Global Research Library 2020: a report to Europe European Information Space: Infrastructures, Services and Applications Workshop Rome, Italy 29-30 October 2007 Dr Jessie M.N. Hey Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group Learning Societies

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Global Research Library 2020 a report to
Europe European Information Space
Infrastructures, Services and Applications
WorkshopRome, Italy 29-30 October 2007 Dr
Jessie M.N. HeyIntelligence, Agents and
Multimedia GroupLearning Societies LabSchool of
Electronics and Computer Science University of
Southampton, UKhttp//eprints.soton.ac.uk
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From Seattle to Southampton to the sun
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Seattle
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Southampton
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Enjoying our host the FAO
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Expect the unexpected (a swarm of birds towards
the Vatican) a theme of GRL 2020
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Research is global
Global Research Library 2020 Willows Lodge
WorkshopWoodinville, Washington, USA30 Sept
2nd Oct 2007
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Participants

• Chosen from across sectors and countries
• Expertise, thinkers see reading list
• http//www.lib.washington.edu/grl2020/readings.htm
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Getting to know each other at the neighbouring
winery
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Setting scene for the hard work

• Why GRL 2020? Why You?
• An e-science Vision
• The Cloud as the Platform for Research - A
  Technology View
• A View from a Global ResearcherAnn Marie
  Kimball, Professor, Epidemiology, University of
  Washington and Director, Asia Pacific Economic
  Cooperation Emerging Infections Network (APEC
  EINET)

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When the sun came out....
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Followed by the Library Summit 2007 on Oct 3rd

• Hosted by Microsoft
• Keynote by Jon Udell
• Remixing the library
• Abstract In an online world of small pieces
  loosely joined, librarians are among the most
  well qualified and highly motivated joiners of
  those pieces. Library patrons, meanwhile, are in
  transition. Once mainly consumers of information,
  they are now, on the two-way web, becoming
  producers too. Can libraries function not only as
  centers of consumption, but also as centers of
  production?
• http//jonudell.net/talks/lib2020/talk.html

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Technology ideas to savour

• Demos such as LiveLabs, Live Search Academic,
  Office file formats, eJournal Publishing Service,
  PLANETS
• Followed by a longer term view with the Home of
  the Future and the Center for Information Work

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Where to find the info

• http//www.lib.washington.edu/grl2020/
• For presentations and actions
• Always a blog or two e.g.
• http//weibel-lines.typepad.com/weibelines/2007/10
  /grl-2020-a-voic.html
• Intriguing how Google cannot resist these!

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Appropriate new book by a participant to add to
the list

• Hot off the press October 2007
• Scholarship in the Digital Age
• Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
• Christine L. Borgman
• The MIT Press
• Compares each disciplines approach to
  infrastructure issues

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Institutional and related repositories - symbols
of change
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The future is joined up the scholarly knowledge
cycle (joining up research and learning)
This month I started work on our e-learning
repository project - part of our whole vision
of the institutional repository Thanks
to Liz Lyon
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The British Library an integral part of our
future plans for the hybrid library!
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To illustrate the need my computer science
colleague was reading a book from 1951
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Key thoughts from group sessions

• Endorse the need for and encourage improved
  infrastructure especially technical but also
  social, economic
• Pay attention to less developed countries -
  thanks to Barbara Aronson of WHO for keeping us
  on our toes the HINARI Access to Research
  Initiative is a WHO programme which enables
  access to international journals for more than
  100 of the world's poorest countries.

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And some of the others

• New interdisciplinary perspectives for the
  information professions
• Leadership development
• Identify proof of concept projects
• Need to tackle IPR issues
• Need to reform tenure and rewards system for
  academics

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Meanwhile the external world keeps changing

• Wednesday, October 17, the Rector of the
  University of Brasilia hosted the rectors of six
  major Brazilian universities, as well as the
  chairman and a director of the Brazilian
  Institute for Information on Science and
  Technology
• The purpose of the meeting was to establish the
  foundations of a Brazilian movement for Open
  Access to scientific and scholarly publications
  the Brazilian Open Access Task Force.

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More in Europe

• A Conference of Rectors of European Universities
  convened in Liège on 18 October 2007 by the
  Rector of the University of Liège, Bernard
  Rentier, has launched EurOpenScholar
• "a showcase and a tool for the promotion of
  Open Access (OA) in Europe.
• It will be a consortium of European universities
  resolved to move forward on OA and to try to
  convince the largest possible number of
  researchers, their institutions and their
  European Funding Agencies to engage now in what
  will undoubtedly be the mode of communication of
  tomorrow.

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And in the US

• In a victory for libraries, the Senate on October
  23 passed an appropriations bill that included a
  mandatory public access directive for research
  funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Plan to produce a white paper/manifesto

• Influences
• Towards 2020 Science ed. Stephen Emmott,
  Microsoft Research Ltd 2006
• The Digital Library Manifesto
• Leonardo Candela et al, DELOS
  (2002-6).......aim to set the foundations and
  identify the cornerstone within the universe of
  DLs........

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Activities

• Further work by groups/individuals eg Open
  Repositories 2008 in Southampton subject
  aggregation from institutional repositories
• Continue via further workshop in 2008 in Europe
  or further afield

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Learning from each other

• From Europe
• The context of discipline is important
• From the US
• We need to find ways of funding initiatives
  together to tackle global problems

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The workshop was timely!

• They made it happen and made it work
• Betsy Wilson and her staff at University of
  Washington Libraries
• Tony Hey's group at Microsoft
• Especial thanks to Lee Dirks, Linda Ambre, and
  Ann Ferguson

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Were optimistic about the future but will first
set down a joint global perspective

• Thank you Jessie Hey
• jesshey_at_acm.org