CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7)

22 Jun 2011, 08:00 → 24 Jun 2011, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

University of Geneva

The next CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI7), will be held at the University of Geneva on 22-24 June 2011.

The workshop will follow the successful format of previous workshops mixing practical tutorials, presentations from cutting-edge projects and research, discussion groups, posters, and an intense social programme to maximise interaction and communication. It will be possible to register for a part or all of the programme.

The workshop is aimed at those involved in the development of Open Access (OA) repositories and who can influence the direction of developments either within their institution, their country or at an international level - that includes technical developers of OA bibliographic databases and connected services, research information policy developers at university or library level, funding bodies concerned with access to the results of their research, OA publishers,and influential researchers keen to lead OA developments in their own field.

Previous workshops have built a strong community spirit and the event is a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and contact details with the wide range of people connected to the OA movement. The OAI series of workshops is one of the biggest international meetings in this field and takes place roughly every two years.

 

 

Wednesday 22 June

08:15 Registration Desk opens at 8:15

1 Tutorial 1. MarcXimiL : near duplicates detection (and similarity analysis)

MarcXimiL is an open source tool which works on MARCXML records and calculates similarity indices between these records. After a short theoretical introduction, the tutorial will focus on how to install, parametrize and use the tool. This tool can be implemented in order to : * prevent creation of duplicates (similar records are shown during the validation process) * identify duplicates into batch files before ingest * find duplicates inside a collection * suggest to users similar records to the one found after a request * match related documents eg. preprints and articles * and so on. http://marcximil.sourceforge.net/

Speakers: Dr Alain Borel (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Mr Jan Krause (University of Geneva)

Slides marcximil-oai7.pdf

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It2GYk_w_qI

2 Tutorial 2. CDS-Invenio, to explain the main modules, the different use cases and the on- going R&D

Description: to explain attendants how they can set up, configure and manage a digital repository using the open source Invenio software developed and maintained at CERN. http://invenio-software.org

Speaker: Mr Jean-Yves Le Meur (CERN)

Introductory Video http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1349506

Script bst_twitter_fetcher.py

website http://invenio-software.org Slides

3 Tutorial 3. Memento & Open Annotation

* Memento: The Memento framework introduces the time component that has been missing from the Web. Memento allows to seamlessly HTTP-navigate from the URI of a resource to archived versions of that resource by adding a timestamp to HTTP GET requests. The result is an integration of the current and the past (archived) Web. * Open Annotation: The Open Annotation Collaboration defines a Web-centric interoperable annotation framework aimed at sharing annotations across the boundaries of annotation clients, content collections, and Web resources in general.

Speaker: Mr Herbert van de Sompel

website http://mementoweb.org

website http://openannotation.org

4 Tutorial 4. Creating and managing OA Journals with OJS

The tutorial will focus on start up issues like editorial policies, cooperation of library publishers and editors, technical details of the publishing software OJS, marketing etc.

Speakers: Mr David Solomon, Ms Inge Werner (Utrecht University Library), Mr Jan Erik Frantsvag

5 Tutorial 5. Harvesters and subject based repositories / harvesters

About how to develop a subject specific harvester; how to gain cooperation of existing repositories; how to use existing harvesters, how to deal with metadata quality, embargoes etc.

Speaker: Mr Friedrich Summann

Slides oai7_tutorial.pdf

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysCVX8GHODs

6 Tutorial 6. Everything you always wanted to know about OA en OAI but were afraid to ask

Open Access and its associated concepts (OAI, Open data, Open Educational Resources, Open Innovation, Open Science, etc) is a broad and fairly complex area of development, research and policy. We present an Open Access Corner café at OAI7 to bring together a number of experts and ‘old hands’ to answer questions and present overviews on various topics (chosen by delegates as well as us) to make sure that everyone who wants to know something about a particular issue – or even many issues! - can come to this event and learn.

Speakers: Mrs Alma Swan, Mrs Astrid van Wesenbeeck (SPARC Euroope), Mrs Birgit Schmidt, Mr Eloy Rodrigues, Mrs Heather Joseph, Mr Marnix van Berchum, Mr Tom Cochrane

11:30 Lunch & Registration

7 Opening ceremony

13.00-13-05: Astrid Van Wesenbeeck (Co-Chair OAI7): The vision for OAI7 and Scholarly Communication 13.05-13.10: Welcome by Annick de Ribaupierre, Vice Rector of the University of Geneva 13.10-13.15: Paul Ayris: Thanks to the University of Geneva and to the sponsors

Audio recording R380_V_22_06_2011_13h00_01_intro.mp4

Plenary 1 : Towards Machine-Actionable Scholarly Communication

Convener: Herbert van de Sompel (LANL)

