The end of collecting: Towards a new purpose for archival appraisal

In this essay, the author ruminates on the relationship between collecting and archival appraisal. He argues that collecting does not necessarily equal appraisal, although society and even archivists value it as an important function. The author stresses that the critical need is for archivists to have a clear perspective, whether highly theoretical or immensely practical, of what it is they hope to accomplish in appraising and that they need to document this process so that future researchers and archivists can understand what archival appraisal meant. As it is, archives might become more valued as important cultural symbols than for the records they actually hold. The notion of an “end” of collecting is in the sense that collecting is appraising, but appraising elevated to a professional function requiring more care, deliberate thought, and self-evaluation.     

数字化出版模式下科技期刊《稿约》的修订

数字化出版模式下,科技期刊运作中会出现一些新的问题,如论文数字版版权的授权与转让、编辑伦理学上的新问题、论文电子模板的细化、稿件在线管理系统的操作说明等.这些问题均促使编辑部在《稿约》中做出及时的内容修订.例如:在《稿约》的在线版中设立必要链接,为论文撰写提供更为便捷的服务;加大对编辑出版伦理相关问题的强调力度;补写关于稿件在线管理系统操作的说明;简要说明在线稿件同行评议制度程序;进一步明确数字版版权的相关问题;等等.编辑部只有适时地做好《稿约》内容上的修订,才能更好地适应数字化出版的要求,同时,借助新技术提高期刊的传播力和影响力.     

数字资源远程访问技术及访问系统构建

列举了图书馆数字资源远程访问的主流技术及其优缺点,指出了图书馆应根据具体技术条件和用户情况采取相应的技术构建访问系统,介绍了解放军医学图书馆采用反向代理技术构建的数字资源远程访问系统。     

从立法角度论我国电子出版物呈缴制度

数字信息总体上可以分为两大类型：一类是实体电子出版物,另一类是网络信息。文章从国内电子出版物呈缴制度觋状分析,国外电子出版物呈缴制度研究和借鉴上,对我同电子出版物呈缴制度重要问题进行阐述。网络信息由于载体的虚拟性,其呈缴问题要复杂得多,文章粗浅地分析国内外有关网络信息呈缴的立法实践以及建立网络信息呈缴制度需要解决的难题。     

Technological capital: an alternative to the digital divide

This paper identifies individuals’ accumulated history with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a replacement for the contested and outdated term ‘digital divide.’ We propose that an individual’s ability to benefit from their technological history consists of four factors: awareness, knowledge, access, and technological capacity of the user’s social collective. Together, these factors make up the individual’s level or amount of Technological Capital. The development of this construct was based on empirical research conducted in Soweto, South Africa, and through an analysis of the literature on assessing individuals’ accumulated histories. The concept of technological capital has the potential for application in fields in which ICTs are used for communication, capacity building, and identifying barriers to adoption of new technologies. The use of the concept may have implications for policy decisions, resource allocation, and future research into differences among individuals’ and communities’ ability to benefit from the introduction of new technologies.     

基于数字中台构建科技期刊一体化学术服务平台的战略研究与实践

我们结合互联网行业对于中台应用以及中华医学会杂志社近些年数字中台建设实践,提出中台战略思维是学术期刊集群化平台建设路径的一次升华和跃迁。通过顶层设计,合理布局组织架构,将数据、业务、知识等基础服务进行抽象、沉淀,是出版机构科技期刊集约化发展的一个重要方向。建设数字中台是科技期刊出版资源整合和有效利用的重要模式;可降低出版机构数据建设和应用系统研发成本,提高知识服务转化效率;有利于激活出版数据商业价值,赋能科技出版的运营与决策;有助于改造科技期刊出版业务流程,实现从经验驱动型向大数据驱动型转变。目前数字中台的建设还存在诸如中台认知问题、数据标准化问题、技术与业务融合问题等各种挑战,但我们相信基于数字中台的一体化学术出版平台将为中国科技期刊数字出版注入新的势能,引领和推动中国科技期刊的快速转型升级。     

中国科协科技期刊数字出版版权问题调查

问卷调查结果显示,2011年中国科协所属1 050种科技期刊中有64.3%与作者签订了书面的《版权转让协议》。对从期刊自建网站上下载的265份中文版《版权转让协议》的分析结果表明,有关"信息网络传播权"的条款表述的准确率较低,许多协议书中缺少有关"信息网络传播权"的许可使用代理权条款和支付"信息网络传播权"报酬的条款。     

Process and collaboration: Assessing digital humanities work through an embedded lens

ABSTRACT

To assess the implications of supporting and participating in a digital humanities project team as embedded subject librarians, those involved must examine the dynamic of the group responsible for the work and the processes or infrastructure employed to support this work. Using the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) method with interview questions based on the American Historical Association's “Career Diversity Five Skills,” this case study interviews respondents involved in “‘A Shaky Truce’: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960–1980,” a digital public history project created in 2015 by a team of subject librarians, history graduate students, history faculty, and undergraduates.     

