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All sessions to be held at LILLIAD.
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11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Optional Event
Tours of LILLIAD led by members of the staff.
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12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Registration Open / Light Lunch (Sponsored by Atypon)
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Preconference: Linked (Open) Data – Big Data
Cataloging of books and journals is a traditional core task of librarianship and cataloging
rules have been established for several hundred years. Standards made their appearance in
the 20th century, including data formats for the upcoming library management systems
that became popular in the 80s and 90s. Naturally, standards and rules were shaped to
facilitate searching and storing of printed books and journals. The traditional procedures
are now applied for e-books and e-journals as well. But with evolving technologies,
new procedures for metadata management are emerging, allowing the intellectual and
still manual work of librarians to be amended or replaced by automated approaches to
cataloging which enable metadata enhancements. Thanks to these new approaches, the
metadata of published materials can be aggregated, enriched and contextualized to improve
and optimize the results of information retrieval, including big data applications that
allow operating and processing of large scale data sets for different purposes. Additionally
entities in publications, like names of persons or corporations, geographical terms, any
kind of subject and subject fields, can be linked with authority data, bibliographic records,
ontologies, thesauri, etc. These annotations enhance text and data mining methods,
which are as well part of the new big data procedures. This preconference will feature best
practice examples which explain and illustrate the impact of linked (open) data, on the one
hand, and on the other hand, the legal and technical aspects of upcoming demands for text
and data mining.
Convener: Prof. Dr. Andreas Degkwitz (Library of the Humboldt University, Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Degkwitz
Prof. Dr. Andreas Degkwitz (born 1956) is the Chief Librarian of the Humboldt University of Berlin and Honorary Professor for information science of Potsdam University for Applied Sciences. 2004 - 2011 he was the Chief-Information-Officer of the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus. 1998 – 2003 he was the deputy-director of the library of Potsdam University. 1991- 1998 he worked as a consultant for library affairs at the German Research Society.
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Lars G. Svensson (German National Library) - "Linked / Open Data Services of the German National Library"
Lars G. Svensson
Lars G. Svensson works in the German National Library (Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek, DNB) as an advisor for knowledge networking. He in an
internationally acknowledged expert on the use of LinkedData technologies
in libraries and has edited two books and published more than a dozen
articles on that topic, including _User Interaction and Linked Data_
(Berlin: DeGruyter, 2013) and "Are Current Bibliographic Models Suitable
for Integration with the Web?" in Information Standards Quarterly (2013).
He is active in the International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA), where he is past Chair of the Information Technology
Section's Standing Committee and Chair of the Linked Data Technical
Committee. Further, he works with technical standardisation, serving or
having served on working groups in W3C, IETF, DIN and NISO.
Linked / Open Data Services of the German National Library
Abstract
Since the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB)
implemented its first linked data pilot service in 2010, the provision of
bibliographic and authority data in RDF has been a core part of its
metadata services. As part of the ambition to bring library resources into
a world-wide, open information and knowledge network, the links in the RDF
data are not restricted to library resources but also connect the
library's resources to other popular services such as Wikipedia/DBPedia,
GeoNames and filmportal.de -- the German internet platform for German
cinema. This presentation will give an overview of the creation and import
and management of different kinds of linking information used in the
German National Library's bibliographic services and how this information
is published in the different exchange formats with a focus on the linked
data service.
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Patrice Lopez (Science-Miner and Inria Paris) - "Text and Data Mining Applications"
Patrice Lopez
Former research scientist (Germany, Canada, Austria, France) and European civil servant (Germany and the Netherlands), Patrice Lopez has funded in 2015 the company SCIENCE-MINER to contribute to the development of text mining for technical and scientific content, in particular by developing Open Source software based on state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. He is also consultant for the French project ISTEX and associate member of the ALMANaCH team at Inria Paris. Patrice Lopez holds a Ph.D. in computer science (University of Lorraine, France, 1999) and is a software engineer from Telecom Nancy (France, 1996).
Text and Data Mining Applications
Abstract
Text and Data Mining (TDM) techniques make possible a vast range of new applications dedicated to scholarly content. They can be used for automatically extracting and improving metadata and for semantic content enrichment, enhancing discovery tools and document readability. For instance, today, researchers can quickly determine which articles are relevant to their research without having to read them.
