From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Tue Jun 3 09:21:21 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 09:21:21 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] NEWS RELEASE OR2014 Update: Scholarship Programme Recipients Selected Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* June 3, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1rGGsRG *OR2014 Update: Scholarship Programme Recipients Selected* *Helsinki, FI* Leading up to the kick-off of the Ninth International Conference on Open Repositories (#OR2014) next week, the Open Repositories Steering Committee is pleased to announce that recipients of the 2014 Open Repositories Pilot Scholarship Programme have been selected. The Pilot Scholarship Programme is providing financial support for three first-time delegates to attend this year's conference in Helsinki, June 9-13. The recipients, who are from Estonia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, were among a strong pool of applicants. The Open Repositories Steering Committee instituted the Scholarship Programme to encourage participation by librarians, repository managers, developers and researchers in digital libraries and related fields, who might not otherwise have the resources to attend Open Repositories. The Scholarship Programme covers the cost of full registration, including the conference dinner. We look forward to welcoming the scholarship recipients, and all delegates, to Helsinki next week. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The deadline for proposals is Friday, June 6, 2014.Proposal Submission Form Registration Deadline: Noon July 1. Agenda and Registration: http://guides.ucf.edu/sciencebootcampSE Topics: We will spend 1?2 day engaging with researchers in each of these fields: * ALTERNATIVE/SUSTAINABLE ENERGY * DATA SHARING * DATA VISUALIZATION * CLIMATE CHANGE When: July 16th ? 18th 2014 Where: The James B. Hunt Jr. Library on North Carolina State University?s Centennial Campus, Raleigh, NC Benefits & Outcomes of Science Boot Camp Southeast: For each of the focus topics covered at Science Boot Camp?s science sessions, Science Boot Campers will be able to: * Explain the structure of the field and its foundational ideas * Understand and be able to use terminologies for the field * Identify the big questions that this field is exploring * Discuss new directions for research in this field * Discuss what questions research in this field is addressing * Understand how research is conducted, what instrumentation is used, and how data is captured * Identify how researchers share information within their fields beyond publications * Share insights into what current research in the field is discovering and implications of these discoveries * Share insights into the current and future state of how researchers in specific fields collaborate with librarians * Identify new ways that librarians can support their research communities Professional Networking: There will be two scheduled sessions for librarian lightning talks focused on collaboration between science librarian and researchers at their institutions, and a fun evening out at the Nature Research Center at NC Museum of Natural Sciences. -- Yasmeen Shorish Physical and Life Sciences Librarian, Asst. 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The annual campaign supports the continued advancement of DSpace, Fedora and VIVO open source software which is available free of charge. DuraSpace members may chose to designate funds for DSpace or Fedora, or VIVO, or to support DuraSpace generally. Be on the lookout for more information about how to participate this week. If you have any questions please feel free to email Michele Kimpton at mkimpton at duraspace.org . *Towards Sustainable Open Source Project Communities* The DSpace, Fedora and VIVO projects are supported by DuraSpace. Your f?inancial support keeps our open source projects strong. As a DuraSpace member you become a partner in project governance with a voice in ensuring that DuraSpace projects continue to serve the global communities that depend on them into the future. A highlight of the 2014 Membership Campaign is the switch to a membership model that includes DuraSpace and project specific governance benefits . The steering groups of each project have created a set of governance policies aimed at increasing community participation in project work and decision making. ?Our goal is to encourage institutions to become more involved with our projects,? said DuraSpace CSO Jonathan Markow. ?DuraSpace membership is tied both to a package of organizational benefits as well as a project governance model that affords members an opportunity to directly influence the direction of the projects that are most important to them.? But the key reason to "join" DuraSpace goes beyond benefits?it is in the mutual interest of both the DuraSpace organization and stakeholders to participate in sustaining our open source projects. Join us in this critical mission by becoming a DuraSpace member. To become a member simply complete the membership form (either online or as a PDF download). See the complete list of DuraSpace Membership benefits here. *About DuraSpace* DuraCloud is a service from DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects (DSpace , Fedora , VIVO ) and creating services (DuraCloud , DSpaceDirect ) to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. Our values are expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our digital future." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jqin at syr.edu Fri Jun 6 09:08:32 2014 From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 13:08:32 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] The Capability Matruity Model for Research Data Management (CMM4RDM) is released! Message-ID: <4a05cce2f7a24eb2a8e8467ede24e2a3@EX13-MBX-09.ad.syr.edu> ------------This announcement has been posted to multiple lists. Please excuse the duplicates------------ We are very pleased to announce the official launch of a new wiki for the Capability Maturity Model for Research Data Management, at http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu. Is your institution, organization, or project trying to evaluate improvements that are needed for your research data management process? The guidelines and rubrics included in this wiki can help with the evaluation of each individual practice within the overall research data management process. This capability maturity model is an aspirational model which helps you to see not only how far you've come, but also what steps you can continue to take to improve your research data management process. Now, we need your feedback! Are there practices in your research data management process that we did not address? Can you provide additional concrete examples at any maturity level? Can you provide any tips on how your institution was able to overcome a particular hurdle with regards to the research data management process? Can you help us to prioritize the weight of each different practice, to help us turn this model into a more quantitative tool? If so, the wiki is waiting for your contributions. You can leave comments, add tags, and even edit or add to pages. With your interaction, we hope this wiki will be a valuable resource for the research data management community. You can read more about it at: http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CMM4RDM+v10+is+officially+launched. Sincerely, The CMMRDM Team Jian Qin, PI Kevin Crowston, Co-PI Charlotte Flynn, Doctoral RA Arden Kirkland, Masters RA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Fedora 4.0 Beta is a stable platform for testing the full Fedora 4.0 feature set , which will not change between the Beta and the full production release planned for later this year. Further releases in the Fedora 4.x line will add more exciting new features based on the project roadmap . This release, managed by Michael Durbin at the University of Virginia, is the result of a focused and highly collaborative 2-year community effort to make long overdue changes to the robust Fedora framework for building digital repositories. Fedora 4.0 is designed to serve the community for the next decade. Download Fedora 4.0 Beta here. Members of the Fedora community, stewarded by DuraSpace, led planning and development in order to arrive at the launch of Fedora 4.0 after 29 rapid prototyping Alpha and Beta development ?sprints?. Each sprint was designed to address the top priorities expressed by the international community that include better performance and scalability, flexible storage options, features to accommodate research data management, native support for linked open data, and an improved platform for developers. Fedora 4.0 at Open Repositories Those attending this year?s Open Repositories conference will have several opportunities to learn more about Fedora 4 and engage with the development team. Andrew Woods, the Fedora Tech Lead, will be hosting an open Fedora committers meeting on June 9. Current Fedora developers as well as those interested in engaging with project development are encouraged to attend. Following the DuraSpace plenary on June 12, the Fedora Steering Group will host an open discussion session to kick off the Fedora interest group track. On June 13, David Wilcox, the Fedora Product Manager, and Andrew Woods will offer a deep dive into Fedora 4 features and discuss the roadmap for future releases. A full schedule of all Fedora-related sessions is available online , or stop by the DuraSpace table at Open Repositories to find out more about Fedora 4.0. How Does DuraSpace Help? DuraSpace works collaboratively with organizations that use Fedora to advance the design, development and sustainability of the project. As a non-profit, DuraSpace provides business support services that include technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration. About Fedora Fedora is an open source project that provides flexible, extensible and durable digital object management services. First released in 2004, it has hundreds of adopters worldwide, with deep roots in the research, scientific, intellectual and cultural heritage communities. See http://fedora-commons.org/ for more information. It is supported by its community of users, and stewarded by DuraSpace. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jqin at syr.edu Mon Jun 9 20:18:40 2014 From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:18:40 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] The Capability Matruity Model for Research Data Management (CMM4RDM) is released! Message-ID: <6abe40f7796d47b9aaf931e9f8baae7f@EX13-MBX-09.ad.syr.edu> Update on the wiki site: The CMM4RDM site had a server problem late Friday afternoon and was down for the weekend. It is now back up and running. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you will enjoy navigating the site. Jian Jian Qin, Ph.D. Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University 311 Hinds Hall Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Tel: +1 (315)443-5642 http://jianqin.metadataetc.org/ From: Jian Qin Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 9:09 AM To: asis-l at asis.org (asis-l at asis.org); rdap at asis.org (rdap at asis.org); 'sigsti-l at asis.org'; DCMI Community (DC-SCIENCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK); sts-l at ala.org Subject: The Capability Matruity Model for Research Data Management (CMM4RDM) is released! ------------This announcement has been posted to multiple lists. Please excuse the duplicates------------ We are very pleased to announce the official launch of a new wiki for the Capability Maturity Model for Research Data Management, at http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu. Is your institution, organization, or project trying to evaluate improvements that are needed for your research data management process? The guidelines and rubrics included in this wiki can help with the evaluation of each individual practice within the overall research data management process. This capability maturity model is an aspirational model which helps you to see not only how far you've come, but also what steps you can continue to take to improve your research data management process. Now, we need your feedback! Are there practices in your research data management process that we did not address? Can you provide additional concrete examples at any maturity level? Can you provide any tips on how your institution was able to overcome a particular hurdle with regards to the research data management process? Can you help us to prioritize the weight of each different practice, to help us turn this model into a more quantitative tool? If so, the wiki is waiting for your contributions. You can leave comments, add tags, and even edit or add to pages. With your interaction, we hope this wiki will be a valuable resource for the research data management community. You can read more about it at: http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CMM4RDM+v10+is+officially+launched. Sincerely, The CMMRDM Team Jian Qin, PI Kevin Crowston, Co-PI Charlotte Flynn, Doctoral RA Arden Kirkland, Masters RA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jqin at syr.edu Tue Jun 10 17:42:47 2014 From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:42:47 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Second call for ASIS&T SIG/STI Sponsors a Best Paper Award--Deadline June 30 Message-ID: <620df7fefc5841218367d1567b495bf8@EX13-MBX-09.ad.syr.edu> Dear SIG/STI members: The deadline for the award is fast approaching. Please consider submitting an application or nomination for this Best Paper Award sponsored by SIG/STI! See below for application/nomination details: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ASIST SIG/STI this year will sponsor a Best Paper Award. I encourage you and your colleagues to apply. Please see announcement below: ASIST SIG/STI Best Paper Award Announcement 1. Nature of the award Author or authors who win the SIG/STI best paper award will receive a cash stipend of $300 to attend the ASIS&T annual conference. They will receive the $300 award, in recognition of their winning paper, at the STI business meeting during the ASIS&T annual conference. 2. Purpose of the award The purpose of the award is to recognize the best paper in the library and information science literature that falls within the scope of Scientific and Technical Information, which was published during the previous calendar year in either a peer reviewed journal or a conference proceeding. 3. Eligibility criteria for the award * Paper must have been published in a peer reviewed journal or conference proceeding within the last calendar year. * At least one author must be a current member of SIG STI. * At least one author must register for the ASIS&T annual conference and attend the SIG STI business meeting during the ASIS&T annual conference. * The subject of the paper must fall within the scope of Scientific and Technical Information. 4. Administration of the award The Paper Award is sponsored by SIG STI. It is administered by the SIG STI Awards Jury. 5. Nominations for the award Nominations shall be sent by email to the Award Jury Chair, Professor Qin Jian, at jqin at syr.edu. The nomination must include: a full citation; brief explanation why the paper was nominated; copy of the article. An individual may nominate himself or herself. 6. Selection of the Awardee Jury members will have access to copies of the nominated papers. Content of each eligible paper shall be appraised and the maximum number of points each paper can accumulate is 100. Each paper will be evaluated in terms of the following criteria: a. Theoretical framework and/or conceptual relevance to Scientific and Information Technology - 10 points maximum b. Problem statement, appropriateness of the methodology and references - 20 points maximum c. Significance and implications of the findings - 30 points maximum d. Innovation and originality - 30 points maximum e. Clarity of expression - 10 points maximum. 7. Presentation of Award The award shall be announced and presented to the winning author by the Jury Chair during the SIG-STI business meeting at the annual conference of the Society. 8. Publicity The award announcement has been posted on the SIG STI listserv and other related mailing lists, the SIG STI web site (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGSTI/wordpress/?page_id=33), and SIG STI social media site. 9. Deadline * The Call for Submissions for the SIG STI Paper Award shall be published during the spring. * The Submission Deadline is June 30th. * Selection of the awardee shall be notified two months before the start of the ASIST annual meeting. Jian Qin, Ph.D. Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University 311 Hinds Hall Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Tel: +1 (315)443-5642 http://jianqin.metadataetc.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Tue Jun 17 01:53:23 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:53:23 +0300 Subject: [Rdap] VIVO Conference Program Released, Early Registration Discount ends Friday June 20 Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* June 17, 2014 Contact: +1-410-654-5525; vivo at designingevents.com *VIVO Conference Program Released, Early Registration Discount ends Friday June 20* *The upcoming VIVO Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, TX August 6-8, 2014.