August 2023 – Page 5 – DigitalKoans

Data Steward (Two Positions) at The University of Manchester

The Office for Open Research is coordinating a project to establish a network of data stewards and build the model for data stewardship across the University. . . . It involves the formalisation of roles and responsibilities, and their application, to ensure that research objects are managed for long-term reuse, and in accordance with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles.

Data stewards support researchers with their research data management, including advocating for open and FAIR data, by acting as the first point of contact for enquiries, a link to central services (such as the Library, IT, Information Governance) and as experts in data practices in the disciplines they support.

https://tinyurl.com/36z33uep

"Impact and Development of an Open Web Index for Open Web Search"

Web search is a crucial technology for the digital economy. Dominated by a few gatekeepers focused on commercial success, however, web publishers have to optimize their content for these gatekeepers, resulting in a closed ecosystem of search engines as well as the risk of publishers sacrificing quality. To encourage an open search ecosystem and offer users genuine choice among alternative search engines, we propose the development of an Open Web Index (OWI). We outline six core principles for developing and maintaining an open index, based on open data principles, legal compliance, and collaborative technology development. The combination of an open index with what we call declarative search engines will facilitate the development of vertical search engines and innovative web data products (including, e.g., large language models), enabling a fair and open information space. This framework underpins the EU-funded project OpenWebSearch.EU, marking the first step towards realizing an Open Web Index.

https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24818

Librarian (Data Curator) at U.S. Department of Transportation

Be responsible for researching best practices in data curation and preservation and making recommendations for improving NTL systems. Provide recommendations for (a) data standards, formats, and metadata policies; (b) data management and preservation plans; and (c) data dissemination and outreach.

Research metadata standards for all data formats and types, with a focus on needs for mid- and long-term preservation in order to keep abreast of developments in the areas of data management, data curation, and information sciences.

Serve as a resource in developing data management standards for scientific and technical information (STI) datasets, as well as other non-STI datasets that are important for the Department.

https://tinyurl.com/mvj8juch

"Will Building LLMs [AI Large Language Models] Become the New Revenue Driver for Academic Publishing?"

In a world where peer-reviewed content holds value for Generative AI companies, the question arises whether content that is locked behind a paywall has greater value than OA content. . . . Will publishers who still have a lot of content locked up, such as IEEE or NEJM, retain the most valuable assets? Will publishers that limit licensing to more restrictive terms such as CC BY-NC and CC BY-NC-ND have revenue streams denied to those exclusively using CC BY licenses? . . . Could authors receive income from their work via a CMO (Collective Management of Copyright) license, regardless of the agreement they have with the publisher?

https://tinyurl.com/zm6u5spc

Library Systems Associate at Grinnell College

The Library Systems Associate provides day-to-day operational management and support of integrated library system(ILS). This is an enterprise resource system, designed for libraries, that tracks inventory, orders, payments, and circulation. Analyzes, diagnoses, prioritizes, and resolves problems relating to library hardware and software systems. Provides staff and user support; provides desktop support; performs research, assessment and troubleshooting to resolve complex integrated library systems related issues; assists in the investigation and implementation of emerging technologies; coordinates order, retrieval, manipulation, and downloading of electronic data into local systems; provides day-to-day coordination between the Libraries and ITS by working within the general standards and communications protocols set by ITS; and provides orientation and training for Library Technical Consultants.

https://jobs.grinnell.edu/postings/5130

OpenAI’s New Web Crawler: GPTBot

OpenAI has released a brief overview of GPTBot.

GPTBot is OpenAI’s web crawler and can be identified by the following user agent and string.

User agent token: GPTBot

Full user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/gptbot)

Usage

Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future models and are filtered to remove sources that require paywall access, are known to gather personally identifiable information (PII), or have text that violates our policies. Allowing GPTBot to access your site can help AI models become more accurate and improve their general capabilities and safety. Below, we also share how to disallow GPTBot from accessing your site.