8 Research Objects: Towards Exchange and Reuse of Digital Knowledge

Speaker: Mr Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_22_06_2011_13h00_02_Bechhofer.mp4

Slides OAI7-ROs.pdf

9 Publishing transcriptions as annotations on source images

T-PEN is a transcription tool that allows users to easily transcribe from digitized images of unpublished manuscripts. These images are made available from a growing number of large document repositories. T-PEN uses line segmentation to present the transcriber with one line at a time to transcribe, and preserves the association between the line and the portion of the image it transcribes. One of the ways users can output their transcriptions is as a set of OAC annotations on the original source images. My talk will discuss the three ways in which OAC publication can enhance the user experience at the document repository. First, having a full or partial transcription can greatly enhance the searchability of a repository. Most repositories currently only search metadata and document catalogs, even when a transcription is available in some digital form. Second, the transcription can be displayed in the repository’s image viewing environment in a number of ways that readers may find useful. The line by line alignment allows the UI to reveal only a single line at a time, or a fully visible and aligned transcript. Finally, this means of publication connects the transcribed text to the original images, and thus the original document, in a way that is permanent but also open, inviting use of the information in new and unexpected ways. Additionally, I will discuss a number of use cases in which the transcriber is using the published transcription annotations to explore complex relationships within their transcribed text.

Speaker: Mr Jon Deering (Saint-Louis University (USA))

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_22_06_2011_13h00_03_Deering.mp4

Slides oai7_talk_deering.pdf oai7_talk_deering.ppt

10 Nanopublications

Speaker: Mr Barend Mons (Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_22_06_2011_13h00_04_Mons.mp4

Slides OAI7-BM.pdf OAI7-BM.pptx

15:00 Coffee

Plenary 2 : OAI7 Aggregation

Convener: Mr Willian Nixon

11 Aggregation Services

A number of developments in the UK are focussed on the use of 'aggregation' services as an approach to providing services to support resource discovery. This talk will describe some of the issues raised by this approach, and will attempt to describe patterns and 'anti-patterns' in the design of such services. Some of these issues will be explored in a later workshop at the conference. For the interested, some of these aspects are described in these three (loosely)related blog-posts: Institutions and the Web done better: http://blog.paulwalk.net/2010/09/21/institutions-and-the-web-done-better/ Aggregation and the Resource Discovery Taskforce vision: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/jisc-ie/blog/2010/08/19/aggregation-and-the-resource-discovery-%20taskforce-vision/ An infrastructure service anti-pattern: http://blog.paulwalk.net/2009/12/07/an-infrastructure-service-anti-pattern/

Speaker: Mr Paul Walk (UKOLN)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_22_06_2011_15h30_01_Walk.mp4

Slides OIA7_aggregation_Paul_Walk.pdf OIA7_aggregation_Paul_Walk.ppt

12 Annual index & ranking for institutional Open Access performance

Speaker: Mr Ivo Grigorov (CNRS (France), DTU-Aqua (Denmark))

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_22_06_2011_15h30_02_Grigorov.mp4

13 RIAN - Pathways to Irish Research

Speaker: Mrs Niamh Brennan (Trinity College Dublin)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_22_06_2011_15h30_03_Brennan.mp4

Slides Brennan_OAI7.pdf Brennan_OAI7.pptx

17:45 Evening at CERN (see: Social events)

Thursday 23 June

08:15 Registration Desk opens at 8:15

Plenary 3 : Advocacy

Conveners: Mr David Prosser, Mrs Melissa Hagemann

14 The Open Access conversation – more than just advocating for a mandate

Open access is recognized as a sound concept for scholarly communication but not yet rooted in the hearts and minds of most researchers. Many evangelists who try to sell the idea at their universities have been disappointed by the lack of commitment in spite of enthusiasm while newcomers dread the possibility of failure. This need not be the case. Worldwide there are examples of open access success which can be followed. Furthermore the impact of open access on scholarly communication and related issues provides us the opportunity to introduce it as part of a much needed campus-wide discourse on scholarly communication. Ownership, copyright, cost, new developments, OA publishing, e-research, data curation, research funding and institutional repositories can all be linked to open access. In this context it makes more sense, can play a bigger role and eventually become a feature of local scholarship practice. The talk will introduce the role players and discuss strategies to create value propositions that will speak to their needs.

