CNI Program Briefing

CNI Program Briefing

December 11, 2011

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December 12, 2011 CNI Project Briefing: Open Folklore

Outline• Perspectives from the IU Library and

the American Folklore Society• Overview of project • Some lessons learned and challenges

remaining• Discussion


Speakers

• Brenda Johnson, Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries, Indiana University

• Timothy Lloyd, Executive Director, American Folklore Society

• Julie Bobay, Associate Dean for Collection Development and Scholarly Communication, Indiana University Libraries


Radically changing roles for libraries

• Exploring new models for library collections and services

• Imperatives for success: • deeper engagement with scholars at all

stages of their work• partnerships with organizations and

individuals with converging missions and goals

• Leveraged expertise, resources and commitment


Building on our strengths

• Premier Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department at IU

• World-class Folklore Collection, much in HathiTrust

• IU technical and librarian expertise and infrastructure

• American Folklore Society – a major presence in the discipline and an enthusiastic partner


The beginning (Spring 2010)• Project team

– Julie Bobay (Co-Principal Investigator)– Timothy Lloyd (Co-Principal Investigator)– Jason Baird Jackson, Associate Professor of Folklore, Indiana

University Bloomington– Jennifer Laherty, Digital Publishing Librarian, IU Libraries– Sherri Michaels, Intellectual Property Librarian, IU Libraries– Garett Montanez, Lead Web Architect, IU Libraries– Moira Smith, Folklore Librarian, IU Libraries

• Plus IU’s Digital Library Program!


openfolklore.org (October 2010)

• A “bazaar” instead of a “cathedral”• Folklorists proclaim it to have “Rock

Star Status”• American Library Association ALCTS

Outstanding Collaboration Award


Open Folklore – the Project

• Education and advocacy to enable access, discovery and collection development

• Fostering partnerships between dispersed professional organizations


The Power of Collaboration

“Open Folklore could only have happened through the knowledge, insight, commitment and passion of its collaborators in different spheres of the scholarly communication environment.”

–John Wilkin, ALCTS nomination letter


A View from the American Folklore Society


Open Folklore an overview


Technology and Content Sources

• Drupal-the open source content management system• The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Drupal Toolkit's OAI harvester-to

harvest metadata using the Open Archives Initiative• Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) • Bibliography (Biblio) Module-to store records in Drupal• Apache Solr-a faceted search index:• DSpace repositories (included in search)• DigitalCommons repositories (included in search)• Open Journal Systems journals (included in search)• Archive-It/Internet Archive• HathiTrust Digital Library


Some indications of use• Visits to openfolklore.org: 13,208• from 125 countries• Bounce Rate (percent that don’t immediately

hit the back button): 53% • Facebook “likes”: 411• Websites archived: 9• National Awards: 1



PortalPortalOF

Websites: Archive-ItWebsites: Archive-It

AFSEthnographicThesaurus

AFSEthnographicThesaurus

MonographsMonographs

Open Access Journals:HathiTrust,Open Journal Systems,Institutional Repositories

Open Access Journals:HathiTrust,Open Journal Systems,Institutional Repositories

Gray LiteratureGray Literature

IU’s FolkloreCollection inHathiTrust

IU’s FolkloreCollection inHathiTrust

SearchSearch








Strategic Partners and Friends of Open Folklore

Strategic PartnersOpen Folklore strategic partners are organizations with content that is critically important to folklore scholarship, whose values and goals are closely aligned with Open Folklore’s, and who are committed to devoting resources to achieve shared goals. Open Folklore will highlight these organizations' content, acknowledge their importance to the success of the project, and actively pursue new forms of collaboration with them. The Open Folklore Project Team has invited the Utah State University Libraries to join us as our first Strategic Partner. ..Also within the USU Libraries is the USU Press, publishing cutting-edge folklore studies for over thirty years. Many of these collections, including all the Press books, are freely available to researchers in digital form, with records for new items and collections from the USU Libraries continually added to Open Folklore. Friends of Open FolkloreCentral to the success of Open Folklore are those publishers, repositories, and organizations that are actively increasing the range of openly available scholarly resources in folklore studies. A large number of organizations and rights holders have generously contributed to the building of the Open Folklore portal and cultivating an open access scholarly communications system in folklore studies; so many, in fact, that we cannot list them all here. The full range of OF content contributors can be found by consulting the Havested Content page. The Journals, Books, Websites, and Grey Literature pages also identify organizations producing open access folklore scholarship more generally. Some organizations, however, have taken special and conscious steps to partner with the Open Folklore Project, and we would like to explicitly recognize them as Friends of Open Folklore. These organizations’ goals and values align with the project, they are actively pursuing partnerships with the Open Folklore project, and in making their scholarly materials accessible, have made the conscious choice to use interoperable systems that facilitate their inclusion in the Open Folklore search tool. Friends of Open Folklore are: • Center for Folklore Studies, Ohio State University • Ethnobotany Research and Applications • Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics • National Folklore Support Centre • World Oral Literature Project


Lessons Learned in the first year

• Starting small was good• So was starting with existing digital

content• Growing that content and applying

new technologies is attainable one step at a time


More lessons

• An engaged, highly-functional and interconnected social network is as important as technical developments

• Just as everyone told us, we’ve learned that it’s hard work building and maintaining that social network


Some challenges and unanswered questions

• Can we maintain our energy and commitment?

• What can we generalize from this experience to other disciplines?

• Does OF provide real-world example of (using library terms) “Collections as Services?”


Discussion


Documents

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