Disallowing GPTBot

To disallow GPTBot to access your site you can add the GPTBot to your site’s robots.txt:

User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: /

Scholarly Services Librarian at University of Minnesota

The Scholarly Services Librarian has primary responsibility for monitoring the scholarship of the Law School’s faculty, and developing and implementing strategies that will maximize its discoverability and scholarly impact. Specific responsibilities include: assisting faculty members in creating and maintaining scholarly profiles; creating and maintaining faculty publication pages on the Law School’s website; managing the Faculty Scholarship collection in the Law School’s Scholarship Repository; serving as the Law School’s SSRN Administrator; and compiling information for the Law School Administration regarding faculty publication activity.

This position has primary responsibility for the management of the Law School’s Scholarship Repository, an open access repository on the Digital Commons platform. In addition to the Faculty Scholarship collection, the Repository includes collections of scholarship produced by the Law School’s journals, and research centers and institutes. Video recordings, papers, and other materials from selected Law School lectures, conferences, and other events are also contained in the Repository.

https://tinyurl.com/5b2pfkpb

Paywall: "Another Wiley Journal Loses Editorial Board"

At least two-thirds of the editorial board of Wiley’s Journal of Biogeography have resigned, citing the publisher’s push towards "exorbitant" open access fees and what they claimed was a policy to steer rejected manuscripts to other titles.

https://tinyurl.com/2bhf6ppp

Executive Director at Association of Research Libraries

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) seeks a highly strategic and innovative thoughtful leader, who will effectively collaborate with the ARL membership to advance the Association’s aspirations, strategic goals, and commitments in line with its mission, vision, and values. As a thought leader and consensus-builder on the ways in which universities and other research institutions create, integrate, preserve, and disseminate knowledge, the new Executive Director must be a persuasive, influential champion, and advocate of efforts to build sustainable models of scholarly communication. The Executive Director must also advocate for important public policy issues facing its membership in the 21st century and to sustain and enhance research library services in support of ARL member institutional missions.

https://tinyurl.com/y7vchytk

"ARL Awarded Grant to Continue Research on Institutional Expenses for Public Access to Research Data"

The US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in collaboration with Duke University, the University of Minnesota, and Washington University in St. Louis, all of whom are members of the Data Curation Network (DCN), a $741,921 National Leadership Grant to examine institutional expenses for public access to research data. This research builds upon ARL’s existing Realities of Academic Data Sharing initiative.

https://tinyurl.com/378dzab6

Digital Collection Processing Specialist at University of California, Santa Barbara

Under the direction of the Head of Special Collection Processing Unit and working collaboratively with the Curators and Selectors, the Archival Processing team, and staff in Resource Acquisition & Discovery Services (ReADS), the Digital Collection Processing Specialist supports the processing of digital and born-digital special collections, including workflows and processes related to collection digitization, collection management and processing, and web archiving activities. . . . They collaborate with library colleagues to support the development of electronic records lifecycle management programs and workflows. This position contributes to both the Special Collections Processing Unit’s and ReADS’ policies, procedures, and the design of productive workflows.

https://tinyurl.com/2mad2uvd

"Images, an Overview"

Images have been historical records since the advent of photography. High-resolution photography laid the groundwork for the digitization process known today and has continued to bolster the cultural heritage sector. An overview of images in the context of library and information science (LIS) is a story of how libraries have adopted aspects of the commercial image production environment, expensive digitization equipment, and considerable information technology infrastructure to provide image resources to their users. This entry [of the Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science] discusses images in the LIS field and considers the concepts, tools, and best practices that surround the prevalence of images as primary sources.

https://hdl.handle.net/10657/15041

| Research Data Publication and Citation Bibliography | Research Data Sharing and Reuse Bibliography | Research Data Curation and Management Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

