DISC–DataInfrastructureandScholarlyCommunicationKENN I N G A R L I T S C H , D EAN O F TH E L I B R A R Y

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EnvironmentGrowingresearchuniversitywithveryproductivefaculty(grants,publications)◦ Disparityofaccesstoinfrastructureandservices◦ MSUresearchisnotasvisibleasitshould be

Fundingagenciesrequiringmoredatamanagement◦ Growingassumption thatlibrarieswilljusttakecareofthis

ResearchDataCensus◦ http://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/9314

Montana“bootstrap”mentality

DataInfrastructure andScholarlyCommunicationJointinitiativeofMSULibraryandMSUInformationTechnologyCenter

LaunchedSeptember 2015

OverallgoalistohelpMSUresearchersbecomemorecompetitiveProvidecomputinginfrastructureandservices

ExistingpersonnelfromLibraryandITCAdministrativedirectorontwo-yearhalf-timereassignment

Vision◦ Advancingresearchandamplifyingimpact

Mission◦ WeprovideMSUresearcherswithcomputational,data,anddigitalresourcesandexpertisethatincreasediscovery,buildknowledge,andcommunicatescholarlywork.

InfrastructureExamplesHyaliteCluster◦ Highperformancecomputing clusteropen totheentireMSUcommunitywithapproximately10teraflopsofcomputational capacityand600terabytesofdatastorage.

BridgerNetwork◦ Highperformance“researchonly”physicalnetworkfunded bytheNSFtoallowbigdatatomovemoreefficientlyacrosstheBozemancampusandwithnationalandinternationalcollaborators.

Cyber-CANOE– CollaborativeAnalysisNavigationandObservationEnvironment◦ Fundedandwillbeimplemented laterthisyear

ScholarWorks – scholarworks.montana.edu◦ OpenAccessinstitutional repository running DSpace◦ DatarepositoryunderdevelopmentwithCKANsoftware

OpenJournalSystems – currentlyhostingtwopublications

ServicesExamplesAuthorFund

Datasecurity/confidentialityconsultation

Datascience/bioinformaticsconsultation

DOIminting/ARKs

SearchEngineOptimization

SocialMediaOptimization

ResearcherIDservices

MSUPublications

SESMOforsubscriptiondatabases

SemanticWebIdentityoptimization

#1- ResearcherIDServicesSuiteoftoolsandservicesthatdisambiguateresearchersandhelpsurfacetheirwork

DISCishelpingresearchersdecidewithwhichservicestoengage

Plantoprovideseeding/maintainingservices

1. Author/Researcher Identification2. AcademicandProfessionalNetworking3. ReferenceandCitationManagement

Shanks, Justin andKenningArlitsch.“MakingSenseofResearcherServices,”Journal ofLibraryAdministration, v56no3,March25,2016.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01930826.2016.1146534

ResearcherServices-Author/Researcher Identification

ResearcherServices– AcademicProfiling

ResearcherServices–Reference&CitationManagement

#2- ResearcherPublicationsServiceHarvestingservice publishedmonthlytoreveal facultyresearchpublications

http://www.montana.edu/research/publications/

LeilaStermanScholarlyCommunicationLibrarian

#3- SESMO:SearchEngineandSocialMediaOptimizationApplyingSEO,linkeddata,andsocialmediaoptimizationtosubscribeddatabases

Meetsscholarswheretheybegintheirresearch(incommercialsearchengines)

Increaseslikelihoodtheywilldiscover,accessandshareMSU’ssubscribedresources

Substantialincreasedtraffictopaidresources

JasonClark,HeadofLibraryInformaticsandComputingDoralyn Rossmann,HeadofCollectionDevelopmentandDISCAdministrativeDirector◦ https://www.cni.org/topics/information-access-retrieval/open-sesmo-innovations-in-surfacing-paid-content-to-todays-learners

#4- SemanticWebIdentityServices

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Academicorganizations arepoorlyrepresentedontheSemanticWeb…

…becausesearchenginesdon’tunderstandthemasentities…

…becauselibrarians havenotbuiltandmaintainedthedatasourcesthat searchenginestrust.

Google’sPerceptionofMSULib- 2012

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SemanticWebIdentityEnhancementOnlyabout60%ofARLlibrarieshaveaccurateKnowledgeCardsandmostarenotveryrobust

PresentlyworkingwithallMSUcollegestoimprovetheirSWI

Willthenworkdowntowarddepartments,centers,institutes

Goalisforsearchenginestohaveabettersemanticunderstandingofthebusinessofthoseacademicorganizations.

JustinShanks,SemanticWebIdentityResearcher