Month: May 2020

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session which takes place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments during this week.

Authors:

Sadik Shahadu, Greg Mcverry 

Poster description:

Many students are unable to finish their first degrees due to the high cost of higher education in Ghana. Many universities in Ghana lacks access to rich online educational materials to provide an alternative learning module for students who can not afford the standard university education.

This poster focuses on how we are using IndieWeb building blocks to help students and educators to create Open Educational resources. Our program provides free personal websites to students and educators to curate and create OERs on their own websites, the community then write or remix these resources to develop collections of community-approved OER.

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About the presenter:

Sadik Shahadu is an inspiring open leader who works to build open educational practices in Ghana. He is the co-founder of Global Open Initiative, a Ghanaian non-profit organization working to promote open data, open access, and the use of open educational resources (OER) across Africa. He is a researcher, a Wikipedian, and a Mozilla Open Leaders X fellow.

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Authors:

Adam Vials Moore, Hilda Muchando, Monica Duke, Balviar Notay,  Christopher Brown, Alice Meadows, Josh Brown

Poster description:

The information landscape for infrastructure that captures and exposes scholarly communications and the associated individuals, organisations and connected entities has developed over the last several years. A set of persistent identifiers (PIDs) allow participants and their interactions and connections to be consistently captured and passed around within the infrastructure. In this paper we look at some of the recent identifiers, policies and communities that are working to bring about a connected web of open and accessible scholarly information to enable high quality science.

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About the presenter:

Dr Adam Vials Moore currently works for Jisc as the UK ORCID senior community engagement and technical lead, as part of the team supporting the personal persistent identifier and broader work across PIDs. His background ranges from research into bioinformatics, affective adaptive e-learning and hypertext to supporting institutional infrastructure including Open Access outputs via CRIS and repositories.

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Authors:

Maria Esteva, Sharon Strover, Soyoung Park, Christopher Rossbach, John Thywissen

Poster description:

Open datasets are at the core of countless AI applications. However, the complexities involved in large data aggregations, transformations, distribution and reuse, and the limited capacity to validate ethical implications embedded in routine data practices, make it difficult to track and prevent breaches. Recognizing that data and the systems that manage it are not neutral but entangled in a chain of decisions, organizational priorities, technical conditions, and social norms, we investigate how ethical data management can be a point of departure for designing and evaluating AI applications. Our research suggests an array of issues and decision-making instances that touch ethics data management at each lifecycle stage. The findings can inform open repositories’ policies and curation practices towards ethical open data for use in responsible AI. In this poster we describe our research methods using the case of natural hazards data.

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About the presenter:

Sharon Strover is a Professor at the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin.  She also direct the Technology & Information Policy Center.  Her research and teaching focus on communication technologies and their policy implications.

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Authors:

Philip Ndhlovu, Notice Pasipamire

Poster description:

There is a dearth of empirical evidence in Africa to support the assertion that IRs have made research output easily accessible, visible and citable as acknowledged by some scholars. The study assessed the extent to which archived content is cited by publications indexed in Scopus. Five IRs in Zimbabwean state universities were analysed. Scopus cited references search facility was used to mine for documents citing IR content from 2014 to 2018. Results from Scopus searches were exported into text files then transported to excel workbooks for filtering and analysis. The impact of an IR was analysed from two perspectives; cited and citing documents characteristics. Results show that on average 8.6 documents per year were cited for all IRs combined within the 5 year period selected for the study. The most cited document types were thesis and dissertations followed by research articles. The University of Zimbabwe IR was found to be the most influential, with 34 citers affiliated in 12 countries. A new measure of IR research impact based on Scopus was put forward.

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About the presenter:

Phillip Ndhlovu is the Institutional Repository Librarian as well as the Liaison Librarian for the Faculty of Commerce at the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. He holds B.Sc (HONS) and M.Sc. degrees in Library and Information Science.

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Authors:

Tiago Martins da Costa Ferreira, Washington Luís Carvalho-Segundo

Poster description:

This poster presents the results of some statistics with regarding to DSpace community in Brazil, its evolution through time and future strategies. Brazil occupies, until this date, the third position on the number of DSpace repository installations worldwide and the user community has recently improved collaboration through forums and promotion of a series of webinars.

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About the presenter:

Tiago Martins da Costa Ferreira is currently the Director of NEKI IT. He  graduated in Computer Systems, working in the market as a specialist and tech consultant in digital repositories for more than 15 years and since 2018 occupies the role of Coordinator of the Braziilian DSpace User Group.

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Authors:

Lucca de Farias Ramalho, Washington Luís Carvalho-Segundo

Poster description:

This poster shows a methodology on how to select and filter documents from open-access digital repositories. Using search expressions, queries were made inside oasisbr, using the terms selected in two different languages. The number of documents recovered by each term is listed. After that, a saturation curve is generated, so one can see how much each terms recovers of ‘noise’ or ‘silence’, with regard to its generic nature or rather a specific one. After the documents are selected, a csv file is generated to be uploaded to a thematic digital library, that may use DSpace as a platform.

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About the presenter:

Lucca de Farias Ramalho is a Junior Researcher at IBICT.

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Author:

Lucca de Farias Ramalho, Washington Luís Carvalho-Segundo

Poster description:

This poster presents a method to extract trending topics from searches performed on Institutional Repositories, Digital Libraries and Scientific Journals. It used the data collected from Google Analytics running over two Brazilian open science research portals: oasisbr and BDTD. The data were analyzed using the R language operating over the set of most viewed records in the months in 2018 and 2019, resulting in interesting visualizations about tendencies and hot topics on oasisbr and BDTD, in the searches performed in these two years.

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About the Presenter:

Washington Luís Carvalho-Segundo is the Coordinator of the Laboratory of Methodologies of Treatment and Dissemination of Information (COLAB), at IBICT.

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Author:

Harish Maringanti

Poster description:

Digital Libraries rely on keywords to make their collections discoverable, and not having keywords is less of an issue for textual collections because of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities. With visual collections, if item level information is not available, then discovering relevant items becomes a big issue. Creating item level information for visual collections is still a manual process in most cultural heritage institutions. Coupled with collection processing backlog issues, this presents a huge problem for humanities scholars – most of cultural heritage material is still either not available online or difficult to find in online environment. Leveraging existing machine learning tools is one way to address this issue.

Marriott Library received one year funding (July 2018 – June 2019) to explore the feasibility of using machine learning algorithms to generate descriptive metadata for archival images. I will share results of our year-long project along with lessons learned.

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About the presenter:

Harish Maringanti is the Associate Dean for IT & Digital Library Services at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. He is responsible for advancing Library’s technology initiatives; he was the lead PI on several grant funded projects including the recently concluded Lyrasis Catalyst Fund grant, “Machine Learning meets Library Archives”, to explore feasibility of applying machine learning tools on digital library data. His primary research interests include applications of emerging technologies in digital libraries.

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Authors:

Tamer S. Abu-Alam, Obiajulu Odu, Per Pippin Aspaas, Stein Høydalsvik, Leif Longva, Karl Magnus Nilsen

Poster description:

Recent growth in the number of scholarly documents has intensified the need for discovering, sharing, exchanging and reuse of scholarly information across the scientific community. However, our work has shown that there is a 60% findability gap of the polar-related scholarly documents (doi.org/10.7557/7.4682). This 60% findability gap raises an awareness sign of the need of the scientific community to create a database of the open-access records about the Polar Regions and making this database available to researchers, students and the wider public through one search platform.

Based on the obligations and the motivations of the UiT the Arctic University of Norway and the Norwegian Polar Institute, we are working on a project, Open Polar, which aims to create a searchable, homogeneous and seamless database of the polar-related open-access records and make this database available to the scientific community.

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About the presenter:

Tamer S. Abu-AlamU,  The Arctic University of Norway

This poster is part of the OR2020 Virtual Poster Session which takes place in the week of June 1-5. We encourage you to ask questions and engage in discussion on this poster by using the comments feature. Authors will respond to comments during this week.

Authors:

Antje Groneberg, Andrea Bollini

Poster description:

In this poster the various ways how new features can be inspired and developed for an open source platform are described, specifically DSpace-CRIS, during the ongoing implementation of a RIS (openHSU at the Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg). Our DSpace-CRIS installation is significant positively inspired through other DSpace-CRIS instances: Some of our (new) features weren’t available in the official code base of DSpace-CRIS, but are inspired through already available features on other DSpace-CRIS installations (and just have to be modified and customized), some could be developed through the refinement of already available software elements (in the official codebase from DSpace or DSpace-GLAM) and some of them have to be developed from scratch.

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About the presenter:

Antje Groneberg graduated with a Masters degree in Sociology and German Studies in 2011. Afterwards, she did a library traineeship for two years. She graduated with a Masters degree in Library and Information Science. Since 2013, she works as subject librarian at the Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. During the optimization of the discovery system, her interest for innovative library services grew. After organizing the redesign of the library webpage, as head of the Digital Library Unit within the university library she now dedicates herself to the build-up of a research information system for the university.