From blawlor at nfais.org Fri Feb 1 10:13:51 2013 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:13:51 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] DIGITAL HUMANTIES ARTICLE NOW AVAILABLE Message-ID: <011b01ce008e$be6eede0$3b4cc9a0$@org> ARTICLE ON DIGITAL HUMANITIES AVAILABLE FOR FREE ACCESS UNTIL MARCH 31ST The Journal of Library Administration Releases a Special Issue on Digital Humanities Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, is pleased to present a special issue from the Journal of Library Administration entitled "Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement." This important issue of the Journal of Library Administration, guest edited by Barbara Rockenbach from Columbia University, examines the current and potential role of libraries in the emerging area of digital humanities. While the literature is vast, there are few publications that address the intersection of libraries and digital humanities. The collection of articles featured in this special issue put libraries and librarians in the center of the discussion, rather than on its margins. Several themes emerge in this issue that help guide library leaders involved in, or considering support for, digital humanities or digital scholarship including: * Contexts surrounding digital humanities in libraries and support for these activities. * Human resources and relationship building, rather than technology at the core of digital humanities support. * Tension between traditional notions of library service and new models of user engagement. * The fact that digital humanities as a field has matured faster than support structures within libraries. The authors come from a range of institutions, medium to large public research universities, large private research institutions and a public library. This diversity of voices illustrates the varied landscape of Digital Humanities in libraries and the great number of opportunities for supporting this emerging trend in scholarship. For a limited time, Routledge is offering a complimentary article from this issue: Evolving in Common: Creating Mutually Supportive Relationships between Libraries and the Digital Humanities, Micah Vandegrift and Stewart Varner. Access this article for free until March 31, 2013. To learn more about the Journal of Library Administration and to purchase this special issue, "Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement," visit: www.tandfonline.com/WJLA For more information, please contact: Tara Golebiewski, Marketing Associate - Taylor & Francis Group (Philadelphia, PA) Tel: (215) 606-4199 Email: tara.golebiewski at taylorandfrancis.com ********************************* About Routledge Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group. 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URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Mon Feb 4 09:44:51 2013 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:44:51 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS-NISO Recommended Practices for online Supplemental Journal Article Materials Message-ID: <014301ce02e6$30671a40$91354ec0$@org> NFAIS and NISO Publish Recommended Practices for Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials Philadelphia, PA & Baltimore, MD - February 4, 2013 -The National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have published a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials (NISO RP-15-2013). Supplemental materials are increasingly being added to journal articles, but until now there has been no recognized set of practices to guide in the selection, delivery, discovery, and preservation of these materials. To address this gap, NISO and NFAIS jointly sponsored an initiative to establish best practices that would provide guidance to publishers and authors for management of supplemental materials and would address related problems for librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators. The Supplemental Materials project involved two teams working in tandem: one to address business practices and one to focus on technical issues. This new publication is the combined outcome of the two groups' work. "A key aspect of these recommendations is the distinction between what we define as Integral Content, which is content that is essential for the full understanding of the journal article, and what we have designated Additional Content, which provides relevant and useful expansion of the article's content," explains Marie McVeigh, Director, JCR and Bibliographic Policy, Thomson Reuters, and co-chair of the Business Working Group. "As this Recommended Practice makes clear," states Linda Beebe, co-chair of the Business Working Group who recently retired as Senior Director, PsycINFO, American Psychological Association, "Integral Content and Additional Content are likely to be treated differently throughout the entire lifecycle of a scientific article." "Ensuring effective access, use, and long-term preservation of supplemental materials to journal articles requires up-front planning about persistent identifiers, metadata, file formats, and packaging," explained David Martinsen, Senior Scientist, Digital Publishing Strategy, American Chemical Society, and co-chair of the Technical Working Group. "These technical recommendations for handling of supplemental materials simplify much of that planning and decision-making, and will also ensure a standardized approach across publishers and publishing platforms," affirmed Alexander ('Sasha') Schwarzman, Content Technology Architect with OSA - The Optical Society, and co-chair of the Technical Working Group. "Supplemental materials are appearing with increasing frequency and can no longer be effectively managed on a case-by-case basis," Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director, stated. "This new Recommended Practice will provide a consistent approach for publishers to use in handling these materials. Ensuring discovery, access, and preservation of these materials is in the interests not only of the authors and