The document discusses the transition of libraries from management information to data-driven intelligence and analytics. It begins by discussing how libraries have traditionally used data from their integrated library systems (ILS) for reporting but are now moving towards dashboards and visualization. It also discusses shared data initiatives like the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK) in the UK. The document then discusses moving from basic analytics to more advanced analytics and predictive analytics. It notes that libraries will need to partner with other organizations to conduct more advanced analytics. The rest of the document discusses learning analytics beyond just the library and how libraries can utilize artificial intelligence.
Although efforts like Project COUNTER have made strides towards systematizing numeric measures of database access, does the data standardized by COUNTER really help libraries to understand "how information they buy... is being used"? This presentation will introduce a typology of library resource use that provides a framework for assessing use in a more meaningful way.
This document discusses strategies for embedded librarianship, including conducting a SWOT analysis. It recommends identifying your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as your organization's. Questions are provided to help with the analysis. Communication styles, leadership styles, and tools for embedded librarianship are also covered. Examples of SWOT analyses for different types of libraries are given. The document concludes by discussing developing an action plan and starting small projects.
The document discusses needs assessment for library media centers. It provides information on informal and formal needs assessment, including collecting data on the existing collection, curriculum, and client needs to identify gaps and priorities to improve the collection. Methods mentioned include analyzing the age and circulation of materials, curriculum mapping, and gathering input from teachers and students.
Student Persistence: How the library makes a difference.Wil Weston
Presented and the 2016 California Academic & Research Libraries Association (CARL) Conference. http://conf2016.carl-acrl.org/ March 31-April 2, 2016. Costa Mesa, CA.
This document discusses the value and costs of library infrastructure systems. It notes that total library system costs, including staff costs, can exceed $764,000 annually for a research library. New "next generation" library services platforms aim to better integrate print and electronic resources, improve workflows, and provide analytics across multiple libraries. However, these new systems require libraries to essentially "start over" and may initially lack functionality, though they promise reduced total costs of ownership over time. The document examines perspectives from libraries, vendors, and consultants on the potential benefits and business cases for migrating to a new library services platform.
Although efforts like Project COUNTER have made strides towards systematizing numeric measures of database access, does the data standardized by COUNTER really help libraries to understand "how information they buy... is being used"? This presentation will introduce a typology of library resource use that provides a framework for assessing use in a more meaningful way.
This document discusses strategies for embedded librarianship, including conducting a SWOT analysis. It recommends identifying your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as your organization's. Questions are provided to help with the analysis. Communication styles, leadership styles, and tools for embedded librarianship are also covered. Examples of SWOT analyses for different types of libraries are given. The document concludes by discussing developing an action plan and starting small projects.
The document discusses needs assessment for library media centers. It provides information on informal and formal needs assessment, including collecting data on the existing collection, curriculum, and client needs to identify gaps and priorities to improve the collection. Methods mentioned include analyzing the age and circulation of materials, curriculum mapping, and gathering input from teachers and students.
Student Persistence: How the library makes a difference.Wil Weston
Presented and the 2016 California Academic & Research Libraries Association (CARL) Conference. http://conf2016.carl-acrl.org/ March 31-April 2, 2016. Costa Mesa, CA.
This document discusses the value and costs of library infrastructure systems. It notes that total library system costs, including staff costs, can exceed $764,000 annually for a research library. New "next generation" library services platforms aim to better integrate print and electronic resources, improve workflows, and provide analytics across multiple libraries. However, these new systems require libraries to essentially "start over" and may initially lack functionality, though they promise reduced total costs of ownership over time. The document examines perspectives from libraries, vendors, and consultants on the potential benefits and business cases for migrating to a new library services platform.
Research Data Management in Academic Libraries: Meeting the ChallengeSpencer Keralis
TLA Program Committee sponsored Preconference talk from Texas Library Association Conference 2013.
CPE#388: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0
April 24, 2013; 4:00 -4:50 pm
Managing research data is a hot topic in academic libraries. With increased government oversight of publicly-funded research projects, librarians must strive to meet the demand for innovative solutions for managing research information and training the new eneration of librarians to address this issue.
This document discusses rethinking the library services platform (LSP) model to improve interoperability between systems. It notes that while new LSPs have emerged, significant lack of interoperability remains between components of the library technology ecosystem. The author argues that libraries should adopt a platform approach like Windows or Apple, where vendors provide tools and services to allow third parties to build applications on their platforms. This could encourage more applications and make platforms more valuable. Prioritizing the library user perspective may change how libraries think about LSPs. Standards bodies are working on interoperability issues but more remains to be done to fully integrate solutions.
This document discusses MINES for Libraries, a methodology developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to assess usage of electronic resources. MINES uses web surveys to randomly sample users and collect data on demographics, location, and purpose of use without being obtrusive. It addresses questions about how sponsored researchers, instructors, students, and other users access electronic resources. Over 150,000 usage instances have been surveyed using MINES. The presentation outlines the history and framework of MINES, how it differs from other usage metrics, and challenges in assessing digital resources as users, devices, and expectations change.
Leading the library of the future: w(h)ither technical services?Keith Webster
The document discusses the changing role of technical services in libraries. It notes that technical services used to consume a large portion of library resources to acquire, catalog, and process physical materials, but that role is now obsolete with digital formats and universal access. The advent of electronic publishing and new discovery tools have made the traditional organizational structure focused on technical services unnecessary. This change has led to a dramatic improvement in library services over the past decade as libraries shift resources from technical processing to more direct user services.
The Future is a Moving Goal Post: Change Management in Academic LibrariesIFLAAcademicandResea
IFLA ARL Webinar Series | Held online on August 1, 2019
This presentation focuses on Change Management in Academic Libraries, presented by Gulcin Cribb, University Librarian, Singapore Management University.
The document discusses achieving privacy in the age of analytics. It summarizes research analyzing the use of Google Analytics and privacy practices on academic library websites. The author notes that while libraries value privacy, tools like Google Analytics involve third-party tracking. The document outlines various industry standards and groups focused on privacy and recommends practical steps libraries can take to respect user privacy, such as implementing HTTPS, anonymizing IP addresses in analytics, educating users, obtaining consent, and conducting risk/benefit analyses of third-party services.
The library & teaching & learning: reading list systems. Reading lists appear to be the new 'must have' for UK academic libraries and a raft of new systems has entered the market. Ken's presentation at a seminar at the University of Staffordshire in December 2012 looked at some of the underlying trends in Higher Education and the current reading list offerings
This document discusses evaluating and selecting online resources. It begins by introducing the presenters and their interests in usage measurement and the concept of electronic resource usage in libraries. It then discusses how collection practices have shifted from a supply-side to a demand-driven model where use and demand analysis drive decisions. The document advocates for a data-driven approach using multiple variables like usage statistics, user feedback, and quality metrics to make large decisions. It outlines an agenda to discuss understanding e-resource use and value as well as negotiations. Finally, it questions how to best measure use and the value of understanding use as a complex process rather than just a number.
The document discusses technical services roles in supporting the FocusOn Search and CategoryMap systems. It outlines how technical services can expand content selection to unstructured data on the web, leverage named entity resolution, build data filters and reformatting/metadata conversion utilities, and evaluate change management strategies. Technical services also has roles in parallel development, ensuring global access to data, user behavior analysis, leadership/collaboration, appropriate cataloging, metadata reuse, and integrating search systems.
