Future Considerations
FACTORS
Larger domains beyond peer review
WWW materials - deep web harvesting and indexing does not exist (30% coverage)
media metadata - difficult to metadata describe and mine
dynamic data - processed data does not already exist to discover (ICPSR)
hybrid data - some elements free and others behind firewalls (Open Access articles), resolver issues
Open Archives initiative - federated preprint searching
OpenDOAR - searches repositories
ARC - a centralized approach to search interdisciplinary Eprint Archives
CORE - search federated open access research papers
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) - a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 44 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components.
GreyLit Network - over 100,000 recent scientific and technical reports by the US Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
CORE - federated search and APIs for Open Access materials
NSDL portal (a digital library of exemplary science resource collections and services)
CogPrints - a centralized approach to Cognitive Science Archive
CrossRef Search - free, full-text interpublisher searchability, a group of 45 journal publishers
Google Scholar - searches metadata across major journals
ICPSR - a clearinghouse of political and social sciences data
NESTAR - web search of raw data bases and visual manipulation
Dimensions includes citations, altmetrics, grants, and other metadata elements
Federated/harvested search tools
federated requires prior indexing (for-fee or free sources)
federated has response time issues (scalability, as in resolver checking prior to showing fulltext availability)
harvested has lag time issues (for ingest and processing time), but deeper searchability
harvested has limitations to structured/field searching and faceted results
Swamping: best materials included, but not emphasized ... customized weighted parameter profiles for disciplines?
Navigation and filtering
from search and discover to filter and navigate
assisted navigation (suggested headings, find similar, citation linking, semantic analysis, disambiguation)
AI learned behaviors and suggestions
intuitive interfaces for manipulating faceted results (WoS citation maps)
Iodyne screen - non-linear windows interface
Canary database - prototype for assistance facets
CiteSeer - sophisticated links to computer science preprints
Emblematica - semantic "triplet" value linking by meanings
dataTXT - generates links to outside entities from textual material
meta -- search and navigation built upon AI, with visualizations
Emblematica -- UIUC searching of embedded images with metadata
QDA Miner tutorial for data mining
Tools such as NVIVO and free alternatives to NVIVO will assist with coding and analyzing text and other types of materials.
Consider using the free Tableau-Public tool to generate powerful visualizations that allow you to analyze your data in real-time.
Yewno search visualization tool for graphing aspects of text (tutorials)
Open Knowledge Maps - provides graphic clusters of search results
Library Explorer - visual shelves fro library searching
Visualizations
AI hedges and customization
hierarchies as dynamic search tools
historigrams of impact and research front development (Google Scholar article histories: h-index, i-index, graph)
concept spaces for attributes rather than meaning (beyond semantics - characters as symbols of attributes)
Yahoo!Axis - visual browser results rather than text links (also Bing for iPad)
Visual Net - Don Beagle's Belmont Abbey College graphic library interface
Worldmapper - cartographic representations of various data also see Election Maps
Francis Bacon Network (six Degrees of Francis Bacon)
GapMinder - demo of life expectancy chart and graph
proteopedia - encyclopedia with 3D elements
JAIR information space - MIT visual mapping of references
Woodchipper - analyzes and displays text relationships
Many Eyes - demonstrates visualization possibilities
TopicGraph - visualize key concepts in a document and link to text instances
agentland - a clearinghouse for intelligent agents
Open Knowledge Maps - visual results across a set of scientific OA journals
StackLife - Harvard visualization of their collection use data with personalization options
OpenGeoSci (http://opengeosci.org) map-based discovery interface providing geographic searching for more than 300,000 maps, cross-sections, charts, tables, and other high-value content from GeoScienceWorld (GSW) publications.
AcademyScope - watch a video detailing the design and programming of the AcademyScope visual representation of subject navigation among books.
Viewshare - create search and view web sites from captured data/spreadsheets
Sizzle creates interactive visualizations from your static data sets
Deaths of Shakespeare pie chart
Bloomberg U.S. land use maps - displays of percentages of land used for various services/activities
arXiv -- preprint server for various science fields (includes the visual Connected papers tool within the Related papers tab)
Personal and organizational Knowledge Management
beyond citations to WWW materials (Zotero, diigo, SharePoint)
comments, highlights, sharing
capture of scraped files, images, links, data
RSS and autoalerts
timelines/lifelines
DiRT - Digital Research Tools Wiki - portal to help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences)
Zotero - media capture/OCR, search, highlight, and citation tool
iAnnotate personal document annotation tool
diigo - shared, highlighted, post-it notes; diigo jing demo
Researcher Journal Finder - helps academics to find, store, and organize academic papers
PubChase recommendations and citation/PDF km on the cloud for biomed materials
Evernote personal note and image filing and retrieval (with auto-OCR within images)
Devonthink - Mac tool that coordinates and facilitates knowledge capture, organization, and sharing
lifestreams - exploration of life experiences to tag a timeline
quosa - organization/enterprise aggregator Quosa Demo 1: Concept extraction and fetching full-articles for selected abstracts
Audacity - easy audio editing
Popcorn Maker - allows for easy mashing of video and media materials
Viewshare - create search and view web sites from captured data/spreadsheets
Tabula -- a tool to extract data from PDFs
Nozbe time and task management software for projects, with tracking, sharing and assignment of responsibilities
Outwit - allows for easy capture of materials, links, data elements (Outwit Hub web content capture software video)
Data Scraper - allows for scraping data from web pages
Open Refine allows cell data values to be captured, manipulated and enhanced
Authorea - allows for shared authoring, but requires a fee for private collaborations
hypothes.is - collaborative annotation tool
Open Science Framework (OSF) project management tool
sciencescape - a user-oriented discovery, recommendation, and collaboration tool
Impactstory profile - visual altmetrics data
IFTTT links data across platforms
JupyterLab - allows data, code, visualizations to be run and shared
Crowdsourcing
A method of utilizing amateur contributions to help describe large amounts of hidden data.
