This document discusses the importance of preserving both research data and literature for future use. It quotes two scientists emphasizing the value of original data. It then makes three recommendations: 1) Include research literature as part of the record of science; 2) Make data available for future unknown uses; 3) Regard assured access to digital content as a grand challenge. Several organizations are working to archive e-journals and digital content to ensure long-term preservation and access.
The document discusses using Linked Data from the British Museum's SPARQL endpoint in the Shakespeare Registry Project. It describes the background of the project and issues with using the SPARQL endpoint, such as a lack of documentation and inefficient text searching. The document also provides a workflow for extracting metadata that involves identifying object IDs in the collection database before querying the SPARQL endpoint.
Data Library Services at the University of EdinburghRobin Rice
The Data Library at the University of Edinburgh was established in the early 1980s to provide access to datasets like UK census data. It has since evolved to support research data management across its lifecycle through services like consultancy, a dataset catalogue, and training. The Data Library is now part of a research data management program that includes an institutional data repository called Edinburgh DataShare that has deposited around 250 datasets so far. A key part of training is the open online Research Data Management course called MANTRA.
The document discusses the evolution of digital library services at EDINA from the 1990s to present day. It covers:
1. Early services like SALSER, a union catalog of serials in Scotland, and knowledge gained from projects like JOIN-UP on distributed architectures.
2. Key projects and services over time including SUNCAT, the Keepers Registry for e-journal preservation, and work on entitlement registries.
3. The central role of identifiers like ISSN in enhancing records and enabling services across these systems.
4. A vision for further integrating print and digital content and moving to semantic web approaches by 2020.
Robin Rice presented on guiding users through data deposit from the perspective of a data librarian. The presentation covered supporting data users throughout the research lifecycle, fostering a culture of responsible sharing through training, and incentivizing open data sharing through easy-to-use repository services. It also discussed balancing the needs of a multi-disciplinary institutional repository to accommodate different domains while striving for FAIR data principles and lowering barriers to deposit. An online demo of user documentation for the Edinburgh DataShare repository was provided.
This document discusses the importance of preserving both research data and literature for future use. It quotes two scientists emphasizing the value of original data. It then makes three recommendations: 1) Include research literature as part of the record of science; 2) Make data available for future unknown uses; 3) Regard assured access to digital content as a grand challenge. Several organizations are working to archive e-journals and digital content to ensure long-term preservation and access.
The document discusses using Linked Data from the British Museum's SPARQL endpoint in the Shakespeare Registry Project. It describes the background of the project and issues with using the SPARQL endpoint, such as a lack of documentation and inefficient text searching. The document also provides a workflow for extracting metadata that involves identifying object IDs in the collection database before querying the SPARQL endpoint.
Data Library Services at the University of EdinburghRobin Rice
The Data Library at the University of Edinburgh was established in the early 1980s to provide access to datasets like UK census data. It has since evolved to support research data management across its lifecycle through services like consultancy, a dataset catalogue, and training. The Data Library is now part of a research data management program that includes an institutional data repository called Edinburgh DataShare that has deposited around 250 datasets so far. A key part of training is the open online Research Data Management course called MANTRA.
The document discusses the evolution of digital library services at EDINA from the 1990s to present day. It covers:
1. Early services like SALSER, a union catalog of serials in Scotland, and knowledge gained from projects like JOIN-UP on distributed architectures.
2. Key projects and services over time including SUNCAT, the Keepers Registry for e-journal preservation, and work on entitlement registries.
3. The central role of identifiers like ISSN in enhancing records and enabling services across these systems.
4. A vision for further integrating print and digital content and moving to semantic web approaches by 2020.
Robin Rice presented on guiding users through data deposit from the perspective of a data librarian. The presentation covered supporting data users throughout the research lifecycle, fostering a culture of responsible sharing through training, and incentivizing open data sharing through easy-to-use repository services. It also discussed balancing the needs of a multi-disciplinary institutional repository to accommodate different domains while striving for FAIR data principles and lowering barriers to deposit. An online demo of user documentation for the Edinburgh DataShare repository was provided.
Presented by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA, Beyond Books: What STM & Social Science publishing should learn from each other, London. Conference programme. 22 April 2010.
Presented by Peter Burnhill at the ost ALA Annual Holdings Update Forum, Universal and repurposed holdings information -- Emerging initiatives and projects, Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 25 June 2011
Presentation given by Peter Burnhill, director of EDINA, at #ReCon_15 : Beyond the paper: publishing data, software and more. Edinburgh, 19 June 2015
Peter Burnhill
http://reconevent.com/
Presentation given by Peter Burnhill of EDINA, at the Digital Preservation Coalition's "Trust and E-journals" event on 31 January 2012 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, Euston Road, London, UK.
1) The University of Edinburgh drafted an 18-month Research Data Management Roadmap in August 2012 to address institutional research data management and comply with their RDM policy.
2) The Roadmap outlines governance, data management planning support, development of an active data infrastructure including a data store, and data stewardship services such as a data repository and registry.
3) Services under the Roadmap include tailored data management plan assistance, customizing an online DMP tool, infrastructure for storing and accessing research data, and a data repository for depositing and long-term management of completed research outputs.
The document discusses the UK LOCKSS Alliance program which aims to help libraries preserve electronic journals and books through local archiving. It describes how the collaborative organization coordinates support for members to build and maintain their own archives of web published content. The UK LOCKSS Alliance works to ensure long-term sustainable access to scholarly works.
The Edinburgh DataShare is an institutional data repository hosted by the University of Edinburgh Data Library to provide open access to research datasets. It uses a customized DSpace platform to allow discovery of datasets and provides persistent identifiers, metadata harvesting, and quality assurance checks. Enhancements are being made to streamline deposit workflows and improve usability, and future plans include pursuing a Data Seal of Approval and integrating with other systems like GitHub and electronic lab notebooks.