Meeting The Expectations Of Today’s UsersPLAI STRLC
This document discusses how libraries need to evolve beyond traditional models to meet modern user expectations. It outlines how the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and a Library 2.0 model can help libraries provide information anywhere and anytime to users with a variety of needs and values. The document proposes an "Info Common" approach that focuses on equity of access, personalized service, and flexibility to meet individual user needs.
The document identifies the top ten trends in academic libraries according to the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee in 2012. The trends include communicating the value of libraries, data curation, digital preservation, shifts in higher education, the growing role of information technology, increasing use of mobile devices, patron-driven e-book acquisition, evolving models of scholarly communication, developing staff to meet new challenges, and changing user behaviors and expectations.
This presentation discusses the relationship between librarianship and information architecture. It defines information architecture as the structural design of shared information environments to support usability and findability. Librarianship is concerned with acquiring and organizing collections to help people obtain reliable information. The presentation argues that librarians today need skills like handling large amounts of digital content, managing online collections, using information and communication technologies, and developing information architectures, as information is increasingly digital. It provides examples of information architectures around us and how technologies can be used to interact with communities.
This presentation was provided by Suzie Allard (Univ Tennessee - Knoxville) during a NISO Virtual Conference on Data Curation, held on Wednesday, August 31
Learning Commons & Subject Librarians @ the University of Massachusetts-Amherstyouthelectronix
On Saturday March 15, 2008 at the Simmons College GSLIS West Campus in South Hadley, MA Anne C. Moore,
Associate Director for User Services at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst discussed the phenomenon of the Learning Commons at UMass and the changing role of the specialist librarian.
The Changing Library Environment of Technical ServicesFe Angela Verzosa
The document discusses the changing environment of technical services in libraries. It notes the increasing digitization of collections and resources, as well as the impact of library automation and Library 2.0 initiatives that support social learning. This has resulted in challenges and opportunities for technical services, including developing digital preservation expertise, providing digital archives, and training staff. Collaborating across libraries can help optimize resources and save money through activities like consortial acquisitions and shared cataloging, databases, and repositories.
The team conducted research comparing the costs of textbooks from the WSU bookstore, Amazon, and Chegg for business majors. They found that Amazon consistently had lower prices, with students able to save an average of $1000 over 4 years by purchasing from Amazon instead of the campus bookstore. The team also surveyed students, finding that the majority had negative views of the campus bookstore and were unaware of potential savings elsewhere. Based on these findings, the team created an informational pamphlet recommending students purchase textbooks from Amazon to benefit from the cost savings.
The changing landscape of scholarly communication: presentation to the NFAIS ...Keith Webster
Presentation on the changing relationships between research libraries, publishers, researchers and technology, and the impact of government policy on scholarly publishing and open access.
The document discusses the history of efforts to develop the ebooks marketplace in UK higher education from 2001-2009. It outlines key studies, strategies, and deals with ebook aggregators during this time period. Challenges included a lack of standardization, complex business models, and ensuring availability of core textbooks. The JISC national ebooks observatory project from 2007-2009 aimed to address these issues through research, pilot programs, and facilitating relationships between publishers and libraries.
A focus on the themes especially relevant to libraries - Data; Curation, Ethics.Collections, Research Teaching and Learning/ Student Success & Student Wellbeing
Presented at Internet Librarian International on 15th October 2019
Research Data Management in Academic Libraries: Meeting the ChallengeSpencer Keralis
TLA Program Committee sponsored Preconference talk from Texas Library Association Conference 2013.
CPE#388: SBEC 1.0; TSLAC 1.0
April 24, 2013; 4:00 -4:50 pm
Managing research data is a hot topic in academic libraries. With increased government oversight of publicly-funded research projects, librarians must strive to meet the demand for innovative solutions for managing research information and training the new eneration of librarians to address this issue.
This document discusses rethinking the library services platform (LSP) model to improve interoperability between systems. It notes that while new LSPs have emerged, significant lack of interoperability remains between components of the library technology ecosystem. The author argues that libraries should adopt a platform approach like Windows or Apple, where vendors provide tools and services to allow third parties to build applications on their platforms. This could encourage more applications and make platforms more valuable. Prioritizing the library user perspective may change how libraries think about LSPs. Standards bodies are working on interoperability issues but more remains to be done to fully integrate solutions.
This document discusses MINES for Libraries, a methodology developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to assess usage of electronic resources. MINES uses web surveys to randomly sample users and collect data on demographics, location, and purpose of use without being obtrusive. It addresses questions about how sponsored researchers, instructors, students, and other users access electronic resources. Over 150,000 usage instances have been surveyed using MINES. The presentation outlines the history and framework of MINES, how it differs from other usage metrics, and challenges in assessing digital resources as users, devices, and expectations change.
Leading the library of the future: w(h)ither technical services?Keith Webster
The document discusses the changing role of technical services in libraries. It notes that technical services used to consume a large portion of library resources to acquire, catalog, and process physical materials, but that role is now obsolete with digital formats and universal access. The advent of electronic publishing and new discovery tools have made the traditional organizational structure focused on technical services unnecessary. This change has led to a dramatic improvement in library services over the past decade as libraries shift resources from technical processing to more direct user services.
The Future is a Moving Goal Post: Change Management in Academic LibrariesIFLAAcademicandResea
IFLA ARL Webinar Series | Held online on August 1, 2019
This presentation focuses on Change Management in Academic Libraries, presented by Gulcin Cribb, University Librarian, Singapore Management University.
The document discusses achieving privacy in the age of analytics. It summarizes research analyzing the use of Google Analytics and privacy practices on academic library websites. The author notes that while libraries value privacy, tools like Google Analytics involve third-party tracking. The document outlines various industry standards and groups focused on privacy and recommends practical steps libraries can take to respect user privacy, such as implementing HTTPS, anonymizing IP addresses in analytics, educating users, obtaining consent, and conducting risk/benefit analyses of third-party services.
The library & teaching & learning: reading list systems. Reading lists appear to be the new 'must have' for UK academic libraries and a raft of new systems has entered the market. Ken's presentation at a seminar at the University of Staffordshire in December 2012 looked at some of the underlying trends in Higher Education and the current reading list offerings
This document discusses evaluating and selecting online resources. It begins by introducing the presenters and their interests in usage measurement and the concept of electronic resource usage in libraries. It then discusses how collection practices have shifted from a supply-side to a demand-driven model where use and demand analysis drive decisions. The document advocates for a data-driven approach using multiple variables like usage statistics, user feedback, and quality metrics to make large decisions. It outlines an agenda to discuss understanding e-resource use and value as well as negotiations. Finally, it questions how to best measure use and the value of understanding use as a complex process rather than just a number.
The document discusses technical services roles in supporting the FocusOn Search and CategoryMap systems. It outlines how technical services can expand content selection to unstructured data on the web, leverage named entity resolution, build data filters and reformatting/metadata conversion utilities, and evaluate change management strategies. Technical services also has roles in parallel development, ensuring global access to data, user behavior analysis, leadership/collaboration, appropriate cataloging, metadata reuse, and integrating search systems.