Speaker: Mrs Monica Hammes

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_23_06_2011_09h00_01_Hammes.mp4

Slides Hammes23June.pdf Hammes23June.ppt

15 University of Glasgow, UK, advocacy through embedding: integrating repositories and research management systems

Speaker: Mr William Nixon

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_23_06_2011_09h00_02_Nixon.mp4

Slides Nixon_OAI7_June_2011_Final.pdf Nixon_OAI7_June_2011_Final.ppt

16 SPARC, Washington DC, advocacy at the national and international level

Speaker: Mrs Heather Joseph

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_23_06_2011_09h00_03_Joseph.mp4

Slides H.Joseph_-_OAI7_Policy.pdf H.Joseph_-_OAI7_Policy.ppt

17 Panel Discussion

11:00 Coffee & Posters

Posters session

12:30 Lunch

Open Access Publishing

Convener: Mr Frank Scholze

18 Open Access Publishing: what publishers offer, what scientists want. Final results from the SOAP projects

The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project investigated the supply of and demand for Open Access (OA) journals, as well as the experiences of scholars with this new publication paradigm. On the supply side, SOAP compiled data on existing OA journals, finding they publish around 8% of the yearly total of scholarly articles, in many case with extremely high-quality, and a somewhat confused licensing landscape. On the demand side, SOAP run a large-scale survey of researchers with forty thousands answers across disciplines and around the world. The results show an overwhelming support for the idea of OA, while highlighting funding and (perceived) lack of quality as the main barriers to publishing in OA journals. The talk will present highlights of the project, meant to support libraries, publishers, funding agencies and academics to further analyse risks and opportunities, drivers and barriers, in the transition to OA publishing.

Speaker: Dr Salvatore Mele (CERN)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_23_06_2011_14h00_01_Mele.mp4

Slides OAI7-SOAP-230611-lite.pdf

19 Observing the Impact of Green Open Access: The PEER Project

PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by the EC eContent+ programme, investigates the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of European research. The project is a collaboration of publishers, repositories and researchers and will last from 2008 to May 2012. In the first part of the talk the speakers () will explain the technical challenges which were overcome by the project and the participating publishing houses in setting up the PEER observatory. The second part of the talk is focused on presenting the lessons learnt from setting up the complex project infrastructure (PEER observatory) and the preliminary findings of the three PEER research projects. Those are addressing behavioral, usage and economic research.

Speakers: Mrs Barbara Kalumenos (STM), Mr Christoph Bruch (MPG)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_23_06_2011_14h00_02_Bruch.mp4

Slides 2011_06_23_PEER_OIA7_public_[Kompatibilitätsmodus].pdf

20 Re-engineering the functions of journals

The use of online media is allowing the processes of scholarly communication to be reinvented and re-engineered. Open access to research information is a key first step because it removes all barriers to the access and reuse of the information, thereby maximizing its impact. At PLoS, the initial focus has therefore been to establish a successful and sustainable open-access publishing operation. Having achieved this goal, PLoS is now exploring new ways to enhance scholarly communication through online publications that publish new findings more rapidly, and new products that facilitate the evaluation and organization of content after publication.

Speaker: Mr Mark Patterson (PLoS)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_23_06_2011_14h00_03_Patterson.mp4

Slides PLoS_Geneva_June_2011.pdf PLoS_Geneva_June_2011.ppt

15:45 Coffee

21 Advocacy : Practical advocacy session (participants expected to bring examples of practices that have worked in their own institutions)

Speaker: Mrs Monica Hammes

22 Aggregating Services

Speakers: Mr Adrian Stevenson (UKOLN), Mr Paul Walk (UKOLN)

23 OA Publishing : E-publishing research (quantitative and qualitative methods)

Speaker: Mr Ulrich Herb

24 Open Science

Speaker: Mr David Flanders (JISC)

25 Research Data : Crowdsourcing and reusing research data

Speaker: Mr Victor Henning (Mendeley)

26 Technical session : Next Generation OAI-PMH

Speaker: Mr Herbert van de Sompel (LANL)

18:15 Aperitif on the roof

Friday 24 June

08:15 Registration Desk opens at 8:15

Open Science

27 The rise of citizen cyberscience and its impact on professional research

In this talk, I will argue that the rapid growth in the last decade of direct public participation in science via the Web – what I call citizen cyberscience – has important implications for the open science agenda. Leading researchers now routinely use citizen cyberscience to tackle large-scale scientific computing and data analysis challenges, in areas as diverse as climate science, epidemiology and molecular biology. In aggregate, millions of volunteers are contributing to such projects by donating spare time on their computers, participating directly in data analysis via the Web, or even collecting data from the field using smart phones. In exchange for their effort, volunteers typically want more openness and better communication about what the scientists are doing. Some even want to have an influence on the direction of the research. This raises new issues for how open and participative the scientific process can and should be.

