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Hello happy Valentine's and welcome to a nice 2023 lightning round talks, a series of quick, informative presentations about key projects and an opportunity to talk with the experts afterwards.
My name is Steve Smith and I currently work at frontiers media, where I am responsible for growth and quality strategies for the brain portfolio, which includes neuroscience, neurology and psychology. Frontiers has been a trailblazer for open science since its founding 15 years ago. It's recognized as a global leader in open access technology, publishing systems and processes.
Frontiers is now the sixth largest and third most cited publisher. My own thinking about OA and open science has evolved because of the pandemic. When knowledge is disseminated openly, it's better for everyone. We have five talks today as a starter for 10 in advance of your Valentine's dinner. First, we're delighted to welcome Andrea Neiman and Rogan Hamby to deliver our first presentation.
Andrea is the project manager for software development at Equinox open library initiative, and in his role as data and project analyst at equinox, Rogan has participated in the development and support of fulfillment. Their talk is intriguingly entitled A tiny library with a million volumes the open source future of resource sharing. We know that a thriving resource sharing consortium helps libraries and individuals have access to a broader, more diverse range of perspectives.
Open source software lowers barriers to resource access for all library users with open source resource sharing even the smallest library can access global resources. This is a great opportunity for all of us to learn about how open source resource sharing can make a difference for your library and your community. Second up will be Bonnie Lawlor on the use of blockchain technology along the scientific research workflow.
Bonnie is an ACS Fellow as well as an NSAIF honorary fellow. She currently serves as a counselor for the ACS division of chemical information and as a member of the ACS Committee on budget and finance. She also serves on the boards of the chemical structure Association trust and the Philosopher's Information Center, the producer of the philosopher's index. Bonnie, will be telling us about the development of a white paper that examines the use of blockchain technology along the scientific research workflow.
Her lightning talk provides a glimpse of how the technology is impacting the future of scientific research and encourage listeners to access this important white paper when it's published later this year. Our third talk will be from Olivia McIsaac and Ted Polley On moving from piecemeal to systematic reprioritizing how academic libraries approach research information management.
Olivia is the research information management librarian at IUPUI university, where she works with her colleagues in the Center for Digital Scholarship. Ted is the director of the IUPUI University library center for digital scholarship, where he oversees the day to day operations of the center and its staff. He is also the library's digital library publishing librarian managing its open access journal publishing service.
Olivia and Ted will be doing a presentation on how research information management workflows at universities are increasingly intersecting with library workflows, particularly regarding data management, funder compliance and preservation of the institution's scholarly record. In this session, Olivia and Ted will share their vision to shift from thinking about library supported RIM services as piecemeal to a more systemic, systematic approach, That prioritizes open infrastructure.
Our fourth session will be a presentation from Jon Bentley on why data is important to publishers and librarians. John is commercial director at OpenAthens. He's worked in publishing for 20 years with a variety of commercial and business publishers. Open Athens customers come from many different industries all over the world. Their identity Federation manages the exchange of millions of anonymous data every day.
They've been doing some work to analyze this data, what it tells us and how it helps inform and prepare us for the future. In this lightning talk, Jon explains why data is important to librarians and publishers and closing out the session. We're delighted to welcome Frode Haglund on the topic of visual metadata for augmented documents. Frode is a developer, artist, editor, teacher, designer and host of the annual future of tech symposium and publisher, the annual series of books of the same name.
With a perspective that metadata is vital. We should not hide it. Visual media is an approach to document metadata where that what a document is, what its structure is, and how it connects to the documents is written as an appendix in the document itself, rather than hidden in a data file augmenting ordinary documents and making them richly interactive.
The lightning talks will be followed by a moderated discussion. I hope you can join us for that. Stay on for that. So welcome speakers. And first off, Andre and Rogen on a tiny library with a million volumes. The open source future of resource sharing. Welcome, all.
Welcome. Thank you for joining us for a tiny library with a million volumes. Next I am Rogan Hamby here with Andrea bensimon. We both work for equinox. We will leave our contact information here in the slide. So feel free to follow up with us on Twitter or by email if you have questions after the conference.
Next, we work for equinox, the open library initiative. It is a 500 1c3 nonprofit. We work with libraries of all kinds, public academic special to provide open source solutions through development, consulting, all kinds of things. And one of the things that makes us different is our equinox promise. You can read more about it on our website, equinox on our about page under ethics next.
Now we're here to talk about an open source product fulfillment. The days of FUD are starting to fade away. Fear, uncertainty and doubt spread by proprietary vendors. Instead, they've moved to open washing, taking products that are really proprietary and doing the minimum to technically call them open source, which is called open washing. And the motivation is simple.
