scholarly journals Funding models for Open Access digital data repositories

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 664-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Kitchin ◽  
Sandra Collins ◽  
Dermot Frost
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Forward Solution ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Funding Model ◽  
Service Volunteer ◽  
Full Core

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine funding models for Open Access (OA) digital data repositories whose costs are not wholly core funded. Whilst such repositories are free to access, they are not without significant cost to build and maintain and the lack of both full core costs and a direct funding stream through payment-for-use poses a considerable financial challenge, placing their future and the digital collections they hold at risk. Design/methodology/approach – The authors document 14 different potential funding streams for OA digital data repositories, grouped into six classes (institutional, philanthropy, research, audience, service, volunteer), drawing on the ongoing experiences of seeking a sustainable funding for the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). Findings – There is no straight forward solution to funding OA digital data repositories that are not wholly core funded, with a number of general and specific challenges facing each repository, and each funding model having strengths and weaknesses. The proposed DRI solution is the adoption of a blended approach that seeks to ameliorate cyclical effects across funding streams by generating income from a number of sources rather than overly relying on a single one, though it is still reliant on significant state core funding to be viable. Practical implications – The detailing of potential funding streams offers practical financial solutions to other OA digital data repositories which are seeking a means to become financially sustainable in the absence of full core funding. Originality/value – The review assesses and provides concrete advice with respect to potential funding streams in order to help repository owners address the financing conundrum they face.

Finding access and digital preservation solutions for a digitized oral history project

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krystyna K. Matusiak ◽  
Allison Tyler ◽  
Catherine Newton ◽  
Padma Polepeddi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Jefferson County ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Preservation Solutions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine affordable access and digital preservation solutions for digital collections developed by under-resourced small- and mid-sized cultural heritage organizations. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a case study of Jeffco Stories, a collection of digitized oral histories created by the Jefferson County Public Library in Colorado. Findings This paper describes how the Jefferson County Public Library undertook a migration project of its oral history digital collection into an open-access platform, Omeka, and selected DuraCloud as a hosted digital preservation service. Research limitations/implications As a case study, this paper is limited to one institution’s experience with selecting access and digital preservation solutions. Practical/implications This paper is relevant to librarians and archivists who are exploring access and preservation solutions for digital collections and to those who are considering migrating to open-access content management systems and cloud-based digital preservation solutions. Originality/value This paper presents a case of a public library and the challenges in finding affordable access and digital preservation solutions for small digital collections.

A study of Open Access research data repositories developed by BRICS countries

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Safat Mushtaq Misgar ◽  
Ajra Bhat ◽  
Zahid Ashraf Wani
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subject Coverage

Purpose In the present era, research data is a concern for researchers, as they are trying to find new ways to communicate their research findings and conclusions to other researchers in order to increase visibility and credibility. BRICS nations are fast emerging economies and contribute significantly in research output. This study makes an effort to analyze and explore the role of BRICS nations towards open access research data repository registered with Registry of Research Data Repositories. Design/methodology/approach The data were gathered from re3data repository, and the search was limited to BRICS nations. The data were further analyzed and tabulated as per set parameters, namely, country-wise distribution, types of contents, subject coverage and language diversity. Findings The findings depict that in terms of strength, India has the highest number of data repositories, thereby achieved the first rank among BRICS nations, and South Africa has the least number of data repositories, whereas in terms of content type and subject coverage, India again is leading among BRICS nations. The English language is used by repositories as the main language of the interface. Practical implications The study helps to understand the development of research data repositories by BRICS nations. The study is further beneficial to researchers, as Registry of Research Data Repository provides a single platform to access repositories from various disciplines. Readily available data saves time, money and efforts of researchers and helps the researcher in completing their research activity in a very short span of time. Originality/value The paper has investigated open access data repositories of BRICS nation that has not been attempted earlier. This gives readers comprehensive overview of research data repositories developed in fast emerging economies of the global. The paper can be very helpful for information managers, OA promoters and education and research policy makers to devise plans and policy bearing in mind the evolving research channels in emerging economies.

