Text Data Mining From the Author’s Perspective: Whose Text, Whose Mining and to Whose Benefit?

Forum Statement: Data Mining With Limited Access Text: National Forum. (2018), Christine Borgman

Prepared in advance of an April 2018 Forum on the topic, Dr. Christine Borgman of UCLA has framed a statement of potential areas of concerns for academics seeking to exert autonomy over their intellectual property. Institutions may embark on partnerships with third-parties in pursuit of goals which may not be in keeping with researcher intent. This statement suggests that mining of bibliographic data (whether found in faculty’s full text articles or academic dossiers) should be subject to consent of those generating that data. Participants seek means of ensuring control of such data by those who create the data rather than by those who benefit commercially via mining and analysis of the data.

An Open Approach to Scholarly Reading and Knowledge Management: Exploring Scholarly Reading Through Publisher, Librarian and Reader Perspectives

Produced by the Rebus Foundation, McGuire, Anthony, Hyde, et al.

Funded project surveyed 104 scholars, librarians and content providers in North America in order to develop more robust e-reading software for scholars’ personal library of research papers and resources. Information was sought on the print vs. digital selection, how personal collections were managed, issues of interoperability of citation and annotation tools and finally, access considerations (lending, DRM, etc.). As authors of the report noted, “The results reinforce the idea that digital tools cannot be developed with a view to replacing print formats, but rather, must be built to supplement the same.” Included in the report was a brief description of a proposed Rebus Personal Library Prototype software.

Whitepaper: Practical Challenges for Researchers in Data Sharing

Springer Nature, March 2018, Stuart, Baynes, Hrynaskiewicz, et al.

The white paper documents responses from a survey of 7,700 researchers, predominantly from North American and Europe, Researchers are concerned about making their data discoverable by others but have significant uncertainty with regard to copyright and licensing, selection of the correct repository for data deposit, the time required for making such deposits, and the possibility of undisclosed costs. The authors conclude that, with regard to practices of data-sharing, a combination of stakeholders efforts in educating researchers on good data management practices and the optimization of routes for sharing data would be the most useful.

University of Arizona Tracks Student ID Cards to Detect Who Might Drop Out

The Verge, March 12, 2018, Shannon Liao

A professor of management information systems is using the data collected through Student ID cards (for purposes of gaining access to campus facilities and paying for specific services) to see whether predictive analytics run against that data can provide administrators with a signal in identifying students who may not be adapting successfully to the on-campus education experience or environment.

NextGen Innovation in Scholarly Communications: An Exemplary Collaboration between a Research Library and a Technology Partner

EDUCAUSE Review, March 26, 2018, Curtis Mitchelson

A collaborative effort between JSTOR and Columbia university suggests a way forward for other innovative partnerships that can benefit platform providers and the libraries they serve. The project focused on design thinking, agile development processes and partnering.

The WIPO-IPA Global Publishing Pilot Survey

Publishing Perspectives, April 3, 2018, Porter Anderson

The World Intellectual Property Association (WIPO) and the International Publishers Association (IPA) published the Global Publishing Industry in 2016 report, the first of its kind.  The report is intended to annually gather statistics on the book publishing industry from 35 countries. “To improve on the availability of statistical data, the IPA and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) joined forces in 2017 and piloted a new survey of global publishing activity. The long-term objective is to integrate the collection of global publishing statistics into WIPO’s statistical reporting function.” Based on data from 11 countries, total net revenue from sales and licensing for the the trade book, educational, and professional sectors totaled US$41.9 billion in 2016. 

W3C CSS Working Group publishes draft of CSS Text Decoration Model Level 4

The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Text Decoration Module Level 4. This module contains the features of CSS relating to text decoration, such as underlines, text shadows, and emphasis marks. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.

