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Data-driven library infrastructure: towards a new information ecology

By: Ben Showers  
Open Access
|Jul 2012

References

  1. 1. Doctorow C, Think Like a Dandelion: http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/05/cory-doctorow-think-like-dandelion.html (accessed 15 May 2012).
  2. 2. In this paper the term infrastructure will refer specifically to the systems that libraries use in either their management of resources – the management systems, and the systems that deliver services and content to the users – discovery layers and platforms, for example.
  3. 3. Library Management Systems: Investing Wisely in a Period of Disruptive Change: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/briefingpapers/2008/librarymanagementbp.aspx (accessed 9 May 2012).
  4. 4. Linked Open Data star scheme by example: http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/ (accessed 8 May 2012).
  5. 5. The ‘three stars of data-driven infrastructure’ is an idea developed by my colleague Rachel Bruce, an innovation director at JISC.
  6. 6. DBPedia: http://dbpedia.org/About (accessed 9th May 2012).
  7. 7. Discovery: http://discovery.ac.uk/ (accessed 11 May 2012).
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  13. 13. An interesting overview of the increasingly data-driven world of research can be found here: Krotoski A K, Data-driven research: open data opportunities for growing knowledge, and ethical issues that arise, Insights, 2012, 25(1), 2832, doi: 10.1629/2048-7754.25.1.28
  14. 14. Free Data Services: http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html (accessed 11 April 2012).
Language: English
Published on: Jul 5, 2012
Published by: UKSG
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2012 Ben Showers, published by UKSG
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