Beyond these applications, the growth of available digital scholar information, often presented as an issue for researchers, also opens new horizon by automatically finding new patterns, insights and hypotheses that would be otherwise overlooked by traditional human review processes. Scientific Text and Data mining is not just a promise. In the most advanced application fields like biomedicine, it has already provided remarkable results.
We will illustrate the rise of TDM by presenting and demonstrating different systems developed at Inria, based on state-of-the-art Machine Learning techniques and deployed in various applications.
GROBID [1] is a tool for extracting and structuring automatically scholarly documents - from bibliographical references to full text and figures. It is used in production by many service providers (ResearchGate, Mendeley, HAL Archive, Semantic Scholar, ...) and by large scientific organizations (CERN, European Patent Office, INIST-CNRS, ...) for automating or assisting tasks like cataloguing, self-archiving or bibliographical reference extraction in large scale scientific corpora.
We have developed several tools dedicated to semantic content enrichment, such as specialized Named-Entity Recognition and key content extraction and disambiguation libraries [2]. (N)ERD [3] is currently experimented on Digital Humanities information in several European projects (H2020 HIRMEOS and DESIR) in relation to the DARIAH infrastructure and in the French project ISTEX, a digital library of 18 millions full text articles for access and text mining.
We will explain why we believe that the impact of TDM and Machine Learning will continue to grow in the next years in scientific information, social science and Digital Humanities, and how librarians could contribute and exploit them productively by creating new workflows.
[1] GROBID (2008-2017) https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid, https://grobid.science-miner.com
[2] P. Lopez and L. Romary. Automatic Key Term Extraction from Scientic Articles in GROBID, SemEval-2, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.
[3] https://nerd.science-miner.com
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Raphaëlle Lapôtre (Bibliothèque Nationale de la France) - "The data.bnf.fr Project"
Raphaëlle Lapôtre
raphaelle.lapotre@bnf.fr - Bibliothèque nationale de France - 33 1 53 79 86 92
data.bnf.fr
Raphaëlle Lapôtre's written work includes subjects such as information visualization, semantic web and recommendation systems. Her main interest is focused on finding new ways browsing and exploring information through data visualization and Aristotelian metaphor. For more about Raphaëlle's work, please see "Le catalogue des bibliothèques et ses données à l'heure du web".
The data.bnf.fr project
Abstract
Launched in 2011 by the National Library of France, the data.bnf.fr website aims at disseminating metadata from the BnF catalogs on the web, while being a single point of access to it, gathering and combining information from all the BnF applications within web pages dedicated to authors, works or subjects.
More than 5 years after the beginning of the data.bnf.fr project, general observations can be made on how and why the BnF metadatas can be of particular interest for users on the web. In fact, cultural metadatas value in the attention economy is best measured in terms of comprehensiveness of its format, trust in the quality of its information, model usability and kinds of reuse. Recent use case such as Named Entity Recognition is a good example of how Linked Open Data can be used to feed recommendation systems.
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Michael Büchner (German National Library) - "Linked Data Uses in the German Digital Library"
Michael Büchner
Michael Büchner is a researcher at the IT department of the Germany
National Library and working for the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek since
2013. He studied Computer Science and Library and Information Science at
the universities of Jena, Erfurt and Leipzig, Germany. Michael Büchner is
a member of the coordination team at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek,
which is responsible for the further development of the portal. He focuses
on the technical development and evaluation, persistent identifiers and
authority files connected with the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.
Linked Data Uses in the German Digital Library
Abstract
Since 2013 the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) uses the
Europeana Data Model (EDM) for its metadata. This decision was made for
two reasons: The DDB is a portal and a platform providing access to very
different digital objects from a variety of Germany's cultural heritage
and research organizations. And the DDB is the national aggregator for
Europeana, the digital platform for cultural heritage of the European
Union. Using a DDB-specific application profile of EDM was found to be the
most reasonable solution to fulfil these requirements. Metadata used in a
portal and platform like the DDB has to be Linked Open Data, on the one
hand. But on the other hand, most of the data provided by cultural
heritage organizations were created using pre-web standards and schemes,
so it only partially fits into the Linked Open Data world. Dealing with
this gap is the daily challenge of the DDB. This talk will present some of
the problems the DDB has to deal with and put some sustainable solutions
up for discussion. Persistent identifiers and authority files, which can
be used by all cultural sectors, are important tools to make data fit for
the Semantic Web.
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Tiziana Possemato (Casalini Libri - @Cult) - "Enrichment, Reconciliation and Publication of Linked Data with the BIBFRAME Model"
Tiziana Possemato
Tiziana Possemato holds a degree in Philosophy (La Sapienza Rome),
diplomas in Archival Science and Library Sciences (Vatican Schools) and a
master degree in Library Sciences (University of Florence). She has led
numerous projects for library automation, analysis, mapping, conversion
and for the transformation in Linked Open Data and the publication of
catalogue data from numerous institutions. She is the Chief Information
Officer of Casalini Libri, and founding managing partner of @Cult.
Enrichment, Reconciliation and Publication of Linked Data with the BIBFRAME Model
Abstract
In the era of new ILS generation, the data cataloguing scenario can take
advantage of smarter and more efficient ways to produce well-done and
enriched data, following the RDA guidelines and the Linked Open Data
paradigm, by applying different models and data structures, among which
BIBFRAME, Bibliographic Framework Initiative.
The presentation shows a new philosophy to produce, publish and share
data. Thanks to this philosophy, the cataloguing workflow focuses on the
identification of entities and the data reconciliation and clustering
processes, enriching headings with URIs [Uniform Resource Identifier]
coming from different sources and authority systems, such as – but not
limited to – VIAF [Virtual International Authority File], ISNI
[International Standard Name Identifier], Nuovo soggettario di Firenze,
FAST [Faceted Application of Subject Terminologies], LCSH [Library of
Congress Subject Headings]. In structuring and publishing data, BIBFRAME
suggests a simpler model, which is more focused on the end-user
requirements.
The overall new approach to the treatment of data and information
contributes to a further improvement in the cooperation among institutions
and in the reuse of data in different scenarios. This approach will allow
a more efficient identification of entities in the web environment,
supporting, at the same time, the working process of the cultural heritage
and the wider exploitation of data.
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Jason Chabak (YEWNO) - "Discover What's Been Missing"
Jason Chabak
Jason Chabak is a Channel Partner Manager Yewno. He is a results driven expert in commercial business development and library account management. Prior to working with Yewno, he has 10 years experience in the publishing industry, both in trade and academic markets. Jason has successfully delivered market strategies, new products and customer implementations into the academic library market. Previously, Jason was a Senior Library Sales Manager at SAGE Publishing, Regional Account Manager for Digital Science, and Senior Licensing Manager at SpringerNature, and has experience managing accounts across the United States, Canada, South America, and Europe.
Discover What's Been Missing
Abstract
Yewno Discover is a new knowledge discovery platform that provides unique benefits not found in traditional library search tools. Yewno Discover complements traditional library discovery tools, and adds value to the research process by atomizing full text content to reveal the concepts within.
With a unique technology that applies machine learning and advanced algorithms to textual documents, Yewno identifies semantic objects that each convey information and therefore can be given context to other concepts. As such, an artificial “neural network” is formed.
Recent advances in computational linguistics make this solution possible, as Yewno’s architects are now able to move beyond traditional Natural Language Processing techniques and mimic these human neural networks, which quickly and comprehensively identify the relationships.
With a sophisticated, yet simple-to-use visual concept browser Yewno Discover offers the searcher efficient understanding of a new topic and effective insight into interdisciplinary connections.
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5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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Opening Reception (Sponsored by American Society for Microbiology)
Location: LILLIAD
Dinner Open / On your Own
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All sessions to be held at LILLIAD.
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8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
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Registration Open
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9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m.
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Welcome and Introduction
Rebecca Lenzini and Michele Casalini (Co-Founders, The Fiesole Retreat Series)
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9:10 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
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Opening Remarks
Julien Roche (Directeur, LILLIAD)
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9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Session One: Re-shaping Collection Development for 2025
The time when libraries were attempting to gather collections of high value – aiming at the
perfect "global collection" which in the librarians’ point of view would meet any research
need at any time – seems to be over. Collection development first shifted from a supply
logic to a demand logic, in order to fulfill immediate demands (for example, via patron
driven acquisitions). This shift deprived librarians of their discipline specific expertise and
put additional demand on administrative and technical competences.
Now that academic communication and scholarly outputs have massively gone digital, with
green and gold open access models often placing libraries and publishers in opposition, a
new shift is at stake. Collection librarians need to become "strategic" in assigning collection
priorities regarding their institution’s scholarly communication policy and environment.
Today’s library collections are becoming radically different, merging local and global –
also print and digital – holdings. We own some things, we access others under longterm
arrangements, and we find means of one-time access for still others. Collaborative
actions and collection development networks are becoming essential in fulfilling libraries'
aspirations and missions. Session One will examine more closely these major shifts.
Convener: Laure Delrue (LILLIAD Learning Center Innovation)
Laure Delrue
Laure Delrue is a librarian and curator. She is head of Lilliad’s collections since 2014, and her current interests focus on electronic collections development, scholarly publications and on the role of liaison librarians in the new learning center. Her former position as deputy director of Lille public libraries gave her the opportunity to work on rare books, special collections and on digitization matters, as well as to curate several exhibitions in partnership with the city’s opera and history museum.
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Ann Okerson (Center for Research Libraries) - "Historical Introduction about the Dynamic Shifts in Collection Development Practices, from the Comprehensive Collection to Dynamic Formats and Multiple Missions"
Ann Okerson
Ann Okerson joined the Center for Research Libraries in fall 2011 as Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, working with that organization to reconfigure and redirect various existing programs into digital mode. Previous experience includes 15 years as Associate University Librarian for Collections & International Programs at Yale University; prior to that she worked in the commercial sector, and also for five years as Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at the Association of Research Libraries. Upon joining Yale, she organized the Northeast Research libraries consortium (NERL), a group of 28 large and over 80 smaller libraries negotiating for electronic information. She is one of the active, founding spirits of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC). Activities include projects, publications, advisory boards, and speaking engagements worldwide, as well as professional awards. Recently, she led the group that completely re-wrote (December 2014) the widely used US LIBLICENSE Model License. Over the years, Okerson has also been active internationally and currently works with INASP (UK) in leading their publisher-contracting efforts.
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Michael Levine-Clark (Dean and Director of University Libraries, University of Denver) - "Curating the Internet: The Collaborative Future of Library Collections"
Michael Levine-Clark
Michael Levine-Clark is the Dean of the University of Denver Libraries. Prior to taking this position, he was the Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, also at the University of Denver. He is the recipient of the 2015 HARRASOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award for his work on e-books and demand-driven acquisition. With colleagues from the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, he founded the open access journal Collaborative Librarianship, and continues to serve as co-editor. He is also co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 4th ed., and serves on editorial boards of several journals. An active member of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), he has served most recently as chair of the Collection Management Section. As co-chair of the NISO Recommended Practices for Demand-Driven Acquisition of Monographs Working Group, he was one of the lead authors of the recommended practices document. He serves on a variety of national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards and a range of committees within library professional organizations. He writes and speaks regularly on implications of discovery service implementation and strategies for improving academic library collection development practices, including the use of e-books in academic libraries, the development of demand-driven acquisition models, and methods for assessing collections usage.
Curating the Internet: The Collaborative Future of Library Collections
Abstract
Libraries' traditional collection development role involved building collections through acquisition of physical materials – primarily books and journals, but also manuscript collections, grey literature, and other ephemera. While collection development now encompasses a wide range of electronic resources, we are still fundamentally in a collection building mode: we select, acquire, and preserve relatively small portions of the information universe. For academic libraries to continue to preserve the scholarly and cultural record, we must dramatically expand our conception of collection management to collectively curate the open web. We need to think much more broadly and much more collaboratively about how to preserve a much larger portion of the information universe.
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Laurent Romary (Inria - team ALMAnaCH) - "How to Open Up? (Digital) Libraries at the Service of (Digital) Scholars."
Laurent Romary
Laurent Romary is Directeur de Recherche at Inria, France and director general of DARIAH. Beyond his research activities in data modelling for the humanities, he has been responsible for defining and implementing the scientific information and open access policy of major research institutions in Europe, namely CNRS, Max Planck Society and Inria. Among his achievements he has contributed to the wide deployment of the French national publication archive HAL in 2005-2006, he negotiated the full open access agreement between Springer and the MPS in 2008 and shaped the open access Policy of Inria with a full publication deposit mandate. Through his experience in various EU projects such as PEER (large scale green open access deposit) or Cendari (networking of archives for digital scholarship), but also more largely as director of the European DARIAH eInfrastructures in the humanities he has developed a general vision of open access as part of a wider comprehensive scientific information strategy of research and higher education institutions.
How to Open Up? (Digital) Libraries at the Service of (Digital) Scholars
Abstract
The talk presents the perspective of an organisation, Inria, that has made a strong move towards open science and the dissemination of digital content. We will contemplate the consequences on the development of new services within our institution and show how we move from the development of collections out of externally-provided content to the shaping of a scientist-centred digital library. We will also analyse the technological impact of this policy but also the necessary evolution of the role and skills of our library staff.
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David Aymonin (ABES) - "Collection Development towards an increasingly Networked Model, the "Inside-out Library" and Facilitated Collection: Reflections upon Lorcan Dempsey's (OCLC) Vision of Collection Development."
David Aymonin
David Aymonin has held several management positions in libraries and information services in France and abroad, in Chad, India and New Caledonia. In particular, he was director of the EPFL library (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and took part in the creation of the Rolex Learning Center. Since September 2016 has been appointed as the new director of the Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur (ABES).
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12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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Lunch
Location: LILLIAD
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1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Keynote
Clifford Lynch (Director, Center for Networked Information) - "Recent US Developments in Scholarly Publishing and their Global Implications."
Clifford Lynch
Clifford Lynch has led the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the intelligent uses of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual life. CNI’s wide-ranging agenda includes work in digital preservation, data intensive scholarship, teaching, learning and technology, and infrastructure and standards development. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information.
He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. He served as co-chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information from 2011-2016; he is active on numerous advisory boards and visiting committees. His work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award.
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2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Session Two: The Changing Scholarly Communication Ecosystem
Scholarly Communication has long been a closed system. Researchers have communicated
with other researchers. Publishers have acted for authors and libraries for users. Now other
players have become active especially governments and the university as an institution.
What are their visions and what actions are they taking? How are they changing and
seeking to change the roles of publishers and libraries and the way research and researchers
work? In this session we hope to describe and analyse the actions and reactions and the
motivations of the key players particularly those from stakeholders represented in this
conference. However, while some of us produce scholarship and others facilitate the
scholarly enterprise that we all agree is what it is all about, we also all work within a societal
and economic context which we all depend on.
Convener: Anthony Watkinson (Principal Consultant CIBER Research, Honorary Lecturer University College London and Director of the Charleston Conference)
Anthony Watkinson
Anthony Watkinson is the principal consultant of CIBER Research and is a lecturer (now honorary) at University College London. He mainly now researches in information science for CIBER and publishes extensively on topics related to scholarly communication. He is a director of the Charleston Conference and plenary chair and is co-organizer for the Fiesole Retreat. He researched in ecclesiastical history at Cambridge before moving to Oxford to run the library of New College. Most of his life he has been a publisher with senior appointments for Academic Press, Oxford University Press and the Thomson Corporation and most recently a part time post at Wiley-Blackwell. He has been awarded the VickySpeck Memorial Award for Leadership at the Charleston Conference and an award for his contribution to scholarly publishing from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing.
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Ben Johnson (Research Policy Adviser, Higher Education Funding Council for England, UK) - "New Metrics, Old Attitudes"
Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson is a policy adviser in the research policy unit at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). He has responsibility for policy on open access, open data, research metrics, technical infrastructure and research sector efficiency within universities in England. In recent years, he co-authored The Metric Tide (a report on research metrics), developed and implemented a policy for open access in the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF), and supported Professor Geoffrey Crossick’s project and report to HEFCE on monographs and open access. He is a member of the UK’s open data forum and co-authored the UK Open Research Data Concordat. He is secretary to the UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics and a member of the G7 expert group on open science. He is currently part-seconded to the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to work on reforming the research and innovation landscape.