Presentation given by Chris Higgens at the Annual Infrastructure for Spatial Information in European (INSPIRE) Conference Krakow, Poland. 22 June 2010.
The document discusses the Keepers Registry, which aims to provide a global registry of organizations that archive e-journals and periodicals. It notes that digital scholarly content is now primarily online but risks being lost without archiving. The registry identifies which archiving agencies are preserving which publications to help ensure continued access over time on a global scale. It outlines the partners developing the registry and their goals of engaging more archiving organizations and establishing governance and sustainability. The registry currently focuses on content with ISSNs and the partners are working to improve coverage and functionality.
Delivered by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA, at the PRELIDA Consolidation and Dissemination workshop on 17/18 October 2014 (http://prelida.eu/consolidation-workshop).
Summary: The web changes over time, and significant reference rot inevitably occurs. Web archiving delivers only a 50% chance of success. So in addition to the original URI, the link should be augmented with temporal context to increase robustness.
The University of Edinburgh has taken several steps to improve research data management:
1. They developed the first research data management policy in the UK to provide guidelines for storing, sharing, and preserving research data.
2. They created online training and guidance materials called MANTRA to teach researchers best practices for data organization, documentation, and long-term access.
3. They are developing research data services including a data library, repository, and storage strategies to support researchers in managing their data throughout the research lifecycle and ensuring access over time.
Delivered by Peter Burnhill at CNI Fall 2014 Membership Meeting, December 8-9, 2014
Washington, DC. This is about ensuring that online serial content, whether issued in parts or changes over time via a website, continues to be available for scholarship. The central take home message is that we all have a lot still to do.
The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and the MANTRA project. It defines OER as teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely available or have an open license allowing free use. The MANTRA project aims to create online learning modules about research data management and make them available as OER. Key lessons from creating the modules included underestimating the time needed, challenges of authoring content, and ensuring consistency across materials.
Addy Pope demonstrates how a suite of EDINA and Edinburgh University Data Library tools and apps can make curating your spatial data a breeze. Presented at the Open Repositories 2014, June 9-13, Helsinki, Finland http://or2014.helsinki.fi
This document summarizes a workshop on roles and skills for research data management (RDM). It provides examples of RDM support at the Universities of Edinburgh and Bangor. At Edinburgh, RDM involves central IT, libraries, repositories and other units. Support includes data infrastructure, stewardship, and general consultancy. Bangor is working to define roles and deliver collaborative RDM support. The document also describes the Research Data MANTRA training course and a training kit developed by EDINA for academic librarians on RDM topics.
This document summarizes the Jisc MediaHub service, which provides access to over 150,000 multimedia resources from various collections for educational use in UK further and higher education. It includes television and film news clips, documentary films, images and audio related to history, science, medicine, art and more. Usage and feedback is collected through surveys and workshops. The service aims to improve search and discoverability as well as becoming more responsive to user needs over time.
Presented by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA, Beyond Books: What STM & Social Science publishing should learn from each other, London. Conference programme. 22 April 2010.
Presented by Peter Burnhill at the ost ALA Annual Holdings Update Forum, Universal and repurposed holdings information -- Emerging initiatives and projects, Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 25 June 2011
Presentation given by Peter Burnhill, director of EDINA, at #ReCon_15 : Beyond the paper: publishing data, software and more. Edinburgh, 19 June 2015
Peter Burnhill
http://reconevent.com/
Presentation given by Peter Burnhill of EDINA, at the Digital Preservation Coalition's "Trust and E-journals" event on 31 January 2012 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, Euston Road, London, UK.
1) The University of Edinburgh drafted an 18-month Research Data Management Roadmap in August 2012 to address institutional research data management and comply with their RDM policy.
2) The Roadmap outlines governance, data management planning support, development of an active data infrastructure including a data store, and data stewardship services such as a data repository and registry.
3) Services under the Roadmap include tailored data management plan assistance, customizing an online DMP tool, infrastructure for storing and accessing research data, and a data repository for depositing and long-term management of completed research outputs.
The document discusses the UK LOCKSS Alliance program which aims to help libraries preserve electronic journals and books through local archiving. It describes how the collaborative organization coordinates support for members to build and maintain their own archives of web published content. The UK LOCKSS Alliance works to ensure long-term sustainable access to scholarly works.
The Edinburgh DataShare is an institutional data repository hosted by the University of Edinburgh Data Library to provide open access to research datasets. It uses a customized DSpace platform to allow discovery of datasets and provides persistent identifiers, metadata harvesting, and quality assurance checks. Enhancements are being made to streamline deposit workflows and improve usability, and future plans include pursuing a Data Seal of Approval and integrating with other systems like GitHub and electronic lab notebooks.
Presentation given by Chris Higgens at the Annual Infrastructure for Spatial Information in European (INSPIRE) Conference Krakow, Poland. 22 June 2010.
The document discusses the Keepers Registry, which aims to provide a global registry of organizations that archive e-journals and periodicals. It notes that digital scholarly content is now primarily online but risks being lost without archiving. The registry identifies which archiving agencies are preserving which publications to help ensure continued access over time on a global scale. It outlines the partners developing the registry and their goals of engaging more archiving organizations and establishing governance and sustainability. The registry currently focuses on content with ISSNs and the partners are working to improve coverage and functionality.
Delivered by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA, at the PRELIDA Consolidation and Dissemination workshop on 17/18 October 2014 (http://prelida.eu/consolidation-workshop).
Summary: The web changes over time, and significant reference rot inevitably occurs. Web archiving delivers only a 50% chance of success. So in addition to the original URI, the link should be augmented with temporal context to increase robustness.
