*2016-09-30 RM Notes

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Last updated: Jan 03, 2017 by Kristin Martin
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Continued discussion of resource landscape

  • Jacob presented a diagram that categorized different types of research objects into three categories: private, closed network, and public
  • Libraries focus a lot on closed access publications (journals, books, etc.) and the resource management field (especially ERM) is often defined by this
  • Jacob's interviews have suggested that researchers are very interested in discovering private and closed network information such as research notes and works in progress
  • How can the library go beyond providing discovery and delivery of traditional resources and expand to include these types of materials?
  • We need to make sure that information is shared only with researchers' permission
  • Crowdsourcing will be essential, as every library can't manage these resources itself
  • Potential high-level solutions include:
    • Helping researchers acquire IDs for their research output
    • Developing a repository of article- (or individual unit-) level metadata to support discovery
    • Helping researchers take advantage of tools for networking within and across different citation management systems (e.g., Mendeley, Papers)
    • Using individual researchers search history to inform future research
  • Some existing projects in this space:
    • Big Heads subgroup is looking into direct data sharing outside of OCLC
    • hbz is sharing its union catalog data and the German National Library its catalog data under CC licenses
    • linked data project of the German National Library http://www.dnb.de/EN/lds
    • lobid is a linked data service for library data operated by hbz / lobid = linking open bibliographic data http://lobid.org/

User stories – We ran out of time for this, but will pick up next week

Upcoming FOLIO Forum 

  • Jacob will share some documentation on the Discuss list after the forum, including graphics and a short summary
  • Goal is to give people something to respond to and a place to continue discussion

Possible in-person meeting

  • Proposed dates are Nov. 28-29
  • Proposed location is MIT in Boston, MA.
  • We need to develop a fuller agenda and goals so that we know who needs to attend and so that people can justify funding
  • Kim, Jacob, and Filip will meet during the week to begin work on this