Title: Global Research Library 2020: a report to Europe European Information Space: Infrastructures, Servic
1Global 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
2From Seattle to Southampton to the sun
3Seattle
4Southampton
5Enjoying our host the FAO
6Expect the unexpected (a swarm of birds towards
the Vatican) a theme of GRL 2020
7Research is global
Global Research Library 2020 Willows Lodge
WorkshopWoodinville, Washington, USA30 Sept
2nd Oct 2007
8Participants
- Chosen from across sectors and countries
- Expertise, thinkers see reading list
- http//www.lib.washington.edu/grl2020/readings.htm
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9Getting to know each other at the neighbouring
winery
10Setting 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)
11When the sun came out....
12Followed 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
13Technology 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
14Where 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!
15Appropriate 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
16Institutional and related repositories - symbols
of change
17The 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
18The British Library an integral part of our
future plans for the hybrid library!
19To illustrate the need my computer science
colleague was reading a book from 1951
20Key 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.
21And 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
22Meanwhile 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.
23More 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.
24And 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).
25Plan 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........
26Activities
- 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
27Learning 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
28The 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
29Were optimistic about the future but will first
set down a joint global perspective
- Thank you Jessie Hey
- jesshey_at_acm.org