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Opportunities for Scientific Information in the Digital Era: Insights from CERN's Library

This presentation by Anne Gentil-Beccot explores the evolving landscape of scientific information in the digital age. It highlights the integration of diverse digital content, the importance of user communities as resources, and the need for seamless access to information. The talk emphasizes the shift from traditional text-based resources to more dynamic digital content, offering tools such as databases and citation metrics while addressing challenges such as author disambiguation and the necessity for open data. Key conclusions outline future directions for scientific libraries and information systems.

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Opportunities for Scientific Information in the Digital Era: Insights from CERN's Library

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  1. Opportunities for Scientific Information in the digital era The Library behind the scene JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  2. Outline • 1- Introduction • 2. Digital content: more than text • 3- Integration of information resources • 4- The User community as a resource • 5- Conclusions and outlook JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  3. 1- Introduction JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  4. Context • More and more e-content (e-books, e-journals, e-newspapers…) • Search engines: i.e Google, Yahoo • Mobile devices (phones, tablets, readers..) • Social web (Facebook, Twitter, blogs…) • Usage of information has changed: • “Here and now!” • Need for more content, more features JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  5. 2- Digital content More than text JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  6. Inspire: HEP literature database http://inspirehep.net/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  7. Search for information http://inspirehep.net/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  8. Full-text search http://inspirehep.net/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  9. Graphs, figures extraction http://inspirehep.net/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  10. References extraction http://inspirehep.net/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  11. Citation count http://inspirehep.net/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  12. Author’s page • Author disambiguation • Challenge: huge collaborations (with more than 2,500 authors) http://inspirehep.net/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  13. Author’s citations • Metrics: Highly important to scientists • Impact factor (ISI) (journal) • Number of citations received in Year N for articles published in years N-1 and N-2 divided by number of citable articles published in years N-1 and N-2 • H-Index (author) • A scholar with index H has published H papers each of which have been cited at least H time. http://inspirehep.net/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  14. Many more challenges • More types of documents • Eg slides from conference proceedings linked with the conference record • Computer-code • moving beyond the • article-centric model, as independent citable objects • Deeper in the content • Data from plots and table • More metrics: clicks • Need for integrated and linked information JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  15. 3- Integration of resources JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  16. Why • “Google generation” • Users want to access information easily • Single entry point • Digital Library cannot be a closed circuit! • It should be where the users are! JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  17. Open Data • Metadata in public domain (Creative Commons License CC0) • Reusable by anyone • Ex: CERN, Harvard Library… JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  18. CERN Open Data JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  19. Integrate with other Library catalogues http://wolrdcat.org JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  20. Where the users are http://www.facebook.com/Bibliotheque.CentraleLyon JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  21. Where the users want to go -Simple API -Based on ISBN http://cdsweb.cern.ch JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  22. 5- The user community as a resource JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  23. Submission of documents • Users as: • Information creators • curators http://cdsweb.cern.ch JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  24. Users as curators http://inspirehep.net/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  25. Commenting • Creation of “new” information • Challenge: • Moderation? • Preservation http://cdsweb.cern.ch JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  26. Study Users’ behavior (and use it) • Usage statistics /logs • Understand their needs to adapt the resources, the necessary features • Give back this information to them: http://www.hud.ac.uk/library/ JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  27. Towards user-driven acquisition • Give the users what they want • The community knows what they need • Purchase is only driven by use • ≠ from the traditional model where purchased resource is not always used (inefficiency, high costs) • Resources shaped to the user’s needs JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  28. User-driven acquisition for Ebooks • Ebook records integrated in the catalogue • Pay only per usage • At CERN, 17k ebooks available, but we pay only if there is a use JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  29. Ex. Books about Python at CERN Library • 118 books • 50 owned by the Library (print or ebook format) • Others available but not “owned” by the Library • “Pay as you go” JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  30. User-driven acquisition for print books Library catalogue Book records Source (eg Publisher, aggregator Book record Desiderata Record Ingest Book records Desiderata Record Purchase Request Librarian User JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  31. 5- Conclusions and outlook JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  32. Many opportunities • Access to more content • Reach the user wherever he is • Interact more closely with the user community and use this resource • Open Access – gradually remove barriers • Maximize the resources JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  33. And challenges • Sustainability of information • Formats, access, maintenance and storage • Crowd-sourcing • Many barriers still need to be broken • “Digital divide” • OA is not equally developed in all scientific disciplines JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

  34. Questions?Anne.gentil-beccot@cern.chСпасибо! JINR / CERN Grid and advanced information systems 2012 Anne Gentil-Beccot CERN Library GS/SIS

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