Open content opens up new avenues of research

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Digitizing the Library

October 3, 2o13

International Summer School "Digitization

and its Impact on Society" in Dresden

Felix Lohmeier

Open Content Opens Up New Avenues of Research

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“A piece of data or content is open

if anyone is free to use, reuse, and

redistribute it — subject only, at

most, to the requirement to

attribute and/or share-alike.”

http://opendefinition.org

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Table of Contents

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(1) Digitization

(2) New presentation and discovery possibilities

(3) Increased communication and collaboration

(4) But there is a „data gap“…

(5) The rise of Open Knowledge

(6) Benefits can be measured

(7) Open Bibliographic Data

(8) The role of libraries in the digital age

(9) How SLUB supports the research process

(10)You are doing research - how can the library help you?

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Digitization

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Saxon State and University Library

3 fields of action: university literature provider, collector for the

federal state of Saxony, service provider for other Saxon libraries

10 Mio bibliographic records, important collection of manuscripts,

early prints, musical scores, photographies in one of the largest image

collections (Deutsche Fotothek)

Digitization Center

Scans per year (images) – OCR is on the way…

License for metadata: CC0; License for images: CC BY NC ND

250.000 photos available via Wikimedia with CC BY SA license

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2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

2,723,082 3,068,254 2,332,757 981,169 233,174

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New presentation and discovery possibilities

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“iPlant Collaborative members discuss an example shown on the TACC Visualization Wall”

some rights reserved by Andrew Lenards, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenards/3955049822/

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New presentation and discovery possibilities

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SLUBsemantics – Multilingual and semantic retrieval of automatically

enriched catalogue entries

Copyright Norbert Kaiser

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Increased communication and collaboration

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Researchers talk to each other in widening circles and in earlier

stages of the research process (exchange of research data)

in semi-public discipline-specific communities (Virtual Research

Environments)

in the general public (Websites, Twitter, reference management, etc.)

Data and nano publications

publication of partial results

publication of primary research data

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Cf. Katherine Mangan (29.4.2012): Social Networks for Academics Proliferate, Despite Some Doubts.

In: The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Networks-for-Academics/131726/

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But there is a „data gap“…

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Source: Monastersky, Richard (March 27, 2013): Publishing frontiers: The library reboot.

http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-frontiers-the-library-reboot-1.12664

Data Source: C. Tenopir et al. PLoS ONE 6, e21101; 2011

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021101

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The rise of Open Knowledge

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Source: Nissila, Jussi; Braybrooke, Kaitlyn; Vuorikivi, Timo (Ed.) (February 22, 2013): The Open Book.

http://archive.org/details/TheOpenBook

See also the Open Book Timeline for more details:

http://openbook.okfn.org/timeline/

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Benefits can be measured

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Source: PLOS Article Level Metrics. http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/researchers/

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Open Bibliographic Data

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Current

Research

Information

System

Long time

preservation

Green Road

Golden Road

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The role of libraries in the digital age

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Provider of convenient services instead of access provider

Enabler of scholarship instead of a gatekeeper of knowledge

Technological stewardship instead of adherence to traditional

cultural ideas

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Acquisition

Handling

Exploitation

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generation, selection,

preprocessing, storage

management,

knowledge extraction,

meta data, ontologies

analysis, publication,

portals, archiving

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How SLUB supports the research process (without any claim to completeness)

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Research idea

• Research question • Field of research • Theory formation

Operationalization

• Study design • Choice of methods • Cooperation

partners

Data collection and data generation

• (Meta) analysis • Simulation,

experiments • observations

Analysis and interpretation

• Data processing • Evaluation • Formulating

conclusions

Publication

• Conferences • Research reports • Media distribution

Open Access Repository

Research Workflow

Tools & infrastructure

Consulting Services

Current Research Information System

Library Catalogue Research Data Repository

Semantic Resource Discovery

Providing library holdings as big data

Crowdsourced Tagging ang Games

Alerting services based on Big Smart Data

Campus Communities Digitization and Digitization support Virtual Research

Environments

Text mining platforms

Academic community building

Bibliometrics Open Access Publishing

Information Support

Topic mapping

Digital Scholarship

Open Journal System

Open Monograph Press

Reference Management

Long term preservation

Data Publishing

Full text repositories / deep indexing

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You are doing research - how can the library help you?

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Please write down

a) your research questions and the data you need

b) what you expect from the library to help you

We will cluster all ideas

In the second part of the workshop we will talk about methods

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