Collaboration in the Cloud

Collaboration in the CloudLaine Farley

Executive Director10 May 2012

Why should we collaborate beyond UC?

Over 30 years…

Regional Library Facilities

What is the ROI on Collaboration?• Create collective impact through partnerships

and networks– Share wealth (resources), expertise and power

with peers– Share leadership throughout networks

• Engage in both direct service and advocacy– Meet immediate needs and help reform larger

systems• Master the art of adaptation– Modify tactics, respond quickly, innovate

constantlyOCLC: “Game Changers for Groups & Consortia” from Foundation Strategy Group (Crutchfield, Kramer, Kania)

Case Studies“build a reliable and increasingly comprehensive digital archive of library materials converted from print that is co-owned and managed by a number of academic institutions.”

“organize a distributed print repository service among research libraries in the western region of the United States. The initial focus of WEST will be on consolidating and validating retrospective print journal backfiles.”

“a distributed framework for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data”; supported by the NSF as one of the initial DataNets; Data Observation Network for Earth

“dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research”; provides the leading open source software for journal and conference management and publishing

“establish easier access to research data on the Internet; increase acceptance of research data as contributions to the scholarly record; support data archiving”

IMPACT ADVOCACY LEADS TO…

Over 60 research libraries Rights management •Scholars open their works•Authors Guild lawsuit!

3M public domain works •Print collection management•UC Reprints Service

10M volumes Preservation •Digital Preservation Network

Full text search Digital scholarship •HathiTrust Research Center (Indiana, UIUC)


103 libraries in 17 states Preserve the scholarly print record

•25 year commitments

8,000 journal runs150,000 vols.2.75m records

•CRL Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR)

Policies for access Record commitments •OCLC practices/policies•WEST member policies

Equates to 1M vols. in member libraries

•Reallocate physical space


15 institutions, agencies, data repositories, observatories, libraries

Enable long-term preservation of diverse multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national observational data

•7 funders

Data @ network level; 3 coordinating; 6 member nodes

Open data •Merritt as data node

Data management Best practices •DMPTool•DCXL

Data Management Planning – DMPTool

• Step by step “wizard”

• Templates and examples

• Links to institutional resources and agency info

• Streamline the process to produce a credible and high-quality plan for managing data

• Allow researchers to focus on research

Meeting funding agencies data management plan requirement

Surveys indicate:• Most researchers are unaware of

preservation options• Documentation practices are poor• Excel is just one tool in workflows

Digital Curation for Excel

• Excel is the database of choice for many researchers• How to encourage data sharing, archiving, and

publishing?– Self-description– Enhance discovery– Facilitate the determination of suitability for use

Primary Functions1. Metadata description (through

extraction and augmentation)2. Check export compatibility3. Transfer to repository


16 member organizations; 4 associates; 12 countries

Make data citable, sharable

•EZID•Fee for service: 18 clients; 6 in progress

Member meetings Get credit for data •Indexing in WoK, etc.•”Altmetrics”

Data publication •Moore grant – “Data paper”

EZID: Long term identifiers made easy

• Precise identification of a dataset (DOI or ARK)

• Credit to data producers and data publishers

• A link from the traditional literature to the data (DataCite)

• Exposure and research metrics for datasets(Web of Knowledge)

Primary Functions1. Create persistent identifiers2. Manage identifiers (and associated

metadata) over time3. Resolve identifiers

Take control of the management and distribution of your research, share and get credit for it, and build your reputation through its collection and documentation

Vision for a “data paper”

• Wrap the unfamiliar in a familiar façade

• Minimally, a cover sheet and a set of links to archived artifacts

• Cover sheet contains familiar elements: title, date, authors, abstract, identifiers

• Just enough metadata to permit basic exposure to and discovery– Indexing by services such as Web

of Science, Google Scholar– Instilling confidence in the

identifier’s stability


Simon Fraser, Stanford , University of Pittsburgh, CDL

Open access publishing •CDL as development partner

11,500 installations of software globally

“proves that open source software can be a game changer in scholarly publishing”

•eScholarship transitioned from bepress•hosting for others?

Validation of OA •New metrics?

Data publication •New forms of publication?

eScholarship: Open access publishing and institutional repository services

OA Publications•Journals: 55!•Books•Gray literature, all sorts•Postprints•Academic unit collections•Multmedia •ETDs; Undergrad pubs

Tools & Services•OJS dev partnership: journal platform, peer review management•Print-on-demand/ebooks •Streamlined repository submission system•Faceted search and browse•Multimedia help center resources•Robust usage metrics

Service landscape

Create, edit, share, and save data management plans

Open access scholarly publishing: papers, journals, books, seminars & more

Curation repository: store, manage, preserve, and share research data

Create and manage persistent identifiers

Open source curation add-in for Microsoft Excel

An infrastructure to publish and get credit for sharing research data

Challenges and lessons learned

Supporting the research lifecycle – getting embedded farther upstream

Deploying simple and flexible infrastructure and services that can be used in diverse ways

Start small: provide simple solutions that build up to solve more complex problems

Take advantage of opportunities; perfection comes later

Collaborate now more than ever!

What does this mean for you?

• Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/2192189572/sizes/m/in/photostream/

•How can HathiTrust and WEST help with print management challenges?•How can HathiTrust serve researchers’ needs?•How is scholarly practice changing in your subject area?• Do the tools and solutions for data management work

for your discipline?• Do the tools and options for publishing apply?

Are more collaborations in our future?

Your turn

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Collaboration in the Cloud