparency and reproduciblity in the method of research. The “FAIR” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Guiding Principles for stewardship [1] have proved to be an effective rallying-cry for community groups and for policy makers.
The FAIRDOM Initiative (FAIR Data Models Operations, http://www.fair-dom.org) supports Systems Biology research projects with their research data, methods and model management, with an emphasis on standards and sensitivity to asset sharing and credit anxiety. Our aim is a FAIR Research Commons that blends together the doing of research with the communication of research. The Platform has been installed by over 30 labs/projects and our public, centrally hosted FAIRDOMHub [2] supports the outcomes of 90+ projects. We are proud to support projects in Norway’s Digital Life programme.
2018 is our 10th anniversary. Over the past decade we learned a lot about trust between researchers, between researchers and platform developers and curators and between both these groups and funders. We have experienced the Tragedy of the Commons but also seen shifts in attitudes.
In this talk we will use our experiences in FAIRDOM to explore the political, economic, social and technical, social practicalities of Trust.
[1] Wilkinson et al (2016) The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship Scientific Data 3, doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.18
[2] Wolstencroft, et al (2016) FAIRDOMHub: a repository and collaboration environment for sharing systems biology research Nucleic Acids Research, 45(D1): D404-D407. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1032
Changing trends in citation analysis and challenges in API measurementMunesh Kumar
Changing trends in citation analysis and challenges in API measurement article focused on the changing theme of citation analysis and evaluation of Altmetrics, and issues in academic performance Indicator (API).
Altmetrics attempts to provide timely measures of an impact through the use of metrics from HTML views and downloads of scholarly articles, blog posts, tweets, bookmarks, etc. Publishers of scientific research have enabled altmetrics on their articles, open source applications are available for platforms to display altmetrics on scientific research and subscription models have been created to measure the use that research articles receive online. This presentation reviews some of the current models for providing altmetrics along with information on a selection the providers that have made altmetrics available for general use.
June 18 NISO Virtual Conference: Transforming Assessment: Alternative Metrics and Other Trends
Keynote Speaker: Altmetrics at the Portfolio Level
- Paul Groth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the VU University Amsterdam
A presentation on the SageCite project given at the JISC MRD International Workshop in March 2011. Describes the application domain and citation challenges in SageCite.
Vision for an academic research library as partner in campus-wide data manage...Plato L. Smith II
This presentation was presented to the faculty librarians and staff at the George A. Smathers Libraries - University of Florida as part of a faculty candidate presentation campus interview.
Being FAIR: FAIR data and model management SSBSS 2017 Summer SchoolCarole Goble
Lecture 1:
Being FAIR: FAIR data and model management
In recent years we have seen a change in expectations for the management of all the outcomes of research – that is the “assets” of data, models, codes, SOPs, workflows. The “FAIR” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship [1] have proved to be an effective rallying-cry. Funding agencies expect data (and increasingly software) management retention and access plans. Journals are raising their expectations of the availability of data and codes for pre- and post- publication. The multi-component, multi-disciplinary nature of Systems and Synthetic Biology demands the interlinking and exchange of assets and the systematic recording of metadata for their interpretation.
Our FAIRDOM project (http://www.fair-dom.org) supports Systems Biology research projects with their research data, methods and model management, with an emphasis on standards smuggled in by stealth and sensitivity to asset sharing and credit anxiety. The FAIRDOM Platform has been installed by over 30 labs or projects. Our public, centrally hosted Asset Commons, the FAIRDOMHub.org, supports the outcomes of 50+ projects.
Now established as a grassroots association, FAIRDOM has over 8 years of experience of practical asset sharing and data infrastructure at the researcher coal-face ranging across European programmes (SysMO and ERASysAPP ERANets), national initiatives (Germany's de.NBI and Systems Medicine of the Liver; Norway's Digital Life) and European Research Infrastructures (ISBE) as well as in PI's labs and Centres such as the SynBioChem Centre at Manchester.
In this talk I will show explore how FAIRDOM has been designed to support Systems Biology projects and show examples of its configuration and use. I will also explore the technical and social challenges we face.
I will also refer to European efforts to support public archives for the life sciences. ELIXIR (http:// http://www.elixir-europe.org/) the European Research Infrastructure of 21 national nodes and a hub funded by national agreements to coordinate and sustain key data repositories and archives for the Life Science community, improve access to them and related tools, support training and create a platform for dataset interoperability. As the Head of the ELIXIR-UK Node and co-lead of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform I will show how this work relates to your projects.
[1] Wilkinson et al, The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship Scientific Data 3, doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.18
VREs and Research Tools - supporting collaborative researchChristopher Brown
A summary of the Jisc funded VRE and Research Tools programmes and projects. Presented at the Jisc Regional Support Centre London webinar on 20 November, 2013 (http://jiscevents.force.com/E/EventsDetailPage?id=a06U000000Efx52IAB&srvc=JISC%20RSC%20London)
This presentation was provided by Violeta Ilik of Northwestern University during the NISO Virtual Conference held on Feb 15, 2017, entitled Institutional Repositories: Ensuring Yours is Populated, Useful and Thriving. The DOI for this presentation is http://dx.doi.org/10.18131/G3VP6R
Research support and open science services at the University of Eastern Finla...Library_Connect
This presentation from Helena Silvennoinen-Kuikka, Head of Learning and Information Services, University of Eastern Finland Library, shares their approach to the library as a leader in establishing open science within their institution. The presentation was part of a Library Connect webinar on open science on Oct. 11, 2018, which can be viewed at https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=334301
Elevate the status of your library with data visualizations and multimedia me...Library_Connect
Webinar slides from:
- Todd Bruns, Institutional Repository Librarian, Eastern Illinois University
- Dudee Chiang, Senior Technical Librarian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Jean Shipman, Vice President of Global Library Relations, Elsevier
See the recorded webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=279911
Quick reference cards for research impact metricsLibrary_Connect
When meeting with students, researchers, deans or department heads, the metrics on these quick reference cards can serve as a jumping off point in conversations about where to publish, adding to researcher profiles, enriching promotion and tenure files, and benchmarking research outputs. The cards were co-developed by librarian Jenny Delasalle and Elsevier's Library Connect program. Learn more and download poster versions as well at: https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/librarian-quick-reference-cards-research-impact-metrics
Webinar slides from June 8 Library Connect webinar "Researcher profiles and metrics that matter" with: Chris Belter, Bibliometrics Informationist, NIH Library; Andrea Michalek, VP of Research Metrics, Elsevier | Managing Director of Plum Analytics; Ellen Cole, Scholarly Publications Librarian, Learning and Research Services, Northumbria University.
