Cleaning up the catalogue

The London School of Economics wanted to remove cataloguing inconsistencies but the scale of the task was huge, and outsourcing to a specialist bibliographic services company proved only a partial solution. Helen Williams explains why manual and automated processes were needed

The LSE, the blogs and the metadata

In 2016 LSE Library was tasked, as part of the School’s Knowledge Exchange Strategy, with archiving all official LSE blog outputs. With 56 research blogs, dating back as far as 2007, a significant amount of content had been generated. We came up with an ambitious project to archive this content in our institutional repository, aiming to enrich and extend its existing online metadata to increase visibility and discoverability. We successfully bid for some project funding, and set out to retrospectively archive this research output, which falls outside more traditional publishing channels, alongside seeking to automate key parts of the process in order to make complete archiving feasible and sustainable going forwards

The LSE, the blogs and the metadata

In 2016 LSE Library was tasked, as part of the School’s Knowledge Exchange Strategy, with archiving all official LSE blog outputs. With 56 research blogs, dating back as far as 2007, a significant amount of content had been generated. We came up with an ambitious project to archive this content in our institutional repository, aiming to enrich and extend its existing online metadata to increase visibility and discoverability. We successfully bid for some project funding, and set out to retrospectively archive this research output, which falls outside more traditional publishing channels, alongside seeking to automate key parts of the process in order to make complete archiving feasible and sustainable going forwards

Much ado about everything meets agile sprints

In early 2015 the London School of Economics began its Website Improvement Programme (WIP); a collaboration between the Communications Division and Information Management Technology (IMT) to provide the best possible digital experience for those that use lse.ac.uk. As custodians of LSE’s research outputs, through the Institutional Repository, the Library engaged with the project in order to advise on surfacing research content through the new webpages

Methods & proposal for metadata guiding principles for scholarly communications

This article describes an international community-based effort to create metadata guiding principles for adopting and using richer metadata and advancing its application in scholarly communications. These principles can facilitate the dissemination, discoverability and use/reuse of many types of research and scholarly outputs. While much work remains to be done, these principles serve as a starting point for the evolution of processes that span communities including publishers, researchers, scholars, authors and other creators, librarians, curators, custodians, and consumers of scholarly works. These aspirational Metadata 2020 Principles are designed to encompass the needs of our entire community while ensuring thoughtful, purposeful, and reusable metadata resources. They provide a framework for all of us to be good metadata citizens. They also provide a foundation for considering related work from Metadata 2020 and must be interpreted within the legal and practical context in which we operate. They are intended to guide the broadest possible cross-section of our community in improving research communications, publishing, and discoverability

Unilateral spontaneous rupture of a testicular implant thirteen years after bilateral insertion: a case report

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>We describe a case of spontaneous, non traumatic rupture of a single artificial testis in a patient who had undergone bilateral, staged radical orchidectomy followed by prosthesis insertion. The consequences and radiological appearances of implant rupture are discussed. We believe it is the longest time interval recorded between prosthesis insertion and rupture.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>A 50 year old Caucasian man presented to our outpatient department with an altered consistency in his right testicular prosthesis without any systemic symptoms or local inflammation. His left testicular prosthesis had retained its consistency since insertion.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The majority of cases reported to date have required exploration due to symptoms but we describe a case that was managed conservatively.</p