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Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory annual conference to be held December 2-3, 2011, University of Michigan, deadline for proposals July 1, 2011, information on conference topics

Google Books (despite some OCR-related quality issues) is becoming a treasure trove for computational research (such as culturomics) and other digital humanities projects.

Blei-Gerrish and other topic modelling methods can open up the door to new escience advances based on large-scale text copora

Usage data, still an active research area, can address many shortcomings of citation analysis. A state-of-the-art in usage-based informetrics, the article can inspire the development of usage metadata for DPLA system. .

The development of ADS can be illustrative in how a digital library with linked, standardized metadata improves findability, enables creation of recommendation services and computational research.

Picture post: world map of scientific collaboration - January 27, 2011

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Three questions dominated the event: re-ingineering scholarly communications (a scholarly article, metrics, and a journal), future of faculty portfolio and reproducibility of research

missed another conference! :(

Review all for understandign the user behavior in the context of DPLA

The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. Over time, however, the work of OAI has expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience.

'Maximizing The Impacts Of Your Research: A Handbook For Social Scientists' now available to download as a PDF

Proposes a new way of looking at library organization and services, with three specific areas, reduce redundant collection and storage with a "national network of "last copy" print repositories," throw efforts toward National Digital Library such as proposed by Darnton, coordinate depository and data sharing initiatives, consolidate technical services operations regionally, and establish an LIS R&D for data collection, data sharing, decision making and development of useful information applications.

Describes a tool that streamlines parts of the scholarly publishing process, conceived by researchers at Lund University, to make articles more easily accessible on institutional repository