[CODE4LIB] Job: Director, Research Data Service and open-rank Professor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Responsibilities: The Director of the Research Data Service provides leadership and direction for the newly-established campus-wide Research Data Service (RDS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. The RDS is a campus-wide service headquartered in the University Library that provides support to researchers to manage, preserve, and make their data accessible to the research community. The RDS provides support for campus researchers, colleges, research centers and groups, in partnership with the University of Illinois Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), CITES (Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services), NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Office of the Provost, and GSLIS (Graduate School of Library and Information Science). The Director is responsible for leadership, management, and planning for the programmatic, administrative, and operational activities of the RDS for the University. Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Research and Technology, the Director works closely with campus committees and groups that provide advice and oversight for RDS programs and services. The Director leads an implementation and operational group of faculty and staff, and consults regularly with faculty and staff across the campus stakeholder units, as well as the Library, on the development of the RDS. The initial emphasis of the position will be to: plan and identify program objectives and scope; formulate program goals, policies, and processes; identify staffing, operational, and resource needs; and implement the operational elements of the RDS. Duties include: Lead and manage the efforts of staff supporting the Research Data Service program, and the associated data management activities in the University Library, CITES, NCSA, and allied units; Consult regularly with campus stakeholders, including a campus-level oversight committee and a steering group that may be established to guide service and policy development for the RDS; Coordinate and support the RDS-related activities of Library faculty and staff who contribute to research data management, curation, preservation and access. This includes subject specialists, data services librarians and functional liaisons (archivists, curators, preservation professionals, metadata professionals, and IT professionals) and related Scholarly Commons programs. Works closely with the Library eResearch Implementation Committee on the development of user-focused research data programs and services for the campus. Develop effective partnerships with units that contribute services; Ensure consistent levels of research data management services through cross- program coordination on campus. . Identify strategies for understanding the evolving research data curation and service needs of the University's researchers; Evolve and modify the program scope, services, and best practices of the RDS so as to be consistent with the goals and mission of the Library and campus; Coordinate with, other campus units, such as CITES, OVCR, NCSA, GSLIS. Seek partnerships with other organizations, within and beyond the University, including Internet2, CIC (Committee for Institutional Cooperation), Digital Library Federation, Research Data Alliance, disciplinary repositories, and national data management organizations and initiatives; Play a national role in data management and services initiatives; Contribute to the growing body of research literature in various aspects of data services and related endeavors. Environment: The University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign is one of the preeminent research libraries in the world. With more than 13 million volumes and significant digital resources, it ranks second in size among academic research libraries in the United States and first among public university libraries in the world. As the intellectual heart of the campus, the Library is committed to maintaining the strongest possible collections and services and engaging in research and development activities in pursuit of the University's mission of teaching, scholarship, and public service. The Library currently employs approximately 90 faculty and 300 academic professionals, staff, and graduate assistants. For more detailed information, please visit . The Library consists of multiple departmental libraries located across campus, as well as an array of central public, technical, and administrative service units. The Library also encompasses a variety of virtual service points and embedded librarian programs. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the original 37 public land-grant institutions created after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranks the University of Illinois as 25th in the World (2010); 4th World rank in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences (2010); 18th World rank in Life and
[CODE4LIB] Job: Information Policy Analyst, Office for Information Technology Policy (American Library Association/Washington Office, District of Columbia) at American Library Association
The Information Policy Analyst provides analytical, organizational, and logistical support to the ALA Washington Office as part of a team developing and implementing a national information policy agenda for America's public libraries. The analyst also supports new internal processes to improve ALA's ability to advance its public policy agenda. Finally, the analyst will be tasked with assisting OITP staff on selected ongoing activities throughout the office's policy portfolio. This is a grant-funded position. Starting salary negotiable based on experience. ALA offers an excellent benefit package including low-cost medical/dental insurance, retirement plan, and generous paid vacation. For consideration apply directly online (additional documents may be uploaded on the same screen as your resume) OR Send your resume or any questions to Ms. Pat May, Director of Administration, ALA Washington Office, at p...@alawash.org. Requirements The typical successful candidate would have at least a master's degree in library science, information science/technology, computer science, public policy, government, public administration, economics, communications, political science, or in a related area. Prior experience with national information policy issues is preferred, which may include internships, fellowships and volunteer work in public policy and lobbying activities, and graduate course work. Several years of related work experience would be optimal. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/10462/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
