the library behind the scene

1JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012

Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

The Library behind the sceneOpportunities

for Scientific Information in the digital era

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Outline

• 1- Introduction• 2. Digital content: more than text• 3- Integration of information resources• 4- The User community as a resource• 5- Conclusions and outlook

JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN

Library GS/SIS

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1- Introduction

JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS


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Context

• More and more e-content (e-books, e-journals, e-newspapers…)

• Search engines: i.e Google, Yahoo• Mobile devices (phones, tablets, readers..)• Social web (Facebook, Twitter, blogs…)Usage of information has changed: – “Here and now!”– Need for more content, more features

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2- Digital content

More than text



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Inspire: HEP literature databasehttp://inspirehep.net/


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Search for information

http://inspirehep.net/


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Full-text search



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Graphs, figures extraction



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References extraction



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Citation count



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Author’s page


- Author disambiguation

- Challenge: huge collaborations (with more than 2,500 authors)


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Author’s citations


- Metrics: Highly important to scientists

- Impact factor (ISI) (journal)- Number of citations

received in Year N for articles published in years N-1 and N-2 divided by number of citable articles published in years N-1 and N-2

- H-Index (author)- A scholar with index H has

published H papers each of which have been cited at least H time.


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Many more challenges

• More types of documents– Eg slides from conference proceedings linked with the conference

record– Computer-code– moving beyond the– article-centric model, as independent citable objects

• Deeper in the content– Data from plots and table

• More metrics: clicks

Need for integrated and linked information

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3- Integration of resources



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Why

• “Google generation”– Users want to access information easily– Single entry point

• Digital Library cannot be a closed circuit!– It should be where the users are!


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Open Data

• Metadata in public domain (Creative Commons License CC0)

• Reusable by anyone• Ex: CERN, Harvard Library…


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CERN Open Data


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Integrate with other Library catalogues

http://wolrdcat.org


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Where the users are

http://www.facebook.com/Bibliotheque.CentraleLyon


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Where the users want to go

-Simple API-Based on ISBN

http://cdsweb.cern.ch

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5- The user community as a resource



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Submission of documents

- Users as:- Information creators- curators



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Users as curators



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Commenting

- Creation of “new” information- Challenge:

- Moderation?- Preservation



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Study Users’ behavior (and use it)

• Usage statistics /logs– Understand their needs to adapt the resources,

the necessary features– Give back this information to them:

http://www.hud.ac.uk/library/


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Towards user-driven acquisition

• Give the users what they want– The community knows what they need

• Purchase is only driven by use– ≠ from the traditional model where purchased

resource is not always used (inefficiency, high costs)

– Resources shaped to the user’s needs


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User-driven acquisition for Ebooks

• Ebook records integrated in the catalogue• Pay only per usage At CERN, 17k ebooks available, but we pay

only if there is a use


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Ex. Books about Python at CERN Library

- 118 books- 50 owned by the Library

(print or ebook format)- Others available but not

“owned” by the Library- “Pay as you go”


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User-driven acquisition for print books

Library catalogue

Book recordsBook

record

Book records

Desiderata RecordDesiderata

Record

Source (eg Publisher, aggregator

User

Ingest

Request

Librarian

Purchase

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5- Conclusions and outlook



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Many opportunities

• Access to more content• Reach the user wherever he is• Interact more closely with the user

community and use this resource • Open Access – gradually remove barriers

Maximize the resources


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And challenges

• Sustainability of information– Formats, access, maintenance and storage

• Crowd-sourcing • Many barriers still need to be broken– “Digital divide”– OA is not equally developed in all scientific

disciplines


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