The University of Edinburgh has taken several steps to improve research data management:
1. They developed the first research data management policy in the UK to provide guidelines for storing, sharing, and preserving research data.
2. They created online training and guidance materials called MANTRA to teach researchers best practices for data organization, documentation, and long-term access.
3. They are developing research data services including a data library, repository, and storage strategies to support researchers in managing their data throughout the research lifecycle and ensuring access over time.
Delivered by Peter Burnhill at CNI Fall 2014 Membership Meeting, December 8-9, 2014
Washington, DC. This is about ensuring that online serial content, whether issued in parts or changes over time via a website, continues to be available for scholarship. The central take home message is that we all have a lot still to do.
The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and the MANTRA project. It defines OER as teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely available or have an open license allowing free use. The MANTRA project aims to create online learning modules about research data management and make them available as OER. Key lessons from creating the modules included underestimating the time needed, challenges of authoring content, and ensuring consistency across materials.
Addy Pope demonstrates how a suite of EDINA and Edinburgh University Data Library tools and apps can make curating your spatial data a breeze. Presented at the Open Repositories 2014, June 9-13, Helsinki, Finland http://or2014.helsinki.fi
This document summarizes a workshop on roles and skills for research data management (RDM). It provides examples of RDM support at the Universities of Edinburgh and Bangor. At Edinburgh, RDM involves central IT, libraries, repositories and other units. Support includes data infrastructure, stewardship, and general consultancy. Bangor is working to define roles and deliver collaborative RDM support. The document also describes the Research Data MANTRA training course and a training kit developed by EDINA for academic librarians on RDM topics.
This document summarizes the Jisc MediaHub service, which provides access to over 150,000 multimedia resources from various collections for educational use in UK further and higher education. It includes television and film news clips, documentary films, images and audio related to history, science, medicine, art and more. Usage and feedback is collected through surveys and workshops. The service aims to improve search and discoverability as well as becoming more responsive to user needs over time.
Presented by Anne Robertson and Carol Blackwood for the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers in Perth, on 25 October 2014. An overview of some of the features of the online mapping tool for schools.
Palimpsest project Pecha Kucha, with Miranda Anderson (AHRC Research Fellow at UoE) for LateLab: Pecha Kucha, at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
This document discusses the MANTRA project, which aimed to raise awareness of research data management issues through open online training materials. It describes the creation of an eight-unit online learning module covering topics like data management plans and file formats. Practical exercises were also developed for software like R, SPSS, NVivo and ArcGIS. The materials were authored using the open-source Xerte authoring tool and released with a Creative Commons license for reuse. Key success factors included academic commitment, positive user feedback, increased advocacy, and evidence of use beyond the original context.
The University of Edinburgh approved a research data management policy in May 2011 to address growing pressures around research data. The Vice-Principal, Jeff Haywood, championed the development of the first research data management policy in the UK. The policy aimed to comply with funder requirements for open access to research data and address reputational risks around responding to Freedom of Information requests. In developing the policy, the university sought broad discussion, identified champions at various levels, and addressed gaps in research data services to support retention and access to data underlying published research.
The document discusses using Digimap ROAM to create campus maps that can be exported and used in other applications. It provides steps to familiarize oneself with Digimap ROAM, digitize buildings on campus maps, export the data as GeoJSON, and convert it to other formats like KML for use in Google Earth or dynamic web maps using OpenLayers. Examples are given of creating campus maps for the University of Edinburgh.
University of Edinburgh's first QGIS Training CourseTom Armitage
The document summarizes the University of Edinburgh's first QGIS training course that was held on November 16th 2015. It was led by Tom Armitage and covered getting started with the QGIS software, adding and displaying data as maps, and basic geoprocessing functions. The training was aimed at social scientists, historians, and other disciplines involved in digital humanities and geospatial analysis. Key topics included installing QGIS, importing data, making maps, and printing maps. More advanced functions like spatial analysis and specific databases were out of the course's scope. Attendees provided positive feedback and appreciated QGIS as a free and open source alternative to ArcGIS.
This document summarizes an upcoming conference on open education in Scotland. It provides information about Open Scotland, an initiative to promote open education resources and practices. It also outlines the progress of the Scottish Open Education Declaration, including endorsements from the Scottish government and interest internationally. The conference called OER16 will focus on embedding an open culture in institutions and be hosted at the University of Edinburgh in April 2016.
Stuart Macdonald reviews what researchers need to do to comply with the new EPSRC framework concerning the management and provision of access to publicly-funded research data. Presented at the Mobility, Mood and Place Research Committee Meeting workshop at the Edinburgh College of Art, 16 June, 2015.
The document discusses how to effectively use social media to manage your online presence and build your professional profile, noting that social media allows you to connect with others in your field, establish yourself as a knowledgeable expert, and potentially find new opportunities. It provides tips on which tools to use, how to represent yourself professionally online, and examples of both good and cautionary social media practices.
The document discusses using the Raptor software suite to generate statistics from Shibboleth authentication data. Raptor allows generating graphs of authentication events over time grouped by different fields and exporting them as images, CSVs, or PDFs. It also explores pulling additional user data from LDAP directories and using Raptor's modular components like the MUA and PostgreSQL database with R and shell scripts to build a prototype for viewing service provider authentication statistics.
An overview of what EDINA has to offer to researchers in UK HE and FE. Presented by Nicola Osborne and Lisa Otty at Supporting Digital Scholarship in CHSS on 2 December 2015
The document summarizes a workshop on applying federated authentication standards like SAML to the GEOSS system. It introduces the COBWEB project and its goals of integrating crowdsourced environmental data. The workshop covered previous work using SAML, related work in GEOSS, and COBWEB's initial plans to pilot federated authentication for accessing data from multiple sources. Attendees were encouraged to participate in future COBWEB authentication activities.
