CNI Fall 2018 Membership Meeting

Negotiating for What We Want: A Proposal for Model License Language on User Privacy (Hinchliffe, Zimmerman)



Privacy continues to be a significant topic of concern for libraries, particularly with respect to user tracking in third-party systems. The National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics identified the development of model license language on user privacy as a strategy for supporting libraries in advocating for privacy. 



Such language could build on the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Consensus Principles on Users' Digital Privacy in Library, Publisher, and Software-Provider Systems as well as other efforts currently underway such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Privacy Framework development.

This issue-oriented session will explore the desirability and feasibility of model license language for user privacy, data tracking, data security, consent, etc. as well as possible approaches to developing and supporting such license language.  The session will conclude with a discussion of concrete next steps and expressions of interest in participating in this potential community collaborative project.

https://www.lib.montana.edu/privacy-forum/
https://www.niso.org/publications/privacy-principles
https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework


Privacy Gaps in Mediated Library Services (Altman, Zimmerman)



Privacy underpins both individual agency and societal intellectual freedom. In this presentation we examine how patron privacy is protected in theory and practice when accessing electronic resources. We develop a taxonomy of library privacy policy components, using the NISO principles as a framework, and mapping relevant American Library Association practices and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements to this framework. We then conduct a systematic analysis of both the privacy policies, and web-based tracking mechanisms used by major vendors. We find that the transition to digital content has created significant gaps in privacy protections: When the library provides content through third-party services, patron data may be used in unanticipated ways that conflict with library and patron values. We end with a discussion of mitigation methods and consideration for library strategy.

https://informatics.mit.edu/

For several years, there has been a conversation about how to better identify the copyright status of a work. A key to that is meaningful access to the records of the US Copyright Office. This panel will feature briefings and discussions of projects that are publishing and using historic copyright data online, and show how making such data available in searchable, machine-processable, and linkable forms can enable libraries and other cultural institutions to legally use and share underused public domain and copyrighted literature and scholarship with greater confidence. The session will report on the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded project the University of Pennsylvania that undertook to publish a comprehensive inventory online of first copyright renewals of 20th-century serials to make it easier to establish their public domain status, and it will show how putting that data online has also enabled interlinking with rights registries, crowdsourced bibliographic databases, and Wikidata. It will also include a report on the New York Public Library's ongoing structured conversion of original registrations and discuss how this can be used for rights determination and potential humanities research. Conceptual ideas for possibly using machine learning and crowdsourcing to transcribe the Catalog of Copyright Entries (the CCE) and the value of formal and informal, ongoing professional collaboration will also be discussed.

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html

https://github.com/NYPL/catalog_of_copyright_entries_project

This presentation will report on the status of the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded project "Building a Community-Created Data Rescue Toolkit." Data rescue provides an important opportunity for research libraries to collaborate with each other, as well as with public libraries, businesses, government agencies, and community volunteers and organizers. Building on previous gatherings at the institution, Johns Hopkins University hosted a meeting of diverse stakeholders in September 2018 to develop plans, identify areas for collaboration, and streamline entry points for interested parties. The Data Rescue Toolkit will provide a social and technical framework to connect individuals, groups, and organizations collaborating to identify, collect, describe, curate, preserve, and provide long-term access to federal, state, and local government data. The Toolkit will emphasize (re)use and accessibility of data for users of all kinds, and will be developed through an open, collaborative process that builds on the existing energy and expertise within our community. The community will create a scalable Toolkit to meet the needs of a dynamic group of users and will continuously enhance and grow the project.  We will also report on other projects that came out of our meeting in September 2018. The meeting spurred development of a registry tool that data managers can use to notify the community when they plan to deaccession data, need assistance migrating data forward, have a collection defunded, or need some other site to host data. We would like to acknowledge and thank all of the community members contributing to the project, especially Ruth Duerr.

https://osf.io/j7knc/?view_only=406fb2a254c84cd7bc113183fb8b5f1f

A great deal has been written in the last several years about open access (OA) publishing in academic settings, both Green and Gold. In particular, the Pay It Forward (PIF) project and the OA2020 initiative focused on the feasibility of transitioning to a Gold OA environment supported by article processing charges (APCs). Several studies pointed out that faculty in research 1 (R1) universities tend to publish in Gold OA journals that carry APC charges. Yet, the institutional investment in OA publications and APCs remains difficult to identify and assess. APCs are often paid through a variety of sources, ranging from author discretionary and grant funds to institutional subvention pools. These APC expenditures form a shadow scholarly resources acquisitions budget, with funding typically not coming from library budgets. This presentation provides a quantitative assessment of one R1 institution's level of publication in open access publishing venues. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign employs a SciVal PURE researcher profile system called Illinois Experts. The authors examined 27,300 journal articles from 2013 to mid-2018 contained in Illinois Experts. The number and percentage of publications appearing in Gold APC journals and other OA venues was calculated using scripts that searched against the DOAJ database and the UnPaywall platform. The total APC costs over the six-year period were calculated and the average APC charge was determined. The presentation will report these results.

How do scholars today engage with digitized special collections? Can the use of Linked Open Data (LOD) methods and models facilitate and/or encourage user engagement? As libraries work to implement new cataloging and metadata workflows that make use of emerging LOD-friendly ontologies like BIBFrame and schema.org, user research spanning a range of contexts is needed to help answer these and related questions. This briefing looks at two case studies undertaken to better understand how users engage with digitized special collections hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Collection search interfaces were enhanced to take advantage of LOD-based services and resources. The first study looked at Emblematica Online, a web resource providing integrated discovery of and access to items in six major collections of digitized emblem books from libraries in the US and Europe. Results highlight the importance of user engagement and suggest that the diverse and complex ways that scholars want to use such collections will require libraries to expand the capabilities of their digital collection platforms and enhance the connectedness of their content. The second study looked at experimental LOD-based enhancements to the Motley Collection of Theater and Costume Design and the Kolb-Proust Archive for Research. This study focused on initial user response to experimental LOD features added to search interfaces. Results suggest that scholars are intrigued by some affordances offered by LOD, but that libraries will need to iteratively engage potential users to optimize the ways that LOD helps connect content and facilitate engagement in varying use contexts. In addition to reflecting on user research they have done to date, presenters will speculate on how libraries can more effectively engage users and gather evidence to inform the evolution of systems that provide access to digitized special collections.

http://emblematica.library.illinois.edu/  




http://imagesearch-test1.library.illinois.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/motley-new/  



https://muse.jhu.edu/article/672183 



http://www.ala.org/acrl/files/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2015/Green_Wade_Cole_Han.pdf 



http://hdl.handle.net/2142/100121

The University of Chicago develops and operates the Globus software-as-a-service for data management, used by over 100,000 researchers at universities, national labs, and federal facilities. The Globus platform provides high-speed, reliable file transfer, data sharing, and data publication, as well as federated identity infrastructure that facilitates collaboration across diverse security domains and organizational boundaries. All services are accessible via browser, command line, and REST APIs, enabling access for users with widely differing needs and technical expertise. We will describe, and briefly demonstrate, a number of common use cases, including how researchers can easily access large public data repositories, manage data egress from scientific instruments, and scale interactive data science by integrating with Jupyter notebooks.

www.globus.org

On campuses across the US, research technology and library units face increasing demands to support digital resources and cyberinfrastructure that serve specific academic disciplines. Such resources may be known as science gateways, collaboratories, virtual research environments, web portals, and virtual laboratories, and what they have in common is that they allow science & engineering (and other) communities to access shared data, software, computing services, instruments, educational materials, and other resources specific to their disciplines. The challenge of developing these resources is that the creators who initiate such projects are often isolated from like-minded individuals tackling the same problems in different disciplines, leading to inadequate awareness and implementation of existing solutions and best practices. The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) was funded by the NSF to address this problem; it helps gateway creators leverage their funding by providing free or low-cost services and resources that facilitate the sharing of experiences, technologies, and practices. Services include specialized consulting and hands-on development, training and events, and targeted online resources for the gateway community, all with the goal of building community and capacity to grow gateway resources across disciplines. This presentation will outline the NSF-funded services and resources available through SGCI, with examples of projects served, so that CNI meeting attendees can easily identify how the SGCI might engage with members of their institution. Attendees may be particularly interested in the ways that SGCI can supplement or guide the formation of campus-based groups that develop gateways for local, national, or international communities.

https://sciencegateways.org

In light of the current research data landscape, Dryad and California Digital Library (CDL) are formally partnering to address researcher needs and lead an open, community-owned initiative in research data curation and publishing. This partnership is focused on driving adoption of research data publishing by meeting researchers where they are in their workflows. By working together, we will create global efficiencies and minimize needless duplication of effort across institutions, freeing up time and funds. Our goal for this session is to engage with the CNI community and institutional stakeholders on the future of Dryad. The new Dryad service will be focused on being a collaborative data publishing platform that integrates data curation/stewardship more closely into researcher workflows. To accomplish these goals, a new Dryad service will be hosted on a nimble, open-source CDL developed platform, reliant on integrations with journal publishing platforms for ease-of-deposit, and offer a transparent layer for institutions to get involved in data publishing in a system where their researchers are already depositing. But, for Dryad to be a success it will need to be supportive and reflective of institutional values and build a strong institutional community. Members from the Dryad and CDL team will present on the work already underway to launch the new Dryad as well as gain feedback from attendees on our longer-term partnership roadmap and business models.