Metadata plays a crucial role in organizing, discovering, and accessing publications and products. This paper explores the complex metadata ecosystem and its impact on downstream functions. Focusing on author-provided metadata, it addresses the challenges faced by authors in terms of discoverability, and offers best practices for optimizing metadata. The paper also discusses publication-level metadata standards and related initiatives. It highlights the importance of KBART files for linking subscription products and explores the three types of linking in discovery services. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of metadata in search engine optimization and social media. The paper explores how metadata can enhance accessibility and emphasizes the need for collaboration across various teams and systems. Overall, it underscores the ongoing efforts to build robust metadata pipelines and improve the user experience in information discovery and interchange.
{"title":"Unlocking potential: Harnessing the power of metadata for discoverability and accessibility","authors":"Julie Zhu","doi":"10.3233/isu-230202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230202","url":null,"abstract":"Metadata plays a crucial role in organizing, discovering, and accessing publications and products. This paper explores the complex metadata ecosystem and its impact on downstream functions. Focusing on author-provided metadata, it addresses the challenges faced by authors in terms of discoverability, and offers best practices for optimizing metadata. The paper also discusses publication-level metadata standards and related initiatives. It highlights the importance of KBART files for linking subscription products and explores the three types of linking in discovery services. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of metadata in search engine optimization and social media. The paper explores how metadata can enhance accessibility and emphasizes the need for collaboration across various teams and systems. Overall, it underscores the ongoing efforts to build robust metadata pipelines and improve the user experience in information discovery and interchange.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136039746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay provides insights into a publisher’s perspective on implementing and evaluating SeamlessAccess, a collaborative initiative that facilitates seamless access to scholarly resources subscribed by libraries. The essay outlines the motivations behind adopting SeamlessAccess, including the surge in federated authentication usage during the pandemic, its adoption by other publishers, and considerations regarding security and privacy. It discusses IEEE’s decision to employ a hybrid approach, combining the advantages of SeamlessAccess with its own solutions to maximize flexibility. The essay also highlights pilot projects focused on incorporating Identity Providers (IDPs) and EZproxy login URLs into the discovery process, along with strategies employed to monitor and assess the implementation of SeamlessAccess. By utilizing data, the essay demonstrates the overall success of the SeamlessAccess implementation project, while acknowledging potential obstacles that publishers and libraries may encounter during integration. Furthermore, the essay emphasizes the importance of increased collaboration between publishers and libraries to fully realize the vision of federated authentication as a genuinely seamless experience for researchers.
{"title":"Implementing and assessing Seamlessaccess: A publisher’s experience","authors":"Julie Zhu","doi":"10.3233/isu-230203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230203","url":null,"abstract":"This essay provides insights into a publisher’s perspective on implementing and evaluating SeamlessAccess, a collaborative initiative that facilitates seamless access to scholarly resources subscribed by libraries. The essay outlines the motivations behind adopting SeamlessAccess, including the surge in federated authentication usage during the pandemic, its adoption by other publishers, and considerations regarding security and privacy. It discusses IEEE’s decision to employ a hybrid approach, combining the advantages of SeamlessAccess with its own solutions to maximize flexibility. The essay also highlights pilot projects focused on incorporating Identity Providers (IDPs) and EZproxy login URLs into the discovery process, along with strategies employed to monitor and assess the implementation of SeamlessAccess. By utilizing data, the essay demonstrates the overall success of the SeamlessAccess implementation project, while acknowledging potential obstacles that publishers and libraries may encounter during integration. Furthermore, the essay emphasizes the importance of increased collaboration between publishers and libraries to fully realize the vision of federated authentication as a genuinely seamless experience for researchers.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136039747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper is based upon the author’s presentation at the 2023 NISO Plus Conference in which he discussed the purpose and importance of the NISO Content Profile/ Linked Document standard. The need for the standard is obvious: users demand the delivery of contextualized, targeted content delivered as a natural part of their workflow and publishers aspire to produce machine-actionable FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) materials, but many publishing workflows are complicated in order to enable print and digital outputs. This standard is an application of HTML5 and JSON-LD to create semantic relationships between data elements in scholarly publishing workflows and express machine actionable content, to ease reuse and interchange of scholarly research information. The format description defines a set of rules that outline the minimal characteristics of documents (Linked Documents) that conform to the standard and a mechanism to define more detailed Content Profiles that extend and refine the rules for specific use cases.