The document summarizes the research data management program at the University of Edinburgh. It discusses the services provided, including a data management planning tool, a data repository for publication and preservation, and a data storage system. Training and support are also offered to help researchers with best practices in organizing, documenting, sharing, and preserving their research data over its entire lifecycle. The program aims to implement the University's research data policy and support funder requirements by establishing these research data management services.
1. Edinburgh DataShare is a data repository service at the University of Edinburgh that allows researchers to upload, share, and license their research data.
2. It was built using DSpace in 2007-2009 as part of a project to create exemplar institutional data repositories.
3. The repository staff have worked to meet the needs of different research communities piloting data deposits, including large video and software files, sensitive health data, and arts data requiring specialized display.
Stewardship of the Digital Scholarly Record and Digital Published HeritageNASIG
This presentation discusses how The Keepers Registry and the network of Keepers is attempting to tackle the issue of digital preservation for electronic serials specifically. First identifying the scope of the problem being addressed, it moves on to the successes, in preservation and in measuring that preservation, before moving on to the challenges still to be surmounted. It touches upon some of the specific cases on which this preservation is focussing, including legal deposit and regional library consortia, as well as engagement with OA journals. It finishes with the broader plan of action to help allow the Keepers to accomplish their digital preservation goals, laid out in the statement they issued last August, calling upon all stakeholders in the world of scholarly communication, notably both publishers and research libraries, and setting actions they can take to help in this mission.
Speaker: Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress
Overview of issues and tools to ensure long-term access to scholarly content. Presented at II Seminário sobre Informação na Internet in Brasilia, 3 - 6 August 2015.
Presented by Peter Burnhill and Lisa Otty at 36th Annual IATUL Conference in Hannover, Germany, 5 - 9 July 2015 “Strategic Partnerships for Access and Discovery”
1) The document discusses the importance of preserving digital scholarly content as more becomes available online. It notes that currently around 75% of e-journals are at risk of being lost without preservation efforts.
2) The Keepers Registry is highlighted as a tool that tracks which archiving organizations are preserving which e-journals. The goal is for near 100% of content to be preserved by 2020.
3) Actions are discussed that libraries, publishers, and archiving organizations can take to improve preservation efforts and reduce the amount of content at risk, such as developing archive clauses for licensing agreements.
Digital libraries offer a knowledge base that can be accessed online, overcoming geographical barriers. They support functions like document preservation, database management, information retrieval, and dissemination. Major digital library projects include those in the US funded by NSF, ARPA, and NASA involving 6 universities, and 35 Elib projects in the UK. In India, the IISc digital library was a pioneer, accessible online and containing publications and theses. However, issues around copyright, data protection, and sustainability must still be addressed before digital libraries fully replace conventional libraries.
Stronger together: community initiatives in journal managementJisc
There has been a recent growth of initiatives to address common problems regarding current and long-term access to e-journal content. Jisc is at the forefront of many of these with the close participation and active input of educational institutions.
This session aims to summarise the current state of key themes with pointers to future directions of areas such as sustainability, the move towards e-only environments, and shared consortia approaches. It will provide an overview and panel discussion on developing the supporting infrastructure to meet the needs of users. The discussion will focus on how institutions, community bodies and service providers can best work together to ensure sustainable, long-term initiatives by seeking to introduce uniformity, standardisation and collaboration to an even greater extent.
The session will introduce two new Jisc-supported projects in this area, the Keepers Registry Extra and SafeNet initiatives, and discuss how these fit alongside existing Jisc services such as Knowledge Base+, UK LOCKSS Alliance, Journal Archives and JUSP (Journal Usage Statistics Portal). The panel will address how this catalogue of services contributes towards a coherent strategy in the management of e-journal content.
Overview of the problems of Reference Rot and what actions to take to ensure the persistence of the digital scholarly record. Presented by Peter Burnhill with Adam Rusbridge & Muriel Mewissen, EDINA, University of Edinburgh, UK; Herbert Van De Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, USA; Gaelle Bequet, ISSN International Centre, France; at Towards Open Science, LIBER, London, June 2015.
Presented by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA, at PARSE.insight workshop on Preservation, Access and Re-use of Scientific Data, Darmstadt, Germany, 22 September 2009.
20yrs: 2007 Brussels Digital Preservation: Setting the Course for a Decade of...Neil Beagrie
“Digital Preservation: Setting the Course for a Decade of Change” , a conference keynote from 2007, available now on Slideshare is the ninth of 12 presentations I’ve selected to mark 20 years in Digital Preservation. The remainder will be published at monthly intervals over 2015.
This presentation was the opening keynote to a conference in 2007 held by the Belgian Association of Documentation (BDA) to celebrate its 60th anniversary. It dates from my time at the British Library.
The conference theme was "Europe facing the challenge of the long term conservation of digitalised archives". My keynote synthesised many of the topics I was focussing on at the time (and have featured in some of my earlier slide shares in this series) including encouraging University libraries to engage more actively with research data management in the sciences, to begin developing digital special collections of individuals, and to support international efforts to ensure continuing access and preservation of e-Journals as part of the scholarly record. In addition, given the European focus I briefly covered some of the major European initiatives in digital preservation at that time.
I have selected this presentation as one of the 12 in this series, not only as it is synthesising these key themes but also because it includes some thoughts on whether digital preservation needed to be evolution or revolution (or a bit of both) for libraries and archives.