Digital Library Application Programmer at University of Florida

Work with other members of the Digital Development Team to design, implement and maintain web and database systems which effectively deliver digital resources, track resource usage during digitization, and facilitate the compilation of analytical data in support of the Digital Support Services department. The underlying programming, scripting, query, and markup languages involved may include, but are not limited to Python/Django, PostgreSQL, React.js, JavaScript, C#, XML, HTML5 and CSS, with initial emphasis on React.js serving backend APIs.

https://tinyurl.com/y9e834pa

"Association of Research Libraries and California Digital Library Receive Grant to Advance Data Management and Sharing"

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the California Digital Library (CDL) have received a $668,048 National Leadership Grant from the US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to assist institutions in managing and sharing federally funded research data. This project will build a machine-actionable data-management plan (maDMP) tool by enhancing and developing new DMPTool features utilizing persistent identifiers (PIDs). CDL and ARL will work together to further strengthen institutional capacity for tracking research outputs by piloting the institutional integration of maDMPs across an academic campus and building community across institutions for maDMPs.

https://tinyurl.com/35x9d45z

| Research Data Publication and Citation Bibliography | Research Data Sharing and Reuse Bibliography | Research Data Curation and Management Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

Digital Archivist at Utah State University

The Digital Archivist is primarily responsible for developing and implementing workflows, best practices, and policies associated with the creation, receipt, appraisal, selection, and ingestion of born-digital information and digital surrogates, including electronic records, digital objects (text, image, audiovisual), web pages, and datasets. This position will collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including curators, archivists, catalogers, systems analysts, vendors, and donors to facilitate digital acquisitions. The Digital Archivist will work closely with the other members of the Digital Stewardship Program (includes the Digital Preservation Librarian and metadata specialists) to ensure accessioned digital assets are properly described and preserved.

https://tinyurl.com/sunu3unz

"How Many Preprints Have Actually Been Printed and Why: A Case Study of Computer Science Preprints on arXiv"

In this paper, a case study of computer science preprints submitted to arXiv from 2008 to 2017 is conducted to quantify how many preprints have eventually been printed in peer-reviewed venues. Among those published manuscripts, some are published under different titles and without an update to their preprints on arXiv. In the case of these manuscripts, the traditional fuzzy matching method is incapable of mapping the preprint to the final published version. In view of this issue, we introduce a semantics-based mapping method with the employment of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). With this new mapping method and a plurality of data sources, we find that 66% of all sampled preprints are published under unchanged titles and 11% are published under different titles and with other modifications. A further analysis was then performed to investigate why these preprints but not others were accepted for publication. Our comparison reveals that in the field of computer science, published preprints feature adequate revisions, multiple authorship, detailed abstract and introduction, extensive and authoritative references and available source code.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01899

| Research Data Publication and Citation Bibliography | Research Data Sharing and Reuse Bibliography | Research Data Curation and Management Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

"MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D20) Achieves Second Year Goal, Opens Access to Eighty-Two New Books in 2023"

Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press will publish its full list (see below) of 2023 scholarly monographs and edited collections open access on the MIT Press Direct platform. . . .

In its second year, 322 libraries, an increase of 33% from the first year, from around the globe committed to support D2O. Expanding D2O’s international footprint, the Press also entered into all-in agreements with Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Konsortium der sächsischen Hochschulbibliotheken, as well as central licensing and invoicing agreements with Council of Australian University Librarians, Center for Research Libraries; Greater Western Library Alliance, MOBIUS, Northeast Research Libraries, Jisc, Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation, SCELC, and Lyrasis.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7vv3tc

| Research Data Publication and Citation Bibliography | Research Data Sharing and Reuse Bibliography | Research Data Curation and Management Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

Collections Digitization Archivist at Stanford University

Reporting to the Digital Services Manager and sitting within HILA’s Description department, the Collections Digitization Archivist will play a key role in fulfilling digitization requests and projects in coordination with internal/external stakeholders. The material being digitized comprises library and archival collections in a mix of formats, languages, and content types, primarily from the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Collections Digitization Archivist will assist in planning, coordinating, and troubleshooting digitization tasks and projects, liaising with colleagues in Description, Preservation, Engagement, and Digital Imaging. They will also prepare, enhance, and ingest files for online access and digital preservation.

