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

    • Internet Archive and Wayback Machine

    • OAISTER at Michigan

    • 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

  • synching various tools

  • 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

  • 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.