The market for services for open source is growing dramatically and we've seen it do that historically and it's continuing into 2026 and beyond. But we put our code where our mouth is and you can find fulfillment on GitHub fully available next. Now how can open source help libraries? Now, I think some of this is kind of obvious, but I do think it's important to underscore the philosophical resonance and all kinds of other advantages.
The transparency helps security and privacy, which are so important these days, and people's awareness of it is continuing to grow. The lack of licensing costs is a big deal and it allows direct community participation on all levels of libraries. Next now, people instinctively, I think, understand that small libraries really benefit from the larger collections of large scale resource sharing.
However, large libraries have large populations which often have more specialized interest and really take advantage of the collections at small libraries that may have obscure materials, not at other libraries. And so large libraries often end up as net borrowers. Actually, if you want to read more about that, I have published about it and library and book trade annual. The citation will be left here in the slides.
Next OK. Thanks, Rogan. Now I'm going to talk to you a little bit more about fulfillment, which is our open source resource sharing software. It provides all full request management, Union catalog, record loading and matching streamlined interfaces and is standards compliant. I'm going to dive into some more of these features in the next couple of slides.
So the Union catalog aspect of fulfillment is independent from requesting. So you can have a consortium that either does one or the other or both, depending on the needs of that library. It provides a single catalog for the holdings of diverse ios's automatically groups, formats and additions for search and request so your patrons can decide which formats they're willing to accept to fill their request, and also provides a lot of loading scripts for SeamlessAccess record updates, which are configurable based on source aisles, battle tested and uses hashes to detect duplicate loads has a ways to detect minimum quality thresholds, so you're not overlaying good data with that and also automatically update your holdings based on what is in the source file.
One of my favorite features of fulfillment is the single scan interface. As somebody who used to process files in my previous job, I really appreciate having a single interface to process all of the requests, which you do a single scan. As you take the item in hand, you scan it and it props for the next sensible action based on that item and location, whether it's filling a request, closing your request, bringing it in for one of your patrons and having this single interface minimizes opportunity for staff error and also allows for greater flexibility in filling requests.
In addition to being standards compliant, equinox also has written a number of connectors for the highest level of automation between your aisles and fulfillment. We have an evergreen connector that has been in use now for a couple of years. I've recently written a co connector and we are working with a testing partner for a Sierra connector with fulfillment.
You can also model complex relationships both organizationally and physically. In terms of career routes. Fulfillment is based on the evergreen ils, which was built from the ground up for consortia. And so it has in its bones a way to model complex relationships, complex lending scenarios, various configuration options for request targeting to make sure that requests are moving through your system as efficiently as possible, and that your patients are getting things as quickly as they can.
Another great thing about open source is you can report on any and all system data. You own your data. There are reports interfaces available or SQL access for those who are able to do that. And with these reports, you can make collection development decisions with detailed borrowing and lending information for your collection. Future development.
On this very month, we're planning to release fulfillment release 11. And then the future roadmap is going to include additional connectors, upgrades to our management interfaces, support for digital document delivery as well as some advanced one click Reports. So Thanks for listening to us. Talk to you today about open source and fulfillment. And we'll stick around after the lightning talks to take any of your questions.
So what I'd like to do, everyone in the time that I have allotted is to describe a project that has been sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied chemistry, and that is to identify how blockchain technology is being used along the scientific research workflow. Time does not permit me to go into full detail, but hopefully this will serve as a teaser and motivate you to read the full paper when it's published.
So what is a blockchain? Blockchains are a type of immutable, distributed ledger systems that is a system without a central repository and usually without a central authority. These systems enable a community of users to record transactions and a ledger that is public to that specific community in such a way that no transaction can be fraudulently changed once published.
I want to stress blockchain is not Bitcoin and it's used for many other purposes other than cryptocurrency. In fact, it predates Bitcoin by almost two decades. It was co-invented in 1991 by 2 researchers at Bell corp who were attempting to ensure the integrity of digital documents via time stamping their initial efforts involved working on cryptographically secure chain of blocks such that no one could tamper with the time stamping of documents.
Hence the name blockchain once hash to a blockchain and time stamped information can be changed. But such changes are captured in time stamps themselves, making fraudulent tampering visible. This makes digital information immutable, transparent, externally provable and distributed features all perfect for the scientific workflow. For the sake of the paper. This is how we defined the research workflow.
Having five steps cover each step separately. Use of blockchain technology in the first step is for the time stamping of ideas, the time stamping of research, output, et cetera the purpose for which the technology was originally developed. It provides researchers with their proof of concept and proof of ownership of intellectual property. And the companies listed on this slide are only a few of offering the services.
In step two when the researchers go to seek money. Its the technology is not widely used because once you introduce money you also introduce legislation and regulatory processes. Having said that, there is an organization called molecule that emerged a few years ago that has a collaborative platform that connects researchers with investors who are interested in licensing, licensing the intellectual property.
