From mgranahan at nfais.org Fri Mar 6 14:48:33 2015 From: mgranahan at nfais.org (Marcie Granahan) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:48:33 +0000 Subject: [nfais-l] Research Data Publication, Part I: The Current Landscape Message-ID: ==================================================================== NFAIS Webinar: Research Data Publication, Part I: The Current Landscape Date: Thursday, March 12, 2015 Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 pm (EST) Registration Information: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=463005&orgId=nfais ==================================================================== What's Covered: While the terms big data, open data and research data tend to be overused in the realm of buzzwords, this isn't the case in information services, as they're readily delivered in the government and commercial sectors. For content providers, database administrators, libraries and researchers, there is much need for discussion and collaboration on data mining as a research practice; the sharing, reuse and recombination of data sets; and the potential for developing new products and services. In this 90-minute webinar-the first part of a two-part series-attendees will learn more about: * Tapping institutional repositories, data management centers and commercial platforms (e.g., Figshare). * Working with government repositories (e.g., NAL, NSF, NIH). * Where research data can be discovered. * Accessibility of data in today's landscape. The first part of this NFAIS series on research data publication will be held on Thursday, March 12, 2015 as a 90-minute webinar, and provides an overview of the current landscape, identifies challenges, and where we are now on research data discovery. The discussion continues in Research Data Publication, Part II: The Complexities of Implementation on April 20, 2015, as a full-day hybrid workshop. Join us on Thursday, March 12, 2015 to hear Eefke Smit, Director, Standards and Technology, International Association of STM Publishers, and Todd Vision, Principal Investigator, Dryad Digital Repository, and Associate Director for Informatics, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on how the information services community can collaborate on big data, open data, and research data. ________________________________ To register or learn more about this event, go to http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=463005&orgId=nfais. For individual registrants, the cost of the webinar is $125 for NFAIS members, $150 for allied societies*, and $195 for non-members. Group rates for three or more attendees are also available. *Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, The Association of American University Presses, NISO, and ASIS&T. REGISTER NOW!! CONTACT: For more information on this event or any of those shown below, please contact Jill O'Neill, Director of Professional Development at 443-221-2980 ext. 102 or via email at jilloneill at nfais.org. UPCOMING NFAIS EVENTS March 27, 2015 - Making Content Portable, Making It Usable (Virtual Seminar) April 20, 2015 - Research Data Publication, Part II: The Complexities of Implementation (Hybrid One-Day Workshop) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Mon Mar 9 14:55:27 2015 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (Jill O'Neill) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 18:55:27 +0000 Subject: [nfais-l] Webinar (March 12) Research Data Publication Message-ID: <1425927342795.73889@nfais.org> Registration for this webinar will be closing at 5pm on Tuesday, March 12. ==================================================================== NFAIS Webinar: Research Data Publication, Part I: The Current Landscape Date: Thursday, March 12, 2015 Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 pm (EST) Registration Information:http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=463005&orgId=nfais Join us on Thursday, March 12, 2015 to hear Eefke Smit, Director, Standards and Technology, International Association of STM Publishers, and Todd Vision, Principal Investigator, Dryad Digital Repository, and Associate Director for Informatics, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on how the information services community can collaborate on big data, open data, and research data. ==================================================================== What's Covered: While the terms big data, open data and research data tend to be overused in the realm of buzzwords, this isn't the case in information services, as they're readily delivered in the government and commercial sectors. For content providers, database administrators, libraries and researchers, there is much need for discussion and collaboration on data mining as a research practice; the sharing, reuse and recombination of data sets; and the potential for developing new products and services. In this 90-minute webinar-the first part of a two-part series-attendees will learn more about: * Tapping institutional repositories, data management centers and commercial platforms (e.g., Figshare). * Working with government repositories (e.g., NAL, NSF, NIH). * Where research data can be discovered. * Accessibility of data in today's landscape. The first part of this NFAIS series on research data publication will be held on Thursday, March 12, 2015 as a 90-minute webinar, and provides an overview of the current landscape, identifies challenges, and where we are now on research data discovery. The discussion continues in Research Data Publication, Part II: The Complexities of Implementation on April 20, 2015, as a full-day hybrid workshop. ________________________________ To register or learn more about this event, go to http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=463005&orgId=nfais. For individual registrants, the cost of the webinar is $125 for NFAIS members, $150 for allied societies*, and $195 for non-members. Group rates for three or more attendees are also available. *Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, The Association of American University Presses, NISO, and ASIS&T. REGISTER NOW!! CONTACT: For more information on this event or any of those shown below, please contact Jill O'Neill, Director of Professional Development at 443-221-2980 ext. 102 or via email at jilloneill at nfais.org. 