New metrics, old attitudes
Abstract
Metrics are being increasingly used by researchers and their universities to understand performance, to assess people and their work, and to shape strategies. But, as the 2015 report The Metric Tide showed, this increase brings major challenges and thorny problems for research as well as big opportunities. This presentation will highlight how entrenched attitudes to scholarly communication, cultures of prestige and resistance to change have led to bad practice and the misuse and mistrust of metrics. It will set out how calls for the more responsible use of research metrics have been taken up by research funders and universities in the UK to tackle this, and will show what needs to be done to ensure that the major innovative developments and opportunities within scholarly communications and research analysis are embedded in the research ecosystem safely, sensitively and responsibly.
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Jayne Marks (Vice President, Global Publishing, Wolters Kluwer USA) - "Exploring how Publishing is Evolving to Adapt to a Changing Scholarly Communication Process"
Jayne Marks
Jayne Marks is Vice President of Global Publishing at Wolters Kluwer Health Research, Learning & Practice, based in Philadelphia. She has responsibility for managing the Lippincott William & Wilkins portfolio of 290 medical, nursing and allied health journals and book programs in education and professional development. Jayne also manages the growing WK portfolio of innovative digital information products for both healthcare professionals and students.
Jayne has spent her career working in STM publishing and regularly speaks at industry conferences. She is the currently on the Board of the STM Association and is a board member of the International Publishers Rights Organization (IPRO).
Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, she was vice president and editorial director at SAGE Publications, managing over 350 journals, a reference publishing program, and had responsibility for new online products. Jayne has held publishing director positions at Nature Publishing Group and Stockton Press, managing broad journal portfolios.
Jayne holds a BSc in Environmental Sciences from University of Sussex, UK.
Exploring how publishing is evolving to adapt to a changing scholarly communication process
Abstract
As the scholarly communication process evolves and changes, the role of the publisher and librarian also needs to adapt and evolve. The role of funding agencies and governments impacts the way that research is reported and shared and funders are even starting to experiment with new models of publishing. Researchers who write and consume content are impacted by the policies of their institutions and funders and what they can and want to do with their publication outputs is influenced by changing technologies. Publishers are responding in many different ways from delivering new tools to share and store content to new access models for content consumption. This talk will explore some of these innovations and what might be driving change.
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Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri (MCF HDR en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Laboratoire ELICO, Co-Responsable de l'URFIST de Lyon) - "Scholarly Communication at the Creative Industry Era: Changing Rules and Values for Libraries and Publishers"
Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri
Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri is Associate Professor in Information and Communication Science at Université de Lyon (Lyon 1 University – Sciences). She is a research member of the ELICO Research Laboratory and co-head of Urfist de Lyon.
Her PhD (Université Lyon 2) has been dedicating to an economic analysis of the transition of the academic library services in an electronic context (defended in 2004). She has leaded many research projects on the usage and ROI of electronic resources in the French academic context, using a socio-economic approach. She defended in 2015 an "Habilitation" dedicated to the analysis of journals publishing as a cultural industry. She has published many articles in French and international journals.
She is currently member of the Harbingers research project and has recently submitted an ANR research project dedicated to the analysis of Open Science.
Scholarly Communication at the Creative Industry Era: Changing Rules and Values for Libraries and Publishers
Abstract
Looking at scholarly communication as a creative industry leads to take into account many of the regulations that occur in digital/knowledge economy, and government’s policies. From the results of the Harbingers projects, discussed with the frames of creative industries, this talk focuses on to show to what hat extent these regulations affect Universities and their researchers, and how this contributes to change libraries and publishers services and roles.
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Bas Straub (Managing Director, Konvertus, Haarlem, Netherlands) - "Lessons from the Future?"