Meeting The Expectations Of Today’s UsersPLAI STRLC
This document discusses how libraries need to evolve beyond traditional models to meet modern user expectations. It outlines how the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and a Library 2.0 model can help libraries provide information anywhere and anytime to users with a variety of needs and values. The document proposes an "Info Common" approach that focuses on equity of access, personalized service, and flexibility to meet individual user needs.
The document identifies the top ten trends in academic libraries according to the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee in 2012. The trends include communicating the value of libraries, data curation, digital preservation, shifts in higher education, the growing role of information technology, increasing use of mobile devices, patron-driven e-book acquisition, evolving models of scholarly communication, developing staff to meet new challenges, and changing user behaviors and expectations.
This presentation discusses the relationship between librarianship and information architecture. It defines information architecture as the structural design of shared information environments to support usability and findability. Librarianship is concerned with acquiring and organizing collections to help people obtain reliable information. The presentation argues that librarians today need skills like handling large amounts of digital content, managing online collections, using information and communication technologies, and developing information architectures, as information is increasingly digital. It provides examples of information architectures around us and how technologies can be used to interact with communities.
This presentation was provided by Suzie Allard (Univ Tennessee - Knoxville) during a NISO Virtual Conference on Data Curation, held on Wednesday, August 31
Learning Commons & Subject Librarians @ the University of Massachusetts-Amherstyouthelectronix
On Saturday March 15, 2008 at the Simmons College GSLIS West Campus in South Hadley, MA Anne C. Moore,
Associate Director for User Services at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst discussed the phenomenon of the Learning Commons at UMass and the changing role of the specialist librarian.
The Changing Library Environment of Technical ServicesFe Angela Verzosa
The document discusses the changing environment of technical services in libraries. It notes the increasing digitization of collections and resources, as well as the impact of library automation and Library 2.0 initiatives that support social learning. This has resulted in challenges and opportunities for technical services, including developing digital preservation expertise, providing digital archives, and training staff. Collaborating across libraries can help optimize resources and save money through activities like consortial acquisitions and shared cataloging, databases, and repositories.
The team conducted research comparing the costs of textbooks from the WSU bookstore, Amazon, and Chegg for business majors. They found that Amazon consistently had lower prices, with students able to save an average of $1000 over 4 years by purchasing from Amazon instead of the campus bookstore. The team also surveyed students, finding that the majority had negative views of the campus bookstore and were unaware of potential savings elsewhere. Based on these findings, the team created an informational pamphlet recommending students purchase textbooks from Amazon to benefit from the cost savings.
The changing landscape of scholarly communication: presentation to the NFAIS ...Keith Webster
Presentation on the changing relationships between research libraries, publishers, researchers and technology, and the impact of government policy on scholarly publishing and open access.
The document discusses the history of efforts to develop the ebooks marketplace in UK higher education from 2001-2009. It outlines key studies, strategies, and deals with ebook aggregators during this time period. Challenges included a lack of standardization, complex business models, and ensuring availability of core textbooks. The JISC national ebooks observatory project from 2007-2009 aimed to address these issues through research, pilot programs, and facilitating relationships between publishers and libraries.
A focus on the themes especially relevant to libraries - Data; Curation, Ethics.Collections, Research Teaching and Learning/ Student Success & Student Wellbeing
Presented at Internet Librarian International on 15th October 2019
Digital libraries are transforming traditional libraries through information and communication technology (ICT) and innovation. ICT has revolutionized the concept of libraries, with most libraries becoming digitized globally. A digital library comprises digital collections, services, and infrastructure to support lifelong learning, research, scholarly communication, and the preservation of recorded knowledge. Digital libraries provide advantages like no physical boundaries, round-the-clock availability, multiple access points, and preservation of information. However, they also face challenges like copyright issues, initial costs, and ensuring efficient access. Libraries must keep up with technology trends and adapt innovations appropriately to serve community needs.
Cuna Ekmekcioglu (University of Edinburgh) - “Engaging academic support libra...ARLGSW
Presentation from the 6th CILIP ARLG-SW Discover Academic Research and Training Support Conference (DARTS6). Dartington Hall, Totnes, Thursday 24th – Friday 25th May 2018
Academic libraries in higher education and researchH Anil Kumar
This document summarizes the key trends and challenges facing academic libraries in higher education. It discusses how the education ecosystem is changing with a shift from print to ebooks and the need for libraries to rethink their physical spaces and services. Technologies like makerspaces and 3D printing are transforming library spaces. Libraries also need to market themselves effectively to remain relevant to users and adapt services and staff to meet changing user needs in the digital age.
Data is supporting strategic decision making in libraries,
and the increasing prevalence of visualisation tools
offers quicker, easier and more accessible routes to data
analysis. Jisc has been developing its library analytics
offering, visualising data using tools such as Tableau.
These visualisations can save staff time and enable data to
be shared with more people, more widely, in an engaging
format. The session will present case studies illustrating
how libraries have used the tools to communicate statistical
information and the value and impact they have delivered.
Siobhan Burke, Jisc
The Challenge of the Intelligent Library - UKeiG PresentationJames Clay
There has been plenty of hype over artificial intelligence and the internet of things. Is it time to put aside the cynicism that this kind of hype generates and look seriously at how we can take advantage of these emerging technologies to improve the student experience and build an intelligent library?
The internet of things makes it possible for us to gather real-time data about the environment and usage of our library spaces. It is easy to imagine using this data to ensure the library is managed effectively, but could we go further and monitor environmental conditions in the library, or even, using facial recognition software, student reactions as they use the library so that we can continually refine the learning experience?
Most smartphones now make use of artificial intelligence to make contextual recommendations based on an individual’s location and interests. Could libraries take advantage of this technology to push information and learning resources to students? If we could, it offers some interesting possibilities. On-campus notifications could nudge students to make best use of the available services such as the library. Off-campus notifications could encourage them to take advantage of the learning opportunities all around them. Could we use approaches like this to turn student’s smartphones into educational coaches, nudging students towards the choices that lead to higher grades and prompting them to expand their learning horizons.
As we start to use a range of tracking technologies, smart cards, beacons, sensors we are facing a deluge of data in the use of buildings, spaces and equipment across a college or university campus. We are faced with a breadth and depth of data which can be challenging to use effectively and have greatest impact. These tracking technologies are already widespread in environments such as airports and retail. Often using wifi tracking to track users via their wifi enabled devices and smartphones. In addition sensors are used to track space utilisation and occupancy. Interpreting the data is fraught with challenges and difficulties, as well as potential ethical and legal issues. However this wealth of data does offer the potential to deliver more satisfying experiences for students and staff as well as ensuring the library is used as effectively as possible.
Brief presentation on data driven collection development or evidence based collection development. Generally, some of the things to watch out for and advice on how to view your data.
This document provides an overview of a webinar on digital curation and research data management for universities. The webinar covers an introduction to digital curation, the benefits and drivers for research data management, current initiatives in UK universities, and the role of libraries in supporting research data management. Libraries are increasingly involved in developing institutional policies, providing training, and advising researchers on writing data management plans and sharing data. The webinar highlights training opportunities for librarians to develop skills in research data management and digital curation.