publishers, but also of the library community and end users." "Electronic media and the Web have changed the nature of journal articles and what can be delivered along with the article," asserts Bonnie Lawlor, NFAIS Executive Director. "What hasn't changed is that the journal article constitutes the scholarly record and today's practices for handling them and their supporting materials must ensure that the information is available to future researchers. What is published outside the article as Supplemental Materials today may well be incorporated into a new type of article tomorrow." The Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, a metadata schema, a tag library, and tagged examples are available from the NISO website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental. About NFAIS Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a membership organization of more than 60 of the world's leading producers of databases and related information services, information technology, and library services in the sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, and the arts and humanities. For more information on NFAIS and its member organizations, contact Jill O'Neill, Director of Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org or (215)-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS web site (www.nfais.org About NISO NISO fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). More information about NISO is available on its website: www.niso.org. For More Information, Contact: Nettie Lagace NISO Phone: 301-654-2512 Email : nlagace at niso.org Jill O'Neill NFAIS Phone: 215-893-1561 E-mail: jilloneill at nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Wed Feb 6 17:09:48 2013 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:09:48 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Annual Conference - Registration Still Open Message-ID: <00e401ce04b6$ae245a20$0a6d0e60$@org> NFAIS 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: REGISTRATION STILL OPEN There is still time to register for the 2013 NFAIS Annual Conference, In Search of Answers: Unlocking New Value from Content. The meeting is scheduled to take place from February 24-26, 2013 at the historic Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA. The final program and registration form can be accessed at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference. Just a few of the organizations that will be discussing how they are unlocking new value through data aggregation and mining and through the application of analytics, metrics, visualization tools and artificial intelligence are: Elsevier (smart content), Gale-Cengage (analytics), Outsell, Inc. (New Survey results on creating value with metrics and analytics), Oxford University (unlocking the value of audio collections), University of Hertfordshire (text mining the humanities), Thomson Reuters IP & Science (data citation index), McGraw Hill Construction (from data to business intelligence), JSTOR (the challenge of big data), Harvard University (visualizing astronomy articles in the sky), Narrative Science (automated narrative generation), TEMIS (semantics), and Thomson Corporate R&D (computational approaches to intelligent information). Tools for the measurement of value will also be discussed by Plum Analytics (alternative metrics), Macmillan's Digital Science (metrics for context), and OpenX (maximizing content value in digital networks), while a panel of experts from the University of Michigan, Elsevier, Drexel University and Mendeley will discuss how publishers, librarians, and users need to work together to develop reasonable and practical policies on privacy, intellectual property and security that will support efforts required to create new value. >From an opening keynote by David Weinberger on creating knowledge in an age of connectedness all the way through to the closing keynote by Frank Stein who will look at IBM's Watson and the future role that artificial intelligence and big data will play in transforming content into knowledge, the conference will provide an interesting look at how far we have progressed from delivering information to the ultimate goal of providing actionable amswers. The special members-only event this year will feature Michael Cairns, President, Information Media Partners, who will present his annual predictions for publishing and media (prior registration required). To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. phone: 215-893-1561; fax: 215-893-1564; email: nfais at nfais.org; web site: http:www.nfais.org NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Mon Feb 11 11:42:27 2013 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:42:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nfais-l] NISO and OAI Release Draft for Comments of ResourceSync Message-ID: <1360600947.095829276@webmail.nfais.org> NISO and OAI Release Draft for Comments of ResourceSync Framework Specification The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) announce the release of a beta draft for comments of the ResourceSync Framework Specification for the web detailing various capabilities that a server can implement to allow third-party systems to remain synchronized with its evolving resources. Feedback to this version of the specification is solicited and can be shared by March 15, 2013 on the ResourceSync Google Group. The ResourceSync joint project, funded with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and JISC, was initiated to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronization of Web resources. ?Increasingly, large-scale digital collections are available from multiple hosting locations, are cached at multiple servers, and leveraged by several services,? explains Herbert Van de Sompel, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, OAI Executive, and Co-chair of the ResourceSync Working Group. ?Since Web resources are continually changing, this proliferation of content yields the challenging problem of keeping services that leverage a server?s evolving