{"title":"NISO’s content profile/linked document standard: A research communication format for today’s scholarly ecosystem","authors":"Bill Kasdorf","doi":"10.3233/isu-230205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230205","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is based upon the author’s presentation at the 2023 NISO Plus Conference in which he discussed the purpose and importance of the NISO Content Profile/ Linked Document standard. The need for the standard is obvious: users demand the delivery of contextualized, targeted content delivered as a natural part of their workflow and publishers aspire to produce machine-actionable FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) materials, but many publishing workflows are complicated in order to enable print and digital outputs. This standard is an application of HTML5 and JSON-LD to create semantic relationships between data elements in scholarly publishing workflows and express machine actionable content, to ease reuse and interchange of scholarly research information. The format description defines a set of rules that outline the minimal characteristics of documents (Linked Documents) that conform to the standard and a mechanism to define more detailed Content Profiles that extend and refine the rules for specific use cases.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article is based upon the open plenary talk given at the NISO Plus Conference on February 14, 2023. David Weinberger, an American author, technologist, and speaker, explores the effect of the Internet and AI on metadata. He discusses how traditional metadata has had to anticipate the uses to which it will be put, who will use it, how users will navigate it, how it will be encoded, and how much metadata is enough. He asserts that the Internet has changed that because ie encourages the adoption of the strategy of unanticipation.
{"title":"Unanticipating metadata: Metadata in the ages of the internet and AI","authors":"David Weinberger","doi":"10.3233/isu-230204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230204","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based upon the open plenary talk given at the NISO Plus Conference on February 14, 2023. David Weinberger, an American author, technologist, and speaker, explores the effect of the Internet and AI on metadata. He discusses how traditional metadata has had to anticipate the uses to which it will be put, who will use it, how users will navigate it, how it will be encoded, and how much metadata is enough. He asserts that the Internet has changed that because ie encourages the adoption of the strategy of unanticipation.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136182096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sabina Alam, Rachel Burley, Chris Graf, Alice Meadows, Gabriela Mejias, Damian Pattinson
This article is based on a session with the same title from the 2023 APE (Academic Publishing in Europe) conference, in which the authors discussed the challenges and opportunities for the scholarly communications community to improve trust in the quality of research it funds, publishes, and uses. They provide here a brief summary of the discussion, including: how much trouble is research integrity in? Who should be responsible for addressing it? Do we need less technology or more? Is better peer review the answer; if so, what does that look like? What other aspects of the research process should we be considering? Does the existing research infrastructure support these changes, or is further investment needed?
{"title":"(Re?)Building trust in research integrity","authors":"Sabina Alam, Rachel Burley, Chris Graf, Alice Meadows, Gabriela Mejias, Damian Pattinson","doi":"10.3233/isu-230200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230200","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on a session with the same title from the 2023 APE (Academic Publishing in Europe) conference, in which the authors discussed the challenges and opportunities for the scholarly communications community to improve trust in the quality of research it funds, publishes, and uses. They provide here a brief summary of the discussion, including: how much trouble is research integrity in? Who should be responsible for addressing it? Do we need less technology or more? Is better peer review the answer; if so, what does that look like? What other aspects of the research process should we be considering? Does the existing research infrastructure support these changes, or is further investment needed?","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135352616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Many colleges in China have adopted the policy of recruiting students by academic subject categories in order to optimize the talent training mode. To solve the problems in major selection after enrollment, this paper has designed an intelligent algorithm model for recommending college majors. Compared with existing methods for assigning college majors, the model uses deep neural networks and clustering algorithms to simulate complex calculations in the human brain. It uses historical learning data from senior students or graduates to predict the future grades of freshmen, judge their adaptability to various college majors, reduce human interference in the college major selection process, recommend the most suitable college major to students.
{"title":"A recommendation model for college majors based on deep learning and clustering algorithms","authors":"Yu Jian, Ning Xiao, Li Youfeng","doi":"10.3233/isu-230201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230201","url":null,"abstract":"Many colleges in China have adopted the policy of recruiting students by academic subject categories in order to optimize the talent training mode. To solve the problems in major selection after enrollment, this paper has designed an intelligent algorithm model for recommending college majors. Compared with existing methods for assigning college majors, the model uses deep neural networks and clustering algorithms to simulate complex calculations in the human brain. It uses historical learning data from senior students or graduates to predict the future grades of freshmen, judge their adaptability to various college majors, reduce human interference in the college major selection process, recommend the most suitable college major to students.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135546941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s Note","authors":"Elliot R. Siegel","doi":"10.3233/isu-230183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135596898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The preface summarizes six contributions within a special issue of Information Services and Use in tribute to Andrew Pleasant, Ph.D., 1962–2022. Five topic-oriented manuscripts within the special issue are devoted to health literacy and health communication issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sixth paper focuses on Dr. Pleasant’s career and contributions. In addition to manuscript summaries, the preface introduces two health literacy/health mass communication topics: a constructive response to the ‘infodemic’; and the value of health narratives. These topics were of interest to Dr. Pleasant during the pandemic and augment some of the issues raised within the special tribute issue’s other contributions.
