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Data Curation And Libraries: Short-Term Developments, Long-Term Prospects, Anna Gold Apr 2010

Data Curation And Libraries: Short-Term Developments, Long-Term Prospects, Anna Gold

Robert E. Kennedy Library

This paper was prepared as background for a talk given at AGU 2009 on “Data & Libraries.” It summarizes the developments and events from late 2006 through early 2010 that are shaping library roles in scientific data curation while underscoring the range, complexity, and varying granularity of systems, actions, and efforts involved. The main conclusions are: (1) leaders of major research libraries have committed their institutions to support data curation. (2) The library profession has demonstrated significant conceptual progress in characterizing and understanding data curation both in theory and in practice. (3) There has been progress since 2006 in legitimizing …


The Library As Publisher?: Collecting And Curating For Digital Repositories, Timothy T. Strawn Feb 2010

The Library As Publisher?: Collecting And Curating For Digital Repositories, Timothy T. Strawn

Robert E. Kennedy Library

The traditional role of libraries as aggregators, curators and disseminators of resources has been profoundly challenged by the notion of libraries as publishers of content. While publishing models include the ideas of aggregating, curating and disseminating content, these terms have radically different definitions in each context (libraries v. publishers). While we understand the motivation of publishers and their role in selecting and distributing content, much less is understood of the role that libraries should, or could play in the chain of “publishing” involved in their hosting of institutional repositories.
This paper will explore:
‐ the idea of publishing in the …


Review Of Fundamentals Of Technical Services Management By Sheila S. Intner And Peggy Johnson, Tim Strawn Oct 2008

Review Of Fundamentals Of Technical Services Management By Sheila S. Intner And Peggy Johnson, Tim Strawn

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Institutional Repository Annual Report To The Provost Ay 2007-2008, Nancy E. Loe, Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo Sep 2008

Institutional Repository Annual Report To The Provost Ay 2007-2008, Nancy E. Loe, Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Open Science & Scientific Publishing: Open Access And The Progress Of Science, Anna K. Gold Nov 2007

Open Science & Scientific Publishing: Open Access And The Progress Of Science, Anna K. Gold

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Report To The Provost: Task Group On The Future Of The Library, Joseph Grimes, Linda Halisky, Wayne H. Howard, Timothy J. Kearns, Franz J. Kurfess, Michael D. Miller, Roxy Peck, George J. Petersen, Jay A. Singh, Christopher Yip Oct 2007

Report To The Provost: Task Group On The Future Of The Library, Joseph Grimes, Linda Halisky, Wayne H. Howard, Timothy J. Kearns, Franz J. Kurfess, Michael D. Miller, Roxy Peck, George J. Petersen, Jay A. Singh, Christopher Yip

Robert E. Kennedy Library

The Provost's task group met Spring Quarter 2007 to examine the role of the library in support of the academic mission of Cal Poly. This document describes the areas of study and related recommendations.


Cyberinfrastructure, Data, And Libraries, Part 1: A Cyberinfrastructure Primer For Librarians, Anna K. Gold Sep 2007

Cyberinfrastructure, Data, And Libraries, Part 1: A Cyberinfrastructure Primer For Librarians, Anna K. Gold

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Cyberinfrastructure, Data, And Libraries, Part 2: Libraries And The Data Challenge: Roles And Actions For Libraries, Anna K. Gold Sep 2007

Cyberinfrastructure, Data, And Libraries, Part 2: Libraries And The Data Challenge: Roles And Actions For Libraries, Anna K. Gold

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Vision Into Practice At Cal Poly, Michael D. Miller Jan 2007

Vision Into Practice At Cal Poly, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Learning Commons: The University Of Michigan Experience, Michael D. Miller May 2006

Learning Commons: The University Of Michigan Experience, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Embracing Change At The University Of Michigan, Michael D. Miller Feb 2006

Embracing Change At The University Of Michigan, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


The Shoah Foundation's Visual History: U-M'S Access To The Holocaust, David Carter, Elliot Gertel, Nerea A. Llamas, Michael D. Miller Sep 2005

The Shoah Foundation's Visual History: U-M'S Access To The Holocaust, David Carter, Elliot Gertel, Nerea A. Llamas, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

In 1994, following the filming of Schindler's List, many survivors of the Nazi Holocaust came forward to offer their stories. Realizing that time was running out to document these personal histories, film director Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (SVHF). In late 2003, the U-M University Library initiated contact with the SVHF with the goal of bringing access to the Video History Archive to the U-M campus.


