LIS2670 Digital Libraries in Their Communities Module 11: Social Platforms Part A Karen Calhoun Library and Information Science Program

Learning outcomes for this unit (3 weekly modules): – Understand, articulate, and provide examples of the definitions, key issues and current state of digital libraries – Recognize and explain the place of digital libraries in both brick-and-mortar libraries and on the social web – Use social web tools and methods to maintain current awareness of selected topics Learning outcomes for weekly module 11: 1.Be familiar with a range of examples of the social web’s impact on scholarship (continued) 2.Begin to envision new possibilities for digital libraries (as social platforms) Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun2 Learning objectives this unit/module

Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun3 Discover Gather Create Share Validate Preserve Awareness tools (e.g. RSS) Blogs, wikis Collaboration tools (profiles) Social networks (Mendeley) Identifiers (ORCID) Bookmarking Citation management Repositories News trackers Discoverability (SEO, SMO) Repositories, copyright services Blogs, wikis, discussion forums Twitter Traditional publishing Linked data, syndication E-research, data management Peer review Impact measures Altmetrics Reviews, ratings Social networks Researcher profiles Researcher assessment Digital preservation Metadata services Data management Digital scholarship centers Repositories Digital curation

E-research and data curation Why data curation? OECD, NSF, many others – grants, funding, and access to research data DataOne, DataVerse, DataCite LIS courses on data management and data infrastructure Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun4

Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun5 Researcher profiling systems Shift focus to people, collaboration, connections Many factors determine a scholar’s impact, not just publications Theory to practice for semantic web and linked data Move from self-contained file systems to service platforms Automated harvesting as the preferred method of collecting or pointing to content Open, re-usable and re-mixable data, not only within the site, but for disclosure to other sites But … not clear how much scholars value them

Library and Information Science Program Karen Calhoun6 Scholarly social networks Name Founded /Location CEO Self- Reported Members/ Date US Unique Visitors/ Month* Funding Academia.edu 2008 San Francisco Richard Price 3.1 million (May 2013) 500,000+ Venture capital ResearchGate.net 2008 Berlin Ijad Madisch 2.8 million (May 2013) 350,000+ Venture capital Mendeley.com 2008 London Victor Henning (now VP Strategy, Elsevier) 2.0 million (November 2012) 125,000 Venture capital initially (acquired by Elsevier, April 2013) *Data source: compete.com; latest statistics available are for the month of March 2013 and represent US traffic only. Based on Table 9.1. Exploring Digital Libraries, p ©2014. Used with permission. Exploring Digital Libraries