* *Conference Program Released! * The program is full of content to help you harness the full potential of research networking, discovery, and open research at-large. Workshops like: "Data Integration: Importing Data from External Systems into VIVO," "Research Impact: Evaluation, Metrics, and Altmetrics," "VIVO Data Federation and Visualization," and "Getting the most out of Profiles RNS," among many others, will guide you through topics related to efforts in areas like data acquisition and analysis, visualization, implementation, and more. This year's presentations, panels, and invited speakers enable you to personalize your VIVO experience and learn about cutting-edge topics by the experts. *See a list * of the 2014 presentations and posters now! You will leave with a greater understanding of VIVO and its capabilities, but also the value of supporting open-research practices. * Early Bird Registration Ends this Friday, June 20th.* *REGISTER TODAY! * With just three days left before the offer expires, it's your last chance to take advantage of the discounted early bird rate. Register before June 20th and SAVE up to $100! With engaging industry experts, breakout sessions, and fun networking events, the Fifth Annual VIVO Conference is a must-attend event. Be sure to Register Today! -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This selective bibliography includes over 320 > English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in > understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other > research institutions. > > http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm > > Most sources have been published from January 2009 through June 2014; > however, a limited number of earlier key sources are also included. > > The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included > works. If such versions are unavailable, links to the publishers' > descriptions are provided. > > It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 > United States License. > > For broader coverage of the digital curation literature, see the author's > Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly > Works,which presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and > technical reports, and the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and > Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement, which presents over 130 > additional sources. > > http://digital-scholarship.org/dcbw/dcb.htm > > http://digital-scholarship.org/dcbw/s1/dcbw-s1.htm > > Best Regards, > Charles > > Charles W. Bailey, Jr. > Publisher, Digital Scholarship > "A Quarter-Century as an Open Access Publisher" > http://bit.ly/1meLwIK From mark.conrad at nara.gov Tue Jun 24 09:45:38 2014 From: mark.conrad at nara.gov (Mark Conrad) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:45:38 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] Trustworthy Digital Repository Training for Auditors and Managers of Digital Repositories Message-ID: Please excuse any cross-posting. This message is sent on behalf of a colleague, Dr. David Giaretta. If you are interested in this training please use the link within the message for further information. ******************************************************************************************************************** I am pleased to announce that the authors of the OAIS and ISO16363 standards, including myself, have collaborated under the umbrella of PTAB (Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body) to hold the first training course for auditors and repository managers. Please let me know as soon as possible if you or any of your colleagues wish to take part as places are limited. Regards Dr David Giaretta, PTAB, Director *High Level Residential Training Course on ISO 16363 for Auditors and Managers of Digital Repositories* *London 29 Sept ? 3 Oct 2014* The Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body (ISO-PTAB) plays a major role in training auditors and repository managers. There are three important ISO standards: - ISO 14721 (OAIS ? a reference model for what is required for an archive to provide long-term preservation of digital information) - ISO 16363 (Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories ? sets out comprehensive metrics for what an archive must do, based on OAIS) - ISO 16919 (soon to be published - Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of candidate trustworthy digital repositories ? specifies the competencies and requirements on auditing bodies) These three standards form a closely-related family and an understanding of their principles and use will become increasingly important in establishing an internationally recognised set of trustworthy digital repositories. The authors of these standards will be running a 5-day residential training course in London from 29 September - 3 October 2014. 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Please see announcement below: ******************************************************** ASIS&T SIG/STI Sponsors a Best Paper Award The Scientific and Technical Information Special Interest Group (SIG) is pleased to announce an award to be given to the best paper in the library and information science literature, in the area of Scientific and Technical Information. The winner will receive a cash stipend of $300 to attend the ASIS&T annual conference, held in Seattle, WA in October. Submission deadline for the award is Augest 30, 2014. After reading and following the guidelines below, please send nominations to the Award Jury Chair: Professor Qin Jian (jqin at syr.edu). The award guideline can be found here: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGSTI/wordpress/?page_id=33 All the best, -Hong Chair of ASIST SIG/STI Hong Huang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Information University of South Florida 4202 E. 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Shortlisted sites will be notified before the end of September 2014. *Background* Candidate institutions must have the ability to host a four-day conference of approximately 300-500 attendees (OR2014 held recently in Helsinki, Finland drew more than 450 people). This includes appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and transportation, as well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services (food services, internet services, and conference social events; conference web site; management of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate institutions and their local arrangements committee must have the means to support the costs of producing the conference through attendee registration and independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is provided in the *Open Repositories Conference Handbook * on the Open Repositories wiki. *Expressions of Interest Guidelines* Organisations interested in proposing to host the OR2016 conference should follow the steps listed below: 1. Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by August 24th, 2014. Please direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Carol Minton Morris . 2. As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at *Open Repositories Conference Handbook * which offer guidelines for organizing an Open Repositories conference. Candidate institutions should pay particular attention to the pages listed at "Preparing a bid" before submitting an EoI. 3. The EoI must include: ? the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint bid) ? an email address as a first point of contact ? the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph describing ? the local amenities that would be available to delegates, including its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport 4. The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from additional reviewers. Following the review, one or more institutions will be invited to submit a detailed proposal. 5. Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued before the end of September 2014; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be notified at that time. The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid. The OR Steering Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals are being prepared. *About Open Repositories* Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please visit the OR home page: http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/ . Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the OR Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories. Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through your communities. *Thank you!* The Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In Phase 1 of the project, three in-person meetings were held and 30 in-person interviews conducted to collect input from all relevant stakeholders, including researchers, librarians, university administrators, scientific research funders, and publishers. The draft white paper is the summary of the findings from those meetings and interviews, along with the identification of potential action items for further work in Phase II of the project. "Citation reference counts and the Journal Impact Factor have historically been the main metric used to assess the quality and usefulness of scholarship," explains Martin Fenner, Technical Lead Article-Level Metrics for the Public Library of Science (PLOS) and consultant to NISO for the project. "While citations will remain an important component of research assessment, this metric alone does not effectively measure the expanded scope of forms of scholarly communication and newer methods of online reader behavior, network interactions with content, and social media. A movement around the use of alternative metrics, sometimes called 'altmetrics,' has grown to address the limitations of the traditional measures. With any new methodology, however, issues arise due to the lack of standards or best practices as stakeholders experiment with different approaches and use different definitions for similar concepts. NISO's Altmetrics project gathered together the variety of stakeholders in this arena to better understand the issues, obtain their input on what issues could best be addressed with standards or recommended practices, and prioritize the potential actions. This white paper organizes and summarizes the valuable feedback obtained from over 400 participants in the project and identifies a road forward for Phase II of the project." "More than 250 ideas were generated by participants in the meetings and interviews," states Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "We were able to condense these to 25 action items in nine categories: definitions, research outputs, discovery, research evaluation, data quality and gaming, grouping and aggregation, context, stakeholders' perspectives, and adoption. The highest priority items focused on unique identifiers for scholarly works and for contributors, standards for usage statistics in the form of views and downloads, and building of infrastructure rather than detailed metrics analysis. We are now soliciting feedback on the draft white paper from the wider community prior to its completion. The white paper will then be used as the basis for Phase II: the development of one or more of the proposed standards and recommended practices." The White Paper is open for public comment through July 18, 2014. It is available with a link to an online commenting form on the NISO Altmetrics Project webpage (www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/), along with the detailed output documents and recordings from each of the meetings and related information resources. Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: