Data Conservancy: A Life Sciences Perspective

Keynote address about the Data Conservancy Project awarded through the National Science Foundation DataNet program, delivered by G. Sayeed Choudhury, PhD, Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University

The Cutting Edge: The Next Generation Digital Library

A presentation given at The Library in Bits and Bytes: Digital Library Symposium, held at the University of Maryland on 29 September 2005

Document Recognition for a Million Books

National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Service

Emerging Tools for Evaluating Digital Library Services: Conceptual Adaptations of LibQUAL+ and CAPM

The paper describes ways to examine how digital libraries are valued by their users, and explores ways of permitting the allocation of resources to areas of user-identified need. Pertinent models from marketing, economics, and library assessment and evaluation are reviewed, focussing on the application of the LibQUAL+TM and CAPM methodologies. Each methodology, which was developed independently, provides a useful framework for evaluating digital library services. The paper discusses the benefits of a combined methodology that would provide even greater potential for evaluation of digital library services

A joint Open Access Week/BC Research Libraries Group Lecture Series event

Faculty at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) associated with community-wide eScience projects identified data curation as one of the most important repository-related services. In response, Johns Hopkins University established a university data management program and a service model to support data curation as part of an evolving cyberinfrastructure featuring open, modular components. In addition to this technological framework, Johns Hopkins is developing new roles and relationships between the library and the academic community, most notably through the development of “data scientists” or “data humanists.” These developments reflect the realization that the IR is the first step in a longer journey and that for institutional efforts to be successful, they must be integrated into a larger landscape of repositories that serve a distributed and diverse academic community. Sayeed Choudhury discussed these developments at JHU and how these developments support the case for open data and the longer term vision for data management. This keynote session and Joint Open Access Week/BC Research Libraries Group Lecture Series Event was held on October 22, 2010 in the Dodson Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia.Non UBCUnreviewedFacult

A Framework for Evaluating Digital Library Services

This article provides an overview of evaluation studies for libraries, a brief introduction to the CAPM Project, a description of the theoretical background for the CAPM methodology and, finally, a discussion of the implementation of the methodology for the CAPM Project