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L’évaluation des publications scientifiques du facteur d’impact à…
L’évaluation des publications scientifiques : du facteur d’impact à l’indice de notoriété :
“Les différentes modalités d’évaluation, “classiques” et en émergence, des publications scientifiques: les modalités traditionnelles de l’évaluation des revues : “facteur d’impact” du JCR, associé à l’évaluation individuelle du SCI (Science Citation Index)… ; mécanismes, acteurs, importance, enjeux… de l’évaluation standard de la littérature scientifique. les nouvelles modalités d’évaluation de l’impact des revues et publications : par les moteurs de recherche (Google Scholar), sur les entrepôts en Open Access (CiteBase et autres statistiques sur les archives ouvertes, revues en ligne…), les enquêtes et autres recensements disciplinaires (CNRS, Faculty of 1000) etc. ; les figures, les modalités, les enjeux, mais aussi les problèmes posés par ces nouvelles formes d’évaluation et par la généralisation de “l’indice de notoriété” comme critère dominant de l’évaluation.”
URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00083870/fr/
Digital Libraries Methods and Applications Digital library…
Digital Libraries – Methods and Applications :
“Digital library is commonly seen as a type of information retrieval system which stores and accesses digital content remotely via computer networks. However, the vision of digital libraries is not limited to technology or management, but user experience. This book is an attempt to share the practical experiences of solutions to the operation of digital libraries. To indicate interdisciplinary routes towards successful applications, the chapters in this book explore the implication of digital libraries from the perspectives of design, operation, and promotion. Without common agreement on a broadly accepted model of digital libraries, authors from diverse fields seek to develop theories and empirical investigations that to advance our understanding of digital libraries.”
URL : http://www.intechopen.com/books/show/title/digital-libraries-methods-and-applications
Diversity and Interoperability of Repositories in a Grid…
Diversity and Interoperability of Repositories in a Grid Curation Environment :
“IT based research environments with an integrated repository component environments are increasingly important in research. While grid technologies and its relatives used to draw most attention, the e-Infrastructure community is now often looking to the repository and preservation communities to learn from their experiences. After all, trustworthy data-management and concepts to foster the agenda for data-intensive research are among the key requirements of researchers from a great variety of disciplines.
The WissGrid project aims to provide cross-disciplinary data curation tools for a grid environment by adapting repository concepts and technologies to the existing D-Grid e Infrastructure. To achieve this, it combines existing systems including Fedora, iRODS, DCache, JHove, and others. WissGrid respects diversity of systems, and aims to improve interoperability of the interfaces between those systems.”
URL : http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/1896
Curation Micro Services A Pipeline Metaphor for Repositories…
Curation Micro-Services: A Pipeline Metaphor for Repositories :
“The effective long-term curation of digital content requires expert analysis, policy setting, and decision making, and a robust technical infrastructure that can effect and enforce curation policies and implement appropriate curation activities. Since the number, size, and diversity of content under curation management will undoubtedly continue to grow over time, and the state of curation understanding and best practices relative to that content will undergo a similar constant evolution, one of the overarching design goals of a sustainable curation infrastructure is flexibility. In order to provide the necessary flexibility of deployment and configuration in the face of potentially disruptive changes in technology, institutional mission, and user expectation, a useful design metaphor is provided by the Unix pipeline, in which complex behavior is an emergent property of the coordinated action of a number of simple independent components. The decomposition of repository function into a highly granular and orthogonal set of independent but interoperable micro-services is consistent with the principles of prudent engineering practice. Since each micro-service is small and self-contained, they are individually more robust and collectively easier to implement and maintain. By being freely interoperable in various strategic combinations, any number of micro-services-based repositories can be easily constructed to meet specific administrative or technical needs. Importantly, since these repositories are purposefully built from policy neutral and protocol and platform independent components to provide the function minimally necessary for a specific context, they are not constrained to conform to an infrastructural monoculture of prepackaged repository solutions. The University of California Curation Center has developed an open source micro-services infrastructure that is being used to manage the diverse digital collections of the ten campus University system and a number of non-university content partners. This paper provides a review of the conceptual design and technical implementation of this micro-services environment, a case study of initial deployment, and a look at ongoing micro-services developments.”
URL : http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/1605
Preserving repository content practical tools for repository managers…
Preserving repository content: practical tools for repository managers :
“The stated aim of many repositories is to provide permanent open access to their content. However, relatively few repositories have implemented practical action plans towards permanence. Repository managers often lack time and confidence to tackle the important but scary problem of preservation.
Written by, and aimed at, repository managers, this paper describes how the JISC-funded KeepIt project has been bringing together existing preservation tools and services with appropriate training and advice to enable repository managers to formulate practical and achievable preservation plans.
Three elements of the KeepIt project are described:
1. The initial, exploratory phase in which repository managers and a preservation specialist established the current status of each repository and its preservation objectives;
2. The repository-specific KeepIt preservation training course which covered the organisational and financial framework of repository preservation; metadata; the new preservation tools; and issues of trust between repository, users and services;
3. The application of tools and lessons learned from the training course to four exemplar repositories and the impact that this has made.
The paper concludes by recommending practical steps that all repository managers may take to ensure their repositories are preservation-ready.”
URL : http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/1767
Réseaux de co citations et Open Access pour…
Réseaux de co-citations et Open Access : pour un renouveau des méthodes d’évaluation :
“Depuis quelques années, la méthodologie en matière d’évaluation des publications scientifiques fait l’objet d’une réflexion accrue, tant de la part des chercheurs que des professionnels de la documentation appelés à l’appliquer. Le modèle classique, en usage dans la majorité des instances administratives, émanant de l’Institute for Scientific Information de Philadelphie (ISI) révèle un certain nombre de limites notamment dues à l’absence de nuances et à des modes de calcul bruts qui semblent privilégier l’aspect comptable et quantitatif au détriment de la qualité. Les modèles alternatifs proposent l’application fine et nuancée de la méthode mathématique de la ” marche aléatoire ” (random walk) avec l’exécution itérative de l’algorithme de Lawrence Page (utilisé par Google pour le tri et l’affichage des pages Web) algorithme pondéré connu sous l’appellation Weighted PageRank. Associée à la détection des co-citations, cette méthode permet de visualiser des collèges invisibles, des affinités entre titres de périodiques et surtout la traçabilité des citations. Celle-ci est déterminante dans la définition qualitative de l’évaluation qui semble minorée dans le modèle classique.”
URL : http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00589630/fr/