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URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Wed Mar 18 13:10:28 2015 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (Jill O'Neill) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:10:28 +0000 Subject: [nfais-l] Important NISO Announcement re Bibliographic Vocabulary Exchange Message-ID: <1426698633476.35445@nfais.org> NISO Launches New Projects to Develop Standards for Bibliographic Vocabulary Exchange Interested participants from libraries, library system vendors, A&I services, and developers or users of standardized vocabularies and metadata for describing resources are encouraged to contact NISO The voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved three new projects to develop standards to better support exchange and interoperability of bibliographic data. These projects were identified as high priorities in NISO's Bibliographic Roadmap pre-standards initiative, which was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The goal of that project was to collectively determine the needs and requirements of the new bibliographic framework in a global, networked information environment and to develop community consensus for a roadmap of activities needed in this space. Following the issuance of the Bibliographic Roadmap final report in April 2014, NISO's Content and Collection Management (CCM) Topic Committee evaluated the recommendations and prepared a new work item proposal focusing on three of the top prioritized areas: Vocabulary policies on use and reuse, Vocabulary documentation, and Vocabulary preservation requirements. "Differences in vocabularies and the communities that manage them are often seen to be a hurdle to interoperability," explains Marti Heyman, Executive Director, Metadata Standards and Services at Cengage Learning, and Co-Chair of the CCM Topic Committee. "Different vocabularies also present challenges because quality control, maintenance strategies, and usage policies vary across the sets. Provenance of vocabulary data is critical to understand the management needs of aggregated data as it ages and changes." "One barrier to vocabulary exchange and interoperability is the lack of policies relevant to use and re-use of vocabularies by organizations other than the owner or maintainer of the vocabulary," states Betty Landesman, Head of Technical Services and Content Management at University of Baltimore, Langsdale Library, and Co-Chair of the CCM Topic Committee. "Documentation of vocabularies is also important for their users, and a minimum set of information to be documented should be defined. Many vocabularies are developed under a short-term funded project and the long-term sustainability and preservation of the vocabulary is endangered when the project funding ends. Pathways forward for managing and supporting such "orphan" vocabularies need to be defined." "We are looking for a diversity of participants in these projects beyond just libraries," said Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Program Director. "In addition to libraries involved in the bibliographic framework design and implementation, we are encouraging organizations such as library system vendors, abstracting and indexing (A&I) services, and developers or users of standardized vocabularies and metadata for describing resources to volunteer their experts to help develop these new standards." The approved proposal for the vocabulary projects and the final report from the Bibliographic Roadmap project are available on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/topics/tl/BibliographicRoadmap/. 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Workflow has emerged as one of the most important needs of researchers, libraries, and other content providers. In this half-day virtual seminar, we'll explore the latest trends for facilitating access to quality information, improving workflow, and how to optimize presentation, delivery, and dissemination across the vast array of portable devices and platforms. ________________________________ **AGENDA** 11:15 - 11:20 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks (Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Professional Development) 11:20 am - 12:00 pm: Workflow Involving Multiple Devices: A Professional User's Perspective (Roger Schonfeld, Director, Library and Scholarly Communication Program, Ithaka S+R) Schonfeld is your typical power-user, whose position requires him to be on the road and online most of the time. As a researcher and industry professional, he needs immediate and seamless access to data and content. In this session, Schonfeld shares his professional experiences with apps and mobile platforms, the most important features in achieving a seamless workflow, and where the user experience can fall flat. 12:00 - 12:45 pm: Lunch Break 12:45 - 1:45 pm: Designing User Experiences with Portable Content (Jeff Lang, Platform Manager, Web Editions, The American Chemical Society; Ron Snyder, Director of Advanced Technologies, ITHAKA/JSTOR) Lang and Synder discuss the content provider's perspective, including usage data, user preferences, and statistics on how their customers are interacting with data. In this session, you'll learn how publishers are handling the need to make content portable and more usable through new functionalities, such as SNAP and Reflowit, and the benefits and drawbacks of using an app or hosting provider to meet the needs of the scholarly publisher, including financial considerations such as development costs and service fees. 1:45 - 2:45 pm: Making the Most of Mobile Information Platforms (Bill Detmer, MD, MSc, President Unbound Medicine; Alex Salkever, Head of Growth, Product Marketing and Business Development, Silk.co) In this session, you'll learn what two platform providers are doing to deliver an impactful mobile experience of publisher content, and the insight they've gained about content portability and usability along the way. Unbound Medicine is changing the way healthcare professionals answer clinical questions by providing clinicians with bedside access through award-winning mobile and web products using an end-to-end digital publishing platform and information architecture. Silk.co is a data publishing platform and interactive data visualization tool that is democratizing how raw data is published and viewed. Users can upload, visualize and publish their data to make a fully interactive site that engages users and encourages them to play with your data. 2:45 pm: Adjournment ________________________________ To register or learn more about this event, go to https://nfais.