Walk this way: Online content platform migration experiences and collaboration

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.

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).

Finding the time and resources to do all the ongoing authority work you'd like to do is nearly impossible! Join our co-presenters to hear about their local best practices for developing sustainable authority work processes.

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 session will discuss the knowledge base metadata lifecycle, current and upcoming metadata standards, and the effect that knowledge bases have on discovery and e-resource management. The presenters will look at ways knowledge bases can be leveraged to create downstream tools for resource management and discovery. The session will also provide different perspectives on knowledge bases, including from librarians and product managers, as well as a discussion of the NISO's KBART Automation recommended practice and what this could mean for knowledge bases in the future. The session will also include a conversation regarding how leveraging knowledge bases can aid librarians in improving resource discovery within their own libraries and ultimately decrease the amount of time spent on metadata workflows. Through this presentation, we also aim to improve communication between the library community and metadata providers and creators. Elizabeth Levkoff Derouchie, Metadata Librarian for Serials & Electronic Resources, Samford University Library Beth Ashmore, Associate Head, Acquisitions & Discovery (Serials), North Carolina State University Eric Van Gorden, Product Manager, EBSCO

Next Steps and Recommendations for Future Work of NISO's Discovery to Delivery Committee Scott Bernier, Senior Vice President, Marketing, EBSCO

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.

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.

This document discusses challenges related to curating and providing access to open access collections. It outlines the author's institution's response which involves curating and vetting open access resources using a rubric. Some things that are working well include continued ingestion and discoverability. Areas for improvement include increasing automation for metadata and tracking usage. Going forward, the author proposes fully integrating open access into digital library collections and exploring additional access points, while continuing to focus on metadata and tracking for open access resources.

This talk focused on the status of the NISO Link Origin Tracking Initiative, given at the NISO Standards Update at ALA Annual Conference 2016. The presenter was Nettie Lagace of NISO

This presentation by Judith Coffey Russell, Dean of University Libraries, University of Florida and Alicia Wise, Director of Universal Access, Elsevier describes expanding access to publications by University of Florida authors through the university's institutional repository using ScienceDirect supplied data and links. See the webcast at https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9995/125071.

Presenter: Andrew Kelly, Cataloging & E-Resources Librarian, Paul Smith's College This poster has two accompanying handouts: https://www.slideshare.net/NASIG/a-snake-a-planet-and-a-bear-ditching-spreadsheets-handout1 and https://www.slideshare.net/NASIG/a-snake-a-planet-and-a-bear-ditching-spreadsheets-handout2slides.

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.

Opening Keynote Presentation: The Future of Library Resource Discovery Marshall Breeding, Independent Library Consultant

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."

This presentation was provided by Ellen Bishop of the Florida Virtual Campus for the NISO webinar, Integrating Library Management Systems, held on June 8, 2016

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

Despite tedious preparation by librarians, publishers, and vendors, content platform migrations are rarely seamless. The NISO Content Platform Migration Working Group was formed to address these stakeholder challenges. This session will feature librarian and publisher migration perspectives and close with the Working Group’s plans for improving this experience.

Online content has become the norm in modern libraries, with a large percentage of our collection hosted on vendor-controlled web-based content platforms. Content platforms provide tools for searching, viewing and interacting with content, and may provide a variety of additional functionality. Vendors continuously strive to improve their platforms and periodically transition from one platform to another. While new platforms can improve user experience, expand and hone functionality, and increase security, the migrations involve a lot of work and can be disruptive, affecting end-users, librarians, publishers and service vendors.

Our NGA library speakers discuss their procedures and challenges in providing digitized content from their collections via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), an initiative led by the world's leading research libraries. It is an open source, community-driven technology that aims to provide application programming interfaces (APIs) that support viewing, comparing, manipulating, and annotating images from a variety of repositories. The NGA Library made the decision to implement IIIF alongside its new library system, Ex Libris. Alma and Primo VE products, and our speakers discuss the technical procedures required to integrate the IIIF APIs with the Primo VE discovery client and Alma, the cloudbased library services platform. Members of the NISO Content Platform Migration workgroup discuss their recommended practices document to guide publishers, platform vendors, and librarians through content migrations. Hear about the problems encountered in migrations and the recommendations to make them progress smoothly.

The Content Platform Migrations Working Group was formed to address the increasing number of platform migrations in the publishing and library communities. With publishers migrating every 5-10 years, content platform vendors migrating 5-10 times per year, and librarians experiencing over 10 migrations per year, there is a lack of coordination and communication between stakeholders. The working group aims to develop recommended practices to standardize migration processes and improve communications before, during, and after migrations through stakeholder interviews, guidelines, checklists, and a communications plan to minimize disruptions to users.