Pub Date : 2016-07-02DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1212318
Ailie Smith, G. McCarthy
Abstract The story of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science is fundamental to the story of the eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC) and its predecessors. Published online in 2010, there are data in this public knowledge web resource that can be traced back to the early days of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, and earlier to the beginnings of the Australian Science Archives Project (ASAP) in March 1985. ASAP was created to help meet the needs of the history of Australian science research community by locating, documenting and finding an archival home for collections of records and creating a register of where collections relating to the history of science were held in Australia. This paper provides a perspective on the events that led to the web publication of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science in 2010 and its continuing role as a key activity of the ESRC. There is a focus on the reasons why this work was required in the first instance and the lessons learned along the way. The paper reflects on the initial drivers that continue to challenge, indeed frustrate, the development of cohesive national information infrastructure to support research and societal self-awareness, despite the developments in digital and communications technologies.
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Pub Date : 2016-07-02DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1209075
Antonina Lewis, Peter Neish
Abstract This paper highlights key principles that the eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC) shares with the Linked Open Data (LOD) community, primarily relationship-centric contextualisation of information resources, and a commitment to producing and publishing sustainable, standards-based data outputs suitable for machine-based interchange. This paper illustrates how these principles have enabled the ESRC, without pursuing LOD as a specific end, to hold a path close to the Linked Data road. We also note that, by extension, this has positioned the ESRC ready to translate many of its resources into LOD formats in exchanges where complementary technologies and ontology mappings are available.
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Pub Date : 2016-07-02DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1206094
Nikki Henningham, H. Morgan
Abstract The Australian Women’s Register was established in 2000, in response to a strategy developed by the National Foundation for Australian Women and its associated Australian Women’s Archives Project. Now based at the University of Melbourne’s eScholarship Research Centre, the Register is a fully online archival resource dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the history of Australian women. This article traces the Register’s history from its inception to the present, and discusses its collaborative relationships with the University of Melbourne and the National Library of Australia and Trove.
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Pub Date : 2016-07-02DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1208073
G. McCarthy, H. Morgan, E. Daniels
Abstract The eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne was established in 2007 but its origins can be traced back to the foundation of the Australian Science Archives Project in 1985. In its 2015 review, the Centre stated its four key activities as engagement, scholarly services, research and collaboration. What identified the Centre as different from other research centres was that it was not located in a faculty but within the University Library. At the same time, the Centre was different from the other units of the Library because it maintained its largely self-funded business model and its commitment to helping build national information infrastructure to support research. So while most of the Library was inward looking to support the specific needs of staff and students of the University, the Centre had a tradition of looking outwards, collaborating beyond the borders of the campus and seeking out colleagues with similar goals across the globe. What started as a national information infrastructure project to support the study of the history of Australian science and technology became a research programme in its own right, as the rampant development of digital technologies started the radical transformation of the information landscape. The emergence of social and cultural informatics as a discipline provided the intellectual backdrop for the research agenda for the Centre, with its strengths in archival science and over-arching interests in the challenges of intergenerational transfer of knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2016-04-02DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1182109
I. Mccallum
If that seems a little vague, the contents page is very specific. There are 23 chapters covering graph theory; the Semantic Web; social, commercial, scientific and library networks; RDF, metadata and ontologies; linked data; and semantic repositories. This is a book about, exploring ways to make sense of more and more data. Yes, it’s quite technical, but it is also quite practical with many examples, case studies and sample code. Most importantly, it is surprisingly readable with the authors enlivening the text with anecdotes from current research, other technical sources, historical texts and even novels. They try hard, and succeed, in getting their message across. Ontological auto-metamorphosis might not be for everyone, and SPARQL, the Semantic Web’s most widely used query language might be something you’ve not questioned, but our authors make a persuasive case for seeing the Semantic Web as an application of graph theory to information organisation. The chapters on linked data and on citation networks are excellent: clearly written and comprehensively illustrated. The text is conveniently relieved with more than 70 figures, many in colour. Complex technical content can be tackled sequentially, or cherry-picked by topic: the contents list is five pages long; the index is eight double-column pages; detail is rendered simply in tables and diagrams. Code lists encourage experimentation and open source software options are assessed for utility. This is an impressive book – not for everyone, but for those with a technical inclination, and some curiosity about Sir Timothy Berners Lee’s vision for globally connected information sources which reveal their characteristics to each other, it’s like nothing else this reviewer has seen. So, a must for systems librarians, but also likely to be of interest to other IT professionals who wonder about the future of information retrieval systems. The late Kerry Webb would have loved it. Recommended, and excellent value at 33 cents a page.
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Pub Date : 2016-04-02DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1182249
H. Fisher
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Pub Date : 2016-04-02DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1183468
C. Gilbert
{"title":"Leading libraries: how to create a service culture","authors":"C. Gilbert","doi":"10.1080/00049670.2016.1183468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2016.1183468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82953,"journal":{"name":"The Australian library journal","volume":"65 1","pages":"141 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00049670.2016.1183468","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58719069","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}
Pub Date : 2016-04-02DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1183469
Daniel Giddens
{"title":"To MOOC or not to MOOC: how can online learning help to build the future of higher education (Chandos information professional series)","authors":"Daniel Giddens","doi":"10.1080/00049670.2016.1183469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2016.1183469","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82953,"journal":{"name":"The Australian library journal","volume":"65 1","pages":"142 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00049670.2016.1183469","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58719116","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}
Pub Date : 2016-04-02DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1160852
L. Harris
Abstract This review of the early history of South Australia’s hospital libraries describes the social, educational and administrative factors that produced an unprecedented growth in the number and role of libraries in the state’s public hospitals between 1956 and 1980. It also identifies some of the individuals who played a leading part in the development of hospital libraries during this period.
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