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Open ________ ?
Libraries, repositories, and cultural change Presentation at CILIP MmIT NW: Emerging
Technologies; June 17th 2009
R. John Robertson, CETIS,
University of Strathclyde
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
Open Access – cultural overview Cultural (as is...) The translation of an informal offline practice into the digital age
– sharing copies of your paper Speed (submission to press can be a long time) Rights? (it’s mine to distribute... ; who funded the work? ) Costs and conditions (modern journal subscriptions)
Declarations Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.soros.org/openaccess) PLoS dftn: "free availability and unrestricted use“ via Peter Suber
Approaches: ‘self-archive’ ; OA journals Funder mandates (UK Research councils, NIH and CIHR) Institutional mandates (37 mandates, 14 departmental
Open Content - impact ‘Normal’ offline practice is often not formalised or examined, in
doing so: Rights issues can be addressed Practice might improve Provide colleagues, students, and potential students with your stuff
Institutional re-evaluation of where the value lies: Student experience Reputation, accreditation, assessment Staff (as teachers not merely producers of sets of materials) Facilities and atmosphere (...especially the library?)
Publicity Increased enrolment Kudos and standing in the educational community
Open Content – opportunities? Often happening outside of library...
LIS skills needed but demand may not be articulated in ways that are immediately obvious and a degree of wheel reinvention going on
Potentially lots of ‘cataloguing’ needed but... Different standards/ educational description
Traditional learning object type metadata(IEEE LOM, IMS CP) Standards under development (ISO MLR, DC-ED) Key access points – course code? Course title?
Many current content sharing systems work without ‘full’ cataloguing and may not afford it Full cataloguing presents an unknown value propostion...
Supporting teaching and administrative staff Education and training Collection level work
Description data cleaning Taxonomies/ controlled vocabularies
What is the business case? Managing legal issues: accessibility; liability
Open Data
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Open Data - overview Two main areas
Managing and opening access to scientific datasets Opening access to data more generally
Vision of semantic web Making it easier for machines to relate disparate data sets
Better data management Volume of data being produced Transparency
Link data and publication Does data support findings?
Stewardship Destroy data that should be destroyed Allow others to explore data for their own use Ensure funder has access to data Curate the rest of the data
Open Data - initiatives
Open Data – initiatives (2)
Open Data - impact Library of Congress releasing lcsh.info Government(s) attitudes New tools
Visualization – [manyeyes] Wordle
Richer publications Moving beyond the limits of a printed page
Network effect –> new science Mashups...
See next speaker! ‘just landed’
Open Data - perspective
“The coolest thing to be done
with your data will be
thought of by someone else”
Motto
JISC Common Repository Interfaces Group (CRIG) http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/CRIG
Data librarians and enabling researchers Best practice Need for clarity over rights Automating metadata capture – lab books Linking data and articles Using data in teaching
However, most of this work has to be done by the scientists...
Do they know about the relevant skills and expertise the library can offer?
Open Data – opportunities (2)
Being a data provider Limits of tools Unintended consequences (xif...jsut what information are you giving
out) Legal and ethical issues Control of data
Using Mashups Amazon
Librarything - recommendations Browser tools
integrating library catalogues Anything: e.g. ‘Just landed’
Open Data – Summing up a conference: twitter plus wordle?
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Open Libraries?
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Open Libraries? What’s the point? The importance of
Information literacy Understanding rights and business cases Making the case for the library’s role Experimenting ... Realising ‘control’ over use of IT may not be as desirable as it was Make rights clear Can you get your data out? Can your users..?
What do you want to allow? Control vs enable (Glasgow City Council example: advertises events on twitter but
blocks access to it in libraries) http://tametheweb.com/2009/05/10/glasgowtweet/