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Collaboration in the Cloud. Laine Farley Executive Director 10 May 2012. Why should we collaborate beyond UC?. Over 30 years…. Regional Library Facilities. What is the ROI on Collaboration?. Create collective impact through partnerships and networks
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Collaboration in the Cloud Laine Farley Executive Director 10 May 2012
Why should we collaborate beyond UC? Over 30 years… Regional Library Facilities
What is the ROI on Collaboration? • Create collective impact through partnerships and networks • Share wealth (resources), expertise and power with peers • Share leadership throughout networks • Engage in both direct service and advocacy • Meet immediate needs and help reform larger systems • Master the art of adaptation • Modify tactics, respond quickly, innovate constantly OCLC: “Game Changers for Groups & Consortia” from Foundation Strategy Group (Crutchfield, Kramer, Kania)
Case Studies “build a reliable and increasingly comprehensive digital archive of library materials converted from print that is co-owned and managed by a number of academic institutions.” “organize a distributed print repository service among research libraries in the western region of the United States. The initial focus of WEST will be on consolidating and validating retrospective print journal backfiles.” “a distributed framework for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data”; supported by the NSF as one of the initial DataNets; Data Observation Network for Earth “establish easier access to research data on the Internet; increase acceptance of research data as contributions to the scholarly record; support data archiving” “dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research”; provides the leading open source software for journal and conference management and publishing
Data Management Planning – DMPTool Meeting funding agencies data management plan requirement • Step by step “wizard” • Templates and examples • Links to institutional resources and agency info • Streamline the process to produce a credible and high-quality plan for managing data • Allow researchers to focus on research
Digital Curation for Excel • Excel is the database of choice for many researchers • How to encourage data sharing, archiving, and publishing? • Self-description • Enhance discovery • Facilitate the determination of suitability for use • Surveys indicate: • Most researchers are unaware of preservation options • Documentation practices are poor • Excel is just one tool in workflows
EZID: Long term identifiers made easy • Precise identification of a dataset (DOI or ARK) • Credit to data producers and data publishers • A link from the traditional literature to the data (DataCite) • Exposure and research metrics for datasets (Web of Knowledge) Take control of the management and distribution of your research, share and get credit for it, and build your reputation through its collection and documentation
Vision for a “data paper” • Wrap the unfamiliar in a familiar façade • Minimally, a cover sheet and a set of links to archived artifacts • Cover sheet contains familiar elements: title, date, authors, abstract, identifiers • Just enough metadata to permit basic exposure to and discovery • Indexing by services such as Web of Science, Google Scholar • Instilling confidence in the identifier’s stability
eScholarship: Open access publishing and institutional repository services OA Publications • Journals: 55! • Books • Gray literature, all sorts • Postprints • Academic unit collections • Multmedia • ETDs; Undergrad pubs Tools & Services • OJS dev partnership:journal platform, peer review management • Print-on-demand/ebooks • Streamlined repository submission system • Faceted search and browse • Multimedia help center resources • Robust usage metrics
Service landscape Create, edit, share, and save data management plans Curation repository: store, manage, preserve, and share research data Create and manage persistent identifiers Open source curation add-in for Microsoft Excel Open access scholarly publishing: papers, journals, books, seminars & more An infrastructure to publish and get credit for sharing research data
Challenges and lessons learned • Supporting the research lifecycle – getting embedded farther upstream • Deploying simple and flexible infrastructure and services that can be used in diverse ways • Start small: provide simple solutions that build up to solve more complex problems • Take advantage of opportunities; perfection comes later • Collaborate now more than ever!
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/2192189572/sizes/m/in/photostream/ What does this mean for you? • How can HathiTrust and WEST help with print management challenges? • How can HathiTrust serve researchers’ needs? • How is scholarly practice changing in your subject area? • Do the tools and solutions for data management work for your discipline? • Do the tools and options for publishing apply?