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=463013&orgId=nfais. Early Bird rate ends Monday, March 23, 2015. For individual registrants, the cost of the webinar is $345 for NFAIS members, $365 for allied societies*, and $395 for non-members. Group rates for three or more attendees are also available. *Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, The Association of American University Presses, NISO, and ASIS&T. REGISTER NOW!! CONTACT: For more information on this event or any of those shown below, please contact Jill O'Neill, Director of Professional Development at 443-221-2980 ext. 102 or via email at jilloneill at nfais.org. UPCOMING NFAIS EVENTS April 20, 2015 - Research Data Publication, Part II: The Complexities of Implementation (Hybrid One-Day Workshop) February 21 - 23, 2016 - NFAIS 2016 Annual Conference -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mgranahan at nfais.org Thu Mar 26 16:36:27 2015 From: mgranahan at nfais.org (Marcie Granahan) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:36:27 +0000 Subject: [nfais-l] Research Data Publication, Part II: The Complexities of Implementation Message-ID: ==================================================================== NFAIS One-Day Workshop: Research Data Publication, Part Two: The Complexities of Implementation Date: Monday, April 20, 2015 Time: 9:15 am - 4:00 pm (EDT) Location: The Hub Commerce Square, 2001 Market Street, #210, Philadelphia, PA Registration Information: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=463029&orgId=nfais ==================================================================== What's Covered: The demands for data - accessibility, needed funding and as a reusable resource - are greater than ever. But there are real barriers to accessing data, as well as resistance to the sharing of proprietary data. This is just the tip of the iceberg in regard to their importance to publishers, content providers, libraries and the scholarly research community. In this one-day Workshop, NFAIS is gathering together a variety of information community experts to present and share new ideas around the complexities (as well as concerns and challenges) of research data publication in today's fast-evolving technology era. Attendees of this workshop will delve into a range of issues including: * Practical challenges of making publication of research data available to a market or a community * Policies around the discoverability of data * Need to reduce administrative burdens on researchers * Data mining as a standard research practice * The reproducibility and reusability of data ________________________________ **AGENDA** 9:15 - 9:20 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks (Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Professional Development) 9:20 - 10:00 am: The Current Landscape of Research Data Publication (David Martinsen, Senior Scientist, ACS) Martinsen opens the NFAIS Workshop summarizing "Research Data Publication, Part One: The Current Landscape," an NFAIS webinar from March 12, 2015. Martinsen's introduction further expands on that event by giving attendees a common sense of where we are at this point in time on the overall issues surrounding research data publication. 10:00 - 10:30 am: Barriers and Resistance to Sharing of Data (Cathy Giffi, Director, Strategic Market Analysis, Global Research, Wiley) Giffi will share the results of Wiley's 2014 survey of 90,000 researchers globally on their data-sharing practices and preferences. Wiley's Researcher Data Insights Survey found 52% of researchers globally share their data but mostly do so in informal, non-permanent ways. Giffi will delve into the meaning of the survey's broad set of results and share insights into the challenges scholarly research communities face in driving more sharing - as well as proper curation and preservation - of quality research data. 10:30 - 10:45 am: Break 10:45 am - 12:15 pm: Product Development and the Management of Data Sets (Richard Huffine, Independent Consultant and Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union) Huffine and Hanson, both of whom are immersed in the world of data publication and management, are leading experts in the complex issues facing researchers today in regard to data accessibility and discoverability. Both speakers will touch on the current environment around management of data sets. They'll also cover issues surrounding data mining, such as challenges researchers face in gaining access to proprietary data sets. And they'll discuss the growing imperative within the information community to build data discoverability by defining responsibility for inputting metadata within data sets. 12:15 - 1:00 pm: Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 pm: Setting New Policies and Procedures (Laurie Goodman, Publisher, GigaScience and Laura Paglione, Technical Director, ORCID) Laurie Goodman and Laura Paglione are both, in complementary ways, on the frontlines of efforts to advance the scholarly research community through improving access to quality information and research. Goodman and Paglione will tackle current trends and issues in regard to policies around the preservation and integrity of data in published research. Their topic set includes discussion on whether there's a need to establish liability in the reuse of data (especially in cases where the reuse occurs without permission). They'll also share their insights on the nature of provenance tracking of data to help validate that data sets are untainted with a clear chains of custody. 2:30 - 2:45 pm: Break 2:45 - 4:00 pm: Mandating Usage of Relevant, Quality Data Sets (Megan Force, Digital Research Analyst-Physical Science, Thomson Reuters; Other Speakers TBA) With research funding more than ever tied to demonstrating work that is relevant, the information community continues to grapple with the need to develop a framework of metrics to assess the influence and impact of ongoing research. Thomson Reuters' Megan Force will talk about this issue in the context of establishing links into new data sets, determining where they're hosted and then measuring their relative quality for data citation and sharing. 4:00 pm: Closing Remarks and Adjournment ________________________________ To register or learn more about this event, go to http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=463029&orgId=nfais. Early Bird rate ends Friday, April 10, 2015. Registration for on-site participation is $395 for NFAIS members, $415 for allied societies*, and $445 for non-members. For virtual-only registration, the cost is $345 for NFAIS members, $365 for allied societies*, and $395 for non-members. Group rates for three or more attendees are also available for virtual registration. *Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, The Association of American University Presses, NISO, and ASIS&T. REGISTER NOW!! CONTACT: For more information on this event or any of those shown below, please contact Jill O'Neill, Director of Professional Development at 443-221-2980 ext. 102 or via email at jilloneill at nfais.org. UPCOMING NFAIS EVENTS February 21 - 23, 2016 - NFAIS 2016 Annual Conference -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: