{"id":528,"date":"2017-07-01T17:20:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T05:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2017-07-01T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T05:27:34","slug":"round-up-of-or2017-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/round-up-of-or2017-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Round-up of 16 #or2017-related sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/tag\/or2017\/\">#or2017<\/a> I attended 16 sessions (including satellite events), most of which include 3 presentations or 8 lightning talks, so there&#8217;s a <em>lot<\/em> of information that&#8217;s gone into my head over the last week. (As a result I now have 26 new items on my To Do list, which range from &#8220;Check X is on Y&#8217;s radar&#8221; to &#8220;Found a new national conference&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>Below is a summary with key points and highlighting of things I particularly want to remember for some reason [plus thoughts of my own].<\/p>\n<p>Monday &#8211; CAUL Research Repository Community Day<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/session-1-caulrd2017-reports-from-groupsuni-implementations\/\">Session 1<\/a>: APCs not a solution so need to strengthen repositories. [This doesn&#8217;t entirely follow because there&#8217;s an excluded and oft-forgotten middle: gold OA journals that don&#8217;t charge APCs but are funded through other streams. But as it happens I do believe in repositories too or I probably wouldn&#8217;t be here.] Discussion about forming an Australasian (and\/or New Zealand) formal consortium to make it easier to feed into COAR etc. <span style=\"background-color: #ffff99;\">NISO &#8220;Free_to_read&#8221; and &#8220;License_ref&#8221; tags<\/span> [which I need to find out more about and how they work in the OAI context].<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/session-2-caulrd2017-metadata-and-standards\/\">Session 2<\/a>: ORCID developments; repository self-assessment and repository metadata output health-check with some suggested standards from the point of view of one aggregator (Trove); two views on dealing withnon-traditional and creative works.<\/li>\n<li>When the Australians started talking about REF, the Kiwis bailed. My suggestion to talk about PBRF was overwhelmingly voted down. We had a robust discussion about metadata instead.<\/li>\n<li>I also squeezed in a visit to the State Library. I liked their <span style=\"background-color: #ffff99;\">coffee tables as advertisement<\/span>: they were printed with a nice design listing the services they had on offer. And of course their Digital Futures space: the kinetic sand with a sensor\/projector above that sensed the height of the sand and projected colours and contour lines accordingly; the tin can connected to wire flowers where you touch a flower and hear a random comment about the future from a previous visitor; and VR and touchscreens and stickers to put on a paper timeline mounted along the wall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tuesday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"background-color: #ffff99;\" href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/getting-started-with-angular-ui-development-for-dspace-or2017\/\">Getting started with Angular 2 and DSpace workshop<\/a>: 2 parts: background on what Angular is [I understand it <em>so much better <\/em>now! This was a far better explanation than any of the ones I&#8217;d tried while struggling with Primo&#8217;s new UI] followed by a hands-on working through the exercises. [This was a <em>little<\/em> quick for me but I managed to catch up using the github code as reference, and only failed on step 2 because the presenters missed a step too. \ud83d\ude42 So I came out feeling very accomplished&#8230; though I still hate dependencies.]<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"background-color: #ffff99;\" href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/folio\/\">FOLIO<\/a> presentation hosted by EBSCO &#8211; \u201ca community collaboration to develop an open source Library Services Platform (LSP) designed for innovation\u201d. Still very early stages but the &#8220;APIs all the way down&#8221; and responsiveness of the architecture is nice; worth keeping an eye on as it develops more modules.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/electronic-poster-display-or2017\/\">Electronic poster presentation<\/a>: researcher metrics dashboards; CORE Repository Dashboard; IIIF image framework; OA retrospective theses; increasing OA content in your repository; <span style=\"background-color: #ffff99;\">improving the DSpace workflow<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wednesday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/perverse-incentives-and-the-reward-structures-of-academia-or2017\/\">Perverse incentives: how the reward structures of academia are getting in the way of scholarly communication and good science<\/a>: basic introduction to scholarly communication and the need for OA from a mathematician&#8217;s perspective<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/research-and-non-publications-repositories-open-science-or2017\/\">Research and non-publications repositories, Open Science<\/a>: 8 lightning presentations: an intro to IIIF but most of the rest were\u00a0about research data, including RDM training; data paper publication best practices from a journal&#8217;s perspective; data management <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">plan<\/span> record<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/scholarly-workflows-or2017\/\">Scholarly workflows<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff99;\">&#8220;Scholarly Tools&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> looked beyond RDM and [where I usually think of managing\/publishing code, methods] talked about research <em>tools<\/em> of which there are a bazillion &#8211; it more raised the scope of the issue than provided a firm path forward but that&#8217;s fair at this point!<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff99;\">&#8220;Research Offices As Vital Factors&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> was an inspiring view from a research office that Gets RDM &#8211; might be a useful primer for other research offices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/demonstrating-impact-or2017\/\">Demonstrating impact<\/a>: &#8220;A New Approach for Measuring Value&#8230;&#8221; mentioned the idea of value as beyond a simple dollar figure to basic\/expected\/desired\/unanticipated value. By contrast &#8220;How to Speak Business Case&#8221; talked about how to get down to the kind of value that speaks to project managers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thursday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/repository-admin-and-integration-or2017\/\">Repository admin and integration<\/a>: 8 more lightning presentations.\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Mind the Gap!&#8230;&#8221; proposed ResourceSync as a replacement to OAI-PMH (retaining the latter for legacy purposes as appropriate) due to various advantages.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Leading the Charge&#8230;&#8221; mentions the imminent &#8220;UK Scholarly Communications License&#8221; on the Harvard model which would be a great extension of precedent.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Towards an Understanding&#8230;&#8221; talks of driver behind <em>The Conversation <\/em>to improve govt\/public awareness\/understanding of new research.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffff99;\">&#8220;Batch processes&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> described a workflow for semi-automating identifying of low-hanging fruit to gather\/import into IR. [I want to check with our workflows to see if this might help or if our workflows with Elements are about as efficient already.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/extending-dspace-or2017\/\">Extending DSpace<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Archiving Sensitive Data&#8221; was awe-inspiring [albeit irrelevant to me].<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Full integration of Piwik analytics&#8221; was relevant to me [due especially to us I think stuffing up what analytics DSpace does give us &#8211; but probably a bit too technically challenging].<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Request a Copy Button&#8221; suggested it&#8217;s possible to get it working sensibly if we ever decide it&#8217;s worth it for us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/evaluation-and-assessment-or2017\/\">Evaluation and assessment<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Cambridge\u2019s journey towards Open Access&#8221; is not that different from ours [which is heartening]. &#8220;Open Access policy 3 years in&#8221; at UniSA has a stronger mandate than us and still low deposit rate [ditto]; pre-population with CrossRef lookup on DOI is nice. [Probably replicates the functionality in Elements.]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Self-Auditing as a Trusted Digital Repository&#8221; sounds like a pain in the proverbial though useful if you can bear to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/integrating-dspace-or2017\/\">Integrating DSpace<\/a>: &#8220;Harvesting a Rich Crop&#8221; on multi-tenancy DSpace. &#8220;DSpace in the centre&#8221; on Elements\/DSpace integration. &#8220;DSpace for Cultural Heritage&#8221; introduces DSpace-GLAM with IIIF-compliant image viewer, audio-visual streaming, dataset visualisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/institutional-publications-repositories-and-beyond-or2017\/\">Institutional Publications Repositories and beyond<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Curating, But Still Not Mediating&#8221; on appreciative demanding of README files asap under the principle of &#8220;The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the second best time is now&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Uniform metadata for Finnish repositories&#8221; was determined by a national working group. [This has now inspired discussions about doing the same in New Zealand. I approve the idea but mourn the cleanup I&#8217;ll have to do in our repository&#8230; or maybe just in our OAI crosswalk&#8230;]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Isomorphic Pressures&#8230;&#8221; looks at difference in IR ecosystem in Japan cf the USA and specifically factors influencing this: regulatory\/coercive pressures; cognitive\/mimetic pressures; normative pressures. [I like big words for new ways to think of things.]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The role of the repository&#8230;&#8221; spins the citation advantage concept to do an analysis of the <em>altmetric advantage<\/em> of depositing in a repository. They find one.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Scholarly Identity and Author Rights&#8230;&#8221; on popularity of workshops on creating your researcher profile.<\/li>\n<li>And I got a chocolate koala for finishing my own lightning presentation on time. \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/ideas-challenge-presentations-or2017\/\">Ideas Challenge<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Data Pickle&#8221; modelled on ThisToThat.com should definitely be a thing.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Global Connections&#8221; &#8211; I don&#8217;t know how well this would work in practice but having seen what machine learning does with Resene paint colours and Doctor Who titles I&#8217;d actually really like to see it generating metadata (and\/or, per my question\/suggestion, simply skipping a step and generating new research&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Brisbane Declaration ON the Elimination Of Keywords (B-DONEOK)&#8221; &#8211; if there is a mass global wave of cataloguers murdering institutional repository folk in the next week, you know why.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/beyond-repositories-problem-solving-oriented-or2017\/\">Beyond Repositories: From Resource-oriented towards Problem-solving-oriented<\/a>: I didn&#8217;t blog this well, it was very dense and full of ideas that are simultaneously catching up with things I see and well ahead in others &#8211; especially well ahead in determination to grab hold of it all and go for it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, a photo from the gala at the museum:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deborahfitchett\/35512173441\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4263\/35512173441_467dfcac6a.jpg\" alt=\"me in a nice dress and gladiator helmet, with sword and shield\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">All dressed up to attack messy metadata.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For #or2017 I attended 16 sessions (including satellite events), most of which include 3 presentations or 8 lightning talks, so there&#8217;s a lot of information that&#8217;s gone into my head over the last week. 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