In fact, they're funding research here in the United States at the University of Washington in Seattle. It's also on the administrative side of funding where it's widely used. The US department of Health and Human services, which is the largest funding ANSI in the us, uses blockchain technology to reduce their risk assessment tasks, which used to take 4 hours, and the technology has allowed them to get it down to 15 minutes.
But it's in step three where the inherent features of the technology really come into play. And that is because the answers to all of the questions you see on this slide can be hashed to a blockchain, making it research transparent and reproducible, absolutely essential for the Advancement of Science. In step four when the results of step three are then analyzed and software supplied, visualization done calculations are done to feed into the next step.
The answers to all of these questions can then be hashed to a blockchain again, making the research highly reproducible. And there are electronic notebooks also using the technology to capture and secure the research data at the point that it is actually created. And in the final step of the research cycle, when the results are being made public and publicly available, there are a number of organizations who provide such a service artifacts is a major player in this group, and they work with several publishers, such as the Journal of the British blockchain Association and partners in digital health, so that the authors of that provide manuscripts to these publishers can create a permanent and immutable record of their work in real time.
There are other science related applications that you can see listed here. Supply chain tracking, real time research tracking, et cetera it's very widely used. I just want to highlight the Blacksburg consortium, which has been providing blockchain services to researchers since 2019 under the umbrella of the Germany based Max Planck society.
And it was so successful that in the summer of last year, its members approved what is now called the Blacksburg Association for the Advancement of blockchain in science, and it's being funded under German legislation. In a nutshell, what we found was that all steps in the research workflow can take place within a blockchain. We found that the usage is growing rapidly around the world. I want to point out that the technology was named one of the top 10 emerging technologies in chemistry by IUPAC back back in 2021, as I said, and it's been identified as a technology that has the potential to disrupt across the entire chemical enterprise.
I want to point out, too, though, blockchain isn't for everybody and the white paper will highlight cases where it didn't work and it will highlight the lessons learned by those who are using the technology for scientific purposes. In closing, I want to really highlight my coworkers in this project. We're wrapping wrapping it up now.
The paper will be published in the Journal pure and Applied Chemistry. And as I said, it will be open access. So I'm hoping that you will. Take the time to seek it out and reach it and don't feel. Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you're interested. I'll make sure you get a copy. So again, thank you for your time. Hi, everyone.
Welcome to our presentation on moving from piecemeal to systematic reprioritizing how academic libraries approach research information management. My name is Olivia mckissick, and I am the research information management librarian at Indiana University. Purdue university, Indianapolis, also known as IUPUI.
And I'm Ted Pauley. I am the director of the Center for digital Scholarship and digital publishing librarian at IUPUI. So a little bit of background. Libraries are increasingly engaging in research information management work at IUPUI. Historically, rim related work was distributed across different librarians and library services, including data services, research metrics, consultations and open access policy implementation.
So why are we looking to take a more systematic approach now? Well, in 2024, our campus will change. We will no longer be IUPUI university, but we will become IU Indianapolis and Purdue University will leave our campus to form its own campus. So the departure of Purdue programs, researchers and funding will undoubtedly impact the research output of our campus.
And understanding how this change will impact our research footprint will help us understand and assess our research output and will be useful in strategic planning. So here is an illustration of Purdue University leaving to form its own campus. And IUPUI becoming IU Indianapolis. When we think about research, information management, infrastructure, we can turn to this quote by William Gibson, where he says that the future is already here.
It's just not evenly distributed yet. So with research, information management and open infrastructure, we already see tools, systems and services that can be utilized. But these services and systems are not being leveraged by institutions or researchers in an equal way. So to look at research, information management, we do turn to different pieces to understand how we can kind of fit together a landscape that will work with people such as librarians, researchers, research officers, IT with systems.
So both external, such as pure exploratory space. Chris and internal. So when you think about some lockdown systems that only internal people have access to, so academic analytics, other data sources, like HR data to get that affiliation, information and then services is also one of the pieces. So when you think about services, thinking about orchid, doing ways to share information across these different systems, most often these different pieces aren't always working together.
Sometimes they're working independently from each other, which kind of Hinders open research and Hinders a more complete research story being told. So this begs the question of how can academic libraries engage with other people to support a more rapid knowledge sharing about research outputs through the implementation of these different systems and services? A in a scalable way.
So at AP we've been focusing on the people part of rim work and specifically in building partnerships. So we've partnered with our Office of the Vice Chancellor for research and academic affairs on a shared ORCID membership through lyricists. Sharing this expense has generated by for ORCID across campus and has helped us forge new connections with other units at the University in the future, we plan to continue to look for these kinds of partnerships, looking for organizations or offices that have a shared, overlapping mission with the library.
