Ensuring the Integrity (& Continuity) of Our Record of Scholarship

Presented by Adam Rusbridge at the Meeting of the UK LOCKSS Alliance, British Library, London, 22 October 2009.

This document discusses building research data management services from a data librarian's perspective. It defines research data management and outlines developing an institutional RDM policy involving researchers, librarians, and IT staff. The author discusses the University of Edinburgh's library-led RDM policy as an example. The document also covers supporting researchers through training, guidance, and tools for data management planning and sharing. It proposes additional library RDM services like data repositories, archiving, and metadata standards expertise. Challenges for librarians expanding into this new domain are also addressed.

Presented by Stuart Macdonald at the IT Professionals Forum (20/5/14) and the PPLS (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) RDM Workshop (6/5/14).

“Who does forever?” : A Registry of Keepers Who is looking after e-journals with archival intent? 2. Dr Who and the Scholarly Record Time Travel for Scholarly Web Evidence from the Keepers Registry Statistics on who is looking after what, & what is at risk 

Overview of the problems of Reference Rot and what actions to take to ensure the persistence of the digital scholarly record. Presented by Peter Burnhill with Adam Rusbridge & Muriel Mewissen, EDINA, University of Edinburgh, UK; Herbert Van De Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, USA; Gaelle Bequet, ISSN International Centre, France; at Towards Open Science, LIBER, London, June 2015.

Presentation made at the 'Towards linked science - Open Data and DataCite Esrtonia seminar as part of the Estonian Open Access Week at University of Tartu

A talk given at 'Taking the Long View: International Perspectives on E-Journal Archiving', a conference hosted by EDINA and ISSN IC at the University of Edinburgh, September 7th 2015.

The document discusses open science and open scholarship. It covers open access and data sharing, including publicly funded research being made publicly available. Code sharing and reproducible research are also discussed, specifically the three R's of sharing: reuse, replication, and reproducibility. The benefits of data sharing, code sharing, and citizen science are provided. Open science is defined as working transparently using social media to get early feedback from the community.

Slides from the presentation given at Internet Llibrarian International 2010 in London on 15th October 2010.

Presentation given by Zena Mulligan at INTERLEND 2010 - Meeting the Challenge: Co-Operation & Collaboration, Nottingham 28 June

Delivered by Peter Burnhill at CNI Fall 2014 Membership Meeting, December 8-9, 2014 Washington, DC. This is about ensuring that online serial content, whether issued in parts or changes over time via a website, continues to be available for scholarship. The central take home message is that we all have a lot still to do.

This document discusses the importance of promoting online resources and provides guidance on how to do so effectively. It notes that libraries need to promote their subscription resources to justify costs, monitor usage, and help users find useful free resources. Promoting resources is part of the core mission of education and information literacy. Challenges to promoting resources include information overload, competition from other online sources, and decreasing usage trends. The document offers tips for promotion such as using metrics, ensuring accurate metadata, addressing technical issues, search engine optimization, and branding. It emphasizes focusing promotion efforts and adopting a user-centered approach to understand their needs and create meaningful services.

Presented by Peter Burnhill and Stuart Macdonald at CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7), Geneva Switzerland, 23 June 2011.

Presentation given at the annual RLUK (Research Libraries UK) conference on Thursday 9th March 2017. I discuss the British Library's 'Everything Available' portfolio that aims to transform the Library's research services, in particular around discovery, access and use of content.

The document discusses managing research data and digital repositories in difficult economic times. It provides an overview of policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure used to manage research and teaching materials. It also discusses funding from JISC and other organizations for repository services and projects in the UK.

An overview of how the Hiberlink project relates to the persistence on the web of digital versions of theses. Given by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA, at the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Theses & Dissertations - which took place from 23 July to 25 July 2014 at the University of Leicester in the UK.

The document discusses the Keepers Registry, which aims to provide a global registry of organizations that archive e-journals and periodicals. It notes that digital scholarly content is now primarily online but risks being lost without archiving. The registry identifies which archiving agencies are preserving which publications to help ensure continued access over time on a global scale. It outlines the partners developing the registry and their goals of engaging more archiving organizations and establishing governance and sustainability. The registry currently focuses on content with ISSNs and the partners are working to improve coverage and functionality.

Robin Rice and Stuart Macdonald review the upgrade to DSpace 4.1 for the DataShare repository at the University of Edinburgh.

The document discusses the UK RepositoryNet+ Project which aims to enhance institutional repository networks in the UK. It describes some of the complex landscape of actors, projects, and stakeholders involved. It also outlines a joint venture between RepositoryNet+, the University of St Andrews, and the Software Development Life Cycle group to enhance St Andrews' CRIS/IR system according to RepositoryNet's worklines, including implementing various interoperability standards and services.

The document summarizes a workshop on applying federated authentication standards like SAML to the GEOSS system. It introduces the COBWEB project and its goals of integrating crowdsourced environmental data. The workshop covered previous work using SAML, related work in GEOSS, and COBWEB's initial plans to pilot federated authentication for accessing data from multiple sources. Attendees were encouraged to participate in future COBWEB authentication activities.

The document discusses using Linked Data from the British Museum's SPARQL endpoint in the Shakespeare Registry Project. It describes the background of the project and issues with using the SPARQL endpoint, such as a lack of documentation and inefficient text searching. The document also provides a workflow for extracting metadata that involves identifying object IDs in the collection database before querying the SPARQL endpoint.

Jisc MediaHub presentation, part of the Jisc Collections session for the College Development Network’s Getting Best Value from College Licences event, 26 February 2015

This document discusses the importance of preserving both research data and literature for future use. It quotes two scientists emphasizing the value of original data. It then makes three recommendations: 1) Include research literature as part of the record of science; 2) Make data available for future unknown uses; 3) Regard assured access to digital content as a grand challenge. Several organizations are working to archive e-journals and digital content to ensure long-term preservation and access.

The document discusses the development of UK RepositoryNet+ (RepNet), a socio-technical infrastructure that aims to increase the cost effectiveness of open access institutional repositories. RepNet will offer a suite of services like deposit tools, reporting, and registries to enable repositories to operate more cost effectively. It outlines RepNet's context, scope, and focus, and details its planned implementation in waves, with wave 1 integrating existing services and wave 2 exploring additional components like curation microservices. The goal is to transition RepNet from a project to a sustained service by March 2013.