Hi Allie, (With the caveat that compiling the comprehensive faculty publication db is not a walk in the park at all particularly if you want to include the publications from when the faculty were working at other institutions and also by all types of faculty- not just full-time or tenured.) You can do any of these: 1. RefShare list through Refworks 2. RSS feeds from databases (by looking up the institution of the author) 3. Build Custom database (Ours beta site is at: http://bayonet.fiu.edu/library/facpub/ if you want to take a look) 4. Use IR 5. License proprietary products (e.g. Digital Measures or Sedona) At MPOW, we tried 1 and 2 but switched to 3 recently. We have IR but do not use it for faculty publication database purposes But we are thinking about using it in conjunction with 3 so that 3 would link to the full-text if there exists any pre/post print articles in the IR. My college (medical school) is also considering 5. I was in the meeting with the vendors for these products and they do much more than keeping track of publications and do keep track of all faculty activities - publication, services, committees, courses, teachings, conference presentations, etc. for statistical purposes. But faculty members are asked to enter the items themselves (or find the department staff who will do it for them). ~Bohyun --- Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS Digital Access Librarian bohyun@fiu.edu 305-348-1471 Medical Library, College of Medicine Florida International University http://medlib.fiu.edu http://medlib.fiu.edu/m (Mobile) From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Alevtina Verbovetskaya [alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 11:35 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
This has always felt like one of those easy things that's alarmingly complicated without at least one of the following A) universal faculty participation B) extensive work with the AI services relevant to your campus to mine citation lists for your current faculty C) people dedicated working with campus departments (who presumably already track this) to get the information. -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum | 734-615-3287 On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
As one working on our libraries institutional repository, this can be like pulling teeth to get everyone to provide you a proper list of their works. Good luck with it, and please let us know how you pull it off, I am very curious to see your results. Matt Sherman On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ken Varnum var...@umich.edu wrote: This has always felt like one of those easy things that's alarmingly complicated without at least one of the following A) universal faculty participation B) extensive work with the AI services relevant to your campus to mine citation lists for your current faculty C) people dedicated working with campus departments (who presumably already track this) to get the information. -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum | 734-615-3287 On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Archivist at Western University of Health Sciences
Posting Number 101220 Position Title Digital Archivist Campus Pomona Org/Department 5401-Library Type of Position Staff Job Summary Under the direction of the University Archivist, the Digital Archivist's primary focus is to provide leadership and management of existing collections (such as photographs, newspaper articles, year books, videos, and museum items), including the ingestion, annotation, metadata schema and authority control, cataloging, storage, and retrieval of digital assets; and supervise the digitization and dissemination of information to patrons and the campus community. Essential Job Functions 1. Digitize photographs, newspaper articles, year books, and museum materials and maintain assets in a digital asset management system. 2. Supervise and train staff, interns, and volunteers on digital curation and the digital collection management software. 3. Develop and implement workflows and processes enabling the effective acquisition, description, access, management, and preservation of digital content. Develop appropriate metadata and authority control standards. 4. Create procedures and protocols and establish a sustainable workflow for the digital asset management infrastructure. Establish procedures for future migration of assets while retaining authenticity, context, and reliability of assets. Collaborate with the Multimedia and IT Departments for the transfer of born-digital media assets to the digital repository. 5. Process photographs, negatives, and slides: research, arrange, describe, and prepare finding aids. Create displays to showcase archival holdings. 6. Develop guidelines, practices and strategies for the preservation of photographs, negatives, and slides, including selection criteria, handling, and storage. 7. Respond to a wide variety of inquiries and requests for research assistance from inside and outside the campus community. 8. Develop workshops and presentations to educate and promote the use of the on-line digital collections. Develop outreach materials to raise awareness of the collections. 9. Actively research and procure additional photograph collections within and without the university. Research grants and funding where appropriate. 10. Stay abreast of emerging standards and professional best practices for a sustainable digital repository. Attend regional and national conferences and workshops. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Individuals must possess the knowledge, as well as the following skills and abilities or be able to perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of skills and abilities. 1. Knowledge of archival theory, standards, and practices and their implementation. 2. Knowledge of conservation and preservation needs of photographs, negatives, and slides. 3. An understanding of historical research methods in both primary and secondary resources. 4. Knowledge of principles of digital preservation, curation, and stewardship. 5. Knowledge of metadata and authority control standards. Ability to effectively communicate with others. 