Campus Learning Spaces: Investing In How Students Learn, Stephen R. Acker, Michael D. Miller Apr 2005

Campus Learning Spaces: Investing In How Students Learn, Stephen R. Acker, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

To justify the substantial investment in bricks-and-mortar construction, colleges and universities must design and continually renew the physical spaces in which students learn. A variety of research studies document that today's students learn differently than did many of the faculty now teaching them and that the design of learning spaces can favor or disadvantage various ways of learning. Campus planners are challenged to build flexible interior spaces so that buildings with 100-year life spans can continually adapt to new generations of learners and our new discoveries of how people learn. Without this capacity to modify the learning environment, institutions put …


Library-It Partnerships: New Services For New Campus Demands, Stephen R. Acker, Michael D. Miller Oct 2004

Library-It Partnerships: New Services For New Campus Demands, Stephen R. Acker, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

The roles of central information technology and library organizations are being transformed by demands that new campus services be delivered more effectively and efficiently. Both organizations have reasons for paranoia and reasons for optimism as they look into the future. Properly conceived, library-IT partnerships can reduce threats and increase opportunities.


Stewardship Of The Information Commons: Cultural, Service And Operational Issues, Michael D. Miller Oct 2004

Stewardship Of The Information Commons: Cultural, Service And Operational Issues, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Envisioning The Future Of The Information Commons Through Technology, Michael D. Miller Sep 2004

Envisioning The Future Of The Information Commons Through Technology, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Hgl: A Web-Enabled Geospatial Digital Library, David Siegel, Bonnie Burns, Tim Strawn Aug 2004

Hgl: A Web-Enabled Geospatial Digital Library, David Siegel, Bonnie Burns, Tim Strawn

Robert E. Kennedy Library

Increasingly, institutions are implementing technology to search and deliver their geospatial data and metadata holdings via the Web. As the quantity of these holdings grows, both private and public institutions are seeking scalable, robust and non-proprietary solutions. With the widespread adoption of metadata standards taking a strengthening role in the daily practices of GIS professionals we can capitalize on existing technology to search and serve data effectively and refocus our resources on data acquisition. The Harvard Geospatial Library (HGL) provides a web-based interface for search and retrieval of geospatial data and metadata using open standards (MARC, FGDC, and XML) and …


Benchmarking For Building Future Engineering & Science Libraries, Anna K. Gold Jun 2004

Benchmarking For Building Future Engineering & Science Libraries, Anna K. Gold

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.


Flow: Co-Constructing Low Barrier Repository Infrastructure In Support Of Heterogeneous Knowledge Collection(S), Karen S. Baker, Anna K. Gold, Frank Sudholt May 2003

Flow: Co-Constructing Low Barrier Repository Infrastructure In Support Of Heterogeneous Knowledge Collection(S), Karen S. Baker, Anna K. Gold, Frank Sudholt

Robert E. Kennedy Library

Institutional repositories are being constructed today to address the needs of scholarly communication in a digital environment. The success of such institutional infrastructures as knowledge collections depends in part on offering low barriers for participation and on supporting heterogeneous knowledge inputs and outputs. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in partnership with CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Science & Engineering Library, has modified CERN’s CDSware software to initiate the process of creating a local low barrier repository.


Building Flow: Federating Libraries On The Web, Anna K. Gold, Karen S. Baker, Jean-Yves Lemeur, Kim Baldridge Jul 2002

Building Flow: Federating Libraries On The Web, Anna K. Gold, Karen S. Baker, Jean-Yves Lemeur, Kim Baldridge

Robert E. Kennedy Library

Individuals, teams, organizations, and networks can be thought of as tiers or classes within the complex grid of technology and practice in which research documentation is both consumed and generated. The panoply of possible classes share with the others a common need for document management tools and practices. The distinctive document management tools and practices used within each represent boundaries across which information could flow openly if technology and metadata standards were to provide an accessible digital framework. The CERN Document Server (CDS), implemented by a research partnership at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), establishes a prototype tiered repository …


Anticipating The Future: The University Of Michigan's Media Union, Michael D. Miller Jan 1998

Anticipating The Future: The University Of Michigan's Media Union, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

The Media Union is a new facility that brings together information resources, information technology, and media production studios. It is unique in the blending of those resources into an integrated program serving the entire University of Michigan and supporting interdisciplinary collaboration. The Media Union anticipates the future not only by the proximity of its informational resources but by bringing together different types of information specialists to work collaboratively. The article provides a thorough description of the facility, its administrative structure, and examples of how pre-existing organizational units made the transition into the new environment.