And as our campus undergoes its change and the units that support faculty research will likely be centralized, at least to some extent. We'll explore new opportunities for collaboration across the University. And right now we're just starting out the process of developing a systematic approach to research information work. But we really want to focus on centering contributors.
And equally much of the research done at IUPUI is not easily captured in traditional systems for evaluating research such as community engaged research communities. These usually fall out of. Information systems like pure and the ones that I discussed in a previous slide. So right now we're focusing on promoting ORCID and promoting the researchers control over their own data to get a better picture of the research activities that matter the most to are changing campus.
So we look forward to engaging with you in the Q&A on the next slide, our references as well as our image credits. Thank you. Hello, and good morning to everybody. My name is John Bentley and I am the director of the trust, identity and access directorate within jyske.
Jyske is a not for profit digital and data ANSI that supports the UK academic sector. It runs services that includes the UK access management Federation and OpenAthens. And I am here to share some insight from the OpenAthens Federation. Open Athens exists to connect people to information wherever they are in the world and whatever time of day it is. We take them on that journey to the insight that they need at that moment in time.
And when we pass someone over to digital platforms or applications, we call that a transfer. We see around 250 million transfers to publishers each year. And although we don't have customers in every country, we do see transfers from users in nearly every country in the world. This data shows research and learning is no longer tied to specific locations.
Now single sign on and Federated access management is not the only way of logging into digital platforms. Other methods include a username and password issued by the platform itself. IP recognition is used to read a user's IP address and this enables access into the platform and remains by far, the most common method used around the world. And this is often based on location.
And Federated access allows the users to access their resources wherever they are, and it takes the users to their institutional log in systems and allows them to authenticate using their familiar institutional credentials. They then carries a message confirming the user's identity back to the publisher, who was then able to authorize that user into that platform. Authentication is done by the institution.
Authorization is done by the platform. This aspect of Federated access allows privacy preservation. No personal data is required to be passed back to secure access. And we can see Federated access is growing. It's a slow process because both publishers and libraries need to move together. But there is a recognition that single sign on does provide a secure access experience when everything aligns.
Here we can see that the institutions and publishers joining the Federation is growing and alongside that, the number of transfers that are made each month. And as the transfers are carried out, we are able to see trends and patterns about the technology used. For example, the aggregation of the data enables us to see which operating systems are used in different regions of the world.
If we look at these operating systems, you can see that Microsoft is still very dominant. That's the green piece of the pie. If we look at the browsers around the world, we can see the importance of Google Chrome if used effectively. This kind of insight allows us to inform and improve the decisions we make to support our users. I hope people are aware that the browsers supported by the underlying browser engines are making changes designed to improve user privacy and prevent unwanted tracking.
This will have impact on everybody who uses digital platforms. But looking at the data, we can tailor our efforts to ensure the messages from our community land in the right place and where they will have the greatest impact. But there is further detail about devices. For example, we can drill down and see those users who are using desktops versus those users who are using mobiles or tablets.
And we can see patterns around the world where certain regions are more reliant on that mobile experience. It is important the learners or researchers, wherever they are in the world, can get access to the information that they need. Yes, this means equity of data, but we can also work to improve the user experience. For example, this data influenced the design of one of openers athens's new services my Athens.
We worked hard during the development cycle to make sure the experiences is good for a mobile user as it is for someone accessing research from their desktop. So thank you for listening. If you want to find out more about what OpenAthens does, please do visit OpenAthens or reach out to me. John Bentley at OpenAthens NET. I'd like to say thank you for your time. Thank you to nice.
So I hope you engage and enjoy the rest of the sessions wherever you are in the world. Bye for now. Hi Thanks for watching this presentation on visual meta. Visual meta is an approach for document metadata and as we all know, metadata is data which describes data. Metadata should be rich, robust and reliable because metadata enables powerful interactions. So why hide it?
The problem is that metadata for documents is often missing, and the context is that metadata about documents is often in the format. Metadata about print documents is pretty much there for every single book, and it's in what we call the colorful, which looks like this, which we have all seen. So I want to put metadata about the document as a color font and the appendix.
So we take this and format it in the Textile and put it in the back of the document and the appendix with visual metadata and visual meta. And what I'm showing here is only the very core basic visual matter. The benefits are that this is robust, rich and reliable. It's robust because this will be available for as long as the document. Text is available.
It's rich because it can have metadata for siting structure, connections and more, and it's reliable because it's created an export from the manuscript data. And that means it can be very cheap to create the promises that metadata makes documents self aware, and this enables interaction, such as copying as a citation, reducing errors, flexible views to see the knowledge in New ways, having interactive glossary and other supplemental information, doing connection analysis and much more.
The status is that this is available open and free right now at visual hyphen metadata info. The ACM is testing it and Vint Cerf is evangelizing it and the ACM communications magazine. And it's been implemented and software for Mac OS. Thank you very much. I'll be happy to answer any questions.