Speaker: Mr François Grey

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_24_06_2011_09h00_01_Grey.mp4

Slides

• Citizen_Cyberscience_OA_Workshop_Geneva_-_FG.pdf
• Citizen_Cyberscience_OA_Workshop_Geneva_-_FG.ppt
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFL0vbUOjfo

28 Technical, Cultural, and Legal Infrastructure to Support Effective Open Scientific Communication

The technical challenges in sharing data and other artifacts of scientific research beyond the traditional paper remain formidable. We have clues as to how to proceed and big positive steps are being taken. These will require significant investment in trustworthy, workable, and flexible infrastructure. However beyond the technical issues there is also a great need for cultural infrastructure that will support and value these contributions and their effective communication. Legal tools and systems are also required to ensure that these outputs are freely useable and re-usable. Thinking of these different components as part of the scientific research infrastructure will be crucial in building a viable platform for modern research communication and exploitation.

Speaker: Mr Cameron Neylon

Audio Audio_Neylon.mp4

Video http://vimeo.com/8004677

29 Mendeley as a component in the open science infrastructure

Speaker: Mr Victor Henning (Mendeley)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_24_06_2011_09h00_03_Henning.mp4

Slides CERN_OAI7_-_Mendeley_as_a_component_in_the_open_science_infrastructure_-_2011-06-02_v4.pdf CERN_OAI7_-_Mendeley_as_a_component_in_the_open_science_infrastructure_-_2011-06-02_v4.pptx

Video http://intruders.tv/en-tech/le-web-09-interview-with-victor-henning-and-jan-reichelt-of-mendeley-the-last-fm-for-research/

30 Panel session :

Speaker: Mr David Flanders

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_24_06_2011_09h00_04_Flanders.mp4

10:30 Coffee

Research Data

31 Linked Data - Towards a Web of Data

The changing landscape of librarianship increases the need for visibility and interoperability on the Web. Shared catalogues are going online on the Web, digitized items collections are being brought together, which requires for re-inventing librarianship. Moreover this activity is no longer isolated in the library environment. Actors from a broader set of domains (libraries, archives, museums, publishing) share common issues and standards. Their capacity to jointly build interoperable solutions is the key to the development of cultural and scientific content across the Web. A re-orientation in the library perspective on information interoperability is needed, building on existing Web architecture and standards, in order to bring this content to the Web. A lot of structured data is already available within library systems and could be published as Linked Data. Cultural heritage institutions could be a major provider of authoritative datasets for the Web of Data.

Speaker: Mrs Anja Jentzsch (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_24_06_2011_11h00_01_Jentzsch.mp4

Slides 2011-06-24_OAI7_Linked_Data.pdf

32 After the EU High Level Expert Group - Visions and Reality about Accessing Research Data

The Report “Riding the Wave” created by the high level expert group pointed out what we increasingly often felt since years: we need to take urgent measures with respect to our scientific data, if we do not want to risk the disaster of not being able to access it anymore. However, the report also emphasizes the opportunities of the information hidden in the increasing amount of data. Obviously we need to increase the awareness of all stakeholders such as researchers, data scientists, research organizations and even the public about the huge relevance of our data to extract knowledge that we will need in the coming decades and beyond. A concerted action is required that will amount in a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) existing of three layers: the researchers as data generators and users, research infrastructures offering community specific data services and a data-oriented e-Infrastructure offering common data services. Since the creator-consumer relations get more anonymous, we need to new ways to establish trust relationships, but yet we do not understand all steps to be taken. Since knowledge about the stored data objects is distributed vertically the responsibility for data curation is shared - yet we do not have proper mechanisms in place to synchronize decisions. The report makes a number of suggestions to come to a vision 2030 for data management and access. We will relate these visions with the current reality of data management and access and will use the linguistic domain as an example. We will describe the data architecture being worked out and also indicate some of the limitations we are faced with when establishing a data infrastructure.

Speakers: Krister Lindén (University of Helsinki, Finland), Mr Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_24_06_2011_11h00_02_Wittenburg.mp4

Slides HLEG-wittenburg-oa17.pdf HLEG-wittenburg-oa17.pptx

33 Concluding summary of OAI7 and closure

12.45: Astrid van Wesenbeeck : sum up of the main points and outcomes of the OAI7 Worksop. 12.53 : Paul Ayris : outcomes of the OAI7 Workshop, and thanks to the Rector of the University of Geneva, the members of the Organising Committee and the OAI7 sponsors.

Speakers: Mrs Astrid van Wesenbeeck (SPARC Europe), Mr Paul Ayris

Audio & Slides Recording R380_V_24_06_2011_11h00_03_Ayris.mp4

13:00 Lunch