scholarly journals Open access repositories on open educational resources

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chew Bee Leng ◽  
Kamsiah Mohd Ali ◽  
Ch’ng Eng Hoo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Platform ◽  
Harvesting Method

Purpose Triggered by the advancement of information and communications technology, open access repositories (a variant of digital libraries) is one of the important changes impacting library services. In the context of openness to a wider community to access free resources, Wawasan Open University Library initiated a research project to build open access repositories on open educational resources. Open educational resources (OER) is an area of a multifaceted open movement in education. The purpose of this paper is to show how two web portal repositories on OER materials were developed adopting a Japanese open source software, called WEKO. Design/methodology/approach The design approach is based on a pull to push strategy whereby metadata of scholarly open access materials kept within the institution and network communities’ digital databases were harvested using the Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting method into another open knowledge platform for discovery by other users. Findings Positive results emanating from the university open access repositories development showed how it strengthen the role of the librarian as manager of institutional assets and successfully making the content freely available from this open knowledge platform for reuse in learning and teaching. Research limitations/implications Developing further programmes to encourage, influence faculty members and prospective stakeholders to use and contribute content to the valuable repositories is indeed a challenging task. Originality/value This paper provides insight for academic libraries on how open access repositories development and metadata analysis can enhance new professional challenges for information professionals in the field of data management, data quality and intricacies of supporting data repositories and build new open models of collaboration across institutions and libraries. This paper also describes future collaboration work with institutions in sharing their open access resources.

scholarly journals Reuse of scientific data in academic publications

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin He ◽  
Vinita Nahar
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Number Of Citations

Purpose – In recent years, a large number of data repositories have been built and used. However, the extent to which scientific data are re-used in academic publications is still unknown. The purpose of this paper is to explore the functions of re-used scientific data in scholarly publication in different fields. Design/methodology/approach – To address these questions, the authors identified 827 publications citing resources in the Dryad Digital Repository indexed by Scopus from 2010 to 2015. Findings – The results show that: the number of citations to scientific data increases sharply over the years, but mainly from data-intensive disciplines, such as agricultural, biology science, environment science and medicine; the majority of citations are from the originating articles; and researchers tend to reuse data produced by their own research groups. Research limitations/implications – Dryad data may be re-used without being formally cited. Originality/value – The conservatism in data sharing suggests that more should be done to encourage researchers to re-use other’s data.

scholarly journals Speedy Palaeoanthropology: How virtual morphology, digital databases and open access policies boost research in human evolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Bastir
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Cave System ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Fossil Hominins ◽  
New Research

The last two decades have seen the development of virtual morphology (ViMo), which emerged during the late 20th century through the application of medical imaging techniques to the study of fossil hominins (Spoor et al. 1994, Zollikofer et al. 1995, Conroy et al. 1998). The ViMo workflow has evolved successively by first building digital databases of fossil hominins, followed by digital reference collections, through the development of virtual 3D geometric morphometrics and, more recently, also 3D-printing (Fig. 1; Bastir et al. 2019). ViMo-workflows have led to a renaissance of morphological studies of diversity in evolutionary Earth and life sciences. The aim of this presentation is to briefly present standard workflows in the Virtual Morphology Lab in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, and to show, more generally, how ViMo-technologies, together with paradigmatic changes in science (open access, digital data bases), contribute to boosting current research in human paleontology. The accidental discovery, in 2013, of fossil remains of a new human species, Homo naledi, in the Rising Star cave system, South Africa, has produced a large and important collection documenting early hominin diversity (Berger et al. 2015) . In the light of the huge amount of fossil material, a new research strategy was decided: different kinds of social media and an open-access policy were used for the organisation of a workshop focussed on the study of this new fossil collection and based on data sharing and global collaborations. Because of this modern strategy, H. naledi was published very soon after its discovery (Berger et al. 2015) and simultaneously, the digitized fossils were made available to the public via MorphoSource, an open-access database. As a consequence, only five years later, more than 30 scientific publications have yielded almost 600 citations. This productivity is much higher than in any other recently discovered hominin species. Thus, 13 years after “glasnost” was proclaimed for paleoanthropology (Weber 2001), H. naledi has provided the first real example illustrating how open-access to digital collections accelerates and modifies research and diffusion in human paleontology.