View the webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=257883
An informatics perspective on health literacyLibrary_Connect
Professor Prudence Dalrymple, a leading health information professional, presented "An Informatics Perspective on Health Literacy: Challenges and Obstacles" at the Elsevier Luncheon for Medical Librarians concurrent with the 2017 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Seattle.
In these webinar slides, librarians share their inspiration and process for developing high-impact library services. Presentations from Katy Kavanagh Webb, Assistant Professor | Head, Research and Instructional Services, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University; Donna Gibson, Director of Library Services, Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center; and
J. William (Bill) Draper, Reference Librarian, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Law School. View the webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=255645
A tool for librarians to select metrics across the research lifecycleLibrary_Connect
These slides introduce a range of research impact metrics. They were presented at the ER&L Conference (April 2017) by Chris James, Product Manager Research Metrics, Elsevier.
Slides | Research data literacy and the libraryLibrary_Connect
Slides from the Dec. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Research data literacy and the library" with Christian Lauersen, Sarah J. Wright and Anita de Waard. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=226043
Slides | Targeting the librarian’s role in research servicesLibrary_Connect
Slides from the Nov. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Targeting the librarian’s role in research services" with Nina Exner, Amanda Horsman and Mark Reed. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=223121
Capturing and communicating the value of information management services in a...Library_Connect
Ulla de Stricker's webinar slides from the June 21 Library Connect webinar, "Capturing and communicating the value of information management services in a corporate culture." View the webinar: https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=202895
Life in the Fast Lane: The Journey from Squid Axons to Alzheimer’s BrainsLibrary_Connect
Slides from Dr. Scott Brady's presentation at the Elsevier luncheon during the Medical Library Association 2016 conference. Dr. Brady is Professor and Head of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, and an editor of "Basic Neurochemistry."
Research impact metrics for librarians: calculation & contextLibrary_Connect
Slides from the May 19, 2016, Library Connect webinar "Research impact metrics for librarians: calculation & context" with Jenny Delasalle and Andrew Plume.
Watch the webinar at: https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=199783
Wouter Haak's presentation on open science and research data management from the Elsevier Library Connect Event 2016 "Navigating the new publishing & open science terrain: what librarians need to know." Wouter is Elsevier's Vice President of Research Data Management Solutions.
Library Connect Webinar | Fostering research community through library spaces...Library_Connect
In this March 31, 2016 webinar three experienced librarians explored outreach activities to engage various user groups, and how services and a physical space - like a research commons or makerspace - can enhance collaboration, interdisciplinarity and raise the profile of the library.
View the webinar at:
http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=192865
Presenters:
Yvonne Nobis, Head of Science Information Services, Betty and Gordon Moore Library, University of Cambridge
Danianne Mizzy, Head of Kenan Science Information Services, Kenan Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Meris Mandernach, Associate Professor and Head of Research Services, University Libraries, The Ohio State University
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Library Connect Webinar - Making the case for sharing with indicators of research data impact
1. Making the case for sharing with indicators of
research data impact
Alex Ball
University of Bath
Library Connect Webinar:
How to assist researchers in sharing their research data
22 October 2015
2. Motivation
Mandates get things done, but grudgingly.
To get high quality data sharing, we need to
make it rewarding.
We need to demonstrate that datasets have
impact.
CASRAI Dataset-Level Metrics:
http://www.casrai.org/Dataset_Level_Metrics
NISO Altmetrics Initiative:
http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/
3. Thompson Reuters Data Citation Index
http://wokinfo.com/products_tools
/multidisciplinary/dci/
11. Data papers and data journals
Murphy, F., Jefferies, N., & Ingraham, Thomas. (2015).
Giving Researchers Credit for their Data: Jisc Research Data
Spring, July 2015 (version 3). Available from Figshare:
http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1483297
13. Final thoughts
Encourage data sharing at your institution:
Make it as easy as possible to deposit data
Provide stable bibliographic information and an identifier –
this makes tracking citations easier
Show depositors numbers of views and downloads
Make these statistics available to other services via an API
Researchers are more likely to take care over sharing if they can
see it makes a difference!
14. Further information
Ball, A. & Duke, M. (2015). How to track the impact of research
data with metrics. Edinburgh, UK: Digital Curation Centre.
Retrieved from http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/
track-data-impact-metrics
FORCE11, Data Citation Synthesis Group. (2014). Joint
declaration of data citation principles. Retrieved from
https://www.force11.org/datacitation
Ball, A. & Duke, M. (2015). How to cite datasets and link to
publications. Edinburgh, UK: Digital Curation Centre.
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