Evolution and Development of E Library An Historical Studyijtsrd
Digital library is the constantly growing and innovative information system therefore, evaluation is of critical to ensure their correct development. This study has focused on the growth of the e library by covering its historical portion globally. A “Digital Library” includes e collections, services and infrastructure to support lifelong learning, research, scholarly communication as well as preservation and conservation of our recorded knowledge. It provides a huge platform for the end users with e resources which create large impact for the library professions. This impact raised the library from tradition to digital. It generates the value added services to its users. Ms. Asmita Gaikwad "Evolution and Development of E-Library - An Historical Study" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-6 , October 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd51866.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/51866/evolution-and-development-of-elibrary--an-historical-study/ms-asmita-gaikwad
“Who does forever?” : A Registry of Keepers
Who is looking after e-journals with archival intent?
2. Dr Who and the Scholarly Record
Time Travel for Scholarly Web
Evidence from the Keepers Registry
Statistics on who is looking after what, & what is at risk
This document discusses archiving and different types of archives. It provides an overview of archiving, including what an archive is and why preservation is important. It then describes different types of archives like national archives, institutional repositories, and product solution archives. As an example, it outlines SAGE's experience archiving content with the Dutch National Library. It raises questions about how to measure the success of archives and lists resources for further information.
- The PEPRS project aims to create a registry of digital preservation activities for e-journals to help libraries and policymakers understand what content is being archived.
- The initial phase involved five digital preservation agencies and used ISSN data to map e-journal records to content being preserved.
- The evaluation recommended further funding to resolve issues identified and develop the system into a full public service.
A look at the research being carried out by Dr Stuart Dunn at Kings College London. This includes his work on rediscovering Corpse Paths in Great Britain.
The Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015) is a map of land cover classes across the UK produced every 5-10 years. It is based on classification of Landsat satellite imagery from the summer and winter and additional data layers. The LCM2015 contains over 7.5 million land parcels classified into 21 land cover classes. It is an important resource used widely in research, commercial, government and nonprofit applications related to agriculture, ecology, climate, planning and more.
A presentation by John Murray from Fusion Data Science given at EDINA's GeoForum 2017 about the use of Lidar Data and the technology and techniques that can be used on it to create useful datasets.
Slides accompanying the presentation:"Reference Rot in Theses: A HiberActive Pilot", a 10x10 session (10 slides over 10 minutes) presented by Nicola Osborne (EDINA, University of Edinburgh). This presentation was part of Repository Fringe 2017 (#rfringe17) held on 3rd August 2017 in Edinburgh. The slides describe a project to develop Site2Cite, a new (pilot) tool for researchers to archive their web citations and ensure their readers can access that archive copy should the website change over time (including "Reference Rot" and "Content Drift").
This document provides an overview of managing digital footprints. It discusses what a digital footprint is, research conducted at the University of Edinburgh on digital footprints, and factors that contribute to one's digital footprint such as social media, location data, and online searches. The document notes that digital footprints can impact professional and personal reputation. It provides tips for taking ownership of one's digital footprint such as regularly searching for oneself online and reviewing privacy settings. Resources for further information and managing digital footprints are also listed.
The document discusses using digital technology and maps to represent the HMS Iolaire tragedy, a maritime disaster in 1919 where 205 men from the Isle of Lewis died after returning from World War I. It describes adding photos, text, and showing change over time to maps to help tell the story and create a sense of place. Specific details are provided about the journey the men took from England to the Western Isles on New Year's Day 1919 and how maps at different scales can portray events in different ways.
This document introduces Digimap for Schools, an online mapping service designed for schools to use in geography and other subjects. It has Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain at different zoom levels, as well as historic maps and aerial photography. Students can add their own labels, markers, and other elements to maps. The service allows measuring distances and areas. It is browser-based and can be accessed from school or home. Over 2,690 schools in Britain currently use the service, including 185 Scottish secondary schools. The document outlines how Digimap for Schools can support teaching and learning in subjects beyond geography like numeracy, social studies, sciences, and more. Examples of lessons and activities using the mapping service are provided.
This document provides an introduction to Digimap for Schools, an online mapping service designed for use in UK schools. It highlights key features such as access to historic maps from the 1890s and 1950s, aerial photography, and tools for annotating, measuring, and analyzing maps. Schools subscribe to the service, which allows unlimited users per school to access maps and tools through a web browser on any device. The presenter emphasizes how Digimap for Schools can support teaching and learning across the Scottish curriculum, particularly for geography, by facilitating hands-on activities with maps, data, and spatial analysis. Examples are given of how schools have used the service for topics like land use change, density calculations, and proportional mapping. Teachers observing the presentation
"Managing your Digital Footprint : Taking control of the metadata and tracks and traces that define us online" invited presentation for CIG Scotland's 7th Metadata & Web 2.0 Seminar: "Somewhere over the Rainbow: our metadata online, past, present & future", which took place at the National Library of Scotland, 5th April 2017.
Slides accompanying Nicola Osborne's(EDINA Digital Education Manager) session on "Social media and blogging to develop and communicate research in the arts and humanities" at the "Academic Publishing: Routes to Success" event held at the University of Stirling on 23rd January 2017.
"Enhancing your research impact through social media" - presentation given by Nicola Osborne, EDINA Digital Education Manager, at the Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2017 (19th January 2017).
Social Media in Marketing in Support of Your Personal Brand - Nicola Osborne, EDINA Digital Education Manager, for Abertay University (Dundee) 4th Year Marketing Students.
Best Practice for Social Media in Teaching & Learning Contexts, slides accompanying a presentation by Nicola Osborne, EDINA Digital Education Manager, for Abertay University (Dundee). The hashtag for this event was #AbTLEJan2017.
Big Just Got Bigger! discusses the challenges of managing large map collections through the Digimap service. Digimap provides access to geospatial data from various sources, including Ordnance Survey, British Geological Survey, aerial imagery, and more. It has grown significantly over time to include more data sources and users. Managing such large datasets and meeting user expectations of current data and performance presents challenges. Issues include keeping data current while sharing across platforms, disk storage needs increasing exponentially over time, and ensuring data can be accessed and used through various tools and formats.
