Dear Colleagues,
This week's updates include:
·A link to /The Economics of Data Integrity/, a paper written by Ricky
Erway and Brian Lavoie that describes data curation sustainability
·A link to Lorcan Dempsey's "The Research Library: Scalable Efficiency
and Scalable Learning" presentation that describes two important trends
that are emerging as research libraries are being reconfigured in a
network environment
·An invitation to take the Open Access Week Wikipedia Challenge and
become Wikipedia fluent by 29 October
·A link to a new OCLC Research prototype, assignFAST, that uses
autosuggest for efficient FAST subject assignment
Best regards,
Melissa
Melissa Renspie
Senior Communications Officer
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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*New Economics of Data Integrity Paper by Ricky Erway and Brian Lavoie
Describes Data Curation Sustainability*
This paper is included on page 53 of the final report
<http://datacuration.web.unc.edu/files/2012/10/NSF_Data_Curation_Workshop_Report.pdf>
[pdf] for the NSF Workshop, Curating for Quality: Ensuring Data Quality
to Enable New Science <http://datacuration.web.unc.edu/>, that took
place 10-11 September 2012. The workshop was sponsored by the National
Science Foundation and hosted by UNC School of Information & Library
Science.
Some takeaways from the Erway/Lavoie paper include:
·Allocation of digital preservation resources needs to be ongoing over time.
·Key tradeoffs are involved in allocating resources to digital
preservation that should be recognized upfront.
·The management of these tradeoffs should be informed by the risks that
could potentially impact the preservation process over time.
·It is unwise to attempt to replicate a broad range of data curation
services, infrastructure and expertise at every institution.
We encourage you to read /The Economics of Data Integrity/ paper and
contact Ricky Erway <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/erway.html> or
Brian Lavoie <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/lavoie.html> with
feedback or questions.
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*Lorcan Dempsey's "The Research Library: Scalable Efficiency and
Scalable Learning" Presentation Now Available*
This presentation covers two important trends that are emerging as
research libraries are being reconfigured in a network environment. The
first is to accelerate the sharing of infrastructure, either through
collaborative services or with third party providers. The second is to
engage more deeply with the research and learning processes of their
campuses. As research and learning processes themselves change, the
research library has to respond and this makes being responsive and open
to learning very important.
OCLC Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist Lorcan Dempsey
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/dempsey.html> gave this
presentation as the invited speaker for the 2012 Kaser Lecture Series
<http://racinfo.indiana.edu/ci/2012-slis-david-kaser-lecture-series> at
the Indiana University Bloomington School of Library and Information
Science <http://www.slis.indiana.edu/> (SLIS) on 5 October 2012.
·Download the presentation
<http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/presentations/dempsey/kaser-indiana2012.pptx>
(pptx: 5.4MB/57 slides)
·View it on Slideshare <http://www.slideshare.net/lisld/kaser2>
·Watch the streaming video
<http://www.indiana.edu/%7Evideo/stream/launchflash.html?folder=istream&filename=Kaser_Lecture_20121005.mp4>
of the presentation from SLIS
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*Celebrate Open Access Week and Take the Wikipedia Challenge by 29
October to Become Wikipedia Fluent*
The Open Access Wikipedia Challenge
<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-access-wikipedia-challenge/> has been
created especially for this year's Open Access Week
<http://www.openaccessweek.org/>, an annual event focusing on open
access <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access> and related topics
that takes place globally during the last full week of October both on-
and offline. Created by OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/klein.html> and Wikipedia Loves
Libraries <http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries>
community volunteers, the Wikipedia Challenge teaches basic Wikipedia
skills and utilizes open content from a new Open Access Bot. It is
available only during Open Access week, 22-29 October 2012.
No experience is necessary to take this free challenge hosted on P2PU
<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-access-wikipedia-challenge/> (Peer to
Peer University). Participants will improve one Wikipedia article by
embedding media harvested from open access journals. There are also
optional and customized lessons available that teach the basics of
Wikipedia editing. For experienced Wikipedians, the task should take 10
minutes. Others may take an hour or two to work through the lessons. All
participants will receive a special edition open access Wikipedia
barnstar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oaw2.png> (a badge of honor
on Wikipedia).
If you haven't already done so, we encourage you and your colleagues to
take the Wikipedia Challenge by Monday, 29 October!
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*New assignFAST Prototype Uses Autosuggest for Efficient FAST Subject
Assignment*
OCLC Research is pleased to announce the availability of assignFAST
<http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/assignfast.html>, a new Web
service that automates the manual selection of FAST Subjects (the
Authorized and Use For headings) based on autosuggest technology. It
takes advantage of the features of FAST (Faceted Application of Subject
Terminology). Faceting, along with a fully controlled vocabulary, allows
simple selection and authority control to take place that would be hard
to accomplish in LCSH.
Read the news announcement
<http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2012/10-23.html> for more
information, see the assignFAST activity page
<http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/assignfast.html> for complete
details, then try the assignFAST demo
<http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/assignfast/> or use the
assignFAST Web service
<http://www.oclc.org/developer/services/assignfast/>.
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