Stohn - Promoting Discovery of Institutional Repository Content

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ChristineStohn

PromotingdiscoveryofInstitutionalRepositorycontent

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ThediscoveryLandscape– differentusers,differententrypoints

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Aggregations

SocialMedia

Websearchengines

Websites

LibraryDiscovery

A&Idatabases


InstitutionalrepositoriesandDiscovery- examples

• >500Institutionalrepositoriesindexed

IRdatainlibrarydiscovery:Primoandsummon

• Articles• Researchdata• Digitalphotographs• Projectreportsanddata• Audio-visualmaterial• Manuscripts• Thesisanddissertations• Archivalmaterial• Rarebooks• …

Manydifferentmaterialandcontenttypes

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Librarydiscoveryexample:Atranscriptinsummon

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Librarydiscoveryexample:AresearchdatasetinPrimo

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Librarydiscoveryexample:AresearchdatasetinPrimo

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Openaccess– linkstothefreeversionofanarticleintheIR

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Openaccess– linkstothefreeversionofanarticleintheIR


InstitutionalRepositoriesandDiscovery- examples

PubMedLinkOut – uploadoptionforaddinglinkstoIRs

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/linkout/doc/nonbiblinkout.html


Pubmed LinkOut Example

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Pubmed LinkOut Example

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Metadata– akeydiscoveryfactor

• Metadataqualityanddepth• Reliabilityandconsistency• Useofidentifiersandstandardformatsfordataandharvesting

Important

• Noorincompleteandabbreviatedtitles• Missingauthor/creator• Inconsistentuseoffieldtags• Noclearorinconsistentindicationofcontenttype• Noidentifiers• Standardandversionnotclear(e.g.authormanuscriptvs.peerreviewed)

• Accessinformationincorrect,leadingtopaywalls

SomecommonproblemswithIRmetadata

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Useofrepositorydataisamatteroftrust

• ThedatacanbefoundontheInternet• Thedataareaccessible(clearrightsandlicences)

• Thedataareinausableformat• Thedataarereliable• Thedataareidentifiedinauniqueandpersistentwaysothattheycanbereferredto

DataSealofApprovalassessment:

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http://www.datasealofapproval.org/en/assessment/


Discoverybeyondsearching

• Citationtrails• Topictrails• Recommendersystems• Supplementarymaterial• …

Datanetworksandconnections:Explorationandlearning

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Useofcommonidentifiersandgoodmetadataisessentialforexploration


Exploration:Acitationtrail

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Linkedopendata

URIs,RDF,RESTful APIs…

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http://lod-cloud.net/


Discoveryentrypoints– notendpoints

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Aggregations

SocialMedia

Websearchengines

Websites

LibraryDiscovery

A&Idatabases


Discoveryentrypoints– notendpoints

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Aggregations

SocialMedia

Websearchengines

Websites

LibraryDiscovery

A&Idatabases


Summary

• WidedistributionofIRdataleadstodiscoveryandisdesirableforallstakeholders

• Standardsanduseofwidelyacceptedformatsareessential(OAI-PMH,NISOResourceSync,NISOODIandALI,Identifiers(DOI,ORCiD),DublinCore,BibFrame,MARC,NISOJATS…)

• Don’tjustthinksearching,thinkalsolinking,exploration,connectingcontenttothesemanticweb

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