Digital transformation to mitigate emergency situations: increasing opioid overdose survival rates through explainable artificial intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Johnson ◽  
Abdullah Albizri ◽  
Antoine Harfouche ◽  
Salih Tutun
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Opioid Overdose ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Essential Components

PurposeThe global health crisis represents an unprecedented opportunity for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. This paper aims to integrate explainable AI into the decision-making process in emergency scenarios to help mitigate the high levels of complexity and uncertainty associated with these situations. An AI solution is designed to extract insights into opioid overdose (OD) that can help government agencies to improve their medical emergency response and reduce opioid-related deaths.Design/methodology/approachThis paper employs the design science research paradigm as an overarching framework. Open-access digital data and AI, two essential components within the digital transformation domain, are used to accurately predict OD survival rates.FindingsThe proposed AI solution has two primary implications for the advancement of informed emergency management. Results show that it can help not only local agencies plan their resources for timely response to OD incidents, thus improving survival rates, but also governments to identify geographical areas with lower survival rates and their primary contributing factor; hence, they can plan and allocate long-term resources to increase survival rates and help in developing effective emergency-related policies.Originality/valueThis paper illustrates that digital transformation, particularly open-access digital data and AI, can improve the emergency management framework (EMF). It also demonstrates that the AI models developed in this study can identify opioid OD trends and determine the significant factors improving survival rates.

scholarly journals Digital repository as a service: automatic deployment of an Invenio-based repository using TOSCA orchestration and Apache Mesos

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 07023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marica Antonacci ◽  
Alberto Brigandì ◽  
Miguel Caballer ◽  
Eva Cetinić ◽  
Davor Davidovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Data ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Message Queue ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Cloud Environments ◽  
Automatic Deployment ◽  
Cloud Infrastructures ◽  
Distributed Cloud ◽  
Digital Assets

In the framework of the H2020 INDIGO-DataCloud project, we have implemented an advanced solution for the automatic deployment of digital data repositories based on Invenio, the digital library framework developed by CERN. Exploiting cutting-edge technologies, such as Docker and Apache Mesos, and standard specifications to describe application architectures such as TOSCA, we are able to provide a service that simplifies the process of creating and managing repositories of various digital assets using cloud resources. An Invenio-based repository consists of a set of services (e.g. database, message queue, cache, workers and frontend) that need to be properly installed, configured and linked together. These operations, along with the provisioning of the resources and their monitoring and maintenance, can be challenging for individual researchers or small-to-moderate-sized research groups. To this purpose, the INDIGO-DataCloud platform provides advanced features for orchestrating the deployment of complex virtual infrastructures on distributed cloud environments: it is able to provision the required resources automatically over heterogeneous and/or hybrid cloud infrastructures and to configure them automatically ensuring dynamic elasticity and resilience. This approach has been successfully adapted to support the needs of the researchers and scholars in the domain of the Digital Arts and Humanities.

