Repurposing MARC Metadata for an Institu…

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Repurposing MARC Metadata for an Institutional Repository: Working with Special Collections and University Press Monographs :

“This paper describes the processes and workflows that transform Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) records found in The Ohio State’s University’s library catalog into Dublin Core records for digital resources batch loaded into the Knowledge Bank, The Ohio State University’s institutional repository. Two projects are described to illustrate the processes and workflows: the open access monographs of The Ohio State University Press and the oral history collections of The Ohio State University Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program.”

URL : https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/47564

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context …

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Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community :

“OCLC’s newest membership report, Perceptions of Libraries, 2010, a sequel to the 2005 Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources, is now available. The new report provides updated information and new insights into information consumers and their online habits, preferences, and perceptions. Particular attention was paid to how the current economic downturn has affected the information-seeking behaviors and how those changes are reflected in the use and perception of libraries.

This OCLC membership report explores:

  • Technological and economic shifts since 2005
  • Lifestyle changes Americans have made during the recession, including increased use of the library and other online resources
  • How a negative change to employment status impacts use and perceptions of the library
  • Perceptions of libraries and information resources based on life stage

The report is based on U.S. data from an online survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of OCLC. OCLC analyzed and summarized the results in order to produce this report.”

URL : http://www.oclc.org/us/en/reports/2010perceptions.htm

The State of Open Data in Europe

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Opening up government data to the public has been part of the European policy agenda since the introduction of the PSI directive in 2003. European Member States continue to lean towards a cautious approach of making their data available to citizens.

This is partly caused by conflicting legal frameworks, cultural norms and the idea to recover the costs of data production. At the same time and inspired by activities in the U.S. and UK, the open data movement has emerged in many countries around the globe. They have a simple demand: Government agencies should put as much of their data online as possible in a machine-readable format so that everyone can re-use it since they were paid for by taxes.

This study analyses the current state of the open data policy ecosystem and open government data offerings in nine European Member States. Since none of the countries studied currently offers a national open data
portal, this study compares the statistics offices’ online data offerings.

The analysis shows that they fulfill a number of open data principles but that there is still a lot of room for improvement. This study underlines that the development of data catalogues and portals should not be seen as means to an end.

URL : http://assets1.csc.com/de/downloads/CSC_policy_paper_series_01_2011_unchartered_waters_state_of_open_data_europe_English_2.pdf

Guide pratique de l’ouverture des donné…

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Guide pratique de l’ouverture des données publiques territoriales :

“L’ouverture des données publiques n’est pas une option pour les acteurs publics : elle est rendue obligatoire par des directives européennes et une législation française qui en a fait un droit opposable.

Mais cette ouverture constitue également, et surtout, une chance. En s’y engageant, les acteurs publics ont l’occasion de gagner en efficacité, de contribuer au développement économique et à l’amélioration de nombreux services aux habitants comme aux entreprises, de faire émerger des connaissances inédites sur un territoire, et enfin de partager les éléments de la décision publique avec une société civile qui le demande.

Il s’agit donc d’une véritable opportunité pour les territoires, qui plus est moins coûteuse et moins complexe qu’il n’y parait de prime abord. Chaque territoire la saisira à sa manière, en expérimentant et généralisant. Malgré tout, de nombreux éléments doivent être pris en compte : juridiques, techniques, économiques, organisationnels. Plusieurs territoires en Europe, et en France, montrent la voie : leur expérience a vocation à servir aux autres.

Ce Guide pratique s’inscrit dans la démarche d’accompagnement des territoires initiée par la FING autour de la Réutilisation des données publiques. Ce guide se donne pour objectifs d’apporter des éclairages et d’inviter les acteurs publics à agir. Des moyens, des outils sont déjà à portée de main, des initiatives existantes, en France comme à l’étranger, constituent déjà des bonnes pratiques, ou à tout le moins des sources d’enseignement.”

URL : http://www.reseaufing.org/pg/blog/openid_82/read/52200/guide-pratique-de-louverture-des-donnes-publiques-territoriales

Friends or Foes? Creative Commons, Freed…

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Friends or Foes? Creative Commons, Freedom of Information Law and the EU Framework for Re-Use of Public Sector Information :

“Public authorities keep vast amounts of information. Freedom of information (‘FOIA’) laws give the public rights of access to much public sector information. The spread of FOIAs across the globe testifies to their importance as instruments for enhancing democratic accountability. But access to public sector information not only serves political purposes. It is also thought to have economic benefits, enabling the development of new information products and services. This is the policy objective behind the EU Directive 2003/98 on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI Directive).

Despite popular belief to the contrary, much public sector information is subject to intellectual property rights. Both access to public sector information for democratic purposes and for economic purposes have implications for how intellectual property rights in information produced by governments are exercised. Rather curiously perhaps, FOIA’s are generally silent on the issue. Nor does the PSI Directive prescribe how public sector bodies should exercise any exlcusive rights in information. This paper explores the role of copyright policy in the light of the objectives and principles of both freedom of information law and the regulatory framework for re-use of public sector information. More specifically, it queries whether open content licenses like Creative Commons are indeed the attractive instrument they appear to be for public sector bodies that seek to enhance transparent access to their information, be it for purposes of democratic accountability or re-use for economic or other uses.”

URL : http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1722189

Supporting Science through the Interoper…

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Supporting Science through the Interoperability of Data and Articles :

“Whereas it is established practice to publish relevant findings of a research project in a scientific article, there are no standards yet as to whether and how to make the underlying research data publicly accessible. According to the recent PARSE.Insight study of the EU, over 84% of scientists think it is useful to link underlying digital research data to peer-reviewed literature.This trend is reinforced by funding bodies, who — to an increasing extent — require the grantees to deposit their raw datasets at freely accessible repositories. And also the publishing industry believes that raw datasets should be made freely accessible. This article presents an overview of how Elsevier as a scientific publisher with over 2,000 journals gives context to articles that are available on their full-text platform SciVerse ScienceDirect, by linking out to externally hosted data at the article level, at the entity level, and in a deeply integrated way. With this overview, Elsevier invites dataset repositories to collaborate with publishers to create an optimal interoperability between the formal scientific literature and the associated research data — improving the scientific workflow and ultimately supporting science.”

The Dataverse Network®: An Open-Source A…

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The Dataverse Network®: An Open-Source Application for Sharing, Discovering and Preserving Data :

“The Dataverse Network is an open-source application for publishing, referencing, extracting and analyzing research data. The main goal of the Dataverse Network is to solve the problems of data sharing through building technologies that enable institutions to reduce the burden for researchers and data publishers, and incentivize them to share their data. By installing Dataverse Network software, an institution is able to host multiple individual virtual archives, called “dataverses” for scholars, research groups, or journals, providing a data publication framework that supports author recognition, persistent citation, data discovery and preservation. Dataverses require no hardware or software costs, nor maintenance or backups by the data owner, but still enable all web visibility and credit to devolve to the data owner.”

URL : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january11/crosas/01crosas.html