This presentation was provided by Todd Carpenter of NISO and Nicky Agate of Columbia University during the NISO event, "Is This Still Working? Incentives to Publish, Metrics, and New Reward Systems," held on February 20, 2019.
The document lists challenges and opportunities related to electronic resources in academic libraries. Some of the key challenges mentioned include reduced budgets, ever-increasing journal prices, a decline in print monographs, difficulties managing collections, issues with access and security, and usability problems. Opportunities discussed focus on areas like open access initiatives, collaboration, marketing collections globally, improving discovery tools and interfaces, and developing new definitions and standards. The document provides sources for further reading on topics related to e-resources in libraries.
Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technicallisld
Libraries are now supporting research and learning behaviors in data rich network environments. This presentation looks at some examples focusing on how an emphasis on individual systems needs to give way to a broader view of process, workflow and behaviors.
It also discusses how this environment creates a demand for collaboration at scale among libraries.
Ken spoke at the University College London (UCL) and Ciber research event ‘Digital textbooks: where are we?’ in May 2018. He outlined some of the drivers and themes that are influencing the future of e-textbooks and digital learning resources. He focused on the student as consumer, the user experience, digital platforms and the importance of data and analytics.
Innovative Librarianship - Lib 3.0: The need, opportunity and trendsAnil67
This document discusses the changing role of libraries and opportunities for libraries in India. It notes that libraries need to go beyond just formal education and provide non-formal learning opportunities through open educational resources, MOOCs, digital collections, and makerspaces. Technologies are transforming libraries to provide anytime, anywhere access and discovery of resources. Libraries are becoming more user-focused and emphasizing access over ownership through resources like institutional repositories and discovery services. Staffing is a key issue and libraries require professional managers and staff skilled in research assistance, information literacy, and managing digital collections and technologies.
There are many online and in-person courses available for librarians to learn about research data management, data analysis, and visualization, but after you have taken a course, how do you go about applying what you have learned? While it is possible to just start offering classes and consultations, your service will have a better chance of becoming relevant if you consider stakeholders and review your institutional environment. This lecture will give you some ideas to get started with data services at your institution.
Watch out, it's behind you: publishers' tactics and the challenge they pose f...Danny Kingsley
This presentation to the libraries@cambridge conference held on the 7th January 2016 describes some of the more surprising activities academic publishers are engaged in and discusses the opportunities and threats these pose for the library community. Prepared and presented by Sally Rumsey Head of Scholarly Communications & RDM, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University and Dr Danny Kingsley Head of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge University Libraries.
Opening Keynote: From where we are to where we want to be: The future of resource discovery from a UK perspective
Neil Grindley, Head of Resource Discovery, Jisc
The Role of Digital Libraries as Information Resources for Scholars: A Descri...AI Publications
Information is actually viewed as the fulcrum for prosperity and strength and extremely important for social and economic development of the society. The revolution in Information and Communication Technology has bridged knowledge gap by offering free flow of information. The PG Students generally gather information from internet and furthermore from the reference books, since they need to plan cases, Projects, assignments and so on. Undoubtedly, they generally utilized the books, reference books, contextual analyses, to gather information and sometimes they gathered information from online database. Due to Around the world Web, access to the web is now a part of the everyday living of ours. An enormous number of user’s rummage around the snare each day. More and more folks have to seek out indexed collection.
Can collection management improve information literacy? Lessons on how we...sawarren
This document summarizes a presentation about teaching students about scholarly communication and the business aspects of librarianship. The presentation covers why it is important for students to understand the economics of information and scholarly publishing. It describes teaching scenarios used to discuss how scholarly information is a business, including the roles of various players and costs associated with journals. Assessment of student learning found that students were surprised by the high costs of journals and databases and developed a greater appreciation for libraries and the resources they provide.
Similar to The data wars are coming. Moving from management information to data driven intelligence (20)
This session will demystify (generative) AI by exploring its workings as an advanced statistical modelling tool (suitable for any level of technical knowledge). Not only will this session explain the technological underpinnings of AI, it will also address concerns and (long-term) requirements around ethical and practical usage of AI. This includes data preparation and cleaning, data ownership, and the value of data-generated - but not owned - by libraries. It will also discuss the potentials for (hypothetical) use cases of AI in collections environments and making collections data AI-ready; providing examples of AI capabilities and applications beyond chatbots.
CATH DISHMAN, CENYU SHEN,
KATHERINE STEPHAN
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
Christina Dinh Nguyen, University of Toronto Mississauga Library
In the world of digital literacies, liaison and instructional librarians are increasingly coming to terms with a new term: algorithmic literacy. No matter the liaison or instruction subjects – computer science, sociology, language and literature, chemistry, physics, economics, or other – students are grappling with assignments that demand a critical understanding, or even use, of algorithms. Over the course of this session, we’ll discuss the term ‘algorithmic literacies,’ explore how it fits into other digital literacies, and see why it as a curriculum might belong at your library. We’ll also look at some examples of practical pedagogical methods you can implement right away, depending on what types of AL lessons you want to teach, and who your patrons are. Lastly, we’ll discuss how librarians should view themselves as co-learners when working with AL skills. This session seeks to bring together participants from across the different libraries, with diverse missions/vision/mandates, to explore ways we can all benefit from teaching AL. If time permits, we may discuss how text and data librarians (functional specialists) can support the development of this curriculum.
David Pride, The Open University
In this paper, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question- answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first demonstrate that GPT3.5 and GPT4 cannot be relied upon to provide references or citations for generated text. We then introduce CORE-GPT which delivers evidence-based answers to questions, along with citations and links to the cited papers, greatly increasing the trustworthiness of the answers and reducing the risk of hallucinations.
Cath Dishman, Cenyu Shen, Katherine Stephan
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
This plenary panel will discuss the problems of “predatory” publishing and what, if anything, publishers, our community and researchers can do to try and help minimise their abundancy/impact.
eth Montague-Hellen, Francis Crick Institute, Katie Fraser, University of Nottingham
Open Access is a foundational topic in Scholarly Communications. However, when information professionals and publishers talk about its future, it is nearly always Gold open access we discuss. Green was seen as the big solution for providing access to those who couldn’t afford it. However, publishers have protested that Green destroys their business models. How true is this, and are we even all talking the same language when we talk about Green?
Chris Banks, Imperial College London, Caren Milloy, Jisc,
Transitional agreements were developed in response to funder policy and institutional demand to constrain costs and facilitate funder compliance. They have since become the dominant model by which UK research outputs are made open access. In January 2023, Jisc instigated a critical review of TAs and the OA landscape to provide an evidence base to inform a conversation on the desired future state of research dissemination. This session will discuss the key findings of the review and its impact on a sector-wide consultation and concrete actions in the UK and beyond.
Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver, Jason Price, SCELC Library Consortium
As transformative agreements emerge as a new standard, it is critical for libraries, consortia, publishers, and vendors to have consistent and comprehensive data – yet data around publication profiles, authorship, and readership has been shown to be highly variable in availability and accuracy. Building on prior research around frameworks for assessing the combined value of open publishing and comprehensive read access that these deals provide, we will address multi-dimensional perspectives to the challenges that the industry faces with the dissemination, collection, and analysis of data about authorship, readership, and value.
Hylke Koers, STM Solutions
Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) launched in 2020 with the objective of streamlining discovery and access of scholarly content in the many tools that researchers use today, such as Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and many others. It works equally well for open access content as it does for subscription-based content, providing researchers with recognizable buttons and indicators to get them to the most up-to-date version of content with minimal effort. Currently, around 30,000 OA articles are accessed every day via GetFTR links.
Gareth Cole, Loughborough University, Adrian Clark, Figshare
Researchers face more pressure to share their research data than ever before. Owing to a rise in funder policies and momentum towards more openness across the research landscape. Although policies for data sharing are in place, engagement work is undertaken by librarians in order to ensure repository uptake and compliance.
We will discuss a particular strategy implemented at Loughborough University that involved the application of conceptual messaging frameworks to engagement activities in order to promote and encourage use of our Figshare-powered repository. We will showcase the rationale behind the adoption of messaging frameworks for library outreach and some practical examples.
Mark Lester, Cardiff Metropolitan University
This talk will outline how a completely accidental occurrence led to brand new avenues for open research advocacy and reasons for being. This advocacy has occurred within student communities such as trainee teachers, student psychologists and (especially) those soon losing access to subscription-based library content. Alongside these new forms of advocacy, these ethical example of AI use cases has begun to form a cornerstone of directly connecting the work of the library to new technology.
Simon Bell, Bristol University Press
The UN SDG Publishers Compact, launched in 2020, was set up to inspire action among publishers to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, asking signatories to develop sustainable practices, act as champions and publish books and journals that will “inform, develop and inspire action in that direction”.
This Lightning Talk will discuss how our new Bristol University Press Digital has been developed as part of our mission to contribute a meaningful and impactful response to this call to action as well as the global social challenges we face.
Using thematic tagging to create uniquely curated themed eBook collections around the Global Social Challenges, Bristol University Press Digital responds directly to the need to provide the scholarly community access to a comprehensive range SDG focussed content while minimising time and resource at the institution end in collating content and maintaining collection relevance to rapidly evolving themes
Jenni Adams, University of Sheffield, Ric Campbell, University of Sheffield
Academic researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to make data and software FAIR in order to support the sharing and reuse of non-publication outputs. Currently there is still a lack of concise and practical guidance on how to achieve this in the context of specific data types and disciplines.
This presentation details recent and ongoing work at the University of Sheffield to bridge this gap. It will explore the development of a FAIR resource with specialist guidance for a range of data types and will examine the planned development of this project during the period 2023-25
TASHA MELLINS-COHEN
COUNTER & Mellins-Cohen Consulting, JOANNA BALL
DOAJ, YVONNE CAMPFENS
OA Switchboard,
ADAM DER, Max Planck Digital Library
Community-led organizations like DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), COUNTER (the standard for usage metrics) and OA Switchboard (information exchange for OA publications) are committed to providing reliable, not-for-profit services and standards essential for a well-functioning global research ecosystem. These organizations operate behind the scenes, with low budgets and limited staffing – no salespeople, marketing teams, travel budgets, or in-house technology support. They collaborate with one another and with bigger infrastructure bodies like Crossref and ORCID, creating the foundations on which much scholarly infrastructure relies.
These organizations deliver value through open infrastructure, data and standards, and naturally services and tools have been built by commercial and not-for-profit groups that capitalize on their open, interoperable data and services – many of which you are likely to recognize and may use on a regular basis.
Hear from the Directors of COUNTER, DOAJ and OA Switchboard, as well as a library leader, on the role of these organizations, the challenges they face and why support from the community is essential to their sustainability.
CAMILLE LEMIEUX
Springer Nature
What is the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scholarly publishing community? It's time to take a thorough look at the 2023 global Workplace Equity (WE) Survey results. The C4DISC coalition conducted the WE Survey to capture perceptions, experiences, and demographics of colleagues working at publishers, associations, libraries, and many more types of organizations in the global community. Four key themes emerged from the 2023 results, which will be compared to the findings from the first WE Survey conducted in 2018. Recommendations for actions organisations can consider within their contexts will be proposed and discussed.
Rob Johnson, Research Consulting
Angela Cochran, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Gaynor Redvers-Mutton, Biochemical Society
Since 2015, the number of self-published learned societies in the UK has decreased by over a third, with the remaining societies experiencing real-term revenue declines. All around the world, society publishers are struggling with increased competition from commercial publishers and the rise of open access business models that reward quantity over quality. We will delve into the distinctive position of societies in research, examine the challenges confronting UK and US learned society publishers, and explore actionable steps for libraries and policymakers to support the continued relevance of learned society publishers in the evolving scholarly landscape.
Simon Bell, Clare Hooper, Katharine Horton, Ian Morgan
Over the last few years we have witnessed a seismic shift in the scholarly ecosystem. Three years since outset of the COVID pandemic and the establishment UN Publishers Compact, this is discussion-led presentation will look at how four UK Universities Presses have adopted a consultative and collaborative approach on projects to support their institutional missions, engage with the wider scholarly community while building on a commitment to make a meaningful difference to society.
This panel discussion will combine the perspectives of four UK based university presses, all with distinct identities and varied publishing programs drawn from humanities, arts and social sciences, yet with a shared recognition and value of the importance to collaborate and co-operate on a shared vision to support accessibility and inclusivity within the wider scholarly community and maintain a rich bibliodiversity.
While research support teams are generally small and specialist in nature, an increased demand of its service has been observed across the sector. This is particularly true for teaching-intensive institutions. As a pilot to expand research support across ARU library, the library graduate trainee was seconded to the research services team for a month. This dialogue between the former trainee and manager will discuss what the experience and outcomes of the secondment were from different perspectives. The conversation will also explore the exposure Library and Information Studies students have to research services throughout their degree.
TIM FELLOWS & EMILY WILD, Jisc
Octopus.ac is a UKRI funded research publishing model, designed to promote best practice. Intended to sit alongside journals, Octopus provides a space for researcher collaboration, recording work in detail, and receiving feedback from others, allowing journals to focus on narrative.
The platform removes existing barriers to publishing. It’s an entirely free, open space for researchers, without editorial and pre-publication peer review processes. The only requirement for authors is a valid ORCiD ID. Without barriers, Octopus must provide feedback mechanisms to ensure the community can self-moderate. During this session, we’ll explore Octopus’ aims to foster a collaborative environment and incentivise quality.
David Parker, Publisher and Founder, Lived Places Publishing
Dr. Kadian Pow, Lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies & LPP Author, Birmingham City University
Natasha Edmonds, Director, Publisher and Industry Strategy, Clarivate
Library patrons want to search for and locate authors by particular identity markers, such as gender identification, country of origin, sexual orientation, nature of disability, and the many intersectional points that allow an author to express a point-of-view. Artificial Intelligence, skilled web researchers, and data scientists in general struggle to achieve accuracy on single identity markers, such as gender. And what right does anybody have to affix identity metadata to an author other than the author theirselves? And what of the risks in disseminating author identity metadata in electronic distribution platforms and in library catalog systems? Can a "fully informed" author even imagine all the possible misuses of their identity metadata?
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Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
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.
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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The data wars are coming. Moving from management information to data driven intelligence
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The data wars: moving from
management information to data
driven intelligence
UKSG: April 2019
Ken Chad
Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Twitter @kenchad
ken@kenchadconsulting.com
Tel: +44 (0)7788 727 845
www.kenchadconsulting.com
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Setting your expectations.......
My contribution today should be treated as “food-for-thought”
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Data
―The world‘s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.
Smartphones and the internet have made data abundant, ubiquitous and
far more valuable‖
The world‘s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. The Economist. 6 May 2017
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721656-data-economy-demands-new-approach-antitrust-rules-worlds-
most-valuable-resource
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Why are libraries interested? -Trends
―the library has an integral role in the
university‘s mission of research and
teaching, not just a supporting one.‖
UK Scholarly Reading and the Value of Library Resources: library may have a
correlation to the overall strength Summary Results of the Study Conducted Spring
2011. Carol Tenopir and Rachel Volentine. Jisc Collections. February 2012
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Why are libraries interested? -Trends
http://www.libraryinnovation.org/article/view/420/625
Academic libraries are facing times of
unprecedented challenge and unparalleled
change. Innovation has moved from a
consideration to a necessity.
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Why are libraries interested? -Trends
In challenging times, the requirement to
make decisions (particularly in relation to
resources spend) that are data-driven
and evidence-based have become
increasingly significant.
Back to basics: the importance of library collections. By Steve Rose. Sconul. Focus
70 [Editorial] 2017
https://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/3.Editorial.pdf
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Why are libraries interested? -Trends
―Libraries want to make data-driven decisions about the management of
their digital and print book collections but the data that is currently available
does not allow them to do this with confidence‖
What problems are we trying to solve?
http://www.slideshare.net/JISC/building-trust-in-a-njiational-monograph-knowledgebase-sc-digifest-2016
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Why are libraries interested? -Trends
Trend 1 :Rising interest in big data, data science and AI in general
Trend 2: Library systems are becoming more open and more capable at
analytics
Trend 3 : Assessment and increasing demand to show value are hot trends
Trend 4 : Rising interest in learning analytics
Trend 5 : Increasing academic focus on managing research data provides
synergy
5 reasons why library analytics is on the rise. By Aaron Tay. Musings about Librarianship [blog] 18th
November 2016 http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2016/11/5-reasons-why-library-analytics-
is-on.html
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PART 1 : From management information to analytics
Management info Visualisation/dashboards Analytics
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Management information –reports from the ILS
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(Engl
ish)/080Analytics/060Out-of-the-Box-Reports
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Bringing library related data together –dashboards/visualisation
https://redlink.com/library-dashboard/
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Shared initiatives: The NBK
During 2019 NBK will work to deliver improved collection analysis tools using
Elastic Search:
• Faceted search options, such as format, date, material type: enabling better
collection analysis
• More data visualisation and benchmarking tools
• Data quality indicators
• Institutional data analysis tools:
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Trying to get more useful results…..
Usage data on their own…give libraries and publishers very little
insight into how content is being used or how much it is being looked
at.
In spite of the huge amount of data that are now available to libraries, it
feels as if little progress has been made in developing metrics that
may give an indication of how resources are being used and the
extent to which library users value the resources provided. These
perceived shortcomings in conventional usage data led Nottingham Trent
University and Alexander Street to partner in piloting an in-depth view of
analytics, demonstrating user engagement and impact of use.
Project COUNTER …..provides consistency in reporting, but it does not
reveal which individual titles or subjects are used or for what purpose.
Adey, H., & Eastman-Mullins, A. (2017). User engagement analytics case study: how customer behaviour can drive
intelligent library decision making. Insights, 30(3), 138–147. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.387
https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.387/
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Analytics in libraries-summary
Hierarchy of analytics use in libraries
Level 1 - Any analysis done is library function specific. Typically ad-hoc analytics
but there might be dashboard systems created for only one specific area (e.g.
collection dashboard for Alma or web dashboard for Google analytics)
Level 2 - A centralised library wide dashboard is created covering most
functional areas in the library
Level 3 - Library "shows value" runs correlation studies etc
Level 4 - Library ventures into predictive analytics or learning analytics
By the time you reach level 4, it would be almost impossible for the
library to go it alone.
5 reasons why library analytics is on the rise. Aaron Tay. Musings about librarianship [blog]
http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2016/11/5-reasons-why-library-analytics-is-on.html
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Library related data only gets you so far
―Many firms are not able to exploit their data
in the most effective manner to drive the best
insights when the data is stored across
different silos.‖ (PwC Global CEO Survey)
Data driven businesses race ahead but change doesn't come easily. By Nick
Bouch. In Future of Data. Raconteur. 26 March 2019
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Beyond the library - Learning analytics
―Every time a student interacts with their
university – be that going to the library, logging
into their virtual learning environment or
submitting assessments online – they leave
behind a digital footprint. Learning analytics is
the process of using this data to improve
learning and teaching”
Learning analytics in higher education: A review of UK and international practice. Read our updated briefing on
learning analytics and student success from January 2017. By Niall Sclater, Alice Peasgood & Joel Mullen. Jisc.
2016. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/learning-analytics-in-higher-education
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https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/-/media/corporate-website/new-sitecore-gallery/services/academic-
registry/documents/qte/student-engagement/ethical-use-of-student-data-for-educational-
analytics.pdf?la=en&hash=EEB8CF87D03669F66A935ECEA17D084F05947832
Northumbria University‘s approach to the
utilisation of Educational Analytics is
directly linked to the University Strategy
In the future, the use of Educational Analytics may
be extended to personalised earning paths,
adaptive learning, personalised feedback,
visualisations of study journey, intelligent e-
tutoring, intelligent peer support, etc.
Furthermore, new technological innovations might
allow for more targeted, measured approaches.
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The following data, which is currently captured by the
University, is initially in scope
for Educational Analytics:
• personal information provided by the student at registration
• student level study records held by the University including
assessment marks
• details of a student‘s assigned Personal Tutor system-
generated data from Blackboard, such as the date and
frequency of accessing pages
• student attendance data
• library borrowing logs
• smart card activity log on Campus
• Northumbria gym membership
This data will be used in line with the University’s
Student and Applicant Privacy Notice.
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/-/media/corporate-website/new-sitecore-gallery/services/academic-
registry/documents/qte/student-engagement/ethical-use-of-student-data-for-educational-
analytics.pdf?la=en&hash=EEB8CF87D03669F66A935ECEA17D084F05947832
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Data could save lives
The bereaved father who says data could save lives
Murray is proposing that universities introduce a system that
would automatically pull together disparate data – from
schools, the student, attendance, assessment and library
access. Multiple red flags would trigger an early warning alert
and a meeting with a student support professional.
Student suicides: the bereaved father who says data could save lives
Guardian Education 8 October 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/oct/08/student-suicides-the-bereaved-father-who-says-data-could-save-live
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Beyond the library – shared sector wide initiatives - Learning analytics
We're working in collaboration to build a learning analytics service for the
sector. There are over 50 universities and colleges signed up to the initial
phases of the implementation.
