From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Wed 06 Dec 2006 - 16:53:03 GMT
From: Roy Tennant <roy.tennant@UCOP.EDU>
Subject: [CurrentCites] Current Cites, November 2006
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Current Cites, November 2006
Edited by Roy Tennant <http://roytennant.com/>
http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/2006/cc06.17.11.html
*Contributors: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
<http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/bailey.htm>, Leo Robert Klein
<http://leoklein.com/>, Roy Tennant <http://roytennant.com/>*
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Digital Library Federation/Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for
Shareable MODS Records
<http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/dlfmodsimplementationguidelines_finalnov2006.
pdf>///
Washington, DC: Digital Library Federation, November
2006.(http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/dlfmodsimplementationguidelines_finalnov
2006.pdf).
- Although this document is specifically aimed at participants in the
Digital Library Federation Aquifer project
<http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/>, it is chock full of good advice for
any organization wanting to expose or share their metadata to other
institutions -- for example, via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting <http://openarchives.org/> (OAI-PMH). Note,
however, that this document is quite specific to how metadata should be
encoded using the Metadata Object Description Schema
<http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/> (MODS) format. Related (and more
generally applicable) work can be found at the Digital Library
Federation and NSDL OAI and Shareable Metadata Best Practices Working
Group <http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/> web site. - RT
<http://roytennant.com/>
Brogan, Martha L. /Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed
Library <http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf106/>/// Washington, DC: Digital
Library Federation, November 2006.(http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf106/).
- This rather massive report (the PDF version runs 282 pages) covers a
lot of ground. This is at it should be, since these days there are a
very large number of potentially interesting digital library projects.
But therein also lies the difficulty. Although the broad sweep that
Brogan lays out for us is amazing in itself, it is deucedly difficult to
draw any generalized conclusions from such an exercise. There are many
threads of activity that are advancing at varying rates of speed and
with sometimes parallel, sometimes congruent, and sometimes tangential
arcs. Making sense of all this is perhaps an exercise in frustration, at
least for those of puny intellect such as myself. Nope, probably best to
look at it as a wild ride through an amazing array of interesting
projects and glean from it what you can. My guess is that like the blind
men encountering the elephant, our perception of this report will depend
greatly on the part to which we affix our grasp. Full disclosure: a
couple projects in which I am a participant or manager are highlighted.
- RT <http://roytennant.com/>
Frumkin, Jeremy. "In Our Cages with Golden Bars" /OCLC Systems &
Services/ <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/oclc.htm>
22(4)(2006): 247-248. - This is a short piece about doing away with the
"golden bars" of a cage that Frumkin believes we impose on ourselves
when developing new systems. It's about expertise and where to position
it. As Frumkin says, "We need to forgo our own need to push our library
expertise onto our users, and instead use that expertise to do the heavy
lifting for our users." - LRK <http://leoklein.com/>
Gierveld, Heleen. "Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach
for an Institutional Repository
<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/gierveld/>" /Ariadne/
<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/> (49)(October
2006)(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/gierveld/). - Anyone who has been
involved with an institutional repository project knows that you can
build it, but it doesn't mean they will come. The technical hurdles are
nothing compared to getting people to actually deposit content in it. So
this article by Gierveld is useful and timely, in that the number of
institutions creating repositories is already large and is increasing.
Gierveld offers the "8 P's" strategy of marketing: Product, Price,
Promotion, Place, Public, Partnership, Policy, and Purse String. For
each of these, she offers examples specific to an institutional
repository, and follows up with specific marketing strategies
institutions can take to increase the take up and use of their
repository. Recommended reading for any institution that has a
repository or is hoping to create one. - RT <http://roytennant.com/>
McDonald, Robert H., and Chuck Thomas. "Disconnects between Library
Culture and Millennial Generation Values
<http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp?bhcp=1>" /EDUCAUSE
Quarterly/ <http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/index.asp>
29(4)(2006): 4-6.
(http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp?bhcp=1). - Are
research libraries reaching Millennials? The authors don't think so, and
they examine how current library cultural values, technologies, and
policies are barriers to libraries seizing new opportunities to serve
this important user group. For example, they note: "Dogmatic library
protection of privacy inhibits library support for file-sharing,
work-sharing, and online trust-based transactions that are increasingly
common in online environments, thus limiting seamless integration of
Web-based services." Whether you agree or not, this article is worth a
read. - CB <http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/bailey.htm>
Sale, Arthur. "The Patchwork Mandate <http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/>"
/UTas ePrints/ <http://eprints.utas.edu.au/>
(2006)(http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/). - You can't get your university
administration to mandate deposit of e-prints in your institutional
repository. There are voluntary deposit strategies, but Sale notes: "The
'everything else' policies are not worth talking about for long. In the
absence of mandates, every encouragement policy known to Man fails to
convince more than 15% to 20% of researchers to invest the 5 minutes of
time needed to deposit their publications. The percentage does not grow
with time." What to do? The answer: work to get departmental mandates. -
CB <http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/bailey.htm>
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