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Composing for the non-text infrastructure dance-NISO Plus
Abstract
In this session we will examine the challenges facing scholarly communities whose main method of communication is not the written article but some other form of output.
How do we ensure that the rich metadata, functionality and narratives built into institutional and other tailored platforms can expose and transmit that information to the wider academy and global registries, enabling discovery, access and inquiry, without loss of detail, classification of the work as “OTHER” and downstream degradation of the richness of the data first created?
We will work together, using case studies and exemplars from the recent UK REF and attendees to examine where issues and challenges might arise, who the stakeholders in the processes are, and how we might best leverage the collective to initiate change. Where further investigations / developments are needed, these will be recorded and reported following the session.
In this session we will examine the challenges facing scholarly communities whose main method of communication is not the written article but some other form of output.
How do we ensure that the rich metadata, functionality and narratives built into institutional and other tailored platforms can expose and transmit that information to the wider academy and global registries, enabling discovery, access and inquiry, without loss of detail, classification of the work as “OTHER” and downstream degradation of the richness of the data first created?
We will work together, using case studies and exemplars from the recent UK REF and attendees to examine where issues and challenges might arise, who the stakeholders in the processes are, and how we might best leverage the collective to initiate change. Where further investigations / developments are needed, these will be recorded and reported following the session.
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Jenny Evans is Research Environment and Scholarly Communications Lead at the University of Westminster. Her role includes responsibility for scholarly communications, research integrity and ethics strategy and policy, research information management systems, and leading a team of subject matter experts. Over the past 5 years she has led a team of repository staff and researchers, in close collaboration with software developers, to develop a state of the art open source repository to capture all research including practice research. Alongside this work she continues to advocate on behalf of this community and their research to raise awareness of the challenges, and to improve systems and metadata standards.
Kelly Denzer is the Collection Strategist and Discovery Librarian for Davidson College Library where she participates in the selection, evaluation, discovery, and access to library resources. She collaborates on collection curation and promotion with faculty, students, and staff to ensure a diverse, evolving, relevant collection for the Davidson College community. Interests include providing open and equitable access to research. In addition to her involvement with NISO Plus, she is an active member with the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP). She holds a MLIS from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and a MA in Art History from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.
Rachael Kotarski is the Head of Research Infrastructure Services at the British Library, responsible for a team developing services around discovery, repositories, scholarly communications, research data and persistent identifiers. She has spent a number of years building the UK community of those assigning DOIs for data citation, and worked on a number of persistent identifier-related infrastructure projects. More recently she has been involved in projects looking at improving infrastructure for practice-based research outputs, and the use of persistent identifiers in heritage organisations.