content synchronized in a timely and accurate manner. As we move from a Web of documents to a Web of data, synchronization becomes even more important: decisions made based on unsynchronized or incoherent scientific or economic data can have serious deleterious impact.? ?The OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) 2.0 specification can be used to effectively synchronize the metadata about the resources,? states Simeon Warner, Director, IT Application Development, Cornell University, ?but synchronizing the resources themselves was never specified. Although some resource synchronization methods exist, they are generally ad hoc, arranged by the individuals involved, and cannot be universally deployed.? ?This ResourceSync draft specification introduces a range of easy to implement capabilities that a server may support in order to enable remote systems to remain more tightly in step with its evolving resources,? describes Michael L. Nelson, Associate Professor, Old Dominion University Computer. ?It also describes how a server can advertise the capabilities it supports. Remote systems can inspect this information to determine how best to remain aligned with the evolving data. All capabilities are implemented on the basis of the document formats introduced by the Sitemap protocol. Capabilities can be combined to achieve varying levels of functionality and hence meet different local or community requirements.? ?We expect this new standard will save a tremendous amount of time, effort, and resources by repository managers through the automation of the replication and updating process,? states Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. ?The end result will be to increase the general availability of content in Web repositories and alleviate the variety of problems created by out-dated, inaccurate, superseded content that exists on the Internet today.? The draft specification is available on the OAI website at: [http://www.openarchives.org/rs/] www.openarchives.org/rs/. Comments on the draft can be posted on the public discussion forum at: [https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/resourcesync] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/resourcesync. Group discussions are openly accessible; posting requires group membership. Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization [mailto:chodgson at niso.org] chodgson at niso.org [tel:301-654-2512] 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Mon Feb 18 14:00:00 2013 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:00:00 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] Registration Closing for NFAIS 2013Annual Conference Message-ID: <011301ce0e0a$270628e0$75127aa0$@org> NFAIS 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: REGISTRATION CLOSES THIS WEEK Registration will close at 12:00pm EST this coming Friday (February 22, 2013) for the 2013 NFAIS Annual Conference, In Search of Answers: Unlocking New Value from Content. The meeting is scheduled to take place from February 24-26, 2013 at the historic Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA. The final program and registration form can be accessed at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference. >From an opening keynote by David Weinberger on creating knowledge in an age of connectedness all the way through to the closing keynote by Frank Stein who will look at IBM's Watson and the future role that artificial intelligence and big data will play in transforming content into knowledge, the conference will provide an interesting look at how far we have progressed from delivering information to the ultimate goal of providing actionable amswers. The special members-only event this year will feature Michael Cairns, President, Information Media Partners, who will present his annual predictions for publishing and media (prior registration required). Just a few of the organizations that will be discussing how they are unlocking new value through data aggregation and mining and through the application of analytics, metrics, visualization tools and artificial intelligence are: Elsevier (smart content), Gale-Cengage (analytics), Outsell, Inc. (New Survey results on creating value with metrics and analytics), Oxford University (unlocking the value of audio collections), University of Hertfordshire (text mining the humanities), Thomson Reuters IP & Science (data citation index), McGraw Hill Construction (from data to business intelligence), JSTOR (the challenge of big data), Harvard University (visualizing astronomy articles in the sky), Narrative Science (automated narrative generation), TEMIS (semantics), and Thomson Corporate R&D (computational approaches to intelligent information). Tools for the measurement of value will also be discussed by Plum Analytics (alternative metrics), Macmillan's Digital Science (metrics for context), and OpenX (maximizing content value in digital networks) while a panel of experts from the University of Michigan, Elsevier, Drexel University and Mendeley will discuss how publishers, librarians, and users need to work together to develop reasonable and practical policies on privacy, intellectual property and security that will support efforts required to create new value. To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. phone: 215-893-1561; fax: 215-893-1564; email: nfais at nfais.org; web site: http:www.nfais.org NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Thu Feb 28 10:45:05 2013 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:45:05 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] Research report - How Teachers use technology Message-ID: <00b901ce15ca$947fe5b0$bd7fb110$@org> NEW RESEARCH REPORT RELEASED The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has released a new report, "How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms" - the results of partnership between Pew Research, the College Board, and the National Writing Project. You may find it of interest. 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