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Scholarly communications Discussion group

Scholarly communications Discussion group. Linked Data Workshop 27-28 May 2010. Improve the scholarly communications record by linking research articles, citations, underlying data, conference presentations, blogs, wikis and other information resources. Background

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Scholarly communications Discussion group

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  1. Scholarly communicationsDiscussion group Linked Data Workshop 27-28 May 2010

  2. Improve the scholarly communications record by linking research articles, citations, underlying data, conference presentations, blogs, wikis and other information resources • Background • Research articles in electronic journals use DOIs and other techniques to point at cited articles and ‘supplemental information’. However many research articles have substantially more information associated with them including data sets, conference presentations, blogs, wikis, tools, &etc. No current mechanism exists to enable researchers to easily navigate to these information sources  • Requirement • Libraries have traditionally played an important role in acting as a trusted repository and authoritative source for a range of physical information resources to support research.  What role should libraries play in the scholarly communication process in the emerging distributed digital information world? Can linked data help make the information ‘ecosystem’ around a research article easy to find? How can libraries facilitate this process?

  3. Three questions • How could linked data help? • Who needs to contribute? • What can libraries do? • Challenges

  4. How could linked data help? (1/2) • URIs linking: • Researchers • Institutions • Grants • Funders • Research groups • Disciplines • Publications • Formal • Informal • Supporting data • Research data • Research process • Hardware / calibration • Scientific arguments

  5. How could linked data help? (2/2) • Expertise database • Communities of practice / interest • Cross domain • Direct access • Affordability

  6. Who needs to contribute? (1/2) • Researchers themselves • Publishers • Institutions • Repositories • Institutional • Subject • Bibliometrics • Support Research Assessment • Administration? Library? • Libraries

  7. Who needs to contribute? (2/2) • How important is the persistence of URIs? • Who decides? • Who pays?

  8. What can libraries do? (1/2) • Leadership • Trust, Authority, Neutrality, Integrity • Persistence as an institution • Expertise • Disambiguation • Selection • Driving cultural change • Evaluation beyond traditional peer review • Breaking down the internal silos

  9. What can libraries do? (2/2) • Practical • Exploration • Prototyping • Demonstrators • Demonstrate value • ...and money will follow(?) • Collaborative work • Explore user requirements • Expose unknown relationships

  10. CHALLENGES (1/3) • Creating / minting URIs • Of researcher • ORCID • Open Researcher & Contributor Identification Initiative • Distributed • First institution • Maintained by current institution • Centralised • Community owned? • Control / power • Governance

  11. CHALLENGES (2/3) • Creating / minting URIs • Library responsibility? • Those things that the Library wants to make statements about • Asserts that the URI represents the thing, not that the information at the end of a link is accurate • Recasting the role of cataloguing • Authority records • Assuring longevity • But libraries are at the end of the chain • Publisher role?

  12. CHALLENGES (3/3) • Willingness to take risk • Give up current processes • Resources • Funding • Relevant skills • Change in attitude to quality • "Good enough" • A completely different model of what a library is?

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