Building Research Networks to Support Campus Programs

Purpose: This poster focuses on the methods, tools and outcomes involved in creating two targeted research networks to support large, long-running research programs in the Woods Hole scientific community. Participants: These efforts are managed by librarians from the Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MBLWHOI) Library in collaboration with administrators and researchers from two programs: The Whitman Center for Research and Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory and the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility (NOSAMS) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Description: In 2008, the MBLWHOI Library launched Connected Village (http://bibapp.mbl.edu), a research networking and discovery service for the Woods Hole Science Community1. The community has begun to recognize the Library as experts in promoting up-to-date information about researchers and research activities in Woods Hole. This year, NOSAMS and The Whitman Center have upcoming 10-year reviews from their respective funding agencies and governing boards. The ability to provide analytics regarding publication output, and demonstrate networking and outreach efforts is critical to the success of each review. This poster describes the planning, technical implementation, data gathering, deliverables, ongoing support and future directions of the Whitman (http://bibapp.mbl.edu/groups/51-MBL_Whitman_Center) and NOSAMS (http://nosams.mblwhoilibrary.org) research network tools. Results/Outcome: Whitman Center – 611 researcher profiles created, 2064 published works harvested. NOSAMS – 1030 research profiles created, 1899 published works harvested. Administrators now have the ability to quantify and visualize the research output and impact of their programs. The researchers, who are from institutions all over the globe, now have the ability to discover potential collaborators in their field and get a much better sense of the collective scientific trends and contributions of their affiliated program. The Library is working with each program to develop workflows to systematically harvest new publications and maintain contact with their researchers on a continuous basis. Ongoing development includes refining our process for automated deposits of full-text and supporting data for publications into our Institutional Repository, the Woods Hole Open Access Server. 1 Connected Village runs on the open source software Bibapp (http://www.bibapp.org), developed by the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois

Building research networks to support campus programs [poster]

Poster Session: 2012 E-Science Symposium, sponsored by Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) New England Region, and the Boston Library Consortium, April 4, 2012, Shrewsbury, MAThis poster focuses on the methods, tools and outcomes involved in creating two targeted research networks to support large, long-running research programs in the Woods Hole scientific community

The Biodiversity Heritage Library : advancing metadata practices in a collaborative digital library

Author Posting. © Taylor & Francis, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Library Metadata 10 (2010): 136-155, doi:10.1080/19386389.2010.506400.The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature, forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists, as well as “citizen scientists.” A successful mass-scanning digitization program, one that creates functional and findable digital objects, requires thoughtful metadata work flow that parallels the work flow of the physical items from shelf to scanner. This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature, specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form. It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities, avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding 12 natural history and botanical garden library collections, and the problems related to the complexity of serials, monographs, and series. Highlighted are the tools, procedures, and methodology for addressing the details of a mass-scanning operation. Specifically, keeping a steady flow of material, creation of page level metadata, and building services on top of data and metadata that meet the needs of the targeted communities. The replication of the BHL model across a number of related projects in China, Brazil, and Australia are documented as evidence of the success of the BHL mass-scanning project plan