Investigating and implementing an extensible, adaptable game plan for digital initiatives at a large state university

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-596
Author(s):  
Virginia A. Dressler
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
Content Management ◽  
State University ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Kent State University ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Large State ◽  
Digital Library Services

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of assessing the needs of a digital repository. The study’s institution – Kent State University, a large state university – is currently re-envisioning their digital library services to accommodate emerging technologies with an agile framework and platform. This paper includes discussion on the process of creating a sustainable digital initiatives program, a plan of action for migration, platform decision rationale and an overview of planning for future projects that is both flexible and extensible in nature. Design/methodology/approach The article’s approach is to examine the process of review and selection of the digital repository at Kent State University through the needs and requirements checklist the team devised according to the institution’s specifications. Literature published in the past five years is reviewed and applied to the selection process. The author maps out a plan that can be adaptable for growth and sustainability for a content management system. Findings Using models identified in the article, the team mapped a solution that can enhance the use and interaction by patrons to digital collections as well as provide a method to ensure the longevity of digital assets. Originality/value The article addresses issues that are inherent to digital content management systems of all shapes and sizes, and strives to provide a solution that would be relevant and applicable to many types of institutions in regard to digital repositories.

Do usage counts of scientific data make sense? An investigation of the Dryad repository

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin He ◽  
Zhengbiao Han
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Data ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scholarly Impact ◽  
Subject Categories ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Citation Counts ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of scientific data in order to assess the reliability of data to support data curation, to establish trust between researchers to support reuse of digital data and encourage researchers to share more data. Design/methodology/approach The authors compared the correlations between usage counts of associated data in Dryad and citation counts of articles in Web of Science in different subject areas in order to assess the possibility of using altmetric indicators to evaluate scientific data. Findings There are high positive correlations between usage counts of data and citation counts of associated articles. The citation counts of article’s shared data are higher than the average citation counts in most of the subject areas examined by the authors. Practical implications The paper suggests that usage counts of data could be potentially used to evaluate scholarly impact of scientific data, especially for those subject areas without special data repositories. Originality/value The study examines the possibility to use usage counts to evaluate the impact of scientific data in a generic repository Dryad by different subject categories.

scholarly journals Opening Access to collections: the making and using of open digitised cultural content

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 733-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Terras
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Resource Discovery ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Cultural Data

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to situate the activity of digitisation to increase access to cultural and heritage content alongside the objectives of the Open Access Movement (OAM). It demonstrates that increasingly open licensing of digital cultural heritage content is creating opportunities for researchers in the arts and humanities for both access to and analysis of cultural heritage materials. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is primarily a literature and scoping review of the current digitisation licensing climate, using and embedding examples from ongoing research projects and recent writings on Open Access (OA) and digitisation to highlight both opportunities and barriers to the creation and use of digital heritage content from galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM). Findings – The digital information environment in which digitised content is created and delivered has changed phenomenally, allowing the sharing and reuse of digital data and encouraging new advances in research across the sector, although issues of licensing persist. There remain further opportunities for understanding how to: study use and users of openly available cultural and heritage content; disseminate and encourage the uptake of open cultural data; persuade other institutions to contribute their data into the commons in an open and accessible manner; build aggregation and search facilities to link across information sources to allow resource discovery; and how best to use high-performance computing facilities to analyse and process the large amounts of data the author is now seeing being made available throughout the sector. Research limitations/implications – It is hoped that by pulling together this discussion, the benefits to making material openly available have been made clear, encouraging others in the GLAM sector to consider making their collections openly available for reuse and repurposing. Practical implications – This paper will encourage others in the GLAM sector to consider licensing their collections in an open and reusable fashion. By spelling out the range of opportunities for researchers in using open cultural and heritage materials it makes a contribution to the discussion in this area. Social implications – Increasing the quantity of high-quality OA resources in the cultural heritage sector will lead to a richer research environment which will increase the understanding of history, culture and society. Originality/value – This paper has pulled together, for the first time, an overview of the current state of affairs of digitisation in the cultural and heritage sector seen through the context of the OAM. It has highlighted opportunities for researchers in the arts, humanities and social and historical sciences in the embedding of open cultural data into both their research and teaching, whilst scoping the wave of cultural heritage content which is being created from institutional repositories which are now available for research and use. As such, it is a position paper that encourages the open data agenda within the cultural and heritage sector, showing the potentials that exists for the study of culture and society when data are made open.

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