Bas Straub
Bas Straub holds a degree in marketing and management of scientific publications from the Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam. Before starting his career in scholarly communication he was responsible for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines inflight entertainment for 5 years. At Elsevier, where he has worked for the last 13 years, he started as a marketing manager and subsequently moved to publishing, where he became the publishing director for the German office in Munich. He then worked as director for product- and market development in the emerging markets.
Bas started Konvertus a company specializing in (ebook) production for publishers. He is organizer of the APE pre-conference day and has been involved in STM’s Intensive Journal Course since 2012.
Bas regularly speaks and teaches at industry events.
Lessons from the Future?
Abstract
During the 2017 APE Pre-Conference a group of young as well as experienced experts from STM publishing convened to discuss the future of publishing. In around 10 break out sessions the delegates stretched the vision on (a.o.) quality assurance, formatting of the scientific article, longevity of content and changes in business models. Bas Straub will give an overview of the most interesting outcomes of that day.
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Charles Watkinson (Associate University Librarian, University of Michigan) - "One Ring or Many? Sustaining Digital Scholarship in the Humanities in North America"
One Ring or Many? Sustaining Digital Scholarship in the Humanities in North America
Abstract
All scholars are now digital scholars. The moment a humanities professor picks up a digital camera she starts creating a rich electronic research collection. Increasingly these digital outputs will include complex (often proprietary) materials such as geospatial models, multimedia objects, visualizations, and software tools. How can we (as librarians, publishers, funders, and other stakeholders in their success) support authors and users in this transition to digital scholarship? Lacking coordinated central funding, support for digital scholarship in North America relies on collaboration across a distributed community of private and public funders, scholarly societies, university administrators, libraries, and publishers - both independently and in association. New initiatives rise and fall and there is a continuous tension between proponents of large-scale cross-field solutions and advocates for discipline-specific innovation. What are the pros and cons of such a system when contrasted with more coordinated approaches in Europe and the UK? What kinds of initiatives in North America are succeeding and which are struggling? And what can we learn from their experiences as we all try and partner to make digital scholarship "safe" for humanists and qualitative social scientists.
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7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
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Conference Dinner (Sponsored by EBSCO)
Location: Couvent des Minimes, Vieux Lille, 17 Quai du Wault
Dinner Speaker: Gareth Smith (Vice President Sales UK, Ireland & Nordic Region, EBSCO)
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9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Session Three: Emerging Business Models
Changes to the academic publishing sector, forced initially by the shift from print toward
electronic and combined with the Internet as a vehicle for content distribution, has affected
all of the participants involved in the market. The appearance of the so-called "Big Deal"
meant big revenues for some, while for others it meant transformation from traditional
solutions to brand new proposals, or the creation of new strategies and solutions (such as
Open Access) and even the disappearance of some projects which until then had carried
importance in this context.
What is the current situation? How did some survive during the revolution? Why did
others emerge in this new environment? Our final session will present very different
experiences regarding how to understand the changed marketplace – which appeared to
arrive "out of the blue" – including simply how to adapt to it.
Convener: Josep Torn (Library Director, European University Institute Library)
Josep Torn
Josep "Pep" Torn is currently Library Director at the European University Institute. Previously to this he was director of the Academic & Library Services at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona) and head of digital services at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Campus Library in Terrassa, Barcelona. Pep is also member of the Working Group on Leadership and Workforce Development of LIBER.
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Anna Lundén (Head of Division National Coordination of Libraries, National Library of Sweden, Sweden) - "Offsetting Deals for Open Access – Swedish Experiences"
Anna Lundén
Anna Lundén works at National Library of Sweden heading the Division for National Coordination of Libraries. This division handles the national library consortia for universities and research institutes which is negotiating e-resources with all major publishers. In parallel the development of openaccess.se is managed within this division. Previous to this she has a long experience from the commercial side of the business, having been the Nordic sales manager for one of the largest database vendor and subscription agents. She is the Swedish representative in the EUA high-level group on Big Deals, a member of the LIBER program committee, participates in the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and takes part in the INTACT/ESAC initiative aiming at establishing transparent and efficient procedures to manage article processing charges.
Offsetting Deals for Open Access – Swedish Experiences
Abstract
In March 2016 the National Library of Sweden signed the Expression of Interest for OA2020 which is an initiative building on the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. OA2020 aims to accelerate the transition to open access by transforming the existing journals from their current subscription model to open access.