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Hello happy Valentine's and welcome to a nice 2023 lightning round talks, a series of quick, informative presentations about key projects and an opportunity to talk with the experts afterwards.
My name is Steve Smith and I currently work at frontiers media, where I am responsible for growth and quality strategies for the brain portfolio, which includes neuroscience, neurology and psychology. Frontiers has been a trailblazer for open science since its founding 15 years ago. It's recognized as a global leader in open access technology, publishing systems and processes.
Frontiers is now the sixth largest and third most cited publisher. My own thinking about OA and open science has evolved because of the pandemic. When knowledge is disseminated openly, it's better for everyone. We have five talks today as a starter for 10 in advance of your Valentine's dinner. First, we're delighted to welcome Andrea Neiman and Rogan Hamby to deliver our first presentation.
Andrea is the project manager for software development at Equinox open library initiative, and in his role as data and project analyst at equinox, Rogan has participated in the development and support of fulfillment. Their talk is intriguingly entitled A tiny library with a million volumes the open source future of resource sharing. We know that a thriving resource sharing consortium helps libraries and individuals have access to a broader, more diverse range of perspectives.
Open source software lowers barriers to resource access for all library users with open source resource sharing even the smallest library can access global resources. This is a great opportunity for all of us to learn about how open source resource sharing can make a difference for your library and your community. Second up will be Bonnie Lawlor on the use of blockchain technology along the scientific research workflow.
Bonnie is an ACS Fellow as well as an NSAIF honorary fellow. She currently serves as a counselor for the ACS division of chemical information and as a member of the ACS Committee on budget and finance. She also serves on the boards of the chemical structure Association trust and the Philosopher's Information Center, the producer of the philosopher's index. Bonnie, will be telling us about the development of a white paper that examines the use of blockchain technology along the scientific research workflow.
Her lightning talk provides a glimpse of how the technology is impacting the future of scientific research and encourage listeners to access this important white paper when it's published later this year. Our third talk will be from Olivia McIsaac and Ted Polley On moving from piecemeal to systematic reprioritizing how academic libraries approach research information management.
Olivia is the research information management librarian at IUPUI university, where she works with her colleagues in the Center for Digital Scholarship. Ted is the director of the IUPUI University library center for digital scholarship, where he oversees the day to day operations of the center and its staff. He is also the library's digital library publishing librarian managing its open access journal publishing service.
Olivia and Ted will be doing a presentation on how research information management workflows at universities are increasingly intersecting with library workflows, particularly regarding data management, funder compliance and preservation of the institution's scholarly record. In this session, Olivia and Ted will share their vision to shift from thinking about library supported RIM services as piecemeal to a more systemic, systematic approach, That prioritizes open infrastructure.
Our fourth session will be a presentation from Jon Bentley on why data is important to publishers and librarians. John is commercial director at OpenAthens. He's worked in publishing for 20 years with a variety of commercial and business publishers. Open Athens customers come from many different industries all over the world. Their identity Federation manages the exchange of millions of anonymous data every day.
They've been doing some work to analyze this data, what it tells us and how it helps inform and prepare us for the future. In this lightning talk, Jon explains why data is important to librarians and publishers and closing out the session. We're delighted to welcome Frode Haglund on the topic of visual metadata for augmented documents. Frode is a developer, artist, editor, teacher, designer and host of the annual future of tech symposium and publisher, the annual series of books of the same name.
With a perspective that metadata is vital. We should not hide it. Visual media is an approach to document metadata where that what a document is, what its structure is, and how it connects to the documents is written as an appendix in the document itself, rather than hidden in a data file augmenting ordinary documents and making them richly interactive.
The lightning talks will be followed by a moderated discussion. I hope you can join us for that. Stay on for that. So welcome speakers. And first off, Andre and Rogen on a tiny library with a million volumes. The open source future of resource sharing. Welcome, all.
Welcome. Thank you for joining us for a tiny library with a million volumes. Next I am Rogan Hamby here with Andrea bensimon. We both work for equinox. We will leave our contact information here in the slide. So feel free to follow up with us on Twitter or by email if you have questions after the conference.
Next, we work for equinox, the open library initiative. It is a 500 1c3 nonprofit. We work with libraries of all kinds, public academic special to provide open source solutions through development, consulting, all kinds of things. And one of the things that makes us different is our equinox promise. You can read more about it on our website, equinox on our about page under ethics next.
Now we're here to talk about an open source product fulfillment. The days of FUD are starting to fade away. Fear, uncertainty and doubt spread by proprietary vendors. Instead, they've moved to open washing, taking products that are really proprietary and doing the minimum to technically call them open source, which is called open washing. And the motivation is simple.