What we are making
1. A basic learning analytics solution
This will include everything you require to track student learning
activity so that you can improve retention and attainment. It will
include an app for students to allow them to maximise their learning
potential by tracking their learning activity.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/effective-learning-analytics
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We recommend that all
institutions should consider
introducing an appropriate
learning analytics system to
improve student support and
performance.
https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/hec/research/report-bricks-clicks-potential-data-and-analytics-
higher-education
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Using generic BI tools
―Many universities and colleges are
using generic business intelligence
(BI) systems to obtain insight on various
aspects of their operations – and are
beginning to use them for analysing the
student learning experience too. The
most widely used systems
IBM Cognos, QlikView and Tableau.
https://analytics.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2014/10/22/learning-analytics-using-business-intelligence-systems/
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Visualise and compare
https://public.tableau.com/profile/kushwanth#!/vizhome/JISCdata1/Story1
Various programmes and various authors
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So what to do?
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/learning-analytics
Put your data to work
Your university or college already collects a variety of data about students and
you can use it to:
• Transform their learning experience
• Support their wellbeing
• Help them to achieve more
Our learning analytics service helps you put your data to work to tackle some of
the big strategic challenges. It is the world‘s first national learning analytics
service developed to address the key strategic goals of HE and FE
organisations.
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Adopting AI ...is a journey, not a silver bullet that will
solve problems in an instant. It begins with gathering
data into simple visualizations and statistical processes
that allow you to better understand your data and get
your processes under control. From there, you‘ll
progress through increasingly advanced analytical
capabilities, until you achieve that utopian goal .....
Data Is The Foundation For Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning, By Willem Sundblad Forbes [magazine]
18 October 2018
https://www.forbes.com/sites/willemsundbladeurope/2018/10/18/data-is-the-foundation-for-artificial-intelligence-
and-machine-learning/#6750b0a151b4
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So what is AI?
To understand where AI
should be used and will be
most successful, one must
understand what AI really is.
AI, or machine learning, refers
to a broad set of algorithms
that can solve a specific set
of problems, if trained
properly.
The success of artificial intelligence depends on
data, Nick Ismail Information Age [blog] 23 April
2018 https://www.information-age.com/success-
artificial-intelligence-data-123471607/
The AI bucket consists
of:
• Big data
• Analytics
• Machine learning
• Natural language
processing
• Data visualisation
• Decision logic
Cox, A.M. Pinfield, S. and Rutter, S. (2018) The
intelligent library: Thought leaders‘ views on the
likely impact of artificial intelligence on academic
libraries. Library Hi Tech. ISSN 0737-8831
https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-08-2018-0105
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Artificial Intelligence What is AI?
AI in the UK: ready, willing and able? HOUSE OF LORDS Select Committee on Artificial
Intelligence. Report of Session 2017–19 HL Paper 100 16 April 2018
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Common terms used in artificial intelligence
Algorithm
A series of instructions for performing a calculation or solving a
problem, especially with a computer. They form the basis for
everything a computer can do, and are therefore a fundamental
aspect of all AI systems.
Expert system
A computer system that mimics the decision-making ability of a
human expert by following pre-programmed rules, such as ‗if
this occurs, then do that‘. These systems fuelled much of the
earlier excitement surrounding AI in the 1980s, but have since
become less fashionable, particularly with the rise of neural
networks.
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Machine learning
One particular form of AI, which gives computers the ability to learn
from and improve with experience, without being explicitly
programmed. When provided with sufficient data, a machine learning
algorithm can learn to make predictions or solve problems, such as
identifying objects in pictures or winning at particular games, for
example.
Neural network
Also known as an artificial neural network, this is a type of machine
learning loosely inspired by the structure of the human brain. A neural
network is composed of simple processing nodes, or ‗artificial
neurons‘, which are connected to one another in layers. Each node will
receive data from several nodes ‗above ‘it, and give data to several
nodes ‗below‘ it. Nodes attach a ‗weight‘ to the data they receive, and
attribute a value to that data. If the data does not pass a certain
threshold, it is not passed on to another node. The weights and
thresholds of the nodes are adjusted when the algorithm is trained until
similar data input results
in consistent outputs.
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Deep learning
A more recent variation of neural networks, which uses many
layers of artificial neurons to solve more difficult problems. Its
popularity as a technique increased significantly from the mid-
2000s onwards, as it is behind much of the wider interest in AI
today. It is often used to classify information from images, text
or sound
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AI : What is the opportunity?
Our inquiry has concluded that the UK is
in a strong position to be among the
world leaders in the development of
artificial intelligence
AI presents a significant opportunity to
solve complex problems and potentially
improve productivity, which the UK is
right to embrace.
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AI : What is the opportunity?
―Human beings and artificial
intelligence will work together to
create a brave new world...This will
be a world where people are freed to
use their natural creative abilities and
their amplified intelligence with
concern for the drudgery of mundane,
repetitive and quite frankly boring
tasks. This is the true mission of
artificial intelligence”
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Is AI just about a packet of biscuits?
―Imagine walking into a grocery
store, toward the produce aisle,
but then getting a ping on your
phone that the cookies you
bought last week are on sale. You
put them to your cart, put your
phone away and
keep shopping‖
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AI : What is the opportunity?
Powerful as it is, one of the
problems is that artificial
intelligence is not aimed at the
worthiest of the worlds problems.
Today if you look at the very
successful AI applications at scale
they are in the field of making
people click more ads
AI and bots can create fairer world. Rob Mackinley -interview
with Kriti Sharma. Information Professional; March 2019
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AI in Higher Education – a diversity of views
Nearly all agree that AI will be a very big issue for higher
education. ..most of the university leaders among the
respondents express an intention to develop strategies
where they do not already have one.
universities will use AI to select
the best candidates for degree
courses,
not one of THE‘s
respondents finds it easy
to recruit and retain
academic staff able to
teach and research AI,
respondents rank research as
the area of university
management and practice likely
to be most affected by AI
Universities today cannot compete against
the Googles of the world because they do
not have that data.
―There is a lot of work going on in AI by way of tech ..but what a lot
of people are trying to look into is the ethical tone of it all,‖ ..it‘s
really difficult to do any humanities- and social sciences-based
work on it because grants are not tailored towards it.‖
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/microsoft-survey-ai
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AI in Higher Education – a diversity of views
Most agree that AI will have the cognitive
capacity to participate in scientific
advancement, at least to some extent.
Exactly half believe that AI will be able to
direct the testing of scientific hypotheses at
least as well as humans can, and 52 per
cent think machines will be able to
generate new scientific hypotheses as well
as humans can.