This document summarizes new and enhanced features in Digimap services from 2015-2016. Key updates include a refreshed homepage, responsive design for tablets, a new historic downloader application, marine chart roam with updated data, additions to ancient roam, land cover vector data, and improvements to geology, marine, and OS data. Usability and performance enhancements were also made, such as improved geo-referencing, easier use of 3D data, and a more reliable backend system. Feedback from users helped inform priority quality improvements.
A talk by Dr. Phil Bartie about Spatial Data, how he has used it, issues of quality and how Digimap has helped him by making it available throughout his academic career.
1. Tales from The Keepers Registry
Helping to ensure ease & continuity of access to digital resources
Peter Burnhill
EDINA (JISC & University of Edinburgh)
Digital Future and You: Library of Congress, Washington DC
10 December, 2012
2. Three Stories To Tell & Pictures To Paint
(based on an invited paper being accepted for Serials Review)
1. The Keepers Registry (to monitor progress)
2. A Large Volume of Serial Issues
3. The Scholarly Web (the now & the future then)
+ some asides on the way: eg, ‘seriality’
3. Monitoring Preservation of (Digital) Serial Content
Identifying
the stream
Helping to ensure
continuity of access
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shinez/5000985919/
4. Central Task for Libraries: To ensure
researchers, students and their teachers have
ease and continuing access
to online scholarly resources
ease access continuing
to content & services
usability access to long-term
Licence restricted
back content preservation
open The Keepers Registry
as monitor upon
e-journal archiving
5. The Basics of Our Shared Concern
[The Good News]
What was once availably locally <on shelf, in drawer/datacentre>
is now online & accessed remotely, anytime/anywhere
– Studies show that scholarly literature is now nearly all online
– Libraries moving to an e-only environment for journals
[The Bad News]
The role of libraries as trusted keepers of information and
culture has been disrupted
Libraries no longer take physical custody of digital
– Publishers license content online remotely
Risk of loss for future scholars, citizens & our children
6. Our Shared Understanding
World heritage & scientific understanding is global
Scholarship & science has global literature
Researchers in any one country are dependent upon
content written and published in other countries
International/National Reports & Activity: 10 Years On
Draft Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage, 2003
Increasingly born digital,
or re-born digitized
Archiving E-Journals (JISC: Maggie Jones, 2003)
Need to ensure continuity
Archiving Electronic Journals of
(L. Cantara (Ed) DLF/CLR, 2003)
access
E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the
Landscape (Anne Kenney et al, 2006)
…
7. The real heroes in the story are …
The Keepers, organisations that act as
our digital shelves:
① web-scale not-for-profit organizations
* e.g. CLOCKSS Archive & Portico
② national libraries
* e.g. British Library, e-Depot (Netherlands)
& National Science Library of China
③ library consortia
* e.g. HathiTrust & Global LOCKSS Network
http://www.flickr.com/photos/damork/450592706/
8. Sidebar note on National Libraries
Should we wait upon Legal Deposit?
– 94% of libraries have some form of legal deposit for print.
• Only 44% national libraries had legislation in 2011 for
e-books or e-journals; expected to rise to 58% by June 2012.
• Only 27% [expected to rise to 37% by June 2012] actually
ingesting via legal deposit
Total national libraries collecting =
those 14 via legal deposit + 9 by other means
(Netherlands, UK/BL & Switzerland have voluntary deposit)
2 (KB e-Depot & BL) participate in the Keepers Registry
– Only when the other 21 join will all know about their activity
from presentation, CENL 2011 Survey by Lynne Brindley
to CDNL Annual Meeting Puerto Rico, 15/8/11
9. Many archiving initiatives is a Good Thing
“Digital information is best preserved by replicating it at
multiple archives run by autonomous organizations”
B. Cooper and H. Garcia-Molina (2002)
10. A Registry to discover ‘who is looking after what’
• Idea mooted in UK Report (JISC: Maggie Jones, 2003/4);
Call in USA/Canada for “clarity of public statement by each
agency or through a registry” (CLIR Report, 2006)
• UK scoping study recommended an e-journals preservation
registry be built (JISC: Rightscom/U. of Loughborough 2007)
• JISC funded EDINA & ISSN-IC as partners to Pilot an
E-Journal Preservation Registry Services (PEPRS)
– Phase 1: August 2008 – July 2010
‘investigate, prototype and build’ [evaluation in Feb. 2010]
– Phase 2: August 2010 – July 2012
‘preparing for service & governance’
11. Abstract Data Model: Figure 1 in reference paper in Serials, March 2009
SERVICES: user requirements
E-J Preservation Registry Service
Piloting an
E-journals E-Journal METADATA
Preservation Preservation on preservation action
(b)
Registry Registry
Service
(a)
METADATA Digital Preservation Agencies
e.g. CLOCKSS, Portico; BL, KB;
on extant e-journals UK LOCKSS Alliance etc.
Data dependency
ISSN
Register
12. Partners have 15+ years of association
• ISSN International Centre (ISSN IC, on behalf of Network)
linked to national libraries and publishers
– an intergovernmental institution governed by statutes/
convention between UNESCO France (as host country)
– coordinates the ISSN Network of national centres, operating
an automated system for the registration of serials, via
assignment of International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSNs)
http://www.issn.org
• EDINA linked to needs of research teaching
– part of The University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK)
– designated in 1995 to act as a national data centre by JISC,
the ICT agency for UK universities and colleges
http://edina.ac.uk
13. EDINA
EDINA’s Mission: We develop and deliver online services
digital infrastructure for UK research and education.
Our Vision: To be integral to the quality productivity of
research education, in the UK beyond
part of The University of Edinburgh the Jisc Family
18. EDINA Jisc
EDINA’s Mission: We develop and deliver online services
digital infrastructure for UK research and education.