The market for services for open source is growing dramatically and we've seen it do that historically and it's continuing into 2026 and beyond. But we put our code where our mouth is and you can find fulfillment on GitHub fully available next. Now how can open source help libraries? Now, I think some of this is kind of obvious, but I do think it's important to underscore the philosophical resonance and all kinds of other advantages.
The transparency helps security and privacy, which are so important these days, and people's awareness of it is continuing to grow. The lack of licensing costs is a big deal and it allows direct community participation on all levels of libraries. Next now, people instinctively, I think, understand that small libraries really benefit from the larger collections of large scale resource sharing.
However, large libraries have large populations which often have more specialized interest and really take advantage of the collections at small libraries that may have obscure materials, not at other libraries. And so large libraries often end up as net borrowers. Actually, if you want to read more about that, I have published about it and library and book trade annual. The citation will be left here in the slides.
Next OK. Thanks, Rogan. Now I'm going to talk to you a little bit more about fulfillment, which is our open source resource sharing software. It provides all full request management, Union catalog, record loading and matching streamlined interfaces and is standards compliant. I'm going to dive into some more of these features in the next couple of slides.
So the Union catalog aspect of fulfillment is independent from requesting. So you can have a consortium that either does one or the other or both, depending on the needs of that library. It provides a single catalog for the holdings of diverse ios's automatically groups, formats and additions for search and request so your patrons can decide which formats they're willing to accept to fill their request, and also provides a lot of loading scripts for SeamlessAccess record updates, which are configurable based on source aisles, battle tested and uses hashes to detect duplicate loads has a ways to detect minimum quality thresholds, so you're not overlaying good data with that and also automatically update your holdings based on what is in the source file.
One of my favorite features of fulfillment is the single scan interface. As somebody who used to process files in my previous job, I really appreciate having a single interface to process all of the requests, which you do a single scan. As you take the item in hand, you scan it and it props for the next sensible action based on that item and location, whether it's filling a request, closing your request, bringing it in for one of your patrons and having this single interface minimizes opportunity for staff error and also allows for greater flexibility in filling requests.
In addition to being standards compliant, equinox also has written a number of connectors for the highest level of automation between your aisles and fulfillment. We have an evergreen connector that has been in use now for a couple of years. I've recently written a co connector and we are working with a testing partner for a Sierra connector with fulfillment.
You can also model complex relationships both organizationally and physically. In terms of career routes. Fulfillment is based on the evergreen ils, which was built from the ground up for consortia. And so it has in its bones a way to model complex relationships, complex lending scenarios, various configuration options for request targeting to make sure that requests are moving through your system as efficiently as possible, and that your patients are getting things as quickly as they can.
Another great thing about open source is you can report on any and all system data. You own your data. There are reports interfaces available or SQL access for those who are able to do that. And with these reports, you can make collection development decisions with detailed borrowing and lending information for your collection. Future development.
On this very month, we're planning to release fulfillment release 11. And then the future roadmap is going to include additional connectors, upgrades to our management interfaces, support for digital document delivery as well as some advanced one click Reports. So Thanks for listening to us. Talk to you today about open source and fulfillment. And we'll stick around after the lightning talks to take any of your questions.
So what I'd like to do, everyone in the time that I have allotted is to describe a project that has been sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied chemistry, and that is to identify how blockchain technology is being used along the scientific research workflow. Time does not permit me to go into full detail, but hopefully this will serve as a teaser and motivate you to read the full paper when it's published.
So what is a blockchain? Blockchains are a type of immutable, distributed ledger systems that is a system without a central repository and usually without a central authority. These systems enable a community of users to record transactions and a ledger that is public to that specific community in such a way that no transaction can be fraudulently changed once published.
I want to stress blockchain is not Bitcoin and it's used for many other purposes other than cryptocurrency. In fact, it predates Bitcoin by almost two decades. It was co-invented in 1991 by 2 researchers at Bell corp who were attempting to ensure the integrity of digital documents via time stamping their initial efforts involved working on cryptographically secure chain of blocks such that no one could tamper with the time stamping of documents.
Hence the name blockchain once hash to a blockchain and time stamped information can be changed. But such changes are captured in time stamps themselves, making fraudulent tampering visible. This makes digital information immutable, transparent, externally provable and distributed features all perfect for the scientific workflow. For the sake of the paper. This is how we defined the research workflow.
Having five steps cover each step separately. Use of blockchain technology in the first step is for the time stamping of ideas, the time stamping of research, output, et cetera the purpose for which the technology was originally developed. It provides researchers with their proof of concept and proof of ownership of intellectual property. And the companies listed on this slide are only a few of offering the services.
In step two when the researchers go to seek money. Its the technology is not widely used because once you introduce money you also introduce legislation and regulatory processes. Having said that, there is an organization called molecule that emerged a few years ago that has a collaborative platform that connects researchers with investors who are interested in licensing, licensing the intellectual property.