{"title":"Preface: Lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic about public receptivity, health literacy, and health communication: A tribute to Andrew Pleasant","authors":"R. Logan","doi":"10.3233/isu-230194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230194","url":null,"abstract":"The preface summarizes six contributions within a special issue of Information Services and Use in tribute to Andrew Pleasant, Ph.D., 1962–2022. Five topic-oriented manuscripts within the special issue are devoted to health literacy and health communication issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sixth paper focuses on Dr. Pleasant’s career and contributions. In addition to manuscript summaries, the preface introduces two health literacy/health mass communication topics: a constructive response to the ‘infodemic’; and the value of health narratives. These topics were of interest to Dr. Pleasant during the pandemic and augment some of the issues raised within the special tribute issue’s other contributions.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"24 1","pages":"79-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82639714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Okan, M. Messer, D. Levin-Zamir, K. Dadaczynski, L. Paakkari, D. Schaeffer, K. Sørensen
This paper addresses the critical role of health literacy during the COVID-19 infodemic and provides recommendations for decision-makers regarding how health literacy can be advanced as an empowering resource to mitigate the harmful effects of future infodemics. Based on a comprehensive literature review, key areas concerning health literacy are identified that help provide a strategic response during an infodemic. A framework for systemic health literacy capacity and policy advice is presented to inform and guide decision-makers on managing an infodemic with health literacy strategies. The way forward includes emphasizing the rights to access information and a broader view of how health literacy can help build back better in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the paper includes a call to action for decision-makers to integrate systemic health literacy responsiveness into public health emergency strategies to counter a future infodemic’s diffusion.
{"title":"Health literacy action framework for health emergencies and infodemics","authors":"O. Okan, M. Messer, D. Levin-Zamir, K. Dadaczynski, L. Paakkari, D. Schaeffer, K. Sørensen","doi":"10.3233/isu-230193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230193","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the critical role of health literacy during the COVID-19 infodemic and provides recommendations for decision-makers regarding how health literacy can be advanced as an empowering resource to mitigate the harmful effects of future infodemics. Based on a comprehensive literature review, key areas concerning health literacy are identified that help provide a strategic response during an infodemic. A framework for systemic health literacy capacity and policy advice is presented to inform and guide decision-makers on managing an infodemic with health literacy strategies. The way forward includes emphasizing the rights to access information and a broader view of how health literacy can help build back better in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the paper includes a call to action for decision-makers to integrate systemic health literacy responsiveness into public health emergency strategies to counter a future infodemic’s diffusion.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"127 1","pages":"115-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90279185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sharp and distinct increase in the development and application of digital resources for public health and healthcare services. The benefits from this trajectory are dependent upon the digital health literacy skills of the public served. In this article, digital health and digital health literacy are explored, as is the importance of measurement to set the stage for policy, practice, and continued research. Intervention on individual and organization levels are necessary, taking into consideration the social gradient as an underlying determinant of digital health literacy. Future areas of research, policy, and action-based intervention are presented.
{"title":"Digital health literacy and health technology in health systems and beyond: The importance of measurement, planned action, and policy for readiness and sustainability","authors":"D. Levin-Zamir","doi":"10.3233/isu-230192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/isu-230192","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sharp and distinct increase in the development and application of digital resources for public health and healthcare services. The benefits from this trajectory are dependent upon the digital health literacy skills of the public served. In this article, digital health and digital health literacy are explored, as is the importance of measurement to set the stage for policy, practice, and continued research. Intervention on individual and organization levels are necessary, taking into consideration the social gradient as an underlying determinant of digital health literacy. Future areas of research, policy, and action-based intervention are presented.","PeriodicalId":39698,"journal":{"name":"Information Services and Use","volume":"36 1","pages":"143-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79711554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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