OCLC Webinar

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Campus Research Gateway and Expert Finder
Sarah L. ShreevesUniversity of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
1.0

• OCLC Webinar
• October 14, 2010

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Do you know what your faculty are doing?
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Libraries
Can we find a better/easier/more convenient way
to get content into our IRs?
Where are faculty publishing? Is that changing
over time?
Can we personalize discussions about scholarly
communication issues with faculty?
How do we know if were meeting
funder/institutional open access mandates?
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Faculty/Departments
Can we quickly generate a current publication
list to insert in grant applications / annual
reports / prospective graduate students?
Is there another researcher on campus working in
this area?
Cant I just give you a paper to upload to the
repository?
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Administrators
Which faculty are publishing in high profile
journals (eg Nature or Science)?
Are we meeting our funder/institutional open
access mandates?
What collaborations are happening across campus?
With other campuses?
What are the strengths of a department or
research group?
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BibApp developed by.

• University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Eric Larson
• Dorothea Salo
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bill Ingram
• Sarah Shreeves

Duraspace Tim Donohue With generous
support from the Illinois Informatics Institute
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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• Faculty directory information
• Publication lists
• Sherpa/Romeo publisher policy database
• OpenURL resolver
• Google Books
• Google Charts
• SWORD (for repository connection)
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Demo

• http//connections.ideals.illinois.edu/
• http//bibapp.mbl.edu/
• http//experts.kumc.edu/

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Development Ups and Downs
1.0RC1
I3
1.0

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Data Visualization
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Import in Batch

• RIS
• Medline
• Refworks XML
• More coming...
• (extendable parsing model)

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Deduplication
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Import Batch to a Person
Multiple pen names
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Suggest new pen names

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Simple guesses at author
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Simple guesses at authorship
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Edit / Add Single Work

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Simple Authority Records
For Publications Publishers
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Import to your Repository
Deposit License Repository Name pulled in via
SWORD

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Share your Data
All data in BibApp available in XML, JSON,
YAML, RDF

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Share your Data - XML
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Share your Data - RDF
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BibApp Roadmap Whats Next?

• Looking for development partners
• 1.0 Release (Summer 2010)
• 1.1 Release (this winter)
• More data visualizations
• Social graph whos working with whom?
• Improved authentication authorization
• LDAP/AD
• Single sign-on (Shibboleth, CAS)

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Our Technology Bits
OR
COinS
OpenURL
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What are the challenges?
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Metadata Mess
Incorrect citations from faculty (!)
Many, many, many variations on author names,
journal names, publisher names
Inconsistent use of formats like RIS
Incorrect citations from publishers
Incorrect use of formats like RIS
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Author Disambiguation (watching ORCID very
closely)
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Ease of Data Gathering

• Althaus, S. L. (2001). Who's voted in when the
  people tune out? Information effects in
  congressional elections. In Hart, R. P. and Shaw,
  D. R. (Eds.), Communication in U.S. elections
  new agendas. Lanham, MD Rowman Littlefield
  Publishers 33-53.

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• Who owns the keywords and abstracts?
• Generally the publisher or the abstract/index
  service

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What are the opportunities?
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History
Speech Communication
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History
Speech Communication
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Example History Dept at Illinois
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Example History Dept at Illinois
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Why dont we have better management and control
of these outputs?
Informed decisions for library collections Better
, data-driven discussions with faculty and
departments Easier to identify material to go
into institutional repositories Promotion of
departmental and individual research Better
understanding of the collaborations happening
around campus
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Contact Information

• Sarah Shreeves - sshreeve_at_illinois.edu
• BibApp download and other info at
  http//www.bibapp.org
• BibApp on Google Groups http//groups.google.com
  /group/bibapp
• BibApp on Twitter http//twitter.com/bibapp

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