In fact, they're funding research here in the United States at the University of Washington in Seattle. It's also on the administrative side of funding where it's widely used. The US department of Health and Human services, which is the largest funding ANSI in the us, uses blockchain technology to reduce their risk assessment tasks, which used to take 4 hours, and the technology has allowed them to get it down to 15 minutes.
But it's in step three where the inherent features of the technology really come into play. And that is because the answers to all of the questions you see on this slide can be hashed to a blockchain, making it research transparent and reproducible, absolutely essential for the Advancement of Science. In step four when the results of step three are then analyzed and software supplied, visualization done calculations are done to feed into the next step.
The answers to all of these questions can then be hashed to a blockchain again, making the research highly reproducible. And there are electronic notebooks also using the technology to capture and secure the research data at the point that it is actually created. And in the final step of the research cycle, when the results are being made public and publicly available, there are a number of organizations who provide such a service artifacts is a major player in this group, and they work with several publishers, such as the Journal of the British blockchain Association and partners in digital health, so that the authors of that provide manuscripts to these publishers can create a permanent and immutable record of their work in real time.
There are other science related applications that you can see listed here. Supply chain tracking, real time research tracking, et cetera it's very widely used. I just want to highlight the Blacksburg consortium, which has been providing blockchain services to researchers since 2019 under the umbrella of the Germany based Max Planck society.
And it was so successful that in the summer of last year, its members approved what is now called the Blacksburg Association for the Advancement of blockchain in science, and it's being funded under German legislation. In a nutshell, what we found was that all steps in the research workflow can take place within a blockchain. We found that the usage is growing rapidly around the world. I want to point out that the technology was named one of the top 10 emerging technologies in chemistry by IUPAC back back in 2021, as I said, and it's been identified as a technology that has the potential to disrupt across the entire chemical enterprise.
I want to point out, too, though, blockchain isn't for everybody and the white paper will highlight cases where it didn't work and it will highlight the lessons learned by those who are using the technology for scientific purposes. In closing, I want to really highlight my coworkers in this project. We're wrapping wrapping it up now.
The paper will be published in the Journal pure and Applied Chemistry. And as I said, it will be open access. So I'm hoping that you will. Take the time to seek it out and reach it and don't feel. Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you're interested. I'll make sure you get a copy. So again, thank you for your time. Hi, everyone.
Welcome to our presentation on moving from piecemeal to systematic reprioritizing how academic libraries approach research information management. My name is Olivia mckissick, and I am the research information management librarian at Indiana University. Purdue university, Indianapolis, also known as IUPUI.
And I'm Ted Pauley. I am the director of the Center for digital Scholarship and digital publishing librarian at IUPUI. So a little bit of background. Libraries are increasingly engaging in research information management work at IUPUI. Historically, rim related work was distributed across different librarians and library services, including data services, research metrics, consultations and open access policy implementation.
So why are we looking to take a more systematic approach now? Well, in 2024, our campus will change. We will no longer be IUPUI university, but we will become IU Indianapolis and Purdue University will leave our campus to form its own campus. So the departure of Purdue programs, researchers and funding will undoubtedly impact the research output of our campus.
And understanding how this change will impact our research footprint will help us understand and assess our research output and will be useful in strategic planning. So here is an illustration of Purdue University leaving to form its own campus. And IUPUI becoming IU Indianapolis. When we think about research, information management, infrastructure, we can turn to this quote by William Gibson, where he says that the future is already here.
It's just not evenly distributed yet. So with research, information management and open infrastructure, we already see tools, systems and services that can be utilized. But these services and systems are not being leveraged by institutions or researchers in an equal way. So to look at research, information management, we do turn to different pieces to understand how we can kind of fit together a landscape that will work with people such as librarians, researchers, research officers, IT with systems.
So both external, such as pure exploratory space. Chris and internal. So when you think about some lockdown systems that only internal people have access to, so academic analytics, other data sources, like HR data to get that affiliation, information and then services is also one of the pieces. So when you think about services, thinking about orchid, doing ways to share information across these different systems, most often these different pieces aren't always working together.
Sometimes they're working independently from each other, which kind of Hinders open research and Hinders a more complete research story being told. So this begs the question of how can academic libraries engage with other people to support a more rapid knowledge sharing about research outputs through the implementation of these different systems and services? A in a scalable way.
So at AP we've been focusing on the people part of rim work and specifically in building partnerships. So we've partnered with our Office of the Vice Chancellor for research and academic affairs on a shared ORCID membership through lyricists. Sharing this expense has generated by for ORCID across campus and has helped us forge new connections with other units at the University in the future, we plan to continue to look for these kinds of partnerships, looking for organizations or offices that have a shared, overlapping mission with the library.