Our Vision: To be integral to the quality productivity of
research education, in the UK beyond
part of The University of Edinburgh the Jisc Family
Jisc reformed to become a charity governed by UUK, GuildHE AoC;
JISC was an arm of Government funding
Previous JISC Mission: To provide world-class leadership in the
innovative use of information and communication technology
to support education, research institutional effectiveness.
With Vision of easy widespread access to information and
resources, anytime, anywhere; a vision with technology and
information management at the heart of research
education.
19.
20. The Keepers Registry
• Initial scope was upon what is published in digital form
– in serials and periodicals (journals, magazines, newspapers etc)
• Content of significance for each every country:
– publishers archiving agencies are international
We can already report some good progress, having
launched a Beta service a year ago, as noted on our blog,
http://thekeepers.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
21. http://thekeepers.org
and their activity
search on
title or ISSN
a showcase
for archiving
organisations
22. Reminder about the real heroes in the story
The Keepers of e-journal content
National Science Library,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
And others, as they tell all via the Keepers Registry …
http://thekeepers.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/06/27/draft-inclusion-criteria-released-for-review/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/damork/450592706/
23. Sidebar note on monitoring their progress …
• How should we measure progress?
– 18,400 serial titles reported as being ‘preserved’
• How many e-serials are there?
– ISSN Network has issued c.100,000 ISSN for online resources
* 20% of those by ISSN-US (Lib.Congress);
– c.30,000 refereed scholarly journals (SerialsSolutions)
• Cross-checking the e-serials (having ISSN) that a given
university library cares about:
• But only partial coverage of issued content!
– Volumes and Issues are missing from archival holdings
24. Example search for: Origins of Life
This e-journal is being archived
by 5 archiving agencies …
… but coverage
of volumes is
partial patchy
24
25. 2. A Large Volume of Serial Issues
1. Identification
- focus when building the Registry was online content that had an
ISSN, as project convenience
- Incorrect, erroneous or missing
- We knew that different ISSN for digital and for print
- But value of ISSN-L as kernel field to link across ISSN records
- Used HathiTrust to extending scope to include digitized journals
- Rules for assigning ISSN to digitised content from print journals
- same ISSN applies to all digital versions of an online resource
- Noted ISSN assignment rules for integrating resources (websites
and online databases that change over time)
26. Sidebar note on Identifiers
• Current Publisher Titles:
• Relatively low numbers of ISSN assignments for titles from India
and China/Hong Kong, as reminder of number of ‘hidden’ e-
journals the like.
• c.20% of 100,000 issued by US ISSN Centre; UK ISSN Centre
assigned c.10%; centres in Netherlands, Germany Brazil each
assigned c. 4.5%. The ISSN IC assigns c.3.5%.
• Dead Publisher Titles:
• Estimated to be 250,000 digitised serials in HathiTrust
• Any ‘body’ (not just a publisher) can apply for ISSN
• Responsibility for assigning ISSN is with the national ISSN Centre
for the country that organises the digitisation
27. A Large Volume of Serial Issues (cont.)
1. Identification
2. Recording the extent preserved
– Issues about issues: a Universal holdings statement
* Stewardship: print archiving as much as digital archiving
* ‘Middle child syndrome’ ALA Annual Holdings Update Forum, 2011
– Interoperability standard for Issues and Volumes
* ONIX for Preservation Holdings (ONIX-PH); KBART
3. Variability in publisher information
– Transfer of title between publisher
* TRANSFER Code of Practice, http://www.uksg.org/transfer/
– publisher naming
* Not critical at ingest into Keepers Registry, but poor browsing
– Identifiers for Publishers (ISNI, builds on VIAF)
* International Standard Name Identifier (ISO 27729),
28. Metadata Model for serials their issued content
Need for Serial / Publisher Database
has
Vol.
#
Issuing
Authors’
Body
Serial
Issue.
#
Date
Final
Copy
is
ISNI
ISSN
-‐L
Is/ issued
as
Part
Ar7cle
authorises
DOI
Publisher(s)
Table
of
Contents
Date
ISNI
ISSN Register typically has only publisher
at time of ISSN assignment
Archiving agencies (and therefore Keepers Registry)
deal with current publisher
29. Issuing
has
Authors’
Serial
Final
Copy
Body
Vol.
#
Date
DOI
is
ISSN
issued
Is/authorises
as
Issue
Ar7cle
Org/ID
Publisher(s)
Table
of
‘as RDF Triples’ Contents
Basic bibliographic elements
Library
belongs
to
Patron
Org/ID
Ins?tu?on
Shibboleth
30. 3. The Scholarly Web (the now the future then)
a) Preserving the digital
– OAIS (ISO 14721:2003) (ISO 14721:2012)
b) Digital Fixity Copy of Record
– “the property of being unchanged between two points in time”,
(Caplan, 2006)
– Abrams Rosenblum (2003): use of XML as archiving format
– Rosenthal (2010): format obsolescence as rare problem that
happens infrequently to a minority of unpopular formats
– “the sine qua non is that the original bits be preserved”.
31. 3. The Scholarly Web (the now the future then)
a) Preserving the digital
b) Digital Fixity Copy of Record
c) Citation in Serials of Serial Content
– Citation of sources is a fundamental part of scholarly discourse.
– expectation that the sources with which scholarly statements
are made can and should be checked by others, with the
potential for their re‐use for the purposes of reproducibility of
results.
– traditionally, sources relate only to statements made by other
scholars and to some extent the evidence from which these
statements are drawn.