Respondents are
reasonably
confident that AI will
be able to provide
student feedback at
least as well as
humans can, with
student assessment
another area where
AI could play a big
role.
respondents are keen on the idea that not
only science students but also humanities
and social science students will need to be
taught specific technical skills to help them
programme and interact with artificial
intelligence productively
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AI in Higher Education – a diversity of views
―AI can help flip the classroom,
personalise education and tackle the
increasingly and distressingly prohibitive
cost of delivering that education. Some of
the skills that universities help people learn
will change. But the skills that will be most
in demand will tend to be old-fashioned
ones, that universities used to deliver, such
as analytical and creative thinking.‖
―The key problem, as ever,
is that a small pool of
academics have managed
to push politicians to think
that investing in AI
research is going to
change the world. I don‘t
think that is right,‖
―AI machine learning can never replace
that until you make a totally new, self-
replicating machine or life form with
artificial consciousness…And that will
remain firmly in the realm of science fiction
for many hundreds of years.‖
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Applying AI
Artificial intelligence has opened up strategic opportunities for
tertiary institutions to fundamentally redesign their businesses to
deliver premium personalized services. Education CIOs can
learn how virtual personal assistants provide an important
building block toward that objective.
Use AI to Take Student Success to the Next Level of Personalization in Higher Education. Nick
Ingelbrecht & Jan-Martin Lowendahl. Gartner [report]. 14 February 2018
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3857266/use-ai-student-success-level
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AI based Teaching Assistants
At the Georgia Institute of Technology, Ashok Goel, professor of computer
and cognitive science, has been working with virtual teaching assistants for
several years….In 2016, Goel made headlines after revealing that some of
his students (in a master’s-level online course in AI) were unable to
distinguish between AI and human TAs answering questions in a
discussion forum
The AI TAs can’t answer deep questions about content -- only human
teaching assistants can do that -- said Goel, but the AI TAs are useful
―because students tend to ask the same questions again and again.‖
Questions about assessment or deadlines are easily handled by AI, he said.
Pushing the Boundaries of Learning With AI. By Lindsay McKenzie. Inside Higher Ed 26
September 2018 https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/09/26/academics-
push-expand-use-ai-higher-ed-teaching-and-learning
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Identify ―at risk‖ students-predictive analytics
As your command center for student success, Illume® uses your
institution‘s data to develop personalized predictions that are
timely, accurate, and actionable.
Pinpoint at-risk students hiding in plain sight, develop coordinated
student success initiatives, and deploy targeted email
interventions, all from one place.
Each student‘s data tells a story. Are you listening?
https://www.civitaslearning.com/
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Helping research
―Yewno‘s knowledge map allows Kamran to investigate concepts and
relationships between concepts to help broaden the keywords he‘ll use
in his research.‖
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Helping research
―The mind map layout was really useful, as it
provided a great visual way of looking at links
between subjects. I use spider diagrams for
revision purposes so it‘s a method of
presentation that really resonates with me. I
ended up finding out lots of information about
renewable energy conflict, and the policies of
other countries like New Zealand, which will be
very useful points of comparison for my research,
as well as it being an area that I am generally
very interested in.
Yewno showed me the links between these
different subjects without me having to
perform extra searches, which will save me a
lot of time when it comes to essay writing.‖
Esther has been studying renewable energy, and wanted to find out how
the UK’s departure from the EU will affect its policies on wind turbines.
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Helping research
Yewno‘s mission is ‗Knowledge Singularity‘ and by that we mean
the day when knowledge, not information, is at everyone’s
fingertips. In the search and discovery space the problems that
people face today are the overwhelming volume of information and
the fact that sources are fragmented and dispersed. There‘s a
great T.S. Eliot quote ‗Where‘s the knowledge we lost in
information‘ and that sums up the problem perfectly.
Ruth Pickering. Chief Business Development & Strategy Officer
Do You Know About Yewno? By Alice Meadows 7 June 2017
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/06/07/do-you-know-about-yewno/
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Helping research
http://www.67bricks.com/index.php/content-enrichment-industry-insights-1-2016
Making research more discoverable
Content is at the centre of everything a
publisher does. Enriching that content delivers
significant value across the whole content life
cycle. One particular area where the need for
content enrichment can add significant value is
in enabling the researcher to find and
discover the most relevant content to assist
in the researcher's workflow. Features that
can be enhanced using enrichment techniques
are relating articles, subject and context
navigation, categorisation of content and
identification of entities to provide linking to
other relevant content.
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Helping research
http://www.67bricks.com/index.php/content-enrichment-industry-insights-1-2016
Improving discovery through relatedness
Publishers are trying to increase the usage of their
content but at the same time ensure that they are
providing researchers with the most relevant
content when they search. One area where content
enrichment can assist is in the area of relatedness.
Here rather than use just the words in the
documents to find other related content you can use
techniques to give more meaning and context to
the articles and the relationship they have with
other articles. One approach uses software tools
to extract the meaning from content to create a
content fingerprint and then uses this fingerprint to
find related pieces of content.
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Helping research
.
The IET looked to Ontotext to deliver artificial intelligence technologies
into its database for discovering emerging trends and relationships.
This technology gives customers both a deeper understanding of current
developments and more value from the data they have contributed so
much towards.
Press Release 24 August 2016 https://www.ontotext.com/company/news/ontotext-selected-
unleash-power-institution-engineering-technologys-knowledge/
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AI transformation...
Elsevier‘s Dr. Jabe Wilson answers the question ―What does 2018 hold
for AI in publishing?‖
He points out that while many industries have shifted to digital, the impact
is especially dramatic in scientific publishing and R&D ―due to the sheer
volume of data researchers must sift through.‖ In fact, the desire to help
researchers make sense out of all this data is behind Elsevier’s
transformation from publisher to “information analytics provider.”
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/jabe-wilson-on-the-future-of-ai-and-
scholarly-publishing
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The importance of data
AI works best when large amounts of rich, big data are
available. The more facets the data covers, the faster the
algorithms can learn and fine-tune their predictive
analyses. According to industry predictions, in 2018, AI‘s
greatest limitation — high quality data — will become
more evident. Successful machine learning depends on
large and broad data sets.
In the next wave of AI empowerment, the algorithms are
commoditised, but whoever owns the data is king.
The success of artificial intelligence depends on data, Nick Ismail Information Age
[blog] 23 April 2018 https://www.information-age.com/success-artificial-intelligence-
data-123471607/
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The importance of data
Datasets
HathiTrust makes the texts of public domain works in its corpus
available for research purposes. The works fall into two categories:
non-Google-digitized volumes, which are freely available, and
Google-digitized volumes, which are available through an agreement
with Google.
Non-Google-digitized volumes
Description
Approximately 776,200 public domain volumes as of October 2018,
primarily, though not exclusively, English language materials
published prior to 1924.
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Platforms are driven by data…..
Producer of
content
Filter
(e.g. the library)
Consumer
of content
Information about users
Information about content
DATA DATA
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Challenges to adoption of big data/AI
Uncovering the human side of data. By Charles Orton-Jones. In Future of Data. Raconteur.
26 March 2019
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Data Wars
‗Whoever acquires and controls the data will
have hegemony in the future
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
World economic forum . January 2018
https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/modi-wef-davos-data-control-real-wealth/
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Who might do it? What capabilities might be required?
Who is doing it/might do it?
Individual institutions?
Publishers?
Intermediaries?
Sector bodies?
Data companies?
Capabilities required?
Access to good, appropriate data
Machine intelligence – AI
Platform to deliver the service
A workable biz model
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The data wars: moving from
management information to data
driven intelligence
UKSG: April 2019
Ken Chad
Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Twitter @kenchad
ken@kenchadconsulting.com
Tel: +44 (0)7788 727 845
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