A few example projects include
Zooniverse attempts to describe astronomical and scientific objects. (Anti-Slavery Manuscripts example)
What's the Score the Bodleian Libraries music collection of over four thousand digitised scores, mostly piano music from the nineteenth century, many of which have illustrated covers, are now available online for metadata creation.
Remember Me? the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provides photographs of young survivors for volunteers to help identify.
Linked Jazz creates links between jazz information discovered within oral histories
LibraryThing recommends books based upon variables
Goodreads stores book reviews across populations, allows searching, exploration, group space
WhichBook recommends books based upon variables
whatshouldireadnext - reader's advisory
F1000Prime recommendation and aware service provided by expert reader/reviewers
PubChase recommendations and citation/PDF km on the cloud for biomed materials
Learning spaces, collaboration, mashing
group study and display collaboration workstations
group shared workspaces Interactive Table
media/podcasting workstations
teleconference/transmission studios
Zoom, join.me, or Screenleap.com - collaboration software with screen sharing, chat, (whiteboard, VOIP), etc.
Padlet provides shared simultaneous workspace sticky notes and attachments
Data and digital platforms
permissions/rights (time-dependent firewalls)
PREMIS metadata - manifestations and changes to historical relationships
dynamic data - capture and save processed data? (Versions to recreate known and available ... imagine historical analysis of encyclopedias)
who creates the metadata - how clean, how hierarchical, how labor-intensive? (GIS projects) GeoReferencer crowdsourcing
Functionality and calibration
emulation or migration? (gaming platforms)
error checking and authority checking over time (deep static archive = LOCKSS vs dynamic service = Portico)
Code books for re-use after re-calibration (NASA Terrabytes of satellite data)
seamless links to heterogeneous databases (coded connections or on-the-fly author selected actions from stored CSS metadata options?)
Institutional Repositories and centers of excellence; NSF DMPs
redundancy vs regional/discipline centers
local materials
normalized metadata/ontologies for cross-discipline searching
multiple platforms with seamless portal
FEDORA - open source IR envelope
Media blind support
integration into existing subject funds/operations or segregation? (Reserves model)
merged access points to various versions (FRBR) complex holdings screen
Displays and touch augmented options
floor guides for finding materials/service areas
tutorials and visual/audio presentations
QR codes to find online tools in LC/Dewey ranges
online exhibit histories for exploring hot topics/services (Maps exhibits)
dynamic representations of historical use data
Interesting tests
CYBERSTACKS LCSH arrangement, also see Net Projects updates on various info technologies
Faculty of 1000 - BioMed Central reviewer recommendations
PLoS ONE - PLoS test of annotations and related links
Visual Net Don Beagle's Belmont Abbey College graphic library interface
ebrary Title Preview - search across all metadata for ordering options
dataTXT - generates links to outside entities from textual material
pubpub is an MIT Press platform that explores new approaches to scholarly publication and associated support methods.
TRENDS
Blended buildings
multiple services (convenience)
symbiotic enhanced services (integration of IT and info fluency)
increased use of all services
flexibility for public events
PDA: just-in-time seamless delivery
from Approval plans to PDA (real-time seamless books) using deep ebook searching -- ebrary search
from journal subscriptions to seamless document delivery across publishers: (rolling credit), Tiered pricing, e-print Moderator model
alternative: aggregators for popular UG materials (articles and e-books)
Consortia: profiles, trusted repositories
reduce duplicates for little used books
weed duplicate paper journal with trusted repositories
weed duplicate journals with online versions and trusted paper repositories
weed microfilm when there are trusted repositories and/or seamless document delivery options
e-book purchases based upon Core and centers of excellence approach = broader coverage
SQI continual assessment and ROI
capture use data and descriptive data for analysis (expertise, subject, tech needs)
analyze all services compared to industry benchmarks
create re-usable FAQ systems (when appropriate)
reconsider service points based upon types of use
reconsider staffing patterns based upon types of use
Disruptive influences: OA and embargoes flexible, agile, embedded support
Open Access and hybrid issues (CrossRef as second resolver?)
Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search and resolvers/validators (example: MAS Author disambiguation)
Google and Bing as first choice portals
publisher direct contact with editors/scholars
answers by experts competition (?) services for free or for a fee
From control to manipulation: Tagging -- folksonomies, crowd-sourcing
clean data vs lots of data
controlled vocabulary and free text
quality control and iterative public checking
embedding into our tools (reader's advisory, current terminology)
normalization across communities (ontologies)
Not the same traditional library, we now ...
Help create,
Help interact,
Help filter and analyze,
Help organize and maintain e-portfolios,
Integrate special collections and archives primary material,
Serve as a group study space,
Are integrated into online learning spaces (ReggieNet),
Embedded into discipline workspaces.
David Stern
Updated: February 5, 2021