LIS2670 Digital Libraries in Their Communities

Module 11: Social PlatformsPart B

Karen CalhounLibrary and Information

Science Program

Why author identifiers?• Unambiguously and persistently identify

authors for attribution and other purposes• Make related entities/objects related to them

straightforward to find and retrieve – for people and machines

• Overcome problems– Too many names! (7M+ researchers worldwide in 2009)– Rise of national research assessment systems– Rise of global collaborations

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Researcher identifiers

Table 9.2. Exploring Digital Libraries, p. 231. ©2014. Used with permission.

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ORCID taking off

August 2015:Over 1.5M

http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/150557-number-of-orcid-idsDate of screen capture: September 1, 2015

Social platforms

Align well with how people work and play on the web

Are highly visible and invite interaction

Re-mix and re-use data from other sources

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Going mobile, going social

• In April 2015, 64% of American adults owned a smartphone [1]

• In September 2014: – 71% of US online adults

used Facebook– 23% of US online adults

used Twitter– 26% used Instagram– 28% used Pinterest– 28% used LinkedIn [2]

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[1] Smith, Aaron. 2015. “U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015.” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech.

[2] Pew Research Center Internet Project. 2015. “Social Networking Fact Sheet.”

[3] Duggan, Maeve et al. 2015. “Social Media Update 2014.” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech.

“Online adults” – The 81% of responding US adults who said they use the internet or email

[3]

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Scholars going social

Figure from Van Noorden, Richard. 2014. “Online Collaboration: Scientists and the Social Network.” Nature 512 (7513): 126–29. Used with permission.

In Nature's survey, a subset of scholars who said they 'regularly visited' social media sites were quizzed in detail about their activities.

Twitter for example:• Discover peers and papers• Contact peers• Post content• Share links, comment, follow

discussions

Toward social platforms

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Image source: Exploring Digital Libraries, p. 238. ©2014. Used with permission.

Questions 1-2 go hereSee “In Video Questions and Answers” document

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Becoming ‘facilitators of conversation’

The social web is not simply a new fashion; it represents a new way of

thinking and doing things.

--Exploring Digital Libraries, p. 240.

Social web experiments

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NYPL BlogsBiblio File, 09/01/2015

Montana StateRossman and Young 2014, 63