Linked Data at Smithsonian Libraries

The document summarizes announcements from the 2016 NASIG CORAL User Group meeting. It provides information on the steering committee and web committee members and notes their upcoming plans. These include merged repositories, a comprehensive roadmap, governance documents, new collaboration tools, and software updates. It also outlines new features and additions from SirsiDynix, such as fund code creation and import options, resource import updates, and helpful links in the licensing module.

also serves as a data center which can be used to inform and improve the work done in other areas. This session will provide two examples of how ILLiad, an interlibrary loan software, was used to collect and share data with other units to improve workflows and services. At Austin Peay State University, ILLiad data was used to gain a holistic understanding of the information needs of various patron groups, which led to projects like purchasing digital access to resources requested by distance students, identifying collection gaps, purchasing titles repeatedly requested by students, and implementing a faculty buy-not-borrow policy. Similarly, ILLiad was used at Louisiana State University to report electronic resource access issues to the newly hired Electronic Resources Librarian. A year’s worth of data revealed the most common types of access issues impacting LSU’s electronic resources, training opportunities for ILL staff, and most significantly, the revelation that ILL staff and troubleshooters engage in many of the same procedures to carry out their work, prompting her to wonder if the intersection of ILL request processing and troubleshooting present an opportunity for restructuring. Time will be allotted for questions from audience members. Megan Lounsberry, Louisiana State University NW Nicole Wood, Resource Management Librarian, Austin Peay State University

This session will comprise a talk with a panel of speakers looking at KBART: seven years later (since the publication of the first set of recommendations up to today). The panel will discuss the changes on the e-resources metadata landscape, the benefits of KBART and the challenges of its implementation. Today poor metadata in the electronic resources supply chain is still a problem. The panel will use practical examples to explain how metadata creation, consumption and usage are marked by the constant requirement of finding the balance between available resources (technical and human) and end user discoverability needs. The KBART Standing Committee sees the implementation of KBART recommendations as a community effort from a range of stakeholders (content providers, knowledge bases, link resolvers and librarians).

This document provides an overview of the open source electronic resource management system CORAL. It begins with a brief history of ERM systems and an introduction to CORAL. Next, it reviews literature about CORAL implementations at various universities. It then provides a tour of CORAL's modules for resources, licensing, organizations, and usage statistics. The document concludes with a case study of CORAL's implementation at East Carolina University and their experiences getting the most out of the system.

Data mining OCLC for translations. Creating authority records for VIAF. Remodelling the bibliorgraphic structure to make the best mutli-lingual displays from all available data in a work set.

This talk was provided by Brian Lowe of Ontocale SRL during the NISO Virtual Conference, Using Open Source in Your Institution, held on February 17, 2016

This presentation was provided by Fred Reiss of the University of Oklahoma for the NISO webinar, Integrating Library Management Systems, held on June 8, 2016.

How serendipitous is discovery for users? Like many a teenager, OpenURL linking can behave inappropriately. What can we do to smooth out the bumps on the road and what other tools are available? This breakout session will walk swiftly through linking to discovery targets, from OpenURL 0.1/1.0, to Index-Enhanced Direct Linking, Link 2.0 and beyond …

This document discusses how libraries can leverage data from their collections to support new research and discovery. It outlines several initiatives that treat library collections as data, including the Library of Congress labs and a project exploring computationally-driven research. The document also discusses OCLC's work analyzing institutional repository data through its Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal (RAMP) and making data more interoperable through support of the IIIF standard for sharing images and metadata.

Athenaeum21 is pleased to announce the public release of “Library Assessment Toolkit & Dashboard Scoping Research Final Report and Path Forward." The report is the culmination of a six-month research project in collaboration with the University Library of the University of California, Davis; the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford; and the Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, Germany. The research project examined how libraries currently assess their resources and services, and areas of opportunity to streamline and visualize library performance through a common and customizable set of key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboard modules. The research team interviewed library assessment leaders and practitioners across diverse institutions and geographies, and reviewed the current landscape of technology, tools, and services addressing their needs. [Click and drag to move] ​​ The report concludes that "the majority of library managers approach assessment and evaluation in an ad hoc and reactive manner as questions arise. Managers spend valuable time manually collecting, cleaning, and normalizing data from diverse systems, and then perform one-time or static interpretations. The library managers that we interviewed during our research felt that the availability of a toolkit and dashboard could free them to probe and interpret more data, think more strategically, and develop more meaningful questions about measuring and evaluating library performance. While the scoping research focused on the performance of research libraries, the proposed toolkit and dashboard framework could be adopted and customized by any type of library, including smaller college and university libraries, community college libraries, and public libraries. Institutionalizing the project through sponsorship by an appropriate body or syndicate of libraries would help assure its extensibility nationally and internationally."

