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- 1. Introducing Policy Commons Taming wild policy content and making it useful “Could Policy Commons become the platform I was missing, and hoping for, during all these years?” Jan Vandamme, Librarian EUROFOUND
- 2. The problem — Policy content is wild, scattered and unstable • Scattered on 1,000s of IGO, NGO, think tank and university research center websites • Time-consuming to find • Expensive to catalog • No persistent identifiers • Unstable, >25% risk of link rot • Under-used, hard to cite • Unmineable Reports Working papers Blogs & Podcasts Data As a result: under-used, limited impact
- 3. 0 The Solution: Policy Commons Reports Working papers Blogs & Podcasts Data Where policy content is: • Curated • Catalog-ready • Findable • Useful • Kept safe And all done by working with the policy community
- 4. • Coverage of >1,000 IGOs, NGOs, Think Tanks and research centres • >1.5m reports, working papers, blogs & podcasts • 15m+ pages • 50,000 pages of exclusive content, growing to 150,000 pages within a year • Daily Feeds from major partners – OECD, UN, World Bank, IMF, WHO, EU, Brookings, Carnegie, Peterson, Pew, IFRI and more. Policy Commons curates . . . The best content, the best partners
- 5. • >70% of items tagged with JEL-style thesaurus • Social tagging for fast moving concepts like ‘Brexit’ • Works with VIAFs, ORCIDs, DOIs and other standard identifiers • Individual charts extracted, tagged & given unique identifiers • Exportable MARC records • All content gets a Coherent persistent identifier Policy Commons catalogs and tags “Now policy content can be discovered in mainstream discovery services and catalog systems alongside formally published journal articles and books.”
- 6. Policy Commons makes wild content findable . . . Find content by topic, by organization, by author, and other key access points
- 7. . . . and useful Find reports buried on websites, and key visuals buried in reports What has (my) <institution> published over the past 18 months? Which region(s) does <institution> write about?When did <influencer> write about <city> <topic> problem? What does <institution> say about SGD #13? Explore questions like:
- 8. Policy Commons makes stuff safe . . . We’ll stop link rot. We’ll keep stuff safe. Important stuff will disappear without Policy Commons • Link rot is rife in this sector • >25% of links in syllabi and reading lists are broken • To stop link rot we’ll give each item a persistent identifier and . . . • . . . store a copy for safe-keeping
- 9. Partner website or repository Partner website or repository Partner website or repository Open content on Partner websites & repositories Discovery engine Content store Selected & Licensed by our editors Uploaded by Policy Commons Members & user community Curated, identified and made safe on the Policy Commons platform Premium content? Broken link? Users find content No Yes Directed back to partner website/repository to access open content Users with membership rights access premium content and saved copies from Policy Commons Policy Commons works with the community Partner website or repositoryPartner website or repositoryPartner website or repositoryLicensed & Archive ‘Premium’ content Policy Commons is a unique, open, collaborative platform that works with content partners and users.
- 10. Policy Commons: more sources, more items, more services, and community features Platform Sources Items Links user to source website or repository Adds persistent identifiers Offers catalog records Search open to anyone Public usage metrics Community features & self- uploading Model Policy File 350 ~200,000 Closed CIAO 300 ~50,0001 Closed Policy Archive2 930 ~30,000 Open iLibrary Partnership 6 ~400,000 n/a Freemium Policy Commons >1000 >1,500,000 Freemium 1. CIAO reports coverage of 500,000 pages from 300 sources which if averaged at 10pp per document would equate to ~50k items https://www.ciaonet.org/pages/about-ciao 2. Whilst still online, Policy Archive’s owner, Center for Government Studies, closed in 2011 making Policy Archive’s future uncertain.
- 11. Policy Commons: Membership Options Institutional Member ($) Individual Member (Free) Access to search engine Alerting services, sharing tools Manage your own Directory entry Upload individual works Up to 200 GB Up to 5 GB Obtain instantaneous persistent identifiers for your uploaded works Usage Tracking, LTI Tools etc.. Extensive Basic Voting Rights, member privileges 150,000 pages of unique, proprietary, content Access Saved (broken-link) Copies API and mining rights Enrich & build audience for your collections Optional supplement Perpetual Ownership of Proprietary Content Optional supplement FairfaxHouse.com Confidential 11
- 12. Institutional Member Privileges FairfaxHouse.com Confidential 12 ● Access all proprietary materials on the site, including major new collections as they appear. ● Access, download, and keep saved copies of open content. ● Use SAML-plus-WAYFless SSO to provide users seamless access without registration. ● Bulk-submit PDFs and other content for automated entity extraction, OCR, and other value-added processes. ● Retrieve content for data mining and other processes using our API. ● Download MARC records for a majority of content for inclusion in local catalogs. ● Obtain instantaneous permanent identifiers for your content (Coherent Identifiers). ● Generate COUNTER-compliant aggregate usage statistics and reference cards. ● Nominate an internal representative to help guide future development of the Commons and to manage your directory entry, add institutional content, and otherwise build your organization’s presence. ● Utilize WCAG Level II accessibility.