https://tinyurl.com/y55vafvz

Paywall: "Proposal for the Publication of Linked Open Bibliographic Data"

The objective of this paper is to analyze the publishing of bibliographic data such as LOD, having as a product the elaboration of theoretical-methodological recommendations for the publication of these data, in an approach based on the ten best practices for publishing LOD, from the World Wide Web Consortium. The starting point was the conduction of a Systematic Review of Literature, where initiatives to publish bibliographic data such as LOD were identified. An empirical study of these institutions was also conducted.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2234358

| Research Data Publication and Citation Bibliography | Research Data Sharing and Reuse Bibliography | Research Data Curation and Management Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

Senior Applications Developer at Ohio State University

The Senior Applications Developer serves on the cross-functional Application Development & Operations team in the University Libraries IT Division. The Senior Applications Developer is responsible for the end-to-end development and delivery of specialized library and administrative systems that enable the libraries to share knowledge and culture with the people of Ohio, the nation, and the world.

https://tinyurl.com/5jwxt8yw

Forthcoming, Paywall: Copyright: Best Practices for Academic Libraries

This book provides advice on how to analyze and apply the copyright law to specific areas encountered by librarians and instructors. . . . Written by Donna L. Ferullo, the Director of the University Copyright Office at Purdue University who holds both law and library science degrees and Dwayne K. Buttler, the Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the University of Louisville, who also holds a law degree.

Google Books preview.

| Research Data Publication and Citation Bibliography | Research Data Sharing and Reuse Bibliography | Research Data Curation and Management Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

Scholarly Communications Librarian at California State University, San Bernardino

Reporting to the Dean of the CSUSB Libraries, the Scholarly Communication (SC) Librarian will act as the library’s leading resource on a range of scholarly communication issues, including open access, copyright and fair use, authors’ rights, data management, and open educational resources. The person in this position will manage CSUSB ScholarWorks, our institutional repository, promote its use on campus, and advocate for the role of the IR in supporting sustainable scholarly communication. In collaboration with library and campus stakeholders, the SC Librarian will support student and faculty author-researchers through education and information about scholarly publishing issues. The SC Librarian will also work with instructors to locate, develop, and use OERs, thus supporting students by reducing course material costs.

https://tinyurl.com/yrtekmna

"Progressing with Patience: An Unflinching Look at the Challenges of Digital Preservation"

Many academic libraries have devoted significant time, resources, and strategy to developing approaches that steward digital assets responsibly into the future. This paper examines how one academic library’s experience [University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas] with this work has progressed over nearly a decade, and compares the experience to trends in the field. The point of view of technical services, digital collections, and management, are represented and specific workflows are shared. The paper takes a close look at challenges faced, explains how strategy has evolved over time, and shares examples of how other organizations might benefit from a shift in how progress is assessed through a new perspective on success.

https://repository.ifla.org/handle/123456789/2689

| Research Data Publication and Citation Bibliography | Research Data Sharing and Reuse Bibliography | Research Data Curation and Management Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

Systems Librarian at DePaul University

As a member of the Digital Services team, the Systems Librarian serves as the technical administrator of score library systems, including the integrated library systems, interlibrary loan, course reserves, the institutional repository, library support cloud software, and authenticationsystem. Working closely with other Digital Services staff, the Systems Librarian will support patrons and other library staff in using digital resources and services.

https://tinyurl.com/y9mpb2ya

"Judge Finds Revived Amazon E-book Monopoly Suit Should Proceed "

For a second time in two years, a magistrate judge in New York has recommended that a consumer class action lawsuit accusing the Big Five publishers of colluding with Amazon to fix e-book prices should be dismissed. But while the judge recommended tossing the case against the publishers, the court found that monopolization and attempted monopolization claims against Amazon should proceed.

https://tinyurl.com/7pru9f4m