And as our campus undergoes its change and the units that support faculty research will likely be centralized, at least to some extent. We'll explore new opportunities for collaboration across the University. And right now we're just starting out the process of developing a systematic approach to research information work. But we really want to focus on centering contributors.
And equally much of the research done at IUPUI is not easily captured in traditional systems for evaluating research such as community engaged research communities. These usually fall out of. Information systems like pure and the ones that I discussed in a previous slide. So right now we're focusing on promoting ORCID and promoting the researchers control over their own data to get a better picture of the research activities that matter the most to are changing campus.
So we look forward to engaging with you in the Q&A on the next slide, our references as well as our image credits. Thank you. Hello, and good morning to everybody. My name is John Bentley and I am the director of the trust, identity and access directorate within jyske.
Jyske is a not for profit digital and data ANSI that supports the UK academic sector. It runs services that includes the UK access management Federation and OpenAthens. And I am here to share some insight from the OpenAthens Federation. Open Athens exists to connect people to information wherever they are in the world and whatever time of day it is. We take them on that journey to the insight that they need at that moment in time.
And when we pass someone over to digital platforms or applications, we call that a transfer. We see around 250 million transfers to publishers each year. And although we don't have customers in every country, we do see transfers from users in nearly every country in the world. This data shows research and learning is no longer tied to specific locations.
Now single sign on and Federated access management is not the only way of logging into digital platforms. Other methods include a username and password issued by the platform itself. IP recognition is used to read a user's IP address and this enables access into the platform and remains by far, the most common method used around the world. And this is often based on location.
And Federated access allows the users to access their resources wherever they are, and it takes the users to their institutional log in systems and allows them to authenticate using their familiar institutional credentials. They then carries a message confirming the user's identity back to the publisher, who was then able to authorize that user into that platform. Authentication is done by the institution.
Authorization is done by the platform. This aspect of Federated access allows privacy preservation. No personal data is required to be passed back to secure access. And we can see Federated access is growing. It's a slow process because both publishers and libraries need to move together. But there is a recognition that single sign on does provide a secure access experience when everything aligns.
Here we can see that the institutions and publishers joining the Federation is growing and alongside that, the number of transfers that are made each month. And as the transfers are carried out, we are able to see trends and patterns about the technology used. For example, the aggregation of the data enables us to see which operating systems are used in different regions of the world.
If we look at these operating systems, you can see that Microsoft is still very dominant. That's the green piece of the pie. If we look at the browsers around the world, we can see the importance of Google Chrome if used effectively. This kind of insight allows us to inform and improve the decisions we make to support our users. I hope people are aware that the browsers supported by the underlying browser engines are making changes designed to improve user privacy and prevent unwanted tracking.
This will have impact on everybody who uses digital platforms. But looking at the data, we can tailor our efforts to ensure the messages from our community land in the right place and where they will have the greatest impact. But there is further detail about devices. For example, we can drill down and see those users who are using desktops versus those users who are using mobiles or tablets.
And we can see patterns around the world where certain regions are more reliant on that mobile experience. It is important the learners or researchers, wherever they are in the world, can get access to the information that they need. Yes, this means equity of data, but we can also work to improve the user experience. For example, this data influenced the design of one of openers athens's new services my Athens.
We worked hard during the development cycle to make sure the experiences is good for a mobile user as it is for someone accessing research from their desktop. So thank you for listening. If you want to find out more about what OpenAthens does, please do visit OpenAthens or reach out to me. John Bentley at OpenAthens NET. I'd like to say thank you for your time. Thank you to nice.
So I hope you engage and enjoy the rest of the sessions wherever you are in the world. Bye for now. Hi Thanks for watching this presentation on visual meta. Visual meta is an approach for document metadata and as we all know, metadata is data which describes data. Metadata should be rich, robust and reliable because metadata enables powerful interactions. So why hide it?
The problem is that metadata for documents is often missing, and the context is that metadata about documents is often in the format. Metadata about print documents is pretty much there for every single book, and it's in what we call the colorful, which looks like this, which we have all seen. So I want to put metadata about the document as a color font and the appendix.
So we take this and format it in the Textile and put it in the back of the document and the appendix with visual metadata and visual meta. And what I'm showing here is only the very core basic visual matter. The benefits are that this is robust, rich and reliable. It's robust because this will be available for as long as the document. Text is available.
It's rich because it can have metadata for siting structure, connections and more, and it's reliable because it's created an export from the manuscript data. And that means it can be very cheap to create the promises that metadata makes documents self aware, and this enables interaction, such as copying as a citation, reducing errors, flexible views to see the knowledge in New ways, having interactive glossary and other supplemental information, doing connection analysis and much more.
The status is that this is available open and free right now at visual hyphen metadata info. The ACM is testing it and Vint Cerf is evangelizing it and the ACM communications magazine. And it's been implemented and software for Mac OS. Thank you very much. I'll be happy to answer any questions.
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