It is not new to say that the scholarly communication system is sick. One way to put it is that the publishers have built a paywall around the papers written by our faculty and make us librarians pay for it. For years, Open Access via the green and gold route have been touted as a joint solution. To this end, as academic librarians, we focused on building institutional repositories and getting open access mandates. However, recently, many prominent members of the open access community have begun to express doubts about the viability of institutional repositories as a solution given the lack of success. Some, like Stevan Harnad self-dubbed “Open Access Archivangelist” for Green Open access, claim to have given up, while others, like Eric Van de Velde, suggest that we rethink other ways to accomplish Green Open access beyond just institutional repositories. In this webinar, we will summarise all the arguments and attempt to give a librarian’s point of view about the future of IRs.

Presenter: Xiaoyan Song, Electronic Resource Librarian, NC State University Libraries As academic ebook business grows rapidly, opportunities and challenges arise out of this change. A wide range of systems and tools spring up aiming to assist librarians to manage ebooks in an efficient and streamlined fashion. Proprietary vendors are acquiring new technologies and products to integrate into their existing product line. Some community developed open source systems and tools become the rising stars due to the economic and budget pressures. Specific local needs result home-grown tools. Nevertheless, Librarians often find themselves get frustrated with the variety of choices presented in front of them, realizing that there is not a single magic bullet that can solve all their problems. Creative and critical thinking has become the norm as libraries seek an optimizing solution to mingle these options. And that is what’s essential to lego play! This session demonstrates how an interlocking approach is developed that integrates ILS, ERM, open source tools and a locally developed database to manage ebooks. It starts with an examination of the lego building process from a lego workshop that the presenter has recently attended, followed by the analogy between lego building and ebooks management. It provides a quick overview of the mainstream systems that the presenter’s home libraries are using, discussing the pain points within these mainstream systems. It elaborates on how open source tools and local developed tools are brought into the “lego building” process. Ebooks are dynamic in nature. Entailing with creative thinking and problem-solving skills, the interlocking approach allows us to embrace the changes with innumerable fun which we find in lego play.

Presented by Zena Mulligan, SUNCAT Project Officer for EDINA, at Internet Librarian International, London, 21 October 2014. Zena goes through the stages of the redevelopment of the SUNCAT online serials catalogue, moving from Ex Libris to Solr and improving the interface and functionality along the way.

Partnering to Improve Library Discovery Services: A Publisher’s Long-Term Commitment Julie Zhu, Manager, Discovery Service Relations, Marketing, Sales & Design, IEEE

Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting by Senior Program Officer, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and hosted by the University of Sydney in Sydney, NSW Australia, 17 February 2017. This meeting provided an opportunity for Research Library Partners to touch base with each other on issues of common concern and explore possible areas of future engagement with the OCLC Research Library Partnership and OCLC Research.

This document summarizes a presentation about developing best practices for demand-driven acquisition (DDA) of monographs. It defines DDA and discusses the need for standardized practices to help libraries, publishers, and vendors effectively implement DDA programs. The presentation outlines goals to develop a flexible DDA model, recommendations around access models, technology, and metrics, and addresses obstacles. It notes next steps will include surveys, focus groups, and interviews to inform the development of NISO recommended practices for DDA by December 2013.

In 2015, Radford University’s McConnell Library migrated to OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS), relinquishing three legacy systems in the process. As a result, many of the Collection and Technical Services Department’s workflows changed considerably beginning months before the contract was signed. An extensive temporary departmental focus on data clean-up and training was required while maintaining core duties. New opportunities for collaboration and communication emerged. In light of developing new workflows, Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians and Core Competencies for Print Serials Management were consulted in revising positions. This presentation focuses on the process, management, communication and outcomes involved in migrating to a new next-generation library management system. Kay Johnson, Head of Collection and Technical Services Jessica Ireland, Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian

Introduction to Wikidata for Friends of OpenGLAM, 13 May 2019, at the Bern University of Applied Sciences