“淘文网”:新型科技期刊数字化出版模式探讨

根据上海科技期刊数字化出版现状调研结果,针对上海市科技期刊分散经营、力量薄弱的现状,提出一种全新的科技期刊数字化出版平台———"淘文网",探讨了这一平台的基本运营模式,并作了必要性和可行性分析。这是一个类似"淘宝网"型的开放交易大平台,全国数千家期刊都可在平台上自主建设"期刊店铺",向机构或者个人用户售卖合法的"期刊内容"。该模式通过公开、合理的分成方式来协调平台和编辑部之间的利益分成,既可提高平台运营商的"逐利热情",又能充分调动各编辑部的积极性,实现各期刊的自主经营。"淘文网"平台如果能够运作成功,将会为中国乃至全球的科技期刊数字化出版的发展带来一种全新的局面。     

Community-Enhanced Repository for Engaged Scholarship: A case study on supporting digital humanities research

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Building digital curation and sustainability into digital humanities project development is challenging, and engaging digital humanities researchers fully as partners in curation practices with the library is even more so. How can we represent the longevity and sustainability of digital humanities research projects as a shared responsibility between faculty and student researchers and library staff? Northeastern University Libraries Digital Scholarship Group has designed a series of tools and workflows to ease the burden of sustainable development, support community engagement with digital materials, and enable the library and its partners to work together to build sustainable digital projects.     

集群化材料类期刊数字出版平台的建设——材料期刊网

着眼于当今的数字出版形势,分析材料期刊网的建设背景,介绍材料期刊网的技术支持、界面和栏目设置、功能特点。通过比较分析认为：与各个期刊的单独数字出版平台相比,材料期刊网拥有明显的资源、技术和功能优势;与传统的国内综合性数字出版平台相比,材料期刊网拥有发表周期短、数据更新快、专业细分、服务细化的优势。     

Spatial information literacy for digital humanities: The case study of leveraging geospatial information for African American history education

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The rise of “digital humanities” and the “spatial turn” in the humanities has generated many new insights in the study of culture, history, literature, and arts. Within this research trend, the library's geospatial service can play an active role by introducing spatial information literacy and technology. In this article, we use the information literacy framework to explore the library's role in supporting digital humanities by introducing a successful collaboration involving a librarian and history and education researchers in hosting a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-funded summer institute for school teachers. Our results suggest that the framework has opened a new way to facilitate collaborations between librarians and multidisciplinary researchers.     

They think all of this is new: Leveraging librarians' project management skills for the digital humanities

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This article will explore how to develop the holistic project management planning (PMP) mindset in different parts of the library when undertaking digital humanities (DH) projects. PMP skills do exist within libraries and librarians, but organizational alignment typically does not allow for the most effective applications of librarians' PMP skills to DH projects. This article will explore how the skills of public services librarians, technical services librarians and administrative librarians align with the PMP phases and the challenges that each kind of librarian has to overcome in completing successful DH projects.     

盲人数字图书馆——功能需求与技术架构的分析

从盲人数字图书馆项目管理的角度,对系统的建设和设计背景、功能需求以及技术架构等方面进行分析和论述,并对盲人数字图书馆的相关技术内容进行必要的整理和归纳。     

Cooperative Digital Initiatives: A Prescription for Success

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The author discusses the Center for Research Libraries' role in fostering collaborative projects, reports on new developments in digital initiatives and services, and points to models of cooperative projects for consideration by the Slavic information resource community.     

Connected Learning in the Public Library: An Evaluative Framework for Developing Virtual Learning Spaces for Youth

This article presents an evaluative framework to aid public libraries in achieving a mission of providing informal learning opportunities through virtual spaces. Existing literature on assessments and evaluation is used to build the basic framework; the experiences of 21st Century Learning Labs in Libraries and Museum grant recipients are used to develop evaluative tools and examples for library practitioners to use in planning their own virtual spaces. This article serves as the first evaluative approach to the development of informal virtual learning spaces in public libraries.     

Understanding Ultimate Use Data and Its Implication for Digital Library Management: A Case Study

Information professionals and librarians have been studying, discussing, and developing digital libraries for more than two decades, but understanding ultimate use of images from digital libraries remains a mystery for many of them. Most articles written on digital library use focus on users’ search retrieval needs and behavior. Few mention how digital library patrons use the images they request. Like many digital libraries, archives, and special collections, the University of Houston Digital Library makes high resolution images available to its patrons. Image delivery is achieved by an automated system, titled the Digital Cart Service. An unexpected benefit of the Digital Cart Service is the reporting mechanism that produces data that includes intended use information. This article discusses the analysis of this data to determine why images were used, what products were created from the images, and what implications this has on digital library management. The authors believe that answering these questions creates an environment in which digital library innovators can better promote and design digital libraries, and describe and select the content in them.     

How to Have an Intelligent Conversation About Digital Conversion: Advice for Curators

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This article provides advice to curators and reference staff on how to discuss digital conversion projects that include Slavic materials with technical staff who will implement the project.