Request for Comments by RDA Working Group on Array Databases Final Report.pdf

Request for Comment Period March 20, 2018 - April 19, 2018

Between September 2016 and March 2018, the Research Data Alliance Array Databae Assessment Working Group (ADA:WG)has developed an introduction to Array Database technology, a comparison of Array Database systems and related technology, a list of pertinent standards with tutorials, and comparative benchmarks to essentially answer the question: how can data scientists and engineers benefit from Array Database technology?  The outcome of this investigation, a unique compilation and in-depth analysis of the state of the art in Array Databases, is supposed to provide beneficial insight for both technologists and decision makers considering "Big Array Data" services in both academic and industrial environments.  The draft is available for public comment to April 20, 2018

ISO/IEC 29121:2018 Information technology -- Digitally recorded media for information interchange and storage -- Data migration method for optical disks for long-term data storage

ISO/IEC 29121:2018 specifies the data migration method for DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, +R, +RW, CD-R, CD-RW, BD Recordable and BD Rewritable disks for long-term data storage. By applying this document for information storage, digital data can be migrated to a next new disk without loss from the present disk as long as data errors are completely corrected before and during the migration and provided copying of the data is allowed. From Technical Committee : ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 23  Digitally Recorded Media for Information Interchange and Storage.

The #DocBook Schema Version 5.0 Errata 01 Approved and Published

OASIS announced that the DocBook Schema Version 5.0 Errata 01 from the OASIS DocBook TC has been approved. The Errata documents provide an update to the Schematron syntax that had caused the DocBook 5.0 RelaxNG schema to fail to parse properly with updated Schematron validators.

For more details, see press release.

Current ISO Ballots

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JTC1/SC34 has announced its 44th Meeting on Sunday, September 9, 2018 in Redmond, Washington, USA

More information is available via the ISO Meeting Information portal at https://sd.iso.org/meetings/54343. All US-based experts must be accredited by the U.S. TAG managed by NISO in order to attend the meeting.

ISO/CD 30300, Information and documentation -- Records management -- Core concepts and vocabulary.  

Members of the US TAG to ISO TC46 are asked to
recommend whether they approve the draft of ISO/CD 30300 for registration as a Draft International Standard.This document defines core concepts and basic terms to provide a common understanding of the records management domain. 

This ballot closes on April 19, 2018.

ISO/NP 23404,  and documentation -- Papers and boards used for the conservation -- Measurement of the impact of conservation materials on paper cellulose
This is a New Work Item Ballot to launch a project within ISO/TC46/SC10 to develop a new international standard focused on conservation. This proposed standard describes a test method for evaluating the impact on paper cellulose, of volatile compounds emitted by papers and boards used for the conservation and preservation of libraries and archives paper based collections. Members of the US TAG to ISO TC46 are asked to consider if this project is necessary and acceptable to proceed. If approved, the project will seek nominations of experts.  

This ballot closes on April 25, 2018.

Systematic Review of ISO 3602:1989, Romanization of Japanese 

This International Standard establishes a system for the romanization of the present-day Japanese written language.  Members of the US TAG to ISO TC46 are asked to recommend whether ISO 3602:1989, Romanization of Japanese be confirmed, revised or withdrawn.

This ballot closes on May 18, 2018. 

Systematic Review of ISO 25964-2:2013 Information and documentation -- Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies -- Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies

This International Standard describes, compares and contrasts the elements and features of these vocabularies that are implicated when interoperability is needed. It gives recommendations for the establishment and maintenance of mappings between multiple thesauri, or between thesauri and other types of vocabularies. Members of the US TAG to ISO TC46 are asked to recommend whether ISO 25964-2:2013 be confirmed, revised or withdrawn.

This ballot closes on May 25, 2018.

Systematic Review of ISO 7220:1996 (vers 4) - Information and documentation -- Presentation of catalogues of standards

The purpose of this International Standard is to provide guidelines for the arrangement and presentation of catalogues of Standards, or publications similar to Standards, in order to facilitate their use.
This International Standard does not apply to card-file catalogues nor to catalogues in Computer databases. Members of the US TAG to ISO TC46 are asked to recommend whether ISO 7220:1996 be confirmed, revised or withdrawn.

This ballot closes on May 25, 2018.