6. Knowledge of copyright law and managing rights in digital data ownership. 7. Ability to effectively plan and manage projects from vision to implementation. 8. Strong organization and self-management skills and attention to detail. 9. Knowledge of image file formats and quality measures. Required Qualifications Bachelors of Science degree. Course work or Certificate in Digital Curation. Preferred Qualifications A Masters in Library Information Science or Masters in Museum Studies preferred. Have one-two years of relevant experience in archival administration and implementation of policies, standards, and procedures for stewardship of digital material. Experience processing photograph collections or museum curating. Experience with ContentDM preferred. Posting Date 10-21-2013 Closing Date Open Until Filled To read the complete announcement and apply, please search for posting number 101220 on the [Western University of Health Sciences career page](https://jobs .westernu.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/search/SearchResults_css.jsp) Source: [Indeed](http://www.indeed.com) Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/10470/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
Hi Allie, We have a database that we maintain of our ft faculty publications. Like others have mentioned, this is not any easy thing to maintain and depends upon the scope of the project. We only collect ft faculty publications. We have an MS Access backend and then use asp to pull the citations for display in various places on our website. We went with that because I was already running various access databases on our website, and it was easy for me to set up. You can see it here: http://www.dowling.edu/library/facultybib/searchpubs.asp I've got our faculty pretty much on board with getting me their citations after several years, but there are things you can do to get buy in. One of the biggest selling points for us has been that accrediting bodies, like NCATE, want to see faculty publications. Our faculty also have to submit a yearly self evaluation and cv, so I usually time a call for latest publications right after that is due. They already have the info compiled, so it's easy for them to share at that point. The hardest thing will be the initial data entry. For that, we initially had web- based forms that I had several librarians working with me to use. Now, I do all of the maintenance. Laura Pope Robbins Associate Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
Hello Allie, We use a vendor database to archive faculty publications. We just started using it, so I can't give much more information at the moment. But there are a lot of products out there. If you find the right vendor, their database may provide for more functions or purposes, so you don't have faculty publications siloed where no one goes. However, I would second Ken Varnum's comments as well. All the best, Craig Boman, MLIS Applications Support Specialist University of Dayton Libraries 937-229-3674 cbom...@udayton.edu On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Laura Robbins pope...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Allie, We have a database that we maintain of our ft faculty publications. Like others have mentioned, this is not any easy thing to maintain and depends upon the scope of the project. We only collect ft faculty publications. We have an MS Access backend and then use asp to pull the citations for display in various places on our website. We went with that because I was already running various access databases on our website, and it was easy for me to set up. You can see it here: http://www.dowling.edu/library/facultybib/searchpubs.asp I've got our faculty pretty much on board with getting me their citations after several years, but there are things you can do to get buy in. One of the biggest selling points for us has been that accrediting bodies, like NCATE, want to see faculty publications. Our faculty also have to submit a yearly self evaluation and cv, so I usually time a call for latest publications right after that is due. They already have the info compiled, so it's easy for them to share at that point. The hardest thing will be the initial data entry. For that, we initially had web- based forms that I had several librarians working with me to use. Now, I do all of the maintenance. Laura Pope Robbins Associate Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
Notre Dame, Northwestern Univerity and Data Curation Experts have been collaborating on creating a new open source project called Curate. Curate is a self-deposit institutional repository which can handle articles as one of it's built in types. Curate is based on the hydra project and Blacklight, so it is highly customizable and has search built in. Feel free to email me or hydra-t...@googlegroups.com for further inquiries. Demo: http://sandbox.curationexperts.com/ Code: https://github.com/ndlib/curate Regards, Justin Coyne Data Curation Experts On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:00 PM, craig boman craig.bo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Allie, We use a vendor database to archive faculty publications. We just started using it, so I can't give much more information at the moment. But there are a lot of products out there. If you find the right vendor, their database may provide for more functions or purposes, so you don't have faculty publications siloed where no one goes. However, I would second Ken Varnum's comments as well. All the best, Craig Boman, MLIS Applications Support Specialist University of Dayton Libraries 937-229-3674 cbom...@udayton.edu On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Laura Robbins pope...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Allie, We have a database that we maintain of our ft faculty publications. Like others have mentioned, this is not any easy thing to maintain and depends upon the scope of the project. We only collect ft faculty publications. We have an MS Access backend and then use asp to pull the citations for display in various places on our website. We went with that because I was already running various access databases on our website, and it was easy for me to set up. You can see it here: http://www.dowling.edu/library/facultybib/searchpubs.asp I've got our faculty pretty much on board with getting me their citations after several years, but there are things you can do to get buy in. One of the biggest selling points for us has been that accrediting bodies, like NCATE, want to see faculty publications. Our faculty also have to submit a yearly self evaluation and cv, so I usually time a call for latest publications right after that is due. They already have the info compiled, so it's easy for them to share at that point. The hardest thing will be the initial data entry. For that, we initially had web- based forms that I had several librarians working with me to use. Now, I do all of the maintenance. Laura Pope Robbins Associate Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. If you're forced to rely on self-reporting, one of the solutions that I've seen is to add a few more features and introduce it as a 'CV Builder' or some sort of 'Faculty Directory' ... so the faculty members get some benefit back out of it, and it's more public so they have an interest in keeping it updated. I'd also recommend talking to the individual colleges -- it's possible that some of them already maintain databases, either for the whole college or at the departmental level. They might be willing to keep the data populated if you provide the hosted service. (and the tenure-track folks have a vested interest in making sure their records kept up-to-date). In looking through the other recommendations -- I didn't see ORCID or ResearcherID mentioned ... I know they're not exhaustive, but it might be possible to have a way to automate dumps from them -- so the faculty member keeps ORCID up-to-date, and you periodically generate dumps from ORCID for all of your faculty. The last time I checked it, ORCID found all of my ASIST work ... but missed all of the stuff that I've published in space physics and data informatics. (admittedly, those weren't peer-reviewed, but neither were most of the ASIST ones) -Joe
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
Correct that. 1.1.2 was Sept 2011 [1] and the developer release on the GitHub repo [2] has activity as of 6 months ago. [1] http://bibapp.org/download/ [2] https://github.com/BibApp/BibApp On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: At one point BibApp looked like it was going to be a good alternative to #3 on Bohyun's hierarchy Release 1.0 was made in July 2010, so I don't know if it is still being worked on. http://bibapp.org/ On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bohyun Kim k...@fiu.edu wrote: Hi Allie, (With the caveat that compiling the comprehensive faculty publication db is not a walk in the park at all particularly if you want to include the publications from when the faculty were working at other institutions and also by all types of faculty- not just full-time or tenured.) You can do any of these: 1. RefShare list through Refworks 2. RSS feeds from databases (by looking up the institution of the author) 3. Build Custom database (Ours beta site is at: http://bayonet.fiu.edu/library/facpub/ if you want to take a look) 4. Use IR 5. License proprietary products (e.g. Digital Measures or Sedona) At MPOW, we tried 1 and 2 but switched to 3 recently. We have IR but do not use it for faculty publication database purposes But we are thinking about using it in conjunction with 3 so that 3 would link to the full-text if there exists any pre/post print articles in the IR. My college (medical school) is also considering 5. I was in the meeting with the vendors for these products and they do much more than keeping track of publications and do keep track of all faculty activities - publication, services, committees, courses, teachings, conference presentations, etc. for statistical purposes. But faculty members are asked to enter the items themselves (or find the department staff who will do it for them). ~Bohyun --- Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS Digital Access Librarian bohyun@fiu.edu 305-348-1471 Medical Library, College of Medicine Florida International University http://medlib.fiu.edu http://medlib.fiu.edu/m (Mobile) From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Alevtina Verbovetskaya [alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 11:35 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
Hi all, I was the lead developer for BibApp at UW-Madison. BibApp is a neat tool and worth consideration for Ruby/Solr folk. However, the project lost momentum at UW because we could not capture enough data to approach faculty expectations that the database be _truly comprehensive_. We harvested citation data via APIs, collected paper CVs, brokered our way into obtaining copies of annual merit review exercises, but still we could not capture enough publication data. Ultimately, seeing the amount of staff cost for data collection, for building a non-comprehensive tool, the library decided to back away. In the sciences you'll have far better luck, but in the humanities it's a complete mess. Good luck finding citations for all the public radio appearances the Chair of the English department expects to see on their profile... It's an unwinnable war. I still cry at night. Cheers, - Eric On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Have you looked at VIVO yet? http://vivoweb.org/ It's an open-source project that was initially developed by Cornell and is now being incubated by DuraSpace. -Mike On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Analytics on multiple systems
Hello, In our setup we have a few accounts, a bunch of properties and many views and it can be a little confusing. What I've noticed when looking at our Google Analytics data is that when we have two properties gathering data under different tracking numbers that those can't be combined in a view and examined together. So: when have our main website under UA-[property number]-1 and our library catalog under UA-[property number]-2, users going from our main website to our catalog look like visitors to UA-[property number]-1 that bounced. I'm not sure how we could get information about the user's path from the website, into the catalog and back again without having them both gathering data under the same property ID. It seems like if they were both the same ID, we would be able to get a lot of information from the Visitors Flow and Entrance Paths. Does anybody have the reverse-extreme? I mean - one property ID for *everything*, sending the domain to tell the sites apart, split up using views and advanced segments for reporting? I can see some advantages to this method, but in order for it to be successful in not multiple-counting pages with the same path (like /) it seems like we would need to be able to include _setDomainName and _setAllowLinker. Depending on the options provided by our vendor tools, I could see us not having enough customization control over the tracking snippet to do this. A relatively new change in Google Analytics is that it allows setting permissions at the account, property, or view level. One reason for making multiple accounts in the past was for restricting access, but now that can be controlled at other levels so it makes more sense to have fewer accounts (or even just one account). -Ginger -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joel Marchesoni Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 9:08 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Analytics on multiple systems Oh wow, sorry, that's not right. I was thinking 25; not sure where the 4 zeros came from... Joel -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Josh Wilson Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:18 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Analytics on multiple systems Wow, 250,000? I'm not sure that's right, though I'm prepared to believe anything. I checked the GA documentation, which says you can officially have 50 profiles per account. Each property has at least one default profile, so that's probably the official limit of properties too, before you'd need to use an extra account. (In turn, you can evidently manage 25 GA accounts per Google user account.) Not sure where the 250,000 figure comes from, but I've seen a number of scripting workarounds for the profile limit in various analytics blogs, so maybe you can sort of 'overclock' your accounts if you needed to. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Joel Marchesoni jma...@email.wcu.eduwrote: Thank you all for your replies. I'm thinking we'll go with one account (we already have a Google account for various other services) with multiple properties. One thing that has complicated matters is the property we currently use is not yet able to be upgraded to Universal Analytics, which is what CONTENTdm uses. FYI I noticed in my own research that the property limit is 250,000. I don't see us hitting that ever... Joel -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Josh Wilson Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 10:24 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Analytics on multiple systems Hi Joel, It usually ends up being easiest to go with one GA account, separating different sources by using different properties (e.g., UA-[acct number]-1 for CONTENTdm, UA-[acct number]-2 for LibGuides, etc.) rather than separate accounts entirely. Each property can have different users with different permissions levels so you can customize who has access to what. You can further refine each property into different profiles if you want to filter data from one source in different ways. Having everything under one account makes it easy to manage and apply common settings (like users, filters, or custom reports) between properties and profiles. If you add another user, you only have to add them to one account, too. There are limits to the number of allowed properties (it's quite high and goes up occasionally; not sure what it is offhand), so if you bumped into that you could use another GA account. Google has made it easier in recent months to jump between accounts and properties, though. (Sorry for delayed reply, catching up on listservs) On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Joel Marchesoni jma...@email.wcu.edu wrote: Hello, We currently have Google Analytics on our main library pages and
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
I saw a presentation on the HKU development of a Current Research Information System on top of their DSpace repository (http://hub.hku.hk/) that, among many other things, does a good job of collecting publication information through harvesting with ORCID ids, etc. They are releasing the code as a module to add on to DSpace (http://cilea.github.io/dspace-cris/). It is probably more of a long-term solution than what you are thinking about now, but it may be worth looking at. - Daryl Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:35:38 + From: alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
I agree that the user ids can be helpful. VIVO has an available harvester tool which is designed to find citations for a given author from PubMed, but in testing we did at the University of New Mexico (I'm still there for a short time until moving on to OU) we didn't find it to be terribly effective. Not surprising, given the limits of PubMed entries. I like Ken Varnum's answer . . . you really need robust faculty buy in. I personally keep a running tally of publications and presentations on my website so that I have a single, master list. I may use Zotero as well, but I always know that my website will have everything. Getting faculty to use a central database for that sort of thing, much less getting them to enter prior publications, can be like herding cats, however. One thing that could make it easier; make any central repository compatible with RIS or BibTeX files so that researchers can export anything they have in a citation manager and load those prior publications en masse. One of the many things that is less than optimal about VIVO is that, when I used it, I had to enter publications, laboriously, one at a time. Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Emerging Technologies/ RD Librarian University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library Informatics Center MSC09 5100 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Tel: (505) 272-0645 Website: www.jasonbengtson.com Email: j.bengtson...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Daryl Grenz grenzda...@hotmail.com wrote: I saw a presentation on the HKU development of a Current Research Information System on top of their DSpace repository (http://hub.hku.hk/) that, among many other things, does a good job of collecting publication information through harvesting with ORCID ids, etc. They are releasing the code as a module to add on to DSpace (http://cilea.github.io/dspace-cris/). It is probably more of a long-term solution than what you are thinking about now, but it may be worth looking at. - Daryl Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:35:38 + From: alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