• Presumption that the cited (printed) material –
typically an article – sat on a shelf that could, with
tedium and delay, be obtained on Inter-Library Loan
32. 3. The Scholarly Web (the now the future then)
a) Preserving the digital
b) Digital Fixity Copy of Record
c) Citation in Serials of Serial Content
d) New Models of Scholarly Communication
– Then we all began to apply electricity get digital …
33. 3. The Scholarly Web (the now the future then)
Scholarly Communication
(Access to article–length work)
F
o
Author Value-add £ r
(article) services
Licensed m
Online a
Publisher Access £
article serial
issue ILL/ E
docdel
Libraries and Publishers c
Licence Institutional
provide framework … o
arrangement
£ n
the traditional ‘middleware’/ Library o
infrastructure’ (serial) m
y
Reader
article is the ‘information (article)
object of desire’
34. Mixed Modes in Scholarly Communication
F
o
Author r
(article) m
Licensed
a
peer Online
review
repositories Access
£
Publisher
learned article serial
society issue ILL/ E
docdel c
peer Licence o
Institutional
exchange n
‘Open Access’ arrangement
££ o
E-prints m
Library
repositories (serial) y
free2web access
Reader
(article)
Informal: ‘invisible college’ and the ‘gift economy’
35. 3. The Scholarly Web (the now the future then)
a) Preserving the digital
b) Digital Fixity Copy of Record
c) Citation in Serials of Serial Content
d) New Modes of Scholarly Communication
e) Cataloguing and Archiving The Web
Reduced ambition: assignment of identifier at points of (re-)issue
– Internet Archive
(http://archive.org).
Seriality: identify stream
of issued content
– Put simply, there
can be fewer ISSN
than DOI
Reminder about ease
of access … Memento (http://www.mementoweb.org/)
36. 3. The Scholarly Web (the now the future then)
a) Preserving the digital
b) Digital Fixity Copy of Record
c) Citation in Serials of Serial Content
d) New Modes of Scholarly Communication
e) Cataloguing and Archiving The Web
f) New Scholarly Objects, with Links
Beyond enhanced publication supplementary data (behind the graph)
• Research Objects: rich aggregations of linked content with
suitability for re-use by machine. Archived Objects Publication
Objects which “are intended as a record of activity, and should
thus be immutable” and citable.” (Bechhofer, et al, 2010)
• Compound units: “aggregations of distinct information units []
“represented (by OAI-ORE) [to] enable it to be accessed and
processed by machines agents” (Van de Sompel Lagoze, 2007)
“two traditions, or mentalities, even cultures, co-exist” (Buckland, 1998):
(i) Approaches based on a concern with documents, with signifying
records: archives, bibliography, documentation, librarianship, records
management, and the like; and
(ii) approaches based on finding uses for formal techniques, whether
mechanical … or mathematical (as in algorithmic procedures).
37. 3. The Scholarly Web (the now the future then)
a) Preserving the digital
b) Digital Fixity Copy of Record
c) Citation in Serials of Serial Content
d) New Modes of Scholarly Communication
e) Cataloguing and Archiving The Web
f) New Scholarly Objects, with Links
g) Web Citation
– Range of scholarly assets published referenced is increased
– Dynamic. What was at the end of a given HTTP URL/URI at the
moment of citation can and does change, or even cease to be,
when scholars wish to look up the citation.
This is referred to as ‘citation rot’.
• study by Sanderson, Phillips Van de Sompel (2011)
found that 28% of the resources referenced by articles in an
institutional repository had been lost and that 45% (66,096) of
the URLs [in arXiv] that were found to still exist had not been
archived.
– Expect announcement of Mellon funding of Time Travel for the
Scholarly Web (TT4SW) as joint UoE/LANL project
38. 3. The Scholarly Web (the now the future then)
a) Preserving the digital
b) Digital Fixity Copy of Record
c) Citation in Serials of Serial Content
d) New Modes of Scholarly Communication
e) Cataloguing and Archiving The Web
f) New Scholarly Objects, with Links
g) Web Citation
h) Points of Issue
assignment of identifier at points of (re-)issue
• Nature Precedings acted as an open access
preprint repository for
Life Sciences community.
An integrating resource,
assigned ISSN, 1756-0357.
• the long running arXiv, a
pre-print repository for
physics and comp.sci. (and
5th in terms of h5 Index,
being highly cited) has yet
to be assigned ISSN
39. Strategies - Action Plans - Delivery
• Principles into practice [even for unique/special objects]
① Assign an identifier at ‘point of issue’ [ISSN for the stream]
② Archive routinely (preferably have others/peers do that for you too)
③ Tell someone what you are doing (and how) [e.g. Keepers Registry]
④ Publish terms of access (now and when triggered as orphaned) [OA]
• Make Copies, Establish Safe Places Monitor Progress
– What is different about the digital includes the ease with which digital
content can be copied, cheaply and exactly.
– Strategy for a safe places network in which the responsibility for
custody of the new digital content is shared.
40. Mapping the road ahead for The Keepers Registry
http://thekeepers.blogs.edina.ac.uk/development-roadmap
41. Down in dingle dell, four Bad Fairies dwell
Named Neglect, Decay and Loss
And WorryMuch
.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand.
The Stolen Child, WB Yates
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnihot/4791066830/
42. I came to tell you a story,
of Fairies The Keepers Dot Org
Your shelves don’t hold those e-journals,
And what is online might, without trace, disappear!
Beware of those three Bad Fairies,
Neglect, Decay and Loss.
Seek out The Good Fairies
Who will act as your digital shelves.
But what do you really know?
Beware of two more Bad Fairies
Called Ignorance Missing Metadata
Looking for a Happy Ending?
Then join in with The Keepers Registry
At thekeepers DOT org
. http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnihot/4791066830/
43. Use Seriality for Preservation Monitoring
Thank you for listening
p.burnhill@ed.ac.uk
http://thekeepers.org
http://thekeepers.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shinez/5000985919/