This presentation will focus on the offsetting pilot agreements that link subscriptions and article processing charges (APCs) in hybrid journals, seeking to reduce one as the other grows. It will present the outcome so far and discuss the challenges in the transformation to change the underlying business model of scholarly publishing, making the shift from subscription-based payments to open access service-based payments.
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Jordi Prats (Head of Academic Publications Office, UPC - BarcelonaTech) and Anna Rovira (Head of Research Library Services, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) - "Integrating Libraries and Academic Presses: Strategies to Promote Open Access"
Anna Rovira
Head of Research Library Services at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She is responsible for projects focusing on open access, the institutional repository, the current research information system, the website for the scientific production of UPC researchers and the research data management.
She has also worked in UPC libraries management area and in the University Archive She has been an assistant professor at Universitat de Barcelona for 10 years.
Jordi Prats
Jordi Prats is at present the head of Iniciativa Digital Politècnica, the publications office of the UPC. His career path stands out for the development of projects linked to the implementation of the digital library of the university and the management of open access repositories. He is currently focusing his activity in the editing and producing of educational content, both in teaching and in research.
Integrating Libraries and Academic Presses: Strategies to Promote Open Access
Abstract
In 2011 a publications office was created within de Libraries, Publications and Archives Service of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). This office, called Iniciativa Digital Politècnica (IPD), rose up in a university with high technological knowledge where its members use a huge amount of digital information.
The office was created after a long process that began more than 20 years ago in which the libraries of the university assumed, beyond the traditional Library management, the access and management of the academic contents generated by the institution through the creation of several archives.
In a context of continuous innovation in which the spaces and services of the libraries were being redefined, libraries themselves put together new services for faculty members to support the production of educational content (Les Factories). Hence an important publishing dynamics was generated amongst the faculty of the UPC that allowed to come to a catalogue with over 600 titles linked to subjects related to engineering and architecture.
The office is currently fully integrated in the dynamics of the libraries, giving efficient support to the faculty and searching for financing models for the elaboration of open access content as well as interacting with other systems of the university that can provide added value.
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Frank Smith (Director, Books at JSTOR, USA) - "Open Access Business Models for Monographs: For and Against"
Frank Smith
Frank Smith is Director of the books program at JSTOR, where he has worked since 2011. Prior to joining JSTOR he was with Cambridge University Press for more than thirty years as editor for history, editorial director for North America, and Global Director of Digital Publishing.
Open Access Business Models for Monographs: For and Against
Abstract
The benefits and virtues of expanded OA publishing of monographs have been amply discussed in recent years, but the business challenges for such expansion have received less notice. This presentation will explore those challenges, drawing principally on data relevant to American university presses, though with the understanding that the American case is only one way of looking at the question.
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Johan Rooryck (Professor, French Linguistics and Editor, Glossa, Leiden University, The Netherlands) - "A Fair Open Access Publishing Model"
Johan Rooryck
Johan Rooryck (1961, PhD 1987) is a Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University. He was the editor of the linguistics journal Lingua (Elsevier) from 1999 to 2015, when the editors of Lingua and the entire editorial board resigned their positions at Lingua over Elsevier’s refusal to publish Lingua under conditions of Fair Open Access (see www.lingoa.eu). They started a new Open Access journal, Glossa, which quickly acquired the stature of its predecessor, and after one year has published 74 articles with 55 in production.
A Fair Open Access Publishing Model
Abstract
In my talk, I will compare the traditional publishing model with our new Fair Open Access model flipping journals in linguistics from sucription to Open Access ( www.lingoa.eu). I will also discuss general features of the model for flipping journals from subscription to Open Access, and will show how such a transition generates large-scale savings for participating university libraries. Finally, I will say something about the current extension of the LingOA model to mathematics and psychology (MathOA and PsyOA).
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12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Closing Remarks
Michael Keller (University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Founder of HighWire Press, Publisher of Stanford University Press)
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12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
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Light Luncheon
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1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
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Optional Event
Tours of LILLIAD led by members of the staff.
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